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[maynestarlit]

People editing anything right now,

If you're having a hard time doing it, I say do it at least for a minute every day. Even if small, that daily progress will mount to the finish. Like the hare & the turtle.

Time will pass anyway. Trust me, you will be super grateful that there is at least some progress! I wish I had been editing a sentence or a paragraph last year every day because I would have finished my book by now!

Go, I believe in you! Never overlook that small progress! That underdog! It is a champion!!

(This applies to anything tbh)

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Hi, yes, Readers of tumblr, how do you get the motivation/interest to read & crack down the growing pile of books ? I need help, please

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Please don't wait until your health starts deteriorating to start not stressing about stuff. Don't stretch yourself thin; take things steps at a time. I know it's tempting to do many things but life is about working AND playing, to have those calm still moments throughout the day

Your body is talking to you. Listen to it. It doesn't want pain, physical nor mental. It needs you to listen

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*Writing characters bantering* "...Is this too mean? Is it too much?"

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"Oh :) I will find the word/rewrite/edit this later—" Honey, you ARE editing

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forget about perfectionism, forget about perfectionism, forget about perfectionism, forget about perfectionism, forget about perfectionism, forget about perfectionism, forget about—

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Listen, I Love comments and I want you, the Commenter, to know that I Appreciate your comment so much, it made me Smile so wide, but I do not know how to reply and what to say except for sincere, deep 'Thank you!' and I am not sure how many times I can just keep saying that in a row

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Thank you!

I started feeling like every scene has to be bam, boom, action, and thought that my humorous chill fun scenes were boring & unnecessary despite me absolutely always loving those & craving them in the media. Now I know better!

What's the worst trap you see amateur writers falling into?

Not appreciating the whole story.

Scroll around "Writing Tumblr" for a few hours and you'll see something to the effect of "I was daydreaming about this big fight/plot twist/dramatic irony, but I hate writing all the stuff leading up to it!"

Everything leading up to the big third act is treated as an obligation. The 'homework' before you get to the 'fun part.'

See this enough times, and you start to realize why you see so many stories meandering around for the first two acts until they can have their big, dramatic climax. You start to see why everything that isn't a Baysplosion is considered "filler" now.

If you're only into writing to write memorable third act reveals, then everything you write is going to be terrible.

There's a video by Noralities going over an old anime, which she admits she hated at first because she was skipping the episodes that were dubbed "filler" by some idiot, and her friend who suggested it to her had to sit her down and tell her that the filler was some of the best parts. And she was in disbelief about that.

"A character-based show feels worse when you watch only the plot episodes and none of the character episodes? Say it ain't so!"

It is a moment of spectacular brainrot in what is otherwise an S-Tier Youtuber, because it's such a basic concept that some people will weirdly fight you on.

Character moments, slow moments, things that might be considered boring to a hyperactive, plot-obsessed weirdo, these are all important. Trying to have a big grand plot without these things is like trying to build a bridge without supports. If you don't have as much of a deep and abiding love for those things as you do for the big fight scene at the end, you're going to make shit.

There are entire genres of storytelling that don't have villains, fight scenes, or dramatic plot twists. There are NO genres of storytelling that don't have characters and character relationships as a core component of them.

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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Real

*About to write a chapter*

"Hold up—"

*opens notes to see their personalities.*

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STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

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Was writing and I spelt "want" as "wan't" and I think I need a break.

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Update: this is the most I've used hyphen

You've heard of splitting up words to reach the word count. Now how about squeezing as many together to not go over the word limit?

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You've heard of splitting up words to reach the word count. Now how about squeezing as many together to not go over the word limit?

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*Me: writes an older character interacting with younger one*

'Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it—'

"AnD ThEY beCaME FAMILY—"

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*About to write a chapter*

"Hold up—"

*opens notes to see their personalities.*