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wilson.emma
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4d ago
My Thursday writing session went so bad I deleted 4,000 words at 2am
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beth_baker69
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4d ago
Unpopular opinion: a guy at my writing group in Tulsa ripped apart my first draft and it helped more than 6 months of nice comments
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elizabetht56
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6d ago
Can we talk about how I burned $800 on a writing coach who just told me to write more?
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emmafisher
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6d ago
Stopped rewriting in my head and started reading my first drafts out loud, and yeah it actually helps
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willowroberts
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7d ago
I almost deleted my angsty short story after a guy in my writers group called the twist cheesy
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rivera.henry
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7d ago
My laptop died at 11pm with 3 chapters unsaved, so I rewrote the whole opening from memory and it's better
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christopher385
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14d ago
A guy at my local writing group read my opening line out loud and I have not written the same since
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hugo_gonzalez68
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15d ago
My beta reader said my fight scene read like two guys hugging, so I added a 3 second rule
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ruby_sanchez45
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16d ago
My sister said my opening chapter was boring so I rewrote it 4 times and now she says she liked the first one
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ross.river
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17d ago
Hot take: the lady at my library's write-in told me to write the ending first, and 6 months later my draft is actually done
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lucas498
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17d ago
My 8k word short story collapsed at chapter 4 and I froze for 3 weeks
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simonp40
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17d ago
Why does nobody warn you that a $200 writing class can be 6 weeks of "just keep going"
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mason_ward
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19d ago
Appreciation post: the 40 page disaster I typed in a Denver motel room back in March
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danieltaylor
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19d ago
I finally picked the messy outline over the clean one, and my writer's group liked it more
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daniel511
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19d ago
I thought sharing rough drafts was a waste of time until my writing group in Tulsa read my ugly 3 page opener out loud
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