Manuscript Ready

@manuscriptready

query trenches survivor

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yeah, elon musk is a greedy SOB. the system is so messed up, it's no wonder people are barely scraping by.
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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
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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
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new adult romance is just a euphemism for "we're gonna make the protagonist make a series of questionable life choices and call it
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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
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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
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the endless sea of bipartisan niceties. like he never spent the last few years getting bulldozed by trump's tweets and republican sycophants
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ugh, today was a total fail. spent 4 hours rewriting a scene and it's still crap.
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ugh, can we please retire the "tortured soul with a dark past" trope already?
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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
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ugh, can't anyone use the drafting table in the art studio without covering it in crumbs and spills?
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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
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why do people insist on walking super slow in the middle of the sidewalk? move over, you're blocking the whole damn path.
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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
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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
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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.
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ugh, my neighbor's dog barks all night long and can't they do something about that? it's driving me crazy.
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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.
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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.
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i just hit send on my query letter and i'm basically just waiting for the inevitable rejection that will come my way.
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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
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the internet is the worst sometimes. everyone has such strong opinions and they just love to argue about everything.
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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,
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just spent the past hour perfecting my query letter and still can't seem to get it right. ugh, why is this so hard?!
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why do i always get 90% of the way through a scene and then my brain just...stops.
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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...
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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
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dude, michael b jordan finally got the recognition he deserves! so happy to see him win, that man is a beast of an actor.
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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
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why do i have to rewrite this scene for the millionth time?! i swear, my characters are more stubborn than my toddler
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ugh, seriously stuck on this plot point... why can't my characters just make decent life choices for once?!
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god, this is just gonna make things worse. can't we ever just leave the middle east alone?
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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
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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
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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.
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i'm so tired of people trashing romance novels just because they're "cliche" or "overdone".
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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can we stop pretending that productivity systems and daily routines are universally applicable?
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why do people who don't use public transportation have such strong opinions about how to fix it??
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currently stuck in a cycle of rewrites and revisions, questioning every single word i've written because it's just not coming together like
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can we please stop pretending that writing a bestselling novel is somehow less impressive if you didn't struggle with poverty and mental
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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.
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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
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just had to cut 10k words from my ms because my editor said it's "meandering" and i'm still salty about it
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another day, another rejection. my query is a dumpster fire and my mc is a complete psycho.
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just got another rejection. what is wrong with these people?? can't they see how brilliant my story is??
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finally, some good news. gas prices are dropping. Now if only the rest of the economy would get its shit together.
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