theminecraftbee:

general writing advice, actually: you don’t need an excuse beyond “BUT WOULDN’T THIS BE COOL” to write something into your fic. write things in solely because they make you cackle with the delight of a 12-year-old-boy playing with his dinosaur toys. it’s fun and there’s nothing stopping you or any of us at all any longer.

screnwriter:

how to stay motivated as a writer

• Reread your old writing, especially those scenes you’re most proud of
• Write something silly. It doesn’t need to be logical, consistent or included in your story. Write something dumb
• Compare your old writing to your new writing. Seeing how much you’ve improved can be very motivating
• Explore different storylines, those type of storylines that would never make it into your story, but you’d still like to play around with. Create AUs!
• Choose one of your least favorite scenes and rewrite it
• Act out your scenes
• Read old comments from people praising your work
• Create a playlist that reminds you of your wip
• Team up with a friend, write AUs for each other’s characters
• Create playlists for your characters
• Draw your ocs/make memes of your ocs
• Draw/make memes of your friend’s ocs
• Don’t push yourself to get back into writing the thing that made you stop writing in the first place, try writing something else!
• Write what you wanna write, no matter how cliché it might be. If you want to write it, write it
• Take a break, focus on another hobby of yours. Consume other pieces of media, take a walk to clear your head
• You don’t have to write in chronological order if it isn’t working for you! Sometimes a scene you aren’t interested in writing can become interesting after you’ve explored other scenes in the story
• Read bad reviews of books or TV-shows. You’ll unlock appreciation and motivation for your own writing
• Create a new storyline, or a new character! Anything that helps bring something fresh into your story. Could even be a completely new wip!
• Not writing every day doesn’t make you a bad writer. Take a break if you feel like you need one
• Remind yourself to have fun. Start writing and don’t focus all your attention on following “the rules.” You can get into the nitty-gritty when you’ve familiarized yourself with writing as an art. Or don’t. It’s fiction, you make your own rules
• Go to sleep, or take a nap. Sleep deprivation and writing does not go hand in hand
• Listen to music that reminds you of your characters/wip
• Remember why you started. Know that you deserve to tell the story you want to tell regardless of the skill you possess

screnwriter:

Reblog this with one thing you want other writers to know.

Whether it be a lesson, advice or a few words of encouragement.

Don’t hate your old writing.

You don’t hate all those scratchy, scribbly scrawls from when you were first learning to even hold a crayon, do you?

So don’t hate the stories and characters and ideas you wrote before—the things you see now as half-baked, or silly, or lame, or even cringe. You don’t have to pick them up again, you can move on and create new things and try new styles and processes, but please: don’t hate your old writing.

It taught you more than you realize.