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switch up your dialogue tags every so often! for example, nothing makes readers lose their minds like putting the comma on the wrong side of the speech mark

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 4d

be silly with it

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 5d

writing is easy, see i'm doing it right now

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 6d

the secret to getting an agent is to write something that's good

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 7d

just sort it out

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 8d

just write it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 9d

don't trust random writing tips you read on the internet. there's some real weirdos on there

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 11d

death

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 12d

the secret is you want your protagonist to be a lil pathetic

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 14d

the best ideas will always come to you when you can't actually write them. so you're not allowed to write. i'm banning you

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 15d

write stories that make unimaginative people say 'oh my god!!! whoever wrote this must have been on drugs!!!!!!'

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 17d

commas are a sin

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 18d

yell about your story to your friends until you scare them all away

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 19d

who cares if your protagonist is "likable"? how big is it

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 20d

is it really a redemption arc if your antagonist doesn't go from wanting to murder the protagonists to chanting "mcdonald's! mcdonald's! mcdonald's!" from the back seat?

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 21d

if someone tells you to stop writing, you should immediately write 2,000 words in defiance! also, stop writing

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 22d

have you considered the possibility that your character might be an idiot

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 23d

writing is hard. so just like. don't do it

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 24d

a screenshot of a writing tip from the gr8writingtips tumblr. the header reads: writing tip #3939. the tip is: hey cool this tip's number is a palindrome! wait no it isn't. Fuck

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 25d

you put your right hand in, you put your right hand out, you put your right hand in and do some fucking writing

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 26d

set up a recording device with automatic transcript every night to see if you can sleep-talk a WIP into existence

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