#maybe not all the time but something something the only thing worse than writing is not writing

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

Listen: write how you fucking want to write. I'm 100% done with all the, "A GOOD writer never---"

Man, fuck off with that bullshit. A good writer does what? Slaves away at a novel that will never get published because it's not a marketable idea? Or gets published and makes like $6k for their labor, unless they can continue to churn out mainstream-marketable paperbacks at a breakneck pace? Or hope they get picked up for a Netflix series where they sign away their characters and worlds to a team of better-paid staff writers?

I watched Thomas Harris blow so many "hard and fast" writing rules out of the water, and it caught my breath every time.

Write how you want, write what you want, just write.

bumblepony

I think this is one of the most helpful posts on writing I have ever read. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

#a good writer is one who loves writing #maybe not all the time but something something the only thing worse than writing is not writing #all my best writing has been done when the only person im worried about is me #so jot that one down #writing things #to the queue and to saturn