writingwithgilly

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Anyone else have a folder on their laptop full of plots that you haven’t written yet?

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One day I can absolutely love my story; when I’m literally biting my lips to not talk about it. Then the next day I want to completely demolish it and start over.

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40 years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted (OC) [809x1200] @ross_schram - Author: debuggerfly on reddit

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Sunset after a passing storm, Elgol Beach, Scotland [OC][1638x2048] IG: @tmsvdw - Author: tmsvdw on reddit

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A character sits outside even though the weather really isn’t ideal

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Things to bring back in books:

Chapter titles

Actually having a synopsis on the back instead of reviews no one will read

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The first time you see you, you are like a prince walking on a rainbow, with a brilliant smile like sunshine.

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Lol same, don’t get me started-I have two year’s of world-building memorized😂

An innocent soul on the Internet: "Oh, you write? What's your story about?"

Me, the writer, who has been waiting for this moment all my life:

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The reason I write short stories or poetry, I can create a world with a certain aesthetic and just express myself.

Is it just me, but do you sometimes not want to write a concept or plot so much as write an aesthetic? Like, I just want to write about a small town in the American south, or about an eerie shadow road. I don’t have, or desire, plots for those stories, but I have the vibe of them. And that’s all I want

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walking through the city, wearing big shirt and overalls, getting lost in the flea market, looking for the interesting books, smiling widely while finally finding the favourite music record, buying the old painting and at least three books and being happy and free

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My writing process: a poem.

*sighs*

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-Linnie Gilly

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a list of quirks for characters to make them a little more interesting

doesn’t like to wear shoes

always has a piece of sugarfree gum in their mouth

has a collection of cartoon dvds

walks everywhere they go

only wears pastel colors

won’t go anywhere without three hairbands on their wrist

refuses to wear any shoes except red converse

has a crippling fear of something mundane like mushrooms

has a dream notebook filled with every dream they can remember

has a really loud sneeze and goes into sneeze fits

only wears vintage clothing

has damaged hair from messing with it too much

super good at advanced math but can’t do addition for shit

believes in the supernatural, like ghosts

likes to go on midnight shopping trips and run through stores

gets too emotionally attached

loves dogs and has three of them

has hallucinations, but not scary ones

works at a fast food establishment in their free time

always carries a musical instrument with them

always carries a sketchbook with them

likes to name inanimate objects

strictly against drug use

excessively polite

excessively indecisive

can recite the first 200 digits of pi

can only play clocks by coldplay on the piano and plays it 24/7

gets itchy skin when anxious

has to move things around in a certain pattern before going to sleep

worries that if they do one thing wrong they’ll die

obsessed with puzzles

obsessed with rpg videogames

texts with one thumb

always has red painted nails

an amazing runner with super toned legs

has a beautiful voice

has restless legs, especially at night

has terrible performance anxiety

doesn’t like to turn assignments in because they’re afraid they’ll fail

loves science but is really bad at it

can/can’t make friends easily

likes to lie in fields and stare at the stars

believes that wishes can come true

falls deeply in love

bruises super easily

beautiful/horrible handwriting

ambidextrous

only likes nintendo games

only drinks sparkling water

doesn’t watch tv/listen to music

goes to concerts every week

likes slam poetry

likes to study in coffee shops/libraries

doesn’t understand politics but tries nonetheless

wears the same sweatshirt every day

collects sweatshirts

works three part time jobs

crazy intelligent but super shy

likes to memorize phone numbers instead of writing them down

loves to calculate probability

gets homesick very easily

wants to leave home very badly

trips a lot

can’t dance but tries anyway

brushes their teeth seven times a day

incredibly honest to a sometimes brash extent

only draws with mechanical pencils

only writes with pens

collects pens from hotels

wants to believe in heaven but can’t

watches a ton of anime

makes people cute nicknames

makes people origami

uses origami as a coping mechanism

owns a ton of t-shirts from hot topic, but has never been inside

makes all their own food

vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian

eats rice krispies every morning

does everything “for the aesthetic”

watches kids shows

goes to a private school

short term memory loss

loves disney movies

makes lists of random things in their free time

only eats foods with a spoon

only likes to wear skirts

never has their hair down

dyes their hair every two weeks

likes to collect pokemon cards

gets obsessed with games really easily

gives up too easily

gets their heart broken too often

has a mysterious disease

has a big social media following

tries too hard to be popular

likes to draw everything and everyone

can eat a whole lemon

listens to “edgy” music all the time

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emilyhowarth 

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Favorite books

Does anyone have that favorite book that you can like read in a day because you know it so well? And you analyze it at a deeper level every time you read it? And when you go to a bookstore you always look and see if they have it? Because same.

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‘It was no longer possible to ignore. We were being hunted.’

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

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