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✨Constant Regret✨

@youknowwhosarmy

My appearance is liquid

It takes up any shape you want

If you ask me to dress better

I'll gladly change

The sweats for jeans

The jeans for shorts

The shorts for skirts

The baggy shirts for more fitting ones

The fitting shirts for shorter ones

The short shirts for girly ones

The girly shirts for dresses

I'll change the crocs for tennis shoes

The tennis shoes for sandals

And the sandals for heels

But will it ever be enough for you?

And I just might finally

Do what I promised I would

I might finally attempt

To take my life back

From your cold, uncaring hands

I might find that I love you less

Once I took notice of all the pain

That so many tears are not supposed to be shed

For a relationship that seems so much work

And not enough pay

Are you proud of me now

I finally found my voice

It was in all the walls you punched

And the doors you slammed

In all the sighs and stares

In all the tears I shed

Because of your inability to love me

The way that I deserve

It was in my fear

That I found salvation

I am too far gone to hear you say

Come back, never again

My essence is liquid

Like the whiskey you drink at nightfall

It'll take up any shape that you want

You can mold me

Change me

Tame me

Into the idea that you've visualized

I'll walk the walk

Talk the talk

And play the part

Pretty pink dresses and all

High heels, even if I fall

If I fail to live up to your inebriated facade

But how long until the masqarade ends

And you see the tears in the veil

What happens when I'm too tired to hold up the mask

To put on my disguise

Will you call it a sham

Was it not what you asked for

For me to bare you my all

Was it now what you wanted

For me to fall

Mr. Neil, I have perhaps the most important question I could ask here.

The core of writing advice has one thing. One, special thing to it. And that is: “Write. Write write write.”

But what COUNTS as writing? Surely writing a manual for a lawnmower has nothing to do with becoming a fiction writer.

But what about writing fan fiction? Writing out a dnd story with original characters? Does it just have to be publishable work in the most serious sense?

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What counts as writing is writing. Learning how to express yourself clearly is everything. Writing a manual for a lawnmower that’s a good manual for a lawnmower will teach you a lot of about clearly telling people what things look like and how to do things in your fiction. No joke. Write.

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In a conversation about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship, someone made this comment, something i feel is very off base of your character, but is there anything say able to someone so unable to see diversity as anything beyond "pandering"

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I'm the same person that was writing the gay characters and the trans characters in Sandman about 35 years ago. I liked selling books to the demographic of people who read who are are okay with gay characters and need to meet trans characters. When Death: The Time of Your Life was given the GLAAD award for Outstanding Comic in 1997, I was thrilled. And very happy to get the award. And to keep writing characters of all kinds. I don't think we sold books back then because Sandman was "progressive". We sold Sandman and Death because people wanted to find out what happened next. I think it's the same with Good Omens and with the other characters out there now.

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