emorybrooks

[emorybrooks]

For me it's always writing 'that' instead of 'than' and 'is' instead of 'it' because my fingers are just as ADHD as my brain.

Also, new in the past year: 'femail' instead of 'female'.

Every *fucking* time.

#wording is hard

[emorybrooks]

When you fall in love with your characters and their relationship so hard that you forget to put the 'enemies' part in the enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance.

#i love them your honor #this will make editing difficult #just be jerks to each other please? #writer problems

[emorybrooks]

TFW you're writing a really hot sex scene between your characters and you get a sudden jolting reminder that someone you know--someone who knows you--is going to read this knowing you wrote it and--

And you have to get up and walk around for awhile because of the mortifying ordeal of being known.

#writer problems #writeblr #the mortifying ordeal of being known

[emorybrooks]

It was this, and not the horror, that actually creeped me out so much I stopped reading him.

google help me

#stephen king #gobble my crank

[emorybrooks]

You can pry "unusual" dialogue tags out of my cold, dead hands--

--she shouted declared hissed gritted out etc. etc.

#i said it #wording is hard #dialogue tags

[emorybrooks]

Writing in my head; Beautiful flowing sentences full of powerful phrases and witty dialogue.

Writing on my page: They did a thing and said some stuff. There was snark.

#wording is hard

[emorybrooks]

The writing life when you're losing your words due to perimenopause

list of spanish swears

words that mean 'unable to stop'

libertine vs sybarite

synonyms for PLAYBOY (why I turned my capslock on I'll never know)

what is the word for being both asexual and aromantic

what's the word for plotlines that don't get resolved

#wording is hard

[emorybrooks]

Me about 100 times a day.

Later, when I read my notes.

#oof #the truth hurts #writerslife

[emorybrooks]

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

#agreed this insistence on being super literal is such a bad take #language is supposed to be fun and interesting and evocative #writing rant

[emorybrooks]

#the story in your head is the characters' screams to be set free #writerslife

[emorybrooks]

Who needs the stalker thriller plot that drives the story forward when you can write a 10k words of your characters getting it on?

WHO NEEDS MIDDLE BITS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ✨ 𝒔 𝒄 𝒆 𝒏 𝒆 𝒔 ✨

#writerslife #it's what the people want #it doesn't even fit anywhere in the story #have to get it out of my head

[emorybrooks]

In the latest episode of wording is hard...

how do you describe chest hair that is in between 'thick' and 'dusting of hair'?

pretty sure 'smattering' is the same as 'dusting'

yep

finding out that what many people consider thick chest hair is what I consider average. wth

there is no other curse I can think of or make up that has quite the same flavor and vibe as 'Jesus fucking Christ'

can suddenly only think in British. what is our word for ice lolly????

#wording is hard

[emorybrooks]

#the vibes are everything #at the whim of the vibes #writerslife

[emorybrooks]

TFW you're 5k words into a scene about your protagonist and their love interest exploring one of her kinks, and you're just getting to the spiciest bits when your mother texts you with news about another family member and looking at your phone you also see a notification from an ex brother-in-law who wants to tell you about his depression and a FB message from a friend complaining about the weather.

#ladyboner killed #mood ruined #writerslife

[emorybrooks]

In today's episode of Wording is Hard:

Googling what the 5 senses are because I could only think of 4 of them

Googling 'what do you call a heavy bag that is freestanding?'

#wording is hard #it's a freestanding heavy bag btw

[emorybrooks]

Honestly...how the fuck does anyone answer the question "What do you write about?"

That's so fucking vague

Do you mean fanfiction vs original fiction vs nonfiction?

Do you mean YA vs adult?

Are you asking about genre?

Do you expect that my ADHD brain actually only writes about 1 "thing"?

#everyone who asks this means something different help #writer problems #it's the let me iiiiiiiiiin meme except it's what do you meeeeeeeean

[emorybrooks]

I'd never get past the first scene otherwise...

#writer problems