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Being a writer means knowing exactly how your story ends, and having absolutely no idea how to get there
Alexander Pennington
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Alexander Pennington
@Authoralexp
Aspiring YA Author and founder of the Aspiring Writers United Facebook group (160K+ members)
Joined April 2017
- What are we? WRITERS! What are we gonna do? WRITE! When are we gonna do it? *distant sobbing
- Writers: *Accidently mentions that they write* Family: Will you tell us what you write about? Writers:
- Friends and family: Tell us about your writing! I'm sure we will love it! Writers:
- Buying books and actually reading books are two completely separate hobbies
- Being a writer means having a story you want the whole world to read, except everyone who knows you.
- Introverts are good writers because they've been refining their inner dialogue their whole lives and have imaginary conversations with people on a daily basis.
- Writer: *Writes for hours* Writer: I just wrote SO MANY WORDS! 100,000? 200,000? A MILLION!!!??? No, I should be realistic. I bet it's 10,000 Word count: 250 Writer: *Screams internally*
- I have some sad news to tell you all today. Apparently daydreaming about your story does not, in fact, make your story spontaneously appear fully written in your word document.
- Being a writer means constantly googling "synonyms for..."
- Are you even a writer if you haven’t spent half a year avoiding writing the story you daydream about every day?
- Writer: I'm actually pretty good at this writing thing *Reads someone else's writing* Writer: I am garbage
- Writer: I'm actually pretty good at this writing thing *Reads someone else's writing* Writer: I am absolute garbage
- Writers: *Accidently mentions that they write* Family: Will you tell us what you write about? Writers:
