#abt: writing

[thebahwrites]

hello!! this is so stupid but how do u find inspo to write fics sometimes? I've been having writers block for a bit and I have no idea what I shld do, hope ur doing well!

hello my love!!! it's not stupid at all and sometimes I Go Through It™️ too, fr fr.

I don't know if any of these would work for you but here's what I do when I'm fighting writers block! Under the cut cause as usual, I get rambly. I think these might be useful for most creatives but then again, it's my personal advice and nothing else!

Take a break. I KNOW HOW THIS SOUNDS but hear me out, sometimes I burn myself out from my writing and nothing I make looks/sounds/feels good and I start hating all of it. So I just... leave it alone for a few days. In the meantime, I do other stuff. I watch stuff, I play, listen to music, etc. This one usually does the trick when I'm really miserable about my things, give or take a week. I know we tend to self-impose deadlines but sometimes... time does it. The whole "fresh eyes" on it, you feel me?

Go out. If I'm not entirely miserable over my work but it's just... not doing it for me or if I'm getting held up on a plotline or a paragraph or a page or a chapter, whatever it is, I close everything and go for a run. Now, that's my prerogative. I'm a distance runner and running makes me feel better, it gives me the serotonin boost I require to reset things. I get sweaty and hyped up, come back, shower and usually it does the trick. I'm not telling you to go out and run if that's not your thing but alternatives might be: just go for a leisure walk, maybe go sit down at a park or plaza or something, stroll around a shopping mall or gallery, if you live at a beach city maybe the boardwalk? I think you get the gist of it. Go out for a bit, the infamous internet 'maybe touch some grass' is very unfortunate BECAUSE IT DOES WORK. And I hate it.

Get inspo! Okay so, this one may be a little wonky but bear with me. Sometimes I get hung up on my work because I don't know what to do or where to go from there or just... there's a bunch of things that happen, right? And I get stuck. So sometimes I try to go after things that might spark an idea or two. It really depends on what you're writing of course but for instance, for my Mafia story, I ended up binge watching Peaky Blinders. The stories are completely different and I have no intention of using virtually anything from it BUT it did give me a lot of inspiration from the visuals to the music to the everything! And it can be broader than that. Sometimes you can just look after thematic inspo, like romance? Go watch some romance movies or read bad or good novels or listen to a sad playlist over and over again.

Find help in others. Alright, I know this one might be a little more difficult because it ends up relying on other people but sometimes I need body doubling to even start writing. I just need someone else in the room or "with me" so I hop on a voice chat! Bouncing ideas or just "rubber ducking" my stories (as in, reading the whole thing out loud to someone else even if it's a stuffed animal). Or maybe go to a coffee shop to write, don't worry about people thinking it's silly or cringe. It's FUN and good little beverages along with being surrounded by others can give you the dopamine necessary to work! Of course, I don't know if you've got anyone available to do that but it doesn't have to be fully presential! It does work better if it is but sometimes you really just need... someone else.

Other shorter advice? - Scrap the whole thing. If you hate it? Or just isn't doing it for you? Start over from another point. Save the old work of course and revisit it later! Sometimes you'll create a wonderful monstrous chimaera. - Make other things about your writing - I make moodboards, aesthetics, Pinterest boards, Spotify playlists because it HELPS me more than anything! It gives me visuals and feelings and ideas!

...sorry for this long ass rambling but I hope these help? ;; I know you didn't ask for this wall of text but unfortunately you came to someone with Parent Energy™️ so I had to put these out.

And I'm doing much much better thank you for asking!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[kenobihater]

tragedy enjoyers when a character perpetuates the cycle of violence they themselves were a victim of

[zvaigzdelasas]

oops

[ear-motif]

fanfic is so good bc the premise of some genres of fic are just inherently funny. I want these two grizzled crime drama protagonists to have some fucking fun for once, so they go to a water park. I dont care how i have to logic my way into them going there i dont care who has to drag them Theyre Going

[skeptical-saniwa]

“Well, hello there.”

This was for celebrating 3K on insta! :D

[soranker]

my girlfriend

[swamp-chicken]

mountain man etho confirmed

[erabu-san]

I enjoyed every second of this quest

[This art has platonic intention. Thank you for not tag ship!]

[bruciemilf]

Thinking about Talia and Battinson having a whole ass baby without Ra’s knowledge. It’s just an open lie. Talia gaslights that fucker like a stove. And it WORKS.

Jason is flabbergasted. This motherfucker leads the world’s most powerful assassin operation. He takes it upon himself to let his mom Talia know he’s not as vulnerable to stupidity.

“You’re 4 months pregnant.”

“Nu uh.”

“Fuck you mean ‘nu uh’ ?! Is it Bruce’s?! It’s Bruce’s, isn’t it?! If it is: That’s fucked up. If it’s not: That’s fucked up!”

“I would never betray my beloved like that.”

“So it is Bruce’s!”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You just did! You’re having a baby with da— with Bruce!”

“What baby.”

Bruce totally knows Jason’s training with the league, by the way.

[orcaking]

My body is a collection of all the parts that came before! 🌱🌱🌱

[Image ID: A drawing of a trans masculine person, nude except for underwear. The figure has top surgery scars, and no head, the bottom of a jaw bone with plants growing from it floating above the neck. There are flowers, mushrooms, and stars surrounding the figure, and a bird flying to the left of the canvas. /. End ID]

[tojisprettywife]

{note: unedited as hell, not at all proof read. me being self indulgent again. i love thinking toji is the sweetest husband/ boyf when he actually falls in love hard. a drabble ig?}

warnings: suggestive?! lactation (nursing a baby), fluff?!

again, back with the same agenda, husband! toji who lovingly watches you nurse your baby boy. he’s so smitten, heart swelling with love as he sees the little one desperately suck on your nipple. your breasts full of nourishing milk for the younger one. as he watches this little bonding moment between you and the little one, a small smirk creeps up his face. as much as he loves and is smitten by this, by nature he’s a cocky man. he isn’t a girl dad, a boy dad through and through. he slowly inches his finger towards your breast, purposely unlatching your nipple from the baby’s mouth. he likes to get a reaction out of everyone, he loves teasing, that’s his love language. he sees the baby squirm in your lap, whining in frustration, almost crying. he smiles at this, you turn to toji. “toji?” he’s propped up on his elbow, having fun with this. then he let’s the baby latch back again, by removing his finger, which is holding back the nipple from his little mouth. the baby happily latches back on, kicking his little legs in delight, giggling. “sorry, little guy” he smiles lovingly at his son nursing from you. then he looks up at you “sorry, mama” he holds your hand, rubbing his thumb, over your hand in circles, smiling slightly. this man is knee deep in love, oh god.

[kevindavidday]

jeremy so far has been the most avoidant pov in the world because what the hell are his issues? he's not even looking directly at them he's looking around them or focusing on everyone else's issues so he doesn't acknowledge his own

like with neil there was immediate acknowledgement with the memory of his mother's burning corpse but jeremy? nothing. is it parental issues? sibling issues? self issues? why was he in therapy? did he do something? did something happen to him? who knows? he does but he's not gonna look at all that when he can look at jean instead

jeremy is neil's 'i'm fine' personified times ten thousand he's so fine he doesn't even need to say it

[comradekatara]

the siblings ever

[cubedmango]

they do this the entire way home