#mtalks

decided to fuck around and try and write a romance novel with magical elements because i’m bored and why not

i’m gonna try and do like an unofficial camp nano. i’m not gonna set a word count goal i’m more gonna see how many words across all my projects both original and fan works i write by the end of the month if anyone wants to join me

total as of 4/5/22: 1,259

karolinarodrigueswrites:

bloodandmonsters:

if anyone has any advice on how to train my brain into creating for the sake of creation and not for what kind of money i can make off of it please send it my way

reblogs encouraged

Basic question: do you get joy out of creating when you receive money for it, or in moments across the process?

And: when was the last time you created something for the sole reason of having fun making it and looking at the finished product?

A lot in capitalism implies a creation is only as worthwhile as the money it can make, but the thing is, one cannot truly accurately predict what makes or breaks a creation as a “sellable” product

As example, I have never watched Rick and Morty, but I watched a video on it where the youtuber went on a lot of tangents about the need to be bad at creating to get good at it, and then I learned that apparently the series started out from a joke where the teenager form Back to the Future has to lick the balls of the scientist for problems to be solved

Does that sound marketable and profitable for you? But when you look at the amount of people obsessed with the show, does your judgment hold any relevance to how it did make money?

Have you ever heard of the giant incest baby episodes in Rick and Morty?

Profitable art does not equal good or sensible art, and even with a lot more going on in the show that has a kind of complex narratives to it, things like where it started and the incest baby don’t become any more palatable in concept because of so

To try to create keeping solely profit in mind is an exercise in futile efforts prone to making you dead inside because your ideas don’t matter, what you want doesn’t matter - everything you think of needs to be broken and reshaped into sellable, marketable, and that sooner means writing another fifty shades of grey for all the reasons it was terrible, than actually going through with things you personally value and enjoy

And then, even then, there’s no guarantee you’ll gain profit, and coming to such an end after everything you did to be marketable and sellable, was it worth it obsessing so much with making money to the point what once was an action of creation you loved has now become a souless and dreadful task of trying to fit in capitalist priorities?

Specially because it doesn’t matter what you do when creating, even if there is an audience out there precisely for what you’re making, that doesn’t mean they’ll want to have anything to do with what you made

Profit is an ungrateful lottery of an achievement when it comes to art, and obsessing with it as the priority of your creations is a whole other level of self sabotage where winning can be as miserable as failing

You have no control over people and industry in order to guarantee that your marketable creation will sell, how the hell are you going to rely on that as a seeming objective evaluation of what is worth making or not?

What will you even get to create when that’s the standard?

this is all excellent advice and i thank you for taking the time to give it. i think, though, that u may have not been clear enough in my original post.

i love creating. i draw bad pictures and badly sing silly songs i helped my niece and nephew make up. i cook and bake, usually with good results.

i love writing fanfiction. in the past six-ish months, i’ve written almost 70k words of it. when i’m writing fanfiction the words just flow out of me and i feel really good about this thing that i am creating

when i try to write my original stories, i hit a wall. i am not being paid for them in the slightest, but my brain just kind of goes: “well we could get paid for this so it has to be perfect“ so it’s less the actual act of being paid and more of the “this thing needs to be perfect because maybe it will bring money” vs my fanfiction or bad drawings or silly songs that are just for me

if anyone has any advice on how to train my brain into creating for the sake of creation and not for what kind of money i can make off of it please send it my way

reblogs encouraged

i’m just. i’m so fucking sorry. i keep making these posts and saying i’ll stick around and i don’t and i just. fuck

its hard. being around on this blog watching everyone write their amazing stories and i’m just. not doing anything

i mean i am. i’m writing fanfiction and doing things that make me happy but. god.

i wish i could create my stories the way i create fanfiction. i wish i could write them for me and then yeet them into the void and hope that someone somewhere likes it.

but i can’t do that. because my brain connects my original stories - stories that i so desperately want to tell - as something that i need to make perfect so they can be made into books so i can make money.

my brain won’t let me create - not just write, like with fanfic - unless it knows i can commodify it

and fuck i hate it so much

this thing is fucking magic. i’ve written more on it in ~3 hours total between yesterday and today than i have in the last three weeks on my laptop. the words just flowing out of me and i never want to write on anything else ever

zonnemaagd:

So, turns out that if you leave for a month(s) your dash dies out real fast. In short, I’m looking for some more writeblr friends!

My interests are:

• Fantasy and Sci-Fi where the focus is on emotion and not worldbuilding
• Absurdistic or surreal litfic
• Broken people doing their damn best™
• Queer rep!

If you also like any of these please give this a like/reblog so that I can check out your blog !

x katrielle

hi there! i write extremely emotional fantasy (it has darker elements and usually a lot of blood) and literally all of my characters are broken trying their because i’m broken trying my best and write what you know

christinawritesfiction:

bloodywriter:

christinawritesfiction:

Pitch me your WIP, NaNo project, or published work in the least coherent, most meme-filled way possible

local girl refuses to get married. being the stupid idiot she is, she follows a random girl into the woods. now she’s cursed and has to kill the pretty blond boy she’d rather kiss.

she should’ve just fucking stayed home

first of all this is my brand so absolutely would read

second of all, i feel like our fantasy worlds need to be better at putting out PSAs. thinking of going into the spooky woods? THINK AGAIN

so you want to kiss the person you know wants to kill you! here’s a list of why you’re a fucking idiot

writeblrfantasy:

one important writing lesson i have taught myself in recent years is that no book, no matter how seemingly daunting, is impossible. nothing is too high for me to reach for. i am capable of writing and finishing anything. whether i want to finish that thing after a certain amount of time is a different thing, but i can.i have bucketlist books i would like to write, ones i am going to write in my lifetime. i can and i will. say it with me.

#this is actually a great time to pose the question#what are your bucketlist books#things you would love to write in your lifetime

my current wip “beauty is a beast” is the book of my heart which is why i think i’m having such a hard time writing it

my other wip that i currently have shelved “lady in red” has a lot of myself (especially with regards to my disabilities) in it that it scares me to write but maybe one day i’ll be able to write it and examine those parts of myself

i really want to write a contemporary romance with an asexual main character but i’ve written fantasy for so long that i don’t know how to write in this world

i want so badly to write a book about a pirate falling in love with a siren like just thinking about it right now is making me excited. but that requires a lot of research about pirates and siren myths

the most daunting project i have shelved is what i’ve been calling “f/f meg and hades” disney’s hercules is my favorite movie and i’ve always been intrigued by meg’s story — selling her soul to hades to save the life of a man who didn’t really love her — and, being who i am as a person, i thought “okay but what if meg fell in love with hades” and i think about it a lot but i am terrified to write it

also i think about this post a lot

bloodandmonsters:

i spent all day writing a 4k word fanfic and now my vision is all blurry

and there’s a fucking typo in it i genuinely hate it here

i spent all day writing a 4k word fanfic and now my vision is all blurry

me, at all times: man i just really love the darkling

“for who could ever learn to love a beast?”

evermore from the live action beauty and the beast is unmatched and the perfect song i will take no criticism

if i don’t fucking get alex telling rafael luna “it would be a lie because it wouldn’t be him” then what even is the point

red white and royal blue is going to be a movie. like they’re actually filming it. i’m gonna be able to watch it. i feel dizzy help

anyone here doing camp nano next month? i’m not sure if i’m gonna yet