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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

#i’ll be joining! #200 word challenge

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the way i trick myself into finishing my first draft is trying not to think of it as 'writing' but as 'telling what happened'

#actually a great mindset that I’ve been meaning to try out

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Antigonick by Anne Carson / I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson / Electra by Sophokles / Erica E. Goode

#web weaving #siblings #with queue in my heart

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions / Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star / A Hymn to Childhood by Li-Young Lee / Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Quote by @ petfurnature on twitter / Three Eyes by Amatullah Bourdon @butchniqabi / Source

#childhood #web weaving #with queue in my heart

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“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

#tragedy #web weaving #with queue in my heart

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michelle k., i know i deserve more | mitski, first love/late spring

#web weaving #childhood #with queue in my heart

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Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

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Do you think the water will forget what we have done, what we continue to do?

1. emitithal mahmoud | 2. flood in somerset | 3. toni morrison | 4. natalie diaz | 5. x | 6. matthew nien | 7. calida garcia rawles | 8. nicole callihan | 9. richard siken | 10. fabien seguin | 11. natalie diaz | 12. natalie diaz |

#with queue in my heart #web weaving

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If I told you how much I think about her You’d think I was in love

but it’s about whatever wip I’m hyperfixating on at the moment

#writers of tumblr

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I saw a very blunt Instagram comment today that told a writer, "AI is going to steal your job soon. You may want to choose something else." It was so nonchalant and casual, like what was just said wasn't heartbreaking to hear.

Can we writers just make a pact just to... not quit? Can we not give in so easily? Can we actually fight to keep our professions and continue to share our own original work? I will never expect writing to be my main source of income, but that does not mean I'm so willing to give it up for the sake of some robot.

#🫡

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Times I feel like writing:

10 minutes before falling asleep

in the shower

20 minutes before I have to go to work

when there is a cat asleep on top of me and moving is illegal

at work

in meetings

in traffic

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Being a writer your brain is either

A) STUFFED TO BURSTING with ideas you have no clue what to do with or how to make them make sense

or

B) It's a black hole that devours every inkling of creativity in your cells and you are just hoping it'll consume you too

THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN

#writer problems

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If you are dead, I am not alive. If I'm alive, you can't be dead. Oh, I hated you— But you were still my brother.

Cain & Abel. Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng. Sirius & Regulus.

#web weaving #siblings #with queue in my heart

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Keyboard go BRRRRRRRRRR

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daydreaming about writing: 🥰😍🥹❤️😊🌺✨😘

the act of actually writing: 😭😰😵‍💫😭😰😭☹️😖

#literally

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hi this is your daily writing reminder that I am so proud for opening that document and adding a line to it, or for thinking about those characters, and reminiscing about that plot twist.