My Characters Need Therapy

Grell | Any Pronouns | Canadian 🇨🇦 | Free Palestine 🇵🇸 I write books about depressed asshole teenagers and complain a lot. This is where I procrastinate doing the former.

[saltedume]

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard. i just have to extract 80,000 words from my brain using sheer psychic force

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4225:

characters can't have good

[bookwyrminspiration]

i understand words and phrases. my dialogue is natural and in character. i know where the plot is going. my word count is reasonable. i am not scared of my document

[wintersongstress]

wilf (wip i’d like to finish)

[ellatholmes]

if you're a writer i wish u a very plot/story/character epiphany

[animentality]

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

my best writing advice *about* writing advice is that you absolutely do not have to follow all the popular advice you see BUT ☝️ you have to make sure you're not following it on purpose

[sprucestairs]

perks of writing:

its fun

i can do literally whatever I want

cons of writing

i just forgot the word "passenger" and had to search for "cargo synonym referring to a person"

[prophetic-writer]

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

[hellsquills]

Writing Tip

Neither do i

[eviliens]

Unreliable everyone

[nondelphic]

writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

[niemalsgenugmr]

Don’t use AI to write. Use childhood trauma like a real poet.

[wyrm-house]

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

[ID: A two-part meme showing Tom Hiddleston. On the top image, he sits on the floor, screaming. It's labeled: Writers spotting a repeated word they used twice in their entire manuscript. The bottom image has him sit at a desk, saying "Yes, very sad. Anyway." It's labeled: Writers spotting the 478 em dashes they used. End ID]

[paperplateprose]

not now kitten. daddy's realizing that the scene he invested 1000 words into could be significantly improved but only if he started over from scratch

[nondelphic]

"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god