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Something I had to unlearn: giving your character a tragic backstory is not the same as giving them a wound. A backstory is just information. A wound is the thing that makes them flinch at something totally unrelated fifteen chapters later and the reader goes "oh." If the backstory doesn't leave a nerve ending somewhere in the present-day plot, cut it. Nobody needs the trauma. They need the flinch.
a bird i saw who saw me
Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting
RIP Sisyphus he would've loved emails.
"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god
What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started
humans should be able to do a special Ultra Sleep after major life accomplishments where you're just out for like 32 hours or something and then you wake up fully refreshed in every way
Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already
This from In Writing, a collection of writers reflecting on practice, really resonated with me.
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Sophie Mackintosh, novelist
I find the concept of the bay leaf very helpful when I'm redrafting.
The bay leaf is something you have in your work - a scene, or a description, or a character that you're attached to - but eventually you realise you have to take it out. You think, 'I really love this scene, and I don't want to remove it, but I don't need it any more. It's not working.' That's fine. It served its purpose - it helped you get to this point, and now you can let it go. It's the bay leaf.
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We made this for an event with the Writers' Guild of Alberta to fight the book bans in our province. Feel free to use it, and if you want to fill in the "support a trans author" square, consider becoming a paid patron of Making Queer History!
tbh potato is easily in the top 10 reasons to live
[ID: Two screencaps from Taskmaster. Armando Iannucci says, "One part of my brain, I was enjoying myself, and another part, I was thinking, 'Why?'" End ID.]
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#mood today
The convergence
i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea
