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multilingual katherine plumber whose languages melt together when she’s writing or thinking fast — which is most of the time. she can sometimes only think of specific words or phrases in certain languages, so she’ll just scrawl them like that, one sentence scattering between as many as three or four different dialects. her notes are incomprehensible to anyone except her, and jack is fascinated by the way she can string them from the scrawled nonsense in her notebooks to the articles he sees in the broadsheet.

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Is there a fandom tag on AO3 that only has fanfics written by you? (In other works, are you the only person who's posted a fanfic on AO3 for some piece of media?)

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yes, I'm self-aware thank you

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oh youre bi? why dont you "bi" me some time with a distraction while i crack this safe ya fuckin goon

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Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

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Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!

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Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!

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you can't tell me you dislike Sarah Jacobs because "she has no personality" and then turn around and gush over random white boy #42

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so this is a little out of pocket, but:

i will be running this new year's Newsies Fic Exchange, and sign ups are OPEN!!

this is a fandom tradition that is very near and dear to my heart, so when the lovely emme told us in april she was stepping down from the moderator role, i really felt like i both had and wanted to pick it up. so here i am.

HERE IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW:

What's the Schedule?

Where do i Sign Up?

Rules!

FAQ!

i'd really love if you joined! ��️

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screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i'm very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to

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This is an Esther and Sarah Jacobs Appreciation Post.

Okay, by now it's pretty common knowledge that Sarah sews lace and works in a lace factory. It's mentioned in scripts all the way back to hard promises and we can see her with her lace twice in the film, first when we meet her and she's hard at work sewing, and then a second time when she has her finished pieces in a basket before it's soiled by the Delancey brothers.

Now, I've seen many people latch onto this idea and mention Sarah working in a lace factory in headcanons, fanfiction, and the like. But typically, it's assumed that Sarah works in a factory looking something like this:

A great big warehouse teeming with workers bent over benches. And while these sorts of factories did of course exist, there is a second kind of 'factory' which was much more widespread: tenement factories or tenement shops.

This second kind of factories were extremely abundant in the Lower East Side where the Jacobs family lives and were almost exclusively established in the homes of immigrant workers.

An example is the Levine family's dress factory, recreated in the Tenement Museum in New York City. The Levine's employed three to four workers besides family members and sold their dresses through agreements with department stores such as Ridley's, Macey's, and Bloomingdale's, that contracted a set number of dresses per week.[1] They were also Jewish, and the advantage of working at home in their own tenement factory was that they could observe the Shabbat (resting on Saturday) when the majority of bigger businesses and factories had off Sundays.[2]

The Levine's dress factory recreated. [photo source]

Sarah is shown sewing her lace at home, and in the earliest scripts the Jacobs family's apartment is described "as both working (lace factory) and living area."[3] This means that the work Sarah does isn't actually in a warehouse factory, but in the 'factory' her family has set up in their home.

Excerpt from Hard Promises (Original Newsies Story).

So the Jacobs have their own business. But Mayer Jacobs obviously didn't get injured at home. Mayer Jacobs works either as a tailor, according to the Hard Promises script, or in a piano factory shaping piano legs according to the Newsies novelization.

Excerpt from Hard Promises (Original Newsies Story).

Excerpt from Newsies: a novel by Jonathan Fast.

Never in any script has it been even hinted at that Mayer works a tenement lace factory. He works for someone else, outside of his home.

But who does sew lace? Esther and Sarah Jacobs.

Excerpt from Newsies: a novel by Jonathon Fast.

While Mayer Jacobs found work at the piano factory, and David and Les went to school, Esther and Sarah got to work on their own terms and established a business for themselves.

So.

To reiterate.

This is an Esther and Sarah Jacobs appreciation post.

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A Trip Trough The Tenement Museum In New York City (youtube)

In Vogue: a quick history of the Garment Industry and the Lower East Side

Hard Promises (Original Newsies Story)

Newsies: a novel by Jonathon Fast

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sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

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Just opened my fic document and found this

Thanks, past me. Incredibly helpful.

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One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

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well there was gonna be more newsies but i got a little lazy dfdsjhkfdshkahjfsd

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They always say to ‘write the book you want to read’ but they never told me it’s because I’d have to reread it 2949492 times

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FLASH BANG JOEY