Me: i kinda feel like writing
Stories that need to be worked on: hey
Me: no not you
Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.
Jessica Soffer (via writingquotes)
A FAN-FIC WRITER’S LIFE
*Writes a line*
*Procrastinates for an hour*
*Deletes line*
*Watches youtube for an hour*
*Eats everything in fridge*
*Writes a line*
*Thinks deeply about life*
*Feels like tossing the laptop into the ocean*
*Browses Tumblr for an hour*
*Whoa, inspiration strikes*
*Writes 3000+ Words in an hour*
Also applies to original stories.
See, the only part of that process I have difficulty with is the last step.
Blue Mountain Arts Seeks Prose/Poetry for Valentine’s Day Greeting Cards – Pays $300
Blue Mountain Arts is inviting writers to submit prose and poetry for the company’s Valentine’s Day line of greeting cards. Written from personal experience, the prose or poetry piece must be topical, based on real-life, and express genuine feelings.
Payment: $300/poem for exclusive rights; and $50/poem for one-time use in a book.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
me: oh boy i finally have an idea i want to write about i’m going to do that RIGHT now
me: *loses the ability to write halfway through as well as any confidence or skill i thought i had as i begin keyboard smashing in the hopes that the masterpiece in my head makes it through the jumble of unintelligible words and slowly disappearing will to keep going*
me: well that was… fun
Writers
Laying in bed: *constructs perfect plot*
Standing in shower: *constructs perfect characters*
While driving: *constructs perfect setting*
Staring at blank page: “wut r werds.”