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[ahopelessromantika]

"Wait. We're dating? Since when?"

She feeds him another cube of chocolate.

"Last month. Duh."

He takes the offered chocolate willingly and blinks in rapid succession, confused. "How did that happen?"

"I confessed, you said 'thank you', I took it as a 'yes', we began dating.

"What?"

Exasperated, she sighs and nudges another piece of chocolate towards him. "I gave you a bunch of crocheted flowers as a confession."

"That was a confession?" he splutters.

"Crocheted flowers," she emphasizes. "And I made them myself."

He stares at her, open-mouthed. "Are you... are you serious?"

"About you?" she hums. "Yes, very much so."

-by ahopelessromantika-

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[what-if-i-just-did]

Feelings: I wanna WRITE

Me: ok write what?

Brain: you have like fifty thousand wip's

Feelings: No not that

Me: Fine what then?

Ideas: *don't exist*

Me: FINE. *continues scrolling*

Feelings: WRITEWRITEWRITEWRITEWRITEWRITE

Me: What do you fucking want?????????? Make up your mind????

Feelings: WRITEWRITEWRITEWRITE

Ideas: You could write about this?

Me: That's stupid.

Feelings: Yes this vibes. Kinda.

Me:

Ideas:

Me:

Me: Fuck you.

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[topsyturvy-turtely]

"to write or not to write, that is the question"

-every writer ever

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[mx-loar-tev]

I'm always seeing people complaining that they are bad writers, that their writing isn't "good enough"...

But becoming a "good" writer takes time.

It isn't even a destination. Writing is a journey and you become better with every story you work on.

I've posted my first fanfiction in English in 2017 and sometimes I go and re-read my old stuff. And I cringe. I can see everything I did wrong. But it's comforting in a sense, because I see the progress!

It's not only because I'm becoming more fluent. I see it in my older fics in French. I can see how I learned how to structure the story better. I goes beyond the language I use.

Anyways, what I meant to say is: writing is a skill, not a gift. Like with any other art, you need to work, practice, to hone it. Even if it's bad at first. You'll get better.

I know it's frustrating sometimes when you compare yourself to these authors you admire. I get it. But it doesn't mean that what you have to say is less important because you haven't learn how to formulate it the way you want.

Writing is the only requirement to be a writer. (Yep, jokes aside).

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[the-ninnas-writes]

It's September which means soon it's October which means after that it's NaNoWriMo which means it's time to dust off the ol' writer's hat and scroll #writeblr and start mentally preparing for writing season.

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[dawnrider]

*jingles cup at you*

Hello @xanthippe-writes! A great question and one I will try to give an array of answers to. I hope at least one of them is helpful!

Prompt lists: There are a ton of great writing prompt blogs right here on Tumblr that provide frequent, sometimes even daily, prompts that you can use to get juices flowing. It doesn't have to be a whole story, doesn't even have to be relevant to what you're writing, just a way to get the brain working.

Ask for prompts from mutuals or in servers: Sometimes a little community is really what you need. I don't always get to the prompts people have sent in my inbox, but on occasion I can get a lot of inspiration from that. Some of the servers I'm in have prompt channels, specifically where you can look for or request prompts from others, or where people leave ideas that they aren't going to get to for others to use at will.

Write the scene you want: Some people write linearly, as in completely in order of the story. That works for them and that's great. But when you're stuck, and there's that far off scene that you really want to get to, or is the inspiration for the story, it can feel really frustrating and out of reach. Write the damn thang. You can always modify it later if it doesn't quite fit once you build the rest of the story ahead of it. But if that scene is nagging at you, WRITE IT.

Write fanfiction of your fanfiction: Sometimes there are what-if scenarios within your own story that plague you. "What if they DIDN'T kiss here?" or "What if he ends up much more injured than I first planned?" Those can be worth it to explore in a separate document. Maybe you use it, maybe you don't. But it gives you the room to explore the webs of happenstance that are created when your characters make choices... or don't make them.

Let yourself have multiple WIPs: I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but hear me out. Sometimes the reason I feel stuck when I'm trying to hammer out part of the plot for say, Your Lying Smile, is because my brain is just not feeling it. But my brain is all over Stealing Home at that time, so I go work on that. And I can get a few paragraphs in, or maybe a chapter. Then I return to YLS with fresh eyes and I can think more clearly about what I want from the story because I feel successful and productive from what I was able to accomplish on a different story. You don't have to have multiple stories you're posting, if that isn't your jam, but sometimes letting yourself work on multiple things allows you to set aside your block on one story and get your juices flowing by working on something else and it doesn't feel like avoidance because you still made progress on something specific.

Brainstorm: This is a community thing again, but a really helpful one. If you're stuck, sometimes some outside perspective can help you get unstuck. If you have a trusted mutual, or a server space where brainstorming is welcome, utilize those resources. I admit to being a bit stingy when it comes to sharing my future plots because there's that part of my brain that insists that no one will want to read what I wrote if they already know what's going to happen. But you can absolutely ask for feedback from other folks, writers or otherwise. Bouncing ideas off of them can help you figure out what you might want to see going forward in your story, and what you don't. (Sometimes those "no way!" ideas are even more important than the "oh, maybe that would work...")

If anyone else has good advice to add, please do!

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[thespitefulpoet]

There's a misdirection of humanity

A direction no one wants to go

A direction that's terrifying and unknown

It's a shame we're going this route

There's a lot going on at once but

Do not lose hope, whatever you do.

You can turn pessimistic, you can scream

But do not lose hope.

Hope is necessary in a world that hates

Your guts and wants you dead.

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[brideofcthulhu10]

Hello hello my sweet fang babes! I've missed you all so much and I want to thank everyone for your continous support of my blog despite my lengthy hiatus!

Update: I have started a secondary blog!!

@thebrideofcthulhu

Worry not, this one will still have activity but between my writing I'll be posting my art on a daily basis!! So if you'd like to hop on over and take a look any support at all is always appreciated!

Hopefully my writing will revive here, I've been in between fandoms a lot and finding difficulty writing TLB outside of my ocs. Till then I hope you guys will hang in there with me and Happy New Year's to all my wonderful supporters, you guys mean the world to me!

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[poetslullaby]

why were we taught

to bottle up our

rage,

when men were

drinking it

down in gulps?

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[poetsandwriters]

Celeste Ng, author of Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press,2022), in “Ravenous With Story,” featured in the November/December 2022 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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[ahopelessromantika]

I dunno why, but currently, I'm facing my greatest enemy— writer's block.

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[thetisming]

i appreciate every single person who has ever posted in the & Juliet ao3 tag (except for one of you. what the fuck) by the way. i love you i love you i love you, thank you for supplying me with content. whenever i see any new fic in the tag (that isnt mine lmao), i get so happy, because like... those are my blorbos! i love them!! so thank you all so much <33

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[cmoroneybooks]

A very simple breakdown of the editing process.

Personal edits by the author. These are the edits you undertake after you finish the first draft. 

Manuscript critique/swap/alpha read. This is where you exchange the text with your writing buddy for a first opinion that doesn't come from family or non-writing friends. It's not recommended to use friends you made outside the writing community because a lifelong best friend who also becomes a writer later in life will still have the bias problem. Once you get these notes back you make another edit. As I have said before you can pay someone to provide this service but I do not recommend it. Find a friend who writes and reads your genre and commit to reading each other’s manuscripts and providing thoughtful commentary. 

Developmental edit. The actual content of the story is deeply edited by a professional editor. Characterisation, pacing, story structure, worldbuilding, genre elements, plot. They do not make direct changes to your manuscript but offer extremely detailed notes including in-text commentary and what is essentially an essay about your manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses. You will usually have several conversations with them regarding their notes. After this you will do another edit based on notes. With a traditional publisher you will resubmit this edit for further notes, as a self-publisher you do not need editoral approval to get published so will not resubmit to your editor. You may choose to do further rounds with them, however. It would be a severe disservice to your book to skip this edit or not hire a professional. 

Beta read. 3-5 readers of the genre you're publishing in give feedback. Professional beta readers exist and I do think they’re a great service BUT you don’t want to use only professional beta readers. The majority should just be fans of the genre signing on to beta read for free books and/or in exchange for you beta reading their manuscript. I personally do 5 beta readers, 2 swaps, 1 paid professional, and 2 fantasy readers offering out of the goodness of their hearts. If you are tight on money this is a step you should NOT pay for. 

Line edit. This edit is the only one that is truly optional. Many publishing houses do not bother with this specific edit. IMPORTANT: you will often see copy editing and line editing used as if they are two terms for the same thing. A line edit is an edit for the quality of your prose not spelling and grammar. A spelling and grammar edit is not optional. A line edit will edit for the reading flow of your story on a sentence level. Genre fiction authors can safely skip this step, I would be more hesitant to make that recommendation to a literary fiction author, however. Don’t bother with a line edit if you’re not going to hire a professional to do it. 

Copy edit. Spelling and grammar primarily but this edit also tracks consistency (if a character’s eyes change colour for instance) and may make commentary on prose. It will not be the line by line perfection of a true line edit but clunky sentences that don’t make sense will be pointed out to you. This is another edit I really recommend seeking a professional for. 

Proofread. A final check for spelling, grammar, and consistency. The final read before publication. A professional is the best choice for this but there is room to save money here IF you know someone whose grammar is bang on. I’m talking Dad’s an English teacher not friend is an online grammar nazi. 99% of people who think they’re good at grammar believe this because they don’t make common mistakes such as there/their/they’re. Most people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing with commas and you don’t want to trust them to catch a rogue comma your copy editor missed. 

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[pirate-of-the-southern-isles]

Day 11 of writing challenge

121 words today, slow day, but after yesterday's sprint - well. At least I did something.

The size of this fic is scaring me a little. I has long WIPs before, but my longest was stopped at 161 982 words and never touched again. It was like 2/3 done, so I got burnt out right before the 3rd act. And this little thing is at 127 290 words already and they barely started the first quest. I am not sure, how long it will get...

Also, a small question - do you prefer your fanfiction, for example, on Ao3, to be in one, big page, divided only by chapters, or do you prefer when an author is breaking it down into a few parts?

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[the-ninnas-writes]

A tip for writing truly immersive environments and locations — building your very own Snapshot library.

How it started:

In real life I like to think I'm an observant person who notices the tiniest things around me, but when I sit down to describe, I don't know a forest — 🤯 poof, I'm blank. Can't remember a thing about my own town even.

The events of my current novel are happening in August. Writing any kind of non-plot related narratives throughout the year was very difficult, especially describing nature, and I kept waiting for actual August to happen in my city so that I can write in the moment.

When August came, I was jotting down everything about this time of the month. The weather patterns, what was flying through the air, what the people around me were behaving like and so forth. I was even able to divide those into subcategories like 'conversations I overheard' or 'internal character monologues while going from point a to point b'.

I called it a Snapshot of August.

So, how do I use these 'Snapshots'?

They're like a recipe cards for all kinds of situations — or at least the ones you've been. So you wrote a Snapshot about a coffee shop. You add more and more snippets every time you sit in a coffee shop. If my characters are in a coffee shop I pull up the appropriate Snapshot and start picking and choosing elements in order to build the environment. I'll take that description of couple these to highlight MC's low esteem, a pinch of cinnamon smell in the air, a dash of how square my butt felt against the uncomfortable wooden chairs...

Sure, I can just take a picture things then I'll have a stupor as to how to describe the picture later. Sure, I could try to write from memory and get two lines in, or you could be that mysterious individual at the corner of a bar peeking at people from under your glasses and scribbling away every curious individual you see every mannerism and the ways the light hits their beer glasses.

The difference is that I wrote those snapshots WHILE I was in those situations and locations, so I can describe in utmost detail the August frustration of constantly wiping my sprinkled windowsill from the winged seeds of catkins hanging from the branches of a silver birch outside my house.

I forget these things! Snapshots are both for little details and large, descriptive scenes where you can plug your character into.

This is especially crucial when you're in a unique place you can't easily access again, like when you're on vacation! And it's a powerful ally for never slowing down on things like narrative descriptions during a NaNoWriMo sprint.

I will update this post in the future with some snapshot examples.

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[tavsianus]

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