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Unfortunately for a lot of queer people, they were so injured during their adolescence (and even their early 20s), and the courtship that straight people get to experience wasn't there. So it's as though you have to re-learn everything and do what you would've done at 16 at, like, 26. And then by 27, Saturn comes into return (or something.) By 30, you're still fucked up. By 31 or 32, you've (hopefully) realized how many mistakes you made. And then your heart begins to open again. ... and when your heart is open, then love is there. I do not feel an absence of love whatsoever.

Freckle/Jason Green (Freckle Loves You)

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"Professional (produced & scratches by Architect)" by Planet Asia

“I speak in ghetto star galactic each passes teach the masses what they need to teach in classes ‘bout these fascist self-maskin’ wealth bastards, I'm way beyond your sixty-thousand entries of speech, my rhymes million man march over beats, Architect remarkable, we drop the hotness, dirty hundred-thousand dollar locksmith, open your conscience, I sneak preview for the evil infiltratin’ information restricted inside the sector, even if you had a hieroglyphic booby-trap detector you still couldn't detect, the threat, you best respect my cold to kill nigga debts, I build with wise guys, Gods and earth broads and flirts frauds, dirt hustlin’ street niggas that walk they dogs if I act right, I could probably make black people unite, but some people think that I'm wrong and some people think that I'm right deluxe one, be back in seconds though, show me some love for these acts, my man G-Luv just hit me off wit a scratch it's the professional”

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With entrepreneurship, the time between innovation and impact is really short.

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Road Work Ahead Rewrite Update

Dudes, I'm really excited because I'm able to salvage way more of the original novel than I thought I could (right now it looks like I've salvaged at least 25k of scenes, though there are a few more that I think I'm going to be able to copy into the new version with a few tweaks). One thing I am coming up against, though, is the fact that my writing style has changed drastically since I was nineteen. It's been four years since I wrote this book, and since I wrote it so fast (over the course of about four months) without my current level of quality-to-pace, it suffers a bit even in the scenes I can copy over with tweaks to accommodate for plot. There are a lot of places where I can keep nearly the entire scene, but I have to add new lines/phrases here and there to give the original writing more...flavor, if that makes sense? It is fun to do, though, kind of bringing out the bones of what my nineteen-year-old self wrote and fleshing them out into a good story. I think she'd be proud!

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The Importance of Conflict in Plot and Rewriting Books: Road Work Ahead

So I'm doing this project where I'm COMPLETELY REWRITING a manuscript I wrote in college (the first manuscript of four I finished in college, I'm proud that I wrote it and that it kickstarted me back into original writing, but it is so fundamentally flawed bc it has fun character designs and a fun concept- witches on an RV road trip- but has literally NO PLOT. Like, no conflict, nothing driving the emotional stakes beyond a minor romance arc, NADA) and I thought that this was going to be really hard bc I've never completely rewritten a book before but I'm realizing that I'm actually able to keep more than what I was expecting!

See, the main problem with the original Road Work Ahead manuscript is that none of the emotional resolutions had any set-up. You just got the reconciliation between Jason, the main character, and his twin sister Jayla without showing them estranged. Beth, Jayla's undead girlfriend who Jason Raised from the dead (yes, and), randomly got brought back fully to life in the middle of the book. The only thing keeping Gavin, the love interest, and Jason from being together was that they're both afraid of not getting happy endings which is understandable but crucially not enough to sustain an entire book.

The trick I'm finding, though, is that I'm able to keep some of the more impactful scenes (the first chapter where we meet everyone/the road trip kicks off, Gavin and Jason's almost kiss under a blanket fort in the RV, their actual first kiss (not spoiling the context), Gavin calming Jason down from a panic attack, and Jayla playing music in the park where her and Jason's parents met as a tribute to her dead mother + Jason & Jayla's reconciliation) just with some changed/added lines. Introducing the stakes/plot/Jason's actual plan to bring Beth back to life at the stakes of his own magic (no spoilers, he literally tells you that within the first couple of chapters) in the first chapter, building up better conflict between Jason/Gavin through how they view the importance of their respective magic, showing Jason&Jayla's estrangement, etc. Sure, I'm having to move around a lot of events and cut/add in a bunch of new shit in the beginning-middle of the book, but I'm way more optimistic about this project than I was a few months ago when I first started thinking about before shelving it until now.

(Also, this is not going to impact the timeline on getting out This Rotten Work- it's just likely going to replace fanfic updates on my timeline for a week or two until I really get into a rhythm writing.)

Basically, kids, if there's one thing I've learned through writing fanfic and books, it's that SET UP AND PAY OFF ARE THE BASIS FOR ANY GOOD STORY. Y'all aren't going to get good emotional moments if you don't set up the stakes for them. Conflict is important for making things compelling.