#just write!

Another writing prompt!

Prompt 5:

The muse doesn’t always strike, sometimes she’s absent for an obnoxiously long time! But you still have to stick to a schedule and sit down and write anyway. Often times it’s not as crappy as you think, and when you sit down to edit later you’ll realize it doesn’t take as much work to tweak it as you were scared of. It’s actually just fine for a first draft. A first draft is just white gesso on a canvas before you cover it in brilliant painted colors. Sure, slapping on some gesso and waiting for your canvas to dry is not the most entertaining or enjoyable part of the artistic process, but gesso doesn’t really have to be of any particular quality to work for oil or acrylic painting in my experience, you just make your paint extra thick with lots of nice texture and it doesn’t matter what the gesso looks like underneath.

So first draft is gesso, editing is painting (why I love being a beta, I love editing! When you’re a beta you don’t have to worry about vomiting up a first draft lol). So go on, sit down, and get to writing!

What do you mean by “get traction”? Be met with approval from others or be difficult to write for you? I’ll just assume it’s the former and offer you a piece of advice that’s potentially completely unhelpful to you but worked for me my entire life: write for yourself.

Of course I don’t know what writing means to you and what your goal is. I personally write mostly so I can later read what I’ve written and enjoy it - only recently have I started writing for people, less than half a year ago. And even then I try and write something I’d want to read myself. So if you want to write about Finka without any ships, do! If people like it: even better. If they don’t: well, you still do, right? So you’re good.

Trope Writing Challenge

Prompt 3

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Prompt 3:

Trope Writing Challenge

Day 4

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Prompt 4:

It's not you, it's my enemies!