PapierFlamingo

The thing about reading a really good book as a writer is that it does two things at once. it fills you up and it destroys you. you're reading going "yes. yes this is why. this is the whole reason." and also "i will never write a sentence this good. i should give up and become something reasonable like a geologist. geologists don't have to do this. geologists go outside and look at rocks and nobody asks them why the pacing is slow in the middle." i finish every great book both inspired and briefly geologist-curious.

Klaas, ich bin auch überfordert 🫠

I genuinely cannot explain to a non-writer what it feels like when a chapter suddenly clicks. it's not satisfaction. it's not relief. it's this horrible specific feeling like you just remembered something you never knew. like the story was already there and you finally stopped being in the way of it. i don't know what to do with that feeling. i just close the laptop and stare at the wall for a bit.

one person's "ugghh this trope is so overdone" is another person's "oooooohohohohohohohoho"