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I have no outline tho, just vibes

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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

— Audrey Hepburn

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“Don’t be so cool you can’t cry. Don’t be so smart you can’t wonder. Don’t be so set on your sunny days that you can’t love thunder.”

— Unknown

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your draft isn’t bad. it’s just going through its awkward teenager phase. let it wear a hoodie and slam its door.

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Little poem about love.

From my book The Secret Name of Things. Available on Amazon.

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@cyndraws ANABLAZE FEELS 🥺✨✨✨✨✨

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Isolation is not safety, it is death. If no one knows you're alive, you aren't.

Neil Hilborn

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“Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you, but you can’t use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.”

— Unknown

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me: i think i’m gonna write something light and fun me: *opens doc* me: so anyway here’s a story about grief, generational trauma, and a boy who dies in the snow

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my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.

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For as long as I live, I think this will forever be my favorite drawing you've done of Blaze 🥺😂💙💙💙💙🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ ANABLAZE TO THE MAX!!!!

crashing out over exams fr fr

Why "anata"? Well, i dont exactly use it grammatically correct (in english) cause it's the formal usage for 'you' in japanese. But Blaze uses it to refer to his *cough* good friend often enough it has the implied meaning of 'darling'/'sweetheart' lol.

what a silly guy, he keeps finging ways to toe the line between formal and intimate hehesdjkfsf (<- suffering from oc brainrot)

dw this is older art, ive been uhhhh ...focusing on studying, yes indeed

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So, uh… if you’re looking back on your writing and you’re cringing at how bad it is…

You know that’s a good thing, right? That you’ve grown?

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Questions Your Character Is Too Afraid to Ask

(But desperately needs the answer to) Because these are the thoughts they won’t say out loud, but they shape everything they do.

If I stopped trying, would anyone notice?

Do they actually like me, or do I just make their life easier?

Am I hard to love?

What would they say about me if I left the room?

Would they stay if they saw the real me?

What if I’m only good at pretending to be good?

Was it actually love, or just obligation?

What happens if I fail again? What’s left of me then?

How long until they get tired of me?

What if I deserve the things I’m afraid of?

Am I healing or just hiding better?

Why do I feel more myself when I’m alone?

Do I want to be forgiven or just forget?

What if I never become the person they believe I am?

Am I still angry, or just numb?

Why can’t I let go of them, even after everything?

If they hurt me, and I stayed, did I hurt myself more?

Am I building a future, or just distracting myself from the past?

Is this what I want, or just what I’ve been told to want?

What if I was never meant to survive this, but I did anyway? Now what?

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kudos to writers with dialogue-heavy works, I got mad respect for y'all. love using dialogue as a tool, but my default settings are non-verbal (dialogue) and non-stop yapping (description).

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"If my book is not perfect then-"

Then what? People will actually discuss it? fill your plotholes with fanfiction and headcanons?

People dont care about perfection. perfection is boring. if your story is perfect people will forget about it. its how we are wired. we remember the strange, the weird and all things left open.

Perfection isnt the goal, interesting is