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reader: hey uh kaedynce can you please stop traumatizing your characters

me, a horror writer: so you have spoken blasphemy

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pov: me staring at my computer screen waiting for the words to magically appear on the google doc

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sometimes writing isn’t actually putting a pencil or a pen to paper, making spotify playlists for your wip, or making the most aesthetic-looking pinterest board out there

sometimes writing isn’t even reading your favorite books and analyzing them like a writer

sometimes writing is just playing a fucking video game and wondering which character your wip’s babies would choose

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as a gay writer, I only have one thing to say today:

gay rights

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audhd writers be like "damn this writing playlist is the shit" and write all of three hundred words in a four-hour-long session

it's me i'm audhd writers

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other writers: *will torture the shit out of their characters through various medieval methods*

me: nah I’ma torture them with as much capsaicin as humanly possible and make them ingest that shit

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dear fellow writers, PLEASE MAKE SURE THIS IS TURNED ON!! go to blog settings > visibility and disable this option, I’ll tell y’all why in a second, but this is what it looks like

I’ve just been informed that this exists and I was unable to turn it off on the website version, but this pretty much makes it so that way AI won’t be able to steal your content from here

so if you can, TURN ON THIS SETTING. we cannot let AI steal from us any further than it already has.

also spread this!! every writer on here needs to know about this, for the love of Pete Wentz and all things emo

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me: *writes my wip for a whole month*

also me: *puts off college admission essay until almost the very last minute*

also me last night: *plays Pokémon Scarlet and doesn’t write because I deserve to have a break and it’s a little reward for sending in my college application*

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me: goddamn, why is the star-crossed lovers trope so sad?

author: character a looked at the room surrounding them. the brightness that character b carried along with them wherever they went had been replaced with sorrow and emptiness. a tear rolled down character a's cheek, knowing that they'd never be able to fill that void.

me: now I know why 🥲

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other people’s chapter titles: the duality of life and death

my chapter titles: MY LAWYER MADE ME CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS CHAPTER SO I WOULDN’T GET SUED

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*insert that one lemmy headcanon* :)

if you're talking about the name headcanon: in my main wip, his legal name is Emerson, but in my side wip, his legal name is Ian. y'know, like Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of Mötorhead. in the latter of the two wips, he recently had his legal name changed after a rather lengthy and mentally taxing battle with Oklahoma's Family Court system. in the former of the two, all he had to do was change his middle name to Alexander.

if you're talking about the height headcanon: Lemmy's always been the shortest and I made sure to reflect that in both my main and side wips. in the ttoh series, Lemmy's shy of five feet tall for a couple of reasons, but in duality (my side wip, which is a whole nother au not related to the ttoh trilogy at all), Lemmy's five-foot-three. gotta give some love to our short trans kings here!

if you're talking about the neurodivergency headcanon: they're both autistic/ADHD! in my main wip, Lemmy is hyperactive ADHD, and in my side wip, Lemmy is combined ADHD and is also dyscalculic on top of it (while main wip Lemmy is dyslexic and has to heavily rely on Iggy for carrying out plans when it comes to important things in war). they also have PTSD in both wips, but for sorta similar but sorta different reasons as well (and I think Lemmy in my main wip has the genetic predisposition for all four cluster B personality disorders with the heaviest predisposition for NPD because his mom and aunt both had it and she tried to be the best mother she possibly could for him before she and his dad died and I think that really broke him)

i'm 100% aware that the headcanon for my side wip in which Lemmy's legal name is Ian is not my original headcanon for him (nor is Lemmy being trans in both wips an original headcanon of mine for him, either, but I freakin' love trans rep so I'm going with it anyway), but I figured it'd be a fun little headcanon to throw into duality while also throwing in my little tidbits of rock n' roll (and metal, emo, and pop punk) trivia, but at the same time it's also my story (same with ttoh) and I just love sprinkling rep in there that I wish I saw earlier

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when the tension in any given scene hits just right

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I genuinely have no fucking idea why people wanna be mean about other people’s writing. It’s SO much better to offer helpful advice versus “advice” that’s not gonna help you or them.

If you’re reading this, keep on going, whether it’s writing or another hobby you enjoy. It might take a while, but I promise you it’ll be worth it in the end.

I’m sorry I have to say this, but that excerpt really isn’t good. Your writing is bland and unremarkable and it feels overdone and undercooked at the same time. Instead of piquing my interest I couldn’t care less about what’s happening. Sorry.

Thats better criticism than what I’ve been told at work over the past weeks, so yay I guess?

And no need to apologize cause you literally didn’t have to say this. I’m pretty sure nobody held you at gun point and forced you to end this 🤷‍♂️

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my characters when I write them going through the angstiest moment they’ll ever have in their lives:

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some writers: *has a writing companion*

me: if I didn't find companions distracting from my writing (I am combined ADHD) I'd have one

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writing is genuinely both a blessing and a curse

because I can write down the most gut-wrenching, soul-crushing quotes that could make a book the most memorable on BookTok or whatever

only to then write the most unhinged bullshit that anyone has ever seen in the history of humankind

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my characters: please stop killing my friends

me, the writer who is about to kill off another one: you know the dead can't hear you, the holy well is dry, so when you face the truth, open your fuckin' eyes!