Kris Tinleigh

Huzzah!! @thecozyreadingnook.bsky.social was my 500th follower. And I love their bio. My kind of people. Looking forward to getting to know you better.

Who's going to be my 500th follower?

Yes, I'm building slowly coz I like to know who everyone is, what they write, read, love. The world's a nicer place that way.
Too much internet click & collect is destroying humanity.
#WritingCommunity #BuildingCommunity #BuildingSlow #SlowCommunity

Ask away. It's essentially a coming of age book for midlife mayhem.

That moment when you realise your writing isn't a literary masterpiece - not like those writing women's lit who paint sweeping word pictures and stab at your heart with well-aimed icepicks. Nope! #MoreThanThis is fun, light, quirky and uses words like shit-goblin.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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God yes! My whole love of writing story now came from books when I was a little girl. My all time fave tho - Tove Jannsen's Moomin books.

#7syllablesentence #amwriting #writingcommunity

#Action hidden is divine.

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It's #SleepWeek this week and Mell, my MC has issues sleeping often. Part of it is 'the dreaded list', but part of it is the nightmare her personal life is unfolding into.

Maybe she (or you and def me) need to read up on #SleepHygiene.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #MoreThanThis

My chrysolitic sludge moment is over and a new butterfly has emerged from her cocoon, her delicate wings catch the sunlight and #glint in flight for the first time.

#WIPsnip #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

#ProbablyNeededAHug #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WIP

How's it possible to go through a breakup without meeting someone. I put my head on the desk, shattered. I desperately want the relief of a good cry, but, I am the real shit-goblin in all of this. It's all of my own making.

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Great! I’ve destroyed my family. ‘Not a bad weeks’ work,’ I say to a small bird, protecting itself from the wind in a nearby tree. He chortles a short mournful song, then takes his chances and flies away. Wrapping my arms around myself, I decide if I had a #choice, I’d fly away from me too. #VSS365

The big C did my head in. The five year mark? The line you're almost considered ‘cured-ish’? That #fear, your brush with death lingers, wreaking havoc. I'd been scared to my core in a way you can't understand til it hits you.

Safety no longer exists in my life.

#WIPSnips #AmWriting #MoreThanThis

March is #ColorTherapy Month. What are you/your MC working on that might have to do with #colour? And if nothing, what colour represents the feeling of the moment?

Writing #MoreThanThis Ch3, D2 - MC Mell's relaunching a mag. Feeling? Zeal. Colour?

#WritingCommunity #WriterSky #FictionFriday #WIP

FYI #writingcommunity

Far out!! What a nightmare.

She stands taller. She knows how good she looks and more importantly, how vital she feels. Womanly wiles dawn in her eyes.

At last she understands the basis, the #truth of her #power.

Woe betide any man, especially a young one with no clue, who doesn’t get it.

#vss365 #MoreThanThis #WIPsnips

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Thought this might amuse you.

Today's to-do list. Draft 2. I'd scheduled all day. That's how long I thought it would probably take.

Yes, you may laugh now.

#IYKYK #AmWriting (and then rewriting) #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Wednesdays #HumpDay

I wish I'd asked it of myself so much earlier.

You're welcome.

“I love writing for you and the women reading WhatWomenWant. We owe them… more. Be real, address their concerns. Readers can’t afford $3k shoes or $40 teas, certainly not with the cost of living crisis. They want us to show them the way, not pretend crises aren’t happening." #WIPSnips #MoreThanThis

Constantly asking the question 'How does this move the plot forward?' now has me asking 'How does this move my life forward?' for everything. Big sigh. Finally becoming the MC of my own life.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky #WriteSky #Author #MoreThanThis

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Just got feedback on my synopsis for #MoreThanThis.
The editor loved it. Her words?
"Short feedback is good feedback."
Huzzah!
Twas the lift I needed to start draft 2.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #JustKeepGoing #NextDraft #WritersofBSky #WriteSky #Author

Thanks. Commercial women's fiction with a romantic through-line.

Loved this. Thanks for sharing.

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#MoreThanThis, the book is finished. Huzzah!
All 110,479 words.
No, wait - let me rephrase. Draft 1 is done.
1 down, only another 5, 6, 10 or so drafts to go.
#AmWriting #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Big sigh!

'I’m not modelling this.' I am not model material, not model shaped. I’ve had kids.
'Oh, but you will be.' She smiles #knowingly and whispers conspiratorially. 'Jess expected you might need to come to me, so we’ve prepped for you.'
Oh dear.
#vss365 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #MoreThanThis

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Ego: This is brilliant. People will flock to read it
Heart: What if people don't like it? What if after ALL THESE WORDS no-one reads it
Brain: The important thing is to write it. If you finish, you're doing better than 97% of folks
Ego & heart: 👇
#WritingCommunity #Writing #Author #BookSky #WriteSky

"Was the boredom I'd tried to escape just a mask for fear? Not just any fear, but a #crazed terror so deep that rather than face myself, making any kind of peace with what was reflected, I’d blown up my life to avoid it?
Shame, horror, guilt, sadness, and relief, crash into me." #vss365 #Writing

I'm Kris - Chick-lit w a side of #romancelandia writer. 40-something Mell Everett is a ‘happily married’ mum of 2, former PR trailblazer, now lowly staff writer, whose narrow escape from the big C has her playing small and longing for the happily-ever-after fairytale she was promised.
#SFF #WriteSky

The joys or rather the limitations of the law (it's a blunt instrument at the best of times). You get them however you can get them.

And whilst former Prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being arrested (finally) is trending, everyone seems to have forgotten poor Virginia Giuffre, one of his child victims, who helped bring him to justice and in so doing, was so destroyed, she lost her life.
#Justice #RoyalArrest #RememberThem