JIMINS BIRTHDAY EVENT

JIMIN’S BIRTHDAY EVENT

D-3: performing → expressive choreography

(let go & bst cr. goodday_1013)

+ bonus: close-up

We are together

We are forever

We are not seven

With you.

NO WORDS. HEAD EMPTY.

Eu estou me sentindo pessoalmente atacada

in the soop taehyung making me feel some type of way 🥵

Writing advice #1

*This is a compilation of my own thoughts. I have no way of knowing whether these will personally help you, but it is how I operate and maybe will strike a chord with someone.

During NaNo, simply don’t look back. I know. You want to read what you wrote and perfect everything….. Don’t. If you force perfection on top of the 1600 daily word count, you’re going to stress yourself out. 

Let yourself warm up. The first 15 minutes of your writing session is going to feel like it sucks. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. IT’S FINE. You can fix it, but later.

Exceptions to suggestion #1: At the end of my writing sessions, I’ve started leaving notes such as [the ghost appears, x freaks out]. So when I restart, I parse through the last three-ish paragraphs and add a sentence here or there until I reach my brackets and keep going. It’s a form of warming up imo.

Scream about your accomplishments. I don’t think anyone’s going to argue with me when I say that we writers thrive off other people going !!!! in the tags. Even if you don’t end up keeping the wild idea you had, even if you just said something about something… Be excited! Tag this blog, cram it with all your rambling thoughts and let someone go off about it. It’ll keep you fueled for a bit.

Sometimes, just sit and watch. I’ll acknowledge this one is probably harder now. When I didn’t know what to make my characters do, I’d just stare around my classroom or the bus stop or the cafe and just.. try to be unsuspicious about my people watching. Sometimes, that’s enough to generate more ideas.

Do NOT beat yourself up. Nano is grueling, especially for students and those whose careers pick up at the end of the year. Be able to acknowledge that not meeting your daily goal is not a failing on your part and sometimes it just can’t be helped. It does not make you less of a writer. It does not mean you’re failing at nano if you take care of your other priorities first. 

Evaluate yourself now, in October. Okay. You know November is going to be a LOT. Get a good grip on how you handle your daily life. What I mean is.. I know that my moods are very weather based. This means I won’t want to write on rainy days. This means that when it rains for a week in November and I just want to avoid eye contact with my wip as much as possible, I can evaluate myself and compare “am i completely burnt out and touching the doc will only cause suffering and detrimental brain stuff” vs “am i having a bad day of minor inconveniences and being a baby who can write 100 words if she tried.” I’ll know what times I tend to get lazy, so I won’t schedule writing sprints in that time. 

Do not deprive yourself of anything. No “I can eat dinner after I finish this” “i’ll take a bathroom break after i finish this” “I’ll go to sleep after 400 more words” funny business. It’s not good for you or your brain. (Okay, like, if you literally have half a sentence and say “I’ll eat after this,” fine, but no “I said I’d eat half an hour ago but I haven’t finished this scene so i can’t”) I used to do that. All it did was make me miserable and less productive.

feral noises pt. 2 || cr: @hobee