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Those who shine brightest, often burn fastest

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NICK NELSON & CHARLIE SPRING — in Heartstopper | “Talk”

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ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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is there anything so undoing as a daughter?

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Life Is Strange: Double Exposure

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Day 19: 12 pages!!! And big news... I FINISHED MY FIRST DRAFT

WELL!!!!

I honestly thought the thing would be about 20 pages longer than it turned out, but it wasn't, which is actually GREAT news because it's already too long as it is. BUT!!! I have a complete first draft!!!

As I've been going on about in these updates, it's ROUUUUGH. Like it is a really really rough first draft - I've ignored entire character arcs, I've padded it out with filler in sections where I'm not sure what should happen, the pacing and central emotional arc is so slow in some places and way too fast in others, and there are lots of explain-y rambly scenes that I want to push down into the subtext. But my aim with this was to just get that first draft down so I have a framework and something to reshape. To take the 'blank page' fear away. And I have succeeded!

I did not think I'd get this done before Christmas when I started - my aim was actually end of December. So I am INCREDIBLY relieved to be done now, and hopefully I can switch my mind off for a few days, enjoy Christmas, and come back to start working on a second draft towards the end of Dec.

Thank you for reading these updates and for all the encouraging, lovely comments!! The biggest thing I've learnt in this is the power of having a small daily goal. Having that 5 page goal every day meant that I was never stressing too much with thoughts like 'oh god I need to get this thing done but there's so much still to do and I'm freaking out', it was just, 'okay, I need to do 5 pages today, and that'll keep me on track'. Amazing!!!

I think that's all there is to say! I'm looking forward to being able to have a few days to rest over Christmas! I might have time to get some Christmas art done after all, and get some more of those S3 Q&A questions answered! I hope that eventually I'll be able to share more about what I've been working on this month, but until then, thank you again for your encouragement, and have a happy holiday!!

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Life Is Strange: Double Exposure

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I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

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“Because you’re Charlie.

And you love me.

And I love you.”

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JENNY WASLER as TORI SPRING — 3.05 | "Winter"

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liz and the blue bird (2018)

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I promise

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Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (2024) dev. Deck Nine

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i love arcane