woman of letters, occasional hot mess

1. share a snippet of your choice from a wip

2. share a snippet from either the fourth line, fourth paragraph, or fourth page of a wip

3. share a snippet from a wip that involves [character]

4. share your favorite line of dialogue from a wip

5. talk about the scene from a wip that you're most excited about

6. if you were trying to recommend one of your wips to someone without giving any spoilers, what would you say?

7. describe a wip in five words or less

8. who is your favorite character in one of your wips and why do you like them in that story?

9. share 4 out of context images that you feel represent a wip

10. share a song (or songs) that you feel represents a wip

11. if one of your wips was a cocktail, what would it be made of?

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A person who has stayed up too late reading fanfic, thus leaving themselves with semi-regrets and exhaustion the next day.

Thank you @zenthisoror this is my new favourite word.

(via sybilius)

@swan-heda

Diana

Spider

River and River on days when he is played by Michael sheen

David with child River

Tattoo dog with unknown woman

Cold bodies being given to Les arbes

Frank

Patrice

Yves

Les arbes family portrait

Shirley but also Arya stark, Lamb

Sid, Moira

Duffy, Hobbs in that one scene with River

Emma Flyte

Peter Judd

Charles partner

That one receptionist

Duncan tropper

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

recycle your darlings