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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does it make you angry that there are some very poorly written novels that have been very successful? #WritingCommunity

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Has your own writing ever made you cry? #WritingCommunity

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Have you ever looked back at your older writing and realised it was terrible? #WritingCommunity

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Do you think a novel's main character should be likable? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

I'm in a sleeping bag, in a forest, under a plastic sheet. This is the kind of crap Army Reservists do at weekends. How's your weekend going?

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Oxford comma - yes or no? #WritingCommunity

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Do you ever use your own personal stories in your writing? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

If you got a publishing deal and the editor told you to change your MC's name, what would you do? #WritingCommunity

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How old were you when you knew you were a writer? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

Do you ever feel a sense of loss after you finish your novel? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

My editor found an Easter egg in my novel that I hadn't even realised was there! Must have planted it subconsciously. Does anyone plant them on purpose? If so, what do they look like? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

I seem to spend my life worrying if I've pissed people off. Yet no one ever seems to give a damn if they've upset me! Does anyone else feel like this?

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you feel that you write what you'd want to read? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

When they make your novel into a movie, would you want to be on set during filming as a consultant? #WritingCommmunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Is it worth it to write a short story? I've only ever written novels... #WritingCommmunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does it make you nervous when someone reads your work? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

So I did it, I quit my job! Just 4 weeks left to work. I just hope the gamble I took to focus on making my books a success pays off... #writerslife #WritingCommnunity #writers

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

I'm doing a final proof-read of my novel. Just tiny edits needed, but otherwise free to enjoy my own story. I'm actually a little surprised at the quality of my own writing. Does anyone else read back their own work and barely believe it was you that wrote it? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

OMG what do you have to do to get reviews? Even from friends and family? I've tried asking nicely, bribery, persuasion, pestering, even begging! It's like dragging blood from a stone! #writerslife

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Wow! Just hit 800 followers! Thanks to everyone who's been interested enough in my ramblings to follow so far. Does anyone else in the #writingcommunity , fancy doing a little #writerslift and helping me get to 1000 #followers ?

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How much writing did you have to do before you felt you were any good at it? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you ruin movies for others by pointing out plot holes, poor character development or dialogue problems? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

I've sold my first book! Hurrah! One pre-order is now showing on KDP. May it be the first of many. #WritingCommmunity #fantasywriters

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

That's it. Done. Last shift at Amazon complete. Now down to 3 jobs; Army Reservist, writer, mum. Has anyone else taken the plunge like me? Have you chopped the day job to live your dream? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

Does it make you nervous when someone reads your work? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

9 months

Make a book title edible! I'll start: To Grill a Mockingbird

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

What made you put pen to paper when starting to write your first novel? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Editing is torture. It is the process where you read, you tweak, you adjust, you refine. It's where your eyes review your own words so many times that you hate your own story, you become sick of the sight of it, you start to lose all faith that anyone else could ever love it!

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you enjoy reading banter between characters in dialogue? Personally, I love it. Which I guess is why I write it. Can't say I've come across much of it before in fantasy novels though. #WritingCommnunity #readingcommunity #fantasywriters

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

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@DarynFaulkner I have no idea how people survive with long nails, especially fake ones. They must massively get in the way. If mine get more than a few millimetres from the end of my fingers they drive me nuts. I keep them short too!

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you feel like writing has changed, or even saved your life? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How do you cure writer's block? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you feel like writing is a hobby, a past time, a job or something you just have to do or you'll burst? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

When you write, do you get lost in the scenes in your head? #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you ever have dreams about your characters? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If you made it big as an author, do you think you'd like the fame that came with success, or hate it? # writingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Is writing 'anything' better than writing nothing? #writingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If they made a movie out of your novel, would they need a stunts person? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If they made your book into a series, would there be enough content to fill 10 episodes? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If you had the chance to leave real life behind and spend the rest of your days in your novel, would you do it? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

So what's your thoughts on writing after a drink or two? Sometimes I think it helps!

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

What's the difference between a writer and an author? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does anyone else find that getting ready for Christmas is interfering with your writing? #writerslife

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you write your main characters as people you'd want to be? Or perhaps people you'd like to be with? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Has your own writing ever made you cry? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Are you creative?

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

So...my book has been out for 2 weeks. I've sold 33 copies and 4,323 pages have been read on Kindle Unlimited. Book 2 is out in April, book 3 is out in May. £9k spent on editing and covers for all 3. Will I ever make back my outlay? 🤔 #WritingCommunity #indieauthors

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

I'm an introverted extrovert. Bit of a contradiction, I know! I want to show off but I hate attention. I want to engage with everyone but I'm often scared to do so. It seems a lot of writers have introverted tendencies, would you agree? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Is it worth writing short stories? I'm thinking about writing some which cover bits of the backstories of characters from my novels. Do you think this would be something people would want to read? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you think that someone can be taught to be a writer? Or is it just a gift that you either have or you don't? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

Hoping to get to 2000 #followers , why? Because there are so many great people in the #writingcommunity who I'm yet to connect with, so many voices I'm yet to hear, so many chances to engage that I'm yet to find. If you follow and engage, I'll follow back! #writerslift

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you think it's important for a writer to have read the "classics"? Personally, I've read very few of them. The only one that springs to mind is Lord of the Rings, if that counts. Couldn't get into Dickens, too slow for me! #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writers

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Curious thing about Twitter, random questions get loads of engagement, any self promo is met by tumble weeds. Do you guys hate it when people try to sell their own stuff? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

10 months

Has becoming an author damaged your reading experience? I used to be able to just read a book and just enjoy it. Now I'm like: "POV switch badly handled" "Too much exposition" "Don't tell me that!" Sigh. Give me a good book that's immaculately written (fantasy please), now!

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does it make you nervous when someone reads your work, or do you find yourself bubbling with excitement to hear their feedback? #writingcommunity #writersoftwitter #writers

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you prefer reading physical books or ebooks? #readingcommunity #reading #books

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you read more than one book at once? I was amazed to learn some people do this, I can only handle one at a time! #readingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you ruin movies for other people by pointing out plot holes, weak character development or poor dialogue? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Say something profound 🤔

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Finished my final proof read of my novel. It's almost ready to go out to my advance readers. What should I do to celebrate? #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writers

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How much editing of your novel do you do after your first draft? How do you go about it? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does anyone else's novel get longer when they edit? With each pass over mine grow and grow... The last one I got ready for my (professional) editor had swollen by 20k words after I'd finished with it. Is this normal? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does anyone else wonder how they are capable of crafting thousands of words into novels and yet are still unable to grasp some of the finer grammatical rules of the English language? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

13 days

I really do feel happy for people who land agents, but with the amount of posts I see where people tell you this, it seems like every other writer is having success! While my book sits in the slush pile ☹️. Does this make anyone else feel a tad inadequate?

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If they made your novel into a movie, would you want to have a staring role? Or perhaps just a cameo? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

What made you start to write your first novel? Did you have a story inside that was fighting to escape? Were you bored and needed something to do? Did you try it just to see if you could do it? #WritingCommunity

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Happy New Year from the UK!

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does anyone else hop from career to career? I'm 37, and I now call myself an author. This marks career #5 since graduating from uni. But it's the only one I'm really excited about...and the only one that earns me nothing. So far. #WritingCommunity #writers #writersoftwitter

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you feel like writing is 'fun'? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

Thoughts on the two covers below... Which do you prefer? Would either persuade you to buy?

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How do you come up with ideas for new stories? Do you sit down and plot? Do you stare into space and imagine? Do your ideas just flash into your head? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

25 days

OMG I'm so sick of any self-promo I do falling flat on its ass. Vague question about books: 10k+ hits. Post about my books: a few hundred hits if I'm lucky. What is the secret to telling the world about your writing? Can anyone help? #writerslife

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

My third book is our today, and I'm like 🤷‍♀️ For the first, I was full of delusions about selling loads of books. But now? Cold hard reality has hit me, hard. I'll never make a living from this, I'll never be renowned, I've wasted £1000s on getting my books to market. Now what?

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you think watching movies helps in writing a novel? #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writing

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you think your addiction to reading and/writing has destroyed your ability to watch TV? #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How much research do you do for your novel or short story? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Where/how did you get your idea for your first book? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

9 months

If you knew no one would ever read your stories, would you still write? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

When you read your own writing, do you see the scenes and characters in your head? Do you find it easier to visualise when reading your own work rather than that of others? #WritingCommmunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

My novels are spun from my hopes, my dreams and my experiences. My characters are formed from who I am, who I want to be and from people I know. My novels are part of me. Does anyone else feel like this about their work? #WritingCommunity

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2 years

Do you ever hand-write your WIP? I struggle to write much more than a sentence by hand, these days, but I was wondering if others hadn't lost the art. #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you think your writing style/genre/storyline says a lot about who you are? #WritingCommunity #writers #writersoftwitter

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Have you ever been so carried away with your writing that you've missed sleep, an important appointment or even work? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

I hit 50 sales today - 19 days after release. Which is good, right? Especially as nearly half are from folk overseas - I'm pretty certain those guys aren't family and friends! #writerslife #writingcommunity #books

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Sooo, got a domain, got a website, got a completed MS, got an email address, got a cover designer, got a Book Funnel account, got a video on YouTube, got almost 10,000 Twitter followers, got a Facebook page and a fledgling Instagram account... Still more to go, but it's a start!

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

8 months

What one piece of advice would you give to someone who is just starting their first novel? #writingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

My new platform for shameless self promotion has been launched. Check out my website:

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Charlotte Goodwin 🇬🇧📚🪖

@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

The further I get on my self-publishing journey, the more I'm glad I did it. Love the editorial control, love how quick I can get my work out, love that there's no third party faff and even enjoying trying to do marketing. If you've got the cash to invest, do it! #writers

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Which part of writing your novel do you enjoy the most? The planning? The beginning? The middle? The end? The editing? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

Does anyone else get irritated by fantasy worlds that ignore basic science? Like planets with climates that are the same everywhere (Star Wars is good at this). Or permanently blood-thirsty creatures that never get any prey, yet don't starve to death either. #readingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Is there any better feeling than reading back your own work and finding it makes you smile? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

If they made your novel into a movie, would you want to have a cameo role? Or how about a main part? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

1 year

Do you aim to make a living out of writing? #WritingCommunity

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1 year

Do you ever worry about the diversity of the cast in your novel or WIP? #writingcommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

I find writing lets me live my own dreams. Does anyone else feel the same? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 months

Hi! I'm Charlotte... A huge number of awesome people have followed me in the last year, and its a while since I introduced myself. I write fantasy, I'm in the Army, and I send army people to magical worlds! I'd love to hear some interesting facts about you too!

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Was there one specific book that made you fall in love with reading? What was it about this book that got you hooked? #books #reading #readingforpleasure

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Do you ever find yourself staring into space and thinking about your stories half way through a conversation about something completely unrelated? #WritingCommunity

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

Does anyone else ever get told off by their own characters in their head? Sometimes I do stupid stuff and I can hear myself being lectured by people I made up! #WritingCommunity #writers #writerslife

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@AuthorGoodwin

2 years

How long does it take you to write 1000 words? Or even a whole novel? I can manage 1000 words per hour when I'm drafting, I'm interested to hear how quick everyone else writes. #WritingCommunity #writers #writersoftwitter

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