Roz Morris
@rozmorris.bsky.social
Author, Ever Rest, Not Quite Lost, My Memories of a Future Life, Lifeform Three, Nail Your Novel. Editor/speaker. Judge @ International Voices in Creative Non-Fiction Award 2025, Amazon Kindle Storyteller Award 2023
The memoirist's dilemma - shaping a narrative purpose while respecting the truth. @wendydale.bsky.social & @thecreativepenn www.thecreativepenn.com/2025/11/10/w... #writingprocess #cnf #memoir #amwriting #skywriters
Why Structure Matters More Than You Think. Writing Memoir With Wendy Dale
Why do so many memoir manuscripts fail to engage readers, even when the writer has lived through extraordinary experiences? What's the hidden code that separates a chronological account of events from...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The memoirist's dilemma - shaping a narrative purpose while respecting the truth. @wendydale.bsky.social & @thecreativepenn www.thecreativepenn.com/2025/11/10/w... #writingprocess #cnf #memoir #amwriting #skywriters
This is a post about the power of dilemmas in crime fiction, but actually the principle is true of all genres. Chris Jones & Paul James Smith @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/crafting-eth... #writingtips #writinglife #authorlife #skywriters
Crafting Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Crime Fiction | Jane Friedman
In crime fiction, the most powerful moments often aren’t about car chases or shootouts—they’re about impossible choices.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This is a post about the power of dilemmas in crime fiction, but actually the principle is true of all genres. Chris Jones & Paul James Smith @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/crafting-eth... #writingtips #writinglife #authorlife #skywriters
Writing is like... athletic training. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & I discuss nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t... #writingtips #memoir #writinglife
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Writing is like... athletic training. @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social & I discuss nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t... #writingtips #memoir #writinglife
Actually no. The post might surprise you.
Is this like when they say, “you earn more with a master’s”?
Because I’m here to tell you all I got from my master’s is a pile of debt.
Because I’m here to tell you all I got from my master’s is a pile of debt.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Actually no. The post might surprise you.
The writer's persona in the narrative; MFA courses; Englishness. Interviewed by @GarryCraigPowell at @raintaxi.bsky.social nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/t... #writinglife #memoir #creativewriting #writingcareers #memoir #skywriters
The writer’s persona in the narrative, MFA courses and Englishness – interview at Rain Taxi
How much should a writer’s personality show in a book? Some authors keep themselves out of the narrative voice, even in a personal book such as a memoir. Others colour every page with their s…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The writer's persona in the narrative; MFA courses; Englishness. Interviewed by @GarryCraigPowell at @raintaxi.bsky.social nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/t... #writinglife #memoir #creativewriting #writingcareers #memoir #skywriters
Is an MFA (or other creative writing qualification) necessary for you to have a writing career? Sensible discussion by @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/i... #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlife #writinglife #skywriters
Is an MFA Worth It for Aspiring Writers?
By Allison K Williams I’m in a wonderful writing group, tailored to our exact needs: 20 pages, once a month, no written feedback. Our group is three people with writing/editing/teaching jobs and on…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Is an MFA (or other creative writing qualification) necessary for you to have a writing career? Sensible discussion by @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/i... #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlife #writinglife #skywriters
Reposted by Roz Morris
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is Jocelyn Jane Cox’s new release Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice. I began by asking: how do all those parts fit together?
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November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is Jocelyn Jane Cox’s new release Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice. I began by asking: how do all those parts fit together?
nailyournovel.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
‘The metaphor arrived… and I worked to make sense of it’: talking to memoirist Jocelyn Jane Cox
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is…
Your plot comes from your characters. Find their burden of unease.
Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel 2 books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingtips #writingcraft #novelist #amwriting #skywriters
Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel 2 books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingtips #writingcraft #novelist #amwriting #skywriters
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Your plot comes from your characters. Find their burden of unease.
Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel 2 books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingtips #writingcraft #novelist #amwriting #skywriters
Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel 2 books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingtips #writingcraft #novelist #amwriting #skywriters
I agree. You can't be using Claude or Gemini. They have a much better grasp of context. But you are repeating an often-seen pattern in algorithm-generated conversations, except you're not adapting replies to the context of the person you're talking to. So: not AI. Artificial something, though.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I agree. You can't be using Claude or Gemini. They have a much better grasp of context. But you are repeating an often-seen pattern in algorithm-generated conversations, except you're not adapting replies to the context of the person you're talking to. So: not AI. Artificial something, though.
What's your main character's coping mechanism? A valuable device to show their inner workings @AngelaAckerman writershelpingwriters.net/2025/11/copi... #writingtips #writinglife #writingprocess #skywriters
Coping Mechanism Thesaurus: Spending Time in Nature
Does your character spend time in nature to cope? Learn all the ways you can show this coping mechanism in your story!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What's your main character's coping mechanism? A valuable device to show their inner workings @AngelaAckerman writershelpingwriters.net/2025/11/copi... #writingtips #writinglife #writingprocess #skywriters
Subtractions, shufflings, new iterations, the great mystery of a family place moving out of your orbit. This post has the puzzle of passing years. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #thanksgiving #creativewriting #writinglife
Is Remembrance a Subtraction or a Sum?
Brief Thanksgiving thoughts, and some news about a new project and a remarkable prize
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Subtractions, shufflings, new iterations, the great mystery of a family place moving out of your orbit. This post has the puzzle of passing years. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #thanksgiving #creativewriting #writinglife
Excellent point. I'm very good at talking to people for an entire evening without ever learning their name... that is probably a character trait, come to think of it...
I'm always interested in people's hobbies and interests, much more than their job. I think it was Laurens van der Post who said that an interesting person is someone you can talk to all evening without finding out what they do for a living. It's the same with fiction. Who are they when not working?
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Excellent point. I'm very good at talking to people for an entire evening without ever learning their name... that is probably a character trait, come to think of it...
Thanks, Elizabeth!
The quiet beginning – one trick to keep the reader’s attention: nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t... @rozmorris.bsky.social #wkb8
The quiet beginning – one trick to keep the reader’s attention
Starting a story is always a challenge. You have to do a lot at once, but not too much. Don’t overwhelm the reader, don’t confuse, don’t info-dump, don’t send misleading signals, don’t lose the rea…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thanks, Elizabeth!
Lots more about using your characters' professions, hobbies and weird side-moments to make them believable - Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingprocess #writingcraft #writinglife #storytelling #skywriters
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris
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November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Lots more about using your characters' professions, hobbies and weird side-moments to make them believable - Writing Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated books2read.com/nyncharacters #writingprocess #writingcraft #writinglife #storytelling #skywriters
Even if your novel isn't set in a workplace, your characters' jobs can be valuable material. @JenniferLandau at @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/using-the-wo... #writingcommunity #storytelling #amwriting #writinglife #skywriters
Using the Workplace to Add Depth to Your Novel | Jane Friedman
Using the workplace as more than a backdrop can supercharge the stakes, conflict, and character development of your fiction.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Even if your novel isn't set in a workplace, your characters' jobs can be valuable material. @JenniferLandau at @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/using-the-wo... #writingcommunity #storytelling #amwriting #writinglife #skywriters
Let's compare life-writing to ... making Peking duck without an army of assistant chefs. The intrepid @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/r... #writingcommunity #writingprocess #memoir #authorlife
Duck, Duck, Essay: The Recipe for Writing
For once, autocorrect was right: it’s a duck pic By Allison K Williams After moving to Portugal, I’ve learned a lot more about food. Nectarines are seasonal here, and no, you can’…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Let's compare life-writing to ... making Peking duck without an army of assistant chefs. The intrepid @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/r... #writingcommunity #writingprocess #memoir #authorlife
Clothes as armour. Clothes as beacons to find kindred spirits. And how the slower time of the novel might allow us to discover ourselves as well as the characters we invent. Love this by
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
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@alexanderchee.bsky.social
querent.substack.com/p/the-clothe... #writinglife #amwriting
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November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Clothes as armour. Clothes as beacons to find kindred spirits. And how the slower time of the novel might allow us to discover ourselves as well as the characters we invent. Love this by
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
querent.substack.com/p/the-clothe... #writinglife #amwriting
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
querent.substack.com/p/the-clothe... #writinglife #amwriting
'Lost memories, haunted landscapes, nocturnal quests for connection.. beautifully unsettling and resonant. The kind of storytelling that reminds readers why speculative fiction can be profound, moving and utterly imaginative'
Lifeform Three books2read.com/lifeform3 #booktok #skyreaders #booklove
Lifeform Three books2read.com/lifeform3 #booktok #skyreaders #booklove
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Lifeform Three by Roz Morris
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November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
'Lost memories, haunted landscapes, nocturnal quests for connection.. beautifully unsettling and resonant. The kind of storytelling that reminds readers why speculative fiction can be profound, moving and utterly imaginative'
Lifeform Three books2read.com/lifeform3 #booktok #skyreaders #booklove
Lifeform Three books2read.com/lifeform3 #booktok #skyreaders #booklove
When a writer tries to pass in the smartly dressed world. Love this. Another writer I know was on his way to a signing in a pale jacket. By the time he sat on the train it had a long black skid-mark. Reader, I married him. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/my-dress-t... @bethkephart.bsky.social
My Dress Turned to Dust
and other news from my glamorous life
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November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
When a writer tries to pass in the smartly dressed world. Love this. Another writer I know was on his way to a signing in a pale jacket. By the time he sat on the train it had a long black skid-mark. Reader, I married him. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/my-dress-t... @bethkephart.bsky.social
The 'rich currents' of poetry running alongside our lives... and how to swim in them @dintywmoore.bsky.social & @RodgerKamenetz brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/s... #writingcommunity #cnf #writingprocess #amwriting #skywriters
Seeing into the Life of Things: Memory as an Act of Imagination
“I write in the perfume of the dream.” In his latest book, Rodger Kamenetz blends dreamwork and poetic imagination to offer pathways toward a more meaningful life, while also exploring …
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The 'rich currents' of poetry running alongside our lives... and how to swim in them @dintywmoore.bsky.social & @RodgerKamenetz brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/s... #writingcommunity #cnf #writingprocess #amwriting #skywriters
How a poem works on all our levels. I enjoyed the analysis as much as I enjoyed the original piece. Thank you, @devinkelly2102.bsky.social y ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/margaret-d... #skywriters #words
Margaret Draft's "Colic"
Thoughts on loss and horses.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
How a poem works on all our levels. I enjoyed the analysis as much as I enjoyed the original piece. Thank you, @devinkelly2102.bsky.social y ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/margaret-d... #skywriters #words
Morning! Monday! Gonna be a busy one. First I have the copy to edit for @indieauthoralli.bsky.social magazine. I'm picking up where I left off on my musician's memoir. With my other hand I'm working on a marketing plan for Turn Right At The Rainbow. How's your week looking? #writinglife
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Morning! Monday! Gonna be a busy one. First I have the copy to edit for @indieauthoralli.bsky.social magazine. I'm picking up where I left off on my musician's memoir. With my other hand I'm working on a marketing plan for Turn Right At The Rainbow. How's your week looking? #writinglife
Great explanation of an annoying narrative trick that begs for the audience's attention instead of trusting the craft and drawing them into the story world. @davemorris.bsky.social realdavemorris.substack.com/p/trust-your... #WritingCommunity #writingtips #skywriters
Trust your audience
Good writing means staying true to your characters
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November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great explanation of an annoying narrative trick that begs for the audience's attention instead of trusting the craft and drawing them into the story world. @davemorris.bsky.social realdavemorris.substack.com/p/trust-your... #WritingCommunity #writingtips #skywriters
“Ever Rest” is an emotionally resonant novel about grief, legacy and the haunting power of music—a deeply human story of loss and the long road back to life.
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#BookSky #AmReading #MusicFiction #literaryfiction
books2read.com/everrest
#BookSky #AmReading #MusicFiction #literaryfiction
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Ever Rest by Roz Morris
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November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“Ever Rest” is an emotionally resonant novel about grief, legacy and the haunting power of music—a deeply human story of loss and the long road back to life.
books2read.com/everrest
#BookSky #AmReading #MusicFiction #literaryfiction
books2read.com/everrest
#BookSky #AmReading #MusicFiction #literaryfiction