#my wife and BFF are English teachers and they use these resources too

[verthanthi]

Hey! Writer!

Suffering Imposter Syndrome?

and/or

English is your second language?

Your Google search history full of spelling questions and thesaurus usage? GOOD!

This doesn’t make you a bad writer! Spelling in the English language is hard enough for native English speakers! Recently, I have suddenly forgotten how to spell ‘maintenance’. Maintenence? Maintanence? Mantananance. That’s what spell check is there for! And proof readers, those really can help and you’d be surprised to find out who’s willing and EXCITED to help.

It AMAZING that you recognize a need for descriptive language! So many authors have naught a fuck to give! You don’t have to go all Charles Dickens crazy with your descriptions, but sometimes you KNOW the words you have aren’t enough. Something else is needed and you delve into a thesaurus or a writing friend’s brain for advice and you find THE WORDS and you can move on!

This isn’t a negative trait in writing! It’s awareness and a sense of building yourself into a BETTER writer. The words you find today you might remember for next time!

((Don’t get me wrong, you can go waaaay overboard with picking your wording, especially if it’s for the wrong reasons))

Please don’t feel inadequate as a writer to Google and keep a thesaurus on your person for so long that the edges rub round and the pages are a bit bent and people look at you strange because why do you have a thesaurus in your hand what a weirdo. What? I didn’t do this... you can’t prove it.

Keep writing. Keep using resources. That’s why they’re THERE. Keep growing. You’re doing great.

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