Sheridan Cass

Spent 30 minutes naming a café that appears once. Welcome to “The Bean Reckoning,” a location so minor it will be cut by Saturday.

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The Beautiful Challenge Of Writing Flawed Characters (That Steal Readers’ Hearts) What makes us ache for the characters who do everything wrong?

Perfect characters are boring!
Give me the messy ones. The ones who lie, snap, self-sabotage, or walk away when they should stay, and somehow still make us ache for them.

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Writing update: opened the doc, scrolled, made tea, adjusted the chair height, achieved inner peace, wrote 112 words, called it grit.

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Non-writers: "How's the book going?"
Me: *nervous laughter while mentally reviewing 18 unsolved plot holes and 3 feral subplots*

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I come up with half my best ideas while folding laundry. I guess socks are my muse :)

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The only thing scarier than a blank page is rereading what I wrote at 2:00 AM.

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Yesterday, I meant to get some solid writing done. Instead, I read an entire book. And I feel pretty flippin' good about that :)

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My WIP is going great. By "going great," I mean I've renamed three characters, moved one chapter, changed everyone's backstories, and now have no idea who's alive.

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Your words don’t have to be brilliant today. They just have to be yours.

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Absolutely, they become so important to us, and then we / our stories evolve and that relationship to them evolves too.

Current vibe:
Brain = chaos
Outline = school teacher + dutiful student
Draft = feral
Word count = haunting me

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I love revisions because it’s the stage where Past Me hands Present Me a burning manuscript and says, “You got this, champ.”

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My creative process is 10% writing, 20% deleting, and 70% pretending a new notebook will change my personality.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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lol I love main characters that get demoted 😂

Writer update: Spent 90 minutes naming a minor character who appears ONCE. Plot? What plot? This is now a naming-based economy.

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There's nothing like typing "Chapter 12" at the top of the page. It feels official, accomplished, unstoppable. Then I remember...I still have to write Chapter 12.

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Writer milestones no one talks about:
🔹 First time a character surprises you
🔹 First time you laugh at your own joke
🔹 First time you delete 10k words and live to tell the tale

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Wrote one perfect sentence and immediately retired from drafting for the day to preserve my batting average.

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My characters want: Layers, voice, jokes, drama, love.
I want: To stop rewriting this dang chapter.

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My outline says “short scene.” My draft says “47 pages + 1 new subplot + 3 emotional breakthroughs.” One of us is lying and it’s not the draft.

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Some days, writing is a beautiful flow of ideas. Other days, it's me Googling synonyms for "whisper" for 45 minutes. Both count, right??

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Writing session starter pack:
☕ Beverage #1
✏️ Fancy notebook I’ll never use
🎶 Overly dramatic playlist
☕ Beverage #2
📱 Procrastination
✍️ 47 words written
☕ Beverage #3

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Sometimes the best writing advice is: take a nap.

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😆😆 Plus you get the added bonus of listening to what you sound like at that time of night 😆😆

Writing problem: I come up with my best ideas while falling asleep.
Solution: Keep a notebook by the bed.
Result: 3:00 AM scribbles that look like cryptic prophecies.

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Can we please celebrate the small wins?
A focused hour, a messy draft, a kind note from a reader.
Name them. They matter.

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Read widely. Notice what moves you. Then write the thing only you can write. That's the goal.

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Read widely. Notice what moves you. Then write the thing only you can write. That's the goal.

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Most of my "aha" moments don't happen at my desk. They happen while I'm chopping vegetables or folding laundry. I've stopped fight it, they're just part of my writing process now 😄

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