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“One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written.” — Neil Gaiman

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boop! :3

Wish it was the boop of motivation… I have negative right now (wherein I consider deleting everything I’ve written so its unfinished status will stop haunting me) 😞

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“Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.” — M. F. K. Fisher

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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Annie Proulx

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Overthinking doesn't just mess with your head; it messes with your heart, your vibe, your joy, your spark, and your love. It's sneaky but deadly self-sabotage.

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Just create the thing you want to create. Because who's going to stop you? Oh, it's you yourself? Well you can't let that bastard win, can you?

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Writing Share Game

Thank you @willtheweaver for the tag. I think I'll share the beginning of the chapter that's killing me. I've re-read it so many times I now hate every word, so maybe new eyes will help me achieve some perspective.

Tagging: @ink-enchanted @rkmoon @bloodmoonloveletter @goodluckclove @saltysupercomputer @asiminawrites @francieiswriting @darknightfrombeyond

Rules: Share some writing!

It was not what he expected. Between the parasol and the hood Elisewin kept reaching up to tug more securely over his face, Renathal's line of sight was uncomfortably limited, but what he could see of the Ember Ward's landscape held a surprising amount of proverbial life. The grasses crunching beneath their feet as they walked, admittedly parched and dry, boasted shades of vivid reds and bright, rebellious oranges he was not sure his eyes had ever seen. Equally unfamiliar clusters of sun-bleached flowers and pungent mushrooms bloomed rampant beneath the twisted black trunks of what, while charred, were still undeniably trees. "It's... beautiful," was Elisewin's verdict after their first few cautious paces. "An awful sort of beauty," she amended, carefully sidestepping a pile of ash. "I just mean... it's not like any other part of Revendreth I've seen." "No. It is not," agreed Renathal soberly. He, too, was eyeing the ash pile, quite sure he knew what it was - or had been. "This is... destruction... at its most brutal. Not what Revendreth was ever intended to be. None of this" - he gestured at the scorched flora around them, careful to keep his hand within the parasol's protective shade - “is Denathrius' direct creation, and I doubt he has much control over it any longer." An interesting and not unappealing thought, but he draped a wrist across the hilt of his sheathed rapier, regardless. "I do not know what we will encounter here, but it is imperative we stay on our guard." They journeyed in silence after that, Renathal keeping one hand on Elisewin’s elbow, the other ready on his rapier. The odd glance he threw over his shoulder confirmed Chelra maintained a firm grip on her glaives, as well. But they had no occasion to draw them. Though they passed more ominous mounds of ash, several still discernibly corpse-shaped, they encountered nothing more deadly than the occasional swarm of insects as they trudged the long miles through the blighted grassland.

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btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.

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I want you to know, I actually tried this just for fun to see what Pinterest could come up with for Renathal core, but all it showed me was a bunch of pictures of Astarion from Baldur’s Gate which I found highly offensive.

OC Moodboard Tag

Thanks for the tag, @cljordan-imperium!

Soft-Tagging - @on-noon, @mysticstarlightduck, @darkangel319, @aziz-reads, @late-to-the-fandom and everyone else who wants to!

Rules: Add your OC’s name followed by ‘core’ on Pinterest, then make a moodboard of the first 9 images (Which, as you can see by me, is very flexible. I went with the ones I liked the most)

I went with the main cast of Starchaser! And... The mentor figure who I just generally really enjoy as a character. Enjoy!

Our protagonist - Phoenix!

His younger brother - Sora!

The possibly unluckiest lizardman in the world - Falcon!

The engineer - Tab!

And lasty - the mentor guy who I just thought was funny - Simon!

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Heads Up, Seven Up

Thank you so much @willtheweaver for this tag which is the only reason I wrote today. I'm convinced this chapter doesn't want to be written. Cannot seem to make any traction with it the last two weeks for absolutely no reason 😓

Throwing out an arm to keep Elisewin from tripping, Renathal's other hand grappled for the cold, stone wall, anchoring himself as his feet readjusted to stillness and his eyes to the presence of light. Light. Thin, pale beams of it leaked through gaps in a ceiling he realised, looking up, must be the courtyard's central platform, miles above. Filtered and weak though it was, there was still enough to illuminate the concrete walkway running the rim of the circular chamber. Off this path, however, a mere six steps from the tip of Renathal's dusty boots and consuming most of the vast space was... Nothing. An empty chasm of unbroken black, that made the stairwell behind them seem almost cheerful in comparison.

Tagging: @virgolioness @kaylinalexanderbooks @mothervvoid @cryscal @moonluringfrost @bad-at-names-and-faces @theprissythumbelina

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*hypnotizes you* write your book write your book write your book

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Trying to edit when you aren’t sure what needs fixing

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When you finally won the battle of opening up your WIP to edit but your brain is fighting you on touching the document so you’re in paralysis like

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WIP Folder Ask

Thank you @thewritingautisticat and @willtheweaver for the tags. It’s wild to me how few WIP files I have left! And I desperately need a push to finish, so send asks with a WIP name and I will write new lines for that WIP no matter what.

Here are my WIP file names - they’re actually nearly all properly named this time 😅

W Chapter 13: A Reflection of Truth

W Chapter 14: The Master of Lies

W Chapter 15: The Prince of Revendreth/The Authority of Revendreth

SU MW POV Smut

SU Chapter 6: ???

SU Yet more interruptions smut

Little Mermaid AU - do not open this

Tagging: @tildeathiwillwrite @demigoddess-of-ghosts @averyauthorship @moogleterra @27paperlilies @drchenquill @wordbinge

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how nondescriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

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Me when I plan out a story and want to tell everyone