On This Island, We Love Peanut. (Or At Least I Do.)

On this island, we love Peanut. (Or at least I do.)

Quiet as a Stone

OTP Writing Prompt #18

It’s the classic set-up: guy takes girl to a scary movie so she’ll be scared and snuggle with him, and he’ll feel like the protector. Only this time, it’s the guy who winds up scared while the girl is unfazed.

(Loosely inspired by a reader story read in Reminisce magazine. You don’t have to be elderly to enjoy it, okay?)

Sometimes I really think writers must be crazy. Writing doesn’t pay off at all most of the time: 

You pretty much have to beg other people to read what you invested time and hard work in to create 

Selling and marketing your writing requires a total seperate set of skills and time investment to build/find a suitable audience

You create from the heart naturally the things personal and important to you, so rejection and being ignored hurts much more than by most other hobbies/products

Writing is incredibly hard to judge and meassure for quality, because of how individual taste is with art. 

It’s incredibly hard to notice and measure your own progress and improvement

It’s much more exhausting to consume than movies, music or images, which gets all the more difficult with the shorter attention spans in the modern digitalized era

Since it’s so hard to monetize you have to face the society or your close enviroment, family and friends questioning the value of an activity that doesn’t translate into immediate visible results and money

Lots of activities crucial for writing like researching, reading, daydreaming, outlining, note taking, doodling, meta writing is considered “unproductive” because again, no immediate tangible visible results 

No instant gratification with this hobby. You know how long it takes from a spark of idea to a complete work? Ugh

So people who keep on loving writing and making up stories in their heads are total heroes that totally get more from the internal value of writing like creative expression, processing of emotions, building self-awareness and becoming consious of living, the sheer fun of creating and finishing something and being in control of your own world and characters…which is really fascinating, beautiful and gives me hope for humanity 

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OTP Writing Prompt #16

Your OTP sees something so beautiful that one of them is moved to tears. How does the other handle it?