Music For Two Players

(that can be played alone)

[ad-wills]

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[tiny-kt]

this for real fucking works

[scroll-of-thought]

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

[kiramartinauthor]

WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

[gjdraws]

[sailorplutoirl]

Ok!

[lucydacusgirl]

i wish swimming was something you could do alone in your bedroom.

[canonkiller]

thinkin

[criterionfilms]

A self-portrait by David Lynch

[priestessofmissouri]

[artlimited]

Käthe Kollwitz | Mensch https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/kathe-kollwitz-mensch-national-gallery-denmark-copenhague-smk/en/7586306

[rotinmycore]

roam.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of my old creative non-fiction professors used to always tell us “Everyone’s life is boring. A good enough writer, however, can make anything sound interesting.”

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of my fiction professors used to tell us “there’s a reason your story started today. Why is that? Why today?”

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of my poetry professors once asked me, “Roman do you want this extra bag of pretzels? I’m allergic to gluten.”

She also told me that silence is just as much of a part of poetry as words are but I mostly remember the free pretzels. They were really good pretzels.

[lovipop]

What selfshipping is like

[shitposting-extraordinaire]

Posts that read wildly differently based on self image

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

[biscuitsandspices]

Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

[heyitsmetonid]

For any writers that need encouragement

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[unalivejournal]

NO!!!! Characters accepting their sexuality will kill the patient.... She needs deep repression narratives to live

[unalivejournal]

Characters should never be okay with who they are

[dogweapon]

the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

[teathattast]