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Writing advice from my dog, part 6: There's no point in trying to impress your human and catch the squirrel at the same time, but only one of them will not be there in the morning. Similarly, when inspiration strikes, drop everything and write until it leaves. #Pets #writing #advicefromadog

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Writing advice from my dog: Part 5. "Said" is not actually a toxic word. But if you want to pick it out of your dialogue like pills out of a peanut-butter bacon sandwich, why shouldn't you? #Pets #WritingAdvice

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Writing Advice from my dog: Sometimes, things don't work. You're off your game and the writing won't come. So give yourself a break. Chew a toy. Lie in the sun patch. You'll get the squirrel and finish the sticky chapter tomorrow. While you're at it, take a nap. #Pets #writingadvice

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My least favorite trope of all time: Rich, sheltered teen in love with her male tutor. It's so predatory and so common in these stories. The only thing I hate worse is the parents are treated like the villains for not being supportive of the romance. #Fiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Romance #TropeTripe

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Writing advice from my dog: When you come to a decision point in your plot and you can't decide, do both! Why should you not create a time warp and break the laws of space and time, yanking arms out of sockets and dragging your leash behind you as you bounce between the ideas? #Writing #Pets

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Words. Words? Words! Words? WORDS! Words... Words. #WritingStruggles

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The chill of the depths pulled at him from all sides as the eerie green light faded from view. He sank ever deeper, farther from the roiling surface, and a strange peace fell over his mind. Far from the madding clash of steel and spells, he sank out of sight. The water took on #Fiction #Fantasy

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

What's a brilliant line that came to you in a totally innocuous situation? I'll go first. #WritingPrompt #Fiction "You think the answer to your pain is to make others feel it. But the answer to my pain has always been to protect others from it." Thanks, random smoothie-making thought.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Have you ever just had a bowl of oatmeal? No butter, no sugar, just a bowl of oatmeal? Have you ever experienced the pure enjoyment of the smell of a hot bowl of oatmeal on a cold, wet day? After a long walk in winter, have you had a bowl of plain oatmeal? #food #neurodivergent

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

More writing advice from my dog: When you feel mentally stuck and restless. Take a walk. Chew a stick. Chase a squirrel. Then take a nap. #PetAdvice #Writing

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

At a crossroads with my most recent WIP and it's throwing my process into chaos. Basically this below: Person A and Person B have great chemistry together for a potential romance. Problem. Person C, who has not arrived yet, is Person A's planned romantic partner. And there is plot. Part 1/2

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

A writing tip I learned from my dog: If you don't like it, chew it to tiny pieces, and take a nap. #Writing #Fiction

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

My brain: A summary Novel WIP near the end of the first draft: Nah. Boring. Done. All ideas decided. I sleep. 8 year old WIP I started working on when I was literally 16, and have proceeded to work on, scrap, start over, and scrap 19000000000000000000000 times: COWABUNGA IT IS. #fiction #writing

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Some days suck. Some days feel like I don't have it, that my writing/art isn't any good. Rest. Take the day. Go for a walk. Try writing/drawing for 5-10minutes even if we barely do anything. through a soul-crushing wave of imposter syndrome we will find an unrelenting push of "fuck it, we ball."

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

I didn't believe the colored circles could be so addictive until I got a fitness tracker that used them. Now I'm obsessed with closing my circles and I'm doing almost 15k steps a day to do it. Spicy brain being used for good, yes, yes. #Fitness #Neuroatypical

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes, self-care is raking all of your dog's hair out of the one room in your apartment that has carpet. :) #SelfCare #Wednesday

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I put like 37 words into one of my books last night, and that feels like an achievement because I've been stuck on this sentence for like two weeks. #writing #fiction

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I hope no one notices me randomly looking at my phone and bursting into a sprint then stopping 30 seconds later only to do it again. On one level, I know no one cares about my work out. On another, please don't look at me. My brain is spicy and notices. :( #Fitness #Neurodivergent

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Flicking between songs like a DJ because my brain associates specific songs with specific characters and it doesn't matter what I want to listen to now - I need to switch between Ocean Breeze by the ItaloBrothers and Granite by Sleep Token or this chapter will never be written. #Writing #Fiction

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, 6 AM, what have you done to me? Why have I woken up at 6 AM this past week? I don't want to. My usual time is 7. This didn't happen last week when daylight savings was actually called. What has 6 AM done? #Sleeping

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

IDK what anyone says, a bowl of soup at the end of a long week is the best thing. Low effort, high comfort, just a calm moment to close out Friday. This is the best moment. #Thoughts

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

You ever turn off the AC because the apartment is cool and physically feel the sudden lack of background noise like a soft blanket falling directly over your brain and your focus spikes as everything becomes softer? Yeah. #Neurodivergent #Writing

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like every story should contain dragons, references to dragons, or draconic symbolism. Frankly, dragons make every story better. And you may quote me on that. #Fiction #Fantasy #Writing

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a nice mushroom

submitted 106 days ago • 333 comments

Hot tip: When writing novels, it's important to use words! It's also important to actually write down those words somewhere. I suggest the walls. #writing

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Outlining: I AM THE GOD OF THIS NEW WORLD. I CAN CREATE ANYTHING I WANT. I WILL RESHAPE THE NARRATIVE TO SUIT MY WHIMS. I AM THE MASTER OF FATE! THIS IS MY DESIGN! Writing: Hmm. It appears I have lost control entirely. #writing #fiction

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments