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Do you ever just think of lines or scenes you have no idea what to do with?

Cut it? Maybe. Delete it forever? NO.

Make a “scraps” document. Throw the scene in there like a dragon hoarding gold.

You never know when that one line, one moment will come back. Who knows, it might work in some future chapter.

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the infuriating thing is that there is genuinely so much good queer literature out there, contemporary and not, but there is also a sizeable chunk of readers who think that a book only "counts" as good queer literature if it's a) unproblematic, b) contains romance as its central focus, and c) has the characters state their orientation and/or gender identity directly to the audience using socially acceptable 21st-century terms (as opposed to resorting to cowardly tactics such as Subtext and Themes)

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i'm not saying people shouldn't be reading more books, but i do think it's funny how many people thinking "reading comprehension" is just about how good you are at reading books and not like. criticial thinking skills.

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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Fucks me up to think about how every character in the world is literally just someone's OC

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You can become an English major but watch out. You’ll never be able to enjoy things normally ever again.

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Thoughts of a line editor: for the love of God, use the tab button to start a paragraph and use ctrl + enter to start a new page. PLEASE. This manuscript is making me delete 5 space bars at every. Single. Paragraph.

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if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

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I JUST SUBMITTED A POEM TO A MAGAZINE LEEEETS GOOOOOO

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This is the highest praise I can receive as a writer

(unfortunately, they left that on a story I’ve lost motivation for and haven’t updated in a year, and I feel like I’ve let them down)

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share the first 333 words of a project:

I'll go first:

"Abaphine had always believed the death of a ship would be loud. The collapsing space between thin sheets of metal and the soft stabbing of zero-G pulling fire and exhaust through the lung of the crew on board could not be a quiet event. But then again, space did tend to silence things. The floor of the cell was much colder than her cabin on the costly cruise ship these bastards had stolen her off of. The damp metal of the floor the only thing saving Princess Abaphine Ialse from the pounding effects of her pop and pill dry spell. Unfortunately the grated tiles of the cage pressed sharp squares into her skin as she laid against it in her nightgown. It wasn’t big enough for her to stand in, nor lay comfortably on her side. She had only woken moments ago and since then she’s matched her breathing to the hum of the engine, counted the beats of coolant drips falling from a broken pipe, redrawn the constellations she knows by heart in the spill of oil and grease leaking down the walls. She was out of her mind with boredom. Abaphine cursed her father. “Why pay thousands of credits for rehab when you can just get your daughter kidnapped for half that price?” she hissed into the floor. Abaphine would have a word with him as soon as she returned home— or at least, his courtiers’ assistants… A new roll between the slots on the conductor wheel hidden elsewhere on the ship made Abaphine flinch. That didn’t feel right. Going from the previous click click click click to a now echoing clack. Of course, it could have just been the piece of shit ship finally falling apart with the way these star-steppers treated the poor thing; it was days away from doing exactly that, Abaphine could feel it in the plates of metal. She only wishes they are close enough to a WAYSTATION or Travel Port to find the distress signal."

-project TSS

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Just write the thing. for 5 minutes. If there's more than 5 minutes of work, great. If not, you had the 5 minutes

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Thinking about posting my space lesbians somewhere to get some beta readers. possibly a locked ao3 og work as that seems to be the "safest" place rn

Any suggestions?

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there’s no such thing as a wasted draft. even the trash ones fertilize the good ones. compost your failure.

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it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

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Mina: "Alright, everyone pinkie swear right now to put Vampire Me down if I hop the line between death and undeath."

Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad: "Depressing, but sure, absolutely."

Jonathan:

Mina: "...Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Yes?"

Mina: "Will you promise to slay me if I get vampire'd?"

Jonathan: "Mina, I will not lie to you."

Jonathan:

Mina: "Jonathan. I need you to look me in the eye and promise to murder me martyr-style if I get too undead."

Jonathan: "Fine. I can promise to kill."

Mina: "Me? Vampire me?"

Jonathan, making unbroken eye contact with the four guys who just promised to behead and impale his wife if she stops being human enough: "I guarantee there will be killing involved if Vampire You happens."

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how to go about writing a book...

like

not a fanfiction

a book

creating a new fandom (maybe)