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FIRST FIC EVER!!!!!! please check it out!!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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only thing that hurts worse than heartbreak in your own wip is heartbreak in your friends wip that you're overly invested in....

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why does god (me last night making an outline) send his toughest battles (getting my characters, that i am fully in control of, to follow said outline) to his strongest soldiers (me today screaming at my laptop)

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girls who look like they could kill and boys who get flustered talking to them >>>

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authors: i don't play favorites

also authors when they see the character they've literally put through hell: THAT ONE IS MY BABY

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just a friendly reminder that its always BETTER!!! TO!!! WRITE!!! SOME!!! WORDS!!! THAN!!! NO!!!! WORDS!!!! AT!!! ALL!!! and that YOUR ABILITIES ARE ENOUGH <3

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im not delusional okay the voices in my head are actually fully developed characters and they're going on a little adventure!!! it's not spacing out and daydreaming it's actually just developing my wip!!!

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me when someone asks about my writing and is genuinely interested: so, uh, you see, uh...

me when a random stranger asks me a basic question about my wip: OH BOY BUCKLE UP BUDDY! so it all starts way back when—

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someday all the teen writers are gonna be sitting around a conference table and discussing the future of the book industry and i love that for us

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what is a writer if not five energy drinks, four playlists, three favorite books, two emotional support pets, and one half finished wip in a trench coat?

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only thing worse than writing has gotta not writing *friendly elbow* amiright?

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whenever someone asks "do you ship it?" about my own otp it's like MF I BUILT THE BOAT

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i was born in the right generation (i'm addicted to writing in my notes app)

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"what do u want to be for halloween?"

able to see my wip published and on display in a cute indie bookstore 😩😩😩

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no one:

authors trying to explain why they traumatize their characters without sounding insane: it's just like,,,, for the sake of plot yknow....

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writing the heroes pov: 😐👍🙃😄😝😳🥺

writing the villains pov: 😩‼️🥵🤭🤩😫💕😭

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if you ask any writer what their wip is about there's two possible responses

"idk... it's like— wait no— so imagine... nevermind. sorry it's so hard to explain..."

"OMG THERE'S SO MUCH TO TELL YOU!1!!1!1!!!! OKAY SO IT STARTS OFF—"