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me: [piles 💖 gushing ⭐ compliments ✨ on my friends’ WIPs] and btw these are 100% my Real Thoughts because I’m capable of assessing my friends' work honestly without falling into the trap of blind support just because I like them as a person
me:
me: [writes something]
my friends: hey this is pretty goo--
me, curled up on the floor with my hands over my ears: NO YOU'RE JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE WE'RE FRIENDS
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when your ideas start ballooning halfway through writing your book
how freeing and Hexciting to realize that it really is That Easy to just peace out from internet spaces and internet people that aren't bringing you joy
shoutout to the Senpai Squad tho, y’all make me so happy and I’m so so glad to have met you guys
writer mood working on a draft zero: wow I can’t wait to write 100k+ words of this manuscript and then throw 80% of them away on the next revision rewrite
someone please tell me I’m not the only one who wakes up before their alarm with weirdly urgent revision thoughts on their WIP? today’s was a very strong “I need to delete that hyphen in that one word it should not be there”
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sequel problems pt. 1
remembering all the characters you introduced in the book one that you now have to revisit and tie up plot threads for
not knowing how to pace the beginning because technically you’re in the middle of the overarching story....but it’s still the beginning of a book
slight downer ending in book one makes for a suboptimal emotional state at the outset of the sequel (for both reader AND writer)
there are....SO many paths to go down that would all resolve certain plot threads...but which one do I pick?!?!?!
not wanting to kill anyone off but knowing the narrative demands sacrifice
looking at your characters’ traumas from book one and going “who did this to you”
where did all the emotions go why is the writing SO FLAT
knowing the reveals and plot points you need to hit but there’s no set order in which everything needs to happen so you just....throw the pieces together and hope for the best
MHexyl Did The Thing! (A #DVPit Update)
I wasn’t actually planning on doing an update just yet but something just happened that made me super emotional:
The number of requests I’ve gotten from agents/editors at #DVPit for my current project has now surpassed the number of rejections I got on my first novel when I queried in 2017.
I just...I remember the moment two years ago (2 years!!) when I finally sat down and told myself that my writing wasn’t quite up to par and it was time to stop querying and just write another book. And I did. And now there are agents I would frankly die to work with and editors at houses I’ve only ever dreamed of being published by who want to see my work.
So if you’re struggling right now with hating your writing or feeling like this road is taking you nowhere, KEEP GOING. Keep writing! I was 16 when I said I wanted to be published by 21. 22 when my first book died quietly in the query trenches. And now I’m 24 (as of 2 days ago!) and understand that there is no timeline to follow, no goals list to check off by X age. There’s just your journey.
At the end of the day, a pitch contest is just an opportunity and a way to connect. At this point, it could still go nowhere. It could go nowhere. But by God, right now, it feels like I’ve gotten somewhere.
Blog Update!
Cleaned out some old pages/info and updated description because hell yeah, I'm a PhD student now!
URL change: mhexylwrites -> hextracellular
(Yes, I also hoarded hextracellular-memebrane because I'm incapable of taking myself seriously for more than 15 minutes.)
No real reason for the change, except that 1) literally no one has ever addressed me with “M” so I felt like it should go and 2) there was a criminal lack of "Hex" puns on this blog. I feel like I'm gonna keep switching the URL up because I'm Hextra like that...but if I keep the snail icon it shouldn’t be a problem, right? ;D
fuck I just realized I'm gonna need to update my banner
