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[luna-azzurra]

The question "so what do you do" at a dinner party is different for writers because the honest answer is "i sit alone in a room having arguments with people who don't exist and occasionally produce a document about it" and that's technically true and also sounds insane so instead you say "i write" and then someone asks "anything i'd know" and you have to decide in real time how much of your soul you want to put on this table right now.

[luna-azzurra]

Writer confidence is not a thing you build and then have. It's a thing you have for about eleven minutes after writing something good and then it evaporates and you have to make more. There is no reservoir. There is no saving it up. You produce it fresh each time from scratch like some kind of emotional artisan bread and if you don't write for a few days you run out and have to start the whole process over again from flour.

[prophetic-writer]

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

[iamafkrn]

writing foreshadowing is so validating. like I DO have a plan thanks for asking 💕💕💕

[helpmeimblorboing]

The eight stages of writing :

- this is awesome

- this is slightly less awesome

- this is shit

- I’m shit

-oh god oh fuck what the hell am I doing

-wait this might not be that bad actually

- How the fuck is this working

-This is awesome

[midnightskywrites]

writers love saying “slow burn” when they actually mean “these idiots will emotionally circle each other for 87k words”

[rad-roche]

writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out

that's right. and that's just one of the several words i know

[formerlyluckymanticore]

pros of having a large vocabulary: many words i know

cons of having a large vocabulary: many words i only know the vibe for

[luna-azzurra]

Writer brain is genuinely just having two tabs open at all times. Tab one: the actual conversation you are having with a real human person who deserves your full attention. Tab two: a completely separate scene between two people you invented, playing out in real time, with dialogue you cannot write down because you are currently at a birthday dinner and that would be weird. The real conversation suffers. The invented one is going incredibly well actually

[ashstfu]

reading a good interesting book after a horrible reading slump and suddenly you can feel the sun shining again and the sky is more beautiful than ever and birds are all singing songs to you

[academic-vampire]

I am so thankful that books & reading exist

[mgcsheaven]

realistically there is no chance i will have time to read, imma still bring a book though

[prophetic-writer]

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

[so-many-ocs]

revising your writing is just like "is this weird. is this a weird sentence. is this the weirdest most poorly-worded sentence ever written by anyone" and the sentence in question is "he walked across the room"

[prophetic-writer]

When you've been a writer for long enough, commas become more of a spiritual practice than a grammatical one.

Could I explain the actual rules of how they’re used? Absolutely not.

Do I rely on sensing a tremor in the force to tell me where to use them? Yes and this has never failed me even once.

[elleldoe]

grammar this. grammar that. sometimes 'grammatically correct' just doesn't hit the spot. the vibes are telling me to laugh in the face of the english language and that's exactly what I'm going to do, one incorrectly structured sentence at a time.

[strange-relics]

i once wrote just over 10,000 words in roughly four hours and i would really love some of that energy back please and thanks