Claire Mandrell

GenZ Tech Grandma, deeply suspicious of "the Twitter," part-time writer and full-time conspiracy theorist. I'm on Wattpad.

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Do you have powers tied to your feelings/troubled past? Could your personality be described as 'neutral?' You might be a teenage girl in a Wattpad story! Call 1-800-think-about-it, or else risk becoming or marrying the autocratic but allegedly woke usurper of a magical kingdom.

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@ArosCym Another one to consider: contempt emanated through her very pores; he judged the woman as though she had brought Dippin-dots to his ice cream-making competition, and he had invented gelato.

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Some alternatives for YA Fantasy authors contemplating the second, third, and fourth consecutive use of the word, "whooshing" in one chapter to describe the sound of wind or other wind-like phenomena: whispering, rushing, swishing, whirling, humming, flitting. #WritingCommunity

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@ArosCym Hmm.... something to the effect of rolling one's eyes: she flashed him a disdainful glance, he uttered a sigh of utter exasperation, she shook her head impatiently, they tapped their feet, signalling to the waiter that he really ought not to recite the entire seventy-page menu.

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@Candy__Walter and: now try to write a run-on-sentence muahahahaha

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@Candy__Walter SeaWorld for making me wear polyester Bermudas and dad-esque Hawaiian print shirts all summer as a teenage employee.

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@chloeneill ...my cat would smash it immediately. I, for one, need a desktop that can take a hit.

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99.9% of the books I've read lately involve a character getting dragged into perilous, unavoidable situations. Where can I find a more relatable protagonist, i.e. one who signs herself up to take the slow boat to Hell, knowing full well it's probably a bad idea?#WritingCommunity

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MY SHIFT KEY IS STUCK AND I CAN'T STOP WRITING IN CAPS LOCK

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@ElizabethWelke 1) Pay attention to subliminals: Pearl, for instance, is associated with wisdom.
2) Don't pick a name that is too similar to a famous author/person: Mona Loy is too close to Mina Loy.
3) Choose one that is meaningful to you: a family name maybe, or the name of someone you admire.

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@JosephCarrel87 Wow, I'm late to the game. But hi!