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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 4h
write silly books. silly people will read them (me)
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fuck the first draft, start with the second draft
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ignore all of your other responsibilities to write. yes, even that one. this is definitely a good idea
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
did you know that you don't have to write what most people write, or even what most people want to read? shocking but true
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
every agent will want something different, so write a new book for each one you submit to
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you don't write that first draft, how are you doing to find that hilarious typo in five months time? yeah. got you there
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
why write when you could WRONG instead
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
write something marketable. i think this means the book has to fit on a normal size market stall (can't be too heavy)
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
put the pen down! don't you know they have something called laptop now?
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if you abandon your project for long enough it will either get much worse or much better in your absence. roll those dice
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a screenshot of writing tip 4282 from my tumblr. the tip is the words, 'i love my wife'
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
psych!!!!!
four screenshots of a wordcount popup in microsoft word. the second draft is 220,464 words long. the third draft is 156,176 words long. the fourth draft is 107,351 words long. the fifth draft is 109,998 words long
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
by not writing, you're only delaying the inevitable. so. write
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
teach yourself to type with your feet so you can write two books at once
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
proofreading my novel while wearing a t-shirt with "i'd rather be writing (my other novel's title)" embroidered onto it as a bit
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
if you've been proofreading so long it's making you angry,
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
have your protagonist yell "BOOBS" occasionally to check your readers are paying attention
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i had a really good idea for a great writing tip but forgot to write it down. indicative of the general writing experience, i guess
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
that character would say that, you just have to read the sentence with their voice in your head
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
if the sound you make when people ask 'how's the writing going' is funny enough, you don't have to answer
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
jeff wants you to write the book so you should
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
just don’t think too hard about it. or at all . just stop thinking .
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
actually it's not just repeating words. if you repeat a letter twice it's already over
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
find whoever wrote the 'curtains were fucking blue' post and force them through all 7 volumes of marcel proust's 'in search of lost time' and james joyce's bibliography until they're nothing more than a gibbering wreck
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
write a story about someone who fucks some kind of personified object and everyone will go absolutely wild
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
bOOk
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i mean, yeah, that comma being in the wrong place may actually be the worst thing that's ever happened to anyone
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"but if i write that it'll be sooooo silly..." NO. SHUT THAT THOUGHT DOWN. THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WHIMSY
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
imagine if there was a book that put romance and fantasy together. how wild that would be. like some kind of. fantance
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
make your characters feel more real by giving them fun quirks inspired by people you know in real life! for example, my wife cannot tell the time
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
push him in th. the well. he goes in there
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
why don't you just uhhh. ummm. make your whole face take up 65% of your fiction book's ai generated cover. yeha. that's normal right. totally normal thing to do. oh and spell your own name wrong too
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
who cares if your protagonist is a little annoying? some people like annoying characters
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
whatever you're writing, it's a musical now
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
it's never too late to have your protagonist abducted by aliens
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
never take writing advice from random people on the internet. not even me
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
screenshot of a tumblr post which reads:
writing tip #4258
if you take good care of yourself for a whole week – drink water, eat well, sleep on time – you will enter a state in which you feel soemthing called Good™. at this time, you will be blessed by the muses with Incredible Idea™, and drink from the bountiful well of motivation, and at once write with such a passionate, frenzied fervor that you neither drink, nor eat, nor rest until at last you reach a state where you feel something called Not Good™, and realize Incredible Idea™ has seventeen plot holes and a misdemeanor charge
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
just write what you want to read! and if it turns out other people want to read too, well... fuck you
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
not really feeling writing today? just don't!
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the best thing to write is 'one day my dog splat did 5 tricks and then kicked grandma down the well, where she lives now for a hundred years'. but you can't because i've just written it. hahahaha fuck you
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
write something that will make you say "what the fuck" when you find it fifteen years later
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
put the pen down. ok now why did you put the pen down do you not like writing or what
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
don't forget to dig your characters up before you put them in the book, otherwise they'll stay in the ground
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
if your climax isn't dramatic enough, just have some guy show up and start shooting colourful beams at people or something i don't know
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
anyone who creates an AI writing tool does not want you to write better. they want $10 a month
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
if you're struggling, get your homonculus to give you writing prompts. don't forget to punish it if it gives you a bad one. they need to learn
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hello everyone, i am now also on threads! you can follow me on there too if you'd like: www.threads.com/@gr8writingt...
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
if you write a book that's too long people might get bored (and that's a good thing)
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
if you don't name your character ulysses, you never have to remember whether the possessive form is ulysses' or ulysses's
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
if your protagonist is too powerful just bench them for the climax, it's nbd
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