black and white writes

Writing is basically creating several emotionally complex humans and expecting everything to go well

Being a writer is having twenty notebooks, one-fourth of them not even written in, and somehow still needing one more

Writer’s block is like trail mix—your ideas are still in there, but you have to sort through all the nuts to find the m&ms

Don’t be ashamed of your first draft. It shows how far you’ve come and how much you’ve learned

Why does writing your WIP have to be so hard and scrolling through tumblr so easy

Some days writing a single sentence feels like squeezing toothpaste out of an almost empty tube

If you think you’re describing a scene too much, you’re probably not. Charlotte Brontë has you beat

Therapy? I’d rather draw from my childhood trauma and channel it into my story in order to not go crazy

Writing is like caring for a tree. Your first draft is watering the seed, even when you can’t see what lies underneath the soil. Once you finish your first draft, you see a glimpse of green peeking above the surface. Each revise, each edit, each polish, your tree grows. Just like a seed, your story doesn’t grow into a tree overnight, but every time you work on it, every time you care for it, you’re cultivating something beautiful

When you’re a writer, but you also have a side hobby, and your characters are screaming at you from the other room because you’re not giving them your full attention

I literally fell into a bush today because I was daydreaming about my story (the bush is fine but my leg is a little scratched up)

I don’t write because I know what it feels like to experience something—I write out of a place of empathy

I feel like a Victorian lady penning a letter to a dear friend when I stubbornly continue to elongate the sentence with a comma, semicolon, or em-dash