Listening

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

This just in: local woman claims they are a writer, but spends an awfully long time watching TV, making mood boards for stories, daydreaming about other things to write, and watching TV while staring at a blank word document. 

[vernebeltegedanken]

Yeah, I miss you too. However, I don't think talking to you will cure anything or heal any broken thoughts. It will either throw us back before the hurt or reopen old wounds. I am so sorry. I miss you too, but staying away might be better for both of us? Or am I still running away from commitment and what's good for me in the end?

[wordsnquotes]

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

— Mark Twain

[books-n-quotes]

“Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.”

— Nikita Gill, Almost Feelings

[la-diswavves]

There's over 9 million users on Tumblr now. Reblog if you're one of the few who's never EVER left anon hate in somebody's ask box.

[furwolf76]

If you can’t reblog this…

NEVER HAVE NEVER WILL

[churrosforthewin]

That’s a fucking low number. That’s fucking sad.

[jam-jar2]

Never ever

[doritonuggets-deactivated201808]

A round of applause for everyone who can reblog! You’re all awesome guys!

[akistarkrogers-blog]

Never :“

[ourmissallison]

Never ever

[thelastvoidwalker]

No anon hat has EVER come from me.

[thin-to-hollow]

for anyone who cant reblog this

[weird-emo-human-deactivated2018]

I would feel shitty for days if I would do that, I NEVER DID AND NEVER WILL

[youngandloaded-deactivated20210]

I’ve got enough to know that it’s not something anyone should have to deal with.

[lnfours]

for everyone who can reblog, i’m proud of you

[emarasmoak]

Of course not. NEVER EVER

[beast-0f-burden]

Never, it’s so petty and childish.

[will-grammer-deactivated2024011]

Never. It’s stupid, childish and completely out of line.

[sweetseaveydreams-deactivated20]

omg never 

[all-timelee]

I’d feel so guilty….

[psychoticsean-deactivated201808]

If you can’t reblog, I have a problem with you.

[panevanbuckley]

To those that can’t reblog:

[bitter-milcxvich-deactivated201]

[for-the-uncommon-love]

When I’m a judgemental, bigoted ass, I do it publicly, so…. never been anon.

[chleopatraapaige]

Wow over 8million 700 thousand have lol

[so-many-freaking-ships-deactiva]

Have never, will never

[maramahan]

I see a lot of writing tips and I post a lot of writing tips but I feel like I’ve been forgetting the most important one: you’ve gotta learn to trust yourself.

And I don’t mean that in sort of “uwu have faith in yourself! You can do it!!” kind of way. I’m not here to repeat empty affirmations–I’m saying you’ve consumed a lot of media over the years. You know what you like and what you don’t like. You have good taste. 

But if you’re like me, all that certainty goes out the window when you’re writing your own stuff. “Will the readers like that?” you think. “This is too weird. It’s unrelatable. Nobody else’s story looks like this–I must be doing something wrong.”

“This is silly,” you tell yourself. “Why do I even bother?”

And when you start doubting yourself like that, that’s the moment you stop creating. You get blocked and stressed and it gets all too easy to fall back on cliches and stereotypes. You start stripping away the things that make the story uniquely yours in order to make it look more like everyone else’s. 

Which is infinitely sad. 

You’ve lived a life no one else has seen, and you have ideas that nobody else in the world could think of. Even if the story has been ‘done’ before, there’s nobody else who can tell it like you. You can start with the most ‘cliche’ idea ever, but if you come at it with any measure of emotional honesty, it’ll still be new–because it’s being told by you. 

I just finished a draft of a book that’s probably the most painful thing I’ve written so far. It’s way out of my comfort zone, and I had to explore aspects of myself I prefer not to think about. I did a lot of second guessing, and a good bit of whimpering facedown on the floor because writing is scary and hard. 

And rereading the draft now, the absolute best parts are the bits where I gave up on convention and I wrote what I wanted exactly the way I wanted to write it. Yeah, it’s kinda silly and kinda dumb and kinda just a big load on nonsense–but it’s MY nonsense. If people like it, great. Wonderful. If they don’t like it, well–reading is a subjective experience, and maybe my work just isn’t for them. That’s okay. 

Be you. Be honestly, genuinely you. It’s a scary, vulnerable position to put yourself in, but… Even if you’re one in a million, there are 7,000 people just like you–and that’s 7,000 people who will read your work and go “this writer gets me.”

Write it for them. Write it for you. Create shamelessly. Learning to write is only half learning the craft–the other half is learning to trust in the value of the things you have to say.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

All of this and Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite reading experiences, suggested you write for one person. Don’t write for everyone, write your story like you’re telling it tone person who wants to hear it.

[theperksofbeingabookseller]

And that’s why books are never going to die. It’s impossible. It’s the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn’t only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

Paul Auster (via theperksofbeingabookseller)

[wnq-writers]

10 Advices for myself : 1. Be kind. But not too kind. 2. If you feel you’ve been hurt, you’re hurt. Period. No one else is allowed to tell you how much you’re allowed to hurt. 3. Make the blame. But also take the blame. 4. People are gonna call you, “Crazy” and “Weird” and “Mad” for doing your own thing. Take the compliment. 5. Everyone’s first priority is their own selves. So put yourself first no matter what. 6. If you like that notebook, buy it. So what if you have more than enough empty pages back home? More the merrier. 7. Write. Draw. Sing. Dance. Act. Cry. Laugh. Curse. Do whatever the fuck you want. So long as it doesn’t affect them, no one has the right to complain against it. 8. The world is full of hypocrites. You may even find one in the mirror at times. But it’s alright. 9. Whatever you do, don’t put reins on your dreams. Dreams are the only highways with an infinite horizon that holds the impossible. 10. Laugh. Keep laughing. Happy is your best look.

beingjustlittlered, writing prompt #62: list 10 pieces of advice you’d give yourself (via wnq-writers)

i love this

(via astrologicalcandy)

[thequotejournals]

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo (via thelovejournals)

[lovelysuggestions]

dont play games. if you like someone, tell them. if you want something, go fuckin get it. assert yourself into your own existence.

[depressingxthings]

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[vernebeltegedanken]

I can feel my ribs again and I hate it. I hate it because it means I am worse again. It means I didn't take care of my body the way it deserves.

[aestheticacadema]

Why do you never want me the way i want you?

(via socotic)

[vernebeltegedanken]

[studyblr]

me: very soft, tries very hard, worries a lot, sleepy, big dreams and aspirations

[gaywifi]

depression sucks because you could be half way done dancing in your underwear and making cookies and all the sudden everything is pointless and you feel so lost and worthless and have no motivation to breath and it’s like ??????? theses cookies were going to be great ??? calm down depression ?? pls ?