i’ve been saving this to savour when i had the time and my god, you are so right!!!!!! the art of owning one’s shit, of taking responsibility for it, being proud of things - these are so important (and are behaviours i’ve long admired in your online presence, in fact!). also, as someone in the stage of a project where i’m preparing to send it out, i’ve really learnt that being able to own all the quirks and weirdnesses and challenging bits of your work makes the pitch stronger, makes you memorable, allows you to have fun and share that fun with the strangers you’re approaching instead of feeling shy and anxious about it!
in the interests of practicing what i preach, i’ll confess some details about my own project: it’s a 1920s-set murder mystery series starring a chain-smoking, trouser-wearing dyke and her emotional support himbo. it’s fun and silly but it’s a grown-up book for grownups. it’s a love letter to queer modernism, 20th-century comic writing, and the golden age of detective fiction, and it’s also an attempt to reimagine existing genres and tropes with marginalised people at the centre - women, queer & trans people, disabled people, and people of colour. it’s about found family and the criminal justice system and what it means to do good outside of the law, and it’s about love and sex and death and terror and resistance. it’s my favourite thing i’ve ever written and i can’t wait to share it with the world! 🧿
Thank you for this reminder! I’m not embarrassed by my writing, but I feel embarrassed by how long it’s taking me to write my first novel manuscript…which logically doesn’t make any sense when I know it’s my first long-form writing attempt.
You’re right. I should be proud that I have 65K words down and am currently in the revision process. It’s an YA novel based on my own immigration experience: Coming to America + coming of age + love triangle :)
Hey it took me how many years to finish the manuscript for house of beauty for it to come out this year. I even wrote a children’s book while writing it. Writing is hard!
If you want an accountability group virtually or in person this year I’ll probably be setting one up this summer ❤️
i’ve been saving this to savour when i had the time and my god, you are so right!!!!!! the art of owning one’s shit, of taking responsibility for it, being proud of things - these are so important (and are behaviours i’ve long admired in your online presence, in fact!). also, as someone in the stage of a project where i’m preparing to send it out, i’ve really learnt that being able to own all the quirks and weirdnesses and challenging bits of your work makes the pitch stronger, makes you memorable, allows you to have fun and share that fun with the strangers you’re approaching instead of feeling shy and anxious about it!
in the interests of practicing what i preach, i’ll confess some details about my own project: it’s a 1920s-set murder mystery series starring a chain-smoking, trouser-wearing dyke and her emotional support himbo. it’s fun and silly but it’s a grown-up book for grownups. it’s a love letter to queer modernism, 20th-century comic writing, and the golden age of detective fiction, and it’s also an attempt to reimagine existing genres and tropes with marginalised people at the centre - women, queer & trans people, disabled people, and people of colour. it’s about found family and the criminal justice system and what it means to do good outside of the law, and it’s about love and sex and death and terror and resistance. it’s my favourite thing i’ve ever written and i can’t wait to share it with the world! 🧿
It sounds INCREDIBLE. I can’t wait to see it out in the world 🥹❤️🫂
🥹🥹 thank you!! 🫶
I love every word of this!!
Thank you for this reminder! I’m not embarrassed by my writing, but I feel embarrassed by how long it’s taking me to write my first novel manuscript…which logically doesn’t make any sense when I know it’s my first long-form writing attempt.
You’re right. I should be proud that I have 65K words down and am currently in the revision process. It’s an YA novel based on my own immigration experience: Coming to America + coming of age + love triangle :)
Hey it took me how many years to finish the manuscript for house of beauty for it to come out this year. I even wrote a children’s book while writing it. Writing is hard!
If you want an accountability group virtually or in person this year I’ll probably be setting one up this summer ❤️
That sounds wonderful! I would be interested in an accountability group