◆ Fiction enriches us

🔹 It’s okay to create or engage with fiction about whatever topic, theme, or idea that you want to. 🔹It’s okay to create or engage with any fiction you want to for any reason. 🔹It’s okay to enjoy any fiction for any reason. 🔹You do not need a “good” or “pure” reason to create or…

◆ All Fiction Has Artistic Merit

✨ All fiction is art and has artistic merit. ✨ Yes, including the novel you hid in a drawer. ✨ Yes, including Marvel movies. ✨ Yes, including soap operas. ✨ Yes, including slasher flicks and torture porn. ✨ Yes, including fanfiction. ✨Yes, including smut, porn, and smutty porny fanfiction. ✨ All fiction expresses ideas and…

◆ Interpretations

👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own biases and ideals to their interpretation of your work. 👉 And that is totally normal…

◆ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing

⭐ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing as long as you’re actually getting words on the page. ⭐ Writing that has to be edited or deleted later still gives you practice and makes you a better writer. ⭐ Writing even when you don’t feel inspired or feel like you’re writing the wrong…

◆ Don’t be afraid when writing

❣️ Don’t be afraid of being earnest in your writing. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of putting your desires and fears in your story. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of writing the story that you want to read. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of making your characters ‘too cool’ or ‘too fun’, or ‘too sexy’. ❣️ Don’t be…