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Even if you are not completely satisfied with the work you made, people around the world may appreciate it. That experience will change the way you make your subsequent work.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but subverting a happy ending isn't the bold storytelling move a lot of writers try to convince themselves it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Constructive criticism on fanfics is fine if the author asks for it. If they don't, the criticism has the same vibe as random men who tell women they'd be more attractive if they smiled more or changed their makeup. It's annoying, it's upsetting, and no one wants to hear it
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but writing is a lifetime, not one book, or essay, or review. It's almost a relief: you will always have it, even if you think you don't. It'll be there. You can fold it up in your pocket and take it with you, forever, I swear
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Be okay with putting out mediocre work. Not everything you create will be a masterpiece and honestly, it's still probably better than you give it credit for.
Finish it, move on, and start the next thing
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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"I thought you were either well or ill, sane or insane, and once I was diagnosed with depression I felt I had been exiled to a new land, and that there would be no escape back to the world I had known." Matt Haig on the pitfalls of binary thinking. lithub.com/you-are-not-your-…
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"Art may be a process, but I don’t think we get much out of trying to life-hack our way to creating literature." lithub.com/brandon-taylor-wr…
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The Prose Outline Method: or, A Comprehensive Plotter's Guide to Writing Long-Form Fiction
📝 I wrote a blog post!
📝 Insights into my writing process.
📝 How to go completely overboard on outlining.
📝 You want systematic? I got systematic.
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Rebuttal! Before I start: I am not affiliated with AO3. While I do post fic there, and have donated to OTW, I hold no position with OTW or AO3, and am not speaking on their behalf. These are my observations as a site user, and expert in data systems and internet technology.
Going to start using “the Sexy Times with Wangxian problem" as a shorthand for metadata abuse vox.com/culture/22299017/sex…
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I've been thinking about how much Western storytelling trains us to expect that writers show the audience where they're going right up front. Main characters have to be introduced right away. Twists have to be foreshadowed. Inciting incident in the first 10% etc. BUT 1/
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[hypmic] give me an offer unofferable | pre-mtc samatoki/juto, possibly unrequited possibly pre-slash depending on how much faith you have in both of them; t, 1k
for @/selfcestsenpai 💚
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so vast, so free
mdzs, wangxian, m (for nsfw content), 3.6k, post-canon trip: archiveofourown.org/works/29…
for @/oorieus!
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