most sane and sunly

all will be want & get. and i will be me. and o, o, ophelia - will be the essence of love.

[soleilinfini]

mary oliver, staying alive

[collectivelyconscientious]

well so it goes again i’ve started with something new i think i feel a little more comfortable with and interested in than anything i’ve done since t&m&n. i still love them but i think i simply must wait, it is too hard and too beyond what i can do right now. nanowrimo is dead but last night i did think… what if i forced myself to write 50,000 words by the end of november? i’ve got about 5,000 down now and i think i can do this if i let myself be bad at my job for a while

[collectivelyconscientious]

I just want to say that for a long time this project was at 20k words and then for a long time it was 40k and now it is at 60k and I think I need about 80k to tell a complete story, such as it is. I’m a little staggered by myself

[lifeinpoetry]

If I could do girlhood again, I’d ask

to be scarier. Less whimpering—more pyromaniac

urges, more flirting with kerosene.

— Sally Wen Mao, from “Drop-kick Aria,” Mad Honey Symposium

[apocryphics]

[collectivelyconscientious]

[godlessondheimite]

historical fiction gets made fun of a lot for the abundant, seemingly random cameos of famous figures but when you read historical non-fiction, you realize that everyone in the past did, in fact, know each other because there were only 12 people in the entire world

[probablymoons]

ngl some of these posts sound shortsighted so i’m pulling out the Marjane Satrapi quote:

"You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

[elodieunderglass]

i don't WANT to drink water I WANT a bard to draft a eulogy for me to criticise!!!!!!!

[segamascott]

[collectivelyconscientious]

well so it goes again i’ve started with something new i think i feel a little more comfortable with and interested in than anything i’ve done since t&m&n. i still love them but i think i simply must wait, it is too hard and too beyond what i can do right now. nanowrimo is dead but last night i did think… what if i forced myself to write 50,000 words by the end of november? i’ve got about 5,000 down now and i think i can do this if i let myself be bad at my job for a while

[collectivelyconscientious]

well it’s the end of october and i’m at 18,000, not as many as would have been ideal which would be more like 30,000 given how november is. i was feeling so good and now this week am very down and doubtful but nevertheless i wrote a very good kiss scene

[primulaceas]

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[mummer]

“not unkindly” has to be one of the ultimate adverbs ever. Implies so much

[petaltexturedskies]

Why do you fall in love? Nothing could be more complex: because it is winter, because it is summer; from overwork, from too much leisure; from weakness, from strength, from the need for security, from the love of danger, from desperation, from hope. Because someone doesn't love you. Because someone does love you.

Simone de Beauvoir, Quand toutes les femmes du monde

[daily-prompts]

Basically, if you want to become a good writer, you need to do three things. Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. And don’t think too much. Just enter the heat of words and sounds and colored sensations and keep your pen moving across the page. If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

[luthienne]

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

[collectivelyconscientious]

well so it goes again i’ve started with something new i think i feel a little more comfortable with and interested in than anything i’ve done since t&m&n. i still love them but i think i simply must wait, it is too hard and too beyond what i can do right now. nanowrimo is dead but last night i did think… what if i forced myself to write 50,000 words by the end of november? i’ve got about 5,000 down now and i think i can do this if i let myself be bad at my job for a while

[55five]

Be a teachable individual YOU DO NOT know everything