Art & Stuff

Discovering my characters backstory by listening to music

I’ve shared this story before, but some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten was from a writing professor who said, “The thing that makes your work interesting isn’t the stuff you’re good at, it’s the stuff you struggle with. Because you’ll either focus on improving those skills until you’re really good or you’ll figure out how to work around it in really cool ways.”

I’m not saying people should do this but I do believe more people should write AUs of their stories if they’re already wanting to write more for the same characters. They’re fun, stress-free, offer accidental development of characters, and you don’t have to worry about finishing them at all and you also get to see your, like, contemporary story characters as pirates or something.

I love being a creative, you get an idea and become so utterly obsessed with it, that it haunts your every waking moment. The best and worst feeling ever at the same time