Writers On A Random Tuesday: Sits Down, Locks In, Giggles, Writes 10k, Does Not Sleep

Me: *listening to book 11*

Book 11: Neil, “I’d even take an affliction specialist, if they bring snacks.”

Me: *sighs, makes a mark* New fic to write: Jason seducing Neil with food

Today, I happened to come across my first ever piece of serious writing from 2020. It was a Harry Potter fanfiction, and, at the time, was a piece longer than I ever could've dreamed of writing, sitting at around 77 pages in Google Docs. I read about the first ten pages, and OH BOY was it ROUGH.

But, I almost really like the idea that it was so bad. That piece of writing is five years old, and was when I first began by journey as a creative writer. In a way, the idea that it was bad was almost comforting, because I get to see how much I've truly changed and grown.

I looked at this piece of writing compared to one of my most recent fanfictions, and the difference is IMMACULATE in just the first two paragraphs. My old writing was heavily dialogue driven, contained so little detail, and felt rather bland, especially in terms of a character's emotions and actions. Now, I'm watching how detailed I am with each of my sentences, and how much attention I'm putting into each character. I can see where younger me was lacking, and where older me has recognized and fixed those holes and has grown beyond where I ever could've dreamed.

I think that, as writers, we often tend to lose track of how much we progress as we practice. It's really easy to get lost in the issues or problems we're having now, and neglect to think about how far we've truly come. We continue to focus on the negative instead of the positive; the future we want instead of where we were in the past.

My point is this: if at any moment you start to doubt your writing, or just think nothing is improving, go back and look at your old pieces. Don't change anything and just read through them. It's probably going to be really difficult, but it just shows how much you've grown and how much progress you've made over the course of your journey. I think you'll find that your writing has changed a lot more than you thought, and that, despite what you believe, you really have grown.

Instead of being embarrassed by your older pieces, use them to motivate you. Think about how much younger you would be shocked at how far you are right now, and just how proud they would be of you. You are currently at the position where younger you could only dream of being. And it's only going to go up from here 💖

Suddenly, very suddenly. :'D

I remembered one dialogue from an old movie, so...

that sketch below.

🤍🖤

Reblogging this so I can remember all of these

Hi! Can you please rec the best modern AU eruri fics? I just read one and now I’m hooked for this type of content 😊 Thank you in advance!

Hi Anon! Another fic rec ask from the archives :}  There are so many amazing modern AUs it’s hard to know where to start.  Just to narrow things down a bit I’m not going to include reincarnation fics or any fics that involve supernatural elements, but I’m taking a fairly loose definition of “modern” XD

Aisle 10 by orphan account

all your demons and desires and dark sides by Carthage

An Education by @stereobone 

Animals by @stereobone

Building on the Past by @lostcauses-noregrets

Cardamom by @lostcauses-noregrets​

CODA by @tidal-sehnsucht​

Current Location by @thefangirlingdead

Eruri Broomverse by @lostcauses-noregrets, @huxandthehound and @elivra-fanfiction

Final Tour by @ackbang

For a Loop by @ellabesmirched

Four Years Later by @everythingshiny 

I wish the sea would wash you away (then bring you back to me) by kusuriuri

I’m only going to heaven (if it feels like hell) by @stereobone

Loosing It / Finding It by @lostcauses-noregrets

MeatBoy Fic Universe by @lostcauses-noregrets

Perfect by @lostcauses-noregrets

Pledge by @ellabesmirched​ 

Wall of Death  by @lostcauses-noregrets​

Your Song by @ellabesmirched 

some jason doodles

Me: You don’t have this project started, it’s due soon, please do it.

Student: Ugh. Leave me alone.

Me, a week later: The project was due, please turn it in. *Sends email and gives them a little list of all their missing assignments on a sticky note*

Student: Don’t worry about it

Me, another week later: *Gives them a zero*

Student: Why is my grade a 25?! Why didn’t you tell me all this was due

Me: ……………..

why are they married in every single universe ever

daily entertainment

Yes. I’m obsessed with this man

On a whim I'm catching up with the Spooky Spring Art Party - prompt 1-2 is "Magic" and I wanted to draw something hwfwm!

It's that moment when Jason is considering using the dark essence and the awakening stone of the stars. Looking it up, I was surprised the essence cube was described as about 15cm! I thought they were like the size of a rubix cube for some reason. And the awakening stone was "fist sized" which is pretty relative but still a bit bigger than my original mental image.

Either way, I like how it turned out. First finished drawing in a while ^^;