#future author

‘Said’ is beautiful. Please use it more. It isn’t anything to be feared of hated. It’s not boring or overused. It makes all the other dialogue tags more special when they’re used on occasion.

‘Said’ makes your writing less cluttered. It can be a simple way of reminding the reader who is talking without bombarding them with synonyms.

“Use it along with action to make it more interesting,” she said, picking up her pencil.

He smirked, and said, “Or with expressions and body language.”

“Or,” she said, “just as a quick reminder of who is talking.”

“And if you know who is talking, a dialogue isn’t always necessary.”

Of course you can use other dialogue tags, but please don’t exclude ‘said’. It’s heartbroken from being ignored.

An em dash (—) is a long punctuation mark used to indicate a pause, shift in thought, or to set off extra information. It can be used similarly to a colon, comma, or parenthesis.

I have been making an intentional effort to work on my writing everyday.

I have entered a new decade of my life and I want change.

"If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done." - Thomas Jefferson

I have never worked on my writing everyday consistently. So, in order to get better at writing, I will be working on my writing everyday. Because I want to start my writing career.

Now, to me, this does not mean working on the same story or project everyday, no.

It means, I will be consistently writing something everyday. Be it, a scene, a scenario, a short story, or dialogue.

It can be apart of my current stories or something completely new or an exercise in a weak area of my writing.

It will be me actually writing something. Not brainstorming, not outlining, none of that. It'll be actual words and a scene.

This does not mean I won't ever brainstorm or outline, I just won't count it toward my writing practice.

I'm choosing not to count brainstorming and outlining in my writing practice because that is what I have been doing and it has not gotten me the results I have been looking for. This is where the Thomas Jefferson quote comes in.

So, lately, I have been working out my weak writing muscles and have discovered just how weak they are, but that is good, because I have a starting point now and I am excited to see how I grow.

I have so many stories to tell and sick of them not being out in the world already.

I know it's been awhile since I've written anything and I know I have a lot of requests/fics to post however I've been spending all of the free time I do have working on my novel. so, with that said, fanfiction will be taking the backseat for a while until I can finish my novel. I've realized I will never finish it if I keep working on fanfiction. which sucks because all I want to do is write fanfiction.

I'm not sure how long this break will last, hopefully not too long since my novel is almost complete(just one more chapter!) but then the process begins of getting it published and what not.

I'll still be here reblogging and what not but my fanfiction will be on pause. I still will LOVE to talk "thots" with you all because those asks make my heart so so happy.