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jennifer833
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3d ago
My outline beat my pantsing draft and I hate admitting it
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ray356
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4d ago
A lit mag editor told me the average slush pile story gets read for 90 seconds
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spencer981
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5d ago
Sat down to write one page of backstory and lost 3 hours to a timeline I never needed
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joel_clark37
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5d ago
I rewrote my opening chapter in past tense instead of present and now I cant tell which one sounds less boring
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susanb34
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9d ago
I finally picked between journaling and voice memos for my rough drafts, and one of them stopped me from quitting
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margareto26
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9d ago
Found a used bookstore in Portland with a handwritten draft in the margins
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derek_green3
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12d ago
Rant: I paid $200 for a "world building" course that just told me to make a mood board
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brookereed
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13d ago
Rant: I used to edit as I wrote, now I just dump the mess and fix it later
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lindag33
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16d ago
Dropped $80 on a month of that writing app that counts your words, and I still write worse than my old notebook
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evan_green52
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17d ago
Lost 8 pages of my short story when my laptop died at a coffee shop in Boise
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luna_wright
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18d ago
Spent 11 hours last weekend rewriting one paragraph because my critique group kept saying it was confusing
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fiona_west21
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19d ago
Why does nobody talk about reading your draft out loud before posting it anywhere
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sean_cooper58
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21d ago
Found out 5 pages of my zombie book were just me rewriting the same scene, and a free tool caught it
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the_lee
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22d ago
Burned $60 on a 'proven' outlining course and got 3 pages of fluff
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dakotab93
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24d ago
My short story about a lost dog sat untouched for 3 weeks until I read it out loud to my kitchen wall
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