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When you feel like you hate everything you write, recognize the panic and remove yourself from it. 

You KNOW how to write. Your brain is lying to you.

So, do something else. Read a book. Go for a walk. Brainstorm. 

Try to do something that engages your brain and challenges it, rather than scrolling through social media that tends to put your brain in a passive mode rather than a creative mode.

Then get back to writing. Try again. That panic will pass eventually as long you keep showing up to your writing with the insistence that you WILL do it, no matter what!

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emotionally intense prompts.

idk my dudes i started listening to the etern.als theme music and now i have these things. bon appetit!

“ i’d follow you to the ends of the universe, if you asked me to. ”

“ how bad is it this time? ”

“ we’re the only thing standing between this world and its destruction. ”

“ we could stop all of this… with just a thought/flick of my wrist. “

“ fair?! how is any of this fair?! “

“ do you truly believe that anything so little as a rule, or a law, might have stopped me from protecting you? “

“ we have to fight. ”

“ we’re not giving up. ”

“ you. i’ll always and endlessly fight for you. “

“ i can wait a thousand lifetimes for you. “

“ we’ve had a pretty good life. but maybe normalcy is a thing we’re meant to protect, rather than enjoy. ”

“ i don’t know if i can protect you any longer. “

“ we’ve seen what they’re capable of. now we need to retaliate. “

“ if only the world knew what we do for them… ”

“ i’m sick and tired of being the one who has to make the sacrifices! ”

“ haven’t we lost enough? ”

“ i’m tired. beyond tired… i am exhausted from the endless fighting. ”

“ things must be catastrophic if you’re calling me at this hour. ”

“ this is what we’ve been waiting for. ”

“ i’d follow you to the bitter end; as i always have. ”

“ the time has come. ”

“ this is what we’ve been waiting for. ”

“ i thought we had more time.  i regret to confess… it appears that i was wrong. ”

“ don’t let them control you, eh? ”

“ you’re better than this. ”

“ everything’s about to change… ”

“ do you truly think so little of me? ”

“ careful… you’ve never had to fight me before. ”

“ we need to leave. ”

“ we’re a good team, you know. “

“ look around you. do you still truly see no reason for us to fight? “

“ we’re family. we don’t turn our backs on each other. “

“ it’s too late! let’s go! ”

“ it wasn’t your fault… ”

“ why are you doing this?! ”

“ i’m sorry… “

“ perhaps i don’t say it enough, but… i’d like you to know that i’m always here, if you ever wanted to talk. ”

“ you/they will always be worth fighting for. ”

“ don’t pretend like you understand. “

“ tell me how i can fix this… ”

“ don’t say it. ”

“ they’re not worth saving. ”

“ i am a god. you… you’re nothing. “

“ well. for whatever it’s worth, it’s been a pleasure fighting alongside you. ”

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So. My last account was terminated for unknown reasons so here I am again? I guess?

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the child who reads 500 books a year to 20 something adult who only reads fanfic pipeline

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My toxic trait is procuring every notebook I can get my bastard little hands on and then doing nothing with them

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Seeking writers!

Might as well make another one of these!

I'm a writeblr looking for other writeblrs to interact with and follow. Please reblog if you:

- are an adult, even if you don't post adult content (I'm closer to 30 than 20)

- write scifi and/or fantasy

- are okay with having someone like me tag you in writing games or share wip excerpts with you

These aren't required or anything, but bonus points if you're:

- queer

- neurodivergent

- over 25

Thanks for reading! Nice to meet you!!

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i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

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Ops.

I'll finish it this year for sure!

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You know that trope where someone’s injured and lying on the floor unable to move and their friend/lover/family member is standing over them battered and bloodied like, you will not touch them. You’ll have to go through me?

That. That is a good™️ trope.

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Ways to Show Not Tell: Grief

Here is a little list of ways to show grief without having your characters proclaim I am going through grief right now, okay?:

sudden sadness

social withholding/normally social characters isolating themselves

tearing up at nothing

circumstances surrounding characters like those they’re grieving for making them cry, even if they’re happy (to clarify, an example would be for me, my mother’s death has made it so that when I see mother-daughter relationships in media, I cry almost every time. Things like that)

sudden bouts of anger for seemingly no reason

unexplainable bouts of emotionality of any kind

trying to laugh off circumstances but being unable to shake them

again, pursing of the lips (that’s a common show of a lot of different types of emotions)

furrowing of the brows while talking about the person or circumstance they are grieving

laughing at something said about the one they’re grieving but with tears in their eyes

being unable to talk about the person or even people with the relationship they had with them (for example: if they’re grieving their SO, being unable to talk about couples or if their aunt died, being unable to talk about aunts, etc)

starting to talk about them but their voice chokes off

voice is strained when trying to talk about them

holding strong about it but there’s a sadness in their eyes that they can’t help

disappearing for days on end after whatever happened to make them grieving

blowing up when people try to comfort them

almost any emotion, but having “no explanation” for it

talking about their regrets - especially those centered around the person they’re grieving

increased talk of death/what happens after death

Hopefully these can help you write your grieving characters. Obviously this list isn’t exhaustive, as people react to grief - and any other circumstance - differently. Truly consider your characters and how they respond to other emotions & situations before picking how your character responds to grief.

Thank you and if you have any questions, feel free to send them my way!

Happy writing.

Thank you to @ncoincidences for submitting this request.

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“Yes mom i know my room is a mess its a metaphor for my life im trying to be poetic.”

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i see the younglings post things like “are you still on tumblr at 30?” and “go take care of your kids instead of reading fics”

and i just feel sad

because you have a bunch of young people who are terrified of getting older.

they think age is going to change them, into something boring, something different, something grey.

and i just want to tell them, reassure them:

you will still be the same person.

isn’t it wonderful?

you will love the things you love for so many years. you will find joy in the same things, decade after decade. you will feel the same inside, through all this time.

yes, the body will change. yes there’s more responsibilities, less time, even less energy.

but there’s no magical age where you stop enjoying that specific story, that specific game, that specific hobby.

but you know what also comes with age?

you have less fucks to give.

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Take frequent breaks (drink water too!) and do your goddamn wrist stretches

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Oh, I missed this place, this account, the creative version of myself.

How are you guys?

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