That Moment When You Kick Yourself For Not Picking Up That Book You Put Off Sooner

This is why you can't finish your book

How long have you been trying to finish that idea you had for a book? Why is it that you can never see the finish line?

There’s different reasons for different writers, but in most cases it comes down to one simple thing:

Overwhelm.

You look at your project and you WANT to work on it, but…

you need to research a topic first to write it well

you need to go back and work out a character’s backstory first

you should probably fix the consistency of this character’s voice, they changed so much since you started chapter 1

you probably want to plot this out more

a couple of these chapters here and there are just a mess… which you promised to deal with later

Basically…. you’ve got a HEAP of tasks and issues ahead of you that you have to work out, before you can call the piece complete. And it is SO much work. And it’s overwhelming.

It’s easier to say you’ll untangle it a little later, or when you’ve got a clearer head.

But allow me to let you in on a little secret…

Writing is always messy.

The only way writing gets less messy is if you write it out, and then you rewrite it. And then maybe rewrite it again.

But the only way to move forward is put all these current issues out of your mind, until you finish that first draft, no matter how much of a MESS it is.

It’ll be a smaller mess in the next rewrite.

seeing a poc author embrace their identity is so satisfying.

whispering against each others lips is so fucking intimate it makes me go feral

I was re-watching the little mermaid and it got me thinking: it would have been so cool to be a guest to eric's weddings tbh

this guy's been raving about this mystery girl he says saved him and left him on the beach but nobody believes him, then he found a different girl in the same beach, proceeded to date her for a couple of days in front of the whole town, but then turns up with a different one (allegedly the first one) and decides he's marrying her on the spot

and you're like, sure, I need to see this mess

so you go to the wedding and it's WILD: there's some sort of animal riot, every creature is attacking the bride (including the prince's dog), town date redhead is being carried into the wedding ship in a barrel by a small fish, you're like 'I need to see how this turns out' and then mystery redhead, who was supposedly unable to talk, starts singing???? and talking??? and they're about to kiss???? but then the bride turns into sexy cthulhu???? and the redhead grows a fish tail???? and sexy cthulhu bride drags redhead into the water??????

you are taken ashore while the groom goes to fetch one of the brides, unsure which but all signs point to the redhead that was carried in the barrel, and then there's a storm, and sexy cthulhu becomes gigantic and is wearing a crown and you're like 'work, bitch' while eating snacks and then it's all over and sexy cthulhu disappears

but then there's another wedding announced and you're like 'I'm sure it can't top the first one' but you attend and TRITON shows up too????? myth and legend lord of the sea king triton from the stories????? with a white beard and an 8 pack and the same crown sexy cthulhu was wearing??? turns out he's the FATHER OF THE BRIDE??????? and there are mermaids everywhere, all around the ship, kind of unnerving tbh really really scary situation, but it's fine because triton is making rainbows in the sky and hugging the bride and manipulating water and you're also pretty sure the chef just got decimated by a crab?????

royal weddings should all be like these tbh this prince sure knows how to throw them like nobody else in the disney pantheon

“If you’re happy in a dream…does that count? The happiness- does it count?”

-Arundhati Roy

- j (x)

Shaykh Salih al-Fawzān حفظه الله said:

“She is not a lowly object to be handled by the hands and gazed upon by the eyes (of the people). Rather, she is a preserved pearl, safeguarded for the husband who Allāh has made permissible for her and made her permissible for him.”

The status of the Women in Islām pg. 21, translated by Raha Batts

activities, hobbies, and skills that nurture your femininity (pt. I)

cooking (+ points for scratch cooking or farm-to-table)

baking (+ points for scratch baking)

quilting

embroidery

crocheting

knitting

card-making

scrapbooking

flower arrangements

reading/book club

dancing

pilates

yoga

interior design/decor

painting

playing an instrument— piano, flute, harp, violin, etc.

organizing

jewelry making

homemade garment making

fashion design

I love that isekai manhwa authors just gave up. at this point they're not even trying lmao. also what happened to the good old hit by a truck

why did I think it was ok for my imaginary friend to come with me EVERYWHERE, doing menial tasks like chores and trips to the toilet?