Me When I Write A Scene I’m Really Proud Of

the number one *most important* writing lesson

The number one most valuable writing lesson you could ever be given, in it’s pure simplicity:

WRITE.

Don’t get stuck by spending hours upon hours scrolling through Tumblr, or YouTube, or reading random articles on Google, telling you how to properly write a story. 

The cold hard truth is that the only way you’ll ever truly improve your craft, is by writing, so don’t be afraid to go out there and do it! 

It’s all right if what you write isn’t a masterpiece. Every single thing you write, no matter how much effort is given, or how good you think it is, contributes to your craft improving. 

Go pick up a book. Go watch a movie, or a TV-show. Analyze the story, the arcs the characters are given, how the scenes are built up – Go to your computer, grab a notebook, and start writing. Visualize. You’ve got to visualize. 

Visualizing your scenes is one of the most important things, and you cannot forget to have a clear view in your mind of what your scenes will look like. 

And don’t forget to read your sentences out loud. What sounds good on paper, doesn’t necessarily always sound good when spoken aloud, and vise verca. 

Me: I want to write.

Someone else: What's stopping you?

Me: ...

Me: *gestures vaguely* nyehh.

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

*me writing fic*

me to me: don’t use the word eyes, you just used it in the previous sentence. use something else

my inner me to me: no, don’t call eyes orbs, it’s cringey

my deeper inner me to me: call them face balls

me: oh look a writing competition for people my age, let’s enter

writer’s block: -twerks its way into my open document-

me: understandable have a nice day -just stares at the blank document thinking about writing rather than actually writing-

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An interview with indie author Ai Love!

You'd better not miss reading it. 🙂

LITERARY EXPRESS

'If You Can't Find Something Good to Read, Write It' – LITERARY EXPRESS

A former politician who has written op-eds for several large publications in the United States of America, the fourty-year-old, who is curre

I'll save my homework for tomorrow then 🤷‍♀️

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

— Pablo Picasso (via meineluft)

4. The tiny, miniscule, impossible possibility that my story turns out amazing and I sell tonnes of copies and they make it into a film and I meet my favourite actors who like the story so much that they want to be the main character

I write my stories for one or more of three reasons:

1. Aesthetic

2. That One Scene

3. Spite