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Itching to write but unable to string three words together on the page is the most annoying writing state

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i dont hate you guys i swear i just have really shitty memory

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I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

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a.k.a. you may find your work Bad and Cringy™️ but you wrote something and that’s a Good Thing™️.

All writing is good practice and progresses you as a writer.

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Mood

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"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

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Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

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My average writing experience:

"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"

*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*

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when the character who's like "i will never reveal my trauma to anyone" gets a high fever and, while weak and delirious, starts spilling every.

last.

secret.

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Self care is writing fan fiction that you are the sole target audience for.

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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

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there HAS to be a reason for this

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I feel like this might be too close to your Only So Far au loll but let’s go!

send me two aus and i’ll mix em into idea soup!

that’s fair… but i believe in diversity in heist stories so not all hackers are magical. just in only so far 😌 )also as always go read only so far it’s in progress but woah look at all this world lore i posted and an action packed first chapter)

kid of surprised hacker au was an option bc hacking isn’t an au its a skill that is within certain aus? hence only so far/heisting aus. but let’s blow it up into one. 

“tech” au where firewalls are much more dangerous than simply blocking out digital threats and a mainframe is a whole fortress. kind of- think of it like D&D-ing the digital world? 

futuristic fantasy world (me & my futuristic fantasy worlds..) where humans reign supreme and more fantastical species are in lower classes etc. jack, a humanoid draconian (mixed species are DEFINITELY frowned upon even in nonhuman circles), and his group of friends go on these quests to hack into certain humans’ homes to try and gather intel on how to dismantle the caste system. lots of these homes, especially if they’re government workers, have mainframes installed into them that act as like… dungeons. so if you try and break into the firewall you get sucked into the mainframe/dungeon. 

jack & the gang are prepared for these, as these mainframes have become the norm to keep out hackers. since this is a d&d adjacent au they have cool weapons to fight off weird digital enemies within the dungeon, while one of the group tries to hack through the dungeon to shut it down before it overwhelms them and get the data they need. 

the hacker of the group is a human david jacobs! his little brother les is half ice elf, and during an early on hack into the jacobs’s home, jack & his crew discovered this secret. david pledged to help their cause if les’s heritage remained a secret, and davey’s been on the team ever since. since he’s human, he has access to technical classes and overall human society, so he’s real good at what he does. he’s also a good fighter but that took a fair amount of practice with jack. and ofc davey believes in The Fight now that he’s in it, and ofc he’s now even more willing to take risks than jack bc this is newsies and that’s how davey is.

alsoo the things that happen to you in these digital dungeons do affect people irl- like i think crutchie got entangled with a virus bad enough to paralyze his leg, lucky it didn’t kill him kind of thing. 

i also think it’d be innnteresting if the whole pulitzer family was mixed, actually, and abused their privilige of looking human while having fairy abilities (instead of using that for The Fight like davey and les) to move wayyy up in society. and katherine just thinks she’s human. dramaa

i think that’s all i got without actually researching d&d classes !!

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new writing game: send me two random aus you like and i will combine them + either tell you what i would write or write you a short snippet of it

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oopsie! You got a bit too manic about a creative project too close to bedtime and now your brain is too awake to sleep. One million dead 10 morbillion injured

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