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the reality of being a writer

Especially the last one!

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estro-boi

Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you

cloudabserk

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

cambriancrew

whatagrump

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

thewritinggrindstone

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

writing-is-a-martial-art

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

jaydove-writes

Thank you

localcanadiancryptid22

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

lilybug-02

“Yippie!” I said, while simultaneously writing notes down like a crazed beast.

bubblybloob

“Everyone reblog this,” whispered the wretched gremlin living under your bed.

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baffledtreesquid

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

kjscottwrites

consolecadet

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

smol-civet

prev, i'm sure you mean my guy Leonid Pasternak

cristallq

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drake?

hazeleyedcat

josh?

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

where’s the body of christ?

wyrddog

hollowboobtheory

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

hollowboobtheory

internet soft skills

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

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oldbutchdanielmolloy

has anybody heard of writing / knows anything about how to do it

allthingswhumpyandangsty

unspokensuggestion

you are allowed to be wrong you are allowed to mess up you are allowed to be embarrassing.

unspokensuggestion

you are also allowed to do this.

wholeheartedsuggestions

late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.

burgundy-forest-deactivated2024

Hey guess what i saw this a few days ago when i was in an absolutely scary slump and then i spoke to my counsellors and did what they told me to do and now i feel so much better. So this is true. Reblogging for more good luck

shamwowxl

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wholeheartedsuggestions

why is this so beautiful in like a space way

kassil

Because the essence of humanity and life as a whole is a constellation of connections with one another. We are all here in this cosmos together, from the tiniest creatures to the distant stars.

You're not alone.

twigsofmanyfaces

you got lots of company, and you're gonna be okay 🫂

ross-hollander

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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I promise you haven't fucked up as badly as you think you have.

crazycatsiren

A wise mentor once said to me while I was student teaching: "Did you actually fuck it up, or did it just not go how you expected it to go?"

Life changing words.

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