Jasmine Luck Writes

I write romantic comedies.

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[stories-by-hails]

For anyone who needs this

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!

[toastyglow]

I often think I could be such a good writer if I were better at writing

[icemankazansky]

Unfortunately, the only way to improve your writing is to write.

[i-will-write]

[loveroftoomanyfandoms]

To all my writer friends who are on the struggle bus/suffering from writer's block/just dealing with life stuff right now!

[exzhale]

[nebelzeit]

[musings-of-a-rose]

::SCREAMING:: THEY ORDERED MY REQUEST!!

@catepagewrites @radiowallet

[radiowallet]

Crying a little lot. Libraries are what made me. So to see my book in them is something I just never ever expected. Thank you for requesting they add it. That means so much to me as a writer and a reader 🥹💜

[jazzyluckwrites]

OMFG CONGRATS!!!!!

[honey-writes]

I think, genuinely, one of the best pieces of writing advice I’ve ever gotten is: if you feel stuck, take a step back from whatever you’re working on, and come back to it 24+ hours later. Take a few days if possible. Being able to go over something once your palate has been cleansed a little does wonders and you can notice things you’d been missing earlier in that clogged headspace. When you’re so deep into it and start to feel stuck, there’s a possibility that you could start to obsess over certain things and lose thread of what you’d meant to be doing. So take a moment! Breathe!!! Come back to it later!

[squarebracket-trickster]

To be honest, I think the worst part about writing a novel (for me) is that I absolutely have to half-ass it if I want to make any progress at all.

Because the way my process works, there is no point in spending hours editing a scene if, by the time I get to the end of the draft, I realize it is not actually needed for the plot. And I can spend weeks just making the first line pop but how much can I really say with it if I do not know the themes of my own story yet, or know what I need to foreshadow?

Why put it all that work at the beginning and scrap most of it when it would be more efficient to word-vomit something atrocious now and slowly chip away at it like a sculptor revealing a veinous hand in the marble, putting in the effort once I know where effort is actually needed?

At the same time, as a chronic perfectionist, half-assing something is terrifying because I start to fear it might actually be my best work, or that I am "losing it" and out of practice.

Eventually that half-assing will turn into a full-ass, because with each draft I will add back a little more of what I let go of last draft; but GOD is it hard to read something of yours that is riddled with mistakes you can see from a mile away, and that you know how to fix... and just move on without touching them.

You really do just have to trust that your future self has the same standards as you and will put in the effort you are putting off when the time is right; and if the problem is beyond her skill to fix she will research the shit out of it, ask for help, and try until it works. She won't settle for anything less than perfect (or at least, I cannot think of anything that would make this better so it might as well be done), but she can't get there until you do.

[jailforwriter]

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

[transxfiles]

me: *writes fic*

me: great! time to post to ao3-

ao3 summary box: *exists*

me: 

ao3 summary box:

me:

ao3 summary box: 

me:

[rooksandravens]

[rjeddystone]

Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:

Who: Main character(s)

Why: Character goal or desire (stated)

Why: Character need (implied)

When: Inciting Incident

What: Means (that achieves the goal/need)

Where: Place A >> Place B

How: The Plan

Obstacle(s): antagonist or challenge

For example:

Who: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit of Hobbiton

Why: Treasure, wealth (stated)

Why: Adventure, self-respect (implied)

When: After supper

What: Quest

Where: Hobbiton >> The Lonely Mountain

How: A company of dwarves, a wizard, and an ancient map and key

Main antagonist(s): a dragon

Thus, in less than 100 words:

Bilbo Baggins is a respectable hobbit in Hobbiton, never making any trouble or having any adventures. But when a wizard and a company of dwarves invite themselves to dinner, Bilbo finds himself joining their quest from the shires of Hobbiton to the legendary Lonely Mountain, the home of a long lost treasure, and quite, possibly, a dragon.  

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The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing.

[roguecompanion1812]

This is super helpful!’

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[ambiguouspuzuma]

Writing prompt? No. Writing much delayed.

[live-from-flaturn]

"But you already wrote that trope."

[jazzyluckwrites]

OMG, IT'S HAPPENING!

My publisher has released my novel Sugar Rush for pre-order!

Pre-order here for e-book only. Paperback will follow.

[astroboots]

AAAAAAAH!!! I cannot be more excited for this!!! please go and support my beautiful-genius-kind-lovely-talented and amazing bestie and pre-order her book.

Jasmine writes the most beautiful stories featuring Asian female leads in the most dreamy rom-com settings. They're a beautiful, warm fuzzy escape into the best that the rom-com genre can bring!

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!

[jazzyluckwrites]

Oh friend thankyou!!!

I am in awe of your writing and the fact you like mine makes me sigh happily big time ♡♡♡♡♡

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[somebodycallixii]

the body and its inhabitants

(aka ur fav local obsessive psychopathic cannibal-core)

Han Kang, The Vegetarian // I.B. Vayache, “Loved via Purpose” // Venetta Octavia, “I set in Stone” // Haruki Murakami, "Sputnik Sweetheart" // Margaret Atwood // Anne Sexton, “A Self Portrait in Letters” // Fortesa Latifi // Anne Sexton, "A Self Portrait in Letters" //