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writing tip: if your character has no purpose, just make them hot and everyone will forgive it

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y’all i need help!!! i almost finished writing everything from my outline and my word count is still way lower than it needs to be - i plan on going back and adding more detail to scenes, but it’s still really low. what do i do to increase my word count?

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I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

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I find it kind of stupid how 'half full' vs 'half empty' is framed as an optimist/pessimist thing. If it starts full and gets halfway drained, it's half empty. If it starts empty and gets halfway filled, it's half full. If you don't know the starting state it's both simultaneously.

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ppl talk about the difficulty of writing characters smarter than yourself, but the real challenge is writing a character who is funnier than you are

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the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war

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im extremely devout but nobody can figure out what im worshipping

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my roommate asked me what my story’s about and i just started stuttering through a terrible explanation, call that a write of passage

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on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.

oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera

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there needs to be a kneeling knight emoji

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just finished game of thrones s8 after putting it off for years and like not to defend grrm’s crazy ass writing schedule but if someone did THAT to my story and my characters I’d lose passion too like tf

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me while writing: ah yes, this character should do this, it feels so natural with what they're saying

me while editing: why the FUCK does he lean on the doorway SEVENTEEN TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER

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things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

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