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.
This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.
I feel like so many people get catered to with the bad boy archetype being everywhere in the media that they can not even imagine that some people think the sexiest thing a man can be for a woman is a down bad pathetic loser. Just weak and desperate. Colin Bridgerton was on his knees, tears in his eyes BEGGING for chance.
Colin being all protective and “I will fix it for you” then coming back like “well I’ve actually made it so much worse” in true bridgerton fashion. I know it’s a serious situation but, absolutely hilarious
Colin Bridgerton truly is a man of action, but only if his family points out that he should do something first lol. His mom is like “hey you should maybe talk to Penelope before she gets engaged.”
And Colin goes, “Yes, absolutely, good point. I’ll go get engaged to Penelope immediately. Thanks mom.”
And then Anthony goes, “Hey you should probably tell Penelope you love her with your words.”
And Colin immediately stands up and is like, “Such a great point, I’m going NOW.”
Made the mistake of bringing up that needing glasses is a disability on tiktok and people got real mad.
“You can fix it with glasses” yeah, cuz they’re a disability aid? But like, I still have to pay 160 bucks to use my own fucking eyes?
Like, by definition, if your eyes do not work without aid, you have a disability to see.
Having a disability doesn’t automatically put you in what people consider the “disabled” category, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is in fact, a disability.
Thank you to the person who brought this post back into my notifs because I just recently got a new pair of glasses!
And it only cost me $305!! What a steal!! A perfectly acceptable price to pay to be able to properly function in society! (Internal screaming)
Please always remember that glasses are a disability aid. Some of us literally cannot function without them.
What the fuck is this shit? I always assumed circus peanuts were actual peanuts. What am I looking at.
itās sort of a hard foam that tastes like ground-up couch cushions from grandmaās house
These fucking things I swear to god.
For those unaware, circus peanuts are shaped like peanuts, colored orange, and taste like banana. Specifically, extinct banana flavoring. Itās a candy with an identity crisis.
The texture is between candy corn/mellowcreme andā¦Iāve never eaten it, but Floam? Is Floam still a thing? Itās dense, intense, and has little tiny air pockets that somehow make it *denser*.
āThey were created in the 1800s, when everything was kind of terrible, and the recipe is āsugar, pork gelatin, corn syrup, food coloring, soy protein, artificial flavors, and pectinā
āThey were one of the original penny candies, making them overpriced by a cent
āThere are only a few companies still making them because they require very delicate temperature control for consistencyā¦consistency
āThe inventor of Circus Peanuts got away smoothly with their crime, unnamed and uncredited in history
āLucky Charms was invented because General Mills employee John Holahan decided to āchopā Circus Peanuts into a bowl of Cheerios and āfell in loveā with it, proving that 1) redemption arcs are real and 2) there are worse food crimes than putting fake crab on a waffle
Iām sorry, what was that last part? What about the crab waffles?
