Three Otakus

Fanfiction, thoughts on anime/manga and writing. Questions and comments welcome. Hosted by Destinies Entwined, Luxartisan and rhetoricfemme.

[createandnarrate]

Trust your talents!

[amyoung-deactivated20171003]

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress and its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent or the feeling that it is abominable are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard (via ourwritinglives)

Good to remember.  ::sigh::

(via luxartisan)

[mickeyandcompany]

[luxartisan-deactivated20240225]

These tips should be emblazoned on every aspiring writer’s wall.   They are brilliant, practical and good writers employ them without thinking about them consciously.  Or at least most of them.

I love so many of these that I can’t pick out just one that’s shouts ‘YES!’ at me, but I guess the one that I think is most enlightening is Number 7 (rephrased) - Know your ending as early as possible.  Or as someone famous once said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably won’t get there.”  True true true.

                                                                                             ~Angelle

[maxkirin]

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don’t be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

Francesca Lia Block (via maxkirin)

Great advice but so often unheeded, especially by newer writers who can’t bear to part with anything they’ve written.  But you must editeditedit.  Forget second draft…I revise multiple times until I am perfectly satisfied that I can do no more.  Nada.  Nothing.  And then, even after I post a piece, I often find things and go back and fix.

Unless, of course, its never meant to be anything but a first draft in raw form.  I’ve done that, too; usually when a friend challenges me to write something tout suite. 

(via luxartisan)

[gami-sama]

Corporal-leviii’s writing tips wooo

For the sweet anon who asked me for some tips about writing! I’ve gotten several asks like this so I’m just gonna pop in and post this before putting my nose back to the grindstone for finals. See you all later, and I hope this helps!!

[luxartisan-deactivated20240225]

Truth has a certain ring to it and this post chimes.

Time for reblog.

[inspired-to-write]

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

Jane Smiley (via inspired-to-write)

Somehow this is the most inspiring thing I’ve read in a long time. I’m going to go write now.

(via joleebindo)

Interesting thought.  I like it.  And now…back to editing.

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[luxartisan-deactivated20240225]

The difference between good writers and bad writers has little to do with skill. It has to do with perseverance. Bad writers quit. Good writers keep going.

Every now and again, a perfect article re: writing finds me.  This is one.

[worldofaliceandolivia]

[luxartisan-deactivated20240225]

elephantjournal:

☽☆ the mindful life ☆☾

Bless her wisdom.  What a great lady she was!

[goodquoteco]

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via hqlines)

That would make my computer station a church of daily devotion and I have bloody knees. 

(via luxartisan)

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is mad for the rest of the human race.

Alan Ayckbourn (via writingquotes)

[occult101]

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Gustav Jung (via occult101)

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, “What does this represent? What does it stand for?” They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

Steven Pressfield (via writingquotes)

Yes!

(via luxartisan)

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.

Leigh Brackett (via writingquotes)

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate.

Carl Henegan (via writingquotes)

I swear to hagia sophia, I thought this quote said “fanfiction writer.”  The quotes still applies.

(via luxartisan)

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

Paddy Chayefsky (via writingquotes)

[goodquoteco]

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown (via hqlines)

…and release fear.  Screw what anyone else thinks.

(via luxartisan)

[theunnovelist]

Remember that writing is translation, and theopus to be translated is yourself.  EB White

[luxartisan-deactivated20240225]

Now, what was that you were saying about writing being a casual hobby?  Sounds terrifying to me; and I’m a thrill-seeker.