D.C. Carothers

[writers-bane]

You're afraid to write because you care too much about your craft. Not because you suck.

You want it to be perfect. Worthy. You're scared it won't be good enough. But the thing is, everything you write is worthy if you write it with heart.

That fear doesn't make you a fraud, or lazy. It makes you a perfectionist who doesn't write as much as they should because their fear is choking them. Your writing will never be perfect—nothing ever is.

So stop waiting for the perfect moment and go pour your heart out. Unleash your wild—and slightly disturbing—imagination onto those pages. Go create magic that only you can make.

GO WRITE THE THING YOU KEEP THINKING ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT. And make sure you write it for yourself before anyone else!

[dccarothers]

THIS IS BEYOND TRUE

[cherrypikkins]

all these clothing stores with their 'boyfriend shirts', 'boyfriend hoodies', 'boyfriend sweatpants', 'boyfriend shorts' - every two minutes someone's poor boyfriend is being divested of his clothes for resale and left cold and naked and confused somewhere

[veronicaleighauthor]

[nondelphic]

what do you mean "show don’t tell"? this is absurdism. i’m gonna present and confuse.

[redstonedust]

normalize being dogshit amateur at your special interests and hyperfocuses. no more autistic savants. yes i am very into that topic no i am not good at it. we exist <3

[savagechickens]

Unpredictable.

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

[Image description: a two-panel comic of two chickens sitting at a table, each with a mug of a frothy beverage. In the first panel, one of the chickens says, "I wish my life was more unpredictable!" In the second panel, the same chicken says, "But, you know, in a safely predictable way." The other chicken simply looks at their companion. End description.)

[veronicaleighauthor]

[stryderthehedgehog]

me: this fic isn’t going to take me THAT long, it’s just a one-shot, and probably won’t be super detailed.

me, suddenly realizing I’m 10k words in, only about 3/5 of the way through, half-dissociated from the angst I’m writing, and suddenly VERY invested in where the plot is going: oh no

[skeletomez]

[annabellacarilloart]

Bob the Tomato

[veronicaleighauthor]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[talentlesshuman]

Vent art

[talentlesshuman]

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[thankyourluckystars13]

I'm really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I'm very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could "enhance it" with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don't work.

[iguanodonwildman]

This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)

[rainwarric-deactivated20260310]

[machine-unlearning]

[elronthemage]

Writer things is not writing for 3 months straight and then writing 20k after the block

[veronicaleighauthor]