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“He could still see his mother’s and brother’s beaming smiles in the crowd, and beside them Loyse’s eyes shining as she watched her star student bathe in the spotlight and the applause.”

I decided to attempt my second digital art piece, inspired by Lord, You Keep Me Crawling by @wizardofarles of Laurent’s Menuhin performance!

wizardofarles

🥹 I’m not crying you’re crying. This is beautiful and so sweet I adore this

#look at my boyyyy 😭#pinning this post if you don’t mind #fanart #lykmc #laurent of vere #captive prince #lykmc art #<-can’t believe I have a tag for that now with multiple things in it #you guys are the greatest most talented readers in the world ily

unalivejournal

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

writers after writing one (1) sentence of their wip that they haven’t touched in months: we are so back

#it’s me im writers #but hey. i writed!!#lykmc updates #writeblr

Negative Space

A wad of tissues as big as my fist

soaked red—my crumpled heart

laying still and cold outside my body

every second losing vibrancy

ruby turned to mud at the bottom of a trash can

concealed with care, this is not a cry for help

this is weeping

what’s inside is too big

it bursts out—screaming

till my skin is empty

but it’s a trick—emptiness has no end

the emptiness here is the emptiness there, is the same emptiness everywhere

and the weight of the whole empty universe is stuffed inside my chest

begging for an end

#wrote something #tw implied sh #my writing #poetry #my poetry #spilled ink #writeblr #tw suicidal ideation #vent poem #i lowkey want to show this to my therapist next week but then i’d have to admit i lied to her :/

bad news: I still haven’t made much progress on the next chapter of lykmc. my mental health is in shambles :)

good news: I am at least writing something again (even if it’s only shitty poetry I should probably show to my therapist), so I’m optimistic that I can get myself writing regularly again soon

#lykmc updates

tumblerislovetumblerislife

an ao3 author is never late, nor are they early; they post precisely when they mean to

Heyyy I just wanted to say I love your fanfic I think you are very talented writer !!! I wanted to ask if we could have a sneak peak for the next chapter ? 💖💖💝

Hi anon, sorry I took ages to answer this (I’m in the midst of one of the worst mental health crises of my life atm. lol) Anyway, thank you sm for showing lykmc some love. I’ve been neglecting it lately but I do have a little excerpt here for you 🫶💙

#sorry if this excerpt it a bit boring. couldn’t find anything else complete enough to share that didn’t feel spoilery #well. there’s one scene but it involves the uncle and even rereading it was making me feel physically ill #but yall can let me know if you want a peek of that scene too idc #lykmc updates #lykmc ch19 #my writing #capri fanfic #fan fiction #lykmc #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #my fic #sneak peek #captive prince fanfic #asks

theunfortunate-author

my daily affirmation as an author

musicalmelody001

honeypiehotchner

i want to read a very specific fanfic and i’m so mad that i can’t (it’s sitting in my drafts) (unfinished)

honeypiehotchner

so glad this post is resonating with people bc it’s still resonating with me as i am once again not working on said fanfics that i want to read

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veliseraptor

I understand why "make bad art" can be an effective rallying cry for some, but for me personally it has never worked; my entire perfectionist being locks up at the idea of making something bad. For me, it just feels like if something is really and truly bad then what was the point of doing it at all? Personally, I don't find it motivational or encouraging.

The two things I have found that actually do help me are a combination of "I'll fix it in post" (the first version doesn't have to be good, it can be polished up later) and "not everything I make has to be my best work."

don't get me wrong I'm still very bad at accepting either of these things, but I've personally found them more practicable than trying to tell myself it's okay to "make bad art."

#writing #perfectionism

allthingswhumpyandangsty

#real #im working on something rn. in the beginning stages of it #but i keep fighting with myself over what i can and can’t put into the story #like do i dial back/completely remove the anti-christian undertones so i won’t hurt my very catholic nana’s feelings?#and the child abuse and anti-nuclear family position? to protect my parents’ feelings?#and the gayness?? do i make it less gay??? (obvious answer is no but i do fear. i do fear)#even just the thought of people i know reading anything i write sincerely fills me with dread #writing is like exposing your open wounds. idc if strangers see them they don’t know the Me i’ve constructed #but i’ve spent so many long years hiding the wounds from my family #if they saw them it would shatter the illusion #writing

cykelops

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

cykelops

HE HAS BEEN SOBER AND STILL WRITING FOR 30 FUCKING YEARS!!!

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ariaste

Yeah, as a person who often does 3k words in a sitting, frequently for days or weeks in a row, and has never done cocaine.... it's not the cocaine, and it's not a god-given physical trait like being the "hottest friend".

It's practice. Not just practicing writing in general, but intentionally practicing for speed. I have taught writing in formal settings, and the thing that seems to most frequently slow people down is the amount of time they spend tinkering with, worrying about, and sweating over every individual sentence as they write it -- and then they've written 800 words and they're fucking exhausted, because all of that worrying takes a LOT of cognitive energy. Turn your brain off. Practice not caring if it's a perfect sentence because you can fix it later. Just slap some bullshit on the page. Keep your fingers moving.

If you can type 60wpm, and you type without stopping, you'll have 3k in under an hour. Now, realistically, I'm a fast writer, and I do still pause to do a LITTLE tinkering now and then, so I compose at a rate of around 25wpm, even though my top typing speed is around 80wpm. At 25wpm, 3k would take me roughly an hour and a half. Let's round it up to two and a half hours for a couple thinking breaks.

The point is, this is doable. 25wpm for two and a half hours, including some thinking breaks. It's not particularly superhuman, any more than being able to run a mile is superhuman. It just takes intentional training towards a specific goal and prioritizing what you're spending your day on.

When you first start practicing for speed, then yeah, a lot of what you produce is going to be garbage, and step one is to let that be perfectly fucking fine. Your mantra is "It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be done" -- it's a lot easier to edit a pile of raw material than to try to get it perfect on the first go. As you practice, you'll get more adept at the writing craft part of it too, so the product will not be garbage stream-of-consciousness anymore. The sentences will start to snap together one after the other like lego bricks.

But you don't get there if you say, "Well, it was just the cocaine" or "This isn't applicable to me because Stephen King is doing a completely different activity." Neither of those things are true. He's a regular human being, and I'm a regular human being, and so are you. Writing fast is a learnable skill, just like being able to run a mile or any equivalent feat of physical exertion. If you don't WANT to learn that sort of skill, you definitely don't have to. But there's a difference between deciding that you don't WANT to learn the skill and reflexively deciding that the skill must be impossible, and when I see people saying "That seems impossible, so there's no point to me even trying," it makes me sad.

Because there's no such thing as impossible. Some things are just Very Tedious.

#im still skeptical that i could ever write this fast #but i do know that my current extremely slow writing speed is holding me back #and one of the things i want to work on is getting over my perfectionism #so this makes me. hesitantly hopeful? or at least motivated #i think i’ll try some speed writing exercises and see how it goes #writing