Your style is where you assert your right to do things the way you want to do them.
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world-building
#100: Knowing When to Throw In the Towel
You have written 100,000 words of a lesson for yourself, which is that you cannot start by taking harmful stereotypes as givens and then write a harmless book.
#81: Your Writing Is Enough
Can you see ways to redefine "enough" and put it within your reach? Can you see ways to feel like enough right now?
#79: Ethical Worldbuilding from Real Places
There is no absolution; there are no clear-cut rules that you can strictly follow and thereby relieve your anxiety. There is only you, doing your best.
#59: Accepting Your Writing Style
Celebrate your glorious ideas rather than treating yourself as a failure because plots are trickier for you.
#49: When Settings Are Fun and Stories Are Hard
You are totally permitted to just do the fun parts of this and skip the parts you dislike. Hobbies are for enjoying.
#35: Making Side Characters Feel Real
You're operating by improv theater rules, where as soon as a character introduces a new idea, you say "yes, and" to it. But this theater troupe answers to your direction.
