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the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this

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that man anthony edward stark was really out there for years carrying a fully charged flip phone with a Single contact wherever he went huh. he really just had that in his pocket at all times. charged and ready. literally physically removed his bleeding heart metaphor from his chest and put it in steve’s hand for the drama of it. truly the most Intense and poetic soul

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Margartia Karapanou, Rien ne va plus (translated by Karen Emmerich) • Jackson Holbert, Moth after Chessy Normile • LL, Venus | Unsent letter • Kamilah Aisha Moon, 1st Vote • Chana Bloch, THE RULE OF GRAMMAR • Fleurie, Love and War • Warsan Shire • Margaret Schnabel, Untitled

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I don't even do outlines anymore, but this still happens. Planning means nothing; never has.

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lowkey guys, remember to write for yourself too. i abandoned my favorite wip of all time for two years because i thought other people wouldn’t like it. that sucked, and i decided to stop caring if other people will think it’s weird and write what i like. it’s made me a lot happier since i’ve accepted that

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a comic about fix-it fanfics

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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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everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"

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it makes me sooooo sad every day that tony stark died bc we never got to see him acting incredibly weird around peter who he'd probably been solidifying in his mind as this perfect angel kid and not the actual impulsive and furious 16 yr old who was picking a fight with him every other hour AND the only kid he'd even been interacting with for the past half decade was his own 5 yr old daughter. they played it for giggles, but can you imagine what was going thru peters mind when the guy who deferred all messages to his assistant unless peter was actively dying suddenly stopped EVERYTHING to give him a hug in the middle of an alien throwdown. like who even are you old man

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I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.

See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.

But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.

I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.

The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.

Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.

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"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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surprised this hadn't been made yet

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.