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outline story → ignore outline → write emotional mess → try to fix it → make new outline → ignore it again

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It is so interesting the way a brain can go from "this is finally coming together!" to "this entire project is worthless" within the space of a single sentence

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I love my unreliable narrator.

I love dropping the little hints every now and then when reality asserts itself a little.

I love the constant paranoia and fear of judgement and the fight against forces that are not quite on the level of delusions but are at least *wrong*

I love the way someone can lie to themselves about what they're thinking in any given moment.

I love the way someone can be right about something for all the wrong reasons and that just cements how wrong they can be about everything else for all the wronger reasons.

If you want to know the plot you need to dig through all the layers of the perspective character's bullshit before you even touch the surface of the author's even more thorough bullshit.

Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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song stuck in my head: main character's "I want" song from the imagined Disney version of the (note: Disney would never go near this) story, but I haven't actually written any words or music and I have no musical or lyrical ability so it's actually just one or two notes and the vague idea that one character might sing it.

and it's still completely and thoroughly stuck in my head

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I like the metaphors that sneak up on you, the plot points or events or characters that are (completely unintentionally) mirrors of each other because it turns out you were just thinking about a theme when you were writing them both, without knowing it

i added a metaphor so good i had to lie down. you wouldn’t get it. it was mint.

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"this one change will solve everything!" They say for the three billionth time, adding another three contradictions and studiously maintaining the original problem.

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I have the opposite of this. Oh boy I sure do like some of the individual letters.

anyone else ever have those chunks of sentences/paragraphs - either written yourself or read in ffs - that's like, individually, if you look really close, they're nothing special, not even amazing vocab, just like, words. then you zoom out and look at it as a WHOLE and damn whoever wrote this was a genius

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"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up

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I'm just going to go ahead and take this entirely literally

I don’t write because I know what it feels like to experience something—I write out of a place of empathy

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"surely what I'm doing is too toxic for this to apply to me"

i understand why some people arent into them but i personally will never be sick of internalized homophobia subplots i love shame i love it when characters experience shame

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it would be extremely arrogant of me to keep writing my next draft without first being familiar with all the other media

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writing is hard when you’re a person with thoughts and emotions and also executive dysfunction and also a deep fear of being perceived

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deep in the nth draft that scene doesn't exist anymore, oops

every writer has that One Scene that came to them and now they have to write an entire story around it. what is that for you?

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Socially awkward comics

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Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for important serious writer reasons but gets distracted by the funsies.

Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

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A crossover of Spy x Family and Batman I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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just thinking about the evolution of Lex Luthor over time and what spurred on those changes and how if history remains a sign of what's to come we've probably got about fifty years of Lex being the dumbest sack of shit who ever lived.