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What writers say: I just finished my first draft!

What writers mean: I've re-written this cursed book 20 times. It's a mess, but The Muse has deserted me and Brain.exe has stopped working. I can't even look at it anymore. It's traumatizing me. I need cocoa and a pillow.

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I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

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you really can write whatever you want

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Catching floats: catching the non-dominant yarn

Catching the non-dominant yarn is slightly more complicated than catching the yarn to the left. Once you get it though, it’s not so hard and you can do it in one fluid movement.

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I can’t wait until my sense of taste is back. This cup of tea tastes like hot water. :(

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I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

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people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

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"consensual but not safe or sane" is my favourite fanfiction tag because it's like prefacing something dangerous with the warning "don't try this at home!" but instead of a risky driving manoeuvre or whatever it's a scene where a character vivisects another and applies an electric current to their nerve endings to see how their insides move (sexually)

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I just think they're neat

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Gosh I just love book Legolas. He's immortal. He's a teenager. Elrond picks him instead of Glorfindel because he's average and won't draw attention to the Fellowship. He's the comic relief guy and resident Little Shit, but he can also shoot a Nazgul out of the sky in the pitch black like a one-man elf anti-aircraft defense system. He wants everyone to know that he's, like, really old. He forgets the task at hand because he wants to look at trees. His greatest qualities are that he can become friends with anyone and his loyalty is unending. He shows up to Valinor a century late with Starbucks in hand and his dwarf bestie at his side. Iconic.

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In my first year university course there was a class I remember as being mandatory (at least for English majors) about fallacies and biases in writing. And this prof was all about reading the whole article before you formed your argument. That was his whole thing. You know measure twice cut once he was read twice respond once. He stressed this so much that on our final exam (which was two long form essay questions and a few short answer questions) that I decided to read the WHOLE exam booklet before I grabbed my pen.

Turns out that is what he wanted. The final page, the final question, informed the student that if they wrote 1. Their name, 2. Their student number 3. Their favourite fallacy, and wait for 30 minutes so they don't arouse suspicion, you will literally be given 100 percent for the exam WORTH 40 PERCENT OF YOUR GRADE.

I think about it to this day. The prof literally saw the "reading comprehension on this site is piss poor" and said I can fix them

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tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

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So, FYI you guys, sometimes if you go to your favorite writers and flail at them a lot about how much you love their fics with lots of specific examples, they will let you read thousands of words of their unpublished WIPs and you can flail even more. Also sometimes after that you get to be friends, too, and help them come up with ideas. And vice versa! This is pretty much the best thing in the world and it is called fandom.

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I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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#why did you nedd goldminning methods.....

Listen, when the main character is the son of the largest mining company in 1920 Nome, AK, you do need to know when and how they start thawing the frozen shore, and you want to have a good idea of how bucket line gold dredges work. That beach is equally full of gold miners and drama.

Done writing my smutty gay one-shot.

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#I see how the falling through the ice ties into gay smut (obviously) but I’m really curious about the canine distemper

Easy! What does 1920s Nome, AK, have besides gold and ice? Dog sleds! One of the characters is a musher.

Done writing my smutty gay one-shot.