sometimes I wish I had ed sheeran’s phone number just so I could call him up and say SIMILES ARE GENERALLY ONLY WORTHWHILE IF THEY ADD SOMETHING TO AN IDEA. RECOGNISING THAT 2 THINGS CAN HAVE A COMMONALITY IN A VERY VAGUE WAY DOES NOT MEAN IT’S USEFUL TO REFERENCE IT. SEE: FACES CRUMBLING LIKE PASTRIES. IS SHE A BAKER? DOES SHE ENJOY A GOOD CROISSANT? IS THIS REFERENCED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE PIECE? IF YOU ANSWER ‘NO’ TO ONE OR ALL OF THE ABOVE, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200 OR A BRIT AWARD.

ok so i thought i put this in DRAFTS not QUEUE, and let’s pretend I did because i have so much more to add. So many thoughts. One thing I was really lucky to have, as a writer, was one teacher who took everything I wrote very literally – not as a reader, he was a very smart reader, but as an editor, just to make me question whether the language was any good. So if I said someone’s face was crumbling like pastries, he would go: like, breaking in half? How do pastries crumble? What does that look like? How does a face crumble? What does that look like? Is it the same verb? And I would go, Not Really, my face crumbling like the face of a person who has just been called out by her thesis advisor. And then I would use a different word. (I would use completely different words, every word in that line would be different because it’s a shitty line.) MY POINT IS, WORDS MEAN THINGS. I see this in a lot of bad poetry that is going for a Siken vibe. If you say something like “I wanted to use him like the blood under my nails,” that’s fine if you’re 14 because it’s important to have a phase where you just put words in rows because they sound cool. But at some point, as an adult who wants to make words, you gotta stop and think: WHAT ARE THESE WORDS!!! WHAT DO THEY MEAN! How does one “use” the blood under their nails? Use it as what? As paint? As cuticle cream? As a snack? There’s a reason your deep weirdo creative brain put those words together, and if you can figure out what the reason is, then you can figure out what words you ACTUALLY MEAN with your, you know, language centers. Your deep weirdo brain is a wonderful gift and you couldn’t create without it, but half the time it just barfs out stuff that makes no sense, even to you. That’s why you need to LOOK AT IT and SEE IF IT’S INTELLIGIBLE.

So that’s my #hotwritertip for today. Take everything you’ve written very literally and see if it becomes super dissonant/distracting, and if it does, then find some words that don’t. GET IT TOGETHER, FANCY NERDS!!!!!

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I know it’s not Friday yet but I can not keep these to myself for that long 😳

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he's so funny [x]

I'm sorry but this is just ... how did the man get in trouble for that???? How did they find out??? Was the CW sniper there in the audience?? Lmaooooo

Misha on Castiel's voice (x)

hey, i’m gay and i love you

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