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Psycho Wand, My Beloved [short story on gaming addiction]

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Anyone interested in helping me playtest a forum-based creative-writing RPG?

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My Time in Arcadia

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📢 Write every day, and win disappointingly mediocre prizes!

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Tears of blood: A book about grief, horror, war, and immigration

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Good luck to all the nano-ers!

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Getting back into writing

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'I got some weird fiction published' or: 'Don't let rejections stop you'

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What do you guys use to write in?

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Someone asked me what my writing process was like. I'm still working on the 2nd draft of my first novel; but I'm a year in (5 days a week) and here's what I have to share:

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Why I'm writing first-person present tense for main character, and third-person present tense for other characters. Tell me your opinions or tangents!

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Orphie's first novel discoveries: Fight scenes and whatnot

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A lot of people say novel-editing is the hardest. But for me, writing the first time is the hardest.

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I know write-fu.

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How to easily prepare an Expanded 'Plotting' Grid on MS Word and Libre Writer - inspired by S. Horwitz (who transcribed JKR's post of her outline of OoP.)

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Experiencing embarrassment or shame over your writing

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World-building is hard

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“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.” ―Michelangelo Buonarroti

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"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." -- Robert Cormier

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"You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it."

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"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." --Jodi Picoult

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Easy reading is hard writing

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How Leo Tolstoy Rekindled His Passion for Writing

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Do something today that your future self will thank you for!

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The best compliment a children's author could receive

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Progress, no matter how slow, is still progress.

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Every choice should have both positive and negative consequences

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Write every day, and win a trip to the closest restroom!

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NPR's guide to the top 100 scifi/fantasy books

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"I hate that word -- 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work" --Peter Dinklage

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Mark Twain's brilliant letter to Hellen Keller about the myth of originality

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"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story" --Terry Pratchett

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"I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you." --Asha Dornfest

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"No, I didn't know [that Harry Potter would be so successful]... I think it's very dangerous for a writer to start thinking in those terms." --J.K. Rowling

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What makes you the most excited about your current writing project?

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"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle... One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist or understand." --George Orwell

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You dont need likeable characters. You need believable characters

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Set yourself a goal, even if it's a ridiculously low one.

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Rely on discipline, not motivation.

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A problem that a character cannot walk away from -- is a book that a reader cannot walk away from

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Someone asked Neil Gaiman whether he thought fanfiction was legitimate writing

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Stop trying to write ready-to-publish novels as your first drafts

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Whenever I'm not at my computer, I think, "I really want to write". Then I get to my computer and get paralyzed with anxiety, then get distracted by something else.

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Stop hurting your writing with negative self-commentary

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Don't neglect working on stories or ideas just because you don't think you'll ever write or publish them.

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If you can’t think of names for your characters just go to the credits of any movie

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Don't call a character Ed, or Will, or anything else you can't CTRL-F

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If you've got time to scroll, you've got time to write.

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How do I gently tell someone their writing is bad (as in, needs significant work)?

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Do creative ideas sometimes keep you awake at night or distracted during the day?

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