#writingadivce

[scriptwriters-network]

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

Mike Rich

[anotherbrokenwriter]

advice to all the writers out there: "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Write a tragedy. Write misfortune. Write a complete disaster. If you have a hero, remember to give them hell, got it? Make them face their biggest fear, make them lose their loved ones, make them feel like the world hates them. Break them. Shatter them into fragments.

If they’re truly heroes, they’ll come out of it. Perhaps still broken. Perhaps still a total mess. Whatever it is, give your characters hell. Make them feel nothing. And then make them feel everything.

Again,  "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you have a hero, write a tragedy.

[chloesinkpen]

Characters who do drugs?

I want to ask or open up a little conversation about this. How do I write a character into a story who does drugs without them ending up being the bad guy, or someone who’s problems will have readers blaming the drugs they do? How can I write in a stoner character and not make them cliche, hipster, or stereotypical to the reader? Some people take issue with things like pot and think it stunts your growth and really hurts you while others don’t think so at all. Or what if a character takes molly, or does a whippit? Just wondering what people’s take is or other writers’ thoughts when the mention of drugs can have a strong impact on a story and draw focus away from the actual topic. 

[scriptwriters-network]

I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it.

Virginia Woolf