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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · Dec 1

screenshot of an anonymous tumblr ask, which reads, 'what is your book about?' underneath, the response is 'god if only i knew'

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

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 · 1d

be silly with it

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

just sort it out

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

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

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

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 · 8d

death

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

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 14d

commas are a sin

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

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 · 16d

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 · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

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

put a toddler in every scene for the purpose of asking "but why" whenever you need to organically bring up world building details

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

scream for 8 hours

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

cloud backups will disappear if the server is hacked. printed backups will burn in a fire. if you want your novel to be truly safe, you gotta carve it word by word into a cave wall

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 27d

you SHOULD spend four hours working out which word is making that one sentence read funny. replacing that word is WAY more important than finishing the novel, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

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