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“People are people and sometimes we change our minds.”
— Taylor Swift / Breathe (via bnmxfld)
"We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons." pg. 28
Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
I used to laugh at girls in movies
Who would eat lunch in a paper bag
Hidden in the bathroom
Now I'm only laughing at myself.
(Does crying count as laughing?)
I feel like complete shit™️
Anyone else eat lunch in the bathroom like a cliché loser or is it just me?
i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage.
like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful!
for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:
1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version
2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.
3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read
4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)
5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.
All I’m left with is disappointment…
I learn to give up
A body might not always be beautiful, but a body can be a beautiful deception. I’m stronger than I look.
Sadie by Courtney Summers
How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you? Sometimes I don't know what I miss more: everything I've lost or everything I never had.
~ Sadie by Courtney Summers, page 259
8 Ways to Get Past Writers Block
Read. Read a lot. Read everything you can, but don’t read like a reader, read like a writer. If you’re doing it right, there’s nothing that gets the juices flowing quite as well. This is the way you develop your style; you see things you like and things you don’t like in books and you put these values into your writing.
Read a good book. Reading a good book is why you got into writing in the first place, right? There’s something new you can learn from every book. You can see what works well and what you ARE doing. It’s inspiring to read good writing and it makes you want to try harder where you might be lacking.
Read a bad book. Not only will reading a bad published book make the world feel more hopeful, but it will make you see what you can avoid doing in your novel and what you KNOW you can do better than them.
Find other writers. Connecting with other writers is so important, whether online or in person. Not only is it nice to able to share your writing, but knowing you have a group or person to depend on with your same goals in mind is motivating. Even just talking through ideas with someone tends to yield more powerful results, and they have their own tips and trick they’ve learned that may help you.
Break it up. Chapters are there for both readers and writers. If you can get through one chapter, you can get through them all. Even make a different word document for each chapter if you need to. It will stop you more from going back and getting caught up in your plot holes that occurred fifty pages earlier.
Read the last page you wrote. The darkest of my writers block days have been stopped with this technique. Tell yourself you’ll just read the last page, maybe edit some phrasing. Then write the next page. Stopping off in the middle of a sentence helps as well. All this settles you into your story gently and gets you involved and editing a more polished draft at the end.
Keep notes. Texts messages can be sent to your email. Finding a pen and paper is hard sometimes, so you can just text ideas to your email. Not only is this handy to get fresh ideas down, but every time you check your email you’ll see these awesome ideas. Or keep a notebook if that works for you. Or write in the margins of your school work. Just get the ideas out.
Immerse yourself. The reason you started your story is because you have such a huge passion for it. What you need to do is remind yourself of these reasons as much as possible. Surround yourself with writing and creativity. Think about how your characters would respond to situations you find yourself in. Describe people you see in the streets as you would if you were introducing them to a novel. Look for people that look like your characters. Tell your friends about your book, give them your ideas. If your life isn’t a little bit about your story, you’re not doing it right.
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Misfortune of Me
No matter what I do,
I'm still not pretty.
No matter what I say,
I'm never heard.
No matter who my friends are,
I always end up alone.
No matter what they say,
they'll leave me.
No matter what I think,
I still love her.
No matter what I do,
I don't have a chance.
I'm Confused
I'm confused
One minute
I'm the most desired and unattainable
person in the world
Then the next
I'm unwanted and forgotten,
like I never existed
I'm confused
Should I be grateful that you even liked me in the first place?
Or should I just assume
you were like everyone else?
Bored and desperate for love
I wonder what we could've been,
the journeys we could've taken,
and the happiness
you might've caused me
But I guess neither of us will ever know,
because you didn't want to take a chance
Maybe we weren't meant to be,
maybe the timing wasn't right,
maybe there's someone better
Maybe I wasn't worth the risk
or maybe I wasn't a risk at all
So hurt I'll be
And confused I'll remain
Writing Prompt #2
Character very clichély wakes up to their alarm buzzing and they're late.
Except they're late for a meeting with death.
"If I could avert my eyes from all the kissing people ever, I'm positive that my life would be at least 2 percent more fulfilling." pg. 3
Dumplin by Julie Murphy
"My young heart saw your
dark eyes and jagged edges
and thought
oh
what a fun adventure it would be
to be broken by you"
The Sweetest Kind of Poison by Katie Wismer
"I tell him all the time--I just make sure it's never when he's listening. I say it when he's in the other room, or when he's asleep, or when the music's really loud. Sometimes he asks me what I just said. And I tell him never mind. Or I make up something else, something that isn't I love you." pg. 98
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina Lacour
"I can't let him fall in love with someone else. I can't let it happen. Not like that. I am so mad at him and I am so in love with him, and it hurts to be realizing it like this. Would I fight for him? I have been fighting for him for years. And I'm losing. No matter what I do, I'm losing. But I have to fight anyway." pg. 98
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina Lacour