Pinned
heard you are in your gothic era and craving tragic unreliable characters and mouldering rotten aesthetics and little horrors nesting behind your rib bones while you fall in love with a monster because oh do i write the books for you
CG Drews
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CG Drews
@PaperFury
NYT Bestselling author of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN (2024) & Hazelthorn (2025) @FeiwelFriends | rep @clairefriedman8 | autistic 🏳️🌈🇦🇺 they/them
- REASONS TO KEEP A WRITER IN YOUR HOME • they know weird facts • they're low maintenance because all they do is eat and write • great for midnight chats because they don't sleep • if they have to edit they'll procrastinate by cleaning your whole house
- ○ buying books because you love reading ○ buying books to support artists ◉ buying books as a little treat to fill the void inside you and then stacking them in comforting piles
- HOW TO BOOK SHOP WITH A BOOKWORM: • enter store • keep eyes on your bookworm at all times • wow ok you lost them • they're gone forever now
- Girls don’t want boys. Girls want to glide down ladders in their own private library while their red cloak flutters behind them, owning swords and many chocolates, with fast WiFi at all times.
- HOW TO CARE FOR INTROVERTS AT CHRISTMAS • gift them books • skip small talk and discuss magical warfare • they will probably run away at some point • lure them back with snacks • keep the snacks coming • when food is gone, introverts vanish • it is known
- REASONS TO HAVE INTERNET FRIENDS • live in your phone in your pocket so they're packable • find people with your interests • encourage each other to eat more cake • are they human or a pile of anxious ghosts in a trench coat? • it doesn't matter! • collect a whole set!
- Writing is such a fantastic adventure! Daydreaming scenes is EXCITING Creating characters is FUN Making aesthetics is INSPIRING Imagining you'll be famous is MOTIVATING Writing Having people love your work is FULFILLING Doing it again and again is somehow A GOOD IDEA
- the two reading moods are (1) getting a new book and deciding to read it straight away, and (2) getting a new book and deciding to read it within 6 to 7 working years.
- Girls don't want boys. Girls want battle swords and fast wifi and shelves that actually fit all their books and a wizard cloak and snacks.
- Girls don't want just any pockets. They want INDUSTRIAL POCKETS to fill with cake, nice rocks, pirate weapons, and a baby dragon they found.
- "you're not like the other girls," the boy said. "oh actually most of us are like this," the girl said comfortably as she shifted back to her true dragon form and ate him.
- writers after we write one sentence that is actually good and we quite like it
- writers: *gets in the shower and is inspired to work on 9839 projects, fix plot holes, make 5 year plan* writers: *gets out of the shower and brain returns to soft static*