The Writing Room

Fantasy romance writer set to publish 2024. She/her. An imperfect place to share my writing journey. Follow for updates on Prison of Light.

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Day 910 of working on my debut novel.

➡️I have begun putting sugar in my coffee. Who am I? This is not very rock n roll of me.

➡️My Spotify playlists are officially all themed toward this damn book, in some ritualistic attempt to get the “vibes” right for any scene that needs editing.

➡️I am questioning my use of commas. Am I breaking the rules in a quirky way, or do I come across as ignorant? Past professors of mine will surely lie awake tonight and not know why…

[lunamonchtuna]

— Sylvia Plath (via lunamonchtuna)

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Good morning ☀️

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Construction is done…for now. Back to our regular programming. All day in PJs!

[stay-close]

“Don’t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”

— Unknown

[wedarkacademia]

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Came home Friday to a fun treat. Flynn never destroys things, and hasn’t shown any signs of separation anxiety since he was a tiny baby puppy…my guess is that he thought my leather bookmark might be a toy - it was left on the bed after all, and we all know that the bed is *his* bed. Once the shredding began he could not stop. Poor buddy. And poor book. Guess that one’s not getting finished…

[mmackenzieconnolly]

I just accidentally inhaled a small ocean of face wash. Think I’ll die?

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Mouth full of frisbee

[mmackenzieconnolly]

That feeling you get when you’ve committed years to a creative project and you have no idea how it will be received or if you’ll actually make any money off it

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Word vomit day

[thememedaddy]

[mmackenzieconnolly]

One full week of house repairs. Pray for my ability to get any writing done through this…

[mmackenzieconnolly]

Expensive house repair = looking to save some coin anywhere I can. Homemade bread, bagels, pickles, and sauces for a while.

[mmackenzieconnolly]

He sleeps silly

[mmackenzieconnolly]

I try to keep three books going at a time - an audiobook, a bedside book, and a travel book. Exile is now being replaced by Paladin’s Grace.

[words-after-midnight]

One hill I will die on is that some stories genuinely work better in first person, and that people who have this rigid opposition to reading first-person narration no matter the context or premise (I see this a lot) are depriving themselves of some really excellent stories.