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Cat Melville

@catmelville.bsky.social

Wrestling with a tricky second novel. (The first one is safely tied up in a drawer.) 💙📚👀 Time spent reading:writing = 10:1 #writingcommunity #amquerying

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HitchPod@hitchpodonline.com · 2y ago

The 5th best #Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963. On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos overcast.fm/+AAyngGBR1Kw

HitchPod Rewatch Countdown - Number 5, The Birds — HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies

The 5th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963. On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing ou...

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Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote 800 words by dictating into my phone while walking the dog today. Pretty sure that shifted me out of GenX into GenZ. #writer #writingcommunity 📚

Jeff Presto@signedinpen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Anyone ever free write into a notebook or a notepad app on their phone while they're at work? Or be reading a book at home and constantly pushing it aside because you keep getting ideas for your own stories? I've been feeling that a lot lately #writers #writingcommunity #authors

Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

SEVERANCE meets THE NOTEBOOK with THURSDAY MURDER CLUB humour The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient offers wise advice, but has secrets of her own. #holipit #A #T #WF #Q

Moodboard for manuscript "You told me your ex was dead" featuring three pics of the main character, nurse Jen. 1) with the mysterious elderly patient she befriends 2) heading home in the elevator 3) petrified in the foyer of her dead ex-husband’s apartment. The opening lines of the manuscript are included: Despite the new job, my morning unfolded like any other workday — a man pacing outside my office with no pants on. At first, I ignored him. After all, on the physical rehab ward it’s our job to make sure the patients get their steps up. Besides, I was already fully occupied, shuffling the paperwork on my desk.
Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

SEVERANCE meets THE NOTEBOOK with THURSDAY MURDER CLUB style characters The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient helps, but has secrets of her own. #wippit #con #S #T #WF #spec

Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

More details on the #Bookclub Christmas crackers. Here are the ingredients…. #AltText #writingcommunity 💙📚👀

Cardboard Christmas cracker shells, ribbon and snaps. Corny bookish jokes/riddles/punsTiny gifts - lollipop, read/sleep coin, bookmark, sticker. Paper crowns - with a book character stuck on - to play Who Am I/Headbanz/Celebrity Heads
Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ I'm making Christmas crackers for my bookclub - with book themed tiny gifts and jokes. If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles (some found, some I made some up!) 🧵 #writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC Q - Why did the ghost always need more books? A - Because she went through them too quickly

A Christmas cracker
Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ I'm making Christmas crackers for my bookclub - with book themed tiny gifts and jokes. If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles (some found, some I made some up!) 🧵 #writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC Q - Why did the ghost always need more books? A - Because she went through them too quickly

A Christmas cracker
Cat Melville@catmelville.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lift the backstory out of your novel and turn it into a short story that you submit to a competition (so it has a use!) Summarise your short story in a sentence or two and insert this back in your novel - always LATER than you had it originally. Works for useless scenes/chapters too. #writer ✍️

Caitlin McGill@caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 2y ago

writers, please give me your best ruthless tips on cutting (after years of doing this already) even more of those occasional pages of backstory #writingcommunity #memoir