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Me @ writers: you just make that shit up from your brain???

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If a fanfiction is tagged with ‘the AU nobody asked for’, then you know it’s going to be amazing.

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there’s something special about the type of people who will write full length novels and upload them online for free just to make other people happy like. wow.

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The only problematic thing with e-books is that after I’ve finished them I can’t put them on my trophy shelf, like a serial killer. 

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yall ever start writing and something so much darker than what u planned to write comes out and ur like ‘u ok in there’ to urself

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your characters literally don’t need a reason to be lgbt. no lgbt person in real life has a reason for being lgbt. we just are. if somebody says your character has to have a ‘reason’ to be diverse, they’re full of shit. diversity isn’t an aberration from the norm. it’s an accurate reflection of reality.

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Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

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Russian Literature: Babe come over

The Devil: I can’t I’m an allegory

Russian Literature: We’ll have a courtroom scene and and talk shit about organized religion

The Devil:

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Let’s hear it for the librarians!

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I know adverbs are Controversial, but “said softly” means something different than “whispered” and this is the hill I will die on.

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I adore rick riordan but if anyone still has doubt on how he can have such big potholes in his stories, let me remind you that this man was originally going to title the Lightning Thief “The Son of Poseidon” and it was his middle school class that pointed out that if he named it that that the “mysterious and unknown identity” of Percy’s godly heritage would no longer be mysterious and unknown and rick was like “oh, yeah.” 

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Writer: here have some Emotions™

Reader: I don’t want these

Writer: yes you do have some more

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i am SO SICK of unhappy endings. idk about anyone else but the #1 reason i like fiction is because everything can always work out no matter how bad it is. “what if the good guys lost” shut up. you are so fucking boring. give me happy endings or give me nothing

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Only child authors make note

it really is next to impossible to write realistic sibling dialogue, I just passed my brother on the stairs and instead of greeting each other like human beings I said ‘born survivor’ and he said ‘youtube rewind. let’s set it to rewind.’ like you ain’t gonna find that shit in a novel