if you eat your hand you gain the powers of your hand

oh damn i can't boop from a side blog :(

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

oh i'm like way more sexually repressed than i realized

like in retrospect that should've been obvious in a lot of ways but i 100% filtered it away as not a real thing because i legitimately hold no guilt or shame about it in my own head, i just categorically do not acknowledge its existence where anyone else can see it and attach it to me

ways in which being constantly infantilized as a teenager by almost all of my peers is still fucking me up over a decade later lmaooo

oh i'm like way more sexually repressed than i realized

like in retrospect that should've been obvious in a lot of ways but i 100% filtered it away as not a real thing because i legitimately hold no guilt or shame about it in my own head, i just categorically do not acknowledge its existence where anyone else can see it and attach it to me

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

reblog and put in the tags the real reason you joined tumblr no matter how horrible or embarrassing it is

#everyone was fleeing livejournal and came here#a place that is inferior in almost every aspect

Alright tell me in the tags, what’s Your Poem? That poem you heard once and it has dwelt within you ever since?