DOVE PROSE

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@aristobun - my new blog, where i've been for a while now, just in case there's anyone here i haven't followed yet!

[blackgirlmagicx]

It would have to be 19 for me .

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[graydog-mod1]

instagram

[thefinalpaperheart]

please take my What Kind of Vampire Are You? quiz…

[i-am-verybusy]

some writer snob somewhere: Do not start sentences with But or And because doing so is grammatically incorrect.

me, writing my fic: But I don’t care. And you can’t stop me.

[bich-the-moss]

Sometimes…..the flow of your creative prose…..is more important….than grammatical guidelines,,,,,,

[ziraseal]

[doveprose]

[doveprose]

🕊 The baby has arrived ✨🐶

[kahans]

wake up besties, new quiz just dropped 😌

[kahans]

what form of love do you embody?

results include but are not limited to: love as devotion, love as light, love as being known, love as a choice

[doveprose]

🕊 I get the wiggly white snowball of floof today for the next two weeks and I’m excited as all hell. I haven’t had her in like two months, omg. I love her 💞

[doveprose]

🕊 I mean, that just makes me wanna write George again after 84 years, lmao. I never actually got around to drabbling Helene with him .. that I can recall .. maybe it’s time to do the thing.

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

this is worse than getting a personality disorder diagnosis

[for-you-blue]

a link to the quiz for anyone who wants it

[aidaronan]

Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.

[thefeistydragon]

Fics are not social media posts. There’s no “stalking” someone’s “old posts”. They’re meant to be found and enjoyed years down the line. No need to be nervous.

[plaidadder]

I reblog this message every time it comes across my dash because it’s true. And also: 

When I first started writing fanfic, back in the mid 1990s (yes! the late twentieth century!) one of the discouraging things about it was that people treated fanfic as if it was disposable. It seemed like what most readers wanted was a constant stream of new content, whereas I tend to produce one big work every 6-12 months. It made me sad that people seemed to think there was no point to re-reading or saving old fic. There is no sell-by date on fiction! It does not get out of order! It can still work even years or decades later! 

So yeah, I have stories up at ao3 that are literally a quarter-century old, and every time someone leaves a comment on them I am very pleased to get it. We get attached to our stories and it cheers us up to see that they are still finding readers. It means that they are still ‘alive,’ in some way. 

[ruffboi-mags]

AO3 is not social media, it’s (essentially) a library.

You’re meant to engage with any and all of it, regardless of age.

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Join our subreddit and share a prompt to inspire hundreds of players’ next adventure ⚔️🧙‍♂️

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[writeouswriter]

Me looking up how to spell a simple word:

[the-writers-bookshelf]

I want to offer a gentle reminder to any writer out there struggling lately:

It’s normal to have a hard time coping with stress and still maintain your creativity.

Yes, there are stories of authors/creatives/artists who manage to create amid hardship and adversity. But that’s THEIR story. Not yours.

Every person has responsibilities of their own they have to deal with. Every person deals with stress and copes in different ways.

Do what works for YOU to manage your mental health, take care of your responsibilities, and nurture your creativity.

But don’t expect yourself to have normal levels of writing when you are tired, exhausted, overworked, and flirting with burnout. Your creativity and your health deserve rest and a guilt-free space to recuperate. ♥