Silencia's Writing Sideblog

a blog in which I store my bits, bobs, and writing nonsense. Currently working on Hearrtesverse and Classifieds. Ask to be tagged! I follow back from my main, @silenciadelumbrae

[sourdough-seal]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[zmwrites]

thinkin about the chosen one story told from the pov of the person standing next to them again. thinkin about the one who has to stand by and watch the chosen one become a weapon, a sacrifice, an offering to the machinations of plot and can do nothing but make sure they’re fed and rested and soothe them when they wake up screaming from nightmares. thinkin about the fierce devotion that has to exist to follow someone to the end of the world just so they don’t have to die alone. thinkin about the terror they’d feel every step of the journey knowing it’s not their place to change how the story plays out. thinkin thinkin thinkin.

[nun-draws]

im so small and tired 

[wildxwired]

How fucking annoying is it when you feel so restless with creative energy but you can’t decide what to do with it and when you finally try to create something it comes out shit so you just give up and sit there being all creatively annoyed and jittery.

[lianabrooks]

1 - Decision Making Fatigue is a thing. –> Make a list of possibilities. –> Use a random number generator to pick something off the list. –> If you hate the idea cross it off and generate a new number. –> Continue until you either find a project or cross off the whole list. –> If you cross off the whole list pick a random short story prompt, write for five minutes, and call it a good work day.

2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. –> Let it suck. –> You can fix it in edits. 

3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. –> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. –> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. –> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.

4. No work is ever wasted. –> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way.  –> Failure means you tried, which is good. –> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. –> Keep going until you like what you’re making.

5. Love yourself enough to allow yourself to not be perfect. –> Seriously.  –> If this is a struggle I highly recommend seeing a doctor or therapist about depression. –> Because you are dang lovable, my friend. You rock. You do great things. I’m proud of you.

[saxophoneslut]

she’s a 10 but she has her father’s anger issues

[annabelle--cane]

it's rotten work. especially to me especially if it's you. I'll fucking do it but christ alive.

[valtsv]

i'm such a huge fucking fan of having and using magic requiring effort. whether mental, physical, or both. i'm so fond of magic systems that make you sweat, bleed, cry and get your hands dirty when you use them. i love it when powers are earned, not inherent, through years of study and/or exercizing them like a muscle. and i love it when a seemingly effortless display of power is terrifying because of this.

[toboldlywrite]

In honor of me getting my first tattoo next week (!!!) anyone want to tell me about the tattoos any of their characters have?

[silenciawrites]

Eyyyy congrats, I just got my first one today and it was a trip. I hope you enjoy yours! Ebony’s got a little tattoo of intertwined feathers and thistle on the upper thigh, where no one would see it by accident. She considers it a reminder to herself that her prickly edges give her freedom. It has to be where no one could see it except her, but it’s not really for anyone else, anyway.

[miralanders]

[deepwaterfiction]

Text: 

“Does it hurt?” I said, “Coming back to life?” 

“It’s starting to,” she said, “it’s starting to.”

[nikadd]

LOVE character regression. love when characters get hurt and revert to their old ways as a way to deflect, cope, and recuperate. love when they get scared to make a difficult decision. love when it takes time and effort. it's going to be worth so much more when they get better.

[starpeace]

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

[willowcrowned]

there's something so compelling about stories where a character's virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.

[joan-frommars]

alright maybe nobody will get what i'm talking about but writers, what's your character type? what's that one brand of character who is in EVERY SINGLE WIP YOU EVER HAVE. mine's the serious badass older-sister-figure with a blonde pixie cut

[valtsv]

i'm going to become a false false prophet. my powers are real i just lie for fun.

[redshield-writes]

gdocs I’ve done nothing wrong

[horreurscopes]

having ocs is like she's my daughter. she's my power fantasy. i'm giving her everything i hate about my personality. she's a war criminal. she's never done anything wrong in her life ever. i love her. i hate her. i'm making her life miserable. who did this to her. she's unlikeable but everyone should like her. she's baby. she does cocaine in the bathroom