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aaron? :
Purple Prose drives me nuts!! I've lost count of how many works I've DNF'd because of it. We do not need 3 paragraphs explaining how a character smells! We don't need 5 describing how the lighting illuminates the room! Are theses good small details to have, Yes! Emphasis on 'small' auughhh
2026-07-18 19:06:30
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MJ Writes :
y’all make up terminology and don’t explain it. 😑 the hell is purple prose?
2026-07-18 14:05:13
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<33 :
"Oh I don't have problem putting my characters in conflict." "Some people have the opposite problem" "oh"
2026-07-18 14:55:57
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Tim Kusterer | Writer :
My conflict begins with me sitting down to write 😅
2026-07-17 20:51:06
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Witchy | Horror Author :
I personally dislike the hate towards purple prose. in some genres, like cosmic horror, adding a touch of lavender to your lovecraftian scenes is a genre necessity, but the online discourse on purple prose leaks into people's perception of the litteral mechanism through which unknowable horrors are delivered to the human mind. so any time people are like "ew your void scenes get a little purple" i'm just like THAT'S THE GENRE 😭
2026-07-17 21:06:37
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Alexis :
Can you give an example of what purple prose is—for those who don’t understand it? I’ve realized that people often say amateur writers make certain mistakes, but they never really dive into what those mistakes actually look like. We’re just expected to know things, and that leads to miscommunication. We can say "no purple prose" all day long, but if someone doesn’t know what purple prose looks like, they won’t get it. The same goes for repetition—repetition of emotions, reactions, situations, words, etc. We have to be specific. I still get lost with it.
2026-07-18 01:55:35
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Ayanda Micah :
*me being defensive* (conflict avoidance) ... as somebody who still politely decided to start on Wattpad ...But what if I'm trying to depict an avoidant character Also can everybody please read my wattpad @AyandaNagel I Thought I Knew Her and comment on it I'm improving
2026-08-31 12:45:29
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(〃´ω`〃) :
second one is so popular in anime 😭
2026-07-19 07:58:43
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Laura McConnell :
If anyone needs any conflict to add, hmu. I’ve got a lot 😅
2026-08-31 04:07:33
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Author Evangeline Williams :
I believe you that these are common weaknesses, but the *most* common one I see with new writers I beta read for (and suffered from myself when I started out) was the inability to recognize the difference between showing and telling with any level of nuance or knowing when which is the best option. People use so many “emotion words” to tell readers how a character feels. Then the next stage, they learn to lose the emotion words and replace them with heart pounding, clenched fists, narrowed eyes, blinking… without realizing that doesn’t fix the problem, it just adds choreography. Sometimes necessary choreography, but it’s not capable of doing the job of immersing the reader.
2026-07-20 23:40:44
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star 🖌️📖 :
Hot take: if you think without purple prose means dumbing down writing, it means you’re writing can’t be captivating without the flowery writing, and that’s why purple prose is seen as amateur writing because you can’t write effectively without it
2026-07-18 00:21:24
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Jess :
I’d rather read no conflict than trite, overplayed third act misunderstandings that are shoehorned in because the author is just following the formula though. Like if it reads as contrived, I get annoyed
2026-07-19 13:43:17
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ZigZagPunch :
I fucking love videos where people use a slang term and then refuse to elaborate on what it means
2026-07-20 15:15:32
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AimlessVariantArchive :
Can’t stand repetitive writing it’s like watching a CW show. They start to repeat themselves of past issues after the 3rd season.
2026-07-18 11:59:41
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Hi there 👋🤗 :
Quick question, how do you write a scene with let's say seven characters in one room together and they are all speaking.
2026-07-19 10:38:20
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justjayjournals :
I believe I have conflict. My MC pushes her sister down the stairs
2026-08-02 02:10:19
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Sophie :
Or like Stephanie Meyer: Conflict is happening but the main character is not there to witness it so neither are you as the reader.
2026-07-19 16:11:14
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mina :
yes PLEASEEEEE make a video on how not to avoid conflict in writing 😭 i have this problem where i always try to make my characters make the safest choices and its so annoying 😭
2026-07-18 13:12:12
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eevee :
But the conflict is the fun part
2026-07-18 18:36:18
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cas :
got scared at first but these are all things discussed at length while working on my degree! the repetition thing sometimes comes from authors afraid their readers wont get something. i always have to tell newer writers in workshops to trust their readers!
2026-07-19 18:31:23
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Dex the Boss :
My comics teacher in HS said this ab conflict: make your character and then beat them up in horrendous ways. Don’t kill them, just beat them up.
2026-07-19 13:34:06
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Pursona :
while this is true, the industrialized 3 act conflict is conditioned for a western audience, whereas the 4 act kishotenketsu relies on internal conflict and transformation. think any miyazaki film
2026-07-18 16:15:43
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Butter 🧈 :
No I love purple prose it’s beautiful
2026-07-18 20:11:36
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princess.andthebear :
Oh… I’ve never heard of purple prise. Just looked it up & I actually read certain authors because of their beautiful writing & descriptions. Didn’t realize it was considered a ‘mistake’.
2026-07-18 22:30:12
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Trelly Trell :
Wait, how can you be a writer and not have conflict in your story? Can someone give me an example of this, excluding children’s books?
2026-07-19 23:10:42
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