Ah, Yes. The Famous Jaw Clench

you're very annoying, so i think you're my type

This is why you can't finish your book

How long have you been trying to finish that idea you had for a book? Why is it that you can never see the finish line?

There’s different reasons for different writers, but in most cases it comes down to one simple thing:

Overwhelm.

You look at your project and you WANT to work on it, but…

you need to research a topic first to write it well

you need to go back and work out a character’s backstory first

you should probably fix the consistency of this character’s voice, they changed so much since you started chapter 1

you probably want to plot this out more

a couple of these chapters here and there are just a mess… which you promised to deal with later

Basically…. you’ve got a HEAP of tasks and issues ahead of you that you have to work out, before you can call the piece complete. And it is SO much work. And it’s overwhelming.

It’s easier to say you’ll untangle it a little later, or when you’ve got a clearer head.

But allow me to let you in on a little secret…

Writing is always messy.

The only way writing gets less messy is if you write it out, and then you rewrite it. And then maybe rewrite it again.

But the only way to move forward is put all these current issues out of your mind, until you finish that first draft, no matter how much of a MESS it is.

It’ll be a smaller mess in the next rewrite.

dear authors, if a character has dark ANYTHING, why does it have to be likened to food 😒

seeing a poc author embrace their identity is so satisfying.

did that w white hot kiss. there's books that are junk food material, bad for your vocabulary intake but entertaining, and then there's the trash.

Hey. You know that book you don't particularly like but are reading it anyway? This is your reminder to chuck that baby across the room. Close the tab. Return it to the library. Life is too short to torture yourself with less-than-mediocre fiction

much like the minotaur I am a creature in some sort of situation

What Is a Simile?

Unlike metaphors, similes create a comparison using like and as. Perhaps you’ll recognize this famous example of simile from Forrest Gump: “Life is like a box of chocolates.”

In this case, the reader is more explicitly aware of the direct comparison that’s being made versus a metaphor or analogy. (Remember, a simile is a type of metaphor.) When it comes to simile use in writing, a good rule of thumb is to approach with caution and use similes sparingly.

Similes use the words like or as to compare things—“Life is like a box of chocolates.”

In contrast, metaphors directly state a comparison—“Love is a battlefield.”

They're all important when writing though. Making unconventional comparisons at times using similes and metaphors can add to your writing and make it much more layered and sophesticated. Eg:

His words wrapped themselves around me like Thorny vines of a spiteful plant, no more like the warm embrace of the sun on your skin.

Hope that was somewhat useful and In easy terms! Like, share and follow!

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘In The Ruin."

the fact that Israel can precisely target ONE apartment in an entire residential block in BEIRUT to kill two hamas leaders, proves once again that they CHOSE to carpet-bomb Gaza and murder 31.000 Palestinians to "defend themselves" against Hamas. Israel CHOSE to kill civilians, they CHOSE to bomb every hospital, every school, every refugee camp, every residential block. israel does NOTHING to spare the lives of palestinians, they want to thin out the population of gaza so they'd be able to settle their citizens there.

this is a genocide it's an ethnical cleansing PLEASE WAKE UP don't stop talking about Palestine it is not a trend, people are still dying, Israel has no plan to stop if WE don't force it to, through public pressure and protesting and boycotting. it's the least we can do.