Writing Tip #2277:

writing tip #2277:

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

“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

RAVENCLAW: “When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.” –Philip Roth

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.

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*