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Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Dandelion Threads, and Other Aesthetics is a poetry chapbook of twenty poems that range
From A. M. Walker's chapbook, Dandelion Threads, and Other Aesthetics, available from Bottlecap Press!
How would you describe your OC’s aesthetic?
Angela - Daisy chains, Volkwagen Beetles, hair blowing in the wind, rubber bracelets, bright-colored converse, lemonade, crazy socks, summer days, pool parties
Libby - Guitars with rusty strings, forest floors, distressed furniture, jalopies, turquoise and bronze jewelry, t-shirts of old bands, cassette tapes, Reese’s
Delilah - Flannels, lip gloss, hiding things under loose floorboards, chipped nail polish, ripped skinny jeans, Sprite, white earbuds, Apple products
Maybe - Highways at night, disorganized piles of books, black and silver, dark wood, old maps, lockets, Snickers, nail-biting, Stephen King, crickets chirping
Parker - Linoleum floors, popped collars, denim, headphones, varsity jackets, Skittles, John Hughes films, long walks, pocket change
Trenton - Old gaming consoles, wearing the same hoodie every day, dark carpet, messy sketches of faces, desk lamps giving off just enough light to work by, fuzzy socks, Dr. Pepper, horror movies
100 one word writing prompts
Pick three (Or however many) And write!
1. Abilities
2. Arson
3. Agility
4. Adapt
5. Bright
6. Believe
7. Birthday
8. Bleed
9. Cabbage
10. Caught
11. Caper
12. Cave
13. Celestial
14. Danger
15. Distrust
16. Drown
17. Dagger
18. Echo
19. Elegant
20. Electricity
21. Embers
22. Frighten
23. Feral
24. Family
25. Forrest
26. Freedom
27. Greed
28. Grime
29. Gathering
30. Glitter
31. Hope
32. Hammock
33. Harp
34. Hatred
35. Invisible
36. Icing
37. Immune
38. Infant
39. Joke
40. Justified
41. Jellyfish
42. Jump
43. Kingdom
44. Kindness
45. Killer
46. Kleptomania
47. Lost
48. Law
49. Lonely
50. Liquid
51. Myth
52. Magic
53. Marble
54. Molten
55. Nightmare
56. Ninja
57. North
58. Neptune
59. Orange
60. Overlord
61. Overbearing
62. Onion
63. Pigeon
64. Pie
65. Pointless
66. Politics
67. Quiet
68. Quip
69. Quiver
70. Quill
71. Quake
72. Rusted
73. Revenge
74. Rome
75. River
76. Stalled
77. Skies
78. Silence
79. Sword
80. Scream
81. Trust
82. Traveler
83. Time
84. Team
85. Underneath
86. Unicorn
87. Unplug
88. Universe
89. Volcanic
90. Violin
91. Vault
92. Valley
93. Wave
94. Whimper
95. Wild
96. War
97. Zipper
98. Zoology
99. Zombie
100. Zone
Send me a number/word and I’ll write a lil something with some Delburne kiddos!
if anyone else still checks out this blog--send me a word or three, I wanna do a little prompt
Moab, UT
Also: I’m on Instagram (@michaelhirshon).
So pack your things and get out, get out, while you can.
URBAN. MEMORIES.
my kid has started to write stories and like, no lies, they’re funny as fuck
actual dialogue:
“to your battle stations, boys! it’s time to line up and see who’s tall enough for the roller coaster to hell!! some of us may not survive this, but the ones that do will get the ultimate reward.... paid.”
“here’s a penny for your thoughts, and a quarter to not tell me them”
B A B E
“everyone knows those quiet girls. the ones who never say anything at school unless a teacher makes them. the ones who you see every day but don’t know what they sound like when they laugh. lindsey is not one of those girls, but the teacher wishes she was.”
“lindsey was always loud, especially when she was being kind. she didn’t smile at people to make them happier, she screamed all the reasons they shouldn’t be sad. it was hard not to listen.”
i can’t wait to read this book tbh
thanks for all the love!!
the story is part one in a series she’s gonna write called “the 23 islands” and it’s about a planet with 23 island like lands that have like..... nothing around them?? an unknown drop and total darkness surrounding them, and each island is like a different thing?? idk how to explain it but one island is like an ancient rainforest and one is snowy mountains and one is like still in the middle ages but another has flying cars??? and it’s about a group of friends trying to find a way off their island because it’s dangerous there, and hopefully to a more habitable one??? i guess they don’t find it tho because each book is a different island
These are all amazing.
use comic sans to write
i hate this so much but this knowledge is too powerful to keep from you all.
last night @phaltu discovered that setting your font to comic sans in google docs improves writing speed and creativity by an insane amount. “no” i said and “die” but then i tried it and god. i wish it wasn’t this way. i wish it wasn’t true. i wish i could protect you all from this but it’s real.
something about this font is so disarming. something about this font lets you look past the shape of the words and into their soul. i’ve never written so much as i did last night, on my phone, at 2am, in comic sans.
if you have writer’s block. if you lack inspiration. if you need this. don’t be afraid to use it. sometimes the things we find most horrifying are also the things we need the most. trust me. let comic sans into your life.
it’s true
update: this actually works. i’m so angry.
my friend told me about this and I laughingly suggested it to my wife (who had a good number of essays to write and less than a week to write them). She finished 3 essays in 2 days using comic sans.
She was livid.
comic sans was invented for dyslexic people because it helps the words settle for them. I’m not surprised it helps people with their writing
So, I moved recently. And my new neighborhood is full of kids. I met about 20 of them the day I moved in because they helped me chase down my dog when he got loose and I can already tell you, me and these kids are gonna be besties. They come over to play with my dogs at least once a day. A few little convos we’ve had so far:
(On the day we met)
6yo: My name Kendrick but you can call me KJ cause my friends call me KJ and you my friend now.
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KJ: I’ll walk your dogs for 5$!
Me: Imma think about it, okay?
KJ: Ok ok, 3$!! But that’s the lowest imma go. What a deal right?!?!
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9yo: You know my Mama’s got a boyfriend.
Me: That’s nice!
9yo: My grandmama don’t like him cause he ain’t got a job.
Me: Oh.
9yo: Do you got a job?
Me: Yeah.
9yo: *screaming across the yard* GRANDMAMA!! THIS GIRL GOT A JOB!
(I might be her new stepmom, y’all. Idk)
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12 yo: You ain’t got a man?
Me: Nope.
12 yo: You got a woman?
Me: Nope.
12 yo: It’s just you and these dogs?
Me: Yep.
12 yo: Girllllll! You living the life!
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9yo: *banging on my back door* HEY!! Open the door!!
Me: *opening the door, freaking out* OMG! WHATS WRONG!
9yo: Nothing. You got a popsicle?
Me: Ummmm...no.
9yo: You want one?
Me:???
9yo: *pulls a popsicle from behind her back* I think you need this.
Me: Thank you.
9yo: Alright. Imma see you tomorrow. Bye!!
Me:...okay
Protect these kids at all costs
I think you just became a side character in a kids novel
as much as i love myself some pining and yearning and repression, if the end result isn’t a happy ending and if the whole point isn’t love then i’m not interested, thanks
Tumblr: We want complex villains! Tumblr: But they can’t do anything villainous or complex ever.
My favorite quote on this is Lemony Snickett when a school district banned his book due to the marriage plot by the villain.
He merely responded
“I’m sorry, but I’m at a loss on how to write a villain that doesn’t do villainous things.”
OC dialogue prompt
Person A: hey are you hungry? I have a croissant in my bag
Person B: we're at a wedding ???????
Happy October 3rd!
Which OC can quote the entirety of Mean Girls by heart?
Which one has never seen Mean Girls?
me, cranking up the crying dial on one of my male ocs: weep, you messy bitch, i’m doing this because i’m love you
Suddenly you’re 21 and you’re screaming along in your car to all the songs you used to listen to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different but everything is good
this post keeps me going
What happens after you get accepted by a publisher?
As some of you may know, I’m a professional editor who used to work as an in-house editor. I see many posts about how to query and stuff, but very little describing what happens after you sign the contract. Of course, this varies between publishing houses, but I’ve worked as an in-house editor in three publishing houses, and I will relate my experience with them.
I’m your primary contact person. I will send you the contract, signed by my publisher, and answer any questions you have before signing it and sending it back to me.
Then you probably won’t hear from me for a few weeks. I’m thoroughly reading through your manuscript, and usually simultaneously a few others as well. When I’m done, I will get back at you, to let you know if there’s any rewriting work to be done on your book. There usually is. In fact, I’ve only had one author whose book could be sent to the text editor straight away.
Major rewritings can also happen before you sign your contract. This means we see your potential, and it’s big enough for me to invest my time in you (my salary costs money too), but you have to prove that you can rewrite it. See my other post on “What if your publisher asks for a complete rewrite” and some nuance and other nuance for more information on, well, complete rewrites.
I will never put you to work without helping you, and you can always call or email me if you’re stuck or if you don’t know what I want. In fact, I’d rather have you contact me than you trying to hide the fact that you will most probably miss your deadline.
After the rewrites have been done, what happens then? In the bigger publishing houses I worked at, a freelance editor corrects your grammar and spelling and stuff. They work on a sentence and word level. In the small publishing house, that was also done by me. That doesn’t change anything for you.
I will send you the manuscript with the corrections for you to approve. Usually, authors agree. If you don’t understand or don’t agree, just let me know and I can either explain it to you or see if you have a point.
Meanwhile, I will put the cover designer to work. I will tell them what kind of a book it is, what genre, which audience. If I have ideas for similar covers they can use, I tell them as well, but usually I trust the designer to do their work. I think in words, they think in images. To each their strenght. If you have ideas for a cover, I will look at them. But usually cover ideas by the author are not commercially interesting, and they end up liking the cover we designed better.
I will send you some unfinished cover ideas, or sometimes the one cover we all agreed on. You usually have veto power, but authors rarely veto a cover (”It looks so real now!”) because our cover designers know their job ^-^ The cover needs to be approved by a lot of people: you, me, the publisher, the people from marketing, the salespeople… Negotiation about 14 conflicting opinions is part my job.
By now, you’re probably done with approving the corrections in your manuscript. I check it one last time and send it to the lay-out people.
My publisher decides on the format of your book (softcover/hardcover/fancy edition…), based on what is financially possible and commercially interesting.
The lay-out person sends me a sample, usually the first five pages. I print it to see if the font, margins, interline, readability… are okay. They usually are, and I give the lay-out person a “go!” to lay-out the entire book. A few hours later they send me your book in pdf.
I will now send it to a second freelance editor, whose job it is to check for typos and weird line breaks etc. They will send me their corrections and the lay-out person will take care of it.
I will send you your final, clean manuscript and you will beam with pride to see your book as a “real book”! ^-^ (Similar feelings as when I send you the first cover.)
I will have written a blurb, sometimes based on your query letter. Everyone who had to have an opinion on the cover will be consulted again for the blurb. I will send you the definitive version, but to be honest, in practice, you can’t change much about it, unless you have Good Reasons, because this is the version the 14-headed monster - I mean, committee of colleagues - agreed on.
The cover designer now makes a back and spine cover.
Now there is nothing else for you to approve, you’ve seen everything. I’ll send the covers and the text pdf to the printing house, confirm the publishing date and then we play the waiting game!
Next, my colleagues of the marketing devision can take over, or sometimes they take over earlier in the process, or sometimes they don’t consult you at all.
When your physical books arrive on my desk, you can be sure that I am as proud of you and your book as you are. After some happy unboxing and bothering my colleagues - “just LOOOK at this BABYYY!” - I will send you a few copies through the snail mail for you to unbox and bother people with. (At least, if this is stated in your contract. At the publishing houses I worked at, usually it said that an author gets 5 copies of each edition.)
We usually don’t organize and pay for a launch party, but if you want to have one, go ahead. For debutants, a launch party doesn’t help selling copies that wouldn’t have been sold anyway. Journalists don’t scour book launch parties, it’s usually the author’s friends and family who attend, and they were going to buy a copy anyway.
And then it’s time to keep your fingers crossed, hope for good sales, and start writing on your next book!
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I hope this was helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!
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