we need a word for "squeezing one's eyes shut" and I propose "bleengz" (simple and past participle both to be "blungzt" of course) All in favor?

You are not handing your WIP to someone so they can judge it or you. You are handing it to them so they can help you. Don't ask them to tear it apart, and don't hope that they'll love it and have "no notes." Hope that they'll help you make it even better than it already is.

I don't understand how anyone can be a musician and be sure they didn't steal a melody or a lyric from a forgotten song beneath the surface of memory. As a writer, i'm intensely suspicious when I come up with a good idea, because no way, it's too good, I must have stolen this.

As someone who relies heavily on pantsing, I want to understand you plotters. How do you keep the creativity fresh? Do you adjust your outline if inspiration strikes as you type? #writingcommunity

Writers who title their chapters: how do you keep the titles from drifting into "spoiler" territory? Stick to imagery? Themes? Or are you okay with people getting a sense of what will happen? I'm a numbers person myself cause I'm not sure how to do it. #WritingCommunity

The question "would you let a vampire turn you?" should never be answered without followup questions. Anne Rice vampires? Salem's Lot? True Blood? Buffy? I wanna know what kind of eternity I'm signing up for here. Do your research, sheeple. Come on.

okay #writingcommunity, fess up, who DOESN'T start at the beginning of the story when they put words to the page? Any middle-starters out there? Ending-starters? Hop-all-around-ers? I know you're out there. How do you do that??

Eid Mubarak, my friends ❤️

this might seem like a silly, little thing, but my favorite part of the terminator movies is that every actor who plays a terminator keeps a perfectly calm facial expression during action sequences. Acting is all "emote! emote! emote!" and this time they're like "DON'T." 🤣

Every 90k word novel is just a badly edited five sentence story. Introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, denouement. Everything else is fluff. Get an editor. Learn to kill your darlings, people, no one has any patience for your creativity. #WritingCommunity

still dogatemynovel on insta just saying that for no reason (:

lol i remember when twitter seemed like the best social media for authors.

i think it's a watch-atomic-blonde kind of day

To the billionaires who lobbied to make money off of my student debt so you could buy another lake home or whatever, congrats, I now sell my fucking blood. Glad I worked my ass off training to help people, which would have been free in any other developed nation. YAY freedom.

Is it weird that I feel like that newest sewing app might have a chance of defeating the bird song one?

"[Famous Novelist] didn't publish a single novel until they were 65 so--" Yeah, well, the world is likely to be a Mad Max hellscape by the time I'm 65, so it's fair to say I'm still feeling the pressure.

I am on the new platform. I will be here much less. I hope I see you over there. Byebye.

i know i said i was gone, but some of you seem to have forgotten that I am dogatemynovel on the other place and we should be Thriends. Escape this nightmare. Join me. *whispers seductively* there's no character limit...