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Ali Wentletrap

@wentletrap.bsky.social

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🪼Ali Wentletrap🪼 Writer and avid reader Editing my debut novel 📚 Morally grey characters - High stakes - Dark secrets 📍London Insta: @ali.with.words

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jul 9

*Opens editor report* What fresh horrors await me today?… 🥲😇

#novelist #fictionwriter #authorcommunity #bookediting

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 25

Any advice on how to emotionally handle getting notes/feedback from an editor? My manu will be back in a couple of weeks and I’m so nervous for all the edits. I can take criticism but I know this will hit different!

#writer #authorcommunity #fictionwriter #writercommunity

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 23

Oh me too 😩

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 17

I just finished a read through of my novella. And I liked what I read.

#fictionwriter #novelist #writer #authorcommunity

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 12

I wish I had a small animal waking me up instead 🥹

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 12

My alarm 😫

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 12

What is your most traumatic read?
I have 100 pages left of A Little Life and it has been a rough one.

#readers #booksky #currentread #authorcommunity #bookcommunity

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Jun 5

I feel empty without my novel to work on… (it’s with an editor). What am I supposed to do when my other dimension is not available?

#writer #writercommunity #writesky #authorlife #authorcommunity #fictionwriter

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 27

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 27

I’ve been packing my bookcase at my parents house and found some treasures.

#handwrittenletter #booksky #books #reader #writer

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 23

Is sending your book to an editor supposed to feel like sending your kids off to school? (Not that I have any… but I think this is how it feels)

#writesky #fictonwriter #novelist #writer #authorcommunity

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 9

Taking breaks from polishing my manu to read this…

#alittlelife #reader #writer #booksky #alittlelifebook #writersreading

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 4

Good Morning from London

#alittlelife #reader #booksky #sundaymorning

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · May 2

My writing group is the thing I miss the most since moving to the city. 😫

#writingcommunity #writerlife #writinggroup #fictionwriter

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 24

Fourth Draft complete!

#writesky #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #fictionwriter #novelist

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

Yes! So fun

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

I added some of it in later parts but it is better without it for sure 🫣

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

Mine does not. Not even pierced ears. The opposite of the author. 🤭

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

Trying not to freak out about the whole paragraph I just edited out of my manu.

#writercommunity #novelediting #booksky #fictionwriting #authorjourney

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

She is like me in some ways but I made her very different too. It’s fun to write a whole new person.
You can do it. Take inspo from your fave books and shows or even people you admire irl 💛

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you. The FMC is a young woman with a lot of anxiety but equal ambition. 💛. Are you working on something too?

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 8

Exhausting but worth it! ❤️‍🩹This main project is a character driven political drama.

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 8

I wake, I edit, I rest, I do it all again, and I will keep doing it until my book is out in the world.
💛❤️

#writesky #writerlife #authorcommunity #writingcommunity #bookcommunity

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Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 3

Force is the key word here 🫠 I’ll be doing more of that.

Ali Wentletrap @wentletrap.bsky.social · Apr 3

Good idea. I need to learn to walk away and break more.