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Do you have a fictional character you feel you're similar to or identify with?

I have a lot of characters I identify with, mostly from books and games, though I’m not sure I can convince myself that I’ve got the “heroic” thing going on. Pretty much any character who is either musically inclined, scared, maybe a little clumsy but earnest, and I tend to like characters who have to sacrifice a lot.

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30, 31, 49?

30. hardest part of writing

Starting and the end. I can’t ever seem to get in motion, first lines and first scenes are a huge stumbling block for me.

31. easiest part of writing

The scene that was part of the original concept. There’s always one, the first image that came to mind and that I built the story around, it’s getting to that part that is the hard part.

49. any writing advice

Don’t sit around and wait for “motivation”, but also don’t force it. If you’re sitting there staring at your blank screen, your half-page, your 450 words or whatever, and there’s nothing coming, take a break. Get some tea, walk around, watch a video on Youtube, write something else, wait for the words to come back. And in the spirit of that, there’s nothing wrong with working on more than one project at a time, that way you can actually get more done because you can work on whatever you have the desire to at the moment.

And don’t worry about starting at the beginning of the story. Start with whatever scene you feel like you can write, and if you need to write more to go before that later, that’s alright.

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3 Things I Associate: Warhammer, swords, and space. Bonus: fire and borscht.

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Americans do elect the senate; senate majority leaders are chosen by their party, however, not by voters. (The Tumblr app says you reblogged the post with a question about that, but I can't find it on here, so if that isn't the case, I'm sorry.)

I deleted the post after I realised I had misread it, but thanks for the info anyway, I was suddenly really confused. I’m still trying to get my head around the idea of superdelegates, and a strict two-party system, and I really don’t understand the American government at all.

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