#GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN ILY 🩷💕💞💓💗💖💘💝

[sednonamoris]

HIIIIII !!!!!! you'll probably know who this is, but do you have any tips / advice for writing? your style is super flowy + beautiful, and I was wondering if there's any advice you'd have for improving my own writing? any ways to stay consistent, not ramble, anything! kinda stressing over this thing I have to write and.. idk what i'm doing.

hiiii tysm i’m so flattered you enjoy my writing style 🥹💓 you’ve come to the right place bc i LOVE talking abt writing!!! prepare for me to be so annoying lol

my first piece of advice is to read everything you possibly can. everything. completely trite garbage and Literature with a capital L and sci-fi/fantasy and nonfiction and newspaper articles and billboards and road signs. think about the things you love and the things you hate. what makes up the parts of the stuff you like to read? what makes you dislike something and how can you avoid sounding like that? what do you want to sound like? absorb it all like a sponge.

part two is to ponder sentences. (this is my primary occupation as sentences are a great passion of mine 😌) every single sentence you write is having a gorgeous conversation with the next. they’re holding hands. they’re kissing. each idea flows into the next like gentle waves that roll into high tide when you hit the crescendo or the point or whatever it is you really want your readers to understand. part of this pondering is also the constructing/reconstructing process. there’s a million and one ways to say stuff, but how do you like it best? don’t be afraid to play around with the verbiage and vernacular and sentence structure until you’re satisfied. also remember that length variation is your friend.

idk if i have any true advice about consistency bc my writing process is extremely chaotic, but something i swear by is really really really rough outlines. for example, the chapter notes for ‘pony up’ in ghost story were literally

jack comes up to ghost (out of the norm) says he's bored ghost asks if he knows how to ride he says no ghost says about time you learned. and that's that. also ghost should be smoking when he comes up don't ask why it's just cunty

this is a hot pile of steaming shit. BUT it’s also a starting point. blank pages are way scarier than hot garbage. let this be the part where you ramble, so you have what you actually want on paper and then pare things down and refine some of the points you want to make from there.

the last thing i’ll say is just to put your whole entire (gender neutral) pussy into it!! sing it loud and proud in a voice you recognize as your own. the thing about writing, and really storytelling in general, is that all of it has been done before except that it hasn’t. we’ve told every story there is to tell and said everything there is to say except not quite like that. not quite like you. so go crazy!!