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Hello friends. For a while tumblr wouldn’t let me see my own page and just kept on sending me to my dash so I made a new tumblr. Then suddenly my old one started working again. But. I kinda like my new one better. So just message me if you want the url and I’ll shoot it over. Ciao.

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“I’ve never been a good person, but I used to try as hard as I could to become one. Now… I’ve just stopped.”

— me

mirayama

You’re going to shoot yourself in the head. If you do, I’ll swear never to lay a finger on him. Can you do it?

#naaron

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#comedy gold

#it was so lame it was funny

owl-mug

Reasons to Keep Writing

•everyone starts small. just because you’re not big now, doesn’t mean you’ll never be. and if you’re just starting out, keep in mind those bigger blogs have been writing for much longer than you. building a following takes time.

•there will always be someone who enjoys your writing. every like, reblog, and comment is one person who enjoyed what you wrote and i can assure you they want more! and remember, not everyone remembers to leave evidence that they liked your writing or they might just be too nervous to interact with you. invisible fans exist, and you’ve got them.

•going along with that last one, your writing has the potential to help others! you could write about a minority, or maybe you could publish a little something comforting at the exact time someone else needs it. and most of the time, when you affect someone like this they’ll tell you, whether it be through tags, or a private message or whatever. that’s an amazing feeling.

•getting a compliment from someone becomes a sure-fire way to make your day better. nothing feels greater than seeing a comment from someone saying how much they love something you worked hard on. maybe write down these comments somewhere, so you can look at them when you’re feeling negative about your skills as a writer.

•writer’s block is not the end of your writing career. it sure feels like it sometimes, but everyone, even the popular writers you look up to, suffer from writer’s block. everyone puts out work they’re not 100% satisfied with sometimes, and that’s okay! when you get out of this slump, your writing will be better than ever before and you’ll enjoy it again. keep writing through a block so you can get there sooner.

These are the things I think about when I feel bad about my writing, so I hope they can help someone else too.

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lnsane

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bring me the horizon // can you feel my heart

deimonnus

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Honestly one of the most important things I can say I’ve learned as an artist is that if you feel like you’re really stagnating, that probably means you’re seeing problems in your work that you have never been able to see before, but you haven’t figured out how to fix them yet.

You’re not really stagnating

You’re understanding of drawing has moved beyond your current execution.

Once you have finished processing the problems you’re suddenly seeing, you’re likely to correct them and suddenly make a huge breakthrough in your drawing.

Don’t push yourself, either. Sometimes you have to remove yourself from a problem temporarily to solve it, just don’t give up drawing altogether.

TL;DR feeling like your drawing is stagnating/getting worse means your eye is improving, and your hands are likely to catch up soon.

rhythmic-idealist

as a musician who went through this recently, I can confirm this is very true.

you’re not bad

you’re not realizing you’re a fraud

people aren’t lying to you when they say you’re good

you’re just improving, and this is an agonizing but really important step. congratulations, because I can promise you you’re about to get ten thousand times better at whatever it is you do.

fallenhero-rebirth

Putting this on the site because this is very true for writers as well.

The most important thing to realise is that this is a temporary condition, but one that will return again an again, but it will get easier every time since you will be able to recognise it for what it is.

Don’t ever let self-criticism stop you from creating.