The Number One *most Important* Writing Lesson

“Shout out to everybody who’s trying to get their life together. Working on yourself is the hardest part of life. The rest comes after.”

— Unknown (via quotefeeling)

Hello welcome my ADHD themed gameshow, "So you were holding it literally moments ago but now it's gone" the where YOU look for whatever you were just holding while going increasingly mad

Every writing advice post: Just write! Don’t look back! First drafts are meant to suck! Edit later!

Me, re-reading the whole paragraph every time I add another sentence: What was that?

If you think someone’s shirt is cool, tell them! If you think your friend is beautiful, tell them! If you love someone’s art, tell them! Speak goodness into the world, it is time to stop suppressing kind thoughts.

I've been on tumblr for three days and I can already tell

twitter is a hellsite (derogatory) and tumblr is a hellsite (affectionate)

If anyone wants to tell me about their plot, characters, or anything really then I'm happy to listen!

I REALLY want to talk about my new plot idea (not sure whether to write it as a screenplay, story, or save it as a comic idea) but at the same time, I really don’t want to bother anyone hsbsbsb🥲

Yup.

This is how I come up with ideas for stories/poems!

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

so when I'm writing and I can't think of a name I'll just put [insert name here] so I can go back to it later

and my biggest fear is that someday I will publish a novel and one of those will slip through and there will be a [insert name here] in an actual professionally published novel

I'm a writer, which means I have 15 ideas, to which I have the beginning, the entire world, 3 unnamed charakters and the specific lines at the end