“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune
It feels good to work digitally after such a long break, I missed it so much!
When I said this, I didn’t mean it like “Don’t you DARE try to be a writer unless you’re doing it like this!” I meant it as a way to say hey, don’t worry so much when you’re writing. Stop thinking about this Great Story you have in your head and why is it not coming out like my perfect vision oh god I must actually be a horrible writer oh dammit this is terrible I’m a hack oh no! I’ll never be published and I’ll never be Successful or Important and why am I even trying dammit dammit dammit!
Which, of course, is way easier said than done. I haven’t met a creator in my life who doesn’t suffer from at least a touch of impostor syndrome, and I know I fall into this trap a lot. But the more you can avoid thinking about it, the more work you get done.
When you’re getting the ideas out, don’t think about editors, don’t think about readers, don’t think about writing a golden shiny piece of perfection. Just write.
Think about all that other stuff later. It’s distracting. Just write.
Just write.
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In this grumpy dwarf have not liked his readings / A este enano gruñón no le han gustado sus lecturas (ilustración de María José Olavarría -Cotepinta-)
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Whether you’re writing a different historical era, a different setting, or a completely differently world, your primary concern is to make the place feel real. You want the world to feel as easy and free as the world we inhabit. To do that, you need the right
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So yeah, here’s a post on how to do that.
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Reading on the Subway / Lectura en el metro (ilustración de Abner Dean)
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Anonymous asked: How do you write a good synopsis? I’ve been sitting here for the last couple minutes trying to come up with a way to describe my story that satisfies me but I can’t seem to come up with anything! Help please~
Writing a good synopsis is…
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“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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The house was empty expect for two really old couches, a chair and an incredible population of very productive spiders.
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