#writing feels

[cyanparadis]

( please reblog and share your opinions. i really need to stop jumping from one to another. Even if the poll expires, feel free to state your opinions & thoughts in reblogs >:)) )

[raytm]

[theitcharchives]

There’s something about remembering that the song I’m listening to as I work on my writing is the same one I used to listen to on the bus as a highschooler that sparks that good nostalgia and protectiveness. I look at all my schematics and thousands of words written and all the experiences I dragged my feet through towards adulthood and self identity, and I strongly will those notes to carry my love back to that insecure lost teenager who hated waking up in the mornings and going to sleep at nights and didn’t know what would ever happen in life. You’ll get through it. You’ll still like these songs. You’ll never believe how much can change while your core remains the same, like those songs that can suddenly yank me back through years. Also realising those core traits hold strong while you become an adult is so satisfying. You look at the kind of person you’ve always been and you forgive yourself for every time you despised them because that person is kind of cool. Look at all those thousands of words written, you’re in all of them whether they made the cut or not and they’re actually quite cool. And that song is on loop just like you used to like it.

[snugglesquiggle]

they should invent a 16k word chapter that has natural stopping points

[zahri-melitor]

Step one: put the words on the page

Step two: leave the words on the page, just make note of what you want to edit later

Step three: once all the words are on the page, read it over and curse at the problems

Step four: start rewriting the parts you previously noted needed fixes. Discover a dozen other issues

Step five: find better words. Put them on the page too

Step six: try to keep the writing flowing by working on a different project while you edit

Step seven: you can let go of words now

[nixariel]

i’m starting a collection

[schmedterlingfreud]

... you look lonely...

[zombolouge]

the worst mood is when all I wanna do is write but I've hit that point where the brain gremlins are convinced all of it is Bad and will be universally reviled, which means it's time to take a break to beat the gremlins back with a baseball bat for a snack

[thedeathczar]

Don't panic.

The universe does not always

Want the same thing that

You do. Sometimes you have

To battle your way upstream,

Proving you know your own

Heart better than the cosmos.

[aeliaxia]

writing is witchcraft

burning incense and saying prayers so that the brain fog is minimal, the inspiration is bright, and my writing is on point for a 100k manuscript to be birthed next year before the summer solstice.

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[ducktracy]

sharing a very sage bit of advice from The Simpsons' own John Swartzwelder that i've been trying to hamper down in my writing and drawing alike. let your inner crappy little elf do his worst

[i69bea]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."