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Another reminder for myself

🖋️ You Don’t Need to “Write Every Day” to Be a Real Writer (and Other Guilt-Crushing Truths)

Let’s make this one loud: 📣 You are not a failed writer because you didn’t open your Google Doc today.

We’ve all heard the advice, write every day, build the habit, protect the streak, treat it like brushing your teeth or doing crunches or whatever metaphor productivity Twitter is pushing this week.

But here’s the thing: You are not a factory. Your brain is not a faucet. And writing isn’t a moral behavior.

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🚫 Daily Writing is Not a Badge of Legitimacy

The "write every day" rule? It wasn’t invented for you. It came from a very specific kind of writer.... usually full-time, no kids, no chronic illness, no 60-hour day job, no executive dysfunction, that lives in a world made of schedules and uninterrupted mornings.

You? You’re probably doing your best between classes, during night shifts, after crying, before therapy, while microwaving pizza rolls.

If you’re writing at all, you’re already in the game. No daily streak required. No blood oath to the Scrivener gods. You don’t need to bleed ink to prove you’re real.

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🧠 Writing is Mental, Even When It’s Invisible

Plotting in the shower. Thinking about your character’s tragic backstory at red lights. Whispering fake arguments into your Notes app at 3am. Staring at the ceiling replaying one scene until it rots.

It all counts.

Writing is thinking, not just typing. That mental compost pile? That’s how the good stuff grows. You don’t owe your worth to a word count. Some days, the work looks like a blank page and a brain on fire.

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🔄 Rest Is Part of the Process, Not a Detour From It

Let me say this plainly: Burnout is not proof of effort.

You are allowed to pause. You are allowed to stop mid-project. You are allowed to write in bursts. You are allowed to write for a week and disappear for a month.

Writing is a relationship. It has seasons. It expands and contracts. You are not a robot with a daily quota, you’re a person carrying a whole fictional world inside you. Let yourself be human.

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📆 Consistency Helps--But Define It For Yourself

Do some writers thrive with routines? Sure. But routine =/= daily.

Try this: → “I write every weekend morning when I can.” → “I jot down notes during my commute.” → “I commit to one hour a week, guilt-free.” → “I take two weeks off after every chapter.” → “I only write during November and spiral gloriously.”

Build a rhythm that actually matches your energy, not one that shames you for not vibing like a full-time author in a lakeside cabin with nothing to do but word vomit and sip tea.

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💌 You’re Still a Real Writer (Even When You’re Not Producing)

You don’t need:

a finished draft

a daily goal

a growing WIP

a thriving project

a clever new idea

…to be a writer.

You only need:

the drive to tell a story

the will to try again

the love of the craft, even when it doesn’t love you back

You’re a real writer if you write sometimes. You’re a real writer if you write badly. You’re a real writer if you wrote once and it changed you.

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✨ Guilt Kills Stories Faster Than “Laziness” Ever Will

You’re not lazy. You’re probably: → Overwhelmed → Tired → Burnt out → Depressed → Distracted by survival → Caught in perfectionism’s death grip

And the guilt? It doesn’t make you more productive. It just sinks its teeth into your confidence until you start to believe you’ve “fallen behind” on something that’s supposed to be yours.

The best thing you can do for your writing life? Protect your joy. That spark. That curiosity. That itch to build something from nothing.

That matters more than any streak.

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📣 Final Truths (Pin These to Your Soul):

Missing writing days is not failure.

Your process is not wrong just because it’s not loud.

You are not in a race.

You are not a fraud.

You are allowed to come back whenever.

Writing is not a productivity metric. It’s a craft. It’s a calling. It’s a weird little ritual.

And it’ll still be there when you’re ready.

See you on the page, whether that’s tomorrow, or next week, or next season.

—rin t. // thewriteadviceforwriters // chaotic writing realist. anti-guilt gremlin. your local plot ghost.

📜 prompts for gothic girlies, literary lads, and cursed creatives

🕯️ download the pack & write something cursed:

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Something I needed to be reminded of

reminder

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Ready, set, HUNT.

The eye of zaun gets hunted by the crow queen of bilegwater, past mistakes haunt you at every turn.

Lets see how this goes

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64528357/chapters/165716971

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Nom nom nom good soup

This is what I canonically think happened when Ekko brought Jinx to the Firelight base. He gave her what she needed after rotting away in a prison cell: a home. I’ll be drawing more angsty stuff this week because of that music video⌛️💣❤️

Uncensored version on my BlueSky account

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They be living with the ultimate spoiler alert frfr

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-after Damian turned 16, at the family dinner-

Bruce: so... Damian, do you remember the Oreov girl you met at the gala last week?

Damian: *looks up* yes

Bruce: what do you think of her...?

Dick: *tries not to laugh*

Tim: *fails not to laugh*

Steph: *doesn't even try not to laugh*

Damian: she was... acceptable, if a bit annoying, why do you ask?

Tim: He's trying to set you up!

Batkids -Damian: *laughs*

Damian: *stares blankly*

Bruce: of course, you don't hav-

Damian: father, are you unaware that I'm in a committed relationship?

Duke, Tim and Dick: *choke on their food*

Steph: *chokes on her drink*

Cass: *smiles*

Batkids: WHAT?!

Bruce: ... I-....

Jason: *laughs so hard he almost falls from his chair* oh Jesus Christ! The world's best detectives at their finest!

Dick: you knew? And you didn't tell me?!

Jason: where the fuck do you think he went almost every fucking friday?

Bruce: *turns to Damian* I- I though you were having sleepover with Jon

Damian: I was.

Dick: but you just-

Batfam: *stops all their movememnt as they realize*

Jason: *actually falls from his chair laughing*

Bruce: JONATHAN SAMUEL KENT!

-over at the Kent farm, also having family dinner-

Jon, who heard Bruce shout his name: I feel like I'm going to get murdered by a bat in my sleep

Clark, who was also listening in: right after you explain why I had to find out you're dating Damian throught their family dinner

Jon: hehe... fuck

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some fanart I did - a little parallel to episode 7

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TIMEBOMB BABY ATTACK!!!!!

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Bless the original hellsite for enabling me to post this entire post-season-two saga in full.

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My headcanons on how gravity falls characters drink their coffee or other drinks because I'm bored:

Ford: used to drink his coffee with a splash of milk and a mildly concerning amount of sugar but started downing it black while trying to stop Bill from possessing him, probably still drinks it black out of habit.

Stan: either splash of milk and no sugar or way too much sugar and no milk, I can't decide. probably both. I also imagine it's scorching hot, nuking it in the microwave immediately when it's anything colder than lava. It's reminiscent of painfully hot gas station coffee.

Fiddleford: this is an Appalachian/southern man, his coffee is either 99% sugar and milk or just black, I'm leaning towards the first. he also definitely drinks a lot of tea. Sweet tea, hot tea, herbal tea, all of them. it'd be a miracle if this man has never had a kidney stone.

Mabel: definitely something like an iced chai tea, blended coffee, or any themed drink that's going viral at that moment. She was the actual creator of the unicorn frappe. Regardless of what it is, you'll have to brush your teeth immediately after drinking unless you want a cavity from all the sugar.

Dipper: absolutely hates hot brewed coffee and only drinks cold brew if any coffee at all, Is not a fan of the bitterness. at least in my experience, cold brew is way smoother and less bitter than hot brewed. but I do feel like he would stick to sodas more often than not anyways.

Soos: is definitely a white or Green tea guy and you cannot convince me otherwise, would also have a floral tea like jasmine every once in awhile. Would totally have traditional Chinese tea setup and so many tea pets, especially the ones that spit water.

Wendy: Dr pepper.

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Jinx made it out alive✨️

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Continuing from that first part

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ANOTHER JinxEkkoIsha headcanons

After few years, one of Jinx's eyes went back to blue, Powder's blue. She tries to hide it.

Isha draws hourglass on her and Jinx's nose, so they can match Ekko, he finds it so cute.

Sometimes all of these three sneek up to piltover, so they can surprise Vi, Cait and others.

Mel absolutly adores Isha, she even let her one of her golden lip piece. (I would call it piercing, but am not sure if it acually is piercing)

Jinx sometimes goes to Viktors and Jayce laboratory, Jayce hates it, she always mess up all papers but Viktor really like her, they are friends and he is always interested in Jinx's ideas on things.

Ekko sometimes still calls Jinx Powder, she does not mind it anymore, but prefers Jinx. (Anyone else would get bullet in brain for this).

Caitlyn and Jinx still dont like each other, but they toned it down. Mostly bcs they want to make Vi, Ekko and Isha happy.

Vi boughted Dog for Isha, sadly Ekko is extremly alergic to him, so he cannot be in undercity. So Vi and Cait have him.

Since in Piltower they can get married Cait and Vi are married. Isha was their flower girl, Jinx was Vi maid of honor (Cait protested agnist this so badly).

Also Jayce and Viktor are married. Isha was again their flower girl.

Lest and Mel are also dating and they promised thaf if they get married, Isha can be flower girl again, no matter how old she would be.

Ekko fights Chem-barons really hard on makeing marrige legal in undercity so he can oficialy marry Jinx.

Ekko and Jinx are not really into each other in public, sometimes they hold hands or hug but usually nothing more. But in privet? Oh boy they at least touch eachother nonstop.

Jinx got tattoo of Ekko's hourglass on her arm. Ekko has Jinx's symbol on his arm as well.

Jinx still calls him ,,boy savior" He does not like it from her after their bridge fight.(s1)

After the bridge fight (s1) Ekko snuck up after Silco and watched everything that happend. He heard every Jinx's scream of pain, they still hunts him in his nightmares.

They often just cuddles in bed without any word or anything, just them.

When Isha first called Jinx "mama" infront of Ekko, after she felt badly on playground, he was surprised, even more after she ran to her and huged her. They sat on ground for hours, Jinx didn't move until Isha wanted.