writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.
Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.
“haha yeah im a writer”
Listen,
“haha yeah im an artist”
Mood
Person: Your writing is so good!
Me:
You have been visited by the Thor of Positivity™! Take pride in your work and be confident in it! It may not be perfect but he knows you are working very hard and pouring your passion into it and therefore it is a Good Thing.
THE THOR OF POSITIVITY SHALL NOW AND FOREVER MORE BE THE BEST THING EVER
Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers
writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page
I came out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, alone against the world, feeling assaulted, attacked on all fronts, knowing not my enemy’s name nor his face nor whether our battle is done.
….is that “I came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now” but by Oscar Wilde
Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)
My ability to proofread increases by 1000% after I hit “Submit”.
this is often because when you’ve submitted something (like fanfiction to ao3) it will be in a different font, size and framing than in your word processor. The text will look different in the new environment so your brain stops skipping what looks familiar (like a typo that has been there since the beginning).
So, tip: revise your work in a different font and size. I guarantee you’ll catch more typos and mistakes than otherwise.
For all my writers (ones I follow and the ones that thankfully follow me)
I really wish as a published author that I could claim this was staged.
me, a writer, staring at one sentence for 10 minutes straight: i don’t know what’s wrong with you but i don’t like you
Active voice: I will write Passive voice: Writing will be done Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you always say you’ll write but never do
Adverbs aren’t evil; said isn’t dead Please stop hitting the wall with your head Active is grand but not always the best Sometimes it’s passive that passes the test Some write with style, others write plain Let’s all agree that writing’s a pain The ‘rules’ can be broken, twisted, or bent All that matters is that you are content Make your own story and write your own way This has been a writer’s PSA
The only writing rules I will accept.
Disclaimer: The characters used in this short story are not mine. They belong to @isriana. Whether or not this is an accurate interpretation is debatable.
I was reading this on the bus on my way back home from uni and the other passengers probably wondered what on earth was going on with my face, because it was so sweet and adorable and oh my and then just - noooo, Bron, you absolute anti-Sebastian, g o a w a y ! :’DD
Thank you so much for writing this! It was most entertaining.
Have I ever mentioned that this man is a genius? No?
Me: *gets story idea*
Me: This is so obvious and clever it practically writes itself!
*later*
Narrator: It did not write itself.
Me right now.
