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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

the-writers-bookshelf

If you’re feeling stuck in your writing, instead of your usual methods, try changing things up a little! Some examples include:

Try freewriting

Dumping whatever is in your brain at the moment, no punctuation, no grammar, etc. This gets your creativity to turn ON and your inner editor to turn OFF.

Try writing by hand

If you usually write on your phone or laptop, try writing by hand. You don’t have to do your whole session this way. But if you’re feeling blocked, a screen might be keeping your inner editor on high alert. Writing by hand forces you to slow down and gives your brain a chance to run wild with ideas!

Try writing in a different space

If you always write at your desk at the same time every day, but it’s feeling pretty stale, try writing in a different location!

If you CAN’T write in a different location, try rearranging your desk, doing some stretches, and make a general attempt at breaking up any feelings of monotony.

Try writing something totally different for funsies

If you’ve been working on one project for a long time, it might get tedious. For example, if you usually write epic saga length sci-fi, try writing a contemporary mystery, or a fluffy holiday romance. It doesn’t have to be a full commitment project thing. You can just write a little bit to see what happens and explore!

Read read read

You might be running on empty without realizing it. So stock up on creativity! Refill your creative gas tank! If you’ve reached a point in your project where you feel as if you’ve forgotten how to put words together, read like CRAZY. This “reminds” you how to write and gives your brain something to work with when you get back to writing! :)

susiephone

classic lit authors on ao3

imsfire2

Jane Austen: The slowburn writer to end all slowburn writers. Has a mild case of purple prose syndrome. Sets you up to think she's using a really lame trope or cliche, but then pulls the old BITCH U THOUGHT. Gets in fights with commenters who completely miss the point of her work.

William Shakespeare: Where dick jokes meet feels. Recycles old plots that have been in the fandom for years, but always manages to put a new spin on it. That said, he's better known for good character writing than good plots. Kind of problematic, but people love him anyway. Laughs at and encourages commenters who completely miss the point of his work.

The Brontë Sisters: Their fics get lots of comments but they never reply. They never leave author notes, either. They share an account, and there are talks of a collab fic coming soon. Write fics for OTPs of questionable healthiness and consent. Only ever write darkfic. Like, REALLY dark. ...People are getting kind of worried about them.

Edgar Allan Poe: Also only ever writes darkfic, but at this point, people have moved past being worried about him and have just accepted that he's weird, he's morbid, and we love him. Channels his feelings about his ex into his writing. It results in really good stories but everyone's sort of like, "...Dude."

Charles Dickens: Trying to set the record for highest wordcount on ao3, and it shows.

Victor Hugo: Currently holds the record for highest wordcount on ao3.

Oscar Wilde: Only ever writes M/M. Has a BAD case of purple prose, but it's worth it if you manage to get through. His stories are either hilarious or soul-crushing. Or somehow both. People love him but know better than to disagree with him publicly, lest he destroy you with one of his infamous subtweets.

L. Frank Baum: Wrote one really well-loved story that's among the most famous in the fandom, and it's literally all he's known for, and it pisses him off. His popular story became a multichap against his will because it's the only one of his stories anyone actually reads. He keeps trying to end it so he can work on other things, but always ends up coming back.

Arthur Conan Doyle: Feels L. Frank Baum's pain. SO much.

James Joyce: Has fascinating ideas, but takes forEVER to get to the point in his stories. Also a stoner, and it shows.

Lousia May Alcott: Writes stories for her unpopular OTP (that's a NOTP for most of the fandom) and breaks up everyone's favorite ships, mainly out of spite. Also kills everyone's favorite characters, less so out of spite.

Mary Shelley: Writes incredible stories, but publishes under her boyfriend's account because she's banned from ao3. ...Again.

seaoflove

art dealing with the concept of: the sublime

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.” ― Jane Austen

The Monk by the Sea & / Wanderer above the Sea of Fog / Moonrise over the Sea / Evening Landscape with Two Men / Woman Before Rising Sun – by Caspar David Friedrich

jacindaelena

by Øystein Aspelund

homunculus-argument

If you had an identical twin that you get along with, you could probably have a lot of fun by getting to know other sets of identical twins and then pulling pranks with them.

Like seeing two people who look exactly the same close proximity to each other? Yeah that's totally twins. But imagine being in an art gallery where there's a group of five people on the 1st floor, and you go up the stairs and ???? the exact same group of five people is also there?? And you didn't see them pass you at the stairs?

theconcealedweapon

That's what always happens in capitalist societies. They say that if you don't want to be poor, there's a certain thing you have to do. But then everyone does it, so it's no longer effective. The system depends on making sure that there's always a supply of poor people to exploit.

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

can confirm, the switch from "just get a degree, any degree, it'll show employers that you can commit longterm and follow through, and most skills are transferable" to "lolol dumbass millennials got underwater basket weaving degrees as if they'd ever help you get a job and now they're paying off student loans with their Starbucks jobs and it's all their own dumbass fault, idiots!" was instantaneous

damnfool-of-a-took

mhm then it was 'oh learn to code, everyone needs an IT guy'

... and suddenly code monkeys are getting fired because their dumbfuck bosses think chatgpt is the same thing.

Second verse same as the first, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse

homunculus-argument

I think one of the funniest things about kids is how they'll be very observant and lack context for anything. Like imagine someone having to explain their small kids that some other adult in the grocery store was acting absolutely horrid because some grownups aren't real adults, they're just kids in adult bodies trying to pretend to be grownups, and some of them are bad at it. Real grownups don't throw tantrums in grocery stores.

And three weeks later one of the kids sees a trainee at the daycare fuck up something that the other daycare workers have no problem doing, and observes "you're just a kid trying to pretend to be an adult, aren't you?" and this whole-ass young adult will have to process that they were just read for fucking filth by somebody who was born in 2021.

tockthewatchdog

i really think this tweet is onto something

iamnmbr3

#exact same opinion but in my experience plenty of the children are over the age of 24 as well

peach-foxgloves

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

lavender-lily

oh thank GOD

andypantsx3

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

baddywronglegs

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

madlori

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

terramythos

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

ilookattextile

Idk exactly how to explain this but the softness of real wool and real linen is very different from the artificial softness of polyester “sherpa”, fuzzy faux-fur, spongey acrylic knits and people have gotten too used to the soft plastics and now associate wool with “itchy” and linen with rough and cotton with “too heavy” and then go and wear 100% polyester fleecy sweatshirts and say it’s so warm and cozy but actually they’re just staticky cooking in their sweat locked inside a plastic membrane and you are paying too much to be wearing filaments of petroleum products and the money isn’t going to the people sewing them either. I’m saying you all need to touch grass and the grass in this situation is good quality textiles made of natural fibres.

dragon-in-a-fez

I usually fucking loathe anyone who references 1984 on social media but I do feel like actually Microsoft deciding to underline every use of an intensifier as an error is some Newspeak bullshit. no you can't replace "very nervous" with "nervous" to make a sentence "more concise" actually, because the word "very" has an actual fuckdamn meaning that I am deliberately conveying, you soulless corporate horseshit shovelling cartoon paperclip ass motherfucker

homunculus-argument

A cooking show where every episode, the chef gets possessed by the ghost of a random person of another era, who then proceeds to cook something that they personally enjoyed as a meal while they were alive.

It remains unclear how, regardless from the historical time and place, every single "guest star" seems to have a full understanding of what a cooking show is, and also how to operate a modern kitchen. While there is no overarching plot, different context clues heavily imply that the host chef is somehow a very easy person to possess, and there are so, so many souls from all eras of human history who would love to hop in to experience the pleasure of getting to cook one more really nice meal.

duckdotcom

(mob boss voice) so here's the deal, see. you's gonna go home and get a gooood night's sleep, see? and you's gonna have sweet dreams and a reaaal nice rest. reaaal nice. max here will tuck you in *i motion to the thuggish goon behind me and he approaches you with a warm glass of milk held gingerly in his enormous hand*