Lighthouses & weathervanes

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

Ways to spark your writing again!! PART ONE

─ .✦ write a character who finally gets the apology they waited years for, and finds out it doesn't undo anything after all

─ .✦ let a character realize the person they've been trying to impress their whole life never actually noticed

─ .✦ write two people who love each other exactly the way they were taught to, and it's still not enough

─ .✦ a character discovers the thing they've been running from was never chasing them at all

─ .✦ let a character be someone else's whole world and realize too late they were never allowed to be tired

─ .✦ write a character who keeps choosing the hard way because the easy way never felt like it was meant for them

─ .✦ a character finally stops explaining themselves, and the silence afterward is louder than anything they could have said

─ .✦ let someone realize the family they built from scratch loves them the way blood never did

─ .✦ write a character who spent so long being needed that being wanted feels like a foreign language

─ .✦ a character finally lets themselves be angry about something they spent years calling "fine"

─ .✦ write someone who realizes the version of them everyone misses isn't a person they can go back to being