People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter
i dont think you guys appreciate how rad this site is
because first of all you got your basic fantasy and game race names for like
everything
BUT AS IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH
REAL NAMES WHICH ARE GOOD FOR BOOKS
AND THIS THERE’S MORE????
BAM, PLACE NAMES
AND STILL MORE
SO YOU SEE THESE LITTLE OPTIONS HERE
PLEASE, PLEASE
GO AND TRY TO HELP A GOOD PERSON OUT
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.
Things fanfiction authors do
*posts chapter*
*checks page to make sure chapter hasn’t transformed into 100% typos*
*refreshes to check for reviews*
*refreshes again*
*resolves to go to bed and not check until morning*
*goes to bed, turns on phone, checks for reviews*
Clearly, someone’s been spying on me.
This. THIS.
It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert Hass (via sweet-tsuntarou)
Of course if you have just posted an update to your fic on AO3 and are waiting for feedback, the “just written” good times are void as well.
Woooow, I just checked my stats for the first time in a bit…and Starry Night is over 12k hits. I just, thank you, all of you. I had no idea that fic would take off like it did, but I’m glad for all of you that have read it and commented and kudos.
I know things have been quiet a bit on the writing front (except of course the things with the fabulous themadkatter13 which are also great). I’ve got to fill a couple prompts, probably tonight, and well, I just wanted to say thank you..
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories – science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Ray Bradbury, Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul (via ratmessiah)
