girl imagined

activist, novelist, imaginary girl.

[laurenfitchwriting]

Writing a book is hard, editing one is even more difficult! Talk to me about editing your manuscript and get the first 10 pages of line edits free, or the first chapter of content edits free 

(must purchase more than one chapter). 

Check out my website today at this link! 

[introvertedbookworm24]

Current read 📖

[laurenfitchwriting]

Check out www.laurenfitchwriting.com

[academicssay]

[laurenfitchwriting]

😶

[laurenfitchwriting]

I really love the rain

[laurenfitchwriting]

Check out my reading from a few weeks ago! 

[laurenfitchwriting]

It is really hard for me to look at this photo and not wish I had the money for a nose job or a tummy tuck. I gained and lost 60 pounds over my college career. I’ve never felt like my nose was cute enough. I used to dream of rhinoplasty, but I know this is just dysmorphia and I cannot let it run my life. 

“As she dreamed of ways to rid herself of the men who had harmed her, dreams of rhinoplasty and liposuction and lip fillers danced in her head, but she decided that this would mean they had won.” - A one sentence story 

[laurenfitchwriting]

-Lauren Fitch Writing

[wnq-writers]

dear body, i wish i could ask you why you do not look like the body featured on the cover of vogue, but i’m afraid that i’ve asked too many times and the fragility of your bones will break under the pressure. i apologize for this. i apologize for your flimsy flesh and jagged fingernails. i apologize for the dark circles beneath sunken eyes and the constant rumble in your belly from the food i have yet to eat. i apologize for the scars on your wrist and thighs from the times i tried to tear you off and become new. i tried to make it less painful, did the bandages help at all? i apologize for the times i looked in the mirror and stared too hard at the soft flesh pooling around your arms. i apologize for taking advantage of your beautiful eyes and shutting them too hard to blink the tears away. i apologize for the years where i spent too much time hating you and never realizing that we are the same. this hatred was born from boys who told me they loved me yet still gripped the love handles on my hips too hard. it was born from the never-ending comments of “you just need to lose a couple more pounds” from relatives who looked too hard at my 13-year-old body. it was born from people who scrutinized the body of a girl who was still developing, but they did not care. It was born from staring at the girls at school and wondering whywhywhywhywhy do i not look like that? it was born from insecurity that i did not wish for, but was given anyway. it was born from self-hatred injected into me by society and it’s hands that choked the innocence out of me. excuses are thin and only go so far, but i want to explain that i was not born into the world already hating you. and so, in return, i give you confidence. it is… a little broken and rough around the edges. it is rusty from disuse and dusty from the years i left it tucked behind new diets and makeup. but it is yours. although it is foreign to your touch, it should fit in your hands unlike anything else and curve around your edges like a second skin. perhaps it will be enough. perhaps it can do for you what i have not done in a long, long time.

canigetuhhhnap, writing prompt #69: Write a letter apologizing to your body for any hatred and ingratitude you may have expressed. (via wnq-writers)

[laurenfitchwriting]

I’m interning for a literary agent and some of these query letters are so wild. I’ve gotten “personal fantasies” and a dude who claims he talked to his dead mother. I should start a query series. 

[sheerox]

[utilityclassic]

[agirlnamedally]

I have never loved a dress more

[laurenfitchwriting]

I'm feeling the celiac today :(

[the-autumn-queen]

[grace--upon--grace]

[autumncozy]

[tastefullyoffensive]

If he gives you a quest, take it. (via wubbalubbabud / elocinrebma)