You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create. Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💫 It’s okay to write fiction you would not want your grandmother to see. 💫 Different stories are for different audiences. 💫 You do not have to appeal to everyone. 💫 Don’t sacrifice the story you want to tell for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When people– and especially young women– are attracted to “abusive” and “controlling” and “violent” male characters in fiction– The fantasy is not about being abused, or controlled. The fantasy is about a partner who is devoted to you, who takes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ All fiction is art and has artistic merit. ✨ Yes, including the novel you hid in a drawer. ✨ Yes, including Marvel movies. ✨ Yes, including soap operas. ✨ Yes, including slasher flicks and torture porn. ✨ Yes, including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let’s talk about how to think about the artistic merit inherent in smut and pornography. Smut and porn have the same amount of artistic merit and worthiness as every other kind of fiction, and can be interrogated in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
actually, yes, you can fight fate. You can in fact punch it in the face until it gives up. I used time travel to fix things and after lots of work everyone is alive and happy and I got what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I like to write about it in fiction” does not mean “I desire it to happen in real life”, and never has. What you want to write about doesn’t necessarily mean anything about you, besides that you want to write[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ Challenge yourself: to write what you want to write, rather than what you think other people want to read. ⭐ Challenge yourself: to write at a pace that works for you, rather than one that will burn you out.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ They don’t have to be good words. ✏️ They don’t have to be many words. ✏️ They don’t have to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…