An hour of work and a thousand words later, I diagnosed the writing problem that kept me from typing all day as me wanting to see Yves's friends responding to the conversation with his co-parents rather than the conversation itself.

But I may ALSO be coming down with a virus.

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Do you ever go back to read your own writing and you're like, "Damn...I WROTE that?!" But then other times you're like, "Damn...I wrote THAT?!"

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I just finished a book with a good story -- I guess you'd call it a hopepunk novel. I almost quit reading it in annoyance, however, because of the spelling errors.

The worst came because a brooch played a fairly large part in the plot, and the author misspelled it "broach" every time. Spellcheck wouldn't pick this up since broach is a real word meaning "to bring up a subject for discussion" or "to pierce a cask to draw the liquid from it."

Every time I saw the word, it threw me out of the story. Please, fellow writers, have someone proofread your work before publishing.
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He can't get on the keyboard any longer, but he can still lie on the mouse. And bite if I try to use it.
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I hadn't heard the term before.
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(Medium friends link)
https://medium.com/swlh/the-tiffany-problem-when-history-makes-no-sense-703b86522627?sk=v2%2F3d341e7d-75d5-4e33-a031-c4fd126c7ef3

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I hadn't heard the term before. #TiffanyProblem #TiffanyEffect #Anachronism #Writing #WritingProblems #StoryTelling #History #Historic medium.com/swlh/the-tif...

The Tiffany Problem — When His...

Writing a novel is fun until your main character changes personality halfway through, the plot forgets where it's going, and you realize you've described the moon as “haunting” 17 times. #WritingProblems #AmWriting #SendHelpAndCoffee

I just have to say this:
I use the word "just" way too much. I can squeeze it into just about any sentence. It might be useful sometimes, but I just want to stop.
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It's infinitely easier for me to 'reverse engineer' characters I create. I come up with interesting dynamics, and then I find an explanation why it's possible. Questions for characters like 'what food they like', 'what hobbies they have' are absolutely unusable for me somehow. First I know the vibe, and only then I reverse engineer all those small details if I ever need them at all

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That moment when one of your characters tells you something and completely shuffles your plans.

I've created two characters intended to end up with Yaetherim. Neither of them are interested. One's ace. The other's his soulmate, but in a 'sister-he-never-had' way.

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So, second novella (novellette? <20K words, so I'm not sure where it really lands) is about to get published to KDP. I'm at the point where the writing no longer fits the working title that well. It probably still works, but, I'm uncertain now.

While I started the work with a tone in mind, the harshness intended in the original title softened as I wrote, and the main character changed her stance in the midpoint. So… 🤷🏻‍♂️

I want to finish the ’14 #NaNoWriMo story but 60K+ words, it’s looking bad here...

How does one finish a story anyway?

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The relief of

1. Being able to write without thr block which has been stopping the clickety clack for thr better part of a month

And

2. That the writing style has not drastically suffered or changed, thereby allowing you to continue on the big project over 17k words

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You know, sometimes I think the universe likes to play cruel jokes. I went to all that trouble to verify my old blog site, but now that it's become a pain I switch to another, which, frankly, isn't any better in other ways. Now I want to verify that one. I could just keep them both up there, but why when I've imported the blog posts and really don't want to use it anymore? #WritingCommunity #Author #WritingProblems #TheStruggleIsReal #WritersOfMastodon

But I just had a weird experience. I was reading my current/main WIP and forgot, just for a second, that I was reading my own work, and had the sudden desire to write fanfic for my OC's. Sometimes I just need to step back and marvel at what I've written... I could probably also do with an ego deflation.
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I've asked my friends to beta-read something I've been working on for a while, and the deal was they get it in installments... unfortunately because I can't write consistently, they aren't ready for the next update. This sucks since I want to talk about things with them, but that would be spoiling my own work 😅
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I'm rereading my Serial Stories stories, and I'm like, why did I stop writing these? I gotta write more about these goobers.

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UGH

My timeline for my og novel is so messed up 😭 and I hate everything about this scene I just wrote 😭 and I can't decide if I should go back now to edit and smooth out what I have or push forward and finish the draft 😭

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MFW I type a B instead of P when they're not even close to each other on the keyboard!? HOW!? DID I DO THAT!?
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