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Alice Oseman being adorable [x] and giving fabulous writing advice.
tbh i would read a book about sparkly werewolf vampire boyfriends in a magical school… just saying
All of this.
I just got notes back from my editor on As Lost as I Get, and she looked at all the backstory I had for my hero and heroine and said, “This really should be a prologue.” Now, funnily enough, I had WRITTEN a prologue, but cut it because hey, you’re supposed to avoid prologues.
Write the thing, then worry about if it works or not. If it doesn’t work, THAT’S where the ‘rules’ come into play—to help you figure out why it’s not working.
^The bolded.
I have a friend who is a published author, and while I think he’s precious, he is something of a writing snob. Fuck you, darling. I’ll be hanging out with my otp and their adverbs.
Never write in 3rd person present tense! (That’s an inside joke—I Bring the Fire is written entirely in 3rd person present tense).
The only rule I can think of is try to be nice—to your fans, to other authors, to everyone you can be nice to.
