characters who are loyal
characters who are loyal to the point of being incredibly self destructive
It’s self care o'clock
has this already been done?
Why do people lie?
Rereading your writing
this is it. this is the single funniest coronavirus meme. what the mcfuck
Me getting ready to write the plot twist that will ruin all my characters lives:
I just had to get this out because I think it’s super important for writers to hear this. And I know we’ve all seen the posts that tear down the idea that only good writers write every day and if you don’t you’ll never get any better or whatever, which I’m going to expand on in a specific way.
I’ve been writing a novel on and off for the last couple years, it’s still in its most infantile stage with barely more than a chapter’s worth written - and I’m about to overhaul the whole thing. Because as I opened up my dopbox file last night, the first time since june of last year (eight months ago), and reread the entire chunk I’d written, I had a profound breakthrough for the plot. I had been gifted with the starting point of my novel, which I hadn’t had before and had just started writing to get some ideas flowing.
And now suddenly, after eight months of barely ever even thinking about this story, I get quite a substantial lead. And in fact, this is the second time I’ve narrowed down my starting point, and I can promise you this didn’t come from me writing even a little bit consistently. I’d sat down to write what I have now in maybe under ten sessions - over the course of maybe two and a half years.
Writing doesn’t ever leave you. Your flow, style, and proficiency just changes. But writing never leaves you.
take your time, they said.
the words will come to you, they said.
… I won’t lie, this is one of the weirder commissions I’ve had.
prints/products available on my redbubble
Vanity
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” ― Charles Baudelaire
When you’re writing as fast as you can type at three a.m. because you’ve been hit with Writing Inspiration™ after a month of staring at the lone word “The” on your doc:
why do we write? just to suffer? every day i make faces at my computer screen
