be scripturient

Writers keep in mind while you’re working on your current WIP, you’re learning skills that may not result in you being able to complete that particular WIP to your satisfaction, but WILL bear fruit in your NEXT WIP. Like, you might’ve blown up this science project, but next time (or the time after, or the time after…) you’ll nail it because of what you learned while setting fire to this one.

Writing tip #4: If you’re struck with the parade-raining realization that your story idea has been “done” before, all you have to do is simply WRITE IT ANYWAY. Remember: Clichés tremble under the shadow of pure, unapologetic joy. 

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

Don't call me out like this.

sometimes you have a plot gargoyle that shrieks at you via pm until you hit them with a broom.