Say it with me: If you are writing a book you aren’t an **aspiring** author, you ARE an author! Be proud of yourself, babe! Writing a book ain’t easy! #WritingCommunity - ThreadSky

booksbygemma.bsky.social • 88 days ago

Say it with me:

If you are writing a book you aren’t an **aspiring** author, you ARE an author!

Be proud of yourself, babe! Writing a book ain’t easy! #WritingCommunity

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z-r-tune.bsky.social•88 days ago

There a reason I put Beginner Writer in my bio. I've published some fan fics, and plan to do more as I prepare to write my original series.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

Sending you all the positive writing vibes on your journey! ✨

aviseer.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hell yeah!

trqshcan.bsky.social•88 days ago

yes, writing a book isn't easy, which is why i am endlessly procrastinating :')

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

Fair! 😂

peprideaux.bsky.social•84 days ago

Well, this was a confidence boost I didn't know I needed. 😅💙

Many thanks! 😜🙏

ljvalente.bsky.social•87 days ago

that's for sure

djpiii.bsky.social•87 days ago

I love a good book! I’ve tried so many times to write. It just never translated from my brain to paper and I live in imagination station. I consider it a gift being able to write book. It’s incredibly hard to do.

electricdc.bsky.social•85 days ago

I'm writing book 2 and I've got a load of query rejections.

I. Am. An AUTHOR. ✍️ 💪🏻

alakasmaki.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you. I needed to hear that today. 😊

justthisdrew.bsky.social•87 days ago

Sounds good, just hard to believe until I am done… but I will get there, no turning back now!

aoxxi.bsky.social•87 days ago

I have ideas. I think my hands don't want to do the work.

inkpotelf.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you for this post, it was something that I really needed to read. :)

misterbrum.bsky.social•87 days ago

Amen to that!

viam.bsky.social•88 days ago

Feeling like an author is really important. It's already so hard. Not to feel like an author is to add an unnecessary weight to your shoulders.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

Agreed! Writing a book is a HUGE accomplishment and deserves that celebration/self recognition of all it takes!

Author =\= published

Author means writer of books! 🥰

thezer.bsky.social•87 days ago

I started writing my first book, got two chapters in and shared with a fellow fiction enthusiast friend. He shat on it so hard I never wrote another word.

I'm weak 🤦‍♂️

booksbygemma.bsky.social•87 days ago

Oh gosh!! I’m so sorry this happened to you!! I hope you find that drive to write again, because beautiful things happen when we persevere!

crankyz.bsky.social•86 days ago

As someone who has been writing since I could hold a pen, this is where it's at. I would belittle myself because I started out in fanfiction, but I have almost 1 million words self-published online and at least double that unpublished. I am an author.

kelleminopee.bsky.social•86 days ago

Facts 💯

marketdf.bsky.social•86 days ago

Author aspiring to get paid for it. 😆

booksbygemma.bsky.social•86 days ago

I feel THAT in my soul 😂

bruckeharmony.bsky.social•87 days ago

It doesn't even have to be a book. Short-story writers are authors too.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•87 days ago

Agreed!

metalganjey.bsky.social•87 days ago

I’ve been referring to myself 27% of a writer, as a way of guilting myself to be more productive.

stanleytweedle.bsky.social•87 days ago

I was going to write a book but then I found the book I was planning to write in a microwave after a lightning storm.

oldmanaries.bsky.social•88 days ago

it took me years to get it, even after writing it i felt like i didn’t deserve the title since i hadn’t found a publisher. Then a friend said “you wrote a fucking book, a fucking great book, you ARE an author” and i started believing it

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

Writing a book is hard freaking work, and you did that!! It’s something to celebrate! 👏🏻

ilsemulauthor.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hear hear! This is so important to keep in mind!

sashakamwana.bsky.social•86 days ago

this is beautiful
being called an **aspiring** author feels very limiting to me

amsardar.bsky.social•87 days ago

It's ironic people call writing self-indulgent but will happily watch a 3hr football game.

nolamorgan.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thanks for that because sometimes I forget

josiewriter.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thank you. I think a lot of us these days need to hear this.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

1livelyrogue.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thanks. I needed that. I’m having a hard time writing right now.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

You got this!! 🫶🏻

gunsmile.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thanks for this. I’m writing my first book without any certainty of publication, so I feel I can’t claim this title yet. But perhaps I can.

booksbygemma.bsky.social•85 days ago

That’s so exciting!! Congrats on writing your first book! Sending you all the good energy! 🫶🏻

gunsmile.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you! 🙏

alinaaaa.bsky.social•87 days ago

Where's that LeGuin quote. Something like "How do you become a writer? You write."

remaklusreads.bsky.social•88 days ago

I needed this. Thank you!

booksbygemma.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’m so glad it found you! 🫶🏻

riandstuff.bsky.social•84 days ago

I always feel so hesitant to call myself an author since I haven't published yet (thought I have finished my first draft).

This does give me a boost of confidence though, so thank you!

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