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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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hello my name is [writer] and never in my life have I ever done anything to hurt my characters. angst is not my forte, so to speak.

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Almost immediately after the invention of the time machine, one guy said he would go back in time to kill his own grandmother. He never returned. Nobody knows exactly how time travel paradoxes are resolved because anybody who creates one never comes back.

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me, writing: this sentence is way too long. I need to condense it in a way that makes it grammatically correct while still preserving the original meaning I’m trying to convey

the devil on my shoulder: or, you can add five more commas, a semi colon, three em dashes, fifty more words, and it’ll all come together in a way that’s technically grammatically correct but completely incomprehensible to anyone who reads it, even yourself!

me, writing faster: you’re a genius

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reminders for writers.

nobody gives a crap if something is overdone in fiction. what they really care about is the execution

having a bad day of writing does not make you a bad writer

tropes ≠ clichés. if someone tells you it's wrong to use tropes, disregard the advice

writing in your second or third language isn’t always easy. you’re doing great

writing advice = tools. not rules. you’re not meant to follow every advice you read about on the internet. learn the rules so you know which ones to break

every writer is capable of writing a captivating story, but your story might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s ok. there will still be people out there who’ll adore it

it’s ok to not excel at every genre! you can write things because you think it’s fun, doesn’t always have to be a matter of writing something because you’re good at it. it’s ok to explore (and it helps you improve as a writer!)

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Next chapter of writing project delayed due to unforeseen circumstances (writer has forgotten how to write.)

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You know what my favourite trope is? “The world is cruel therefore I won’t be” and “The world is cruel therefore I will be too”

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Fanfiction writers:

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we really don’t need to make our novels perfect, guys. im reading an old fantasy series that I loved as a kid and it’s riddled with YA stereotypes and cringy tropes, filter words, word repeats, even a couple typos, etc, and I really don’t care. It’s a good story and I love the characters and I’m gonna keep rereading it and I think that’s what counts

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When you know EXACTLY what goes next but now HOW to write it:

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