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You Don’t Have to Finish the Book If You Don’t Want To

August 11, 2019 by Sophia Whitte 1 Comment

Okay, so this one hurts to write. But I figured it took me a long time to figure out (and caused a lot of misery because I was proving something to absolutely no one.)

You don’t have to finish the book if it doesn’t bring you joy.

Louder for the people in the back, okay, okay… let me just try again.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO FINISH THE BOOK IF IT DOESN’T BRING YOU JOY!!!

10 Weird Things that Writers Google Search

September 4, 2017 by Sophia Whitte Leave a Comment

Baby name sites, names meaning “(vague concept related to character development plot)”
How long can somebody live without food/water? (for quests)
Symptoms of the plague (for those period dramas)
Rate of inflation (how much money in ye-olde-days was too much?)
Stab wounds and can someone survive them if…
Is “INSERT YOUR WIP TITLE” already the title for some other popular book series?
Synonyms for a certain color because you’re tired of saying “red like blood” or “brown like dirt”.
Is PLOT DEVICE a cliche?
Google translate for those multilingual characters

What Your Music Choices Say About You as a Writer

August 14, 2017 by Sophia Whitte Leave a Comment

Image result for music meme

This is closer to a writer version of an online personality quiz, but I decided to write a light-hearted post of what your music playlist means if you’re a writer. Don’t take it to heart. Or do. Whatever floats your musical boat.

Let’s get… listening?

Silence. Hello darkness my old friend… I’m either mysterious, or writing this on my laptop at the local coffee shop on my typewriter. Or I just can’t focus with music, you plebeians.
Movie soundtracks. Oh yeah. I’m writing the next blockbuster movie-book-three-figure-deal right here. Or I just really hope to.