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Me, minding my own business:

My brain, with the steel chair: hey do u think the boneturner does bottom surgery?

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breaking news: local god likes to hang out with his crush but don’t tell him this or he’ll stab you

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the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:

tomboy, meaning “this child is clearly queer but let’s hope it goes away”

sensitive, meaning “clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let’s keep going until they grow numb”

mature, meaning “traumatized but let’s ignore that”

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for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

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oh i forgot to share the shromes. mushroom nomes.

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90% of writing advice can be thrown out the window for your first draft.

Show don’t tell? Ignore.

Basic grammar and punctuation? Unnecessary. 

Physical descriptions of characters? Don’t need to bother. 

Solid plot? That’s for later. 

The words don’t come as fast when you’re thinking of the best way to put them together. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or much more than inconsistent nonsense.  The point is to have it exist.

Effective storytelling is for subsequent drafts! Go write some nonsense! 

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it is not blood that runs through these veins but glitter gel pen ink

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Growth stages of various mushrooms! from young spore to wisened, old granny fungi.

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inspirational crows

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diagnosed with "just been in kind of a weird zone lately" disorder and it's terminal

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I wanna be a cowboy baaaaby

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*gently puts my mental health in rice*

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and on April 13th, 2006, niel banged out the tunes, and it was good