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How long are your chapters usually? What length is best recommended because mine are 1k long

I'm the worst person to ask that question because my chapters used to be 2-3k then they grew to 4-5k.
And now, I kid you not, the chapters for Pinky Promise are 12,000 words long so I've been forced to split them in half. 12k, y'know! That's a sixth of the size of a typical, debut novel!
send help pls. i think i have wordiritis.
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If you could choose a different time period and place to be born, when and where would it be?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy back with the Ancient Greeks or Ancient Egyptians. Their culture and religions fascinate me so much. Ugh. Too much. Can't deal w/ it.
I wouldn't mind being a Roman scholar either. The 1700s seemed really cool, too. Their architecture is to die for. Gothic and Renaissance buildings = life.
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Name three things you think shouldn't exist in the world.

shiiiiittttttt i have an english exam and a chemistry exam today and i havent revised for shit and god help me what was i thinking yesterday when i watched like 6 episodes of AHS.
oh shit im going to thrown up. oh god oh god oh god.

KADDY! PINKY PROMISE LOOKS AND SOUNDS AWESOME BABE! ADD ME ON NANO SO WE CAN BE IN THE SAME CABIN SO I CAN READ IT! and support u x

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i forgot my password for nanowrimo and it's months away anyways. i might make a new account. who knows :)
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what is a story(ies) you're excited to write?

I was thinking of trying a hand at poetry some time soon but I've already started the story I had saved for camp nano this summer. It's called Pinky Promise and I'm REALLY looking forward to writing about two powerful female protagonists who are literally fire and fire put together. In fact, the main character, Holly, acts more like the antagonist throughout the story. Which I don't think I've really seen done before. You always see stories from the hero's POV but I want to challenge myself with writing from the "villain's" POV. And I also really want to explore the dichotomy between the rich and poor, and those whose ambitions are larger than life. Here's the cover for it:
what is a storyies youre excited to write
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summer reading list?

i have never heard of such a thing before. i dont believe in hoarding books to read in a set period when i can read them whenever.
but i plan to finish the HP books during the summer holidays, then rewatch the movies, watch Season 3 of Orphan Black, catch up on GoT and TVD. And finish writing a novel.

kaddy how do u revise for your exams?? :)

i'm a visual learner so i use a shitload of colours and just do tonnes of past papers. man, i have learning difficulties when it comes to listening in class. it's like my ears and brain aren't in sync sometimes, especially when the teachers go too fast so i just zone out or i hide a novel behind my textbook and just read till the end of the lesson. sorry. i suck at education bc i have zero motivation for this kinda shit. like, who the fuck cares about stupid quantum mechanics or particle physics -.-
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What is your attitude to smoking?

i know they're bad for your health and all that, but once you start it's impossible to stop the cravings. i did try so very hard to nip it in the bud pretty early on (fuck peer pressure and my foolish 16 year old self who thought that befriending the stoners at college would be a good idea, smh). but every now and again i give in to a pack, especially when i get pretty stressed out. don't hate me. i'm a bad human. i already know that >.<
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do you prefer first or third person, why?

i used to enjoy first person more because it was all i knew. because when i first started writing, my only source of knowledge was from wattpad and EVERYONE was writing in first person. believe me, i barely knew about the existence of third person in literature until i had to study it in full this year for english. but now that i know how limitless the third person can be, and how many characters can be followed to tell the same story that a first person narrative voice often restricts, i think i like it more. idk, first person is biased as fuck and i'm a skeptic person so, as a reader, i want to notice the details before the main character does. i want to solve the mystery as quickly as possible instead of waiting till the end of the story. i like to be proven right, to know that my suspicions where rightly placed. i guess both narrative voices have their own pros and cons, but publishers will tell you that they prefer 3rd over 1st and i can understand why. a story can be told faster, and in less words, using the third person narrative voice. and even though we're always taught that, as writers, we need to extend our vocabulary and blah blah blah... i think the greatest writers are those who can tell a story in as little words as possible without sacrificing character arcs or compromising the plot. (i'm currently reading Harry Potter for the first time and J.K. Rowling uses the third person so tactically in some scenes that i lose my shit and just die a little because she is #goals.)
So yeah, right now i'm really digging the third person. in fact, i've been contemplating taking down the first chapter of Pinky Promise and reworking the entire story into the third person because it'll make the plot more objective and it's a lot more flexible for me to work with. i guess it helps that i love experimenting with different writing styles so third person is the place for me to be right now :D

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ahahahaha i pretend to be asleep all the time when my parents come up to my room

Same! I just go from straight up booty popping to some Nicki, to lying face first on the ground, snoring like a polar bear *fist bump*

hey kads (can i call you that?) did ya do anything particularly interesting today :-)

This guy called Cameron used to call me 'Kads' all the time and he was a bit of a creep so, uh... sure. *smiles through the pain*
But apart from doing two physics past papers with my eyes closed while drooling everywhere like a dog at an ungodly hour (anything before noon), I have had a normal (shitty) day.
But yeah, as of now I am currently binge watching American Horror Story (and hiding under the bed covers and pretending to be asleep every time my mum walks into my room bc i dont want to revise anymore).
hey kads can i call you that did ya do anything particularly interesting today
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what's ur sexual orientation?

imagine a rollercoaster. good. now hold up your finger, squint really hard, and trace all those loops. then tell me how many straight lines you see.
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Pretend you can declare your own national holiday. What would it be about?

i just went to the opticians for the first time in my life and it was horrific. apparently i'm short sighted in one eye and long sighted in the other -_____- fml.
pray for me.

Why is a healthy lifestyle so trendy now?

because we're dropping dead like flies since mcdonald started handing out those stupid (lifesaving) vouchers/coupons.

if you could cowrite a book with anyone on wattpad, who would it be & why?

My stories come from my soul and i dont think i could share so much headspace with another writer. it would drive me I N S A N E to let someone else dictate the characters/setting/plot/etc and tell me what i can and cannot do. for me, writing is about freewill and liberation and self-expression, and without that freedom i wouldn't write ever again :) With that said, I would love to collaborate with Rose (@northbynorth). Maybe write a short story on witches and wolves and magic; anything within the fantasy/sci-fi genre. Have you ever seen those stories on wattpad where one writer does one chapter and the other one does the next chapter, but the rule is that they can't talk to each other about what the other has planned? Now /that/ I would totally be down for! It would make an excellent writing exercise. I mean, let's face it. Rose is talented as fuck and has no clue what she's capable of producing. (or maybe she does and is really humble about it). That girl is heading skywards and I have so much faith in her. I'm rooting for her SO much, you have no clue how excited I get just thinking about her promising future. I don't even know why I believe in her so much lmao. Weird. Call it a gut feeling, but I really hope she makes something of herself, whatever she wishes to pursue. Because if not, then what hope lies for the rest of us?

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What's your favorite thing to do in the spring?

Wait for it to stop raining. Oh, wait. That's everyday in this godforsaken country.

Who is your favorite artist?

She's currently headlining Radio One Big Weekend in Norwich. And I'm not there. So please excuse me while I curl into a ball and die.

HARRY POTTER IS LITERALLY EVERYTHING

IKR, I CANT BELIEVE IVE NEVER READ IT BEFORE. MY CHILDHOOD MUSTVE BEEN ONE HECK OF A FLOP *sobs*
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what are you currently reading kaddy???? i need some new books to read

*clears throat and takes a microphone* For the first time in history, Kaddy is reading Harry freaking Potter *gasps* ... (ok, so i always thought it was a load of bull but my ENTIRE family have read it and i've always been an outcast and now that I'm on Book 2 it's like ASDFGHJKLASDFGHKLLAHDJSKXKQLKWWKXNAKSNKDQOMAAKSKDNAKSKKSQ*leaps over the moon*) ... J.K. Rowling is a godsend. Bless her heart and magical soul.
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wat r u listenin to rite now??

Turnover's new album 'Peripheral Vision'. It is legit the greatest album of 2015 so far. The g r e a t e s t.

Opinion on Islam

Mixed feelings (only due to my personal experiences w/ being forced to accept it as opposed to my own free will).

Would you follow the white rabbit?

imma bury a dead rabbit in a moment if you dont take your stank ass question and gimme an 'effing context to apply it to. how am i supposed to know if this stank ass rabbit is gon cut my throat open in a stank ass alley. kmt.
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There is this girl in my year who I really want to be friends with, but I just don't know how to say hi to her without looking weird. we both just left secondary school, so should I just give up tying to be her friend? Sorry for the weird question, you just seem good at giving out advice :,)

All right. Quick bedtime story of my experience with this. Let's roll all the way back to when I was in Year 11 and I felt myself growing up faster than my friends who spent half their time waiting at airports for 1D and 5SOS and whatnot *eye roll*. So there was this group of kids in the year below me (indie, really cool, alternative, into the same music as I was, did I mention reaally cool?) and I REAAALLLLY wanted to be friends with them (I mean, their music tastes were on fire). But all I kept worrying about was how much younger they were than me and how my friends would react to it and blah blah blah. But one day I just swallowed my pride and spoke to one of the girls who then invited me to go to a concert with her (and we eventually became concert buddies for life). Just because I broke the ice first, I made new friends who I spent the past year admiring from afar. The weirdest thing was that slowly I began to realise that she thought the EXACT same thing about me because all along the entire group thought that /I/ was way too cool to be /their/ friend (ikr?! i was like, "come again?"). And the one cute girl who caught my eye in the first place, it turned out, actually had a crush on me (and let me tell you she was like the hottest girl in school and I was a potato, but together we were chips and... this metaphor just crashed and burned and oh god i feel a cringe attack coming BUT.) But. The whole point of this is for you to realise that without saying, "Hi." you'll never get to the friendship stage. Trust me, you'll be surprised by how many people are trying to be your friend already. I mean, let's be real here: you're ALREADY awesome. So just show this girl how awesome you are. (sorry for the semi-shitty advice. i'm usually better at stuff like this when i'm not half asleep.)

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Describe the stories you have up

This = written in 1 hour. short story. less than 1000 words. poetry and prose. for every writer out there who needs inspiration. from me. to you. Forever and Always = How NOT to write a story + bullshit plot + on the brink of incestual relationship. Cringe worthy. Embarrassed to have written it. Will be taken down very soon. Breaking the Bad Boy = s'alright. not bad for a first real attempt at writing. 500,000 words of just *casual shrug*. (jk, this stort birthed my love for writing. it was the beginnning of E V E R Y T H I N G.) wow. cant believe it's been a year already. Float = one shot competition. just a quick writing exercise for me. cute. LGBT. fluffy. writing is okay. bit too flowery/poetic. i hated writing every single bit of it bc i had just finished a LtL which was soul-consuming. SE One Shot = the pinnacle of my writing. august, the summer I call the Landslide of my life. somehow finally figured out the arts of standard grammar in dialogue. great moment in history. Elysian = greek mythology + overactive imagination + my true writing style (it's the only story I haven't adapted to satisfy my audience. it's just me writing for me. i'm proud of it.) Listening to Lucas = FAAAAAVVVVOOOUUURRRRIIIITTTEEEEE. OF ALL TIME. MY LIFE MY BLOOD MY JESUS (everything I am. everything I was.) Dearest Dee, Sincerely Me = therapeutic. letters written to myself (from past, present and future). i dont talk about this one. Pinky Promise = *slow smile* This is just me working with a plot bigger than myself, bigger than you, and bigger than everyone. It's no longer about using words anymore, in terms of writing. It's about using the right words. i think that's it. did i miss anything? i hope not.

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Do you like to act spontaneously or plan things? Why?

I was always the friend who'd drag everyone by their wrist and jump on the train at Angel Station. One person would pick a random number and we'd stay on for that many stops and then get off and get lost for a while, looking for a place to eat. There was this girl I liked last year who would zigzag through the city with me after class every Thursday. I used to get home around 11pm, giddy. And it's not like we did much besides peer at the Thames and just talk. But it felt nice to end up somewhere new every week. Some days we sat outside Paddington Stn with a sub from Subway, or walk to King's Cross and watch the rush hour unfold. I like that. Feeling the world unwind itself. Stepping on the margins and looking at everything on the sidelines and noticing all the things you never really do.
Spontaneity feels healthy every once in a while. To me, it's a way to step back and see the world outside the one in my head. Oh, and staring at strangers pouring out of stations is great inspiration for characters (just don't be the creep-o who holds eye contact, haha).
As for planning things. Nowadays, I have to make to do lists to give myself a reason to get out of bed and wear my skeleton everyday, ha.

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So I wanted to ask you for advice because I'm trying to learn a new talent but I keep having this mental block of looking stupid and wanting to quit because I automatically don't like doing anything I'm not good at. I keep thinking some people are just born with talent, how do I get over this?

No one is born with talent. No one is born with a pen in their hand or a microphone to their mouth. We develop talent, I believe, as we grow up. You learn how to hold a pen, and you learn how to speak. Some people are better at using their abilities than others, but that doesn't mean /you/ can't hold a pen or speak well either. So don't think that anybody is better than you at whatever it is you wish to pursue, because they're only better at USING those abilities to succeed. And that takes time.
So work to get better at doing things you /already/ know how to do. If it's rugby, you already know how to catch a ball. If it's football, you already know how to kick a ball. Some people just have more 'talent' because they've been at it longer than you've been.
Talent correlates with time, not ability. OK? Do something for longer and you'll be better at it. Fact.
Finally, a wise Muggle once said, "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
Just give it time, and you'll get there in the end.

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What's the most important lesson you've learned in life?

Failure. This entire year has been nothing but coming to grips with failure. The kind that taste bitter, like there's gritty ash in my mouth all the damned time.
I guess everyone had (or still has) irrational fears like spiders and great heights and aeroplanes. As a kid I was always petrified of failing a subject or disappointing my parents or letting my friends down.
And now that childhood fear has become a reality in every possible aspect, and life's a nightmare.
So I guess the biggest lesson I've learnt (and still am learning) is that nightmares are just bad dreams and that I can wake up to a better version of myself if I open my eyes a little more, y'know?
Too bad I'm stuck in some kinda coma. You can't escape those, now, can you.
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HOT DAMN YOU ARE SO GORGEOUS I HAD A HEART ATTACK LIKE ?????????

*in slow-mo like the movies*
nooooo dooooonnnttt diieeeeeeee
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my tumblr is so dysfunctional compared to yours tbh

im not even gonna lie that tumblr is easy to manage because the coding and shit gives me a headache so I just steal themes from other people

Hi Kaddy! I recently came across your stories and I've fallen in love with them. Your writing style is so brilliant, its phenomenal and you're honestly such a huge inspiration to me. As a struggling writer, could you please give some tips on how you honed your writing skills and improved as I can't

First read this: https://forrst-live.s3.amazonaws.com/posts/snaps/78037/original.jpg?1304289786
I've noticed lately that A LOT of people (mostly yourself) will tell you that writing, like every form of art, is only for the talented. That you have to be born with a dictionary in your mouth and fucking lightning fingers that strike the keyboard at 100 words a minute to be great at writing. BULLSHIT. I had no talent for writing whatsoever when I started out. I still don't. And I don't care.
This is what works for me:
1) Write:
- This one is the simplest and hardest stage. Even on days when I can't find time to write, I squeeze in half an hour of free writing. Everyday I'll churn out a measly 20 words or staggering 2000. It makes no difference. As long as there are words on the page then I'm good. Whoever told you that quantity > quality was shitting you. Write 20 words of greatness instead of 2000 words that will look good as toilet paper.
2) Rewrite.
- This one is the most important. I'll let you in on a secret: your first draft will always be dog's bollocks. It will suck, it will make you cry, and you'll want to delete it. Good. I want you to feel like because it'll fuel you to be better. Your second draft will be shit, too. Probably because all you did was fix the misspellings. The third draft is average (this, I've noticed, is when a lot of people on Wattpad post their chapters. Some won't make it to the second draft. Now, listen to me. This draft is only 20% of your capability. Don't post it yet. Don't do a n y t h i n g yet. You hear me? Cool.)
3) Rest.
- Leave the 2000 words you wrote of toilet-paper-shit alone. Leave it alone like the brussel sprouts on your plate. Just leave it the hell alone. At this stage I usually begin to work on the next chapter of the story while the previous one is sitting there. Don't even reread your 2000 words of toilet-paper-shit. Just leave it the hell alone!
4) Rewrite.
- THIS IS MY FAVOURITE PART. Magic. This is when you get to play God. Forget everything you've learnt at school. Forget swallowing a thesaurus. Forget /everything/. Go on YouTube and play the chillest music you can find. (If you want me to make you a playlist, just ask.) Then open up the toilet-paper-shit chapter and read it as if you're a reader. Play around with sentences. Take them apart. Switch words around. Keep it simple. Think, think, think. I m a g i n e. Go inside the motherfucking screen and hang out with your characters. Be them. Know them. Understand them.
5) Rest.
- The toilet-paper-shit chapter is now silver. It's time to spin it into gold. You, my friend, are Rumpelstiltskin. You're the King Midas of the writing world.
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You don't have to be special to write. You just do it. As a writer you sow the seed, but you don't get to pick what flowers you grow. Just write (and REwrite).
Anybody who tells you that there's some secret magic formula to writing is at the toilet-paper-shit stage. You're gold.
Stay that way.

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what religion do you follow

I follow my heart and mind. It judges right and wrong better than any religion will ever do for me.

heres something to make u laugh some more. the dugsi teacher comes to my house so i can't even pretend to be ill or escape or anything.

lmfao. the struggle is so real ahahahhahaahhaa

same bro. its not even funny how bad my memory is. (i just remebered I have dugsii tomorrow :o)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA (i'm so sorry)
BUT HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA YOU STILL HAVE TO GO DUGSI
(i'm really, really sorry)

im going go assume you find scar funny and not my amazing rendition of a completely underrated disney song (it took me months to find out what smh meant. true story)

I still don't know what 'ftw' means. I've searched it a billion times and forgotten it the second I lock my phone (just like I forget the time when I look at my phone the SECOND I look away. which is SO weird. i have the memory of a goldfish, ugh.)

im one of those lions tbh. im scar. *sings be prepared*

smh *secretly laughs hard enough to shit pants*

(this is why I should go on apprentice. im bloody amazing at negotiating. half of the time the other person isn't even aware of my super subtle manipulations) (that was me trying to take credit for ur guilt and make myself look magic) deal.

I have too much of a guilty conscience. I can't sleep thinking that I've wronged a person, y'know? (and Lord Sugar would eat people like me ALIVE I s2g. I'm like a fucking deer amongst lions that haven't eaten for months.)

excuse you m8, it'll be split 55% 45% . you'll get an extra 10% more than mr and the difference isn't as big as it would've been. deal or no deal?

50-50 because I think I'd die of guilt if I took more than my share haha

and the only thing you could see was my face which looked so light back in the day. (oh and let's do it. except we should ask for more. our work is worth more than a tenner)

Well..... Since I'll be doing all the talking I want 70% of the profit. It's not about the art, it's about the marketing value (chats a load of bull) so 70%=mine.

our drama teacher used to record our performances and then she showed it to us at the end of yr 9 so that was 3 years of all of us looking like awkward stick figures (bc the camera elongated our limbs. wtf) and all of us looked weird af. and i looked like a bloody wand bc i was wearing an abaya

Hahahahahaha, I bet you looked like a grasshopper lmfao

hey how about we just do our worst on a canvas claim it's contemporary and just go around the high end of London acting sophisticated and high and mighty and then con people into buying out works?

I would totally do that. Ngl... My acting skills are top notch (ok, so maybe I'm shite bc I was always that person in Drama in secondary school who would burst out laughing like a seal during the middle of roleplay because we all sounded like a bunch of wankers pinching our noses to sound squeaky af. ahhh man, secondary school acting was b a a a a a d.)
We could go to Tate Modern and be like, "Bitches, line up and cough up a tenner to see this masterpiece or I'll scoop your eyeballs out."

AMEN TO THAT! i seriously hate it so much. I WISH I WAS GOOD AT ART OR MUSIC OR SOMETHING. they atleast get to do what they love.

Same, girl. S-a-m-e.

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