Someone: Hey I Noticed This Thing You Did In Your Writing!

someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

I just think people write out of obligation too often.

"How do I motivate myself to write through the boring part of my story?"

"How do I make this boring scene not boring?"

Don't write it.

Don't write boring things just because you think the structure of the story demands it. I promise it doesn't need to be there.

If your characters need to have gone shopping for a later part of the story to make sense you can just have a sentence about how they went shopping and move on.

You are not obligated to write the boring parts. No matter what those parts are.

You are not obligated to make the parts of your story that you're not excited to write interesting somehow.

You can just write the fun and interesting parts and gloss over and summarize boring things.

Your audience will thank you and you will thank yourself.

Fantasy setting where dragons are a species of corvid that are like ravens but More.

Ravens are smart; dragons are clever. Ravens are big; dragons are huge. Ravens like trinkets; dragons have hoards. Ravens remember; dragons have grudges.

Ravens are playful; dragons have another set of talons and the ability to breathe fire who knows what kind of hell they want to raise.

Leverage crossovers have the potential to be the ultimate fixit for any fandom.

Look, friends. I need you to understand how IMPORTANT James Bond is in the makeup of Anthony JustaJreally Crowley.

If you only watched Bond movies, you do not know that in the books, Bond's car is a 1930 Blower Bentley which he bought 'almost new' in 1933. He calls the car 'his only personal hobby' and he 'drove it hard and well with an almost sensual pleasure.'

So to be clear, this is Bond's Bentley...

Aaaand this is Crowley's.

(For book fans, Crowley's Bentley is described as being from 1926, which means it would have been a model much like Bond's as opposed to the 1933 Bentley used in the show, sooooo...)

While the movies have forever made Bond synonymous with Aston Martin, the books kept Bentleys as his main squeeze. When Bond's first Bentley is destroyed in a car chase in Moonraker, he replaces it - with another Bentley.

You know what else Bond was obsessed with? Gadgets. Like watches. And pens.

Just. Things fans might find interesting.

@murphysscribe I may have Bond and Crowley on the brain...

isn’t the concept of writing incredible? the ability we have to take words and string them together to form sentences. and not only form sentences, but create distinct imagery.

to be able to make your readers see, feel, hear, taste and smell what you have in mind just by putting certain words together. combining words that, on their own, mean very little if anything at all. but you can create whole new worlds just by putting a few simple words in a single sentence.

it blows my mind sometimes