Zega294

[zegaoubli]

My mother once said the government was a scp.

[prophetic-writer]

Hi! 👋 Hope the fuckton of dental work is going well

My question for you: do you ever experience “fear of the blank page” while writing? Has it evolved at all over your writing career? And how do you respond to that feeling?

Such a great question!

I definitely experience the fear of the blank page a bit. That first sentence never really gets any less daunting as time goes on. The thing is, I learned that usually you don't end up writing the final first sentence of anything on your first try.

No matter how many WIPs I go through, whether I finish or abandon them, I always end up writing something from the middle of them first because I'm trying to capture their direction and point as quickly as I can. But even if you start in the middle, it can be intimidating to start at all.

I guess my main response to that feeling is to just write down some bullshit and tell myself that I'm not going to use it for anything. That way, when I come back to it later, I'm coming at it surprised to find things worth using, rather than disappointed that not all of it is usable. Once you accept that your first attempt at any story is going to more or less be for your eyes and your eyes alone, you realize that you really can start anywhere and write anything down.

It gets easier when you take away the finality of deciding it's something before it even exists. Make it and then decide if it's something or not!

Thanks for the ask and happy writing! :)

[zegaoubli]

Only reblogging this so. I can see it every time I go to my page

[zegaoubli]

When I say I want to live in a different reality, a different world i dont mean a dystopian one :(

[zegaoubli]

So... Do I just start treatings this app like my diary , like one of my supposed to do with this platform? Do emoji even works here? do they even still sell the shoelace strings??🤔