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i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today
the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want
when the characters never really make peace with it
Donât you have to read good books to be a good writer?
You need a balanced diet of Peak, Dogshit, indulgent tripe, top 40 shit, almost-peak, niche peak, and experimental avante garde shit.
Lots of writing advice on tumblr. It's been years since I've written fiction in a serious way, but I did write a couple of (bad) novels in my early 20's, a bunch of short stories, and also a few hundred thousand words of LARP writing, and I do have a bacherlor's of science in creative writing (lol).
From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:
Read a lot (mandatory)
Show your writing to people (mandatory)
Have something wrong with you in a way that is impossible to articulate except by writing a novel (optional)
I think this one is also important:
4. write
has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet
just me. and i'm NOT telling
what the fuck. come on
ââWhat is a hole?â a clown asked his partner in a ring at the Circus Medrano. Having thus quite confused the fellow, he wasted no time in lording it over him: âa hole,â he said, âis an absence surrounded by a presence.â For me, this is an example of a perfect definition, and I will use it to define the object of my interest. A ghost is indeed a hole; but a hole to which are attributed intentions, a sensibility, morals; a hole, that is, an absenceâsurrounded by presenceâby the presence of one or several. A ghost is an absent being amidst present beings. And as it is the pierced substance that determines the shape of the hole and not the absence which that presence surroundsâfor it is only in jest that some tell of cannons of bygone days that foundry workers made by taking holes and pouring bronze around themâwhen we endow ghosts with intentions, a sensibility, and morals, these attributes reside not in the absent beings, but in the present one that surround the ghost.â
â RenĂ© Daumal on the pataphysics of ghosts
opening epigraph to Victor Hugoâs Les MisĂ©rables
âThe occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what one has lived through. Most people had not livedânor could it, for that matter, be said that they had diedâthrough any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.â
Another Country, by James Baldwin
Writer Block First Aid Kit
Weâve all been there. Some people have it all the time. Some say it doesnât exist. I class writerâs block as anything from lack of motivation to not being able to solve a plot problem. Whatever it is, hereâs a list of activities to try and get those creative rivers running.Â
Move. Pick up your laptop and go to a different room. They say a change is as good as a rest and this can be true with writing. Move to the kitchen. Write outside. Go to a coffee shop. Sit in the cupboard under the stairs and block out the world. Just change up the scenery.Â
Swap Medium. If words just arenât doing it for you make aesthetics, mood boards, draw maps or characters. Victoria Aveyard once said she designed book covers and let the plot stew in the back of her mind.Â
Write Something Else. Working on other projects can give you inspiration for what youâre working on now. Find some prompts. Write irrelevant short stories or character studies. Write about your characters as kids or at defining points in their lives.Â
Plot. Hands off the keyboard, open up one of those many unused notebooks I know you have and start scribbling vague, half formed ideas. Allow yourself to write things you might discard later. Allow yourself to try and work through an idea you like but donât understand yet. Try and work out the next 10 steps. 10 things you want to cover. 10 scenes. 10 days. Whatever it is, just write it down.Â
20 Minutes Rule. Iâve said this before and Iâll say it again. Sit your butt down in that chair and write for 20 minutes. I donât care if itâs trash. I donât care if youâre going to delete it all later. I donât care if itâs nonsense. Do it. 20 minutes of writing nonsense is still more productive than 20 minutes staring at that wall. After 20 minutes if you still donât want to write, leave it, but you just might find yourself inspired.Â
Finally, Take Time Off. If none of this is working, itâs likely a sign of burn out. Take some time for yourself and just do nothing. âWrite every single day,â yeah sure if you wont to be a machine who pumps out words instead of art. Sometimes you need to recharge before you move forward and that doesnât just mean getting a good nights sleep. Look after yourself and be kind. This isnât a race against the clock, you have your whole life to publish a book.Â
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3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh
0 ours of sleep = waouw đŒđŒđŒđŒđ
the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it
you guys do realise walking doesn't actually move you anywhere right? it just destroys you entirely and places a perfect copy of you right in front of where you were standing
all movies are for children because the moving image is inherently juvenile. to be entertained by it even moreso