the em dash and i are in a torrid toxic love affair

Me: I love writing, it’s so fun and creatively stimulating!

Also Me while I’m writing:

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

I love doing little coding things while writing. Adding comments to my scenes in python syntax. Rubber duck debugging my plot issues. Might even start software versioning my drafts. It's so silly but it brings me so much joy to find the little intersections between two of my interests that seem like they should be so disparate.

also on the topic of rubber duck debugging, it's one of my favorite ways of resolving problems while writing anything: code or otherwise. It's such a simple concept but so useful. If you're stuck, sometimes all you you need to do is go to your rubber duck (or pet, or stuffed animal, or anything else that might be nearby and is easy to personify), explain to it step by step what you're trying to do, and promptly realize exactly what your problem is/how to fix the problem you have.

Give that character a big nose. Give that character freckles. Give that character moles. Give them dimples give them acne give them big eyebrows give them a tooth gap give them eyebags please its good for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its enrichment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

being a writer is wild

like there are some days where all the words click into place and the sentences flow like silk and then there are other days where your plot is undergoing radioactive decay and you're about to punch through your laptop screen in frustration

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

worst part about writing a novel is wanting to talk about it but everything you want to talk about is a big spoiler so you just stew in silence

the trope of 'this entity exists only because we think it does' is so so so fucking good and cannot be overdone in my opinion

like the idea that you built the monster hunting you, that you invited the entity into our world, that your fear is what it feeds on, and that once made real, it cannot possibly be killed because you're stuck in this loop of 'he's real because i'm scared' and 'i'm scared because he's real'

The world was actually made for strange people to be passionate about their art

looking for writeblr mutuals

hi i sort of became inactive on here for a second because of life and college and......... life.... but im really wanting to get into the writing community again!! i have my WIP intro pinned to the top of my page (pls check it out its my pride and joy) and i'll follow back any writeblrs that follow me:)) i'd love to participate in tag games and my DMs are always open!! lets be mutuals!

I love it when the unreliable narrator begins to trip and reveal the flaws in their story and themself. I cannot explain how much I adore them. The moment you realize that "wait, something is not right" and start to rethink the whole book is the absolute best thing to happen to you while reading. You just know the reread will be even better.