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5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

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Get these ai writing assistants out of my face!!!! I don't care if my writing is bad at least it is mine!!!!

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I miss the unity of womanhood- not that I was ever fully involved in it before I came out because I was bitter and repressed, but even then, I could share in the joy that came from the shared resilience and compassion and beauty that was being a girl. There is no encompassing unity in being a man. Everything feels like a lonely competition.

Of course, there is some unity and community to be found in transness and queerness, but it feels conditional and I find myself swept between the cracks.

I wish there had been some warning about how lonely it is to be a man. I wish that I was cis so I would have never had to experience it and could instead be swept up in the embrace of 20-something teenage girlhood.

I’m grateful to be safe, and I’m grateful to be privileged enough to have medically transitioned… but sometimes I resent the necessity of it all. I feel harder to love.

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As a trans man, I get gender envy whenever someone comments on a man's post as says "Bro is majestic". Ik it's stupid but man I want someone to think *I'm* majestic 🥲

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this is for anyone who’s ever questioned their gender or even just their presentation as a queer person.

i cut my hair today, and i dyed it a fun color.

i spent all month looking forward to it, convincing myself it would solve all of my problems.

i would look in the mirror at my hair that wasn’t even that long to begin with, and i hated it.

i was running my hands through the hair by the nape of my neck and trying to hold it all together, all because it wasn’t shorter.

i got that haircut today and all day i mourned the idea that i was pretty. that anyone could ever think i was pretty again.

i was sad because i felt i had lost her.

i was scared because i now feel like a visibly queer person.

neither of those things compares to the sheer amount of joy i feel when i run my hand through the hair at the nape of my neck right now.

it feels right, and it feels like me.

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my transition goals are NOT to be a twink or a cute anime boy actually I just want to look like a folk punk singer with a dirt stache or think jeremy from peep show (especially series 1 and 2), think Alex from goodbye lenin, think that main guy from trainspotting (I've never seen it) I wanna be some loser dude with shit facial hair who looks like I'm in a folk punk band I want to look like I listen to midwest emo and smoke

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Takato Yamamoto

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Lizz Lopez

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idk why ppl call house and wilson queerbaiting. they’re really just like that and that’s the best part

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Wil van Gogh. May 1889. The Illustrated Provence Letters of van Gogh selected and edited by Martin Bailey

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I fantasized about not having any fantasies, and in so doing drifted even further

— Mikko Harvey, from "Let the World Have You," Let the World Have You

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PARKS AND RECREATION | 5.15 

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It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

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It is not necessary to have a religion to have a morality. Because, if you can't tell right from wrong, what's missing is sensitivity, not religion.

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What’s your favorite scary movie?

SCREAM 1996, dir. Wes Craven

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i cannot thank you enough for making me aware of this video’s existence

robert sean leonard is physically incapable of turning down a role where his character is secretly but not subtly in love with his best friend

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robert sean leonard is physically incapable of turning down a role where his character is secretly but not subtly in love with his best friend