Ladies And Gentlemen, Will You Please Stand? With Every Guitar String Scar On My Hand, I Take This Magnetic

ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? with every guitar string scar on my hand, I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover. my heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue, all’s well that ends well to end up with you, swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover. and you’ll save all your dirtiest jokes for me and at every table, I’ll save you a seat, lover

it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

you can only reblog this today.

then vs now

Top 10 Tips for Actually Writing

for the writer who can’t seem to write.

Buy a pencil and paper. Get a writing program and a keyboard.

Spill all your ideas into a notebook that will never see the light of day. Write down literally every idea you have that even sort of relates to the scene/chapter/book that you want to write until your thoughts converge on a pointed attack.

Quality vs. Quantity? No competition. Quantity all the way. The more you write, the better you will know your story. Worry about Quality LATER.

Think about where the idea came from. Go there. Set up a cardboard box and live there. This is your home now.

What is the coolest, most self-indulgent thing you can think of? That’s what you want to write at this point, until you get some steam.

Short-term goals, my friends. And by short-term, I mean a minute from now, ten seconds from now. What are you going to do to write RIGHT NOW? Stop thinking about an hour from now, stop thinking about a day from now.

This is not a book. This is not a book. You are not writing a book. You are writing a story. A story is much easier to take bites out of than a book. A book is a big, scary, colossal thing. Stories are fun and carefree.

Get yourself a writing friend. A cactus, an old bottle of nail polish, a fish in an appropriately sized tank, etc. Make them hold you accountable.

Set crazy low goals. Promise yourself you will write ten words today. Ten words and you will be the Best Writer in the Entire World to Ever Exist. Accomplishing things is a morale booster and will urge you to write more.

Just keep writing. I believe in you.

“So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hendrick de Fromantiou. Detail from Still Life, 17th Century.