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Jake's first time on the playground doesn't go as well as Steve hoped.

A thump. The squeak of a shoe against plastic. A sickening crack followed by an ear-piercing scream. Before he was even aware of moving, Steve whirled around and vaulted up the steps in a single bound. “Jake!”

TW: bullying

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*writes a sentence or two after writing nothing for days*

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Saint Vulture on Bluesky

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there’s going to be a difference sometimes between the stories that you find masterfully crafted and the stories that mean a lot to you personally and those two things don’t have to overlap completely or even at all to make that story worthwhile

and that’s a good thing to remember as a reader/viewer/etc but also as a writer because even if whatever you ultimately write is full of mistakes, someone out there is gonna take it so to heart that it fundamentally changes them as a person. and that is. Huge.

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Pick one of my characters that sounds interesting, and whichever one has the most votes will get a full description!

Feel free to do the same ;) Characters can be from fanfiction or original, they don't necessarily have to be a character you made up--the point is to have fun describing them.

I took this in a sort of "explain a character badly" direction, which I'm not sure was the point, but it was fun XD Also, I have way too many characters, so I'll be making several of these, picking randomly across my main fics and original stories, until they've all been picked, because I can >:D

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Ooops, I kinda forgot about this for a long time ^^'

Advent - The sort of "rival/bully character" from my dragon rider story, The Ambassadors. He probably needs a bit more work to make him a fully rounded character, but as he stands currently, he has, um...anger issues? He's maybe not completely all there upstairs, shall we say. Mostly because of incredible trauma in his past and being intensely suspicious of basically everybody. He hates the protagonist, Shard, basically on first sight because he sees him as a threat, and that comes out in...potentially violent ways ._.

Pick one of my characters that sounds interesting, and whichever one has the most votes will get a full description!

Feel free to do the same ;) Characters can be from fanfiction or original, they don't necessarily have to be a character you made up--the point is to have fun describing them.

I took this in a sort of "explain a character badly" direction, which I'm not sure was the point, but it was fun XD Also, I have way too many characters, so I'll be making several of these, picking randomly across my main fics and original stories, until they've all been picked, because I can >:D

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What about the fourth option: "This plot has been in my head for 10 years and I still don't know what I'm doing with it."

there are two types of writers.

“this plot has been in my head for 10 years and finally it’s perfect.”

“what if frogs had a secret government?”

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pls write oc x canon character fiction I don't understand how that's cringe or why cringe is even a word we've affixed to fanfic in the first place

also sometimes the canon character needs a perfect partner written for them bc canon refuses to so yes write away

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The first step is the hardest

You don’t have to start your writing journey as a good writer. You improve with practice.

It’s okay to make mistakes and not know how to perfectly plot, describe, or build your world. Tell yourself the story, learn as you go, and the more you just do it, the better you’ll become.

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reblog with the hardest line you’ve ever written

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susan sontag’s writing on writing, from her journals

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If you had to brutally narrow it down to just one, who’s your favourite of your original characters?

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Let's see, your themes...

Siblings should be cherished, even if you wanna punch their lights out.

Therapy is a good thing.

Hugs, hugs, hugs.

These are all very true ^_^

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sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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Types Of Writer’s Block (And How To Fix Them)

1. High inspiration, low motivation. You have so many ideas to write, but you just don’t have the motivation to actually get them down, and even if you can make yourself start writing it you’ll often find yourself getting distracted or disengaged in favour of imagining everything playing out

Try just bullet pointing the ideas you have instead of writing them properly, especially if you won’t remember it afterwards if you don’t. At least you’ll have the ideas ready to use when you have the motivation later on

2. Low inspiration, high motivation. You’re all prepared, you’re so pumped to write, you open your document aaaaand… three hours later, that cursor is still blinking at the top of a blank page

RIP pantsers but this is where plotting wins out; refer back to your plans and figure out where to go from here. You can also use your bullet points from the last point if this is applicable

3. No inspiration, no motivation. You don’t have any ideas, you don’t feel like writing, all in all everything is just sucky when you think about it

Make a deal with yourself; usually when I’m feeling this way I can tell myself “Okay, just write anyway for ten minutes and after that, if you really want to stop, you can stop” and then once my ten minutes is up I’ve often found my flow. Just remember that, if you still don’t want to keep writing after your ten minutes is up, don’t keep writing anyway and break your deal - it’ll be harder to make deals with yourself in future if your brain knows you don’t honour them

4. Can’t bridge the gap. When you’re stuck on this one sentence/paragraph that you just don’t know how to progress through. Until you figure it out, productivity has slowed to a halt

Mark it up, bullet point what you want to happen here, then move on. A lot of people don’t know how to keep writing after skipping a part because they don’t know exactly what happened to lead up to this moment - but you have a general idea just like you do for everything else you’re writing, and that’s enough. Just keep it generic and know you can go back to edit later, at the same time as when you’re filling in the blank. It’ll give editing you a clear purpose, if nothing else

5. Perfectionism and self-doubt. You don’t think your writing is perfect first time, so you struggle to accept that it’s anything better than a total failure. Whether or not you’re aware of the fact that this is an unrealistic standard makes no difference

Perfection is stagnant. If you write the perfect story, which would require you to turn a good story into something objective rather than subjective, then after that you’d never write again, because nothing will ever meet that standard again. That or you would only ever write the same kind of stories over and over, never growing or developing as a writer. If you’re looking back on your writing and saying “This is so bad, I hate it”, that’s generally a good thing; it means you’ve grown and improved. Maybe your current writing isn’t bad, if just matched your skill level at the time, and since then you’re able to maintain a higher standard since you’ve learned more about your craft as time went on

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Nothing is as easy as it seems when it comes to the Winter Soldier.

“I should've known,” Steve mumbled. “Should've known it was too good to be true. It's like we're...destined to keep getting separated.” “Okay, drama queen,” Sam said with a roll of his eyes. “If you want to have a guilt trip about not being able to see the future, be my guest. But there's nothing wrong with hoping for the best, you know. Besides...you can just as easily say that you and Bucky are destined to keep finding each other.” “There's that silver lining you're always looking for,” Steve said with a half-hearted smile.

TW: prison life, anxiety/panic attack