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drkineildwicks · 1 year ago

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Actual writing advice: just write the story you want to.

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

#look #a lot of the classics that everyone said 'read!' falls in the same category as the 'modern hits'#I cannot effing stand them #dickens? austen? mfing shelly? no #I just can't get into the flow of them I'm sorry #modern books are for the most part the same schlock different print #and when I find books or even series I like I eat that up #I've derived more entertainment from writing fanfic than I have from trying to read published works anymore #because a lot of people keep falling into the hole of 'follow these writing tips!'#the only writing tips you need to follow is 'new paragraph when a new person speaks'#everything else can be broken #on that happy note #youtube stop recommending writing tips to me we're past that #and nine times out of ten I vehemently disagree with the 'tips' being offered

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