Zach Bartlett

LGBT Author ~ He / Him ~ WIP: Ducky http://zachbartlettbooks.com/

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[zachbauthor]

Just a lil reminder...

You should buy my book 👀

[a-tangled-mermaid]

Sigh. At least I have this.

[autistichalsin]

Bad writing is great!!!!

Bad writing means you took the time to write something, you, a real human being. It means you created something! And you have the awareness to see that there's room for improvement, too!!!

Bad writing is wonderful!!! Bad writing is a platform from which you can build your masterpiece! Bad writing is the backbone of good writing!

Give yourself permission to write badly. No, actually- give yourself permission to write something TERRIBLE. Give yourself permission to write such drivel that you can barely read it.

Nothing comes out a masterpiece the first time!! You think Isaac Asimov never wrote a total stinker he had to rebuild from the ground up? You think Jules Verne never wrote utter slop for a first draft?

WRITE SOMETHING AWFUL!!! Write something so bad you cringe about it years later!!! And then when that's done, write some more!!!!!

[solarsthoughts]

guys.

i wrote 500 words today!!

lowkey emotional because this is the first time i write since december:)

[zachbauthor]

Me going from not writing in months to immediately publishing a book.

[melodicwriter]

You never will know how you might inspire a future author if you don’t finish your book

[lannegarrett]

[writing-prompt-s]

Ever since you awoke in a cell in the cult’s compound you’ve been able to hear the apologetic whispers of their god. Apparently while they are fanatically loyal they aren’t very good at actually listening to their god.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you have found comfort in writing ♡

[grimalditeuthis]

how it feels to make a character's situation worse and worse and worse

[melodicwriter]

Trying to hype yourself up to write while experiencing imposter syndrome

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

can’t even joke about wishing my fics could write themselves without people mistaking it for ai usage anymore. what a lost whimsy

[zachbauthor]

Well guys, like always, I have abandoned my WIP and entered a manic episode where I write something completely different

[authorinthemaking]

reminder to fellow writers: even writing a single paragraph counts as progress

[zachbauthor]

I haven't written in 4 months but I suddenly busted 84 pages out of my a$$

[what-even-is-thiss]

Maybe I should make a fictional monarchy that always passes its secession to an opposite gendered child. Just to create new forms of court drama you understand.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like the crown passes from father to daughter to son to daughter to son and so on.

Is there any irl society that would do this? No. Would it add an extra layer to who’s trying to kill which sibling and why? Yes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

What happens if there’s a nonbinary, intersex, or otherwise weirdly gendered child, you ask? Easy. Even more court drama.

[writingdose]