Writings and Things

She/Her Writing, drawing, baking, and whatever else I decide I'm doing this week 💜

[shinelikethunder]

if there's an audience for this joke i KNOW it can be found on tumblr

[lunamonchtuna]

— Sylvia Plath, quoting an acquaintance in ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’

[sunforgrace]

me burning the candle at both ends: oobh i got plany off wick

[stealth-poem-bomber]

My candle burns at both ends;/It will not last the night;/But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--/It gives a lovely light!

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig"

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[eggwritesthings]

Summer evening

[eggwritesthings]

Hello I'm back

I didn't forget my password, I forgot my email

[eggwritesthings]

Secret

I'm not used to keeping secrets.

None of my own, certainly.

The weight feels unfamiliar

And though it's just one, I am aware of its presence every single day.

I feel it incubating within me;

Forming,

Developing,

Waiting to be let out.

My morning sickness comes in the evening when I am alone with myself

I think,

I could get rid of it

But I don't know if that would make me feel better or worse

And it's nigh on impossible to kill an idea -

Part of myself.

Part of myself.

When did you take such a hold in my subconscious?

How did we become so intertwined?

I don't know where our journey ends

And I don't know the way

But until then

I will carry you with me

[neil-gaiman]

how many times has a story never come to fruition for you? and do you ever become discouraged by not finishing these projects?

Things mostly get completed when the time is right. Sometimes it takes decades. I'm used to it. And so I'm never discouraged when something doesn't get finished immediately.

[grundoonmgnx]

Erika Lee Sears, Strawberry Milk, 2022

Oil on cradled birch wood panel

[lordmogatron]

I don’t know what writer needs to hear this

but you can write something very plain. 

You don’t have to write some genre-redefining masterpiece. You can write a story about two people very simply falling in love. You can just write a story about a person going to the store. You could, if you were so inclined, just re-write Star Wars but like, make all the names start with M.

Don’t let the fear of not-writing something transcendent stop you from just writing.

[eggwritesthings]

Trapped

The feeling sweeps through her

The wave unrelenting

Sucked under its current, she feels it prickle over her body

Drenched in cold sweat

The realisation,

Clutching the bathroom sink,

Finally and fully engulfs her

The End.

The only certainty.

The only thing we all share.

She stares into the abyss opening below her

No

It was always there

Hypnotised by it

She swears it stares back

[incidentalcomics]

Morning Light 

A poetry comic from my new book The Art of Living: Reflections On Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life. 

Find it at your favorite local bookstore or online wherever books are sold. Available with free worldwide shipping here. 

[writethatdown]

forgive yourself. forgive yourself for all the versions you couldn't become. forgive yourself for the wrong things you said. forgive yourself for not knowing any better at certain point of your life. for fucking things up so much that the grief still haunts you. forgive yourself for the darker and shadowed parts of you. you have to learn to integrate all parts of you, even the ones you desperately want to disown. it'll be alright.

[smp-writes-deactivated20220916]

#PardyPrompt #4 - August 26-31, 2022

Trapped in the Cycle

To be stuck in a repetitive situation.

What’s a #PardyPrompt? Once a week I’ll post a word, phrase, or concept that anyone can write for! Be sure to use the tag #PardyPrompt within the first 5 tags to be sure it gets seen! I will reblog some of my favourites each week.

[smp-writes-deactivated20220916]

So I just wanted to say I noticed some of you have been reblogging this prompt post and adding the piece you wrote for it at the bottom. It's totally fine if you want to do that, but just know that if you do then I can't really like them because it's just liking my own post, and I probably won't reblog them because it would needlessly have my prompt at the top again. They do obviously show up in the reblog section of the original post, but that isn't of much value to you in this case.

Plus, if you don't make a new fresh post for your piece, it won't show up in the tag pages. So, for example, if you reblog and then tag #Poetry and #PardyPrompt, it will not show up under the tumblr poetry tag or the PardyPrompt tag. Tags on reblogs just organize your blog and show up in the activity tab for the original poster.

But again, you can do it however you want! I just want you to be aware. 💙

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will really have a doc titled ‘fic planning’ and then it’s just blank

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will say “i’m going to write!” and then do something else with the doc open in the background

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will literally put out the most heart-wrenching and devastating piece of fiction that’s a million times better than the source and go haha hope you liked :)

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will have a life changing event happen to them (married, natural disaster, accident etc etc) and then still manage to put out an incredible fic and go ‘sorry this was 0.394838373 seconds late guys :(‘

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will go ‘love writing!’ and then don’t write for 10 years

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

anyway i love writing and i love writers

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

now hold on a goddamned second

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will complain about this post while continuing to not write

[dduane]

(chuckle)

[neil-gaiman]

All of the above. And everything else as well.

[eggwritesthings]

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[Image description: Two hands in a handshake. One arm is labelled "Wanting to be creative", the other arm labelled "Scared of showing people my work". The clasped hands are labelled "Me".]

[mephisto-chapman]

Stop censoring yourself ❌

I see this a lot in writing.

You just wanna write something, but then...the idea seems a little crazy. Or you're as afraid to use swear words. Afraid to be yourself because people could find that weird.

STOP IT RIGHT NOW.

I was afraid of my own style of writing, because it's very weird, surrealistic, and shows too much emotion.

But then I decided to stop thinking like this and write a story completely in my own style.

And it was awesome.

You shouldn't be afraid of the way you're thinking and sometimes put your dark side into your stories. Trust me: it has potential.