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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

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We're getting closer and closer to our April 1st start! We've already talked about building habits - now let's list some tricks for keeping you motivated over the whole month!

A goal - Your goal can be anything - write every day, hit 20K words, edit your first draft, fulfill every writing prompt we have. Just strive for something!

Plan a reward - If you hit those 20K, buy yourself a new book! Or indulge in a fancy brownie once you've completed every prompt we share.

Keep it fun - If you're not having fun, you're not gonna do it. Write with friends, put on some good tunes, cackles as you torture your characters. You do you.

Announce it - declaring that you want to do something to someone - be it just your best friend or all your followers - is linked with actually doing it. People will be watching, and that keeps the fingers going.

Ready to announce your Spring Into A Story goal? Let us know what you're planning!

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We're halfway through April! 🌺✒️🌷

You've written a lot of words and made good progress on your writing projects. You've overcome the first challenge - getting started - and now you're probably facing the second - how to keep going. It's time to root into your story, avoid distractions, and stride toward your goal!

Resist new ideas. Just becuase you see a new shiny idea doesn't mean you half to pick it up. Jot down the basics so you don't forget it, but then tell that plot bunny you'll return in May. April is for a different project.

Surround yourself in the story. Sometimes, the words won't come. But if you still think of your story, live in that world, you'll be ploting and developing your characters and it'll be easy to make the words flow. Things you can do to stay in your story are: build playlists and listen to them, fill out character sheets and questionable, world build, draw maps, daydream about events after your story, draw your characters.

Bribe yourself. Set aside a treat that you can only have once your project is finished. Maybe it's a fancy dinner. Or a collector's addition of Watership Down. Perhaps a new bookish t-shirt. Set a reward, and tease yourself with it to get cracking on that story.

Don't consumer similar media. If you're writing a fantasy story, reading others in the genre could make you second guess your story, or give you new ideas to weave in. At the half way point, you want to dig deep into your story, not think about someone else's. (But please, do still read and watch stuff. Don't focus on writing 100% of your time)

Take a day off. If you've been making progress every day, good for you! But don't forget to take breaks. A reset is good for you. And who knows, that not-writing time might just give you the breakthrough you need.

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We're halfway through April! 🌺✒️🌷

You've written a lot of words and made good progress on your writing projects. You've overcome the first challenge - getting started - and now you're probably facing the second - how to keep going. It's time to root into your story, avoid distractions, and stride toward your goal!

Resist new ideas. Just becuase you see a new shiny idea doesn't mean you half to pick it up. Jot down the basics so you don't forget it, but then tell that plot bunny you'll return in May. April is for a different project.

Surround yourself in the story. Sometimes, the words won't come. But if you still think of your story, live in that world, you'll be ploting and developing your characters and it'll be easy to make the words flow. Things you can do to stay in your story are: build playlists and listen to them, fill out character sheets and questionable, world build, draw maps, daydream about events after your story, draw your characters.

Bribe yourself. Set aside a treat that you can only have once your project is finished. Maybe it's a fancy dinner. Or a collector's addition of Watership Down. Perhaps a new bookish t-shirt. Set a reward, and tease yourself with it to get cracking on that story.

Don't consumer similar media. If you're writing a fantasy story, reading others in the genre could make you second guess your story, or give you new ideas to weave in. At the half way point, you want to dig deep into your story, not think about someone else's. (But please, do still read and watch stuff. Don't focus on writing 100% of your time)

Take a day off. If you've been making progress every day, good for you! But don't forget to take breaks. A reset is good for you. And who knows, that not-writing time might just give you the breakthrough you need.

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Challenge number 2!!!!

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Challenge number 2!!!!

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Challenge number 2!!!!

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Spring Break

I'm participating in #springintoastory to build a healthy, consistent writing habit!

The first prompt is Spring Break, and Lisa and Monica are from my sapphic aro ace romance - Returning to You. 💜

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"I think you should stay with me here for spring break."

Lisa looked up as her dormmate walked through the door to their dorm room. Monica's black hair was windswept, but she didn't seem to mind.

"I thought you were going home? You don't live that far away."

Monica frowned as she hung up her coat in their tight closet. "Mama keeps telling me to live life to the fullest. Enjoy the college life."

"Campus is going to be dead, though."

"I mean," Monica sighed as she collapsed in her desk chair, head thrown over the back of the headrest. Lisa shut her economics textbook and gave Monica her full attention. "There's a few frat parties I've heard about. I might go to those. And there's always something going on in Chicago."

"Do you want to spend your spring break getting drunk every night?"

"I mean, I wouldn't mind."

Lisa scoffed.

Monica rolled her chair across the room. "Look, I know you're not into the party scene."

"I would like to pass my classes –"

"But there are no classes. It's spring break. What would you do at your parent's place anyway?"

Lisa shrugged, "Just hang out."

She wasn't going home to do things. She was going home to see her family. Take a break. Enjoy her dad's cooking. At least one high school friend would be back in town, and it would be nice to reconnect. Even though they had seen each other over Christmas break.

Monica hooked her hands under her chin and tilted her face up, lip quivering. Her dark eyes turned watery.

"Ug," Lisa put up her hand as a block. "I'm not saying for break."

"Maybe stay for part? You don't want me walking to and from a party by myself, do you?"

"You can handle yourself." Monica regularly went to Boystown. Lisa had gone once or twice, cajoled by someone or another, but that part of town was Monica's scene. Loud music and people and drinks and a freedom she didn't believe she had on campus.

"Okay, yes. But I'd still like to go with you."

Sighing, Lisa looked at her friend. The puppy dog eyes were gone, replaced by sincerity. And Lisa had so few friends, she would always cave to Monica, even if they had known each other for less than a year.

"Fine. I'll hop on the Metra Wednesday."

"Yay!"

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more sketchbook weeds

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my beloved writers, here's a daily reminder that your writing is never ever trash or bad as long as you have fun writing it. go wild and have fun. there're someone out there who will love and cherish those words you wrote. ♡

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Let’s share some spring goodness! Whether it’s flowers you see on a walk or the snow some parts of the US might get this week, share a spring time photo!

Maybe it will inspire a story!

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My goal for April’s #springintoastory is to write 4 days a week before work to get some solid scenes completed this month. Phew, feels good to get that out into the world. Here we go.