#There’s also the ‘let’s get comfortable~’ scene which AJSJSJS

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Anyway I made a gifset of Naveen getting comically rejected and being progressively sadder abt it

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What advice would you give to new writers?

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[Metro Man voice] love you too!!

fair warning I super over thought my response to this, so ⚠️ caution: there be rambles ahead ⚠️😂

for my really new writing peeps-- just write. don't even worry about "how to write" advice*, just write and let yourself practice writing. the process of getting that jumble of images, feelings, and ideas in your head down to paper is hard and I really think the first step in writing is just getting comfortable with that. it doesn't have to be anything big either? start with small things like taking an image from a show and describing it or writing out a small conversation or even character fic that's as much analysis as it is story, or any small writing exercise that interests you.

for my friends who are past that step-- for me, I noticed the most progress in my writing after I started really paying attention to the writers I liked and breaking down what I liked in stories. I started with my favorite rereads from my favorite authors and just started picking out sentences/scenes and asking myself "what do I like about this?" (I was absolutely dog shit at literary analysis in high school so I had to teach myself how to do this basic form of it from the sentence up lol.) Teaching myself how to pick out the specific story pieces or writing devices that I liked not only helped me figure out what I wanted to practice incorporating into what I wrote (and just better figure out what sort of stories I liked vs stuff I thought I should like), but also figuring out how to pick apart a story into what pieces I liked vs what pieces i didn't like has been the best skill I've developed to edit my own stories. any story editing is about making all the story pieces work in harmony with each other, so being able to identify which pieces of a WIP are working for me vs which pieces of a story are pulling it off course or even don't interest me has been one of the most useful skills I've developed to get me past writers block borne from story frustration or any discouragement I've felt from my stories that don't satisfy me (self-assessment is hard 😂)

so yeah! that be my baby writer** advice! ajsjsj

*I put an asterisk here because like. there's good writing advice out there. there's a lot more dogshit writing advice out there. sometimes it's good advice from a well-established author but it doesn't work for you. one of the unfortunate tricky things about "how to write" advice is that you have to have at least some familiarity with writing to start picking out what's good advice and a good sense of your own writing to pick out what's good advice for you. if you're a new writer and really feeling stuck or wanting writing advice, look for advice from authors you like. you'll have a much better chance of finding good advice that will hopefully also be applicable to how or what you want to write.

**it's me. I'm the baby. I've been doing this casually for 15 years and I'm a baby about it

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