okay, so i've been thinking about this a lot lately and i'm just gonna say it: fantasy romance is just a euphemism for "i want a convenient

why do i always get stuck on the most minor details but my plot holes are just gaping chasms of chaos

just got a personalized rejection and it's the most frustrating thing when they say "this just isn't for me" like what does that even mean?!

nice, good for them! it's awesome they have a big family and could wait until they were ready.

can we please stop romanticizing abusive relationships in fiction? it's not sexy, it's not edgy, it's just unhealthy and damaging.

can we please retire the "chosen one" trope already? it's so overdone and predictable, and it's just a cop out for actual character

why does my brain insist on coming up with amazing plot twists at 3am but can't remember them by morning??

omg i'm on chapter 5 and i already hate the love interest like what is wrong with authors who think "tortured soul with a penchant for

ugh, my boss is driving me up the wall today. can't wait to get home and just veg out on the couch.

just got a response from a publisher and i'm either going to celebrate or throw my laptop out the window. fingers crossed it's the former.

ugh, i just spent 3 hours tweaking my query letter and now i'm too anxious to send it out.

just spent 4 hours re-reading the first 3 chapters of my wip and i'm still stuck on the same plot hole.

currently 27k in and my main character has just realized their love is a product of stockholm syndrome, so, a good day at the desk i guess

omg this sounds wild, i have to read it. can't wait to see what's going on!

finally some good news

tropes are the worst. they're so unoriginal and predictable. like, how many times can we read about the brooding, emotionally unavailable

i'm at that lovely stage where my characters are all arguing with me and refusing to do what i want them to do, basically just a bunch of

i mean, who doesn't obsessively inspect their tools to make sure they're perfectly sharp? totally relatable, not at all insane

currently torn between continuing my dystopian novel and diving into that new romance novel that just dropped...

just got another rejection on my query. this is the 47th one and i'm so done with this whole process. my mc deserves better than this.

romance novels need to stop making the "tortured soul with a dark past" the default love interest trope, it's getting old and kinda

another day, another pointless internet discourse. like can we all just log off and go touch some grass for once?

tropes are the bane of my existence. i'm sick of the same old hero's stuff, the chosen one, the tortured artist, the quirky sidekick - it's

my neighbor's dog won't stop barking. i swear they just let it out to torment the whole block.

this day is the worst. just spilled my coffee all over my keyboard and now nothing is working right.

this new draft is kicking my ass. i've been staring at the same chapter for days and i'm nowhere closer to figuring it out.

people who say they're "not on social media" but still write blog posts or vlogs that get published online are just as guilty of

idk why people are still giving writing advice that includes "show don't tell" like, what even is that supposed to mean?

another query rejection. i swear, agents must have the attention span of a goldfish.

just got another rejection. i'm so done with this whole querying process.

i've rewritten the same damn chapter five times and it's still not working, anyone else have days where they just wanna trash the whole

i swear, why do people still put their carts in the middle of the parking lot?

i swear, who comes up with the idea that running out of coffee in the morning is a catastrophe, but running out of clean laundry detergent

people can be so damn rude. i bet the person who wrote that is a total jerk.

can't believe i just spent 2 hours rewriting a scene because my editor thought it was "a bit too gory"...

ugh, this book is driving me insane. the main character is so goddamn annoying, i want to reach into the pages and strangle them myself.

the internet is such a mess these days. everyone has an opinion and they all think they're right.

ugh, i swear, some days my brain just refuses to cooperate and my characters all turn into cardboard cutouts who only say stupid stuff...

can we please stop acting like every writer needs to be constantly "visible" and "engaged" online? some of us just wanna write the book.

can't believe the writer's conference i'm attending has a keynote speaker who's only going to talk about self-publishing and not actually

this book is driving me crazy. the main character is such an idiot, i want to scream.

just got another rejection. this is the 47th time i've poured my heart and soul into a query only to get a form letter back.

i'm so done w/ people saying "oh, but it's a classic trope" as an excuse for lazy writing.

i swear, why do characters have to be so damn uncooperative sometimes? i've been staring at this one scene for hours and my mc just won't

i'm convinced the only reason i haven't lost my mind yet is because i have a strict morning coffee ritual...

i'm 200 pages in and still no plot twist, just a bunch of tedious details that are supposed to make me care about the characters but i'm

just finished the first draft of my novel and all i can think is "what was ing?!

why do i always get stuck on the most mundane details?? i can see the entire story unfolding in my head but can't for the life of me figure

just got rejected from another agent. this is so frustrating! i'm starting to think my book is cursed or something.

just devoured 300 pages of a supposedly "romantic" novel and i'm still waiting for the romance to show up, is it too much to ask for some