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Good stuff.

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put in the tags the first thing that comes up when u type “i am,” “i’m not,” “i love,” “i hate,” and “i wish”

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I made a meme, y’all.

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a wild egg appeared?

everyone who reblogs it before Oct 25 will get a Pokemon based on their blog in their submit inbox (make sure submit is open!)

happy hatching!

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No one ever needed a backstory for Nagini. We were set. Big snake. Voldemort talks to big snake.

That was it.

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welcome to the age of female superheroes

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The characters themselves questioning plot holes in the story instead of the writer actually filling the plot holes is the writing equivalent of ‘it’s not a bug, it’s a feature’

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sometimes you need to skip a day. sometimes you need three months off before you come back to your wip. sometimes you need three years to let your characters develop on their own time before you deem them ready enough to start writing again. don’t be afraid to take a break. your wip will be there when you come back. 

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Reblog if I’m allowed to share a snippet of my WIPs in your inbox

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Me @ me: write you coward

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I love this so much w t f

So, funny story!

I have a character in one of my WIPs who struggles with anxiety. There came a scene where he had a full-blown anxiety attack, and I wanted to make sure I portrayed it accurately (real anxiety, not “oh, I’m so cute and nervous pwease hold me to make it all better uwu” anxiety). So I did a h*ckton of research. We’re talking three days of reading up on official diagnostic tools, personal descriptions, and even seeking out those I knew in person who had similar struggles and essentially interviewing them about what it’s like. Once I felt like I had enough to go by, I wrote the scene, got a lot of positive feedback, and moved on.

Flash forward five or six months. I won’t go into the details, but something happened to me that sent me into a full-blown panic attack of my own. And even as incapacitated as I was during the ordeal, amid my frenzied, choppy, incoherent string of thoughts was a single observation. “Hey, but this is exactly how I wrote Crossley’s anxiety attack! I got it right! I wrote it perfectly!” 

Not even a panic attack could suppress the writer in me. (๑´ㅂ`๑)

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Thor: This is odd.  Titan used to have 3 moons.  Now it only has 2.

Tony:  Oh, yea, that’s cuz Thanos threw one at me.

Steve:  Say what?

Tony:  Thanos threw a moon at me.

Steve:  I… he… he threw… what happened?

Tony:  It broke.  I didn’t.

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Your mental illness is lying to you.

You are not stupid. You are not ugly. You are not worthless. You are not weak. You are not a burden. Your mental illness is lying to you.

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I don’t know if some people just experience panic attacks way different from the way I do, but a lot of writers seem to write panic attacks as thought they read a list of symptoms and just picked some to go with. Here are things for writing panic attacks:

I always, always notice when a panic attack is starting. The panic is usually a pretty good indicator of it. Why do all of your charaters end up mid-panic attack before they notice the panic attack is happening?

Panic attacks should include at least 80% more thinking than they’re usually written as including. The thoughts can/should be disjointed, incoherent, and repetitive. The reader should feel like the character is panicking instead of having to be told that they’re panicking.

Panic attack symptoms don’t abruptly disappear when the main panic attack stops. A person isn’t automatically fine 30 seconds after finishing having a panic attack.

There are varying degrees of panic attacks.

Go with symptoms beyond “can’t breathe and feeling like I’m going to die”.

Please.

Look up some other symptoms. Include the shittier ones like irritability, screaming at people, etc.

It’s hard to be coherent during a severe panic attack. A bizarre number of characters will stand there going “I can’t breathe” as though they’re vaguely having an allergic reaction. Give me characters apologizing four hundred times in a row. Give me characters who can’t complete a sentence. Give me characters who can’t say anything.

If you have to tell the reader the character is panicking, it’s not a well-written panic attack.

Bystanders almost never react as well in real life as they do in stories.

A lot of people (me included) don’t like to be touched during panic attacks. Every character in stories seems to react well to a hug. Give me characters frantically shoving someone away. Give me characters who can’t manage to tell the other person to get off of them because they can’t get the words out.

The experience of having a panic attack can be exceedingly embarrassing. People will do a lot to hide them.

Stop pretending friendship is the cure for panic attacks. It can certainly help, and having people who are there for you is exceedingly important, but a friend/lover existing doesn’t make a panic attack magically go away.