#Writing feels

[walkingstackofbooks]

Bah, the perennial problem of whether or not to refer to our major as 'Kira' or 'Nerys' when writing from Julian's pov in an informal, cosy setting. Because in the dialogue he's definitely calling her 'Nerys' from mid season 3 onwards, but saying Nerys too many times in the narrative sounds odd, but switching between the two sounds even odder, and I just cannot choose a consistent one!

[raytm]

[moonlavasama]

On The Edge

it's not the sex that i want,i want to feel us slowly get vulnerable as our souls touch

it's not the cuddling that i want, it's the feeling of your warm skin and hearing your heart slow down because your safe with me

it's not the communication that i want, i want to know and feel that you'll try and fight for us

it's not the eye contact that i want, i want to see your eyes slowly soften with love

it's not your body that i want, i want to be able to touch you and know im safe in your arms

it's not the action that i want, i want the meaning behind it.

It’s just you and me against everything

-Moonlavasama

[aveimperator40k]

NGL. After a day of being stymied by a WIP, this was a really nice comment to get.💯💯😭😭❤❤💣🦈

[theitcharchives]

There’s something about remembering that the song I’m listening to as I work on my writing is the same one I used to listen to on the bus as a highschooler that sparks that good nostalgia and protectiveness. I look at all my schematics and thousands of words written and all the experiences I dragged my feet through towards adulthood and self identity, and I strongly will those notes to carry my love back to that insecure lost teenager who hated waking up in the mornings and going to sleep at nights and didn’t know what would ever happen in life. You’ll get through it. You’ll still like these songs. You’ll never believe how much can change while your core remains the same, like those songs that can suddenly yank me back through years. Also realising those core traits hold strong while you become an adult is so satisfying. You look at the kind of person you’ve always been and you forgive yourself for every time you despised them because that person is kind of cool. Look at all those thousands of words written, you’re in all of them whether they made the cut or not and they’re actually quite cool. And that song is on loop just like you used to like it.

[sapphirothcrescent]

Whenever I write Sapphire and Sephiroth being cute this is me irl

[snugglesquiggle]

they should invent a 16k word chapter that has natural stopping points

[zahri-melitor]

Step one: put the words on the page

Step two: leave the words on the page, just make note of what you want to edit later

Step three: once all the words are on the page, read it over and curse at the problems

Step four: start rewriting the parts you previously noted needed fixes. Discover a dozen other issues

Step five: find better words. Put them on the page too

Step six: try to keep the writing flowing by working on a different project while you edit

Step seven: you can let go of words now

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[walkingstackofbooks]

Alright apparently I have SUCH a softness for that one moment where "Jules" slips out of Miles' mouth. I've never been overly fond of it until recently but just now writing my thing I really had to restrain myself because it's so much more fun if it's similarly infrequent and just slips out but at the same time it's just so soft and I just want to hear Miles saying it over and over 😭

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[nixariel]

There are always different interpretations. Other interpretations (or even deliberate misinterpretations) can be just as rewarding. So don't say romance is the only way to see a relationship, just own that you find that interpretation more interesting. Don't put your opinion down to something in the text that you can't control, stand up for it. via hellfridge

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[abreathlessplace]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."