Me, When Writing My Fic: Oh My God! This Is So Good! I've Improved So Much, My Story Is Just Awesome!

Me, when writing my fic: Oh my God! This is so good! I've improved so much, my story is just awesome! I can't wait to post it!!

Me, when reading other fics : Oh my God! This is so good! I've learned nothing, my story is just awful! I'm not posting that shit...

Pessimists : This glass is half-empty.

Fatalists : This glass is half-empty and there's nothing I can do about it.

Optimists : This glass is half-full.

Idealists : This glass is half-full and I will fill it to the brink again.

Realists: There's some liquid inside this glass. And it's water.

Pragmatists: Glasses are made to be filled and emptied out. Yeah, to drink.

Dreamers : This glass is half-full, I'm going to fill it up and make it never empty out, ever again.

Me: Can I have some vodka, instead of water?

This, this, this was exactly what I needed! A reminder that, come what may, I was utterly entranced, possessed, bewitched, enamoured, ecstatic-high when I wrote my stories, chapters after chapters. And I won't allow myself to forget that! Thank you ❤️

Let’s talk about Confidence

This is a message I just sent to my beta. And I want all my fellow writers out there to know why this isn’t selfish – it’s essential. 

A lot of writblr culture revolves around self-deprecation. I myself have made a lot of posts about drafts, and how the early drafts are “bad,” and the excruciating process of stepping back, seeing all its flaws, and tackling it again and again with another round of edits. 

And that is a very important and necessary part of the process.  BUT.

I can tell you, that as I was writing each of those horrible early drafts, I was in love with them. I felt good when I finished them, I felt they were doing the work they needed to move the story forward. It was only a few days later, or in some cases, months, or in terms of full drafts, years later when I reread scenes and realized they didn’t work anymore. 

Here’s the thing: You can get floods of memes and fanarts and kudos and comments and reviews and messages and asks, but nobody should love the story as much as you do. Because YOU are the one writing it, it’s YOUR fingers on the keys – not a single one of your readers can make your story take a single step forward. That’s on you. 

So I don’t care if you write fluffy oneshots or epic multichapter fics, don’t you for one second berate your own writing or get bogged down comparing it to others’ because it’s “not good enough.” My shitty first drafts of scenes weren’t good enough. But I fucking loved them, I loved the story they were going to tell, and I loved writing them. 

LOVE YOUR WRITING. Brag about it, obsess over it, reread the stuff you wrote and congratulate yourself on the amazing work you’ve accomplished. Because at the end of the day, THAT is what will keep you creating and perfecting your art. 

I love Kazuo Ishiguro. But I love Kazuo Ishiguro expressing capital social-interaction issues more. And I love Kazuo Ishiguro writing about these capital social-interaction issues even more.

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.   (via halcynth)

Self Love

Are you understanding?

Do you show leadership skills?

In what ways are you fearless?

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Choose one. Choose all three.

Tag, re-blog, reply or just think about your reflection. Show yourself some love today.

I can recognize a fact when I read one. 7 even.

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