If You Ever Think Your Chapters Are Too Long: Dont.

If you ever think your chapters are too long: don’t.

I once read a fanfic that had a chapter totaling 60k words. A chapter.

You’re doing fine.

Every piece of dogshit art makes the world a better place to live. Better to create poorly than not at all.

Billford is so… interesting 👀💛

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

time to rewrite two whole scenes a few hours before they need to be finished just cause the pacing is weird. fuck me

note to self: in the future, when creating variables, give them names that won't make me go "wtf is this supposed to be" if I ever take a long break