The slop-speech spammers have made it here. I should have expected that.

Looking at my side characters with so much love in my eyes.

"I'm not even considering any new projects until Ashes is done."

Muse: "It's kinda cute that you think that is up to you."

Not that fic you damned scammer that fic is my baby you stay away from it

I need to know if other writers also have that freak out when a fic gets no kudos that there must be something terribly wrong with it and you can't even re-read to check because it must be so *unbelievably shitty* you just can't look lol

Hey not-yet-published writer,

One day your book will be ready. One day you'll be going to a local fair with a bag full of copies and maybe you'll be so nervous you'll feel like laughing and crying at once.

One day you'll be setting up the booth, arranging the books this way and that because looking at the people walking by is just terrifying, and it feels like forever but someone slows down and look at the books and it's so thrilling you can barely greet them.

One day someone's eyes will widen as you explain what the book is about, and they think it's a great idea for a book. More people will stop by, some will just look, some will ask, some will buy the book for themselves or because they think someone is going to love it.

Every sentence you write brings you closer to this day. Every scene you power through even though it makes you wonder if you can really do this, write a whole book. You can. The day is coming.

So excited for the worldbuilding panel sunday! Writing doesn't have to be difficult, you don't have to jump through a dozen outline hoops before even started you can go straight to the fun part!

We're creatives, for God's sake, if the rules don't help you create they're not for that moment!

That's it, I'm doing a tarot reading about this fucking chapter

Being a wirter is like

Me (sends work) *What if my editor hates it? What if there's a HUGE plot hole and she thinks I'm so dumb?*

Editor (texting) "lol that part was really funny, also, I like that you did so and so"

Me *phew*

- a few weeks later -

Editor (email) "here's your work with the corrections and my thoughts on it"

Me *WHAT IF SHE HATED IT AND THERE WAS A HUGE PLOT HOLE AND I'M DUMB*

Ariel and Dante have a very special brand of hostility going on that involves homemade meals and blankets

don't judge, every enmity is different

"The twink/tomboy I begrudgingly work with just called me brilliant in front of 30 of our students" - Dante to the bathroom mirror trying to convince the ghost of the Baroness to carry him away.

This chapter starts from this point. Now it starts from this other point. Now it's the same scene but it happens in the kitchen, not the bedroom. Now the author is crying under the bathroom sink.

Wrapped chapter 20 and there's still sunlight. Wholly unprepared for this outcome.

I will address no-one's concern and clarify that the Muse and I have a great relationship.

As startling as it may seem to humans, yelling is both common and healthy in the communication between bonded muses and creatives, as it provides the latter with the necessary pre-accomplishment bitching at the same time as it makes the former feel secure in their role as a fucking menace.

If you see a creative yelling at their muse, that's a sign that they are thriving!