Bethany Clift
@bethwritesstuff.bsky.social
(she/her) Author of Last One At The Party and Love & Other Human Errors. Lover of five word titles 😊
Fat Bear Week has a new champion!! ❤️ And whilst I am sad Chunk didn't win, I do feel that Backpack (below) is an excellent chonky, worthy winner 😍
Plot twist! The 15-year-old DOESN'T WANT TO GO!!! 😱😱 So I'm going to go on my jack jones 😊 Will I be the last one at the party?? See what I did there 😉
Bethany Clift@bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 5d agoBooked! Very excited 😊 Will be the 15-year-old's first standing stadium gig so excited for him too ❤️
Booked! Very excited 😊 Will be the 15-year-old's first standing stadium gig so excited for him too ❤️
The Wire Season 4 premiered TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY - and that is today's reminder that I am old... #thewire
The Wire: Stringer Bell's Intense Look
Alt: The Wire: Stringer Bell's Intense Look - we all love Stringer Bell ❤️
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Just some of the many reasons why women will always choose the bear...
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Our youngest daughter turned six yesterday, so she got a new fluffy bed and foxy cuddle buddy 😍😍
I don't feel that Fat Bear Week is getting enough love on here. It's simple and satisfying - you get to look at fat bears and then vote for your favourite chonky, furry fella (or lady, no discrimination here) It makes me happy and it will make you happy too 😍 #fatbearweek
If you are taking part in Fat Bear Week you can watch a livestream of the river and some of the bears in the National Park here... ❤️ www.youtube.com/live/EwTH5yY... #gochunk
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Just checked the weather and it's due to be 20 degrees on October 7th where I live. Not happy. I WANT TO STOP SHAVING MY LEGS AND START WEARING JUMPERS. Stupid global warming
Elmo Excited in Fuego
Alt: Elmo Excited in Fuego. Basically Elmo on fire. Like the entire world be really fucking soon if we don't sort it out.
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Also this week is FAT BEAR WEEK which seems a most excellent time to head back into social media. My favourite is currently the reigning champion, Chunk 🐻
So, five months ago I was all like - ooh, I'm writing a new book, I'm going to take you on the creative journey with me, it's going to be so exciting, get ready everyone, this is going to be huge! And then I...didn't. Life got in the way and it was either skeet or write. I chose write...
DAY TWO - ACT TWO (1/...) So, on Monday I put up a *skeet* (thanks for letting me know the term @pmchoan.bsky.social 😊) about how I was going to skeet every day about the process of writing my new book and then, on the very next day, I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SKEET 😱😬😱😬
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 8) And that's it. Day one of planning and First Act done. I mean obviously I have to redraft it roughly one hundred times still but it's there. The bones are there. Exciting, huh? Come back tomorrow for Act Two 😊
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 7) Act 1 - Set up/Inciting incident ▶️Prologue (if you have one) ▶️Introduce your protagonist / setting / tone ▶️What's broken in his/her world? ▶️Inciting incident - what happens that CANNOT be ignored? ▶️Decision point - what does you MC do that means they cannot turn back now?
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 6) And I'm going to give it to you because I'd never gatekeep anything that can help fellow creatives 😊 Next 'tweet' (what the hell do we call these things??) is a (very) brief idea of what I plot/plan for the first act...
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 5) Act one. And yes, I talk in terms of acts, because I started out as a screenwriter, and because it is easier when trying to plot or plan something if you can break the story down into three or four parts. Wanna know what's in the first part of that planning doc?
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 4) I have taken the kernel of an idea and made it into a walnut and then a kiwi, an apple, cantaloupe, watermelon and finally a full-sized book baby. And now I need to give birth, or rather, write it down. So today I am writing the first section of the plan...
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 3) The book that I am working on has been in my brain for about a month. I have thought about it in the shower, walking the dog, when I go to sleep, when I wake up, whilst driving, during boring conversations, sometimes during interesting conversations...
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 2) After years of trying and fruitless research I found a plan that works for me - not something that needed loads of time and effort - a 3-page breakdown that gives me something to hang my plot on and then muddle and mould into a first draft. IT HAS BEEN A GAMECHANGER....
DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT...) I'd tried not being a pantser, I tried to plan. I tried writing a short story, I tried doing a story graph, I tried chapter breakdowns, I covered my house in post-it-notes. It never helped ☹️ But then, last year, a miracle occurred...
DAY ONE - PLANNING... I've always been a pantser when it comes to books. Have an idea. Think about that idea for a bit. Start writing that idea. See what happens... What normally happens is I write 150k words in order to get a 80k book out of it at the end. It's long, intense and hard work....
So, my BlueSky has gone a bit empty and bereft but I am going to fix that starting now. Who wants to come along with me whilst I plan and write a new book??* Not just any book. THE book. *Trick question. You don't have a choice. I'm doing it and I'm going to write about it here. Every. Single. Day😊
The 14yo is having cheese with his Christmas cake for the first time this evening... I shall report back...
Finding the photos your daughter took when she stole your phone seven years ago is one of life's unspoken joys ❤️
Watching 1923... Me: Harrison Ford is still a good looking fella... Husband: Even at 150-years-old Me: 😳 Husband: What?! He's that old now isn't he??
This weekend I started the Korean romance-drama TV show Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. I did not realise there are 19 episodes and most of these are c80 minutes long. I am OBSESSED and planning to take the week off writing, eating and sleeping to binge it. Send help. Do not tell my agent.
The housing market these days is INSANE - Here's a two-bed in need of renovation, a perfect starter home for someone looking to get on the housing ladder. £550,000 please