#much needed words of encouragement

stjohnstarling:

Some days you’ve just done too much and the writing won’t come and it’s hard but you have to forgive yourself. You haven’t lost it, the spark is still there, you need rest too.

sister-dear:

shadowen:

captaingondolin:

reidsacademia:

sometimes i need to remind myself that i’m writing fanfiction for free and i’m allowed to have a shitty sentence or two

so many of my fics have remained buried in my drafts because i wrote the cool scenes first and then didn’t have “connective tissue”. but i’m freeing myself from that and just adding shitty “and then a week passed” or “they got to their destination” connections and just posting them and it’s so! freeing! try it!

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve agonized over a scene transition, only to fill in the missing space with, like, a sentence.

Write the parts you wanna write and then go in and slap scotch tape over the rest of it.