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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 8h

Do you always imagine an audience for your work? Why or why not? I think about audience after I finish a story, otherwise, it distracts me too much #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What’s the most important thing that writing has taught you? Probably different ways of seeing the same thing, if that makes sense. Probably not 😂 #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If, for some reason, you could never write again, what would you do instead? I would probably get into photography more #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is your favorite place that you’ve created for a story? I made up Little Sicily in a fictitious city that’s based on my family’s old neighborhood in New Jersey #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What writing advice has been most useful to you? Probably being told to write the story I want to read #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How would you describe your dream editor? Someone who really believes in my stories or gets them on a deeper level #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Where is the most unusual place where you’ve thought of a story idea? At the zoo. 😎 #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who has been a big influence on your writing? Pretty much every author I’ve ever respected #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you ever look at other writers who doubt their abilities and you don’t understand bow that’s possible? But then you doubt your abilities and wonder how you could ever believe in them? Asking for a friend 🤣 #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What does your MC love the most? Blake is an insecure kid who loves beautiful things and wishes he was like them #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What’s the type of scene that you look forward to writing? I love dialogue. I’m starting to get better at fight scenes too #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Writers, do you use the same tense all the time or does it depend on the story? I usually use past tense because every time I use present, it just sounds awkward #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s the weirdest place where you’ve thought of a story idea? On a rollercoaster 😎 #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What motivates you to write? For me, it’s all about achieving my goals with writing—from finishing a WIP to submitting a story for publication #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you plan on going the trad publishing route, what made you choose it? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What’s your number one writing goal for the rest of this year? To finally have a decent query letter and synopsis #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What have you improved the most in your writing? I feel like I’m getting better at creating cleaner sentences #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What’s the most ridiculous or boring thing you’ve researched for a story? I had to look up whether being expelled from a college appears on transcripts. So boring, but so necessary #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Which scene in your WIP would you love to see on film? I think the interrogation scene between the MC and a detective would be cool to see in a movie or series #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What’s the strangest detail you’ve ever put in a story? I like weird birds in the background. The creepier the better #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What’s a compliment about your writing that surprised you? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What part of writing makes you completely lose track of time? Worldbuilding ❤️ #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s a scene you almost cut but are now glad you kept? I had some backstory that ended up being more important than I initially realized. #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What do you like most about editing? I used to hate it, but now I kind of like the challenge of going through each line and tossing the crap ones #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My favorite part of a holiday weekend is that extra day to write before the email explosion hits me after the holiday ends. Am I the only one? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Do you write better when you know exactly where the story is going or when you don’t? I need to know the ending, otherwise, I will have a saggy middle with useless descriptions #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What rule does your MC live by? Ginger believes in being honest, even if it makes her vulnerable or if it hurts #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What’s worse to you—deleting a ton of words or having to add them? I never want to have to delete 30k words again, like I did with one manuscript. Just awful #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you know your characters’ histories, or do you discover them as you write? A little bit of both for me #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you hear dialogue in your head before you write it? I imagine it and then try to do justice to what I just imagined #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What scene have you enjoyed writing the most lately? I’ve finally revised the first two chapters of my novel so that it’s so much cleaner #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When do you cut repeated words in your WIP? I try to catch some in the early editing stages, but it’s when I’m nearly finished revising that I take my list and do word searches #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What part of writing makes you lose track of time? Almost all of it, but especially when I start a new story #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When do you think sensory details work best in a story? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What makes a character immediately interesting to you when reading and/or writing? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Do you edit as you go or wait until the first draft is finished? I do light editing as I go along because I hate typos and clunky sentences, but I do the more serious stuff after I finish the first draft #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#writers what are you working on this weekend? I’m revising a novel based on recent feedback. Thank you, Megan! 😎 #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What writing rule do you happily ignore? I do feel like there’s a place for adverbs, otherwise, why would any language have them? #writers #WritingCommunity #writingq

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What character flaw is the most interesting for you to write? Bad people who think they’re good people or morally gray characters. Both feel more real to me #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you’ve used beta readers, do you ever think they don’t like your story but are afraid to tell you that? Or is it just me? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How have the places you have lived—or still do—affected your writing? #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What’s something that you understand differently because you wrote about it? The early twentieth century in Argentina #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What contradiction in human behavior do you explore in your writing? How good people can be forced into doing bad things #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Have you ever written something that changed your mind about a subject? This happened to me a lot when I was writing academic articles #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What do you deliberately leave unexplained in a story? The “why” behind something supernatural—at least in a short story. In a novel with more space, I tend to explain a lot more #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What subject do you keep returning to in your writing, even when you don’t mean to? For me, the idea that the real monsters are people #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How do you balance marketing your stories with writing them? Marketing is something I’m thinking about more and more #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What do you do when a story isn’t working, and you don’t know why? I usually have to put it aside for a minute and work on something else #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What’s something that readers interpret differently than you had originally intended in your story? Sometimes, readers see my monsters way differently than I do #writingq #WritingCommunity

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