Rachel Is Writing

Wearing all the white things for my suffragette sisters. Ready to go get my vote on! 🇺🇸✌️ --- #vote #America #suffragette

🖊 Notes from the noveling front: Happy NaNoWriMo, everybody! I hope everyone trying this crazy challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days is doing well. Remember to stay hydrated 💧, eat something 🍎, and get up to stretch at least once an hour 🙌🏼. --- ✍🏼️ I'm trying some new methods of writing this month. Instead of editing (the inner editor was banished back in October to make sure she actually left), I am allowing myself to go back over things I've written so far and add in more layers of description, metaphor, and meaning. Someone on the NaNo forums suggested if I feel the urge to delete stuff (yes, often) or can't decide what sounds best for a description (also often) to use brackets to list several things and then be able to choose later on during first draft editing. I love this advice because it also gives a boost to word count. Ha! ✍🏼️ --- Happy writing! 😺📝💻📓💛 --- #nanowrimo #novelist #writer #wrimo #writing #amwriting #notediting #writerslife #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writerscommunity #november

"I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring." ~ W. S. Merwin --- I can't believe October is almost over. It's my favorite month, mostly because I live in New England where October means fiery colored leaves and cool nights and misty, breezy mornings. All things I dearly love. --- For #octbookstagram day 26 it's my take on book + pumpkin. 🎃 I haven't actually gotten any pumpkins this year, so instead I thought I'd share an illustration from the @foliosociety edition of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book. It's Cinderella and her godmother, of course! 👠✨ --- #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #october #bookphotochallenge #photochallenge #autumn #fall #pumpkin #book #reader #reading #bluefairybook #andrewlang #foliosociety #illustration #cinderella #fairytale #fairybook #beautiful #instagood

From the bookshelf next to my desk for #shelfiesunday - mostly books about writing and poetry, but I also keep some of my mythology and history books here for easy reference. The fox is one of my oldest writing totems. He represents my muse, Will. ❤️🐺📚🖊 --- #shelfie #books #bookstagram #writer #writersofinstagram

If you've been following me for awhile, you probably know this is my favorite mug. And it's reflecting my state of mind today! Time to do all the writes. I'm contemplating a bunch of literary fiction ideas for NaNoWriMo this year. What are you all writing? 🤔📝 --- #writersofinstagram #writer #writing #nanowrimo #creative #creativity #mug #coffee #favoritemug #amwriting

Giving The Magicians by Lev Grossman another chance. Initially I loathed the main character so much (arrogant misogynistic whiner) that I put this book down for years. But I've had it recommended to me so many times... And then I watched the SyFy series - which wasn't great, but definitely entertaining - and now my curiosity has driven me back into the written world. I'm liking it better this time. 📖😌 But yeah. I still hate Quentin. 🙄 --- #bookstagram #book #fantasymap #map #fillory #themagicians #levgrossman #quentincoldwater #reading

Tonight's #amreading selection. 📚 --- #reading #books #bookstagram #writing #roaring20s #zeldafitzgerald #nataliegoldberg #theodoreroethke #maryoliver #poetry #memoir #journaling #writersofinstagram

I got a bunch of new books from the library and of course I immediately brought them to my favorite new spot to read. ☀️🏖📚 --- #beachlife #reading #bookstagram #zeldafitzgerald #savemethewaltz #roaring20s #ocean #sea #happiness #readingnook

Things I Use As Bookmarks: Item 1 A photo of me in my Easter dress with my "Dutch bunny" (which I still own!) as a child. My grandfather printed this picture off and tucked it into the case of a k.d. Lang cd he burned for me a few years ago. 💜🎀🐰 --- #bookstagram #bookmark #childhood #easterbunny #itsme

A Sermon On Editing by Stephen King 😍📝👓📖🖊 --- #bookstagram #onwriting #stephenking #reading #bestbook #wordsofwisdom #editing #writing #quote

My favorite book about writing and being a writer. Long past time I read it again. 📝📖👓🤓 - - - #writersofinstagram #writer #writing #onwriting #stephenking #bookstagram #reading #bestbook