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queen of the world to me

#roxanne ritchi ass manuever #save

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Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"

#im good at containing my urges. but. #there is still indeed a part of me that is spiritually leveling a shotgun at the comments section all #''ENGAGE WITH MY THEMES BOY''

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

#comics that were made for me personally

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Out of curiosity, do y'all have any chapter-naming conventions you like to use?

I'm all over the place, but I do usually pick a single structure/theme/format for each story. My favorites so far are:

A fairy tale where each chapter is named after a fairy tale trope

A superhero story where each chapter title is a cliché line of hero/villain dialogue

#tea yells #its an unessecary detail maybe but one i have a lot of fun with :> #and one I've seen folks do really creative stuff with too!

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Literally all I want to do is write something that makes people insane and maybe scream silently over it like is that so much to ask

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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

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Seen a couple posts on the dashboard lately about writing with ADHD. So, for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks who like writing but struggle sometimes… check out StimuWrite.

You can set it to make little sounds as you type (or leave them off), and emojis pop up in the corner. You can change the background, dark and light themes, set your word goal, and it gives you a percentage and total word count at the bottom. Though it’s more meant for getting a draft written up, so it doesn’t have spell check or anything like that. You’re meant to just copy and past what you write here into Google Docs or Word or Scrivener or whatever else you use and go from there. Honestly love it when I’m struggling to get words down, though. And apparently there’s an update now for StimuWrite 2?👀

Anyways, give it a try if it looks like it may help. It’s currently name-your-own-price.

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me: I'm going to write a fic to my own entertainment

also me, writing said fic:

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when u come up with a tiny change for your story that not only makes the writing flow better but also hammers in the character motivations and story theme

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WRITERS

If you see this, spoil your WIP's biggest plot twist using ONLY ONE WORD

Here's mine!

Dying

#hypnosis!

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Some sketches i did waaay back when I was first writing "Sapsorrow." They're not quite what I'd call final looks for Marianne's disguises, but you get the gist. :>

#first post in ages on my writing blog aaaaaand it's a drawing lmao #sapsorrow #fanfiction

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better than drugs

#posted a chapter for like the first time in 5 months and oooouuugghhghhhhhh

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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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ask game for teasing wips/upcoming projects

Send an emoji and I'll answer!

🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven't written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing... ❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing. 🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP. 🌧️Share something angsty from your WIP. 🌈 Share something soft/fluffy from your WIP. 💧Share something romantic/hot from your WIP, or just something sweet if it's gen. 🌩️ Share something funny/cracky from your WIP. ☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it? 🌪️Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/Ao3 tags.

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