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Maybe we should take the DAY OFF and WRITE, EDIT, or DAYDREAM! ✍🏼☕👩🏼‍💻

YOU SHOULD BE! Camille Pagán is the serious writer's BFF. Level up with practical advice, tips, and guidance. Check out Camille's podcast and visit her website at EvenBetter.co. ✍🏼💖📚

Focus on the work. Do better every time. Trust yourself. 💜🪶🤓

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But seriously . . . push Eliza's monthly royalties over the $125 mark for the first time in decades. ARE YOU A CHAMPION OF SNARKY AUTHORS? Prove it! 🤣📚⚔️

I've had a rough week and am mad at myself for not getting my words in, but sometimes that's just the way it goes. Chin up, word warrior, and let's try again tomorrow. Stop being mean to yourself. ✍🏼💖📚

Truth. 🧐

(If it sounds too good to be true, it is.) 🧐✍🏼📚

Happy Tuesday! Enjoy those vices. 🤓

The anxiety we experience when we know someone is reading our work, whether it's a beta reader, an editor, an agent, someone who has bought the book from a retailer . . . that is a LEGIT STRESSOR. Pat your nearest writer on the back and tell 'em they rock. Unless, of course, they don't like to be touched and then an air-high five will do. No, but seriously. Boundaries are important. I also take accolades in the form of cash and chocolate. ✍🏼📚💖

It's the weekend. Read a funny novella. 💝📚💋

LIFE IS SHORT. Also, anyone have any leads on an immortality pill? I still have a LOT of books to write. 📚🏎️🏃🏼‍♀️🐎👟

No, but seriously. ✍🏼🛡️🥊

It's true. Some of us will go MORE insane. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, LOVEBIRDS!!! 💖✍🏼💋

When in doubt, ASK YOUR WRITING COMMUNITY. Make sure the people you trust with your work (and money) have your back and know what they're doing.

⏳ A bunch of Eliza Gordon's audiobooks are on SALE!!! Woot! 🎧🎁📚

My new writing mantra. 🧘🏼‍♀️✍🏼📚 With every new project, we learn. Camille Pagán is one of my FAVORITE authors and her podcast, YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK, plays on repeat in my library. Writers looking for inspiration or coaching, check out Camille's Even Better Co.: https://www.evenbetter.co/.

My dudes, seriously. CONSIDER THE SOURCE OF THE ADVICE.

Uh-oh, GUESS WHAT'S LIVE EARLY?!? This novella thing is SO FUN. 💖😍🌲🌊 Available all over the place with more retailers coming online! (P.S. Let me know what you think of that Afterword ...)

BUY:
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✅ Ebook or paperback from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Open-Me-First-Revelation-Valentines-ebook/dp/B0CTXR32BY
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✅ Paperback from B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/open-me-first-eliza-gordon/1144795500?ean=9781989908600
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🤔 I'm trying to better compartmentalize my time so I don't feel so scatterbrained when I have 22 things awaiting my attention. Oh, and also resuming my daily writing sprints once the latest Hollie Porter novella is out in the world! What about YOU? 🤓✍🏼🗒️

This exists. Think critically. Protect yourself and your work.

Mine was about a dentist, which is SO weird because I'm terrified of dentists (although we go to Dr. Matthew Ng, and he is a god among men, in case you're in the market for a new dentist in the Lower Mainland). I think I drew pictures to go with the story? It's long gone, eaten by time or that icky basement flood. ✍🏼📚🦷 What about you?

Go back to the character. Bird's-eye view. 🤓✍🏼📚

I listen to movie scores. Almost exclusively. You? ✍🏼🎵🎧 (If you ever need composer or score/soundtrack recommendations, I am your girl.)

Easier said than done. I get it. But what can you let go of in your current schedule that would free up some time for you to focus on your writing? 📚✍🏼⏰

WHERE ARE YOU? I'm in a suburb outside of Vancouver, BC. I LOVE Canada, although I'd love it better if it wasn't so bloody expensive to live here. Although we do have bears, so that's cool. 🐻 What about you? Where do you keep your pen hoard and endless book stacks? 🤓🌲✍🏼📚

🤓 WHAT WORD(S) do YOU overuse in your writing projects? I'll go first: atop, snickered, seriously, jackass. (Just kidding on that last one.) Your turn! 📚

I would say, "Self, write what you want to read. Write what makes you happiest. Trust your gut. Resist industry cynicism, but embrace hard-earned wisdom." You? ✍🏼📚🤓

Yeah, I've learned this the hard way. 📚✍🏼📣

All the rocks. And books. 🤓💖🪨📚