it looks like you're writing a novel
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grow an extra limb
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use the International Phonetic Alphabet so that no one will be able to mispronounce your character and place names ever
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it's a new year, so we all know what that means. more writing! hahahaha happy writing everyone
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the actual number of plot twists is irrelevant. what's important is that there's an odd number of them
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shovel paper into your mouth until something happens
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word really said 'idk don't ask me'
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you shouldn't write about bad things because i don't want to read it
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NEVER mention that your characters poop. that's disgusting
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if you spent today doing anything other than working on your novel, you are not showing enough dedication to your craft and a disgrace to writers everywhere
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make your protagonist’s birthday christmas day and refuse to accept that people are celebrating anything else
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if your series doesn’t have a christmas chapter, did it really happen?
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the best way to spread christmas cheer is killing the characters your readers hold dear
about 1 year ago
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don't forget to leave out a plate of notebooks and a glass of typewriter ink for Truman Capote, the Christmas Writing Fairy
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no, you don't get it, when i procrastinate it's okay but when you procrastinate it's bad. hope that helps! đź’•
11 days ago
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if you press a single key on a keyboard and only write one character, you're automatically a better writer than any AI known to man
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if you mention a topic in your novel you have to get a PhD in it to write it better, them's the rules
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i've found out it's not that
add a skeleton here at some point
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do a "draft zero". i think this means a draft with zero words. i will find out more and keep you posted
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write what you don't know. who even cares
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add 3tsp of salt and simmer over a low heat for 20 - 30 minutes
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write for insane gay people
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you better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it, you better never let it go. you only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. this opportunity comes once in a lifetime
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find a niche so incredibly specific that it caters to literally no human being that has ever existed in history and write exclusively that until you transcend all limits and become god
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if you find yourself using the same word more than once within a page it's already over
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imagine a person and then some stuff happening to them and you've pretty much done the job really
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whenever you get stuck, consider that maybe you like being stuck and it's okay actually
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ctrl+f "that". delete them all. you're welcome
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a "pantser" is a writer who wears pants. a "plotter" is a writer who has no pants and plots to steal them from other writers
26 days ago
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scene not working? make your characters 11% more insane. never fails
27 days ago
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all you need to do is have your characters react to things. whether the reaction makes sense or not doesn't really matter
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use my new app! you put a prompt in, and then it thinks for a second, and then up pops a blurry screenshot of some word 1997 wordart that tells you to write it yourself
about 1 month ago
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wow!
about 1 month ago
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just laughed so hard at this i had a coughing fit in a hotel lobby
about 1 month ago
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start at the beginning and then skip to the end. no one reads the middles anyway
about 1 month ago
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do your romantic leads actually like each other or are they just angry
about 1 month ago
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put the pen down!!! don't you know they do laptops now
about 1 month ago
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we all have a story to tell. i am going to beat it out of you
about 1 month ago
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first, make it exist. second, make it make sense. third, make it good. fourth, make it bad again. fifth, make it worse. sixth, there is no sixth. it's perfect. you're done
about 1 month ago
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sometimes, it's not what's on the page that's important, but what's in your head waiting to be written. like now. just fucking write it okay
about 1 month ago
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there is actually one correct way to write a novel and it's the way i'm doing it
about 1 month ago
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write because YOU want to, not because of the ghost of that author who possessed you to write his terrible unfinished manuscript
about 1 month ago
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stuck on a scene? just ask my wife, she'll know what to do
about 1 month ago
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be brutal when editing down your work. you should only keep scenes that advance the plot, demonstrate character, or ones that don't do either of those that you really, really, really, really like
about 1 month ago
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the reason "said" doesn't feel repetitive is because it's so commonly used, so if you have a favourite dialogue tag just make sure you use the same verb every time someone speaks and no one will notice
about 1 month ago
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anything is possible as long as you actually sit down and fucking write it
about 1 month ago
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use my new punctuation mark! it's called the 'half stop'! (it's not a comma) (stop saying it's a comma) (i know where you live)
about 2 months ago
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hEy now, you're a writer, get yuor write onn, go wrIE
about 2 months ago
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try your worst and you suck
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