I spent all day doing sidequests instead of progressing the main story

I know you’re talking about a videogame but this is actually a really good metaphor for my life

sometimes I get so jealous of other people’s social skills. like damn. they can talk to people?? and people like them?? look at all those people who like them. wtf. illegal

me, watching scary unexplained videos: i am strong me, as soon as they zoom in on some blurry object scarcely resembling a face: i am not strong

2019 please bring me money not problems

Fanfiction is easier to write than original because the world is already established. If you’re someone who’s giving up on their dream of writing original fiction because it’s not flowing like the former, remember that, please? Write shit. Write freely and terribly. Write a first draft that’s everywhere and nowhere. Because once it’s done and you’re left with a mess, you’ve also established yourself a world. And the second and third drafts will follow with much more ease. Let yourself be messy in creating your own worlds.

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you.

As a published author, I can say this advice is LEGIT. Get the first draft down. Don’t stress about it. Let it be messy. But get it down. You can always fix it later.

The best piece of advice i ever got was, you can edit a terrible first draft. You can’t edit a blank page.

Don’t think about it as a first draft.  Think about it as Draft Zero.

I AM STRUGGLING WITH THIS SO HARD RIGHT NOW. SO RELEVANT.

you need to give yourself permission to be happy now. not when you lost weight, not when you found your soulmate, not when you have more money. we seek excitement from future events, but once those goals are met, the temporary pleasures will pass and they will be replaced by the next fantasy. devote your full attention to your inner self and appreciate being in the moment. happiness is never external, but a way of living and appreciating life. it’s not reality, just the way you perceive it. so go and shift your focus from the outcome to watching yourself grow.

Ok just cause I’m still salty and this needs to be said: just because your story is a bit predictable doesn’t mean it’s bad. sometimes that just means that your story makes sense. if nothing in your story is predictable then you have crossed the line from “keeping viewers on their toes” to “nonsensical nightmare that doesn’t deliver on any front”

Lately a lot of stories that try to hard to be “subversive” and “unpredictable” have turned out shitty because they were more focused on not using certain tropes than telling a good story.

Do you ever hear a song by a band you’ve never heard before and you’re like oh my god, I must listen to more of their music! And then you do and it’s like, oh, apparently that one song I heard was their only good song…

drink some water you beautiful and capable but dehydrated bitch

“bastard” is no contest the funniest curse word

It somehow implies that the most hienous thing you’ve done is exist