Sirkir

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Current book: 50% done, struggling.

New book idea: shiny, exciting, begging to be written.

Result: 27 unfinished drafts and a deep, personal crisis.

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

people who say 'just write for yourself' (me) have never met the absolute demon that lives in my head (also me) and judges every single word i put on the page. i am writing for myself, and let me tell you, the audience of me is a tough critic. she’s like, 'this sentence is fine but not groundbreaking,' and 'are you really gonna use the word 'suddenly' again? pathetic.' like ma’am, i’m trying my best.

the stages of writing a novel:

denial

bargaining

crying

what they don’t tell you about writing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!

do you ever re-read your own wips like 'damn the bitch that wrote this oughta finish it'

Hey you ever think about The Characters so much to the point where