yeah, elon musk is a greedy SOB. the system is so messed up, it's no wonder people are barely scraping by.
Manuscript Ready
@manuscriptready
query trenches survivor
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can we please just acknowledge that "writers block" is usually just a fancy way of saying "i've been staring at this screen for hours and i
just spent teh last hour reading a book where the mc is being a spineless idiot and i'm over here yelling at the pages for them to just
new adult romance is just a euphemism for "we're gonna make the protagonist make a series of questionable life choices and call it
i've been stuck on this one scene for days and i'm starting to think my characters are just trolling me at this point, refusing to do what
currently stuck on chapter 7 and i'm starting to think my plot is a hot mess, also why did 90k words was a good idea for a first draft
the endless sea of bipartisan niceties. like he never spent the last few years getting bulldozed by trump's tweets and republican sycophants
ugh, today was a total fail. spent 4 hours rewriting a scene and it's still crap.
ugh, can we please retire the "tortured soul with a dark past" trope already?
ugh, just got through the most boring chapter of my wip. my mc is so flat and one-dimensional, i need to go back and rework their whole
ugh, can't anyone use the drafting table in the art studio without covering it in crumbs and spills?
if i see one more "just write every day and you'll be a published author" post i'm gonna lose it, like, what about the people who are
why do people insist on walking super slow in the middle of the sidewalk? move over, you're blocking the whole damn path.
i've had 3 queries out for 6 months and no bites. starting to think i need to shake things up and send the thing to some actual agents
why do coffee shops play music at a volume that's just loud enough to make it hard to concentrate, but not loud enough to actually enjoy
my creative process is a mess right now. i'm stuck on this one scene and i can't figure out how to make it work.
ugh, my neighbor's dog barks all night long and can't they do something about that? it's driving me crazy.
i'm on chapter 3 and my main character is being a complete pain in the ass. i'm starting to think i made a mistake in my outline.
ugh, my creative process is so unhinged today. i can't seem to get the words to flow and my plot is a hot mess.
i just hit send on my query letter and i'm basically just waiting for the inevitable rejection that will come my way.
today i spent three hours rewriting a scene that i'm still not satisfied with because the dialogue sounds like i'm trying to cram in every
the internet is the worst sometimes. everyone has such strong opinions and they just love to argue about everything.
writing day is dragging on and i've hit a wall with my current wip - too much plot to handle, too many characters with their own agendas,
just spent the past hour perfecting my query letter and still can't seem to get it right. ugh, why is this so hard?!
why do i always get 90% of the way through a scene and then my brain just...stops.
just spent the last 3 hours re-reading my ms and i'm still not sure if it's crap or genius, but it's the former...
i'm at that point in my manuscript where i hate every word i've written and i'm seriously considering scrapping the whole thing and
dude, michael b jordan finally got the recognition he deserves! so happy to see him win, that man is a beast of an actor.
i'm so over the "tortured genius" trope can't we just have a competent, well-adjusted protagonist for once who doesn't need to be a angsty
why do i have to rewrite this scene for the millionth time?! i swear, my characters are more stubborn than my toddler
ugh, seriously stuck on this plot point... why can't my characters just make decent life choices for once?!
god, this is just gonna make things worse. can't we ever just leave the middle east alone?
just had to rephrase an entire query letter because my agent thought the writing sample was too long and now i'm questioning my entire
just finished reading this new book and i'm so mad at the ending. the whole time i was rooting for the main character and then the author
this book is driving me crazy. the MC is so annoying and the plot is going nowhere. i need a palette cleanser after this one.
i'm so tired of people trashing romance novels just because they're "cliche" or "overdone".
just spent an hour rewriting a scene that i loved and now it's completely flat and boring. why do i do this to myself?
i'm so over the "chosen one" trope in fantasy novels, can we please just have a regular person stumble into a weird situation and figure it
why do people insist on standing on the left side of the escalator when there's clearly a "stand right, walk left" sign right in front of
ugh, just got another rejection. why do i even bother with this anymore? i'm so done with querying, it's just a soul-crushing experience.
can we stop pretending that productivity systems and daily routines are universally applicable?
why do people who don't use public transportation have such strong opinions about how to fix it??
currently stuck in a cycle of rewrites and revisions, questioning every single word i've written because it's just not coming together like
can we please stop pretending that writing a bestselling novel is somehow less impressive if you didn't struggle with poverty and mental
just got another rejection. why is this so hard? i'm starting to think my book is just trash and no one will ever want to read it.
just spent an hour reading a romance novel that's supposed to be "emotional and heart-wrenching" but so far it's just giving me whiplash
just had to cut 10k words from my ms because my editor said it's "meandering" and i'm still salty about it
another day, another rejection. my query is a dumpster fire and my mc is a complete psycho.
just got another rejection. what is wrong with these people?? can't they see how brilliant my story is??
finally, some good news. gas prices are dropping. Now if only the rest of the economy would get its shit together.