easy hack if you’re scared of a blank page or need word count encouragement
I have a hard time writing on that big blank document. Even if it already has paragraphs or pages of work, it still feels incredibly daunting when I first start.
I manage the page setup on Google Docs to help me out.
Not only do the words fill up the page faster, the size I use is roughly the size of a paperback. It’s exciting to visualize what it could look like published.
It helps me to have visual encouragement, rather than a document that looks more like a school essay.
Here is how I set my document up in Docs under File > Page setup
I change “Paper size” from the default to “Statement size”. I also change all margins from the default to .5 inches.
Out of a moment of aching sadness and fury and manic impulsivity, a wizard turns a killer whale trapped in a theme park aquarium into a human so she can smuggle it out of the park and back into the wild.
She is now stuck on a road trip to the coast with a 6’6 woman who has tried to kill and devour a moose.
simply being horny about people is not boundary-crossing or sex pest behavior, but also feeling guilty about it doesn’t mean you’re infantile or sheltered or puritanical or whatever. we live in a culture that is very weird about sex, simultaneously telling people that sexual desire is wrong while also being abysmal about normalizing crossing sexual boundaries, so I deeply sympathize if you struggle with feeling like you’re doing something wrong if you fantasize about real people. it is, however, sex pest behavior to ask random people without prompting if you have their “consent” to fantasize about them or use their photos as masturbation material. do not fucking do that.
