I have an idea I am dying to write…and I wanna write it now but… I wanna see the ONC prompts first. What should I do guys?
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I have two busy days. Doctor appointment tomorrow and apartment tour appointment on Wednesday.
I am both excited and anxious at the same time.
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Why not start it now and then just rewrite it to add relevant prompt elements later…? (*＾-‘) 乃
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Maybe idk. I’m gonna eat my head and brain. Too many ideas…
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A million things.
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Stress is a vicious dragon.
How can I slay the beast or at least wound it to make it weak?
This is a serious question, by the way.
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Whenever I’m stressed, I try doing things that are calming. Like at the moment I’m making various book cover templates trying to pick one I like for branding my series. But anything you like working on is good: playing video games, watching tv, knitting, sketching, playing piano or guitar, reading, etc. Writing or doing various aspects of writing is good too, like making character bio sheets, organizing your notes, designing a website, writing blog posts, coming up with a newsletter, doing research, etc.
Other people like doing yoga, taking calming breaths, drinking herbal tea, maybe exercising, taking a walk, going to a calming place, maybe going window shopping, etc.
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The problem is when I am stressed, I cannot focus on ANYTHING else while I am stressed. It depends on what is causing me stress in the first place.
If I need immediate answers to many questions or have to wait for something or I am overwhelmed, I want the issue to be resolved then I will be too exhausted to want to focus on what matters. I can’t wait to do something, my mind will be consumed by what is causing me stress and a million other things, besides wanting to do something.
My hobbies are there for when I can relax for a bit, afterward the stress is gone.
Till it comes back again for another reason.
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Maybe do something that doesn’t require focus, then? Like playing with Play-doh or coloring in a coloring book. If you have a printer you can just print out images from the internet, like these:
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I have returned 
I have returned 
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I’m surrounded by posh people today cause I’m visiting a posh university. It’s so funny.
Their vernacular is so different — I’ve heard the word ‘bizarre’ more times today than ever in my life. ‘That’s so bizarre!’ It could mean anything between weird, cool, interesting, wild and shocking.
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Quick question to everyone:
How many people genuinely find strangers to lovers boring and pointless?
Not friends or enemies to lovers, just two complete strangers getting to know each other then slowly fall in love.
Do people really not like anything that isn’t enemies to lovers when it comes to romance?
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I mean, isn’t two people that don’t know each other who slowly fall in love a common romance plot?
Even if we remove the “two strangers who start off on the wrong foot/bicker a lot yet fall in love” trope, still feels like its common
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Thank you for mentioning this.
Like I get the whole enemies to lovers then being so popular, I just barely hear anything about strangers to lovers or even friends to lovers.
I look at it as, in the real world, two people who don’t know each other get to know each then fall in love. How often do you see people, complete strangers being in a romantic relationship, who weren’t enemies or even friends first?
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I don’t mind. Some of my favourite romances are two strangers bonding over a common interest/ situation and falling in love (Possession, Love in the Time of Cholera, Swimming in the Dark, Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire A–).
The thing with enemies-to-lovers is that there’s already built-in tension — meaning less work for the writer 
and readers are pretty familiar with that dynamic.
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Chuck Tingle, huh? 
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Me writing a wholesome scene between two characters, already knowing full well what will happen in another story.
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The GOAT himself. No joke he’s one of the best queer writers around — and Bury Your Gays is his masterpiece.
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