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About This Page!

Just realized I don’t have one of these so I’m making a pinned post for this :p

First off, my name is Honey! Welcome to my writing sideblog!

I like to post prompts and writing encouragement! Inconsistently, I’ll add, but still there nonetheless

Credit for using my prompts is not necessary, but it is heavily appreciated ☻ I love seeing the all things you can come up with

You can change up the prompts all you like! My goal is to spark inspiration, not have the prompts followed word for word. Shape them to best fit your story/poem/whatever!

You can find my personal favorite prompts of mine under the tag #honeys favs

My own personal writing will be under the tag #honeys blurbs

Other things such as poems or quotes I reblog from other people will be under the tag #lovely words

This is a sideblog, so if I respond to replies, it’ll be on my personal account (@hunn13b)

My inbox is always open for requests! (Or if you just wanna talk about writing!)

Aaaand that’s really it! Happy writing! 💞

#not a prompt #about me #honeys favs #honeys blurbs

I haven’t been on this account in 8 months and it’s 3 years old now, but just wanted to document that next month, after those 3 years, I’ve completed the novel I began a year-ish ago for my thesis and I’m graduating with my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing :) and to think this all started with me posting on ao3 and going “hm this is kinda fun” and then just never stopping, proving that free will is real and so is the ability to exercise it. You really can do anything if you’re bored enough

#honey speaks

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grabbing new writers by the shoulders. it is important to write what you love and to love what you write. if you spend all your time trying to make something other people will approve of you will hate yourself and everything around you. learn at your own pace. you have time. i’m proud of you

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“there isn’t much that scares me more than my own heart, a monster of tenderness if there ever was such a thing. it sounds strange, but I have an irrational fear that one day I’ll wake up to find it (it being my heart) perched at the foot of my bed in a cloud of desperation, begging to be torn apart and consumed in the name of compassion. and that’s incredibly terrifying for a few different reasons, but mainly because I’d do it. I’ve never needed an excuse to sacrifice myself for love; I’m a martyr for everything soft. I confess to you: I’d bleed for anything if it held me the right way. I confess: I have. I have. I have.”

— phantom pain, by Caitlin Conlon

I remember seeing a post of yours talking about how you have a degree(?) In creative writing. I just wanted to day that I've always loved writing stories but everyone always puts my stories down, saying they suck. They probably do but that's not the point. Did you face that kind of dismissal of your work from others?

Oh yeah for sure. That’s honestly a pretty common thing for a lot of people, which sucks so bad, but the reality is that it doesn’t matter what those people think…if people that don’t write are putting your stories down, they clearly don’t know the effort it takes to even write one at all. And if these people are also writers and are dismissing your work, then they’re simply not very good people. Personally I believe that if somebody doesn’t ask for criticism, you shouldn’t give it to them. There’s a difference between being genuinely constructive when appropriate and just being an asshole. I’m sorry people are putting down your work—that’s just a shitty thing to do, and if anything, you deserve encouragement and support! Writing is such a joy and by engaging in it, you are adding art into the world. Your art is valuable despite what those losers think. I know it’s difficult to remember that when all you experience is negativity, but remember that it’s true—you’re an artist, and while you don’t need to prove your worth to the world, it’s still nice to be reminded that you have it. And so I want to say to you: you’re doing wonderful. Keep going.

There are always going to be people who think that the arts are a waste of time, and to that I say: they simply don’t know the beauty of art as a whole and how important it is to the world. Those TV shows and movies you watch? They started out as scripts on a page. Someone had to write those. Those books you love to read? Someone had to write those. That video game dialogue in the games you play? Someone had to write that too. I think a lot of people forget that so much of today’s media starts out as words on a page. Storytelling is everywhere, and you usually have to start out on paper first. I hope the people diminishing your writing can one day dig into their tiny minds and understand that.

What helped me personally was finding a community of likeminded people who I could talk about writing with. This is a bit easier said than done, but searching for people who value the same things as you is oftentimes reassuring. Whether it be digital, like a Discord channel or a Tumblr community, or an in-person thing like a writing group that meets every other week, or even a creative writing class at your local community college, fostering a community where you can all grow together is something that might encourage you a lot! (Again, easier said than done, but you deserve that support!)

And you know what else? Your stories don’t suck! The fact that you put your time and effort into creating something from nothing? How could that suck! That’s beautiful! Yes, with more practice you can become better and better, but you can also appreciate the skills you have now—because chances are you’re better than you were a year or even a couple months ago. The fact that you’re writing at all is something to be proud of. There’s no such thing as “bad” writing—the only “bad” writing is the ones that go unwritten. You’re a wonderful artist with so much to say, and so you should say it. Give yourself grace and allow yourself to be proud of you for getting this far at all despite what other people say. Having the bravery to write is already enough.

#honeys answers

One thing about writing that might feel contradictory is that learning to write and figure out your personal style is not a linear process. Some days will be better than others. It’s a skill learned and earned. Writing is similar other art forms (and even sports!) in the sense that one day you’ll be hot shit but the next day you’re getting your ass kicked. That’s totally normal—don’t beat yourself up for feeling lost or stuck in a rut. Even plants start drooping once they start producing fruit.

And writing is an ongoing process! Throughout the entirety of your life, you will always be learning! Which means you will always be changing and experimenting! And what a wonderful thing that is :) Be kind to yourself even on the bad days. You’re right where you need to be.

#writing inspiration #writing process #writing advice #writing #writing motivation #creative writing #not a prompt

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my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now

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?????? *raises hand* I’ve been writing for years and don’t know this trick by these words! do tell?

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Okay, so a few people have asked for me to cite the dark magics at them, and i’m super happy to share because it’s my favorite thing ever.

so, let’s see if i can explain this the same way that i learned. read a sentence out loud. you come to a full stop when you hit the period, and you take a normal, breath. but, when you hit a comma, you take a slightly longer pause. and when you hit a dash - you take an even longer pause.

this is a natural rhythm that we pick up when we’re first taught to read; we do it without even thinking. but when you start to think about it, you realize that it can become a tool.

think of your heartbeat. a period is badump. a comma is badump-dump. and a dash is thump badump. one breath. a longer breath. two breaths.

that means what you read automatically affects the rhythm of your breathing and your heartrate. which means that you can control the amount of physical tension your reader feels… by altering your punction and your sentence structure.

for fast paced scenes, you use short sentences. a lot of hard stops. mostly periods, with just a few comma’s thrown in for the full breath. your reader’s heartrate accelerates. their breathing is slightly and unintentionally, on their end, quicker. you hit the dramatic ending of the scene - and your reader’s body phsyically feels the gasp, the breath of fresh air, of these longer sentences.

now, read that paragraph again ant take note of your natural pauses, and how it subtly affects your breathing.

the same thing can be said of comma’s and dashes. while they can be used as a breath of fresh air, they can also cause a new line of tension as they lead your reader to hold their breath. during this section, you should use longer sentences; breaking up the harshness of the pauses by using variations of punction. read this paragraph out loud from the start and take note of how long you go between pauses and full breaths.

and then, comes the biggest trick.

the hard stop.

the paragraph.

because while the periods, commas, and dashes are variations on a short stop, the paragraph is a hard stop. you take a full breath. you pause for a moment, then move to the start of the next paragraph.

which means you can create an entirely new sort of dramatic tension. read the sentences that are in bold. see how you take a naturally longer pause at the end of each paragraph?

see how it makes you feel?

how it makes you breath different?

how doing it once, twice, or three times creates a different line of tension?

this little magic trick can be used to cause a reader’s heartrate to speed up during a fight or chase scene. it can be used to cause their breathing to slow down during moments of dramatic tension, sorrow, or softness. and it can be used to create hard breaks that add a new level of physically felt emphasis to your written work.

i hope these examples make sense! it’s my favorite writing trick!

#writing advice #writing process #I love doing this!!!!!!#I gotta find time to put it into words but one of my favorite things I’ve ever learned from my profs is #sentences don’t need to be traditionally structured if they’re formatted in an intentional way #rules of punctuation need to be thrown out the window if you want to get certain points across #if you do things with purpose it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘incorrect’#great tactics

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What I hate about writing is when I have to write so much before I finally get to the part I actually wanted to write.

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And then I finally get there and the part I wanted to write now doesn't fit in anymore with the story I wrote so far.

I’m alive! ^_^

Took a long-ish break to focus on academia and have been doing lots and lots of writing for said academia…writing school is truly something else I’ll tell you that much…(but it’s fun! I’m having fun)! So many literary events to attend, so little time…

It’s been surreal coming back and seeing all these brief little autobiographies written in the tags of some of my posts that somehow gained a bit of traction…so many writers in so many different stages of life with so many things to say just hiding there in the tags…I see y’all and I’m proud of u :)

Anyway, I’m not quite finished with the semester yet, but hopefully I’ll be posting a bit more often now that the hectic schedule of spring has almost come to an end ^_^

If ur reading this, ur doing great! Keep up the good work! ♡

#honey speaks #not a prompt

I think, genuinely, one of the best pieces of writing advice I’ve ever gotten is: if you feel stuck, take a step back from whatever you’re working on, and come back to it 24+ hours later. Take a few days if possible. Being able to go over something once your palate has been cleansed a little does wonders and you can notice things you’d been missing earlier in that clogged headspace. When you’re so deep into it and start to feel stuck, there’s a possibility that you could start to obsess over certain things and lose thread of what you’d meant to be doing. So take a moment! Breathe!!! Come back to it later!

#not a prompt #writing #writing advice #writing process #writing help #writing inspiration #creative writing

Personally I think an underrated trope is several villains from different arcs joining together to make their own team of baddies like idk it gets me every time…

#not a prompt #honey speaks #favorite trope #writing tropes #story tropes

Comparing the writing I’ve made in the last few weeks to the things I made a year ago is so crazy cause the difference is so palpable. It’s so fascinating watching my style evolve in real time and it feels so rewarding to look back at old works and think: “I could do that better now.” The stark contrast from the writings I make now in comparison to the writings I made last year is such a great reminder of how far I’ve come, how much I’ve learned, how I’ve evolved into a writer I like so much better now (:

If you compare the things you’ve written recently to the things you’ve written a few months or even a few years ago, you’ll probably see a difference. And that’s cool as hell! We’re changing and learning and growing alongside our art! How wonderful! Be proud of yourself!

#honey speaks #I just think it’s neat (:#not a prompt #writing inspiration #writing encouragement #writing positivity #writing process #writing #creative writing

Maybe someone needs to hear this today, but writing is supposed to be fun. Ultimately, that should be the goal. To have fun. To enjoy yourself; enjoy the process of making something new out of nothing; enjoy tying together your plot lines and scenes and everything that goes into crafting a story. At the end of the day, your number one goal should be to have fun. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with copious self indulgence if that’s what makes you the most happy. And if you’re not having fun writing right now, it’s okay to take a break! If you’re feeling burnout, there’s nothing wrong with taking a step back to breathe. Remember: art should be an enjoyable process. Yes there is work, and yes there are times where it’s strenuous, but it should be fun, too. Write for yourself. Write for YOU. (Or: don’t write right now if you can’t/don’t want to! That doesn’t make you any less of an artist.) The rest will come later. Just have fun! ♡