First, Get The Story Down. Resist The Urge To Rework Your Opening Line Or Paragraph. The Perfect Opening

“First, get the story down. Resist the urge to rework your opening line or paragraph. The perfect opening may be the last thing you write. Once you have the story down, you can begin the real work.”

— Angela Savage, Award-winning Australian Writer (via rookiebooknookie)

me: I should write

also me: 

“I hate writing, I love having written.”

— Dorothy Parker (via imaginethewords)

writing tip #1313:

use an existing language so your readers don’t have to learn a new one to read your work

writing tip #752:

take a shot every time you start to second-guess something you just wrote

Me: *Opens word document and opens internet to research important science fact about something for my writing*

Me an hour later: *no words written, what fact was I even looking up, somehow on a page dictating the origins of cockney rhyming slang*