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I'd like to apologize in advance because this chapter I'm drafting is more emotionally painful than I thought it would be

#👀 #others’ writing

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Writing Share Tag

Thanks for tagging me, @elizaellwrites! :D

Rules: share some writing. Here's an excerpt from Houses Full of Deceit:

In spite of himself Yo-han had to admit it was a clever way to follow someone. If the by-standers saw an old car driving slowly and stopping frequently, they would assume either it needed a mechanic or the driver was unfamiliar with it. But this plan had one major drawback. A car couldn't follow a pedestrian everywhere. A short distance away, a train whistled. Yo-han sped up. He got a few more odd looks from passers-by. He could still hear the car behind. When he got to the train station he was just in time to catch the next train to Euston. The car was left outside. As the train began to pull away, Yo-han saw the chauffeur approach the platform. He had taken off his goggles. Yo-han had only seen An Ji-hun once before. He was never likely to forget that face. What bothered him most was An's expression. He wasn't angry or baffled. Just watching. Patiently.

Open tag! :D

#👀👀👀 #others’ writing

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I've noticed that I really enjoy this aesthetic.

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worked on a scene, finally got to the end, huh can't write the last line

wait

that's because the scene is wrong, it's the wrong plot beat, which is why the ending doesn't land so

gotta start over oh my goooooood

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Out of Context Line

@kaylinalexanderbooks tagged me some time ago! Thanks :D

This is also from the mummies & murder wip!

That was right before we saw the knife.

I'm tagging @kaatiba, @cream-and-tea, @akindofmagictoo and @zeenimf --but only if you want to!

#this sounds like my d&d warlock’s situation #too many knives #and one Very Very Bad Day #others’ writing #and thanks for the tag!

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Gonna be Petty Nurse-Artist for just a second because a piece of art showed up in my For You and it was cute and nicely done but also: WHAT ARE THOSE.meme

No P-wave! incredibly wide QRS that goes straight into the T, which is hugely tall. Could call it an ideoventricular rhythm if you were feeling quite generous but I don't think that's intentional. 3/10

I am once again eyeballing the post where I list out medical things and what they do and terms to google to find reference of them.

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@ashen-crest have you made this joke already

Anyway, I finished a book :)

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YESSSSSSSSS

100K!!

#hell yeah!! #that’s amazing!! #me and my friends #others’ writing

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it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that

you're gonna get tired very quickly

tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—

you're not gonna be as composed as you expect

humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)

DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)

DO GET A SPEAR

knights are faster than you think

#nice #I mean not nice #but NICE #saving this for later

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Not to complain on main but publishing a book in 2023 with "evil people should be grotesque-looking" in it?? Can we please publish books that don't exclude, satirize, and villainise disabled people, or perpetuate other forms of ableist ideology and rhetoric? 🤞

#>:(((( #UGH

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[ID: a screenshot of "acknowledging" misspelled as "ackonwledggeing" end ID]

dear fingers:

why?

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this machine is useless

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P.S. please leave this in the tags, I'm curious how wrong y'all are.

#200-400!

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I stare at the screen for hours, trying to make the words come out, but they won't. I can't compel myself to take a break, because there's this voice screaming at me from the base of my brain...

"You've been told you're a great writer, and you want to be a published author. But all you have to show for it after forty-four years are a dozen crash-and-burn writing projects. When you have the time to write, you don't, for a host of reasons. If you don't have something written by the time you die--which comes closer with every passing day--you've wasted your gifts, you've wasted all the effort people put into educating you, and you've wasted your life. So sit down and WRITE, you worthless piece of shit!"

How do you get past the paralysis caused by the obligation to produce? Is there a way to trick your brain and your body into writing? Or do you just slog on through, no matter how long you have to sit there to get a thousand words a day out?

Perhaps you could try to be kinder to yourself.

I always give myself permission to write or to do nothing at all (staring out of the window or at a wall is okay). After a while spent staring at a wall it's often easier to write.

Remember if you write a page a day -- 300 words -- at the end of a year you'll have a 100,000 word novel.

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Important Sunday dragon update !