Alexander Pennington
@Authoralexp
Aspiring YA Author and founder of the Aspiring Writers United Facebook group (160K+ members)
Writer: I'm actually pretty good at this writing thing *Reads someone else's writing* Writer: I am absolute garbage
Writer: Don't worry about not being published yet! There's no deadline on success! Brain: Except death. That's why it's called a deadline. Writer: *Frantically starts typing*
RULES to being a writer: 1) Hoard notebooks 2) Do not write in your notebooks
Writing is hard because in your heart you have an amazing story, but your brain has no idea what it’s about
Writers: I wish I knew why I wasn't feeling good today Body: You never sleep, you only eat snack foods, and you live on coffee. Not to mention your daily crippling anxiety Writers: I probably just need more coffee
Half of being a writer is pretending you know what you’re doing, the other half is denial
Writer: I wish I knew the secret to writing more Brain: Have you considered actually sitting down and writing? Writers: Life is full of mysteries we will never solve
Me finishing a writing session: I think I’m actually starting to get good at this whole writing thing Me rereading what I wrote:
People: You control your story, you’re the writer. You decide what the characters do and where the plot goes The characters:
In less than 24 hours my debut novel will be out in the world!!! 💜🥰💖
No, you're not a bad writer. Writing is incredibly difficult, and most people give up. But you're still here. You're still putting words on the page, and that is proof you will be an amazing writer one day.
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.
Being a writer means on one hand loving to write, but on the other, preferring to do literally anything except write
What are we? WRITERS! What do we want? A FINISHED BOOK! What are we going to do about it? WRITE! When are we going to do it? *Distant sobbing*
Being a writer means having a rest week for your mental health, and having it turn into three months of procrastination.
You know you’re a writer when editing just because a personal roasting session
My youngest just mispronounced apocalypse “a-pop-o-clips” so cutely I nearly cried so basically I need everyone to work together and only use that pronunciation going forth so he doesn’t accidentally start saying it correctly. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter XOXO
“Here are the words you longed to see again; I combed through a universe’s worth of other ones to find these just for you” Librarians are a thousand times more valuable than anything we could ever try to replace them with
Back in January, I asked a librarian if she could help me find an article that seemed to have disappeared from publication. I received an email today telling me that she had found a copy in an old archive & had basically sweet talked her way into getting me a pdf.
Things every writer is guilty of: -Spending hours of time researching instead of actually writing -Thinking your first draft is perfect, until you read it -Confusing thinking about writing with actually writing -Refusing to kill off that one character you know needs to go
Writers have two moods towards their WIP: 1) This is the greatest story ever written 2) This is absolute garbage