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BRADICAL / Writer / Sloth "And of this life I have grown weary, And I have envied the living: Therefore behold me now Supporting a body like others, bearing a heart like yours, A very tangible phantom." —Clark Ashton Smith, Spectral Life
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braxiatel

I love you tragedy I love you corruption arcs I love you doomed relationships I love you character succumbing to their fatal flaw I love you codependency I love you characters doomed to die from the start I love you road to hell paved with good intentions

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nerdmurder

halfway point of the year! actually busted my hand a bit so my style might change a bit now that i turned my pen sensitivity way up

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lemonadesoda

Ok like 100% guaranteed way to make me laugh is to send me a joke that takes out the superlative/adjective from a phrase that should have one like

  • easily one of the days i've had all week
  • world's...dad
  • drinks that taste
  • this is by far one of the posts youve made
  • this is one of the world's most sounds
  • one of the seattle colleges

it won't fail

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bugsinspace

one of the jokes ever

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glumshoe

worldbuilding is what writers do when they want to justify a petty aesthetic choice

Worldbuilding is also what writers do when they want to justify not actually writing.

Reading this comment was like looking down to see that I’ve been stabbed through the back in the middle of gloating.

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maxkirin

I'm feeling good for the first time in a few days so I'm gonna just go ahead and reveal one of the mysteries of the universe to you:

How do you make your writing flow better?

It's simple! Stop making your sentences juggle. 🤹‍♀️

In a novel, just like in a speech or a conversation, each sentence is a thought. Writing has good flow when it feels like the thoughts are chained together naturally. And, by extension, writing feels clunky when there's too much going on in each sentence.

Example time!

"The sun sank in the horizon as she turned the key in the lock of her apartment."

This sentence is not the worst in all history, but it can use with some clearing up. What is the purpose of this sentence? Right now it's juggling two things at once.

The sentence establishes the time of day AND that the protag is entering her home. There are ways to make those two work together, though I'd argue that before you start re-writing you consider the following:

"Would this passage be improved if I split it into two sentences?"

This is not a *hard* rule, but it begs stating:

There is no long sentence that wouldn't benefit from being split into multiple, shorter ones.

What if you split a sentence (such as the example I provided earlier) and you realize that, when broken up, the sentences are not saying much? What happens then?

If a sentence doesn't say much, you can add more to it to complement what you meant to say. Or you can cut it!

Either way, you can't make your story flow better unless you really zoom in, question what you're saying, and focus on clearing up your message.

  • Maybe you don't need to establish that it's dusk?
  • Maybe you could just start the scene inside?

THAT'S EDITING, BABY! 😉

Hope this helps! 🌻🌼

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