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kinda tired of having to be there for everyone through their worst moments while feeling like, if I so much as try to vent when I'm struggling, everything comes crashing down
modern media in a nutshell
You can love someone and still realize they don’t know how to love you properly.
Sebastian Sallow
they want us to all hate each other and everyone falls for it every time
Birthday boy <3
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.
“Obsessed x Obsessed” will always be my favorite dynamic, especially when it’s only vaguely implied in a movie that has absolutely nothing to do with romance.
Some art about coffee and certainly nothing else
Kazuo Ishiguro | from his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.
Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.
The human experience is just constantly switching between ‘I need a break’ and ‘I should be doing more.’
Hear me out...... what if.... a character got hurt... and another character.... comforted them afterwards.....
Things Writers do that feel Unproductive but aren't!!!
⟡ Staring out a window for twenty minutes before a single word
⟡ Rereading the same paragraph six times before moving forward
⟡ Lying on the floor thinking about a scene that isn't written yet
⟡ Taking a walk with no phone just to let something untangle
⟡ Reading a book that has nothing to do with your current project
⟡ Sitting in a café doing nothing but absorbing the atmosphere
⟡ Daydreaming about characters like they're real people you know
⟡ Rewriting the first chapter for the fourth time instead of continuing
⟡ Listening to your playlist on repeat until the mood arrives
⟡ Journaling about why you can't write instead of writing
⟡ Reorganizing your notes, your files, your whole system
⟡ Reading your own old work looking for who you used to be
⟡ Researching something minor for three hours because accuracy matters to you
⟡ Sleeping on a problem and waking up with the answer
⟡ Having a full conversation in your head between two characters
⟡ Watching people in public and cataloguing everything
⟡ Cooking or cleaning while your brain quietly solves the plot problem
⟡ Writing the same scene in three different tones just to feel it out
⟡ Abandoning the document and writing by hand for a while
⟡ Reading poetry when prose feels impossible
⟡ Watching a film just to study how a scene transition works
⟡ Making a new playlist because the old one stopped working
⟡ Sitting with discomfort until the scene becomes clear
⟡ Rereading your favorite book and taking it apart sentence by sentence
⟡ Writing a scene you know won't make the final draft just to understand the character
⟡ Doing nothing and trusting that it's filling something up
⟡ Reading the acknowledgements of every book you finish
"having a full conversation in your head between two characters"
this is just what my brain does all the time 😭
The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.
the way you love