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i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

qlala

tolstoy saying in an 1873 letter that he’d be done with anna karenina “in fifteen days, if god grants me life” and then taking another four years to finish writing it is both hilarious and deeply relatable

cottaegecore

you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?

delphinidin4

Also, gardens don’t produce fruit and veg all year ‘round. There are seasons of harvest, when it seems like there’s a new tomato on the vine every time you look, and fallow seasons, when the earth has to rest so it can be replenished. Some seeds have to go through a cold winter before they’ll even sprout! Be gentle with yourself when you go through fallow seasons. Your mind and body are resting so they can produce again in the future.

#It´s a long week #In an already long year #So that´s the kind of outlook I´d like to have #maybe one day

kati-mcrae

myjetpack

For the @guardian

lord-of-the-weird

#key #chaos #carnage #sounds lovely #my year is a Venom movie

rsingwriting

I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school.

And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good.

And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.

Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

theamyrlinsofa

This is the second time this post passes on my dash and it’s the best advice I ever got. I can’t write consistently in one go, it’s always about 50 words and then I get distracted and just have to do something else for a while. Do the math quickly: trying to write 2000 words a day takes a looooong time that way. So there were many days where I just didn’t even start writing, cause I wouldn’t reach my goal anyways and feel like a failure. Then I stumbled upon this post and I thought: hey, let’s give this a try. And it works! I set my goal between 200-400 words a day and that’s perfectly doable. Some days I get into the flow and I write a whole lot more. On other days, I struggle to get those 200 out but hey, at least I wrote 200 words and reached my goal. Whatever the outcome, t makes me feel good and accomplished.

Writing takes practice, so even if it’s only 100 words a day, it’s better than nothing. If it worked for Terry Pratchett and me, than it can work for you too!

#small frequent goals make a lot things easier #works for art as well

landprince

what if writers did streams like artists did

sodacune

adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction

I think it was a Monty Python sketch that showed an author writing with a commentary like a sports commentator.

“And he’s started writing… no, he’s just written his name at the top of the page. He’s written ‘the’, a very strong opening, used in several of his books. Oh, no, he’s crossed it out again.”

gingersnapwolves

“Ah, look, she’s opening the thesaurus again … perhaps she’s realized she used the same word six times in two paragraphs”

“Now that sentence is lovely, an excellent example of her style in - oh, no, she’s deleting it, never mind”

“This scene is clearly over, yet the brave author forges onward regardless…”

“She’s really picking up steam now, the words just flowing out from her - she’s stopped midsentence for some reason and is opening Buzzfeed”

“Choosing to google ‘which countries are nonextradition countries’ is a risk but it’s one some authors must take…”

88thparallel

Why you gotta call me out like that?

#brilliant #any writer planing do to that please let me know

bweirdart

🎨 it's nearly time for #mARTch again 🎨

mARTch is a little art challenge i host in march! it's full of quick daily prompts u can use to warm up :) you prob already heard me talk abt this if we're friends or if u picked it up at fotp last weekend .. but heres whats up:

themed weeks this year to break it up a lil

there are DIFFICULTY LEVELS! dont feel bad about skipping days if ur busy, tired, or not interested in a prompt. ur supposed to! take care of yourself!

tags are #mARTch & #mARTch2022

u dont have to finish art! it's just warm ups

bweirdart

every time i host an art event i get messages on here and on twitter and on insta from people who 'would love to join in but don't feel like they can draw every day' so i just want to specify again ...

this is NOT an event where u gotta draw daily!!!! go at your own pace unless you love endurance - the NORMAL way to do mARTch is to only draw on the days marked with a star (2 days per week) seriously seriously seriously don't push yourself unless you like pushing yourself!!!

#no idea if I have time at all #but this looks fun #so a definitive maybe

Hands

Sometimes practice turns out well enough.

#art practice

sarah-maclean-completist

🧵

prismatic-bell

Did this with my sister recently.

She had a great deal of fun trying to convince me to give James Bond amnesia and lord help me I think she wants to read this fic. She sounded way too excited about the possibility of him having just proposed to the love interest only to end up with no memory of him at all.

#all writers deserve someone like that #I want a friend like that

delta-hexagon

posting on twitter feels like throwing something you worked on for hours, days, weeks into a river, hoping it'll get swept out to sea for many people to experience, only for it to immediately crash into some rocks and explode. its gone now. if no one sees it in the 0.00003 seconds it exists on their timelines, no one ever will

posting on tumblr is like carefully placing your work in the middle of a dark abandoned factory, and slowly a bunch of weird little goblins manifest from the shadows and touch your work all over with their little raccoon hands and share it with each other. sometimes they find your thing again many years later and excitedly share it again

the weird goblins are much more enjoyable

pratchettquotes

"Are you saying that she understands unusual words?" said Tiffany.

"I'm not certain," said the Toad. "I think she understands meaning."

"Are you sure?" said Tiffani. "I've always thought she was a bit simple."

"Simple?" said the Toad, who seemed to be be enjoying himself. "Well, as a lawyer I can tell you that something that looks very simple indeed can be incredibly complicated, especially if I'm being paid by the hour. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated."

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

#when you see a quote online #you actually marked in your own book #while reading it for the 4th time

quotemadness

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Dan Pearce (via quotemadness)

you-are-bolin

bloodbending

Lover: Mako (I SHALL SIT HERE CONSUMED WITH LUST) Enemy: Howl (ehehEHEHEHe) Best Friend: Korra (oh s H I t but my lover is mako i’m gonna get my ass kicked?) Killed By: Tenzin (wouldn’t have it any other way) Alliance: Bender (FUCK YEAH) Element: Water (FUCK YEAH AGAIN)

pencilpaperpassion-blog

Lover: MAKO (OH BABY)

Enemy: Tahno (LOLOLOL)

Best Friend: Bolin (AWWWW HE’S ADORABLE)

Killed By: Tahno (well fuck you)

Allience: Benders (YES)

Element: Air (oooh, my second favorite element <3)

masterarrowhead-deactivated2016

LOVER: Bolin

ENEMY: Senna (*GASP* BUT I LOVE HER ADORABLENESS DD8)

BEST FRIEND: Sassy Gay Mako

KILLED BY: Howl (….HOWL??? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT MY BABY? WHY??)

ALLIANCE: Equalist (*GASP* SUCH A TWIST)

ELEMENT: Non-bender (Well that’s fitting)

It all makes sense now guys.

I AM ASAMI SATO.

vanduo-bones

just because the ones i got were….wonderful.

LOVER: Bolin

ENEMY: Hiroshi Sato

BEST FRIEND: Amon

KILLED BY: HASOOK

ALLIANCE: Neutral

ELEMENT: Water

so here’s my story. my BFFLAA is Amon and we’re the bestest of friends, but he doesn’t know i’m a bender and i’m a sneak having a lovely thing with Bolin. he finds out and goes “GURL, that man is a bender, i forbid it!” an i’m like “NO. I LUV HIM. p.s. i'mawaterbender, kthanks” and he’s like “OMG! WHAT?!” and then he sends Hasook to kill me and i die X3X

and Sato hates me because i steal his cars and money and sell them to the highest bidder.

THE END.

ultimate-amorralovermuffin

WHAT THE FUCK

WHY WOULD AMON DATE A MUFFIN?!

LIN PLS DON’T KILL ME WHY?

orangepanic

This AU when??

likelalikesmuffins

LOVER: Asami

ENEMY: Mako

BEST FRIEND: Tahno

KILLED BY: Bolin

ALLIANCE: Equalist

ELEMENT: Fire

It makes some sense that Mako and Bolin don´t like Korra when she hangs out with Tahno. Add Equalist Asami and it could actually make sense... fascinating.