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Career Writers: The early years
Why we hate/dread the editing/beta'ng process
Showing posts with label Blank Guide to Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blank Guide to Writing. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Monday, August 3, 2015
The Abusive Gifs Guide to Writing
Need a little writerly abuse?
Wouldn’t it be great if writers’ problems came like this?
Battling writers’ block?
I don’t care how long you’ve been working on it, IS.IT.EDITED?
“Yeah, I guess. I’m just going to send what I have so far...”
Rethink that move
But my friend and I swapped Manuscripts...how can it still be crap?
Sunday, July 26, 2015
The Lily Aldren-Ericksen Guide to Writing
The young, naive aspiring writer dreaming of stardom
Your life so soon from now, yeah...this first book will blow them away
The slow and bitter realization that it’s not fucking easy
But you’ll do it anyways. You will dive into the absyss and swim through the madness. Why?
Character creation
Really wanting, no- needing to write, but stuck socializing
Having a similar genre/taste/style author friend of whom you bounce a large portion of your ideas together.
Taking the Author Bio Pic
Enjoy it while you have it, because once you’ve stepped away from that camera it’s time for...human interaction
If I had a dollar for every time...
Writing skillful sex scenes in YA and NA is possible, but navigate wisely young voyager; the publishin’ gods be mercilessly on these here seas
*TW: ALCOHOL*
Networking, marketing, promotional and any other event where you have to face well and talk good. #I wish I was Writing
The inevitable conclusion to the twilight story
Thursday, July 23, 2015
The Eternal Sunshine Guide to Writing
Killing off a well developed character
The writer’s fear of ending the writing process, and diving into the publishing process
Why we must edit, beta, and rewrite...several times
Chronic writers’ block
When we haven’t written in a while
Getting an otherwise careful character to slip up and create conflict
“Write what you know.”
Repeating the beta/rewrite process
Beta readers be all like...
Getting rid of unnecessary characters
Running out of Beta Readers
“Show me, don’t tell me.”
Writers can be socially awkward introverts, but when we are writing...
Rewriting the lackluster ending
When the plot has more holes than Swiss cheese
There are millions of careers, but for writers there’s only passion
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The Warehouse 13 Guide to Writing
Spending too much time planning
Deciding to put off writing to plan because it feels like progress
Justifying your outlining because it’s gonna be sooo good!
Writing foreshadowing that’s less than subtle
When people ask what you’re writing, but it’s not what you want it to be
Writing from the perspective of a gender not your own
“Write what you know.”
Writing awesome secondary characters
When side characters become more interesting than the protagonist 
Developing secondary characters but your protagonist is all like:
Turning to your followers for advice
Not liking the advice you get
Characters that lack a frustrating amount of motivation
Trying reeeally hard to write an unlikable character
Putting rough drafts online
This…
Keep telling yourself that…Now get off the internet and WRITE!
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