Twitter Writing Wisdom
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Every time I sit down to write a blog post, I aim for approximately 1,000 words. But as I posted my most recent tweet (as of writing this), I realised that writing advice doesn’t always have to be quite so lengthy. Here’s a selection of my Twitter ramblings (right back to when I started tweeting at the end of 2012) to do with writing. Hope you get something out of it. (I got an entire blog post out of it!)
2018
29 June 2018: Don’t listen to any #writer who professes to know about #writing. They only know about their writing. #amwriting #amreading
27 June 2018: I respect people who just leave out #apostrophes entirely more than people who put them in the wrong place. (My #editing teacher always said, “If in doubt, leave it out.”)
27 June 2018: In honour of #NationalWritingDay, I did some editing. It’s the life of #writer to do things bass-ackwards, right? #amwriting #amediting
26 June 2018: Saw these while I was #book browsing. Is this a writer’s worst nightmare? #am reading #amwriting
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7 June 2018: My favourite picture book is The Big Orange Splot by @DanielPinkwater because I like the message it sends about how it’s okay (and sometimes wonderful) to be different from everybody else.
5 June 2018: Deliberately mean reviews say more about the reviewer than the book.
25 May 2018: Does it say more about me or the state of television that my current favourite show in The Amazing World of Gumball (considering a 4 is the first – and not the only – number in my age)? Maybe it’s because it’s brilliant #writing!
15 January 2018: I was told face-to-face by the Sales & Marketing Director of a well-known publisher not to even bother trying to get an agent, that’s how low her opinion of agents in general was. Every publishing option – including self-publishing – has its pros and cons, its highs and lows.
8 January 2018: Went to buy a t-shirt today and lectured myself before I went that I was not to buy any #books because I already have an enormous #TBR pile. Came home with 7 books. #amreading
2017
21 December 2017: My instinct to correct every misused or missing #apostrophe online is so strong, it’s really only my lack of the infinite time required to do it that holds me back. I am on holidays from my day job for the next 3 weeks though… #amediting #writing #amwriting #grammar #nazi
20 December 2017: Bored a colleague stupid at the office Christmas lunch yesterday about how I’m a #writer (thought I did anyway). Today she told me she’d bought a copy of my #novel, started reading it last night and thought it was really good! 
