Betsy Bailey
@betsybe.bsky.social
Nerd of words, spreadsheets & completed to-do lists. ✅ Also into: 📚🧁🧶🏋️♀️📸🎨
I finally set up a substack for my creative writing endeavors. I've been having so much fun with @storyenginedeck.bsky.social and solo RPG journaling games to help unblock my creative flow! ✨ methodtothemayhem.substack.com/p/solo-rpg-i...
Solo RPG: I played Anamnesis and brainstormed an entire story
I never would have come up with this idea on my own...
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I’m nearly done with this WIP and am really going to miss it! It’s seen me through an entire Better Call Saul binge + Grey’s Anatomy catch-up seasons. 🧶 Alpenglow blanket pattern by @purlsoho.bsky.social, knit in reverse ridge using their Linen Quill minis pack. #knitsky #showmeyourknits #knitting
Why did the plank feel a hole in his life? He was bored.
Hot tea, just enough snowstorm and wind chimes for ambience, plus 1000 words of novel progress. ☃️ #writingcommunity #amwriting
7 Stages of Pen Grief: 1. Realizing it doesn't work 2. Scribbling on the notebook 3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever 4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning 5. Sucking on the ballpoint 6. Scribbling on the notebook some more 7. Throwing it across the room
How do you write when the world is burning? Passionately and compassionately. Onward.
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ―Thomas Mann #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
Though concentration is not coming easily, I’m still planning to eke out a golden hour of writing before the day is done. In the meantime, I managed to distract myself drafting a character relationship map in Canva. So not an altogether unproductive day, creatively! #writingcommunity #amwriting
I finished The Classic Storytelling course at The Novelry last week, and today I begin the 90-Day Novel course! I’m excited to dig in on this first draft - it’s a story I’ve been wanting to tell for awhile. 👩💻 #amwriting #writingcommunity
18+ years in the desert southwest have given me a fresh appreciation for seasons, including winter. Especially REAL winter. The kind of winter I barely experienced growing up in Ohio (our lakes didn’t freeze like this during the 70s/80s years of my childhood). #minnesota
I haven’t gone to the movies in years, and I never re-watch anything, but THREE times in the space of one month I dehydrated myself (to minimize potty breaks) to see the glorious #Wicked part one in theaters. 3x! I know it’s bonkers. #noregrets 🥰🤓
So, I signed up for The Novelry last month and I am *loving* this course! I probably could have started immediately with The 90 Day Novel, but decided to ease in with The Classic to help with ideation practice and the dreaded creative block. #writingcommunity #amwriting
hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors
Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.
