Did It Hurt? When The Little People Inside Your Head Refused To Follow Your Carefully-plotted Novel Outline?

did it hurt? when the little people inside your head refused to follow your carefully-plotted novel outline?

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3 years ago

I know it's been said 100 times before, but it bears repeating: your story doesn't have to be perfect.

I just finished reading a fully published, printed book that sometimes dragged on. I found myself critiquing it, zoning out every now and then, finding some of the characters annoying.

But you know what? The emotional peak still made me tear up. I was still rooting for the main character the whole way. I still saw how heart felt, relatable, and well-thought-out the plot was.

Not every chapter, not ever paragraph, not every sentence, not every word needs to strike a chord for your story to mean something.

With all it's imperfections, your story is worth telling.


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3 years ago

writing as therapy. writing as healing. writing as discovery. writing as self-love. writing as making sense of the dark. writing as rebirth. 


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3 years ago

my art may never be as good as i want it to be, but i have hands and a pencil and i will make that everyone else’s problem


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3 years ago

when the character finally has the breakdown you’ve been building to all book

elmo in front of flames. he is enjoying the chaos.

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3 years ago
Well Fuck

well fuck


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3 months ago

Trying to get people to understand that when I say "girl what" or "girl help" I am using girl in the exact same way I use dude. No gender just vibes. I said "girl just move" about Batman the other day


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3 years ago

This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there


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2 months ago

yeah, this is my pet knight, she's a rescue. i gave her a brief act of mercy and she followed me home and sat outside my door to guard me from intruders. she swore her undying allegiance to me in exchange for a gift of grace and now she sleeps at the foot of my bed and weeps when im late coming home. and yeah, she only eats wet food because she's a snob, also.


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2 years ago

writing tip #3434:

writing is only one component in the process. another major component is crying


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candlewriter - Burning at Both Ends
Burning at Both Ends

R. - They/Them - Queer SF/F/Romance writer - Carrd with social media links.Avid fan of anything gay. This is my writing journal.

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