conglomerations

making huge life changes because you're unhappy and then being largely unhappy with the life changes will make you go, huh have I simply not practiced being happy enough to know how anymore? Have I worn such a deep groove in the unhappiness pathways in my brain that I can't climb out? Or do I just hate change? Or is everything actually just as bad as I think and that's why I'm unhappy? Or is it maybe possibly my infamously and medically out of whack hormones? Or perhaps I am just doomed. that's probably it.

If you ever feel like you’ve had an unproductive day writing, please know that one time novelist/playwright/essayist Dorothy L Sayers wrote a letter to Bun (her literary agent) that said “herewith the striking results of today’s literary labours” followed by two pages of rabbit sketches.

@talkingpiffle

The single most useful edit you can do before you send anything to anyone: Read it out loud. The whole thing. Every sentence. You will hear every place the rhythm breaks, every word that doesn't belong, every line of dialogue that no human being would actually say. Your eye skips over problems because it already knows what you meant to write. Your ear doesn't lie. It catches everything. It is embarrassing how much a single read-aloud will fix. Do it alone. Do it in a weird voice if it helps. just do it.

you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

Come to Campaign 4, we have SO MANY GOOD DOGS

if Pol had lived Gen would have been constantly trying (or joking that he was trying) to poach him from Sophos. Teleus’ job would be in such peril.

How to vent about the same problem multiple times without people wanting to beat you to death with hammers