Twilight, 1871, John Atkinson Grimshaw

Twilight, 1871, John Atkinson Grimshaw

“Don’t harass and send death threats to people over fictional content” shouldn’t be a controversial take.

Your fictional favs aren’t gonna thank you for your service, all you’ve proved is that you’re willing to inflict emotional and physical harm on a real, living person because of fiction and shipping.

You’ve proven that you’re not a good person.

Writing a story can be HARD work. No, it IS hard work, though maybe not for everyone.

Do you ever wish people would take you seriously? I love writing, but when I’m writing my novel it sometimes makes me stressed. It makes me grouchy and tired. Writing is like work, even if it isn’t your job (yet!). And people don’t understand that when you have a job and you also write, you have TWO jobs.

It’s hard work to constantly pour your emotions, to live inside the minds of several characters, characters who are evil or tormented or mad.

That’s why the writers community on here is so important; we understand each other. Keep writing. It’ll be worth it.

Alexandre Deschaumes

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

–  John McCrae