writing a book: subplots! tangents! hahahahhh! grammar? never met 'em! placeholders? we'll figure it out later!

editing and revising: fuck.

did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great

a haunted house, but it's just a bunch of zombies popping out and asking "how's your writing coming along?" "what's your book about?" "what if this writing thing doesn't work out?"

How many em dashes are too many em dashes 🤔😅🙈

As someone who has to struggle not to overuse em dashes in my writing, seeing people point out frequent usage of em dashes as a sign of AI stresses me out 😵‍💫 Are we going to have to intentionally let a couple minor errors slip through soon so readers know it's human written? 😵‍💫