So Writers Joke A Lot About "drinking The Tears Of Our Readers", But I Want To Be So Honest With You

So writers joke a lot about "drinking the tears of our readers", but I want to be so honest with you when I tell you that making you cry isn't our real goal. Making you feel is.

Kicking your feet? Giggling? Can't stop smiling? And yes, crying? Feeling anything, everything. That's our goal. That means we did The Job.

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1 year ago

Personally, I write stupid silly scenarios that are useless and unrealistic but they make me giggle

I don’t write from nothing. Every character, every word is the echo of reality. Every feature is plucked from someone I knew, every line from a conversation I had, every heartbreak is my own.

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1 year ago

a meme

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bottomed panel is decrepit and poisoned theoden sitting in his throne looking exhausted as he stares at a laptop on his desk and is labelled "how it feels figuring out the rest of the plot around it"

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5 days ago

If the character you’re writing doesn’t have a theme song that you assigned to them three years ago then cut them out because they clearly aren’t that important to the story

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1 month ago

he’s just a little guy

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Happy International Asexuality Day!!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

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1 year ago

Good Omens 2 + Text Posts

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thingsthatcometomymindwheniwrite

1 year ago

I will kms if i ever stop typing, actually. I need this, it’s therapy

writeblr!! tell us, what keeps you from giving up on your work?

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1 year ago

Someone: So what is your novel? Middle grade? YA? Adult? NA?

Me:

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3 days ago

tragedy enjoyers when a character perpetuates the cycle of violence they themselves were a victim of

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3 months ago

I think we all have this one chapter with incomprehensible dialogue that we wrote at 4am that just has us like

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