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hello, redditors.

welcome to hell.

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actually crying right now because I cant manage to write the first sentence of a book ive been trying to write for weeks now. today was supposed to be a writing day, and i spent hours looking for tips, advice, anything to help me figure shit out. i took months off of writing because i thought i was pushing myself too hard. i tried writing different genres, creating outlines, wordbuilding. I thought that i wasnt reading enough (though ive been reading like ten to fifteen books a month since i was fucking three) so i pushed myself to read more. I tried everything, but i still feel like im not doing good enough, like im doing something wrong. what did i do??? Ive been telling other writers not to give up but i want to give up myself. it feels like my one escape has been shut.

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Attention, struggling authors:

Please, under any circumstance, do not stop writing.

You're doing great, and I'm proud of you. Can't get the next chapter, or haven't even been able to start at all? Take a break. Already did that? Try a different genre or work on a fun story. If you don't want to do that, or you already did, then look for prompts. You could edit things out of or put things in prompts you find online, or even mix prompts. Try making an outline. Look for visual prompts if those help you. Ask various people for random prompt ideas. Take inspiration from real things that happened. Think of what mission your character would be good at (but would still give them a challenge).

But seriously, don't stop writing. Readers need you.

They rely on your worlds, your words. They need the comfort of your characters. Even if you don't believe in you, I believe in you.

Don't give up.

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Books.

I love books.

Horror books.

Fantasy books.

Dystopia books.

Science fiction books.

Mixed-genre books.

Books I read as a child and I grew up on--ones that taught me things that I couldn't get from school. Old books--Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick. Books that I wrote myself. One day, I hope to have a library full of books. No, scratch that--I want most of the walls in my house lined with bookshelves. I want my kids to never run out of books to read. I want them to know William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. I want them to know tragedies and romances. I want them to love books as much as I do. I think it's very important for kids today to learn to love books. Because books hold not only amazing stories--they hold worlds.

They hold tears.

They hold laughter.

They hold history.

They hold legends.

Books are beautiful, and so unique in their own ways. I love the smell and feeling of the pages, how their covers get all worn out from sunshine, rain, being carried around and treasured. How, in older books, the print is messed up in some places. How the binding feels. The feeling of utter excitement as you start a new book that you found in some random bookshop a million years ago but you never really had a chance to read, but now you sit down, smiling, in a comfy armchair or a bay window as rain pelts down on your roof. I love that overwhelming feeling when you have so many books on your list but you're so excited to read them all. I love how stupidly attached you get to a character and how you feel dead inside when they're killed. How you feel so much joy when they grow up and have a family of their own. That feeling of depression when the book's over. It's crazy how you can love books, and/or the characters in them so much. How they can be your only friends. How they can be there for you through the worst of times. How you can dive into a book as an escape from reality.

Damn, I love books.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Help.

i've made like five attempts with an introduction to my dark fantasy-sci-fi-dystopia book. i'm internally suffering and want to wring my own throat.

help.