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You don’t have to pay for that fancy worldbuilding program
As mentioned in this post about writing with executive dysfunction, if one of your reasons to keep procrastinating on starting your book is not being able to afford something like World Anvil or Campfire, I’m here to tell you those programs are a luxury, not a necessity: Enter Google Suite (not sponsored but gosh I wish).
MS Office offers more processing power and more fine-tuning, but Office is expensive and only autosaves to OneDrive, and I have a perfectly healthy grudge against OneDrive for failing to sync and losing 19k words of a WIP that I never got back.
Google’s sync has never failed me, and the Google apps (at least for iPhone) aren’t nearly as buggy and clunky as Microsoft’s. So today I’m outlining the system I used for my upcoming fantasy novel with all the helpful pictures and diagrams. Maybe this won’t work for you, maybe you have something else, and that’s okay! I refuse to pay for what I can get legally for free and sometimes Google’s simplicity is to its benefit.
The biggest downside is that you have to manually input and update your data, but as someone who loves organizing and made all these willingly and for fun, I don’t mind.
So. Let’s start with Google Sheets.
The Character Cheat Sheet:
I organized it this way for several reasons:
I can easily see which characters belong to which factions and how many I have named and have to keep up with for each faction
All names are in alphabetical order so when I have to come up with a new name, I can look at my list and pick a letter or a string of sounds I haven’t used as often (and then ignore it and start 8 names with A).
The strikethrough feature lets me keep track of which characters I kill off (yes, I changed it, so this remains spoiler-free)
It’s an easy place to go instead of scrolling up and down an entire manuscript for names I’ve forgotten, with every named character, however minor their role, all in one spot
Also on this page are spare names I’ll see randomly in other media (commercials, movie end credits, etc) and can add easily from my phone before I forget
Also on this page are my summary, my elevator pitch, and important character beats I could otherwise easily mess up, it helps stay consistent
*I also have on here not pictured an age timeline for all my vampires so I keep track of who’s older than who and how well I’ve staggered their ages relative to important events, but it’s made in Photoshop and too much of a pain to censor and add here
On other tabs, I keep track of location names, deities, made-up vocabulary and definitions, and my chapter word count.
The Word Count Guide:
*3/30 Edit to update this chart to its full glory. Column 3 is a cumulative count. Most of what I write breaks 100k and it's fun watching the word count rise until it boils over.
This is the most frustrating to update manually, especially if you don’t have separate docs for each chapter, but it really helps me stay consistent with chapter lengths and the formula for calculating the average and rising totals is super basic.
Not that all your chapters have to be uniform, but if you care about that, this little chart is a fantastic visualizer.
If you have multiple narrators, and this book does, you can also keep track of how many POVs each narrator has, and how spread out they are. I didn’t do that for this book since it’s not an ensemble team and matters less, but I did for my sci-fi WIP, pictured below.
As I was writing that one, I had “scripted” the chapters before going back and writing out all the glorious narrative, and updated the symbols from “scripted” to “finished” accordingly.
I also have a pie chart that I had to make manually on a convoluted iPhone app to color coordinate specifically the way I wanted to easily tell who narrates the most out of the cast, and who needs more representation.
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Google Docs
Can’t show you much here unfortunately but I’d like to take an aside to talk about my “scene bits” docs.
It’s what it says on the tin, an entire doc all labeled with different heading styles with blurbs for each scene I want to include at some point in the book so I can hop around easily. Whether they make it into the manuscript or not, all practice is good practice and I like to keep old ideas because they might be useful in unsuspecting ways later.
Separate from that, I keep most of my deleted scenes and scene chunks for, again, possible use later in a “deleted scenes” doc, all labeled accordingly.
When I designed my alien language for the sci-fi series, I created a Word doc dictionary and my own "translation" matrix, for easy look-up or word generation whenever I needed it (do y'all want a breakdown for creating foreign languages? It's so fun).
Normally, as with my sci-fi series, I have an entire doc filled with character sheets and important details, I just… didn’t do that for this book. But the point is—you can still make those for free on any word processing software, you don’t need fancy gadgets.
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I hope this helps anyone struggling! It doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Everything I made here, minus the aforementioned timeline and pie chart, was done with basic excel skills and the paint bucket tool. I imagine this can be applicable to games, comics, what have you, it knows no bounds!
Now you have one less excuse to sit down and start writing.
#writing advice#writing resources#writing tips#writing tools#writing a book#writing#writeblr#organizing your book#outlining#shut up and write the book#google sheets#google docs
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A good guide for baby writers...
Shut up and write the book is a comprehensive breakdown on how to write a book. It covers everything from how to come up with ideas, worldbuilding, and character creation, through a full breakdown of the common story beats, and even how to approach self and professional edits.
It covers choosing tense and point of view, it addresses subplots and pacing, and all of it is written in Jenna's familiar and sassy tone that anyone who has seen her youtube videos would be familiar with.
And yet, I was left feeling… just a little despondent.
With the caveat that I don't read many non-fiction books, those I do pick up tend to be related to writing. I just don't know what I expected from this except… more.
And maybe this is on me. Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe I was expecting some hidden secrets into the mind and world of a "bestselling author"...
Maybe I simply know more about how to write a book than I thought I did and need more confidence in my own skills, but while I found the book's voice clever and entertaining, its substance left me feeling like I'd read it all before with only a half decent internet search.
It left me feeling like this would be a great book for first-time writers. It gathers all the basic information together in one place and keeps it concise and easy to parse. The ARC copy I received had 216 pages of content covering twenty-six chapters, and every chapter came with a summary at the end, like a helpful reference sheet reminding you of what that chapter had just gone over.
It's short, and sweet, and would be a fantastic reference book for a writer just starting out on their journey.
Or one who doesn't want to do the research and reading required to figure out their craft.
This book puts all the basics together for you, it's a fantastic beginners' guide, but if you've been writing for a while, if you have a handful of years under your belt or know how to do your own research, then don't think that the accolade of 'bestselling author' means this book is going to give you any fresh, new insights.
Shut Up and Write The Book is available for Preorder
#Writeblr#Writeblr Community#Bookblr#Bookblr Community#ARC#ARC Review#Arc Reviewer#Jenna Moreci#Shut Up And Write The Book#SUAWTB#Ari Speaks#Arista Speaks#Ari Reviews#Arista Reviews
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Shut Up and Write the Book: Does it work?
My review of Shut Up and Write the Book, the writing guide by @jennamoreci, boils down to a single question: Does it work?
If you’re a writer, you probably have at least one shelf full of books about writing. You probably have a copy of Strunk & White, Stephen King’s On Writing, Writer’s Market, The Chicago Manual of Style, and a dictionary and thesaurus you haven’t opened for years because you now look up words online. You might also have guidebooks for writing your specific genre and format. When I was…
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one of the oddest arguments i've ever gotten into was like. i had agreed to give a dude a chance. we were on a first date. and he got. just. so mad. because i had told him i read about 2-5 books a week.
but he found out it was actually that i listen to 2-5 audiobooks. he was dead set on the idea - that's not reading, it's just listening. that i was lying, somehow, by implying i'd "read" the book.
language has a beautiful ability to adapt over time, particularly in the face of technology. when i "connect to the internet" i'm referencing the oldschool method of literally plugging into the internet - which i very rarely physically do. i roll down my window, which is a reference to the circular mechanical action it used to take. hell - the floppy disc remains our resolute save file icon. when i say i "ran to the store," nobody expects me to actually run - and what my version of running to the store looks like and your version are probably pretty different.
i told the guy, baffled: i look at things through glasses, that's still seeing. nobody complains i'm filtering the image.
he says: that's not the same and you know it.
i use audiobooks because i have adhd, and it makes it so i can actually focus. i am using it to help a medically diagnosed condition.
language also has a really cool ability: when we read something, our brains look at a word and make an image. when we hear a story, our brains hear a word and make an image. whether we hear it or read it - the word means the same thing, written or spoken. there is no quantifiable difference in the knowledge-encoding experience - i still happily hallucinate while i'm listening.
and i just kind of stared at him while he was telling me that "claiming" i had "actually read" a book that i had actually-listened-to was lying
and my only baffled response was like: "... are you gatekeeping the experience of... reading?"
#1. do you think someone who listens to 2-5 books a week DOESNT read with her eyes?#2. i was fucking BLIND for TWO MONTHS#so YEAH maybe im SENSITIVE#3. shut the FUCK up i am not DESTROYING SOCIETY by being like ''hahaha this experience is basically the same for me''#i am still fucking engaging with the literature dude#4. i consider it reading. die mad about it#5. this is just a personal note but they are LITERALLY equivalent to me#bc i mean i guess 7k posts in i should probably finally admit#i have a lowkey form of synesthesia#to be fair i didn't know until like this year when my therapist was like#''... you WHAT''#but like when im talking i see words and when im writing i legit hear them#like HEAR THEM#i just thought everyone had that#thats called thinking#but it turns out the fact that i sometimes mishear a word and write down what i misheard#means maybe i am fuckt a little in my head#anyway obvi when i read i hear the word too#i cAN sometimes see other people's words but it's usually just my own#and i was like#(again)#thats just like how . people talk#but it turns out if u sometimes misread what you're supposed to be saying#something might be . uhhhhhhhh#not normal#fun fact.#it turns out (i havent googled but she said)#that it's not UNUSUAL for neurodiverse people to have like#SOME lowkey form of synesthesia#but we only associate it with REALLY severe cases so we just assume like .... couldn't be me
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characters that fall into this general vibe make me want to EAT GLASS
#justice from dark rise by c.s pacat you will always be famous to ME#writing#im being dramatic abt a character from a book nobody's read again#AAUGH THE TRAGIC HERO WHO DID IT ALL FOR NOTHING AND WHO WAS NEVER ANYTHING BUT WHAT HE THOUGHT HE NEEDED TO BE#BRAINWASHED AND DEVOTED AND GUILTY AND DEAD. AAUUGHBBSNDKG#dark rise#justice dark rise#dark heir#dark rise spoilers#but only bc i cant shut up in the tags
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"Nico solo book should be a tragedy" disagree.
Nico was Rick Riordan's first canonically queer character, and the first book queer character a lot of my generation knew about as kids- it would be a huge slap on the face of his audience if his story ended as a tragedy, and Riordan knows that. Thats why solangelo has such a solid, healthy dynamic in the background of toa.
Of now, he's also one of very few pjo-verse characters to be basically confirmed mentally ill, and he's also really disabled in the text, whether its said or not.
Nico is a queer orphan who's entire storyline til toa was just tragedy after tragedy after goddamn tragedy, and who has JUST begun to heal. He deserves a happy ending.
More importantly, the audience- the queer, disabled, mentally ill kids who see themselves in him- deserve to see him be happy at the end.
To make his story a tragedy would be to validate Nico's (and Hades') belief that kids like him don't get a happy ending. That all we're made for is tragedy.
Rick Riordan first wrote The Lightning Thief so his adhd son could finally see himself in a hero. He keeps writing after his son is grown because he knows how much other kids need those stories- his students, even. He knows.
It's even in the narrative itself: it tells us upfront that Percy's mother called him Perseus because he was the only greek hero who got a happy ending.
Nico is the queer kid's original Perseus.
The reasoning follows that he must be happy.
#alex wont shut up#nico di angelo#pjo#hoo#toa#tsats#is that the acronym? ill be honest you guys idk#nico solo book#idc about will tbh#growing REAL tired of all the tragedy talk. gucking hell.#like you can like whatever you want and write your own fanfics but#sometimes theres a REASON for a story to exist#you cant just ignore it bc of whatever#pjo is a story about how the gods arent always right#its about surviving the odds#to NOT have Nico survive then. would defeat the fucking point
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so if i hypothetically wrote a fic about the beginning of ACFTL but like more jacks’ pov and more angsty, would that hypothetically interest anyone?
bc my brain is throwing ideas at me and i might just have to write them 💗
#acftl#a curse for true love#ouabh#evajacks#i do love the book#but my brain is not shutting up#i really want to write this so i might just do it
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TOP 5 FAVORITE KIRBY CHARACTERS
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AUGHAHGSBABDH....I LOVE ALL OF THEM SOSOSO MUCH <33 BUT HERE'S SOME OF THE ONES I THINK ARE VERY COOL (plus my thought process when drawing them)
6. cmonn... its kirby. kirby from kirby. he's such a wonderful fellow and so awe inspiring and cute and manifestation of love and friendship. he's a bonus but how could you not love him.
5. pitch!!!!! i love him i love him i love him. og birb with g r e e n colors and squeaky little design. plus he's super fun to use in DL3 :] to me he is a 7 year old kid who wants to be included with the big kids, and tries to act all cool and tough to impress them (but he really just loves his mama). i like drawing him with giant ahoges/head feathers, as well as giving him that long side-beak that i'm pretty sure i got from pato from pocoyo??
4. susie is amazing and wonderful and has a beautifully complex character that more people need to recognize!!! she's a capitalist and constantly has a condescending sales representative demeanor, but at heart she's just a playful girl who loves pink and ice cream and her dad that never got to have a full childhood to experience them. ALSO cyborg susie! i like to think her father let her choose one body modification each year on her birthday, but after the portal incident, she's been giving herself so many alterations that she's barely organic anymore (her voice is very AI sounding to me). uhh i like drawing her with little stars on her cuffs, and as of late i've been making her hair very fluffy (it has the same texture of a barbie doll)
3. RIBBON AAAA!!!!!!!!! i'll admit as a kid i did not like her but god she is a joy. that is a little girl! look at her! i love the idea of her being just a weird little chihuahua girl who performs seances regularly and knows the entire history of weaponry. also her being the crystal knight/guardian of ripple star headcanon!!! 🗣️🗣️ she is 100% the queen's adopted sister prove me wrong. lastly, i try to draw her as heart-shaped as possible— wings, head, hair, bow, eye highlights all vaguely resemble a heart and that is my biggest rule when i draw her. her little coat thing is inspired by @//somethinginworl 's design <33
2. bandana dee is my heart and soul and we tolerate ZERO disrespect for him here. even in canon, he's got one of the most well-defined personalities and backstories for a non-villain character! (in my heart he is the waddle dee from 64 and you can pry this from me with my cold dead hands) he's grown sososo much and i love how hal recognizes his development :]]] he may never amount to the same power as kirby, but goddammit if he doesn't have a heart and will of a true warrior 💜 i don't have a lot of idiosyncratic design choices since he's such a simple character, but his bandana ears must always be HUGE you hear me.
1. um. if you can't tell. i am very normal about adeleine. her moves in SA are super fun to use (and challenging), and oh my goshhhh the angst potential here. i am begging hal to bring her back in future games, especially with the more ancients-focused lore being incorporated recently. at heart though, i just really adore seeing her draw and paint amidst all these magical creatures in her life <3 she's slightly shy but super passionate, and is definitely kirby's big sister with her advice (especially in the storybooks!) and nicknames for him (kir-kun/kirbs in the manga). i caved long ago and gave her curtain bangs, and i really like dressing her up and experimenting with different outfits! *breathes heavily* the happy little artist kid makes me a very happy little artist kid 🫶
thanks for listening to my ramblings! in all honesty all of the kirby characters are my favorites and choosing just 5 is very hard and thought-inducing! :]
#if i could write a book about all my little interpretations and headcanons for these guys i would#you know a series is good when all the characters are your favorites<33#i deeply apologize for the walls of text aa#i hope the doodle makes up for ittt#i have so many thiughts about them you have no idea#*asks what my favorite kirby characters are* (i will not shut up for the next 3 hours)#kirby series#kirby#ribbon kirby#bandana dee#bandana waddle dee#susie haltmann#susie kirby#adeleine kirby#pitch kirby#pitch the bird#veves ultra cool art#ask
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I'm trying to have some downtime, but I'm also spontaneously plotting your colleague, Vampire!Higuruma, hunting you down through your office block at night
-- Haitch xxx
#jjk#jjk x reader#jjk x you#jjk x y/n#higuruma hiromi#kento nanami x reader#higuruma#higuruma hiromi x reader#higuruma smut#higuruma x reader#hiromi higuruma#hiromi higuruma x reader#jjk higuruma#jujutsu kaisen higuruma#hiromi x reader#jjk hiromi#what the fuck am I doing#haitch shut up and go write your book#*laughs at self*#there's something wrong with me#pseudowho
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If this gorilla guy dies I’m biting Wes Ball’s toes off
#So many gorillas died in the Caesar trilogy 😭 can we give these guys a break please...#ALSO? WHERE THE HECK ARE THE FEMALE GORILLAS??! 💀#AM I CRAZY OR DID WE NOT SEE A SINGLE ONE IN THE PREVIOUS TRILOGY?? OR ORIGINAL MOVIES?#It’s been a while since I’ve seen the originals and Tim Burton one but like. Hello. Where are they#Wes Ball give me female gorillas and gorilla characters that don’t die I will be forever in your service#Pota#kingdom of the planet of the apes#shut up snail#originally was gonna write “bite Wes Ball’s balls off”#I think In the Revelations tie in book there’s a mention of. ONE. Count em#one!!!#female gorilla 🗿#planet of the apes
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well, now we know where alex got it from.
#so ian has the same “its time to make a terrible pun” attitude after defeating an enemy i see#it was part of alex's spy training#ian wouldn't shut up about the importance of an epic one liner and a good pun#maybe it's inherited and john did the same goddamn thing lmao#the idiot riders and their stupid puns#im just joking i love the puns#alex rider#ian rider#this is from the short story “christmas at gunpoint” btw#if you wanna read it you can find it online or its in the 12th ar book secret weapon#i was rereading it for a fic im writing on ao3 which will hopefully be up either by tomorrow or shortly this weekend! im about halfway#finished writing it#so keep your eyes peeled for that if you're interested!!#alex rider books
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Love Is Stored in the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
On Lizzie & Ripred
The newest take I’m seeing right now, both in the TUC tags and on my “controversial TUC takes” post, is that Lizzie’s relationship with Ripred is unfounded and that the inclusion of it “robbed” us of a softer moment between Gregor and Ripred. I disagree with this take so much that I decided to write an entire essay about my thoughts on the subject. The most common argument I see against Lizzie is that she received Ripred’s affection, as well as his tragic backstory, after being present for a very short period of time, while Gregor has known Ripred for months. At a surface level, this may seem counterintuitive, but when we dig deeper into the characters and their behaviors, motivations, and allegiances, the thematic significance of Lizzie’s role in the story becomes apparent.
First and foremost, let’s take a look at Gregor. I love this kid so much, but I do believe that the core of this argument hinges on his more subtle flaws as a character. Consider this: the entirety of The Underland Chronicles is narrated from Gregor’s point-of-view. What does this mean for our perception of the story? We receive only the context that Gregor has, and we only receive the details that Gregor notices and finds important. Across the series, his understanding of the Underland and its denizens expands, grows, and solidifies. He is twelve by Code of Claw and very much still learning and growing, but some of beliefs have settled by this point.
This is where Ripred comes in. Gregor has more or less made up his mind about Ripred by the end of Curse of the Warmbloods. He wants to lead the Gnawers and will achieve that goal by any means necessary. He’s an ally, but probably not a friend, grumpy and abrasive and untouchable. Definitely not worthy of sympathy, because he can take care of himself. In short, Gregor doesn’t see Ripred as a multidimensional person, as someone with emotions outside of anger and self-importance.
In direct opposition, we have Lizzie. Upon first glance, she might seem inconsequential until Code of Claw, because her character arc is quiet and mostly happens off-screen. She’s anxious about almost everything, and the Underland puts her through a lot of trauma in the earlier books without having ever set foot down there. It took her dad from her when she was only four years old, and when he returned years later, he was ill and severely traumatized. His absence and then his inability to work meant that she grew up in poverty, spending a large portion of her childhood food insecure and without a stable home life. Similarly, the Underland suddenly took Gregor, who by that point had undertaken a parental role in the household, and Boots away on more than one occasion. These traumas were then compounded on in Curse of the Warmbloods, first when her family’s apartment was swarmed by rats and then when Grace, the stable parent and breadwinner, contracted the plague and was unable to return home.
Lizzie’s role in both Marks of Secret and Code of Claw directly opposes the effect that Gregor—and by direct extension, we as readers—expects this trauma to have on her. Lizzie is afraid of almost everything, and the Underland has harmed her directly in the past. She should approach it with fear, maybe even hostility, like Gregor does in portions of the book. Lizzie is not Gregor, though, and her key trait as a character is that she is able to see the world as a whole through different eyes. So she chooses kindness, instead.
This is where the excerpt above comes in. Lizzie has never met Ripred personally at this point, and she really only knows anything about him from Gregor’s stories—which almost certainly don’t paint Ripred in the kindest light. Lizzie sees beyond the surface of these stories, though, and considers Ripred as an entire person, with depth and emotions. What she sees between the lines is up for individual interpretation. Maybe she latches onto Ripred’s insistence that Gregor learn echolocation, a skill that might save her brother’s life. She does pester Gregor about practicing. Maybe she sees pieces of Gregor reflected in those stories about Ripred. A rager who doesn’t quite fit in where he’s from or where he’s fighting for, who can be stubborn and short-tempered and quick to hide his vulnerabilities from the people he considers himself responsible for. Maybe she sees pieces of herself reflected in those stories. Maybe, as someone who has lost pieces of her family, who has only one friend, who has likely eaten less than her share so that others could be full, she finds it easy to spot the humanity, for lack of a better word, in Ripred, like light through the crack under a locked door.
Whatever her reasons—and maybe there are no reasons beyond “he’s a person, too”—Lizzie goes out of her way to treat Ripred with kindness before she ever meets him. She sends some of her own food with Gregor so that Ripred doesn’t have to go completely hungry. She makes sure Gregor knows to share that plate of oatmeal raisin cookies with Ripred. Where Gregor rarely shows any gratefulness for his help and, in fact, rarely views him through a lens unclouded by a deeply ingrained bias against Gnawers, Lizzie is kind. Ripred notices.
This is not a matter of Ripred suddenly opening up to Lizzie for little reason after bonding with Gregor across the entire series. Ripred treats Lizzie differently because she acted differently. Their relationship is not built only on Lizzie’s similarities to Silksharp, but on a history of compassion and respect. It isn’t shoehorned in, it’s a necessary relationship that supports the central themes of The Underland Chronicles—violence, war, and colonialism are cyclical, but the refusal to continue living life based on the biases of the past can break that cycle and bring about a brighter future for everyone.
#you could say I have some thoughts on the subject idk#yes hello my name is Orion and I did write a thousand word essay on blorbos from my books#one of these days I’m gonna write about Hamnet and just never shut up lmao#formatting on mobile is a bitch and I did not do a solid proofread on this so sorry if something is a lil screwy#the underland chronicles#gregor the overlander
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The God Key is nearly at 500 copies sold which is very cool! But if anyone would like to tip me over ;) Now is your chance haha.
Idk. It's been out for nearly a year (a year in October). I want to do something to celebrate the anniversary, but I don't know what you guys might like.
So. To those who have read TGK.
#my last poll for a while I promise#The God Key#i'm going to shut up and go back to my writing/Friday night now#figured I'd also share how it's doing because being vulnerable is scary but I know there are a lot of writers on this site#so maybe it's nice to see how other people are doing?#i honestly have no idea#but at least some people have liked the book so it's a win to me :)
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aww 🥺 secret romance writer bakugou 🥺
#i KNOW for a fact this has been spoken about but i can't remember by who !!#but !!#him 🥺 sitting in his office writing his lil novels 🥺#and then absolutely sucking at romance himself LOL#would rather die than let his friends know he's the one writing such popular books 🥺#✿ shut up willow
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fire and the thud came on my spotify shuffle while me and my sister were listening to music this afternoon, and at the end of it she turns to me and goes “who was that? the lyrics sound like the kind of thing you’d write” and honestly i think it’s one of my favourite unintentional compliments i’ve ever received
#the fact that she’s been reading my writing since we were both kids and knows that side of me better than anyone too#idk it just made it really hit with that bit more weight#also something about it was weirdly validating#because like that whole album has such a special place in my heart#i have never heard anything that connects me so fundamentally with my creativity in the way humbug does#and so to have someone who knows nothing about am go ‘hey these lyrics remind me of the way your mind works’#when hearing those songs for the first time sometimes felt like someone had reached into my brain#was just#yeah#i don't even know actually#i'm not trying to claim i can write like alex btw#i'm not delusional lol#but i do hear echoes of myself and the way i connect with creativity so often in his writing#which is i think why i connect with it so much#even if i express that creativity differently#(and with less skill)#sorry i'm just rambling at this point#i feel like i'm not explaining this well at all but my brain is so foggy rn#so i'm going to shut up now and go back to my book#thanks/apologies to anyone who's read their way though this whole ramble#humbug#lulu posts
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