Gojosusedthong - Wreqew

Hhhhhh. That feeling when you know you're still improving and haven't gotten fully skilled yet but the only way for you to improve is to keep making the Bad Stuff first before being able to make the Good Stuff.

"Maybe from today onwards, I'll be better".

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post these gifs somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use them in edits/videos. Thanks~)

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

‘From a swamp, evil, viscous,’ Osip Mandelstam (translated by A. S. Kline)

Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Jasmine", Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems [ID in ALT]

This is the funniest and most relatable bsd panel ever

“I’ll just write this short little fic”, the author says, not realising they’re doomed by the narrative