kristenroedel.bsky.social
🌈 author writing a 🌈 trilogy.
Brave optimist. Lavender Menace. Melophile. Disaster Queer. ND. Just a bittersweet little collection of bones.
BLM.
English professor.
Author @SaveSappho.bsky.social
http://linktr.ee/kristenroedel
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Do it!!!
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🤣🤣🤣 There’s truly no better time than in the final stages for major edits!
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I enjoy it most of the time, but sometimes I get overwhelmed... and THEN it's the worst.
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Up to 2,500 words cut for the day, and I'm starting to hit a brick wall. I forgot how exhausting editing can be.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing
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It absolutely is. These instances are far and few between, so I got super excited today!
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2,000 words cut for the day. I'll be happy with anything else I manage to trim out of this ms today.
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I love when something I've written makes me grin ear-to-ear. This last paragraph is a masterpiece--I wonder who I was when I wrote this damn thing. Sheesh!
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I've now cut 1,500 words from my manuscript. My late '90s/early '00s playlist is still working! #NowPlaying
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'90s music is getting me through today. #MusicSky
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I've now cut 1,050 words from my manuscript today, despite psyching myself out earlier in calculating how many words I'd need to trim from each remaining page in order to hit my 90k goal.
Keeping at it!
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I've now cut 850 words. Time for a well-deserved lunch break!
Hope your day is going well, #WritingCommunity!
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I often sit back and enjoy this part of my manuscript in my read-throughs, so it's really easy to cut all the "fat" out of this part.
Up to 600 words sliced and diced! Can I find another 300?
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I was clearly waxing poetic the day I originally wrote this bit. That was the easiest 200 words I've ever sliced from a manuscript 🤣
Up to 450 words cut for the day already!
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I've hit my 300-word goal early today!
Here's hoping I can find another 300 words to cut. #WritingCommunity #NowPlaying
My secret weapon:
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This part of my manuscript requires me to listen to Sarah McLachlan, or else it comes out like shit.
Trust me, I've tried everything else.
#NowPlaying
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I've cut over 100 words so far today in ~8 pages of text. I need to be cutting more than this if I want to get to my word count goal for this project, but I guess it's better than nothing! 🤷♀️
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Here's where we are in the soundtrack of my star-crossed Sapphics.
Today's editing session is FUN! #MusicSky #WritingCommunity
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hoping for good news soon. We moved to a larger place, and I also haven’t been writing as much as I want to. Still working on the same project as always but hoping to whip it into shape sooner than later.
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So happy to hear all the good news! I don’t blame your wife. It’s a difficult climate to be teaching in…
We’ve been going through it over here. My wife’s dog passed, which was beyond devastating, and we’ve been having a few other unfortunate things happening to us, but we’re hanging in there and..
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Hey, Jae! Thanks!
How have you been? How's your writing going?
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alt-J is also a *mood*. I used to write all my best blog posts to the soundtrack of this album.
#MusicSky
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Thank you!!! It's just MAGICAL!
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I don't know what it is about this cover, but I'll never not love Jim Sturgess' "Strawberry Fields Forever." #MusicSky
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Madonna is such a vibe.
Doing an excellent job of neatening up this scene that's been bothering me forever!
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
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I cut 100 and then added it right back in with embellishments, but I'm thrilled with the progress I'm making in finally fixing this scene. 💪
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Found my editing mojo thanks to this new find:
#MusicSky #NowLooping
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Struggling to get into writing/editing the mindset. Hoping Washed Out will get me there. #MusicSky #WritingCommunity
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250 words cut tonight. Hoping tomorrow will be more successful.
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This editing session is failing miserably... I cut words, but my manuscript isn't any better.
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It's really hard to edit while I'm feeling dead inside...
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I'm working on a scene that I've struggled with since I started writing this book nearly 6 years ago. I think I'm figuring out how to expedite it without losing anything and while also emphasizing the core issues for my MC... but I guess we'll see how I feel about it in the next pass-through...