Barkley Von Schnauzer

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma even to me.

[poetryforall]

[thoughtkick]

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

— Unknown

[makestheworldtastegood]

When dogs make eye contact with you and start wagging their tail, then you start talking to them and they wag it harder

Reblog if u agree

[glumshoe]

writing is hard because sometimes you want to write a sentence that is pleasant and rhythmic and compelling to read and sometimes you just want to get the characters across a damn room

[headspace-hotel]

what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms

[nondelphic]

no thoughts, just 200 half-finished drafts living rent-free in my brain

[sourdough-seal]

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

[nondelphic]

writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

[nondelphic]

“just start writing” they say, as if i don’t first need to reread my worldbuilding notes, tweak the map i made three years ago, and research medieval shoe-making techniques for a scene that won’t even make it into the book.

[neenarchive]

one thing about me is when i read or watch something and there's an evil child or some sort of monster who was born a monster i'm always going to side with the monster. sorry about your loser parents i would have loved you. skill issue

[passingfaes]

When you love a specific character but only get one season and maybe 4 fanfics written about them.

[booksqouted]

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

[paddleboards-and-beer]

“I think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are.”

— Nayyirah Waheed (via thelovejournals)

[dont-you-dare-go-hollow]

“It’s funny the air is damp, the clouds are grey, the night is dark, the wind is ripe…yet it still hasn’t begun to rain….Perhaps nature too has a terrible habit of holding its tears in.”

[the-book-diaries]

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

[booksqouted]

“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[deadliterarysociety]

what are poets, if not a concoction of great madness and inexplicable loneliness?