No one should have to disclose painful, private things about themselves in order to prove the fact that they have a “right” to explore dark topics in their fiction.
I was 11 weeks and four days pregnant today, and now I'm not.
I have struggled with infertility since I was 16, but I have to keep faith that you aren't my one chance.
I love you. I desperately wanted you. You would have been born on our anniversary. I'll miss you forever.
Sometimes asshole characters say asshole things in a work of fiction, and that emotion you feel when you read it - outrage, fury, anger - was intentional. The author WANTS you to feel angry about what that asshole said.
It DOES NOT mean the author endorses what the asshole said.
@LadyKapdragon BUILD HIGHER WALLS AROUND ME
CHANGE EVERY LOCK AND KEEEEY
Fun fact: when I played Belle at theatre camp, they added this in from the Broadway musical to give me more songs after they cut "Something There" because (they felt) the Beast couldn't sing.🤷♀️
I was walking alone yesterday when an unsmiling teen on a bike whizzed by. Our eyes met. He circled back, and I couldn’t help bracing myself for our encounter. “Hey, lady,” he said gruffly. “Five ducklings. Under the culvert ahead.” Then he did a wheelie and sped off.
you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?
Things people have told me aren't "appropriate" in books:
- Swearing
- Sex
- LGBT+
- Women enjoying sex/having different partners
- Women being warriors
- Abuse/trauma
- Interracial relationships
Things my book has: ^
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