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the carnal desire as an author to spend a frankly absurd amount of page space on describing food, furniture and clothing in the most unnecessarily sumptuous way possible

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New year writing goals

Trying to write more often is self-care. We write because we love it. Let's not make it a chore.

There is more to writing than getting words on the page. Research, plotting, outlining, daydreaming, making moodboards... all that is writing.

Not being able to write some days is NOT failure. Breaks are essential to refill your creative energy. Maybe just listen to your writing playlist and relax a bit or read a book or watch a show that inspires you.

Word counts are not absolute. If you realize you can't achieve your word count in the set timeframe, revise it. It's NOT failure, it's being efficient and aware of your own energy.

Be kind to yourself. Not finishing your goal is okay. Just engage with your creativity. Your mental health is more important.

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MAUREEN ROBINSON ��� 3.08 “Trust”

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Nothing against Alan Rickman but I do very much wish the HP movies had given us deranged, unkempt 35yo Snape who looks like one more repressed emotion or a moderate breeze would blow him right over

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mm. cozy (wip)

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I love writing!

*cries*

Writing is so much fun!

*yells at the void*

It's so relaxing!

*fistfights god*

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Enid (after the fight with Crackstone): You seem tense. How about we talk about the emotions we’re feeling as a way to de-stress.

Wednesday: I want to stab another coloniser.

Enid: I appreciate the effort. But that’s not an emotion. That’s more of an action. An emotion is something we feel on the inside.

Wednesday: I feel…

Wednesday: Stabby.

Enid: …

Enid: You know what? Sure. Good job bestie. I’m proud of you.

Enid: Do you wanna make out?

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Oh so ur a writer?? Prove it. Drop the last sentence of ur wip in the tags

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from Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson

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—Can’t Kenna be lovely simply because she is lovely? And you are lovely. —That was kind of you.

MARY STUART and KENNA DE POITIERS REIGN (2013-2017)

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Reblog and in the tags put the next book you’re planning on reading 

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If you're writing, and you aren't the kind to outline and plan, that's cool. Even if you're the kind to not even know the vague direction you're going, that's still cool.

But you should jot down some rules. Both for the characters and the story. Rules at the level of separating basketball from hockey. That's how broad I mean.

Just take a sec after you write the first part. Take a moment after you've realized that, oh, this is going to continue, and jot some things down. Again. High level. It's not about limiting yourself. Its just the guardrails on the road. I read a crap ton of fic by authors who do not have a plan when they start. I don't need them to tell me that they're pantsing it. I knew.

You don't need a full outline, or even tentpoles, but if you take a second to think through where the guardrails are, it makes your life, and your story better.

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"and so the lion fell in love with the lamb?"

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idk if people know this but like. in my experience. 2 highly enthusiastic commenters who gush over every new chapter will have a 100% success rate of getting me to write a sequel than would 100 silent kudos-givers.

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Go into the new year aware of the fact that you don't need to know HTML in order to post on AO3. If you select the Rich Text button, you'll get a visual editor instead.

The visual editor allows you to add text formatting (bold, italics), images, and links at the touch of a button. It also allows you to see that formatting right there in the text input form without needing to preview it first.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading