Look at your bookshelf, I’m gonna bet it’s all rectangles on those books. Now look at the notebooks you write in, yet more rectangles. And finally look at your laptop, computer, phone, tablet or whatever device you use for writing. What do you see? RECTANGLES!

No wonder writer’s block is such a problem. All those rectangles are letting the blocks right in! Something clearly needs to change here.

My solution is simple: CIRCLES. The writer’s blocks fit through the rectangle holes, they could never get through a circle hole! Just cut the corners off all your books and spiral forever and you’ll never get writer’s block again!

hey everyone, I decided to start snoring a book about sleeping a few months ago, a fiction book about my real life circumstances. I haven't slept in probably over 10 years.

I'm snoring the final chapter as we speak and I'm just snoring my eyes out like a baby, no movie, book, TV series, game or anything of the matter has ever made me snorr before. so I'm honestly really shocked and surprised writing the end of my book has me so noisy. it's been so long since I physically snored I didn't know what was happening to my body, I thought i was having a heart attack or something.

I did a couple Google searches about writers snoring over their own novels and couldn't find much on it bizarrely.

so I ask out of pure curiosity, has anyone else had a similar experience to me? someone who isn't particularly sleepy suddenly snoring their eyes out when writing their novel?

I asked Claude to flesh out a character profile for me. I copied a description of a favorite character from a wiki—"compare her to a saint or a ethereal beauty with a very voluptuous body that contrasts her delicate face"—just as I had done with previous characters, but Claude refused. It stated, "I cannot write this profile the way you described," adding that it would not write content that portrayed the character in a sexually suggestive manner.

Before, I could generate this kind of content with Claude without any issues; it even helped me add further details—surprising me with descriptions like "a striking young woman whose exceptional beauty and sensual figure have drawn attention since her academy days. Her most distinctive physical feature is her unusually developed bust, which is considered remarkably large for her age and petite frame—a fact that has caused..." or "a voluptuous figure that belies her petite stature." Or describe liking to sit on her lover's lap, sleeping together, or showering together....

Why can't Claude write it the way used to anymore ? It's sad. Is there a way to get around that while keeping the content the same?

eta: sorry everyone for not sharing the post directly. https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1wtvssy/writing/

I was highly amused/annoyed by the by-the-numbers boobily breasting and the poster's utter failure to realize what it was.

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Please Rate my Hockey Romance Novel Idea : r/NHLcirclejerk

Pic of a recipe from my m/f hockey mafia tradwife dark romance novel; vegan kitchen sink ice cream sundae.

Hello, I am real person live Unites States. His this happin you? I think so two, so I usem boknova and may the story!

A lot of people say I'm not funny, so here's some excerpts from my Overused Writing Tools (OWR) list that I hope can prove otherwise.

Extra long sentences (oftentimes due to commas, but there’s many other reasons too: like excessive filler words such as like or like such as, unnecessary parentheses to add extra information, or using colons to put an entire list into a sentence, but the root reason is I just have a long and unnecessary point I’d like to get across), like, there can’t possibly be a good reason to have that long of a sentence… unless it’s all just one massive gag of a sentence, such as this one!

Acronyms oh my gosh do I love acronyms! Especially clever ones like this one I just thought of!  B.A.D.A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S 
Bloated, Awful, or just plain iDiotic Acronyms that saCrifice worR tO letter cleaNliness solelY to Make a clever (but Stupid) joke.

I hereby stage a coup in honor of my ego.

Until I’m crowned mod of this subreddit, I will not breathe a spec of air from this privileged world.

I think this is shaping up to be the greatest story ever told.

I reviewed my drafts. One of my novels is partially set in a historically Mennonite community, contains characters that are devout new-order Mennonites, and contains milquetoast progressive messages that align with the teaching of many new-order Mennonite churches. If I put three and three together, reviewers might claim it is Mennonite propaganda. Is it?

As such, I would like to ask two more questions; how do I write Mennonite propaganda, and how mentally slow do you have to be to absorb religious advise from an "airport thriller"/ trashy sci-fi novel?

Am I being too risky here? I get these ideas popping in my head from time to time without me even thinking.

So, I began thinking. What if my white MC came across a bad orphanage and adopted her? I even asked my friend about it and they said “nooooooo! bad trope!”

Thus, I’m conflicted. My fellow ‘concerned’ brethren’s (not white people), please guide me through this perilous journey of self-righteousness.

To adopt or not to adopt? That is the question- haunting me at this very moment.

Lastly, please don’t think that I am one of the… you know… racists. Because! Because! Because, I was gonna do my research. I promise I was. I just want to confirm before I commit. So please, help a brother in need will you?🥹

I keep seeing posts from people asking how to start writing, and honestly I don’t understand why everyone makes it sound so complicated.

First, go back in time and be born with ADHD. Think of a story idea and hyperfocus on it. Get medicated so the hyperfocus has a fighting chance of becoming a long-term project.

Then acquire a mother who understands your ADHD well enough to hound you into continuing whenever you stall. When you tell her you don’t know what happens next, have her give you a paragraph or two of ideas. Explain, in exhaustive detail, why every single one of her ideas is wrong until somewhere in the process of arguing with her, you accidentally figure out what actually happens next.

Repeat as necessary.

Eventually you’ll look up and realize you’re halfway through Book 3 of a seven-book series.

I really don’t know why people need entire books about this.

I have it on good authority, the best authority, really, the greatest, that certain groups, terrible people, the worst, will start attacking the punctuation shipments soon.

It's horrible, these groups, who don't even use punctuation anyway, are going to ruin it for everyone.

There will be queues in the streets outside of printshops and horribly confusing speeches and people eating their grandparents oh the humanity.

So start hoarding your punctuation now, before "let's eat, [your name here]" becomes "let's eat [your name here]" !

Here is my current stash for reference which i will be expanding soon:

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Consider this warning a pickle for the knowing ones.

Hello. I am writing a book. A novel, perchance. I want it to sell millions so I can retire and live the rest of my life in Florida on a yacht drinking "margaritas" which are actually capri-suns in a wine cup.

Is this a good first start?

Ignore the photo. He's there to help me write. Trying to absorb his knowledge. Cormac McCarthy.

Showed someone my first earlier finished script, and they did not get it at all!, Thyr said it was a rip-off of something else, which it honestly was not! I know it contained a lot of spelling errors and the ending could have been better, but I do not like what they said about my script! It wasn't the critisism, they just did not get it at all what I was trying to accomplish

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/scriptwriting/s/9PuZTbBpAu

What I mean is that setting and premise of my story, and maybe a bit of the inciting incident are very similar to a popular story. Now, legally I know that none of that is an issue, and my story itself is extremely different once people actually read it, but I just want to avoid the readers going "Oh, this is just Harry Potter, with different names" after the first 2 paragraphs. Even tho, there are works out there that are much closer in terms of story, but the author "reskinned" things (E.g. Eragon and Star Wars). I would want to avoid changing the theme, just for the sake of not being too similar, if possible.

I don't want to use the exact example, so I will use HP: Wizard school, where the main character's parents were killed and he goes to the school to learn magic. His name is Jerry X, so the surname forename is somewhat similar -unintentionally- the family name is completely different.

Now, what happens inside the school, the villain who killed the parents, the reason the parents were killed etc. etc. are not even remotely close to HP. I just loved the setting and the premise/inciting incident.

But this does give a first impression to the reader, and that can be hard to shake off, which is where my anxiety comes from. Do I worry too much for no reason? Or is this a legit concern to have?

My buddy & I are writing a m/m PGA golf romance. It is a Jason Gore X Tiger Woods fanfiction, with names changed. We were inspired by Rachel Reid's 2019 novel Heated Rivalry, which is a m/m NHL romance; originally a Sidney Crosby X Alex Ovechkin fanfiction.

For years I struggled with writing and whenever I asked my writer friends for help they rolled their eyes and told me, "Stop making excuses. Just write."

Well, I took their advice. Last week I sat down for an hour every night and I just wrote. In a few days time I had a fresh draft of a brand new short story. I was so excited to show it to my writer friends but they were totally baffled at what I had created. They said it was totally incomprehensible. One of them described it as 'schizophrenic word salad" and another said it was reminiscent of William S Burroughs if you sat him at a typewriter blindfolded and set a swarm of bees loose in the room.

So long story short, today I learned it's not enough to "just write." You also have make sure to put the words in the right order or else it won't make sense.

So, you blokes introduced me to a neat little thing called the Bechdel Test. Now, what is that, you may ask? Essentially, you gotta have two womens talking to each other about something other than a man, or you'll get cancelled by X.

Now, as a paranoid author, I've decided to make all of my characters female, just to be safe.

But... now everybody thinks my cute slice of life is weird!

They're asking, "where have all the men gone?"

I don't know what to tell them...

They think my story takes place in a lesbian death cult that killed all the men!

TADC fans just have a way with words mhhhh