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@everyone who reads a multichapter fic and comments on each individual chapter (rather than commenting just once at the end) so the author can see you read through to individual events with changing thoughts and reactions: i would kill a man for you.

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How do you keep the inspiration to write so much

It is tricky!

Keeping up writing day after day is hard, but you just gotta have yourself do it. I wouldn’t call it ‘inspiration’ so much as ‘determination,’ the writing train has to leave the station whether the muse is on board or not.

It’s easy to lose inspiration, after a long day at work or school, after you write something bad, or that doesn’t get a lot of attention- but that’s when you have to push yourself the most! Creativity is a fickle thing, but it’s only half the equation, the other half is plain hard work- when you can’t think of something, using prompts or simple concepts like  ‘store’,  ‘wedding’, ‘rain’ can you get you back in the saddle. Look at pieces or art or other stories and think how YOU would write them, borrow from fairy tales or books your love. WRITE.

Don’t be afraid to write poorly, writing badly is better than not writing at all.

A schedule can really really help too, forcing you to write when you don’t want to. Writing is like a muscle, you have to exercise it and it gets easier each time you come back to it- but you gotta work your way up via strength training.

Mentally, writing can be scary, so I also recommend thinking of it more as a puzzle than a mountain to overcome. Like a game, how do I make the dialogue flow easy, how do I make this place seem real, how do I get it right this time when they kiss. This keeps me coming back to see what I can tinker with each time to figure the puzzle out.

Become friends with your characters, have fine with your concept, enjoy the process so the product comes out nicely.

Endurance is always going to be hard, but it’s important to remember the difference between good and great is the thin line of never giving up. I don’t think writing talent exists, just authors that stopped and authors that did not.

Things to keep in mind though: mistakes don’t define you, simple stories are just as good as complex ones, breaks are okay. Breaking down writing into little sections can make it seem more manageable, do it one little paragraph at a time. Hard work is hard but worth it, every writer has gone through what you have!

I hope that helps! Happy writing :D

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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck.

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writing tip #596:

struggling to kill off your favourite character? just imagine your future fans’ shocked faces as they read their final actions and laugh manically like the sadist you are

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Art and/or writing feedback meme:

Send me an ask about my art and/or writing. Anything: what appeals. Small things, big things. Give general impressions, give specificity.

And then reblog for yourself to learn how others see your art and/or writing.

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Hey. You there. Aspiring author. Keep writing. The world needs your words. Every single author - big and small, indie and trad, young and old - once stood where you stand, wondering if they were kidding themselves. Keep going. You got this.

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How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together.

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writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

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what a good day to remember that bill denbrough and stan uris are in love

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I’m on ao3 and someone tagged this as a warning I’m yeLLING

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Something to repeat to yourself in the shower:

My stories are not for everyone. 

My stories will bore some readers. Some readers will hate them. Some won’t understand, won’t connect the dots, won’t relate to the characters. Some won’t because they can’t, some won’t because they don’t want to, but most won’t simple because my stories just aren’t for them.

My stories aren’t for everyone.

My stories are for me.

And they’re for the readers who will love them. They’re for the reader who have already loved them. For the readers who will see what I see in them and feel the characters and the world the way I do. They’re for the readers who wanted these stories before they even knew they existed. They’re for the readers they’ll make smile, the readers they’ll stick with, and the readers they’ll save.

And just because my stories aren’t for everyone doesn’t make them worth any less to the people they are for. 

Not everyone likes butterflies. Not everyone likes spiders. But the people who love those creatures more than anything else would lose a part of themselves if they didn’t exist. 

So no, my stories are not for everyone. But that doesn’t matter. 

Because they’re for someone, and to that someone, they’re irreplaceable.

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people have said this before but just. to reiterate. ‘representation matters’ is the antithesis of ‘fiction doesnt affect reality’. you can’t claim both. 

if you agree that positive representation (for example, well written, humanized gay characters) can normalize and help gay teenagers, then you inherently have to also accept that negative representation (for example, accepted and sympathetic pedophile characters) can normalize pedophilia to people. this is the same vein of the same critical thought. you can’t claim that representation matters if you also believe that someone writing ‘non con’ adult / child porn is fine since its fictional. 

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hey they’re in love

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Reddie or not, here i come when you ask the night is young

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Fic tag: slow burn

Me, cracking my knuckles: not if you read it fast enough

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Eddie: If you have 10 cookies, and I asked for 5, how many would you have?

Richie: None.

Eddie: Rich it’s basic math, it’s not that har-

Richie: I would give you all of them because I love you.

Eddie:

Eddie, holding back tears: gross. absolutely disgusting. get out of my house.

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i drew only reddie for the entire month of november