melodicwriter

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Write fanfics for your own characters, create fanart for your own characters, make moodboards for your own characters, create fanedits for your own characters, be your own fucking cheerleader and be openly and proudly obsessed with what you created.

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The closer I get to publication, the closer the imposter syndrome screams

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You can edit your book as many times as you want, there’s still going to be mistakes simply down to human error. I think there’s a lot of pressure on indie authors to have none but even trad pub books do. One of my most anticipated reads actually had this happen. There was repeated dialogue, leaving out a whole couple of lines, and diagrams in the wrong place. A lot of people actually found the fact it had errors to be neat. So it’s okay!

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Have a chart I developed for visualizing the disposition of your character! This is partly inspired by a chart I saw of Aristotle’s Golden Mean, which is a system he had for developing good character, but of course, this is more about gauging a character’s traits than bringing them into any kind of balance.

For a printable PDF version of the chart please follow this link.

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all stories need a part where the protagonists need to sneak into a gala or ball or other fancy event by wearing pretty clothes. this is more important then gay shit like arcs or conclusions

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"You should be sleep its late"

No I am imagining my characters in situations

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Reading back your smut and getting embarrassed like it’s you in the scene

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You will never write the perfect book. No amount of obsessing over editing your book will make everyone like it, simply because people’s taste isn’t universal. I know it sucks, but the sooner you realize that it’s a taste incompatibility instead of your work being bad, the sooner you can work to free yourself from imposter syndrome and perfectionism.

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When you remove a line in your manuscript and then read on further and have to add it back because you realize why it was there in the first place

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Writing tip: have a boring book on standby. Every time you go to read it, you’ll think “ugh I’d rather be working on my WIP rn” and then you’ll go write or edit!

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Motivation Monday — Your Story Matters

Here’s something most writers forget. The world has never had your story before. Not once in all of human history. People have written about love, about war, about gods, about heartbreak, but no one has written it the way you can. That voice inside your head that you dismiss as ordinary? It’s not. It’s the one thing no other author on Earth can replicate. Every sentence you put down is one-of-a-kind. That makes your writing precious by default.

Perfection is a myth that kills more stories than rejection ever has. Don’t wait for the perfect time, the perfect sentence, or the perfect plot arc before you allow yourself to create. Write the messy draft. Write the clunky dialogue. Write the paragraph that makes you cringe. You can’t edit a blank page, but you can carve brilliance out of something raw. Every masterpiece starts ugly. Every author you admire has written lines that make them shudder in hindsight, but they kept writing anyway.

Your job as a writer isn’t to predict what the world will love. It's not about views or reblogs. It’s to honor the story that burns inside you. Someone, somewhere, needs it. They might not know it yet, and you might never see the moment it touches them, but it will.

The right book at the right time can change the course of a life. What if the one you’re holding back is the one that will? Writing is an act of faith. You throw your words out into the dark, and trust that someone, someday, will find light in them.

So keep going. Write when you’re tired. Write when you’re afraid. Write when you’re convinced it’s trash, because on the other side of that doubt is the story that only you could tell. And if you stumble? Good. That means you’re moving forward. Stories don’t need perfection to matter. They do need you to be brave enough to bring them into the world.

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sex actually isnt real they made it up for ao3

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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

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writing tip #3922:

write what makes YOU happy, not what makes random people on the internet happy

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How I look writing my gay little stories because they’re the only thing that brings me joy in this god forsaken world

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you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.