Friend: Oh, So Youre An Author?

Friend: oh, so you’re an author?

Me, nodding: yes.

Friend: so when do you find the time to write?

Me, still nodding, slightly teary-eyed: yes.

writing tip #2277:

stop thinking about what you want to write and just do something else instead

“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)

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the fact that this is completely understandable and rather descriptive makes me rethink what i’ve done with my life

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*