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Blog: hey neil, i know that theres a very low chance youll see this considering how many asks you get but its worth a shot. im still in highschool and youve always been my biggest inspiration, but no matter all this advice i see to just “keep writing”, my issue is that i have yet to start writing the thing i really want to and my brain doesnt allow me to find inspiration for anything that isnt it. and if i do find inspiration, it feels incredibly unworthy of my time because of my dedication to this one story. i write other random fanfiction to things i enjoy, but my main focus for *years* with large worldbuilding and character arcs is just something i, no matter how hard i try, can manage to map out on a board to get a sense of how to really start it. im autistic, which makes it harder for me to understand vague “just start it and revise later”, “write random things”, “just begin it no matter how it sounds”. its hard to motivate myself and i suffer tremendously from the knowledge that time passing means time wasted. whats bad about having just one main focus is that i want it to be my lifes work, this series to explain this fixation ive had in my head since sixth grade, and i dont want to write anything else unless it could relate to it. i feel the constant pressure to write and yet i cannot, because i am not in the right state to begin that life project. how am i to guide myself in the direction of understanding writing more if i am stuck behind a wall of disinterest to write something else? i wish to inspire young readers the way you did me, but for years its plagued me knowing that i know so little. if you ever see this, i will be forever grateful. thank you for reading this. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoI don’t know. You either have to write other things to get good enough to start your special project, or you need to start your special project and learn how to g […]
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Blog: I was very fortunate to hear you read What You Need to be Warm in Austin this year. I hadn’t ever read it before, and now re-reading it, I can hear it in your voice and cadence. I think I’ll probably hear it every Christmas. I know you were inspired to write it for refugees, but I wanted to try and tell you how it struck something deep inside of me, as a trans person. I came out in 2014 and that same year my dad called to tell me to not make the 6 hour drive home to see him for Christmas, 2 nights before I was meant to leave, because they “didn’t know how to explain me to the children”. So, I didn’t. I had just met my future wife, and her friends and family welcomed me to various gatherings that cobbled together a chilly Christmas living in a new city. He died 5 years later, with a shaky relationship rebuilt between us in his final days. I heard your reading this year after almost 8 years fully being myself. When you read it, it first took me back to childhood Christmases. My grandmother running her upholstery business in her chilly garage, pneumatic staple machine whirring and biting late into the night. Depression era fudge recipe made with my granddad. Standing on frosty, crinkling grass in my dad’s yard, admiring the 50 lit snowflakes hanging in his yard before he returned us to our mom for Christmas. Cramming into the top layer of a bunk bed with my two younger brothers to try and settle enough to sleep before Christmas morning. Just one more minute snuggled there, warm and quiet, blissfully excited. The imagery of the refugees you wrote for strong in my mind, I sat in that theater on a sweaty May evening where you read, feeling the loss of these short, crisp moments. Thinking of friends I had known for 5 months, strangers, really, offering me a place to be, literally a blanket and a flashlight because “they were presents for a guy” who they didn’t really know yet. I nearly decided to stop being. But I didn’t, and your words, you have the right to be here, to be myself, happy, safe and warm, are with me now on this cold winter night in a life more full of love than I ever could have imagined. Thank you for your words, for your community, for reading them aloud so I can close my eyes and pretend to be a little kid, laying in a warm bed, drifting to sleep and knowing someone would check on me in the night. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoI’m glad you have love and even more glad that you love yourself.
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Blog: my apologies, but I wonder if tumblr has eaten my ask regarding if you could give me writing advice?
I could resend, if you’d like.
Well wishes! from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoIt probably hasn’t eaten it. But there are, as I type this, 83,957 questions I haven’t answered yet. The odds are always against your question ever getting answered.
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Blog: Hi Neil ❤️ Why do good people suffer more than others? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoYou’d have to define good, suffer and others. Most of the things that make life hard will happen to most of us. All of us are going to die, lots of us are going t […]
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Blog: Hello Mr. Gaiman! I am currently rereading The Graveyard Book to my young cousins (I read it once a long time ago so I don’t remember anything about it). May I ask what your deal with Victor Hugo is? (Not sure if you’ve answered a question like this before so forgive me if you have). I notice you made him a ghoul. Why? I don’t know much about him but from what I know he wasn’t very morally objectionable. So was he or do you just have a personal thing against him? Thank you for your time. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoI didn’t make Victor Hugo a ghoul. The ghouls named themselves after people. I have now forgotten if it was ever explicitly explained in the book what the s […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agoThe Metatron is at the top, but he wouldn’t actually show up on an organisational chart. He’s just above everyone, and below God. Then Gabriel. Then the other Fan […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years agocolleendoran:NEIL GAIMAN’S CHIVALRY shortlisted for EXCELSIOR Award.Adapted and illustrated by me, published by Dark Horse Comics, the Excelsior Awards are […]
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Blog: Springer Nature Acquires Research Square & Launches New Mentoring Initiative from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 2 years agoSTM Publishing – December 2022 Springer Nature acquires Research Square Company Springer Nature has increased its investment in Research Square Company to take f […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Eggcorn from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years agoThe post Word of the Day – Eggcorn appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Amy Bloom: ‘Nigella Lawson is God (if we’re lucky)’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years agoThe American author on finding comfort in cookbooks, the allure of Jane Austen, and how Octavia Butler opened her mind to science fictionMy earliest reading […]
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Blog: Liner Notes for The Strandbridge Seven from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years agoLiner Notes for my story The Standbridge Seven The last Strandbridge Tale for now and it’s back to the pub. Or rather it’s a pub crawl, and also a magic rit […]
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Blog: 179. Futureland: Battle for the Park from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years agoFutureland: Battle for the Park. H.D. Hunter. 2022. [November] 320 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Look, you’d probably think I was the luckiest kid in the […]
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Blog: 4 Steps to Achieve Your Big Writing Goals (By Focusing on Small Ones) from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 2 years agoGetting into the habit of achieving your writing goals is similar to any other type of practice. If you’re pragmatic,…
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Blog: Newly Published Author Tweets About Disappointing Turn Out to Her Book Signing, Is Encouraged by the Likes of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, and More from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years agoThe post Newly Published Author Tweets About Disappointing Turn Out to Her Book Signing, Is Encouraged by the Likes of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, […]
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Blog: The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz review – California dreaming from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years agoSet in the Central Valley of the 1980s, these rich short stories about migrant workers speak of longing, loneliness and vulnerabilityAmerican writer Manuel Muñoz […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Momentous from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years agoThe post Word of the Day – Momentous appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Transformer by Simon Doonan review – a walk on the wild side from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years agoThe former creative director of Barney’s remembers a beautifully transgressive moment in pop cultureIn an age when discussions of gender so often come with a s […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years agoSonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic’s back, he wants to be a superhero but that doesn’t always work out too well. But he is trusted enough that when his human fri […]
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Blog: KISS/MARRY/KILL ALL MONSTERS from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years agoI used Flick to make a game about Godzilla, KISS/MARRY/KILL ALL MONSTERS. It’s on itch.io at the link.It SAYS kiss Mum, it’s not rude!
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Blog: Word of the Week: Eldritch from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 2 years agoWord of the Week: EldritchEldritch is a word meaning something otherworldly, weird, ghostly, or uncanny.Although a fairly old word, Eldritch has had something of […]
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Word of the Week: Eldritch in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 2 years agoEldritch is a word meaning something otherworldly, weird, ghostly, or uncanny.
Although a fairly old word, Eldritch has had something of a revival being strongly associated with Lovecraftian Horror, Dungeons […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Dwy from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years agoThe post Word of the Day – Dwy appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: I Read Stories: Last Things by Elvis Bego from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years agoLast Things by Elvis Bego in Bureau Dispatch Tilney lives in a village of 137 houses arranged in a cone. He’s been forgetting things and people there have been d […]
