[littlealienproducts]

dreaming of you (A5 Cat Art Print) by robinillu

[kosmogrl]

it’s june I desperately need to stop wasting time

[kosmogrl]

we’re basically halfway through the year this is getting SERIOUS

[luna-azzurra]

I think the reason writers are so weird about their wips is because explaining a story before it's done is like showing someone a dream. it made total sense five seconds ago. it was vivid and real and it meant something. now you're saying the words out loud and watching the other person's face and the whole thing is just. evaporating. "it's about a woman who...okay there's also a house..." and the dream is gone. you killed it by looking at it. don't tell anyone about your wip.

[shaydh]

"why did you write that"

my fetish

my friend's fetish

not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.

[shaydh]

"why is THAT your fetish"

idk i was probably scared of it so i decided to get horny about it instead. to deal with my fear. fuck off.

[pangur-and-grim]

the problem with getting kidnapped by jigsaw is that I'd probably get impatient and start going for it before the instructions played, and then if I learned I was doing it wrong I'd be too stubborn to change my methodology. so I'd be waving around my severed hand like "look, I did it" while he's just like "the key was in the dog. you had to eat the smelly dog to get the key."

[pangur-and-grim]

[dragonologist-phd]

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[deathlonging]

how it feels to work on yr stupid writing & enjoy it

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4130:

who cares if it's bad, have you seen some of the shit people are reading these days

[i-am-a-fish]

fuck, I just realized that if I spend my life being too intimidated to make art then that means I don't even get to make bad art. I end up making NO art. that's way worse

[concerningwolves]

you can take a quick pause from writing to fact-check something on the internet. but watch out

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[thewhumpiestofthemall]

Daily affirmations

I am a freak and that is ok

Anyone who hates on me for my writing has never picked up a pencil in their life

I should be more self indulgent

My characters should suffer more

[cutecipher]

there's art inside me trying to get out

[exhaled-spirals]

« When someone says a song or a book or a poem saved their life, this is what they mean: 

• it took me out of my brain for the one second needed to get back onto the planet • it shot out a spark into the distance that I could then build a path toward • it opened something up in my imagination. 

Because suicide is the result of the death of the imagination. You forget how to dream up other possible futures. You can’t picture new maneuvers, new ways around. Everything is just the catastrophic present and there will never be a time this is not so. That is what kills you. What saves you is a new story to tell yourself about how things could be. »

— Jessa Crispin, The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

[penandinkprincess]

so wildly obnoxious when you agree with the starting point of someone's stance only for them to hard turn into things you DON'T agree with and now you have to defend the thing that was originally annoying you

"too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories"

"oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-"

"and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS"

*through gritted teeth* "people should be allowed to read whatever they want, and actually these books should be left alone and you should shut up about it"

[literaryroses]

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Me, tears of blood running down my cheeks, froth curdling at the corners of my mouth, through gritted teeth: I WILL STAND SHIELD TO SHIELD TO DEFEND THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE HAVING RIGHTS

[byjove]

Inflation has made me not understand prices anymore in the sense that I no longer understand what an appropriate price for any food is. Is a $5 bag of chips a good deal? Because that sounds fucking insane to 2018 me. And yet, that is how much they cost.

[brawltogethernow]

Thinking "so at this price how much of this could I get for $100" constantly feels like having a total break from reality.