I've got ideas

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

to be honest, i only personally care about plotholes when they appear in writing i already have a bunch of other problems with. if i like something enough, i'll give it a pass/invent an explanation in my head. i can't find the exact quote, but roger ebert said something about this. to paraphrase: "the movie's problem wasn't [such and such inconsistency], its problem was that i was bored enough to be thinking about that."

"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁

the writer’s urge to ask your friends “do you wanna see a little somethin’ i’ve been working on?” when the little somethin’ you’ve been working on is 800 words and ends in the middle of a sentence

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

letting my stories spin around my head like a microwave

I'm not a mistake and neither are you.

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

I love every shitty fanfic ever written, I’ve written some of the most shitty fanfic ever written, and I love it BECAUSE it’s imperfect and human and made for love not for popularity or profit. Generative AI has no place in schoolwork or academia but even LESS in fan spaces. Because without the love, what’s the point?

Also being a shitty writer is a near-universal experience because it’s where we all start. LLMs can’t improve because they don’t think. They don’t really write either. They just play with probability and put out something that’s not illegible but certainly isn’t good.

When people say "I'm sick of so much politics in Comics/Movies/Games"

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

Reblogging this too for folks with anxiety like myself who feel bad when they say they’re too busy but they don’t have every second accounted for doing something so they feel almost like they’re lying. Self-care goes on your schedule too, lovelies.

If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

Guillermo del Totoro

Oh my??? God??