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A Not-Quite-Comic about Re-Medicating Myself

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Thank you for the tag @laplumedemaureen!

"Will I see you again?" You ask. "Please don't tell me you're going to disappear and make me think I hallucinated all of this."

Open tag, besties!

Out of Context Line Tag

Thanks @romances-not-tragedies for the tag ! From current wip :

Her heart beat at devilish speed as she looked around and noticed all her friends leaving as well. It was time.

Tagging : @defeatistwriter @poethill @theliteraryluggage @writingamongther0ses @talesofsorrowandofruin

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life is so much better when you have a work of fiction to obsess over

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Do you remember the moment when you decided writing was something you wanted to do?

I was probably 15. I don't remember what exactly gave me the push to start writing, but I was in my horse-girl phase. If I wasn't writing about horses and stable drama, I was writing about vampires and fallen angels. My parents didn't allow secular books or movies in the house, so I would stay up past midnight secretly gorgimg myself with stories from Fictionpress and Wattpad via a tiny Nokia phone (with buttons!) and inspired myself that way.

My first story was titled Forever Blood and grew to almost 100k words. Unfortunately I had to delete it, otherwise it would be so funny to read and see how different my writing used to be.

I lived for writing back then. In those early days I knew nothing about plots and character arcs and wrote simply because I thought it was fun. I would brew a cup of black coffee in the morning while the weather was still crisp and sit cross-legged at the dining table and type away, unburdened with the knowledge of anything like writer's block and plot holes.

Those were the days. 😫

Writers, feel free to reblog with your own memories if you want!

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Here's to the people who can't get the words on the page. The people who are too tired after all life throws at them to write. The people who are blocked. The people who are burnt out. The people who can't write because of physical or mental illnesses. The people who don't know why they can't write. And the people struggling with all those other things that get in the way of writing and make it seem or be impossible.

You're still a writer, you're still an artist. And you matter. This world is better since you're in it. Thank you for wanting to write, even if you can't right now. I hope you and your words find each other soon.

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My favorite type of story is the kind that leaves me deeply unsettled by the end and convinces me I might be losing my mind right along with its characters. A story that makes me go along with the craziest reasoning and has me coming back to reality with a crash.

Books like this imo were This Symbiotic Fascination by Charlee Jacob, The Melting by Lize Spit, Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and Below by Laurel Hightower.

If you have any recs like this be it book/movie/show, please let me know! I live for this stuff. 100% emotional damage.

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I don't want to market.

I don't want to yell at people to buy my stories.

I just wanna write T^T

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overstimulated. annoyed. angry. murderous.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Writing is so much fun! You can be like "I should process this" and just go nuh-huh, see, I'm going to make up a guy and have them process it for me. Not me! It's the guy I made!

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I took this author test -> Here

Tagging mutuals if you want to do this/haven't already!

@dyrewrites @bookish-karina @authoradampowell @cssnder @sshawthorne @atlex0616 @floweryprosegarden @laplumedemaureen @rickie-the-storyteller @ivaspinoza

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the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either

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Someone once said, if writing is so hard, then why don’t you get AI to do it for you? Because I like writing. Yes, it’s hard, but I like putting the work in because it’s something I’m passionate about. The process of creation brings me joy and fulfilment. What next? Are you going to ask me if I want AI to eat my dinner and do my hobbies for me?

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“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”

— Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)

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Signs You Should Write The Story

1. You can't stop thinking about it

2. It would be exciting and fun to write

3. It's meaningful to you

WRITE THE STORY