Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I have been working on my exams for hours. My back is aching from sitting so long. I have no spoons for a writerly ways so I'm going to share this from Betty which I was going to save for the fannish post but then I thought you know what most of the authors on my flist are fanficcers or were before moving into original stuff. Many of us do both. It has some important stuff in it but it's a long graphic so I'm cutting it



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