#thats the goal

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Full offense, but I’d very much like to be barefoot, pregnant, & in the kitchen rn.

astolat:

kaeltale:

cannibalcoalition:

maggie-stiefvater:

fracturedbitsofstarlight:

maggie-stiefvater:

Oh man, guys, I really like this book I’ve written.

I had to reread that because I have never seen a writer say that ever and as a writer I envy you.

WHAT

There are so many comments on this post to this effect.

Dude! writers, artists, do what you need to do to gain objectivity and feel satisfaction for what you’ve done!

Art as pain and pain as art and the Eternal Dissatisfaction of the Poignant Creator™ is so 19th century. 

Creating the art you wish you could see in the world but don’t, and then being fucking PSYCHED when you’ve done it™ is very 2018.

When you start loving the things you’ve made, it’s like a switch flips in your brain and suddenly you want to have that feeling all the time! And to feel that way, you make more things. And more things! So many things! 

Seriously- learn to love the things that you’ve put time into. 

I want to have this mentality. Where do I sign up for the coaching workshop?

Think of the story you really want to read. The one that you would have subscribed to for updates and you would go and check it once in a while anyway on the off chance that maybe a new update had been posted. The story that is full of every last thing that makes your id sing. 

Then go write that story. A story where you really want to find out what happens next. Don’t try to outline it. Don’t take away the pleasure of discovery. Figure it out as you go along and at every step do just what makes you happiest. If you are bored writing a scene just set something on fire (literally) and go in a different direction. If you can’t wait for X to bang Y just have them go for it out of nowhere and maybe tell us what triggered it afterwards. If you feel the whole thing has gone off the rails, just finish it off quick somehow that makes you happy and start the next story. 

Don’t worry about whether it is a “good” story. Don’t try to write something that you think is a clever idea or that hasn’t been done. In fact do the opposite. Write the thing you think is a dumb idea that you want anyway, or the story you have read 1000 versions of but really want to read again. Just write something you really want to read and make yourself impatient for the next piece of it. Enjoy the process and you’ll love the product. Once you have learned how to do this you can work on making the story work better and be more polished, and that work will be immediately rewarding because you will be making nicer things for yourself. 

I always love everything I write because I write it for me. :)

gingerly-writing:

no negativity this year we love ourselves like supervillains

shanastoryteller:

shanastoryteller:

i want people to feel about my writing the way roger ebert feels about the mummy

“There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.”