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Currently Reading: Red, White, & Royal Blue

Currently Reading: Red, White, & Royal Blue

I feel like I waited 84 years for this book to come out. I’ve been waiting to read it since the deal was announced and it. did. not. disappoint. I devoured this in a day. RED, WHITE, & ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston is a New Adult romance that follows Alex, the son of the first female president, and Henry, the prince of England. The two are privately sworn enemies, but when a very public fiasco…

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Currently Reading: The Wicked King

Currently Reading: The Wicked King

When I read CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black, I enjoyed it but wasn’t on the level of hype as everyone else until around the last third of the book. And then I read WICKED KING. I’m officially fully invested. Which is not to say that the first book isn’t good, I just really, really like all the court intrigue, conniving, and back-stabbing that takes place at the end of book one, which, to my immense…

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Currently Reading: Wicked Saints WICKED SAINTS by Emily Duncan was one of my most anticipated reads of the read and it did not disappoint.

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The Charlie Day Plot Murder Board: how this panster became a plotter

The Charlie Day Plot Murder Board: how this panster became a plotter

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an author in possession of a WIP must be in want of bitching about said WIP. —me, right now

If there’s one thing all writers have in common, it’s that we love to complain about how hard writing is. For the longest time, my biggest complaint was how frequently I was stuck rewriting entire drafts after figuring out some plot point that shifted the…

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#ThursdayAesthetic theme : ‘wip’

DEATH BECOMING  wlw enemies to friends to lovers YA Fantasy 

Accused of killing the immortal queen's daughter, Cora does the logical thing: She finds & kidnaps the queen's long-lost granddaughter to barter for her life. Only, Cora no longer wants to let her go.

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Common Sword types 

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#ThursdayAesthetic theme : ‘home’ 

For Alba, home is on Earth, her family farm one of the last spots of life in the barren realm. 

 For Cora, home is in Hell, where she was raised by the God of Death when no one else would take in orphaned demon twins.

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#ThursdayAesthetic theme : ‘journey’ for DEATH BECOMING

Alba was a lover of flowers in a dying realm, but when the gods kill her mother, she sets out on a quest to avenge her mother's death that grows into something much larger than she ever imagined.

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Florence + the Machine / How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

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writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

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who told you that you could call me out like that

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Why don’t we get more women written in the “lovable asshole” character type

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because people call them “bitches”

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Looking Back

I’ve been posting gratuitously about #ThursdayAesthetic on here, but last week’s theme was a really cool learning experience for me. The theme was “past project”, and I decided to go all the way back to the first manuscript I ever completed: OF MONSTERS & WOMEN.

Now, this isn’t the first thing I everwrote, and it’s best that my early days of Harry Potter fanfiction are lost to antiquated fan…

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Hope you find someone with some genuine mutual feelings fam

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This good karma needs to be passed

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I hope you get that job you need

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I hope some money comes your way.

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I hope that stress you have goes away

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I hope you feel good and okay in the morning

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I hope you feel loved and safe

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I hope you are surrounded by loved ones

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quick tips for writing sexual tension

- eye contact. lots n lots of eye contact.

- other characters having to clear their throats, shake people, etc. to get A* and B* to pay attention

- lip biting.

- A* and B* looking at each other real quick, then looking away.

- almost kissing but being interupted

- normal coupley teasing

- coupley teasing that goes rly far

- friendly teasing that becomes awkward, tense, or sexual

- more eye contact

- lots of small touches

feel free to add to this!

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the 7 deadly sins of being a writer

self-doubt

procrastination

sleep deprivation

jealousy

wailing (despair)

notebook lust

horrifying comma use