spaceheadcadet

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Refuge.

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Going thirty-two, now wearing a pair of prescription glasses, still I can't recognize the reflection I see when I do window-shopping.

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I write for all the pain I couldn't bear. Where else could I bleed if I stop.

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The ideas in my head are cool. But when it's time to write those said ideas and construct actual sentences for it to manifest. Poof. All gone. I stare at the screen like it owes me money while the cursor blinks, mocking me for it being stuck at the same position for hours.

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An outstretched hand

Look closer you'll see

A reddish orange tint wedge underneath the nails

Blood rust color or rusted from blood

Look longer and you'll see

A hand resembles a metal trap

Of a friendly shake or a hand that betrays

Look even closer you'll see

Now you know why I don't do handshake

It's a bear trap in disguise

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Everything is unbearably dull.

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All these story ideas and I find myself unworthy to write any

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Damn tumblr won’t let me format this better 😞 Wanted to flesh out an interaction between these two so have a sketchy lil comic 💁🏻

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I hit that ouroboros number.

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i feel like throwing up

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Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

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how it feels to enjoy storytelling but can't physically put the words down

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Your First Draft Sucks. If you are constantly trying to plan everything ahead of time for your story, writing will feel like a chore, and you are more than likely to not finish it. But if you take the advice of just start writing without any concrete plans, then you are more likely to finish it. But it is going to suck. It's going to suck a lot. But it's there, you have it written out. That is when you edit it, fix the grammar, remove some things. Turn it into your second draft.

Well, your second draft is also going to suck. But it will suck less. Writing is about editing and editing. What you spend most of your time on, is editing your drafts. And what I think most writers, and perfectionists like me, need to know is that no matter how many times you edit a draft, it will never be perfect. Not saying it will be bad; no, it will be good, but as writers we tend to keep trying to reach that 100% to make it the best thing on the planet. And we lose sight of our original love for the story. Get your drafts to a point that you are happy with.

So, write your bad first draft, turn it into your decent second draft. And before you edit it too much, find peace in that 99.99%.

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"why does writing take so long" because 60% of it is coming up with a sentence, realizing that sentence doesn't work the way you want it to, and staring at a wall