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Anyway I remade

and its @ladymalcontent

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I think I’m gonna remake my writeblr bc like. It just isn’t working as a sideblog

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

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[image ID: an introduction banner for The Garden: A Neurodivergent and Disabled Writeblr Network. The image is desaturated and shows a collection of leaves with the words “The Garden” displayed overtop in large white letters. Underneath “The Garden” is a dark green rectangle with the words “A Neurodivergent and Disabled Writeblr Network” displayed in white letters overtop. /end ID.]

Welcome to The Garden! We are a group/network dedicated to supporting, providing resources to, and creating a space for neurodivergent and/or disabled writers. We would also love for this to be a space for resources and advice with writing neurodivergent and disabled representation. 

We are pro self-diagnosis and completely welcoming of those who think they may be neurodivergent and/or disabled but don’t have a solid answer or access to resources. We as a group cannot ultimately decide where the boundaries of neurodivergence and disability end, but we welcome those who are questioning or are unsure if they fall under the neurodivergent and disabled umbrellas but want to find community with those who share your experiences. We’re also welcoming of those with invisible illnesses.

However, we do not accept bigots of any kind, nor do we accept those who excuse plagiarism. We intend for The Garden to be a safe space for all.

While the network is for all ages, the Discord server is 16+. This is for the safety and comfort of everyone involved. Those under 16 are still free to use the resources we provide, follow the blog, send asks, and use the tracking tag (#ndgtracking).

That all being said, we are still under heavy construction. We need feedback from you guys on how to run this network as well as the Discord server. Please, if you’re able to, check out this Google Form and provide any feedback you can!

This blog and the Discord server are not ready for operation yet, as we would like to get some feedback. However, we will let you know when they are!

Neurotypical and able-bodied people, please boost this post so that it’s able to reach more people!

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“I had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.”  ― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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Alright, if me, @chloeswords, and @svpphicwrites were to, hypothetically, create a writing group/network centered on neurodivergent content creators and was a safe space to be free from and unlearn the toxicity of productivity culture, would anyone be interested in joining?

Note: we wouldn’t limit neurodivergence to ADHD and autism, and we’re 100% supportive of self-diagnosis 💕

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Hey, I’m Charlotte and I’m a 22yo writer working on my novella, Pythia, which is an autistic coming of age story with magical realist elements! I’m also neurodivergent (I’d rather not specify all of the ways how) and themes around neurodivergence/disability are always at the forefront of my writing!

support neurodivergent/disabled writeblrs!

after talking with other nd friends, we came to the same conclusion that writeblr is not a very neurodivergent/disabled friendly space, and more can be done to support and uplift neurodivergent/disabled creators. i’ve wanted to make a post for a while specifically to uplift our voices and! that’s what i’m gonna do! 

if you are a neurodivergent and/or disabled creator, feel free to reblog this post and boost yourself/wips! (does not have to be ownvoices!)

neurotypical and/or able bodied creators, please reblog and boost this post, and check out the creators in the notes!

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“You are embarrassed about your blood, its redness, the way it is just coming out of you with no concern for anyone’s feelings. You are (…) embarrassed to be alive.”

— In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (via salemwitchtrials)

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Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

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Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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““It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,” I said. “It is my right to be unsociable and it is my right to be unpleasant to be around. Do you ever listen to yourself? This is crazy, that is crazy, everything is crazy to you. By whose measure? Well, it is my right to be crazy, as you love to say so much. I have no shame.””

— Carmen Machado, excerpt of “The Resident”, in Her Body and Other Parties

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The em dash is rich with power. But you’ll lose yourself.

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Can I say something? I WANT straight authors to write books about LGBT characters. Not just because they might be closeted, but because I want there to be more books with LGBT stories 

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Can I say something? I WANT straight authors to write books about LGBT characters. Not just because they might be closeted, but because I want there to be more books with LGBT stories