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Dedicated to documenting writer experiences in writing - what inspires them, hinders them, and ultimately drives them forward. Joined September 2025-
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I’ve written three novel-length projects since I began writing seriously seven years ago — so why does starting a new WIP always make me feel like I have no idea what I’m doing? 🧍🏼♀️
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Tonight, I did something I'd never done before, and I think it might have helped get my ideas straight.
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Make your protagonist adapt to a world they don’t understand or protect one they know intimately. Anything in-between is mush.
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Born just in time to have psycho-spiritual experiences from reading pdfs in the workplace
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I remember my essay writing teacher used to say "the first step of writing is prewriting and research. You should know what you're talking about before you start talking". A forgotten art.
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Ray Bradbury
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querying:
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Going for walks and reading actual books again is my new baseline.
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Kierkegaard, go for a walk
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If there is one thing I'm committed to, that is being consistent with my aesthetic helenaauthor.substack.com/?utm_campaign=…
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🧵1/5 Agents and editors aren't asking writers to describe or summarize their 80,000-word book in one sentence. The word summarize is the problem. The logline or the 1 sentence pitch, is the hook! It's to show that the story occasion is unique!
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writing your book? hard not writing your book? also still hard somehow
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Bro would not last one hour trying to publish in 2025. 27 rejections is breakfast.
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Fix the First Page - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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finish something. anything. stop researching, planning, preparing to do the work and just do the work instead. it doesn’t matter if it’s great or terrible. you don’t need to impress anyone on your first try. you just need to prove to yourself that you can start and finish it.
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I love to post this every once in a while for any authors who may be newer to the querying trenches or authors who could just use a refresher! It's a free query crash course that I made filled with examples, descriptions, and resources 🩷 #writingcommunity canva.com/design/DAGDScJ…
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What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨
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literally all of history’s greatest minds embraced solitude. long walks. isolated studios. late nights. early mornings. strict routines. solo trips. you have to deliberately strip away the noise of the external world to examine the internal one. create space to process the chaos.
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