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Not worm related, but it’s been quite an exciting week! My debut novel is coming out on April 9th, still half a year away, but we’re getting ready to announce and promote it soon, and it feels like everything happened at once in the last few days.

I saw the gorgeous proposed cover, we’re reworking the summary and tag line, and I had to write my bio, as well as do a photoshoot to provide a decent author pic.

I now have an author page on their site! I’m part of the publisher’s authors group chat! My social media accounts are ready to go! My book launch will be at one of the major book fairs in the province!

Aaaaaaaahhh!

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I love when I'm writing and suddenly a character starts to do something without consulting me first. Even better? When said action fits in perfectly with another plotline and shows the connection between the two different plotlines. like queue kronk's "oh yeah, it's all coming together"

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friendly reminder to everyone that first draft just needs to exist.

it doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be there. stories go through so many different drafts that nobody is gonna care if your first draft is a little messy.

you can’t edit and clean up something that doesn’t exist, so make it exist!

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Can you draw a version of Taylor that actually cares about bugs? Like she's an entomology nerd?

man i havent had time to use mspaint in forever so forgive the stinky art

basically taylor likes bugs in this one

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Just going to repost this from my twitter because I am way to proud of this description

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They're silly

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It's funny how a silly fictional character can come into your life and then take over your entire brain chemistry

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hey! big fan of Drift! can i ask how much of it you had planned out when you started?

Hi! Sorry, I didn't see this until now.

I wrote the first three chapters years ago, then hit a wall when I tried to continue. I had a couple ideas with big chunks of meat missing in between, and I had trouble actually filling in the blanks and figuring out what happened next, so I ended up shelving it.

Fast-forward a couple years, and I discovered beat sheets and story structure templates, and the idea that you don't need to outline in a linear manner. It was a game changer. I used the three acts story structure to outline my first two novels, and it worked like a charm. After completing the first draft of the second novel, I was looking for something to work on as a palate-cleanser before doing a second draft, and I fished it out of my idea folder.

With the three acts story structure, it was a lot easier to fill in the blanks and figure out what needed to happen. I already had the beginning, I knew that the confrontation with the Nine would be the game-changing midpoint in terms of Taylor's relationship with the other Wards, and I knew the ending. I knew a couple of other scenes, like the fight with the Travelers and subsequent infiltration of the PRT HQ, a couple of interactions with the Wards, and how things would go down with Coil.

I actually used a wall and post-its to put my ideas in order and identify the story beats. From there, I was able to flesh out my outline, add subplots and character arcs and so on. My final outline had about 7k words. A couple things changed while I was writing and editing, but I'd say about 90% of that outline made it into the first draft.

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What about farmer girls who fill out excel sheets?

Girl who fills out excel sheets might be the most important job in this entire nation. Holding the fabric of society together. Farmers wish they were this important.

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Assorted Bonesaws

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Victoria Dallon, with a 103°F fever: w-weird physics going on in my body right now. Easily... b-breaker 1...

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LOOK AT MY NEW BABIES!!

My broody hen is now a proud mama ❤️

Brb, gonna pick up some chicks