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ALT screenshot of an anonymous tumblr ask, which reads, 'what is your book about?' underneath, the response is 'god if only i knew'
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have you considered birdwatching instead
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not sure how to end your novel? just stop writing
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just like, make some stuff happen. or don't. who cares
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i'm sorry, "apparently some readers only read dialogue now, so make sure you put anything important in quotation marks"
apparently some readers only read dialogue now, so make sure you put anything important in quotation marks
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apparently some readers only read dialogue now, so make sure you put anything important in quotation marks
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don't give yourself deadlines and feel terrible about getting nothing done anyway
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give yourself deadlines so you have something to feel terrible about when you miss them
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you gotta write about what the people want, which i'm pretty sure is those mobile games where you're a hole and there's stuff that falls into the hole and the hole gets bigger when stuff falls in and then there's a massive stack of small things that fall into the hole all at once
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staring at a blank page? well it wouldn't be blank if you put some words on it, would it
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ask your mum to do your writing for you
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find someone really rich who will pay you to sit around and write (if you are really rich i Am available)
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you can do it! or maybe you can't do it! nothing matters! yay!
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really milk it! and by it i mean the character
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so what if your book is boring, some people like boring books
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if someone points out you've used a semicolon incorrectly; gaslight them
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it doesn't matter if your protagonist has no clear goals if they're really, really horny
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if your wip contains a scene with inclement weather, make sure to wait until the weather conditions in real life match those in the scene before writing it for accuracy’s sake
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try WRITEMAXXING™️ (this means you write)
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writing in public? increase your font size to build that readership early
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writing that scene not going to plan? stewing about it for five days will certainly not make it any worse
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