Tiny Tip #1

Tiny Tip #1

While writing your project for these writing events, if you find a mistake or want to re-word something, instead of the backspace button, consider using Strikethrough to remove scenes, lines of dialogue, etc, followed up with the corrected or shortened line.

Say for instance you're writing a description of something, and your main character remembers a previous encounter they had with x object, but on getting a bit further into your document, you glance up and reread that paragraph, and decide to remove the line where the character thought in too-much-detail about what the previous x looked like.

Instead of deleting the line entirely, use Strikethrough to mark the line off, and keep on writing; once your first draft is done, when you start re-reading your novel through from start to finish, you'll be able to see what you originally wrote, what you replaced it with, and be able to make a clearer decision when you decide to edit.

I'm trying to write but it's not 2am and I'm not hangry and half delirious with exhaustion so of course it's not working.

I swear, once I get over my crippling writing anxiety, impossible expectations, and the baggage surrounding my idea of what a “writer” is…it’s over for you bitches.

Me, when I say I've been writing