Editing Your Own Work Is Like Fighting A Hydra. Fix One Thing And Three More Issues Appear.

preach #writing

3 steps to character creation:

Give them a proficiency

Add a contrasting flaw

Beat the f*ck out of them

#Queer Agony

also what’s with the narrative that when there’s a disabled body it has to be fixed? Implying that it is not right the way it is.

Not every disabled life is a physically painful experience.

Disability is natural, disability happens. The difficulty of being disabled by an outside world that barely adjusts to your needs is the problem, not the disabled body.

A lot of suffering disabled people go through is made up of people not caring/looking out and the societal idea that a disabled body is a broken body that has to be pitied.

I will die on this hill.

every writer has That One Scene that lives in their head rent-free but they can’t write it yet because “the vibes aren’t ripe”

top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard

My average writing experience:

"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"

*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*

one week knowing the character VS 7 months being possessed by The Character thoughts (# 1 character fan)

One of my favorite tropes is „mean/popular girls who turn out to be lesbians“ The drama. The aesthetic.

100 plus points if they are stereotypically (pink) feminine and when they are together they complain about boys until they finally realise they aren’t into boys and that the person that knows and understands them best has been right in front of them the entire fucking time. Please y’all i need MORE of this trope it’s so underrepresented

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work