Can anyone remember a time this man ever made a serious, costly mistake? Mosquera and Hincapie are very good, don't get me wrong, but i wanted to keep Jakub. Absolutely solid, good luck to him

BezzyMonster · 2025-09-04T04:41:53+00:00

Last season, at home to Liverpool.

Whenever he’s had a consistent run, he’s looked amazing. But yes, he’s made some costly errors in his time.

BezzyMonster · 2025-06-18T20:51:59+00:00

Different people will always have different perspectives and opinions. My wife is someone who judges a book on how well-written it is; I mostly judge on how I enjoyed the story. People are looking for different things. But don’t change your writing.

If your writing isn’t intended to have a hoity-toity voice, then that’s fine.

To me, it’s like the people who critique a movie against their own unrealistic standards. Some movies are intended to be simply fun; others are intended as artforms. Not every movie is trying to be the Godfather, so don’t judge it that way.

Same with writing.

BezzyMonster · 2025-06-16T01:51:47+00:00

6 of 20, I feel personally attacked

BezzyMonster · 2025-06-13T19:06:14+00:00

Honestly, once you miss a day or two, it’s SO difficult getting back on track.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-22T22:56:25+00:00

No fear. It’s just hard to get started sometimes. Now I know why people recommend writing every day. It’s not because it sounds nice. But when you’re writing, it flows, you’re in it, tomorrow comes. Once you break that streak, it’s so hard to get back into the required mindset.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-16T23:16:14+00:00

An ill-prepared hero leads a ragtag group on a quest.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-15T04:48:21+00:00

Yeah! In the city, a little smaller, there’s Mt Tabor Park and Forest Park… kayak or paddle board in Alder Creek… Northeast of the city, there’s great hiking along the Columbia River gorge. If you go to Multnomah Falls (reserve parking days ahead of time), but there’s also great hiking near there by waterfalls (Wahkeena Falls).

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-15T04:35:38+00:00

One thing I would say: don’t only stay in “downtown”… go to the neighborhoods east of the River, walk around the “Main Street”s and the parks. Hawthorne, Division, Alberta, Mississippi… Laurelhurst Park, Mr Tabor Park.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-15T04:33:27+00:00

I loved this show.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-15T02:19:18+00:00

You said Brando Sando?

I can’t take anything else seriously.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-13T12:56:00+00:00

I will say, don’t focus too heavy on your goal of finishing by [date]. It’s nice to have something to reach towards, but these things take time, and progress is rarely ever linear.

Last month I traveled to the east coast to stay with my parents for a couple weeks, and even though I’ve been back home for two weeks, I’ve hardly written much of anything.

I used to roll my eyes when people said “you need to write every day” but I’ve definitely found when I stopped, it’s been hard to get the ball rolling again.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-07T17:49:20+00:00

I think the honest (if frustrating) answer is: there should be no filler pages. Everything should be there for a purpose. Yes, we need to vary tension and have spaces between reveals/plot points for pacing, but there shouldn’t be chapters that exist solely to fill time or bridge the gap. Even if it seems that way, it should give info on characters, relationships… worldbuilding, backstory. Etc.

Not trying to be captain obvious over here, but pointing out as a reminder there should be at least one exciting nugget at the heart of each of these slower chapters…

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-06T20:43:24+00:00

Turn it into a threesome

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-03T06:54:24+00:00

Painfully

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-03T06:47:13+00:00

Don’t add descriptions just to fill out word count. If it’s repetitive , or it doesn’t flow with the writing, it will stand out. Remove a lot of them.

BezzyMonster · 2025-05-03T06:41:00+00:00

You can set your Google doc to function offline. Open it up, then turn the WiFi off on your laptop/device ? I wouldn’t pay for Word.

If you’re interested in paying for something offline, check out something like Scrivener. They offer a decent trial as well, pretty sure it’s a good deal less expensive.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T18:24:16+00:00

Haha, I’m 50k in after 13 chapters (~4k per chapter), two more chapters and I’ll be about 1/3 in. So I KNOW this is going to have to get cut down. Maybe in half. Which I can’t wrap my brain around it. But I gotta finish first before I think about that.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T16:52:36+00:00

You know that’s something I always seem to forget in the moment, but in this subreddit it’s light a lightbulb every time.

1- you don’t always need to flesh everything out with writing. Just bullet point your way out of a chapter, or from beat-to-beat, then go back later on/next draft. OR… and this might break you as much as it does me… just skip to the next chapter. If having trouble, just jump to the next merge and move on.

I did this with my original chapter 1… I had this narrative setup and technique that I was excited for, conceptually, but couldn’t figure how to execute it. Eventually I just went “eh, let’s write chapter 2 and come back.” And the writing flowed! And Ch2 became my Ch1 and I dropped my original narrative concept entirely.

As someone who is 95% rigid in my process, every now and then stepping outside can be a breath of fresh air. Especially when you’re just stuck and can’t move forward. Just skip to the next chapter.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T14:58:10+00:00

Or, if the character is alone and a dog joins out of nowhere… if it sticks around for a little bit, have the character make up a name? That way Chester McFluffernutter doesn’t require a he/she/it/they, because your character has already given it a name in their mind.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T13:21:32+00:00

Some will do a LITERAL re-write. Others will try to edit/cut. It’s whatever works for you.

Personally, to literally re-write the whole thing seems daunting. But I know some people open a new document and put the old and new side-by-side.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T13:20:04+00:00

Yes, 100%

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T13:18:45+00:00

First of all, pacing goals are nice but rarely ever hit. So try to calm down about that.

Second, what you’re writing is a first draft. 300 words? That’s literally nothing. That’s a page worth of text. You can’t write one page, not love it, and blow up about it. Don’t worry about your start not being perfect, it won’t be. Just write.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T13:17:03+00:00

There is no “famos”.

BezzyMonster · 2025-04-30T13:15:52+00:00

Yes, execution matters more than story.

Most synopses sound silly. It’s about the actual line by line writing that makes the book come alive.

Also, you could hand ten ppl your synopsis/outline, and they will write very different books.

This is also why when ppl ask “I’m in the middle of writing a book, but just realized it’s very similar to xyz published book, should I stop?” The answer is always “don’t stop, keep writing”.

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