#now go write

[brynwrites]

I love looking through all the tags on the relatable writing posts because there’s suck a prominence of #I feel so attacked right now and #I’ve been found out and #why don’t you just @ me next time.

Writing feels exhausting and lonely sometimes, but we’re all experiencing the same thing. We’re in this together.

To all my writing buds; you’ve got this ;)

[isabellahawkes]

Second Chance (a short pep talk)

Photo: a coloring WIP of mine

It’s okay to enjoy yourself. As long as you’re actually enjoying yourself. You used to do that when you were a kid. You were really good at it. You fought against others’ expectations of you. Most of them. You had no doubt that you were going to be something great. That you were gonna figure everything out somehow. You had that faith in yourself.

Then you were knocked down. Repeatedly. Dragged through the mud. Held in a choke hold, all while they were calling it a loving embrace. Jaw broken. Unable to speak, not knowing how. You forgot how to believe.

You say you’ve never been good at having faith in anything. But that’s not true. You can’t have lost something you never had.

You give everyone and everything else a second, third, fourth chance. It’s time to do the same for yourself. For faith.

[lady--divine]

A word about my 'writing process' to all those wonderful people who drop by my inbox and ask...

I'm always telling people that in order to improve your writing or start writing, to just write, but sometimes that's a hard and difficult thing to imagine doing, especially when you expect to sit down and write a story from start to finish. That is rarely ever the case. I mean, it does happen, but not as often as I would like. So, here is a picture of what is going on in my life as I write now so you can get an idea of how I do what I do...

I am on the sofa (it's my base of operations for everything that happens in my house. The right side is mine and no one sits here but me...there have been many deaths...) I have my computer open with my inspirational music cued up, though most times I just put my earbuds in to block out the sound. I have seven documents open - some are almost completely realized fics, some are new things I'm cooking up, and of the new ones, some are just a title and a single line of dialogue. Those will be written today...or tomorrow...or next month... who knows. The things that have a deadline take precedence.

And sometimes they don't...(shrug)

I have a journal beside me with prompts I jot down and story ideas. I usually keep this under my pillow and if you look at it you can see how bad my handwriting sucks when I wake up with an idea at three in the morning (that is if I've actually gone to bed at that time. Most nights I'm still awake)

Another book is full of outlines for longer fics - step by step. If I could just sit down uninterrupted for a day I'm sure I can bang those out.

And then I have pics of Ricky Roman in the background...that's just cause I like to look at him and sigh...

And that's pretty much it :)

Some of it makes sense. Some of it doesn't. But it works for me.

So now find the thing that works for you :)

[maxkirin]

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don’t tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing.

Markus Zusak

[jamaicamibornandgrow]

l  ifeisblaq said: LOL OMG! Stop yelling at me! lol I need you to come to my house to spur me into action when I’m procrastinating on stuff. I immediately felt like I had to go write something when I saw this post

Good. My job has been completed. If I wasn't living in Jamaica I would definitely be at your home in a blink's time.

[shireduchess]

Done revamping the theme. It became far more complicated than necessary. 

[sebastiangst]

ahhh people start to discover sebadam. this pleases me.

[bluh-bluh-8ig-8itch-blog]

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maybe there's a reason my dash is literally never dead