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when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

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fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.

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quit being embarrassed about your interests. we’re all just spinning through time and space on a floating green rock at a thousand miles an hour. it’s all just dust

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u know what, even if my writing isnt the BEST, i still made it all on my own. like there was a blank word doc and i filled it up with my own words, my own story. i took what was in my head and i made it a real thing. idk i feel like that alone is something to be proud of.

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“omg how do u come up w this stuff” well ive been plagued by visions since birth

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End of the year Asks

Song of the year?

Album of the year?

Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Movie of the year?

TV show of the year?

Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

Favorite actor of the year?

Game of the year?

Best month for you this year?

Something that made you cry this year?

Something you want to do again next year?

Talk about a new friend you made this year

How was your birthday this year?

Favorite book you read this year?

What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

Post a picture from the beginning of the year

Post a picture from the end of the year

A memorable meal this year?

What’re you excited about for next year?

What’s something you learned this year?

What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Favorite place you visited this year?

If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

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I lost NaNoWriMo and all I got was this crappy vlog :/

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IM SO PROUD OF HIM!!!❤️

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and they had this in common: that they were feared, hated, desired, and worshiped - woman hating, a.d.

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I wake up. I consume media. I wish my life was different. I make no effort to change it. I consume more media. I go to sleep.

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Welcome to the cult of short fiction :) 

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By far one of the best writer feelings is when you’re just chilling and then it’s “Oh THAT’S how my plot is going to go”

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Holding a Ghost | Update #5

Why hello! 

It’s been a hot minute hasn’t it, since my last update for this book was… *checks calendar* ah yes, August 9th. Oops.

So much has happened since then! I restarted this book entirely, have been writing it for NaNoWriMo, and have already made almost 20k of progress, surpassing where I was in the original draft in terms of plot, and almost word count. 

My purpose for restarting the book was to change the form, in slight but also major ways? Although I wanted to keep the whole ~2nd person referral witness omniscient ghost point of view~ (don’t ask ahahaaaa) thing, I wasn’t happy with the narrative form and structure, and wanted to try something more vignette-style, as well as more flexible and experimental. 

When I’d been writing the book initially, it just hadn’t felt quite right. I hadn’t really connected with the story like I’d hope to while writing a draft (and like I normally would), as if my emotional investment and connection to the story dissipated as soon as I started writing, and the book just didn’t feel like it was supposed to. I did like it in some respects, but how it was emerging on the page didn’t fit with how I’d envisioned it or how I felt the story.

Luckily, as I’ve started this redraft, I’ve become sooo much happier with the book! I feel that connection to the story I’d been lacking, and feel like the story is turning as I’d been imagining. Can we please pour one out for the fact that I have been writing this book in some form or another since February of 2015 and have finally found its ideal form? 

As of writing this post, I’m 18,892 words into the draft, so although the draft is still slightly shorter than the first version I’d written, I have passed it in terms of plot, which is great because one of my goals was to condense the book, as I felt the original version was too drawn out. I want this book to feel very floaty and hazy and soft and ghostly, and the more traditional scene structure was too ‘heavy’ and wasn’t working in unison with the feeling I wanted the book to have. I’m really happy to see the new form 1. translating the feeling I want the story to have and 2. lending to a briefer style of storytelling and a shorter draft.

The form of this book is now very flexible and in a way, inconsistent. Different chapters take different forms. Sometimes dialogue is written as a transcript, some chapters are told as lists, others are formatted as series’ of photographs. I really like the flexibility of form this has allowed, and I think its quirky and playful nature is benefitting the story and has been really fun to write. 

The book is told in very short chapters, so I’m on chapter 23 at the moment, as many are so brief, and many of the titles are there to indicate how the form works in each specific chapter. My chapter list currently looks like this:

I’m going to try and cover all of this in this update, but since a lot of it is repurposed from the old draft, there won’t be much to say about most of these chapters! However, this is going to be a pretty long update so buckle in, folks. Right now I’m nearing the end of part two, and expect the book to have around five parts in total. I don’t think it’ll be a very long book, so it’s nice to see it moving quite quickly.

So let’s chat + look at some excerpts! Under the cut bc this is a LONG one.

Disclaimer: This is my original work. Do not plagiarize or copy it in any form.

Weiterlesen

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what emotion do you write from

homosexuality

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knifehack

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@ anyone who wants to: please repost this with your favourite musicals