Your voice isn’t found once.
It’s rediscovered over and over and over, at all ages and stages of life.
That’s what keeps me coming back for more :)
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Me: I’m writing fiction.
My brain: cool cool cool, but what if we unpack your entire personality first.
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You can start again as many times as you want 🧡
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I used to think confidence meant feeling sure of yourself. Now I think it mostly means continuing to move forward while being aware you could be so very wrong.
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Burnout check-in:
Lightly toasted.
Some pretty grill marks.
But no charred-to-a-crisp here.
Still edible.
Still writing.
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Revision taught me something drafting never could: I’m allowed to change my mind!
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Nothing humbles you faster than opening a draft you were “really excited about” and discovering it was powered entirely by caffeine and delusion.
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You don’t need to be original. You need to be specific. Originality is often just specificity
seen from the right distance.
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I wanted a calm, grounded writing practice.
Instead I have 47 tabs open and a spiritual bond with the undo button.
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One of the hardest things to admit is that something you worked very hard to build might no longer be where you’re meant to stay.
That is fantastic advice!!!
I became a writer because I love stories. Unfortunately the stories are now asking questions like “what is your deepest fear” and “why are you like this.”
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yessss so well said!
The internet makes reinvention look fast. Real reinvention feels slower, stranger, and much less glamorous.
You question yourself. You stall. You circle the same questions for months or years.
Then one day you realize your thinking has shifted in a way that really has changed everything.
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So, so true, Ashton. Stripping out too much of our life or routines that isn't actual writing actually strips out the bedrock our writing stands on.
That's such a great way to think about consistency.
I used to think consistency meant writing every day. Now I think it means not making it dramatic when you miss a day.
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I love when people ask how the book is going.
It’s going!
Where?
Definitely somewhere! I swear!
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Writing session recap:
🔹 opened the document
🔹 frowned thoughtfully
🔹 rearranged one sentence
🔹 experienced several emotions
Overall productive day.
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Yes! It can be mind boggling!
The characters in my WIP keep making chaotic decisions. Which is strange because I carefully designed them to behave exactly how I want.
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One of the strangest parts of growing up is noticing how your internal definition of success keeps changing. The world rarely notices the moment it shifts. But you feel it down in your bones.
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Being a writer means sometimes you sit down to invent a story and the story responds with “okay but first we need to talk about your emotional baggage.”
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I really tried to synthesize it down to just the true meat and potatoes 😆
lol YES we are all off our rockers for living for this insanity 😆
Being a fiction writer is wild because the job description is basically:
- invent problems
- solve problems
- discover the problems were different problems
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Mine too!
My writing process is mostly me discovering that the sentence I wrote is technically correct but spiritually wrong.
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It’s so much fun when your 2nd draft completely disagrees with your 1st draft. It feels like two completely different people arguing and thinking and wrestling their way to the final version. I’m okay with it...as long as they where awesome wrestler costumes.
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Me: I should outline more before drafting.
Also me: writes vibes, panic, and so many sentences that say “something happens here.”
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