how do you start book

book starts you

o shit

using emdashes and a semi colon in the same line. this sentence will end when i do

poetry isn’t a fun hobby it’s a divine responsibility

I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.

My writing abilities when I have an entire free day: twelve words. Take it or leave it

My writing abilities when I have to be somewhere in fifteen minutes: I got six thousand more in the pocket

You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

write unpublishable things. it's good for you.

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

letting my stories spin around my head like a microwave

currently

my advice to anyone who’s thinking about writing as a hobby would be that if you’ve already started thinking about it there’s nothing i can say that will save you so let it rip dude

well if there’s one thing i have to say about oppenheimer it’s that it reminded me of my brief obsession with schrodinger & everett & many worlds theory & that i wanted to write a poem about it once a time. so i did that.

I hope the fic you are working on right now finds a reader who will think about it constantly for years

(saving a picture on pinterest for my wip) gods............ i love writing

A piece of writing advice I've always fucking hated is "only add things that further the plot." Because no. Add stuff for fun. Give your mom a cameo. Have these characters be in love because. And yes, have characters die because. There doesn't have to be a reason for everything. The universe doesn't give a reason for everything. Why should you? And if you never add stuff for fun, you're never going to have fun.