On Dealing with Creative Doubt

If you make anything, art or stories or music or any type of creative medium, odds are you’ve heard the defeating thoughts that are built on doubt, the self-comparison game, or a period of just feeling low about yourself (no matter the cause). These thoughts? Yeah, they’re cruel and unfortunately common if you’re feel low.…

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Writer Thoughts While Watching Lucifer

Writer Thoughts While Watching Lucifer It’s your favorite binge-watching writer here! Today, we’re going to be covering Lucifer Morningstar and his wicked cool entourage. Originally posted by but-the-truth-lies Without further ado, here are some observations I had as a writer while watching “Lucifer” go about his devilish deeds. Originally posted by lucifer-gifs 1. Bad boys.…

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I’m Bad at Genres

When I first started out writing, I tried to stay nice and neatly in my lane. High fantasy? Alright then, only things that Tolkien would be proud of. Paranormal romance? Fae and vampires it is. Originally posted by julielilac When I was just starting out, I didn’t realize that you could combine genres or generally…

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Writer Thoughts While Watching Mr. Robot

Okay, okay. So, hear me out. I know I’m somewhere in the realm of 2-15,000 years late with this. But I started watching Mr. Robot, and let me tell you… It’s a trip. Originally posted by patateslipanda From the in-depth analysis on corporations to the hacker-vigilante team. You don’t know who or HOW to trust…

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10 Weird Things that Writers Google Search

Baby name sites, names meaning “(vague concept related to character development plot)” How long can somebody live without food/water? (for quests) Symptoms of the plague (for those period dramas) Rate of inflation (how much money in ye-olde-days was too much?) Stab wounds and can someone survive them if… Is “INSERT YOUR WIP TITLE” already the…

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Three Stages Every Author Goes Through

It sounds like a disease, doesn’t it? “Stages”. Yet, lurking in places that authors gather like abandoned bookstores and Tumblr, I’ve noticed three common struggles that absolutely devastate authors. And here they are.   STAGE ONE: Self-doubt. Am I good enough? My writing is so childish. But that author was famous when they were only…

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