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“I’ll always remember that look on your face. You saw me. You’ve always seen me. And I think that’s all that anyone wants.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
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“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
#elizabeth gilbert#motivation#poetry#quotes#literature#relationship quotes#writing#original#words#love
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communication isn’t just about how u talk, it’s about how u listen too
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“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#johann wolfgang von goethe#motivation#quotes#poetry#literature#relationship quotes#writing#original#words#love
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“I’m sorry that I can’t get out of bed, I’m sorry that my head’s always a mess.”
— Unknown
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“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your head already knows.”
— Unknown
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Don't ever apologize for your feelings. You can't control how you feel. The sun doesn't apologize for shining, and the rain doesn't say sorry for falling. Feelings just exist.
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What are your tips on improving writing?
I don't think I'm at the level to give such tips. I myself try to read a lot of different books and learn from the authors that way. I watch youtube writing channels that talk about story structure, character development, or give advice how to improve prose and what to avoid. It's good to have someone who can look at your writing and give some feedback too. Also, I write. After some time, when I go back to my writing, I can see the mistakes better.
I can share some things that I've learnt from others and I think are good advice, for example:
use strong verbs (the person may walk but may also stroll, march or tiptoe);
there are more interesting verbs than to be;
weave description into action (The building was big. She walked towards it. ➜ She lifted her head as the stone walls grew before her. or He took the book in his hand nervously. He was tall, had brown hair and was wearing glasses. ➜ He reached for the high shelf without an effort. Book in hand, he pushed glasses up his nose to read the title - "Magic spells to improve writing." "This is it," he murmured, nervously running fingers through his brown hair.) (or some shit like that);
write sentences of different length so they don't sound monotonous;
If you want to write quick scenes. Short sentences. Actually. Make them slower. Why? Because periods. Are. Long. Pauses. xD
leave the most important words for the end of the sentence (He was thinking about the woman, while drinking his tea. ➜ He was drinking his tea, thinking about the woman.)
avoid filter words like hear, feel, see, etc. (She heard the noise that startled her. ➜ The noise startled her. or She was startled by the noise. or She jumped at the noise.)
be careful with time shifts (She noticed him behind the trees and smiled. Her beautiful monster. She runs to him and takes his hand and all of a sudden everything is all right. "Where is your hat?" she asks, but he just stares at her. He's always been a monster of few words, soft and quiet, but the lack of answer still surprised her. - is this present or past tense? confusion)
every scene should have a purpose - advance the plot, develop the character, add some conflict; ideally it will do all these things;
white room syndrom is bad - avoid;
use as many characters as you need; if one character can do the work of two, you need only one, scrap the other;
every character should want something!
give a character a desire, fear and misbelief;
Here are some of them. I hope they're useful. (They were useful for me even if I write in Polish :)) Of course some of these are optional but I think they make my writing better. I read somewhere that you should write only necessary words, so I'm trying to go by this rule. This is rather hard btw xD
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“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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me deleting my story because my other personality saw it and disagreed
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#do this make sense#is the anxious character doing something strange that pushes the story along?#yes but it also makes sense they would do that#right?#writing meme#writing memes#writing#writer#writeblr#writing community#ao3#ao3 writer#fanfic writer
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i said it was fine, but i never said it didn’t hurt
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Grilled 🔥
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“Two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.”
— Zig Ziglar
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#love#love quotes#relatable quotes#heartbreak#spilled ink#spilled thoughts#loss#life quotes#life#quotes
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“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”
— Bob Goff
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