an organized mess

Janet. I'm a writer. I write because words can't get stuck in fingertips like they can in throats.

[wnq-writers]

Celebrate the rain. It comes as a prologue of a great story.

eamnella  (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-writers]

you wanted us to be like a story the problem is, all books end

C.R.Doyal

[dunflower]

u know someone is having a rough day when their favorite song plays and they don’t sing along

[imaginethedarkerside]

No one will understand how much this just broke my heart.

[wordsnquotes]

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett (via wordsnquotes)

[circlers-deactivated20231019]

[reserpinum]

[bostonpoetryslam]

Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics — if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.

Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson for Bookslut (via arabellesicardi)

[c-isnenegro]

[psych-facts]

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B.F. Skinner (via psych-facts)

[thelovejournals]

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

[wordsnquotes]

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson (via wordsnquotes)

[readandburn]

I wish I could be more.

Six Word Story (via boygrunt)

[s-ensitivus]

[aseaofquotes]

Abby McDonald, Getting Over Garrett Delaney

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

When a writer puts words on paper, it is an intimate act. The reader hears your words in his voice and he becomes the bones of your story. The reader is the foundation that you wrap in muscle and sinew. You build the hero on the reader’s delicate frame until your story is his story. Your sorrow is his; your joy is a communion you both celebrate.

N.M. Kelby (via writingquotes)

[they-messed-me-up]

[writeworld-blog]

Writing, and plot specifically, can be almost universally defined as people being miserable in interesting ways.

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