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of all the things i regret

the thing i regret the most

is that i have regrets

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“you can’t forget your mother tongue” okay but have you considered bilinguals and polyglots whose first language isn’t english and whose development during adolescence was shaped by consuming content and media only in english and have ever since viewed that second language, foreign to their own, as a better outlet for their emotions and thoughts? as Yiyun Li said “it is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet impossible in my native language.”

amiraculousplatypus

This post just strolled into my living room, dragged me off the couch and broke all my toes.

writingbydaph

Just putting this out there because my mother’s tongue isn’t English but I have been writing in English since I was about 14 and realized that writing in my native language just wasn’t working.

charliebowater

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

A little doodle for one the most beautiful lines from any poem, The Old Astronomer.

primalheart

This is not a little doodle. This. THIS. This is fucking MAGIC. You have captured pure wonder and whimsy and romance and bliss and that almost melancholy wholeness when you look up at the sky and just feel the smallness of your being and the grandness of the universe. All this captured with a lover’s eye. We cannot see her face but I feel the tender passionate ardour for this petite but mighty creature in the world. While at the same time I feel the bittersweet swoon of wanting to be gazed upon myself with such whole and overwhemling admiration and love. It is goddamn masterful.

I am fucking following your tumblr charliebowater you are amazing.

charliebowater

THAT’S THE NICEST COMMENT I’VE EVER READ.

aritany

Heads Up, Seven Up

i’ve been tagged by: @zmlorenz @ardawyn @ev–writes @inkchantress @rainbowcoloreddays @rewrit and @stardustspiral! thank you all! :)

here are the last seven lines i wrote from The Gloaming Girls.

Emory is still thinking. I can see it in the taut pull of her jaw, the furrow in her brows as she stares down at the tear in the napkin, brooding.

“Okay.” I stick my spoon in my ice cream and lean back in my chair. “You need to chill out. Let me be a rubber duck.”

Emory looks up, like I’ve started speaking in a different language. “Huh?”

“I read about it in my history textbook. Technical thinkers used to put rubber ducks by their desks to talk their problems through before taking it to another person.”

“What’s a rubber duck?”

I squint at her. “You know, little, yellow, some of them squeak when you squeeze them?”

Emory blinks. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

i’m tagging: @viawrites-andacts @leah-yasmin-writes @anxiousacebooks @paxtonwrites and whoever else sees this and wants to post their own last 7 lines!

#i like this a lot?#it looks so good

I AM going to write today

#It's been so long since I've had the time #but i want to so muchhh #wish me luck :)

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aritany

hey. keep writing

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“It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via simplybookdrunk)

aritany

sometimes writing a novel feels like trying to hold an entire pot’s worth of warm oatmeal in your hands without letting any of it hit the ground no i will not explain

write-it-motherfuckers

Person A: “Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck!”

Person B: “Very eloquent addition, thank you.”

wardoftheedgeloaves

POWEROUS

headspace-hotel

I don’t know what this is correcting but it sure fucking isn’t “clarity”

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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Turn Off The Music.

I’m scared to turn off the music because that would leave me with nothing but my thoughts screaming at me and not button to turn down the volume. I’m scared to pick up pen and paper because that would mean confronting not only the screams but also the whispers. So I keep putting loose sentences into my notes app, loosing them between shopping lists and recipes, unable to stick with one long enough to actually change anything. This I foolishly thought to be the only reason for creating. And when I actually do pick up a pen and paper in a rare moment of complete and utter silence the only thing manifesting in ink is another problem, a fear I thought I’d overcome, a desire for more than whatever it is i don’t have and the whispers and screams start to intertwine and keep spinning around tied together by yellow lines with absolutely no end in sight except for forcing them to remain still for the next three minutes and twenty, until I’m ready to face them again.

writingbydaph

I just like this a lot

wordsnstuff

How can I make a kissing scene/emotional scene feel intimate and personal? I really struggle with that. I want it to be just between two people, their moment.

Creating Intimacy in A Scene...

I’ve created a lot of focused resources on creating intimacy in a scene, enhancing romantic tension, etc. so I’ve made an organized, comprehensive list from my masterlist which will help you create that moment you’re looking for.

Romance-Specific Resources

How To Write The Perfect Kiss

How To Make A Scene More Heartfelt

Resources For Romance Writers

Resources For Writing YA Fiction/Romance

Filtering Out Cliches

Emotion & Intimacy

Resources For Describing Emotion

Connecting To Your Own Characters

Conveying Emotions

When To Use “Felt”

Calculating Emotional Reactions

Writing Intense Scenes

Technical Skills That Come in Handy

How To Perfect The Tone

A Guide To Tension & Suspense

Ultimate Guide To Symbolism

General Dialogue Advice

Using Vocabulary

How To Engage The Reader

Showing VS Telling in First Person POV

Specific Relationship Dynamics to Consider

Tips On Writing Skinny Love

Guide To Writing Friends To Lovers

Guide To Writing Enemies To Lovers

Guide To Writing Faded Love

Guide To Writing Will-They-Won’t-They

Guide To Writing Forbidden Love

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What do you think all writers have in common?

an overwhelming and insatiable longing for something more than this

thoughts-ofawriter

listen the only person stopping you from writing 4 pages of description is yourself

writingbydaph

I feel kind of called out

#oops

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aritany

being a writer is just like *idea* *imposter syndrome* *fear of people reading your work* *fear of people Not reading your work* *a single aesthetic* *idea*

beautifulpeachdragoncolor

Fear of people reading your work and fear of people not reading your work at the same time is both hilarious and anxiety inducing lmao

Happy Meet and Greet Monday! How would your characters answer the question "So what do you like to do for fun? Any interesting hobbies, or...?"

Hello, thanks for sending in the ask, and sorry it took me such a long time to answer! I actually just saw it.

Layla: She writes. Not stories, usually, but poems and slam poems. Sometimes songs, too. She also likes to read and listens to a lot of music, and can talk for hours about different poems (specifically ones over a 100 years old) and their meanings :)) Likes psychology.

Alec: He draws, paints, takes photos. He also will debate you on almost anything and loves the Romantic era in art (loves art history) and literary classics. Would talk philosophy with you if you wanted to. Also speaks four languages fluently and wants to learn more.

Ray: He plays the guitar (classic, also a bit to base and the ukulele), the piano and the violin, all of which he taught himself. He also sings beautifully, but couldn’t for the life of him actually write a song. He listens to almost every genre, and it’s really rare for him not to have some song playing in his head. He loves space.

Aria: She’s a runner. Like, a track runner, and she loves it. She loves freedom and she loves to be in nature (more than anything, she loves the woods), which is why she’ll find any opportunity she can to leave NYC for a bit and go on a trip to somewhere that has trees or a mountain. Nothing makes her happier than running somewhere with no other people, and with nature around her.

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