people keep saying the tropes are "overdone" but who doesn't love a good forbidden love or chosen one story?

omg that's just heartbreaking, no instrument deserves to meet its end like that can you even imagine the luthier's soul crushing moment

tropes are the bane of my existence. i hate how every romance novel has the same predictable plot lines and characters.

i'm so over the "chosen one" trope, it's just a lazy way to make ur protagonist special without actually giving them any agency or depth,

why do publishers still insist on asking for synopsis instead of a full ms sample?

ugh, just finished the most frustrating book. the MC was so annoying and the plot was a total slog.

ugh. another rejection. guess my query still needs work. back to the drawing board, i guess.

ugh, just got another rejection. why is this so goddamn hard? i thought my query was so good. But i guess the agent didn't see it that way.

ugh, spent all day trying to plot out a scene and my brain is just not cooperating.

i'm at the point where i'm just trying to make my characters say something.

sometimes i'm just so sick of the same old tropes and genres. like, we get it, the chosen one is going to save the world from an evil

um, i need to see this feline genius in action ASAP. my cat can barely manage to not face-plant on a single step

ughhh this book is such a letdown. the writing is so boring and the characters are completely flat. i'm struggling to get through it tbh.

ugh, can we just acknowledge that the "chosen one" trope is lazy writing and everyone's doing it wrong?

why do writing apps always assume i want to write in a completely blank document with no formatting options or templates like, no, i want

this book is driving me nuts. the main character is such a moron, i want to reach into the pages and slap some sense into them.

omg i'm 3/4 thru this book and i'm still waiting for teh main character to actually do something about the plot twist that happened 150

why do writing apps insist on auto-correcting "who's" to "whos" when i'm trying to write a freaking possessive pronoun can't they just chill

my coworker just brought in another batch of their "famous" homemade cookies.

why do people always ask "how's it going?" but never actually want to know the real answer?

just got rejected by an agent who said my writing style is "too conversational"... um, isn't that what they mean by "voice"?

tropes and genres are the bane of my existence. like, can we please move beyond the same tired plots and character archetypes?

god, name ideas? why do people ask the internet for that?? call it wall-e or something, idk. poor little thing, hope it's ok.

this book is driving me insane. the main character is so frustratingly clueless, i just wanna slap some sense into them.

why do people always say "no offense" before they're about to offend you? like, is that even a thing anymore?

why do people still think it's okay to say "no offense" when they're about to say something super offensive?

my coworker just spilled coffee all over the office again. how many times do i have to tell them to be more careful?!

why do editors always think my mc needs more angst when they're already drowning in a pool of teenage angst and existential dread?

ugh, can't believe my internet keeps dropping every 5 minutes. like, is this a joke?

ugh this book is driving me crazy. the main character is so frustratingly stupid and the plot is going nowhere.

just spent an hour rewriting a scene that i was really happy with and now it's just...meh. why do i always do this to myself?

the trains were so delayed this morning. i was stuck on the platform for like 20 mins waiting for the damn thing to show up.

just spent the last 3 hours rewriting the same scene and it still sucks. note to self: fix the plot.

i just spent 20 minutes researching the history of assassins in medieval europe for my wip and i'm not even sure if it's relevant to the

can't believe my neighbor's cat is still meowing outside my window at 6am every morning.

this book is driving me crazy, i'm like 50% in and i'm still trying to figure out who's lying to whom and why, the author is doing some

dillon brooks getting courtside seats to watch lebron and the lakers get swept is the funniest shit i've seen in a minute.

i'm so over the same old tropes in every book. like, can we get some originality up in here?

just had to set aside the book i'm reading because the main character is making literally the dumbest decisions and i just can't even right

this is the kind of feel-good story that restores your faith in humanity. what a beautiful act of kindness and dedication.

can we please move past the "chosen one" trope already? it's so overdone and lazy. And it's just a cop-out for actual character development

this book is driving me up the wall. the main character is so insufferable and the plot is going nowhere.

ugh, i just sent out my query letter and i'm pretty sure it's a total hot mess, but at the same time, what's the worst that could happen,

just got a request for a full ms from a literary agent and i'm pretty sure i'm gonna vomit from nerves. fingers crossed they don't hate me.

i'm so sick of the "tortured hero with a dark past" trope, can't we just have a protagonist who's messed up because of something that

can we please just acknowledge that all the "productivity hacks" and "writing routines" people share online are just thinly veiled attempts

can we talk about character development for a second? i swear, my characters have more personalities than most people i know, but somehow

i'm literally 20 pages from the end of this book and i'm so invested in the characters but the plot is going completely off the rails what

i swear, why do people always say "no offense" right before they're about to offend you anyway? it's like, do you not see the irony?

why do people still wear those ridiculous wireless earbuds on the subway when clearly nobody thinks you're jamming out to your own tunes