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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

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repeat after me

I WILL FINISH MY WIP

I WILL FINISH MY WIP

I WILL FINISH MY WIP

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Learn to articulate how you're feeling without accusing anyone of having bad intentions. You can say "I'm afraid of being alone" without saying "you're just going to leave me like everyone else." You can say "I need some reassurance" without saying "you probably don't love me anymore." You can say "I'm afraid I've hurt your feelings and I'd like to talk it through" without saying "you don't even like me anymore." You can say "I want to spend more time with you" without saying "you've gotten tired of me." You can say "I feel misunderstood" without saying "you always judge me." Try not to let your emotions get the best of you. Have a conversation focused on finding solutions instead of escalating the conflict.

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Blood-clot

I was buried up to my throat The linings blanketed by flies each morning as I stared at my own inky reflection a shock of blonde and nude, pale lips cuts and scrapes pressed against slivers of flesh and I contemplated ever returning to what once was home Black nail polish always chipped like the wood upon your door my khol was mixed with Bridie’s, cat eyes Smeared with blood I stocked up on hate…

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Scentless Adolescence

I wasn’t jealous of you because we had never met under a kissed starry sky littered with Nazi propaganda and upholding the fascist regime that oppressed the English working class while you read me sonnets that mouth Plath’s prose and your mouth came up spitting cornflower blue and monoxide oven gaze, the same smell that coated your hands, but yours weren’t blushed with red berries, were they? I…

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My two writing modes

Mode one: WRITE ALL THE THINGS

Mode two: Open Word. Stare at Word. Close Word without writing anything. Repeat.

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When you get super excited for a plot point that doesn’t happen for like, 20 chapters.

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Character: I want to be happy.

Me:...

Character:...

Me: What is this thing called happiness that you seek? I've never heard of it.

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When someone says writing isn’t that hard:

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Me: "I think I'm actually a pretty good writer!"

Me: *Reads other writer's stories*

Me: "Nah, nevermind."

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Them: Writing a book sounds easy.

Writers: 

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me: wow, this is a really cool idea. and I know exactly the tone I want to write it in.

brain: here's a totally different narrative style

me: no. . . no that's not how I wanted to write it. It's not as good. Let's do it the other way.

brain: lol wat? words go how?

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As I’m writing something: Yes, this is ok, good.

Going back to read that same thing later: Nope. Burn it. Bury it. Rid the world of this abomination.

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The Writing Process

Phase One: THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST STORY EVER

Phase Two: Haha writing easy, I'm so good at it

Phase Three: Hmm I'm kind of stuck now

Phase Four: PUSH ON, THIS BOOK IS GREAT

Phase Five: This is not going exactly right

Phase Six: *rereads writing so far*

Phase Seven: THIS IS HORRIBLE THIS IS GARBAGE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS. WHAT IS THIS TRASH I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK

Phase Eight: Internal screaming and dying slowly inside

Phase Nine: Abandons draft

Phase Ten: Watches Netflix