#WriteTypes 4. Writing goals for 2024: i) Complete 4 of the short junior fiction novels for the series I'm planning, then pitch the idea to publishers. ii) Finish at least the first draft of my YA wip.

#WriteTypes 6. From my WIP: ‘The problem with trolls,’ said one of the knights at Lady Roberta’s round table, ‘is there are too many of them. We must encourage more people to eat troll feet soup.’

#WriteTypes 8. Next in the reading pile: With The Fire On High, Elizabeth Acevedo

#WriteTypes 12. The weather is endlessly entertaining. ☀️☁️⛅️⛈️🌤🌥🌦🌧🌨🌩☀️🌡🥶🥵 🤣🤣🤣

#WriteTypes 14. I rarely use it. Only occasionally to see what other people think of a book, or to check publishing info.

#WriteTypes 16: The stripe on the spider's back screamed poison and pain, and I was glad I wore the gardening gloves today.

I made these shell displays this afternoon. Not quite right yet, but easy and inexpensive. I've had all the shells for many, many years. The larger vase was one I already had, so only had to pay for the craft sand and the small vase.

#WriteTypes 18. Somewhere between a week and never 😆. It depends what I'm writing and how well it's working. Short stories and picture book drafts - one week. Ill-formed novel ideas - never (though I always think I'll go back to them one day).

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#WriteTypes 22 Do your family and friends take an interest in your writing? Yeah...nah...

#WriteTypes 26. I like to read and eat at the same time, so my favourite reading spot is the table.

#WriteTypes 28: So many. So, so many.

#WriteTypes 30: Never had one, but I've been to many. Mostly in book shops and libraries, but there have been a couple in other places too.

Visualization showing the location and depth of Earth's earthquakes over a single year, with depth scaled by a factor of 8. 📽: Raluca Nicola

The Earth and the Moon as seen by the Cassini probe from Saturn's orbit. All of humanity in one small point.

Oh #Snoopy I feel your pain. I have nightmares that publishers want to do this to me! #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

So thoughtful of pharmaceutical companies to put arthritis medication in packaging that's impossible for people with arthritis to open.

An exciting announcement! Our first book will be published soon and here's the cover! #Septopus by Rebecca Fung illustrated by Kathy Creamer Stanley is a 7-tentacled octopus navigating his way through an 8-tentacled world. #middlegrade #Loveozmg #octopuses #kidlit