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

A little writing is better than no writing!!! I can’t stress this enough!! ANY WRITING IS BETTER THAN NO WRITING!!!!! 

you’re all writers, whether you write 5,000 words in a day or 50.

So true

@thebibliosphere

I'm doing my best!

I love it when people take fic writing seriously. I love when it's not 'Here's this dumb thing I wrote' and instead it's 'Here's this thing I put blood, sweat and tears into. Here's this thing I slaved away at, trying new writing techniques and editing over and over. Here's this dialogue that kept me awake at night. Here's this beautiful turn of phrase I thought up. Here's this thing that I wrote with vulnerability and heart, and I am proud to share it with you.'

I think I never really understood the idea of ink stained fingers until I started using a fountain pen.

Anyway filling my ink converter went great.

I'm left-handed so I've always known this curse.

You Won’t BELIEVE How Many Em-Dashes Local Writer Can Squeeze Into One 5K Word Fic

I–I came out here to have a good time and–

Look, at least em-dashes have some force behind them, okay– it’s not like I’m out here… trailing off into uncertainty… like some sort of ellipses addicted monster.

*trips and spills approximately 62,948 commas out of my pockets*

writing tip:

if you push buttons on a keyboard, letters will appear on the screen. and with that power you can do anything

the "oh. oh." moment in fan fic but instead of a character realizing they're in love it's them discovering they have a specific kink at the worst possible moment

I love it when my creativity spurs other creativity. literally no better feeling as an artist than when someone looks at something you’ve made and goes “I saw this and liked it so much I could do nothing more with myself than turn it into drive for my own creativity” like that’s really what creativity is huh!! an instrument to further human expression and community and connection 

what if instead of doing any of my homework or sleeping at a reasonable hour, I wrote out ideas for trigun fanfics that are way too long for me to actually write? surprise! I'm doing that!!!! like, this is too much to handle; this is biting off more than I can chew; this is a terrible idea

but

but I really really really wanna write an incredibly self-indulgent legknives fic that's just a trashy romance novel but also trigun yaoi because I'm worth it

like that sounds so fun but I wrote down what a bunch of the rest of the characters are doing and now it really could be the length of a trashy romance novel XD

I want this fic so bad Killian, ever since we first mentioned it I have wanted it like burning. I have yearned for it as a romance novel protagonist would yearn for their dark yet captivating love interest. I would almost try to write it myself, but you have read WAY more period piece trashy romance novels and so like. You are much better equipped to mimic the tone and know the tropes and plot beats better than I would a;lsdkfja;lsfkj

WELL YOU'RE GETTING YOUR WAY: it's no longer 3 am and I'm still working on it ;D

also featuring: my roommate working on her novel outline for something that an actual literary agent is gonna look over, as opposed to my fanfiction problem XD