Creativity Wench @creativitywench - Tumblr Blog

Today's children don't know what it was like when half of your photographs would turn out with demonically glowing red eyes.

eden-3000

"I write for my own enjoyment"

And

"I'm happy when people interact with my writing"

Are two sentences that can coexist!

creativitywench

Capitalism is forever working overtime to ruin every art form. Because OF COURSE YOU WANT TO SHARE YOUR WRITING! People have started reacting against capitalism’s commodification of the author by viciously asserting “I write for myself” as if that’s the only Pure Way to write at all - but my dudes, storytelling is a communal action! We must think about the audience as an active participant in the art! It’s not that you CAN’T write for your own enjoyment - by gods, I hope that if you’re writing, you’re enjoying it - but that whole concept clearly stems directly from trying to reckon with the western determination to turn everything into a pursuit of fame and fortune. If you’re writing for anyone else, if you’re writing to share, in the hopes that people interact with your writing, you’re seen as using writing to gain some sort of shallow recognition.

But to tell a story, there must be someone to tell it to. It demands an audience. I hope you do enjoy the act of writing, but I’m not convinced you’re ever solely writing for your own enjoyment, unless you’re locking away your writing and never sharing it with anyone else ever in the world.

#writers on tumblr #writers #writing #writers and poets #writeblr #ao3 #writing advice #Sam rants about capitalism

If you’re an artist and have ADHD, and you feel like you don’t get enough done - I’m here to tell you a) you definitely do you’re just a fucking perfectionist, we all must struggle our hardest to release this - but more importantly b) your body literally needs more rest than other people.

Take your time. You’re not running out of it.

#Adhd #writing #art #adhd creatives #Artists with adhd #ADHD writers #Writing community #adhd tips #adhd advice

if you are so stumped on something you feel like you need to use ChatGPT or some other AI to help you generate ideas, no you don’t. You need to talk to someone. A real human person someone. Your mind needs connection to make better connections, not a generated list of ripped off ideas. You need to take a walk, go to the library, visit a museum, look at the way the wind blows through the trees, watching people going about their days in all the odd ways people Do That.

Sure, ChatGPT could help you brainstorm ideas about your novel or write the first draft of your screenplay, but if you use it, you’ve missed the entire fucking point of brainstorming a novel or writing a screenplay. It’s supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to frustrate you, and it can only really be cured by reconnecting back to the world. Writing is not the solitary art form people love to claim it is; it’s a constant response to the symphony of the world around you, even if the words you put on the page aren’t directly about that symphony at all.

If you use AI for any of this, you are not an artist because being an artist isn’t a badge of honor you receive for finishing your novel or comic or film. To quote Marge Piercy, “The real writer is one who really writes.”

The real writers are made in the act of writing alone.

#Writing #anti ai #anti generative ai #Literally fuck ai #Writers #artists

nondelphic

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

dyingroses

My great uncle would always say "Don't get it right, get it written!"

thesesummersonspoet

YOU’RE STILL A WRITER IF:

you don’t write every day or every week

you haven’t been able to write in a few months

this is your first story or your hundredth

you never finish a book

you are completely unpublished

All you gotta do is write!

jacksnotmyname

Headcanon that Zuko/firebenders’ hair glows when they bend

talonsin

hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

ljmoorewrites

How can I become a writer?

Write.

But I don't know where to start.

Write.

But I'm worried.

WRITE.

What if nobody likes it?

W R I T E

What if it's not very good?

Write. Write. WRITE. WRITE.

Write

Write. Write. Write. Write. Write. Write.

Write.

Write

W R I T E

Write write write

Write

#WRITE #truly the best advice out there

Not that I need to say this on the fandom website, but my #1 advice to anyone who dreams of one day writing something - novel, screenplay, whatever - is to WRITE FANFIC.

Literally it’s a great way to teach yourself how to write in a low stakes way. Play with other people’s characters! Experiment with your writing style! It will benefit you when you start writing your own original story.

#Fbadom #Fanfic #writing #writing advice #writing tips #writers #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr

quietwingsinthesky

there’s wip (active development) and wip (stuck in development hell) and wip (oh you’re not even getting funding for this one)

writing-prompt-s

A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

endreams-s

Serial Killer: metaphorically, if you were to kill someone, how would you do it?

Writer: Air shot between the toes, it’ll look like a heart attack.

Serial Killer who is obviously in love already: *sucks in a breath* ok

honeypressed

Writer: how long would it take to die if you were to potentially stab someone in the guts

Serial killer: anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes

Writer, already bringing a ring out: *shaking* thanks

moonreflectioninthefragglepond

A++ addition

tetsuskitten

Writer: *shows the serial killer the murder scene they’re writing* babe, i’m not sure if this would actually work?

Serial killer: *kisses writer on the forehead and leaves, comes back later, a suspicious scent of blood coming off them* it works baby, you’re doing great

tigerliliesandcherryblossoms

I LOVE THIS

vmohlere

Oh no, murder comedy is my jam

laziestofthedreamers

I love this, I love all of this, but quick question, does the author know? Like are they aware that their significant other is a serial killer or do they just think that they have a morbid sense of humor? It’d be even funnier if the author had no fucking clue, like how Aurthur Conan Doyle was apparently stupidly gullible, and on top of it they’re a horror or crime novelist. Like the serial killer works at a butcher shop or something so it’s completely normal for them to come home smelling like blood, no murders going on here, no sirey. Just my darling coming back home from a long day at work.

Now fast forward a bit and the author has managed to get their first book published, with loving support from the serial killer who helped them fine tune all the murder scenes, and it’s a big hit. Enough so that a detective with the local police department has noticed some disturbing similarities to several active cases, including details that were never released to the press. Obviously he brings this up to his superior and convinces him that there’s something to the theory, but it’s all circumstantial right now. He stakes out the author’s home and is super convinced that the author is the murderer, but they don’t seem to do anything??? Like they literally are at the house all day, that’s it. Most they do is leave for groceries.

So you get this dynamic of the serial killer mining the author for creative murder schemes, the author being lovingly encouraged by the serial killer, and finally the detective who is just so sure that the author is the killer and that if he sticks it out long enough he’ll FINALLY have proof.