#litblr

[somerabbitholes]

John Berger, ‘Will it be a Likeness?’

[dearlyjess]

ray bradbury

[wetcherryliquor]

[glorious-destruction]

the feminine urge to become fluent in every language on earth so I can read literature in poetry in their native tongues to get the full effect

[wedarkacademia]

[hole34s]

MY BEST WRITING TIPS... as someone with ADHD who has been serious about writing since age 13 (fiction edition)

WRITE OUT OF ORDER! write the scenes that come to you when they come to you, and work to connect them later. it'll all begin to flow.

change the background colour of your doc. this one sounds silly, but my god it works. change it to the vibe of the story if you have one, i like purple for my fantasy novel. better than that, change it regularly, or several times as you work so you don't get bored

write now, edit later. it doesn't matter how bad your base is. look at writing and editing as two separate processes. this will help immensely and keep you organised and flowing.

act out dialogue scenes. it looks silly as hell but it'll help you get into the characters' mindsets and write from their perspective.

on that note, pretend you are the character. take personality quizzes in the mindset of the character (my favourite is the MBTI test). write excerpts you're not including in the story from the character's perspective, like diary entries or vents. play pretend and have fun with it.

free writing is your best friend! i like to start off free writing about something totally random, then switch to free writing about the characters or setting, but very loosely and just what comes to mind. this will get you into the flow of writing.

use. character. sheets. i personally use abbie emmons'!

put as much effort into planning and framing the story as you do the story itself. watch youtube videos about framing and planning and preparing to write (again, i like abbie emmons), spend time just sitting there and thinking about writing, let thoughts about the story flow in your brain and put that effort into a plan for it.

hope some of these help!! uhh ten notes and i'll post my nonfiction version, 20 something and i'll post an excerpt from my book in progress :3

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[versesbyaaliyah]

The Galaxy Inside You

Written by Aaliyah O'Neil

A poem inspired by the prompt "Galaxy," provided by @noxnightingales and hosted by @picklemafia.

Your freckles are constellations

no telescope's ever named—

a private sky, messy and marvellous,

spilled across your shoulders like forgotten

myth.

Neurons fire like stellar nurseries,

ideas forming like stars from dust.

You think you're just one mind—

but you are multitudes,

an expanding archive of light.

Your lungs: twin nebulae,

inhaling silence, exhaling stardust.

Each breath a soft eruption,

an echo of the original bang.

Spinal fluid drifts like interstellar gas,

rising, falling in cosmic rhythm—

your spine, an elegant arm of a barred spiral,

curved not by spacetime

but by love, grief, and standing too long

beneath someone else’s gravity.

There’s a quasar in your gaze,

a furious brightness born of hunger.

You see, you ache,

you long.

Your heart—no metaphor—

is a rogue star,

beating defiantly

in the vacuum of unspoken things.

And deep within you,

a black hole of memory—

not evil,

not absence,

but a place where everything intense

goes to deepen.

You are not the dust of stars.

You are the galaxy itself—

whole, wild,

singing in wavelengths

no one else quite hears.

So next time you feel small,

remember:

you are a hundred billion stars wide,

and still growing.

© Aaliyah O'Neil 2025. All rights reserved.

These original poems and content are my creative work and are protected by copyright. Please do not reproduce, share, or use them without my permission.

[prophetic-memory]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[isaiahpadams]

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[dearlyjess]

scribbling in notebooks again

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

[scriptastra]