there’s a quarantine going on… no pressure but i KNOW ya’ll have WIPs

#relatable

spent three hours tonight writing 500 words and ended up deleting every one! cool cool cool 

I hope in 2020 you get to write that thing you’ve been wanting to write, and you write it amazingly.

Mr. Gaiman, when people read the stories I have written, they always ask me what message I'm trying to convey or what symbolism I have in what I've written. I'm never sure what to tell them because most of the time I'm not thinking about it, I'm just trying to tell a story that I think people will enjoy. Do you always have a message to convey and symbolism to think about in your stories? Or is it okay to just write something for people to read and enjoy?

Don’t tell them anything. Just smile sweetly and write the next story.

Figuring that stuff out is their job. Your job is making things up. And if you’re making things up properly there will themes and symbols and messages aplenty, whether you intentionally put them in or not, because you are human and alive and writing a story.

A writer gets to explode on the page. Critics and readers are the ones get to to gather up the shrapnel and examine the damage and figure out who got hurt.

me: i am INSPIRED i want to WRITE

my brain, immediately: i have never once even seen a sentence

Do you ever get really thankful for all the books you’ve read? For all the worlds and stories and characters that have become a part of you? That there’s just this space of nostalgia inside you where you remember plots and twists, love stories and deaths, journeys you’ve taken between the spaces of a page and it just makes your heart swell. It’s part of why I love reading. You always get to carry pieces of those stories with you.

“But what can you actually DO with a degree in [insert subject here]?!”

Write fanfiction with a high degree of accuracy in a very specific field, next question.

the sheer offensiveness of rereading something you wrote, discovering that, hey, it’s actually pretty good, and then reaching the end, wherein you realize that if you want more you actually have to write it

the trick to avoiding plotholes is to make sure there’s not enough plot to poke holes in

I hope I make it, I’m deadass rooting for myself.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -Maya Angelou

Turns out that in order to post my fics, I have to write them! Shocked and upset.

You ever write something and you think, “I’ve used this exact sentence structure/phrasing/convention approximately eight million times before but goddammit I’m going to do it again?”

That’s about where I’m at right now.

@upagainstabookcase your tags are so perfect <3

#but a canoe on a ttiny stream and a toy boat in a bathtub are still stories #and theyre worth telling

Liana Finck, Passing for Human

the sheer offensiveness of rereading something you wrote, discovering that, hey, it’s actually pretty good, and then reaching the end, wherein you realize that if you want more you actually have to write it