Claire Keane
@theartofmadeline
DEAR READER
RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
No title available
Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home
Product Placement
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
No title available
Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Azerbaijan
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Spain
seen from Spain
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from United States
@bbwritewerk
Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water
it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.
tags by @eridan-ampora
Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.
Mitani Takuya
There are three rules:
1. If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it.
2. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no.
3. If you do not step forward, you will remain in the same place.
Magician Shokyokusai Tenkatsu and her Flower Heaven Troupe wearing a strap-on hooked into a 300,000 volt Tesla Coil to shower bolts of artificial lightning on the girls below holding conductor rods, part of the Japanese artistic movement called Eroguronansensu (literally “erotic-grotesque-nonsense”)
Just so everyone knows, this was in the 1930s and she was in her forties to fifties at the time
every time i sit down 2 watch a horror movie i think of that one tweet :/
rb if you too sit down in ur room and watch horror movies alone
I want to get back into journaling but Im having such a hard time making it a habit and actually writing what I’m feeling. Any tips?
I’ve just started to get back into journaling as well. Here are some humble tips:
1. Don’t think about how well you’re writing. Erase as little as you can if you’re handwriting your entries. And if you don’t already, try typing your journal entry instead and never press the delete key. Let all your raw feelings out without going back; you can edit later.
2. Make a list numbered only to three and write down your three major feelings relating to the day - negative or positive.
3. For me, the main reason I wouldn’t journal was because I didn’t want to focus on my feelings. I wanted to solve the problem that was the cause of said feelings, rather than understanding the effects. So maybe try writing down problems unrelated to your emotions, then narrow down on the feelings linked to them.
Hope this helps!
Writers' Resolutions
A bunch of resolutions for writers and people who want to try writing this year. It's in no way something you must do, these are just ideas how you can set out to improve your writing in 2022.
Try something new
Try to write something you have never written before.
Write something silly, write something serious, write in a different genre, try to write characters that you haven't explored yet.
Write consistently
Writing consistently will not only give you exercise to become a better writer, it can also keep your voice as a writer consistent.
If you have a first draft, write it down quickly and without big breaks inbetween.
Don't wait for inspiration
Waiting for inspiration to come can take forever. So don't wait for inspiration: search for it.
Make writing into a habit that comes natural to you every day, look up writing prompts, read a book you like, get yourself into the mood to write and do it!
Do your research
As a writer, you need to know about a lot of different things.
You can do research by reading books, listening to podcasts, watching movies, talking to other people, etc.
Take this year to learn something new and then tell your reader all about it.
Edit that draft
We all have that one story we wrote a while ago and then stopped at the first draft.
Take it and reread it and then rewrite it. You have a new perspective on it now and maybe this will be the year you turn your idea into a book.
Set yourself a goal
This explicitly doesn't have to be a goal about how many words or pages you write.
Your goal can be to finish something, to edit something, to write a few sentences every day, to share more of your writing or to publish something.
Don't compare
Try not to compare your writing with that of someone else.
Writing is about finding your own voice and telling a story that only you can tell. Also: other people's accomplishes don't diminish your own!
Write!
Whatever the outcome of your writing may be and whatever you want to do with it, if you want to publish it, if you want to share it with friends, or if you want to keep it to yourself: just start writing!
Do what you love to do.
To all my lovely writers, I wish you a great year, may everything work out in your favour!
- Jana
i think writers forget sometimes that stories can be written without any plot. stories without characters. or stories without structure. without meaning. dialogue. setting. genre. screw writing advice. be the most avant-garde you that you can be. publish blank pages
i'm not advertising redbull it fucking sucks i just thought this would be funny
my book journal is literally the only thing in my life that I have committed to and do consistently
Unusual Summer by Mindaugas Buivydas
Your book is going to be great; just put one word in front of the other.
Until we hit a plot hole.
Nope. No negativity - you drop into that hole, see what you can learn from it, clamber out and finish your draft.
You can edit a bad book, but not a blank page.
I think that’s a really, really important note and I never thought of it in that context. But if you stop and look at your plot hole and can identify why you stopped? you CAN get back out.
Examples:
“I’ve written myself into a corner” - back up to your last branch, and restart
“I have no idea what’s going to happen next” - have a plotting session (which may just consist of figuring out what WON’T happen and going with what’s left)
“I have no inspiration for this piece” - take a break, and ideally revisit your source of inspiration, remember why you wanted to write it to begin with!
“This absolutely sucks” - ngl, it might in fact actually suck, but the only way to write better words is to hone your craft; keep writing, and read a lot too
Just a few small things, but it helps.
my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”
he said, “you have to stop doing that.”
“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.
but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.”
i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”
as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck.
“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”
so, my friends: what are you writing about?
Well….. fuck…now that you put it that way….
i almost finished 300,000 words before i realized i was essentially writing about how hard it is to make friends after age 35. and how much i need to.
I’m writing about the complexities of romantic relationships in your mid-20s and how sometimes the person that you thought you always wanted in your youth is not the person you’re meant to be with. Sometimes, you meet someone as an adult and build a strong foundation as you live your individual lives, and they become the person you never thought you needed as a life partner.
I’m writing about the existential crisis that comes with being forced to confront the reality that you were being lied to, manipulated, exploited and abused, placed in a setting where I also get to explore what it means to be a human person
A oneshot I just finished roughing out and am currently editing is about the conflicting feelings of caring about someone and wanting to help them… while also wanting to get far away from them.
"Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has."
-Marguerite Yourcenar; Memoirs of Hadrian
this is arcane knowledge that the human mind cant comprehend
honestly what the fuck does this mean
it means relax and don’t worry, but don’t relax so far that you become inactive and complacent. be calm, but do what you gotta do. take it easy….but, take it
I think about this post 3x a week
