Go To Him.

the suffering never ends

Is micro fiction the same as one- shots?

It’s really just different story lengths.

Super Novel: 120,000+ words Novel: 80,00-120,000 words Young Adult Novel: 30,00-70,000 words Novella: 15,000-30,000 words Short Story: up to 15,000 words Flash Fiction: up to 1,000 words Micro Fiction: up to 300 words

And that’s just one list I found. There are several others with small variations, one change being they listed flash fiction as being up to 100 words but no more. There’s room to be flexible, and they’re really just guidelines. 

How to be Your own Best Friend

1. Treat yourself the way you would treat a person who you loved, highly valued, and cared about.

2. Always love yourself – no matter what!

3. Only say positive, compassionate, understanding and affirming things about, and to, yourself.

4. Hold your own hand in tough and stressful times. Don’t abandon yourself, or let yourself down.

5. Respect yourself, and the efforts that you’re making to be a better person, and to change and to grow.

6. Understand your limitations, be patient with yourself. Accept that it takes time to master anything at all.

7. Be kind to yourself when you feel self-critical, or you want to be judgmental and hard on yourself.

How to recover an unsaved draft on Microsoft Word

This literally saved my ass a few minutes ago. Yes, you can recover those files that you accidentally closed and thought you couldnt get back. 

Right after that happens, open Microsoft Word again and click File - Info - Manage Versions - Recover Unsaved Documents.

It is literally that simple.

Claire, i love you and your writing. As a writer, how do you support yourself financially? Emotionally? But mostly some practical tips on keeping yourself afloat and doing what you love. cheers xo

Hi friend! I’ve blogged before a couple different times on my life as a writer and my advice to other people who want to write professionally, so here without further ado is Claire’s Master List of Blog Posts About Writing Advice!

Anonymous asked: how did you get into writing and getting published?

Anonymous asked: Hi my dear! I recently read that you’re a playwright, I thought a lot about it and afraid to ask you but here I am, sorry if it’s a little inappropriate question but this topic is very interesting for me because now I choose where I want to go. Please, can you tell me where you studied for the playwright? Thank you, love you and your blog Xх

Anonymous asked: any tips on how to keep inspiration and motivation when writing? im trying to finish this t100 fic, took a break after several days of continuous writing but now i can’t seem to get it back!

Anonymous asked: This may be a really random question, but did you always know you wanted to be a novel writer, or did you kind of think about other forms of writing like TV etc. ? Or if not, how would you advise someone who isn’t sure which one to put their energy into? Don’t worry if you can’t answer this 😅

 I hope this is helpful! Happy writing!

Love,

Claire

You are a dynamic character in the story of your life.  You are complex and multi-dimensional.  Don’t give up.  Your story isn’t over!

#PitchWars Prep: Day 3 of 23

Written 13/07/16

It started off quite similarly as yesterday. Not a whole lot of work was getting done, but that’s because I was excited! I was turning in my passport application today and I am so freaking happy about getting my passport! I’m going to Europe in middle/late January so I’m super excited about it. The lady was super nice, but I wish passports weren’t so pricey. Oh well, they weren’t too bad in price. As a gift to my mum, I bought it for her since my Aunt’s paying for her ticket. An all paid for trip for her.

Anyways, we got back home around 2:30 so I caught up on some YouTube videos and around 3:30, I started working. I’m cutting and adding things as I go, so right now my word count is almost where the last draft ended which was 96,700. The reason is, there’s a lot of details that I’ve changed and I felt like there’s extra paragraphs that could be added. I am not worrying too much as I’m taking a whole chapter out because I’m changing the storyline mentioned in that particular chapter.

I write on the desktop program called Scrivener (amazing program for all writers) and there’s one annoying thing about it that I can’t stand. When you copy and paste from Word, it formats your chapters weird. So I’m forced to make new chapters for the ones that weren’t written on Scrivener. Also, it’s added an extra indent so it’s really annoying. 

At the end of the day, I didn’t finish a whole chapter, but I don’t really mind. It was a Sci-fi heavy chapter and I was fixing tons of descriptions and changing some of the technology I had. I am almost done with this chapter, but it’s over 4,000 words to begin with so I knew I wouldn’t finish. I told you I would slow down eventually.

The conversation

Why I Love Writers

How We Write: The world in the morning was a land frost kissed and chilled. The sun rising above the willows to burn away fog and drink it up again. We rise anew, our bones stretching, our skin shimmering, our blood beating a drummer boys concerto. The land is coffee beans and frying pans and sweetness on the tongue, and we follow its path to whatever life may bring. We are the people and we are alive and we are ready.

How We Talk: Um- I mean… sure… yeah… uh, I mean I guess I’m a morning person I mean oh shit I stuttered didn’t I I mean fu-frick, there’s a lot of stuff in the morning that I like and coffee is basically, you know, good or something or… um… the floor is cold? And sorry, I keep saying cruse words, oh shit I mean curse words I messed up my letters lol um… wow this is super awkward um… maybe we could start over and HOLY SHIT A PUPPY.

Watch "John & Elizabeth - Sparks Fly - SGA" on YouTube

Taylor Swift's song "Sparks Fly," is so fitting for Sparky. :-) This is not my video, btw.