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Nova sounds like my grandmother

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Rise - the new Queer Sci Fi Flash Fiction Contest Anthology is out!

RISE Queer Sci Fi’s Annual Flash Fiction Contest Anthology Edited by J. Scott Coatsworth Publishing Company: Other Worlds Ink Cover Artist: J. Scott CoatsworthPairings (if a romance): MM, FF, MF, NB etc Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction Story Type: Anthology/Collection Word Count: 35000 LGBTQ+ Identities (if applicable): Ace, Bi, Demi, Gay, Intersex, Lesbian, Poly,…

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Mind blown! New Craft Appreciation Day

So first off I’m going to encourage you watch Lindsay Ellis’s amazing video about How Three-Act Screenplays Work and the breakdowns of how movies use them because it is simply brilliant: Okay, you’ve watched it right? Now I’m going to write it all out so I can better understand it (because I’m a writer and not a film critic). First point – the three acts of a three-act structure don’t have to be…

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shoutout to writers who:

have chronic fatigue or brain fog

have memory issues

experience chronic pain

have focus issues

experience frequent malaise

have anything else that may make it difficult to type, come up with ideas, and/or stay motivated & working

you can do this, you belong here, and you deserve to treat yourself with kindness and care

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i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”

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Why did English keep the German ‘stark’ as an intensifier but only for ‘naked’ and ‘raving mad’

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㋡🥀

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This whole thing cost me $5

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fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.

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you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,

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i’m a yensid princess