Today In Shit Im Reblogging So Maybe Ill Remember It

Today in ‘shit I’m Reblogging so maybe I’ll remember it…’

What not to care about while writing

Writing can be difficult.Here are some basic things i learned to NOT give a fuck about while writing your first draft!

Grammar and spelling in your first draft.

What others might think of your story.

The length of your story; it can be short or long.

Writing every detail - leave room for the reader's imagination.

Whether your story aligns with current trends or popular genres.

Overthinking the title or cover art at the beginning.

Perfect pacing in the initial draft.

The order in which you write scenes - you can rearrange later.

Trying to make every character likable or relatable.

Writing the perfect first draft; let your first draft be really messy.#

Well? Is your car prepared, or are they going to get bullied out of mating by other cars?

Happy holidays!

Image description: A drawing of a small car fitted with decorative plush antlers and a Rudolph nose. A banner proclaims “Happy Holidays!” and a label pointing to the antlers says “Don’t forget to prepare your car for the rut”.

Maryland isn’t as bad as Pennsylvania. In Maryland, other drivers don’t care if you live or die. In Pennsylvania, they’d actively prefer killing you.

I know this is a general complaint, but I’ve found referring to specific subsections of said body parts helps.

it's actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don't give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it's just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word "cock" and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there's nothing much you can do about it

Okay, but those clearly aren’t her eyes. She has eyes in her head. So whose are they?

st. lucy holding her eyes

in an illuminated prayer book, bavaria, c. 1480

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 7251, fol. 187r