sunrisepages

golden | 30+ | they/them | basically a commonplace sideblog for: reading + writing + bujo/planning + bookish aesthetics

[prophetic-writer]

Having confidence in your writing abilities is just as much a skill you need to cultivate as actually writing is.

It's normal to doubt yourself, it's just important to learn how to look past your doubts and recognize that letting yourself worry about the possibility that your writing sucks will never make you a better writer. The only thing that will make you a better writer is writing, so stop worrying about whether you're any good and WRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wordfather]

i love it when im rereading a story and i find these little breadcrumbs of foreshadowing the author left. everytime im like “ohoho!!!! i wouldve gotten that before if i had the big picture!!! and now i do!!! delightful!!!” and idk i just love being able to read the same story twice but have two different experiences. i like when a story has so many layers that it can keep you entertained for a long time as you unravel all its secret nooks and crannies. thats a good story.

[wordfather]

@blueforthevirus

you just summed up my post in one meme and im in love with you for it

[proserpina-markham]

𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔬𝔦𝔩 𝔬𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔳𝔞𝔰.

[cranberrywren]

a love letter to dark red ♡

[dykeselfcest]

I fear a lot of people learned to take good care of library books as children and instead of internalizing "leave shared community items as you found them as much as possible, because other people will use them too" they internalized "printing and binding a book imbues it with sacred energy and if you dog-ear a mass-market paperback you're desecrating the entire concept of written language"

[ohk4te]

matching the scenery 🌸

[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

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[thirdity]

“There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.”

— Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis

[thinkingimages]

TR Ericsson

All My Love Always No Matter What, 2021

[belovedapollo]

recent pages in my pocket Moleskine and my commonplace, I’ve been rereading a book from 2024 as well, listening to a lot of Muse and pressing flowers and my Baba gifted me a secondhand analog camera (my 4th!) for Nowruz (and yet my heart is heavy with every breath I take) 🖋️ reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

[peppermint-3]

me when im in a situation

[sinister-flower]

Yesterday evening answering emails and finish tasks with some chamomile tea.

[srdcovka]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018) dir. Arwen Curry

[noodledesk]

The Best [advice]: The best writing advice I ever received was in a fortune cookie that said: “the work teaches you how to do it.” The work, the art, whatever you wish to create, is the best teacher—an organizing intelligence begins to reveal itself only when you start writing. So get to work! The second best writing advice is Goethe’s “do not hurry; do not rest.” 

Naheed Phiroze Patel, 10 Asian American writers on the best (and worst) advice they’ve ever received. (by Katie Yee)

[pastel-pink-psycho]

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.