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[toskarin]

adjacent advice: if you need more confidence, get a cool jacket or a haircut or something and think about how cool it makes you. this is loser advice, but we're all losers here. swallow your pride and roleplay as a cool guy and you'll become a cool guy.

[cataclysmic-writer]

Me getting ready to write the plot twist that will ruin all my characters lives:

[gearlic]

90% of my writing experience is doing this

[archangelbelletti]

Things I wished I knew before writing a novel

Stories are my favorite thing in the world, in any of their forms. And now that I have a finished novel in my hands, I can finally say what it's been like.

1 - If you can't write something, it's usually because you can't visualize it. Get up and act it if necessary, or daydream about it.

2- You'll need to set deadlines, and be able to respect them but also adjust them in order to do everything the best you can.

3- Your english is actually good! (English is my 3rd language and I learnt it online :) )

4- Organization is everything.

5- You'll have to pay attention to every big thing, and especially to every little thing.

6- Forgive imperfection, but require progress.

7- If the writing feels odd, it HAS to be rewritten. You're not mysterious, you're confusing.

8- Finding your voice will make everything faster to write and better to read.

9- Prepare printing paper, ink, and tissues.

10- Take your time and never rush a scene. If you need more time, make it.

[dearwriters]

All of these are great, but I'd like to emphazise:

FORGIVE 👏 IMPERFECTION 👏 BUT 👏 REQUIRE 👏 PROGRESS!👏

[heywriters]

I struggle with #7 often

[dubidubidoooo]

I HAD A BOOK IDEA. I HAD A VERY GOOD BOOK IDEA AND I THOUGHT OH THIS IS GOOD AND SO I IMAGINED HOW I WOULD TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT AND THEN I JUST LEFT IT ALONE AND I WAS LIKE OK WE'LL DEAL WITH THIS LATER AND NOW IT'S JUST.... GONE. my book idea is gone. I LIKED IT SO MUCHHHHH ARRRGHHUDKFNDONFBCISKEHOFNFKFNEBDJ. fml😭😭😭😭😭😭

[dubidubidoooo]

I REMEMBER!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!

[dubidubidoooo]

I HAD A BOOK IDEA. I HAD A VERY GOOD BOOK IDEA AND I THOUGHT OH THIS IS GOOD AND SO I IMAGINED HOW I WOULD TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT AND THEN I JUST LEFT IT ALONE AND I WAS LIKE OK WE'LL DEAL WITH THIS LATER AND NOW IT'S JUST.... GONE. my book idea is gone. I LIKED IT SO MUCHHHHH ARRRGHHUDKFNDONFBCISKEHOFNFKFNEBDJ. fml😭😭😭😭😭😭

[writing-and-nutmeg]

When you write an amazing line and can’t tell if you’re a genius or just accidentally plagiarized it from a book you read seven years ago: