“If They Don’t Know You Personally, Don’t Take It Personal.”

“Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved - but don’t do it again.”

— Unknown 

“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes 

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. God, so lovely.”

— Hedonist Poet 

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

“Believe with your eyes, not with your ears.”

— Unknown 

Reminder to self:

Your writing seems boring and predictable because 

You wrote it

You’ve read it like eight million times.

A person who has never read it before does not have this problem. 

Sometimes when I write black women I feel like I have to be like SHES BLACK! SHES DARK SKINNED! SHE HAS BEAUTIFUL DARK EYES! SHES DARK SKINNED AND BEAUTIFUL SHES BLACK! because I know that a lot of ppl would imagine a white woman if it's not expressly stated that shes black and even if they do imagine her as black they'll default to a light skinned woman especially if she's described as beautiful or she's a romantic interest