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Always the writer, never the reader.

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Deep Water Prompt #2464

I will never be a scribe, as my father once wanted. The ink we use to record history cannot be lied to, enchanted and sentient. And it will only flow from the quill if it deems your mind worthy. 

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Text: A child’s first scar is a precious thing of incredible importance. We are taken to the Skin Seer as soon as it settles, who reads our futures in the shape of the damage. 

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Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.

Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.

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remembering it’s my book and it can be silly if i want it to. freedom.

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Writing isn't the hobby. Being insane about little fake people is the hobby. Writing is just the only outlet i have for that

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So writers joke a lot about "drinking the tears of our readers", but I want to be so honest with you when I tell you that making you cry isn't our real goal. Making you feel is.

Kicking your feet? Giggling? Can't stop smiling? And yes, crying? Feeling anything, everything. That's our goal. That means we did The Job.

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Writing isn't the hobby. Being insane about little fake people is the hobby. Writing is just the only outlet i have for that

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me: combs through manuscript so many times and so thoroughly that it's as polished as it can be

my beta reader: here's a list of typos i found.

me: ah...lovely...thank you...

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there’s wip (active development) and wip (stuck in development hell) and wip (oh you’re not even getting funding for this one)

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Pondering my orbs.

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the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war

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Text: The ship paints a stark figure on the horizon. Pirates. From my binoculars, I watch the man up in the nest spread glossy black wings and soar down towards the shore, scouting.

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being a writer is wild

like there are some days where all the words click into place and the sentences flow like silk and then there are other days where your plot is undergoing radioactive decay and you're about to punch through your laptop screen in frustration

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Me, avoiding my draft during writer’s block: If I don’t look at it, it doesn’t exist.