chapter.bychapters

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Why modernizing The Selection is a good idea:

It is so bad as a book, that it's good. Just make it a good book so it's good

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yes.

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when I complain about being broke and never having money but then I remember that I read books as a hobby and want to own a mini library with a rolling later at my house.

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do I have a personality or is it just a mix of personality traits from my favorite fictional characters? I guess we’ll never know

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being a writer is coming up with amazing scene/story ideas at the most inconvenient times. why do I have to come up with a new plot, characters, chapter titles, and tropes all while I'm in the middle of solving an exam that I studied 10 hours for? and then when I can actually write my brain is empty?

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society: you can't read sad books just to feel something, it's not healthy

me holding a stack of books that made me bawl my eyes out at 3 am: can't I?

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a list of the things that take up space on my brain:

35% of my wips

40% fictional characters whom I'm either in love with, obsessed with, or all of the above

20% random details

5% actually useful stuff

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no thoughts just fictional characters

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people: you can't make your whole personality revolve around your hobbies

me: hides the piles of books in my room and never talks again

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me: thinking I have reasonable standards for love

also me: reads

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being a mood reader is picking up a book one day and wanting to stop reading it the next day because you're not in the mood to read that specific book anymore.

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the urge to re-read all of my favorite books just so I can annotate and appreciate them all over again, but at the same time not wanting to do it because I could ruin them forever.

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me: I hate clichés

author: the grumpy characters has a soft spot for the sunshine one

me: *sobs* THE GRUMPY CHARACTER HAS A SOFT SPOT FOR THE SUNSHINE ONE

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how to show instead of tell

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credits: https://writingcooperative.com/my-golden-rules-to-show-dont-tell-f4d030eca8c9

https://self-publishingschool.com/show-dont-tell-writing/