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“People are people and sometimes we change our minds.”

— Taylor Swift / Breathe (via bnmxfld)

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"We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons." pg. 28

Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

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I used to laugh at girls in movies

Who would eat lunch in a paper bag

Hidden in the bathroom

Now I'm only laughing at myself.

(Does crying count as laughing?)

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I feel like complete shit™️

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Anyone else eat lunch in the bathroom like a cliché loser or is it just me?

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i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

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I learn to give up

All I’m left with is disappointment…

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A body might not always be beautiful, but a body can be a beautiful deception. I’m stronger than I look.

Sadie by Courtney Summers

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How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you? Sometimes I don't know what I miss more: everything I've lost or everything I never had.

~ Sadie by Courtney Summers, page 259

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This is just what I needed today.

8 Ways to Get Past Writers Block

Read. Read a lot. Read everything you can, but don’t read like a reader, read like a writer. If you’re doing it right, there’s nothing that gets the juices flowing quite as well. This is the way you develop your style; you see things you like and things you don’t like in books and you put these values into your writing.

Read a good book. Reading a good book is why you got into writing in the first place, right? There’s something new you can learn from every book. You can see what works well and what you ARE doing. It’s inspiring to read good writing and it makes you want to try harder where you might be lacking.

Read a bad book. Not only will reading a bad published book make the world feel more hopeful, but it will make you see what you can avoid doing in your novel and what you KNOW you can do better than them.

Find other writers. Connecting with other writers is so important, whether online or in person. Not only is it nice to able to share your writing, but knowing you have a group or person to depend on with your same goals in mind is motivating. Even just talking through ideas with someone tends to yield more powerful results, and they have their own tips and trick they’ve learned that may help you.

Break it up. Chapters are there for both readers and writers. If you can get through one chapter, you can get through them all. Even make a different word document for each chapter if you need to. It will stop you more from going back and getting caught up in your plot holes that occurred fifty pages earlier.

Read the last page you wrote. The darkest of my writers block days have been stopped with this technique. Tell yourself you’ll just read the last page, maybe edit some phrasing. Then write the next page. Stopping off in the middle of a sentence helps as well. All this settles you into your story gently and gets you involved and editing a more polished draft at the end.

Keep notes. Texts messages can be sent to your email. Finding a pen and paper is hard sometimes, so you can just text ideas to your email. Not only is this handy to get fresh ideas down, but every time you check your email you’ll see these awesome ideas. Or keep a notebook if that works for you. Or write in the margins of your school work. Just get the ideas out.

Immerse yourself. The reason you started your story is because you have such a huge passion for it. What you need to do is remind yourself of these reasons as much as possible. Surround yourself with writing and creativity. Think about how your characters would respond to situations you find yourself in. Describe people you see in the streets as you would if you were introducing them to a novel. Look for people that look like your characters. Tell your friends about your book, give them your ideas. If your life isn’t a little bit about your story, you’re not doing it right.

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Misfortune of Me

No matter what I do,

I'm still not pretty.

No matter what I say,

I'm never heard.

No matter who my friends are,

I always end up alone.

No matter what they say,

they'll leave me.

No matter what I think,

I still love her.

No matter what I do,

I don't have a chance.

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I'm Confused

I'm confused

One minute

I'm the most desired and unattainable

person in the world

Then the next

I'm unwanted and forgotten,

like I never existed

I'm confused

Should I be grateful that you even liked me in the first place?

Or should I just assume

you were like everyone else?

Bored and desperate for love

I wonder what we could've been,

the journeys we could've taken,

and the happiness

you might've caused me

But I guess neither of us will ever know,

because you didn't want to take a chance

Maybe we weren't meant to be,

maybe the timing wasn't right,

maybe there's someone better

Maybe I wasn't worth the risk

or maybe I wasn't a risk at all

So hurt I'll be

And confused I'll remain

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Writing Prompt #2

Character very clichély wakes up to their alarm buzzing and they're late.

Except they're late for a meeting with death.

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"If I could avert my eyes from all the kissing people ever, I'm positive that my life would be at least 2 percent more fulfilling." pg. 3

Dumplin by Julie Murphy

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"My young heart saw your

dark eyes and jagged edges

and thought

oh

what a fun adventure it would be

to be broken by you"

The Sweetest Kind of Poison by Katie Wismer

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"I tell him all the time--I just make sure it's never when he's listening. I say it when he's in the other room, or when he's asleep, or when the music's really loud. Sometimes he asks me what I just said. And I tell him never mind. Or I make up something else, something that isn't I love you." pg. 98

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina Lacour

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"I can't let him fall in love with someone else. I can't let it happen. Not like that. I am so mad at him and I am so in love with him, and it hurts to be realizing it like this. Would I fight for him? I have been fighting for him for years. And I'm losing. No matter what I do, I'm losing. But I have to fight anyway." pg. 98

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina Lacour