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RE: unsolicited DMs:
I leave DMs open because Iβm a nice person who wants genuine connections. If this is you too - fab.
Otherwise, to save time:
- Iβm fine today thanks, but busy. Kindly get to the point.
- Iβm not looking to commission any services.
- if you get weird, I block
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Timeline cleanse, in case you need it. A variety of roses growing in my garden.
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Me, every time I write something new.
Jun 15
Reached 50k on a manuscript that may never see the light of day
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Not having a great evening. Just feel like I want everything to eff off. Then to eff off a bit more. And then if everything could keep effing off until there is no more eff left to eff off to, that would be great. Maybe then Iβll get a little bit of peaceβ¦
Sorry to be a grouch.
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If you spent Β£1million every single day - EVERY DAY - do you know how long it would take to spend a trillion?
2,700 YEARS.
Read that again.
Β£1 million A DAY and you would reach into the future further than the Roman Empire is in the past.
Nobody needs that amount of wealth.
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Kate Alton ππ retweeted
Jun 12
Few outside the UK know that the legal gender recognition process is actually decided by the men at the off license, who give you either a βbossmanβ or βalright darlinββ marker.
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Iff wee oll starrtted righting liek thiss doo yoo thynk wee cud mayk Aey Aye skrambl itsselff becoz it wood bee trayning itzelf onn non-standdarrd jibberrishh tha ownly hoomans wood unndurstandd?
#WritingThoughts
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Kate Alton ππ retweeted
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Iβm sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.
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Don't forget to look around and be grateful for all the things that are going right.
Morning guys
#Z
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Kate Alton ππ retweeted
All these scammers out here want to help me "grow with confidence" as an author but what if I want to grow with something more interesting
Like, come back when you can help me grow with malice
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Woodpeckers in our garden!!
@BBCSpringwatch #wildlife
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Me: I have a bona fide, NHS approved diagnosis of ADHD with autistic traits.
Also me: But what if Iβm faking and somehow managed to *unconsciously* trick the doctor, medical professionals, and assessor into saying I have ADHD when really Iβm just a trashfire chaos monkey?
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1700 words down in the trash draft today - now approaching 20000 words of the WIP!
Please clap.π
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RESEARCH. πππ
#amwriting #writingcommunity
ALT A book: Selected Grimmβs Fairy Tales.
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Short writing session today: 500 words of trash draft down.
On to housework!
What are you doing today?
#WritingCommunity #amwriting
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Shopping malls are a special kind of AuDHD hell:
Autism: overwhelmed by sensory overload, cramped shops, and PeOpLe = wants to leave.
ADHD: loving the novelty, the dopamine of retail therapy, and the prospect of coffee and snacks = wants to stay.
And they fight THE WHOLE TIME.
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This is so vital. Agents, publishers, sales numbers- theyβll all change. But the love we have for writing, the JOY of our work, that has to be the thing we chase above all things. π
I spent years in the query trenches, and years on sub w/various books before I got my book deal for gender-swapped The Mummy (1999) book. There were so many days I thought it would never happen for me.
What kept me going was re-finding my love for writing. π§΅
#amquerying
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Kate Alton ππ retweeted
To all #amquerying writers out there. We are in this together!
Don't listen to that voice in your head telling you that you're not good enough. If you get nothing but silence, keep trying. Don't give up.
Yes, the trenches are tough.
But, keep going!
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