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did it hurt? when the little people inside your head refused to follow your carefully-plotted novel outline?

Me, a writer: ah, but what if I just don’t write

Writers!! Describe your current WIP(s) in the most boring way possible. I want to see this skdjfkdfhk

hey, can we talk for a second? it’s about your girlfriend. yeah, she’s great. no, yeah, I agree. It’s just that… she seems really devoted to you? Like really devoted. Almost as if you were the sole, fragile line mooring her to the shores of humanity. No, that’s not romant—ugh. Listen. Me and the girls, we’re worried you might be the last good thing to happen to her and that were some tragedy to inevitably befall you, she would tear the gods from their thrones and dye the infinite western seas wine-dark with their ichor. Do you think you could introduce her to a new hobby or something? we don’t want to have to argue over what color “wine-dark” is supposed to be

For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that's not how this works

I want to write everything and also nothing at all.

Hope that clears things up!

I know it's been said 100 times before, but it bears repeating: your story doesn't have to be perfect.

I just finished reading a fully published, printed book that sometimes dragged on. I found myself critiquing it, zoning out every now and then, finding some of the characters annoying.

But you know what? The emotional peak still made me tear up. I was still rooting for the main character the whole way. I still saw how heart felt, relatable, and well-thought-out the plot was.

Not every chapter, not ever paragraph, not every sentence, not every word needs to strike a chord for your story to mean something.

With all it's imperfections, your story is worth telling.