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ioverwrotethem-deactivated20201

Chris Pine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw

They are perfect 😍

startreklesbian-deactivated2020

Specs 2017.

Your story and what you have to say is not over yet. #reminders #tattoo

#tattoo #reminders

charlesoberonn

The problem with being a writer is that you have to be your characters.

You can’t write a charming character by saying they’re charming, you actually need to be charming and write them charming dialog. You can’t just state somebody is smart, you need to write smart things for them to say and do.

murderxbaby-deactivated20190102

It’s REALLY HARD.

promptsforthesoul

Thank god I’m infinitely charming and intelligent

Question 1

Part of the questionnaire from @legit-writing-tips. This will be the start of something I attempt to work on every day.

What does your writing process look like?

I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Mostly about characters and small micro scenes, interactions between two people, to a situation, an event.

From there, I’ve always felt the need to physically write my work down on paper. Going straight to the computer is a death sentence, because the internet is filled with awful distractions like Netflix. So I sit at my corner desk, which is not actually in a corner and is turned so that it hides me from the rest of the world, and I take out a notebook.

Depending on the writing, the notebook might change. I’m working on a project that, once I finish a notebook, I send it to the person that gave it to me. But this only applies to some of them and it’s a project that’s taking me longer than I thought it would. Regardless.

If it’s just a one-shot, or if it’s relevant to the notebook recipient, it’ll go in there before I transfer it to my laptop. If not, I have a nice little notebook from @because-it-mattered that gets the brunt of the writing for now.

I pretty much only use a certain type of pen, and my handwriting is pretty damn awful in that first incarnation of the work. I often can’t read my own writing, which is a terrible practice. But I do a lot of editing in the transfer from paper to digital, so sometimes those sentences and words don’t even make it.

I haven’t worked in long form for a very long time, so the first step in the editing process comes after the transfer, and I’ll go through it with a fine-tooth comb, first looking for structural errors or missing information, something that makes the story feel incomplete, like it’s missing something important. Then I focus on words and phrasing and really making the characters feel whole and individual, a part of me, but also a part of something greater.

And then the work pretty much just hangs out forever in limbo!

#writing questionnaire #writing process

legit-writing-tips

A Questionnaire for Writers

1. What does your writing process look like? 2. Do you have any strange writing habits (like standing on your head or writing in the shower)? 3. What book do you wish you could have written? 4. Just as your books inspire authors, what authors have inspired you to write? 5. If you could cast your characters in the Hollywood adaptation of your book, who would play your characters? 6. How important are names to you in your books? Do you choose the names based on liking the way it sounds or the meaning? Do you have any name choosing resources you recommend? 7. What do you consider to be your best accomplishment? 8. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 9. Were you already a great writer? Have you always like to write? 10. What writing advice do you have for other aspiring authors? 11. If you didn’t like writing books, what would you do for a living? 12. Are you a plotter or a pantster? 13. Do you read your reviews? Do you respond to them, good or bad? Do you have any advice on how to deal with the bad? 14. What is your best marketing tip? 15. What is your least favorite part of the publishing / writing process? 16. Is there one subject you would never write about as an author? What is it? 17. Do you have a favorite conference to attend? What is it? 18. Is there a certain type of scene that’s harder for you to write than others? Love? Action? Racy? 19. Is this your first book? How many books have you written prior (if any?) 20. What are you working on now? What is your next project? 21.When did you decide to become a writer? 22.Why do you write? 23.What made you decide to sit down and actually start something? 24.Do you have a special time to write or how is your day structured? 25.Do you write every day, 5 days a week – if not, when? 26.Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages per day? 27.Do you work to an outline or plot or do you prefer just see where an idea takes you? 28.How do you think you’ve evolved creatively? 29.What is the hardest thing about writing? 30.What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book? 31.What is the easiest thing about writing? 32.Do you work to an outline or plot or do you prefer just see where an idea takes you? 33. How do you think you’ve evolved creatively? 34. What subjects do you find you can’t write about, and why? 35. What subjects do you love writing about? 36.How much research do you do? 37. Have you written any other novels in collaboration with other writers? 38. Why did you do decide to collaborate and did that affect your sales? 39. When did you decide to become a writer? 40. Why do you write? 41. What inspired your latest project? 42. What’s the most boring part of writing? 43. What’s the most fun part of writing? 44. What’s the biggest writing mistake you ever made? 45. What do you hope to accomplish in the next 5 years as a writer? 46. What’s the best thing you’ve ever done as a writer? 47. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done as a writer? 48. Do you find it hard to accept criticism? 49. What do you hope to do better as a writer? 50. What do you think is your best quality as a writer?

#will answer these

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