#saying it out loud im like

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

#edit: the command not to talk about it is from personal experience! #i have heard Otherwise in the tags so i will edit to say: #if you've noticed that you tend to like Talk A Lot about ur piece but never WRITE it - #consider voice-to-text #also #u might be like me and ... need to figure it out on the PAGE and not OUT LOUD #i am often an auditory processor so i wont tell people specifics but i'll be like #huh. so i have a character who is in love .... and they don't know it #and my friend will be like ''oh they should kiss' and meanwhile #somehow #saying it out loud im like #yeah thank u ur right the dress SHOULD be purple that's what the problem has been <3 #idk!!! it's up to you!!! my suggestion is to say LESS until you know for a FACT that saying MORE works better for you #-- always better to slowly unspool in ur exploration of that #than to accidentally talk too much and get Bored Of Project #idk idk idk #i have adhd so every book surprises me bc im like #wait where did any of this even COME FROM #and whatever little gremlin in my brain that writes is like :) #''heyyy girlie.......'' #WHICH IS A LONG WAY TO SAY: #i didn't know about Not Talking About It as an option until i'd ruined a few projects!! #but there are people who need to do the other thing!!! and i love us both!!!! #wow brains are so funny!!!!

[cali]

a lolcow is obviously a bad and harmful thing but studying weird people online is a wonderful and soul enriching experience. but if u treat the fun of it as a product and engage with them to get more of this product, if youre "milking" the "lolcow", youre fucked. youre going down the path of darkness. it needs to be aetherial and loose. the better alternative is looking at lolbirds instead which is quite beautiful cuz, like birdwatching, its a process where u do not enact power and force over ur subject to make it show u what u want, you just let them naturally come by and show off their plumage (10000 near identically composed deviantart illustrations of different kids show character crying while getting knead into dough and baked[this happened in a single episode of a show the artist saw when they were 4]) and then u maybe show some of ur favorite feathers of theirs to your close group of friends and then let them pass on with the wind and u keep them as a sweet memory ❤

#im adding a tag here because some of u r misunderstanding this hardcore and arguing #I dont want you to look at people who already got lolcowed. i want you to when you see someone you think is fun and weird #just passively look at them take in their weirdness and move on. im saying do that instead of pulling lolcow shit #this post is not an invitation for u to tell me who you feel like this about #u can make vague references but do not say any names out loud or ur breaking the rules #cuz the goal here is peace

[literalnobody]

I know we get collectively frustrated when staff roll out an unwanted layout change (I do too) but jfc the way some of you speak in your @/staff posts is absolutely vile. You know a human being has to read that right. You know a person with a job and rent to pay has to read you telling them to kill themselves because you don't like a website change their management ordered. You know that right

#fucking jesus. the direct replies to staff posts as well are just. #like im in shock by the way so many people write to these programmers just doing their jobs #you are the vicious piece of shit customer in this scenario #if you wouldnt say it out loud to a human person in front of you maybe dont write it in a reply #and if you would say this shit to a person in front of you. youre a shithead

[icys-junkyard]

have a blasphemous new year everybody :)

Ingo very vaguely recalls typical Unovan New Year’s social drinking traditions. Doesn’t realize Hisuian alcohol is stronger than what he may have expected in the future. Fails to apply religious filters.

#submas #pokemon ingo #subway boss ingo #warden ingo #pokemon irida #pokemon adaman #pokemon legends arceus #pla #a WONDERFUL speech ingo! bravo! #gaeric seems like a tactile kinda drunk. drape an arm on ya. slap your back jovially. etc etc. #i needed an excuse for ingo to suggest blasphemy. hed usually be conscious enough to not say such things out loud im sure #new years drinks gave me the excuse i needed #(no clue how a drunk ingo would actually talk #but im sure some people would find it hilarious if mr-excessive-paragraphs suddenly became far less articulate) #eye contact #drinking #alcohol #icys drawings and doodles

[taikanyohou]

"I know I shouldn't like this. But, before I knew it, my mind was a mess. I lost control. It's your fault."

TAIKAN YOHOU (2023). Episode 2 -> Episode 8.

#my personal weatherman #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #asiandramanet #dailyasiandramas #jdramasource #* #faiza gifs #god NOTHING will ever make me feel as insane as they did like im sorry but thats just FACTS! #like. GOD. just SEEING yoh say out loud he wants segasakiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! they 'dont go!!!!' ....... GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

[transzilla]

I met a lot of trans women who go on estradiol and develop a breeding thing like well I know it's not biologically possible but I need somebody to shoot a kid in me, I'm the exact same way being transmasc and going on testosterone I'm like bro i need to find a way to father thousands of children RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Like I'm saying if I had a dick I'd own the place. I need to shoot somebody like old yeller u know what I'm saying... Like take a man out behind the shed and everything ooh yeah... It's gonna be like high noon except I don't have any bullets. Plus yeah obviously I just need to impregnate somebody like you can get an abortion after I'm not an asshole. We can have a lil abortion party too we'll drink bourbon and eat sushi and go in a jacuzzi, maybe go on a rollercoaster, ohhhh smoke a bunch of cigarettes and lift some weights... take turns punching each other in the stomach... look man I just need this

#im gonna be the worlds first deadbeat dad #forcemasc #autoandrophilia #this is one of those things i might have been better off not saying out loud LMAO #what is like breeding but i dont get cis people on my post

[love-songs-for-emma]

tumblr is dangerous. not bc of stranger danger. but bc the festering lil communities we create cause me to walk around my apartment thinking things like "is biting you. is biting you. is biting you. is biting yo—"

#to no one in particular too #I'm just saying that. to myself #if its out loud cas just Accepts im Like This thankfully #anyway. #thanks yall. the brainrot is particularly strong this morning #skhcksjfkd #hannibal discord #its elena rlly. lets be honest #nbc hannibal #freaks. my beloved freaks #personal #.txt #.jokes #maria is literally just rambling. hi #tumblr

[bonefall]

it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness

Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.

They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?

This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.

I just...

OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.

But it did not stop.

THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.

And yet... it continued.

They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.

A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;

Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.

I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."

Sometimes, even, in "groups."

Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."

Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗

DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous

Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.

#bone babble #Fennelposting #Obviously the answer is 'theyre incapable of THINKING' but like... they do know snow has a line right #In the book. He figured out. A word. Through observation. #He says 's'all right' because he knows it calms ppl down #He did not need to hear the magic words 'You can make noises at others to influence them' #Like a fucking tutorial tip #Im going to start keeping a JOURNAL of ''times people have been weird about snowkit specifically'' #Ableism #cw ableism #I could also link to the pawspeak thing so it's all in one place #I wrote this last night and put it in the queue and I laid awake thinking of this... #What do they think happens when someone goes to another country where things aren't written/spoken in a language they know? #Do they think they wouldn't be able to figure out anything? Do they think the tourist would just perish #Would they collapse in the streets of Berlin sobbing? #Happened to me. Went to England and they called it a Car Boot Sale instead of a Flea Market and I died to death #AND if I did make that guide please tell me if there's any other weird misconceptions you need to see in it #I know that ONE of them is going to have to be that. like. deaf people make noise. #theyre actually quite loud because they don't know they're making noise #and people with hearing loss do not suddenly forget how to speak. #and people born deaf dont talk like cavemen #cw body horror #tw body horror #EDIT: OOPS sorry I have such an astonishingly tolerance for body horror I did not realize that counted as body horror

[rabdoidal]

idk how to express it but like. my mum asked me earlier "do you have initiative? you need to learn how to do things without people telling you" and idk how to tell her like. 1. i am autistic and a HUGE part of that is not having motivation or initiative in the traditional sense because its harder to read what people want from you, 2. i also have executive dysfunction with my depression, and 3. she is the reason why i have a lack of motivation! because my whole life when i Try to do things to help out, i either get confused or i do it wrong, and shes not patient with me and also doesnt explain things to me - and the worst part is 4. i dont know how to explain stuff to her without it feeling like an excuse, because when i speak plainly, she thinks im dodging blame, when im actually just trying to communicate my default settings and how im working on overcoming them because i live in a neurotypical society. when i dont contribute or help out because im scared of messing up, i am ridiculed and shamed, and when i do contribute, im not allowed to ask clarifying questions or ask for support, because then i am an idiot. and y'know what? its annoying to be told i have no motivation when right now is the time where i have the most self-driven motivation ive ever had

#personal #its truly just like. im not asking for solutions or comments here #its just straight up confusing for me #and i get so overwhelmed trying to say this out loud to people #like i instantly start crying #but its not because im sad! or trying to get sympathy! i am just so freaked out all the time! #i have to be so self regulated its not funny #genuinely the only reason my family dont see me as an actual autistic person is because i can talk #if i was 24/7 nonverbal maybe theyd believe me #my god

[salemontrial]

My beloved<3

#3rd official lmk post and i feel like im gonna get hatemail........ #in all serious tho. red son is like the more stubborn emotionally constipated wound-up dude in all the realms #he would punch MK in the face if he complimented his jacket i dont think hes gonna confess that quickly #be a giant embarrassing sappy mess to his journal about it??? 100%. he would explode half of china if he had to say any of it out loud. #lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk red son #spiceynoodles #lmk spicynoodles #dragonfruit #lmk dragonfruit #traffic light trio #lmk traffic light trio #<- target audience #ill see myself to the gallows-/lh

[obsob]

happy autumn!!!

#mine #original #heeheh ordered some new prints yesterday..... #i went to th library also! got a book ive already read to read again before reading th sequel #and also a new book...hehehe...... #ive been reading on my kindle so much it will be nice to read a real book #if anyone wants to send me £30 so i can buy th hands of the emperor by victoria goddard that would b great #why so. why costs so much money. relax #th second book comes out in nov heheheHEHEHE #book im reading rn is pretty good but also these guys are rock hard at like any given moment #theyre like we need to be sneaky...people cant know...anyway want 2 hve loud passionate sex behind this tree #which. i mean im not complaining. #th last book i read was pretty dull but all the reviews are like 5 STAR CHANGED MY LIFE did we read the same book #anyway. happy saturday! #also they updated how u do posts n i gotta say......being able 2 edit tags? godsend #gods know i cannot spell

[ffc1cb]

i’ve always found it peculiar how during meeting the chargers cutscene the game just assumes your character automatically understands what krem is talking about when he mentions binding (though, granted, it’s all very unsubtle). like, this is a roleplaying game. what if i want to play a character who just doesn’t get it

#dragon age #cremisius aclassi #inquisitor trevelyan #at least give me an in game explanation of why the inquisitor would Know this right away #it's not like transgenderism is a widely explored topic in da lore. the most you can find about it in inquisition specifically excluding #krem and seras countless transmisogynistic lines is one codex that mentions that some previous divine mightve been a trans woman #and the way it's written sucks ass. the infamous sex in thedas codex also mentions nothing on the topic of transness. so like #whats up with that #art stuff #before anyone says anything i fully realize how i look critiquing a bioware game that came out in 2014 on its faulty queer representation #please trust me i know. im just thinking out loud #ALSO. in case it isnt obvious. parsley transed they gender. the joke is that theyre a nonbinary femme now #its hard for me to show it through art because it would involve misgendering them but they dont actually start going by they/them pronouns #until after halamshiral. so like technically if i made them refer to themselves as he/him at any point before that it would be canonical but #its not like my art is chronological by any means and cannot be taken out of context by virtue of it existing as an individual post online #if someone were to reblog an art of them saying hi im a dude theyd go cool! hashtag male inquisitor. or something #the tragic case of sacrificing narrative in order to not get second hand discomfort at seeing parsley misgendered #ANYWAY..........

[hms-incorrect-quotes]

Mind: I'm going to take a shower, I'll be right back.

Heart: Why are you telling me this, I don't care.

Heart [right after Mind leaves the room] : I miss them already.

#heart: i hate mind. mind sucks #mind leaves for 2 seconds #heart: bestie where'd you go :( #mind is the same way just doesn't say it out loud #[why did you leave me behind. that was very rude of you] (i just went to grab a bagel??? like i said before i walked away????) #[what if i wanted a bagel?] (THEN ASK OR GO GET ONE??) [im not listening to the guy that left me behind for a bagel] #(i hate you)

[1v31182m5]

#cotl #cult of the lamb #i hope anyone who liked my shamura design says it out loud because im kinda really proud of how i made it #cotl fanart #shamura #cotl bishops #cult of the lamb fanart

[spider-man-2o99]

^^^ #1 most autistic (spider-)man on th whole entire planet earth of all time ever who scampers and skitters and scuttles all about

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #marvel #comics #comic panels #miguel o’hara voice Crawling Noises Crawling Noises Crawling Noises (<- he is actively saying it out loud) #seriously i will never Not be saying it but god im just so obsessed w/ how he Moves hes just a lil freakin GUY bouncin around like a Flea #he is a Very Distinct Character from Peter. but. also. like.. hes also still always Spider-Man. yknow? and i like that abt him a lot. #peter can get away with brute force bcuz peters a POWERHOUSE who holds back most of the time. mig is canonically of a more agile/Jumpy build #and thus whenever he TRIES to brute-force stuff. 9 times out of 10 it Does Not End Well For Him lmao #but Sometimes he gets lucky and Stuff Just Works!! <:) #h

[marconiandcheese]

I'm not going to lie, having only ever seen gifs of the Sandman, nothing could have prepared me for the voice that comes out of that soggy cat of a man

#it was so much more powerful and deep than i thought i actually laughed out loud i was so startled #like DAMN he looks timid and meek and disgruntled but his voice!! splendid #its a very nice voice is what im saying. this is stupid. its 12.30am and i work tomorrow help 💙🙏 #the sandman #dont let this one breach containment lads