MOTIVATION!

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

Oh, perfect. I was just writing a blog post that mentioned that. *steals link to tweet*

I just want to say, congratulations to everybody who wrote something this month. It doesn't matter whether you won NaNo or didn't meet even your lowest goal. Every word forges a new crack in the monolith of obsolescence.

Keep on keeping on. Y'all are awesome.

[Siana Blackwood]

[Siana Blackwood]

Your 2016 Authorial Mandate Is Here: Be The Writer That You Are, Not The Writer Other People Want You To Be by Chuck Wendig.

Everyone should read this, even if it's only to see this in proper context:

Do this, do that, don’t do this, don’t say that, don’t write this, this isn’t selling, that is a no-no, publish this way, sell that way, don’t publish that other way, drink this, wear houndstooth jackets with elbow patches, drink that, snark here, snark there, with a fox, in a box, wearing socks, eating rocks, with a bear, without hair, anywhere.

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

24 Quotes About Writing

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

This is a random thing I wrote for Sisyphusl, which I'm sharing here. There are a couple of things specific to Sekrit Solstice, but it's mostly applicable here too.

(Set to the tune of Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames)

Through the Panic and Pain


On a cold panic dawning,
As ideas bounce and drift,
Through dusty brain and real life’s reign,
We write to make our gift.

Sekrit Solstice is flying on,
And the plot won’t work out right,
The clicks of frantic typing sound,
Before the day kills night.

Writing hard, writing on to conceal
All the fluff with brevity,
And ever more universes spawn
Making their own gravity.

All the plot holes gain the muses’ domain,
We cut them and return
With handwavium, we banish them to burn!

And it’s weak but it’s born!
We pants before the bloody brainstorm!
On towards a better threat,
Our pen carries on.

Add more where it began,
On through the climax,
And empathy for our villain takes its toll!

So now we flail, and fail for that day
If our inbox has presents, we're DONE,
And though the wandering conclusion plays out a thousand ways,
Through the panic and the pain we're writing on!

And there's no time for editing,
And the prompt no more applies,
We'll throw the characters to the muses above
In despair we'll make them cry

Giving up is a thing we can't do
There's a plot hole in our hearts
Our minds are home to the muses' will
Though we don't know where to start!

Quaffing booze or tea, or caffeine IV
Will get us strength to write,
And in a week our inner geek
Will delight!

Oh no this story has no theme
At least not one the world can see
If only we could make some sense
Of this rambling, we'll have won.

Yes, we're bananas, it's just our way,
Crazy gifs just feed our brain,
Day after day this lunacy must go on!

So now we flail, and fail for that day
If our inbox has presents, we're DONE,
And though the wandering conclusion plays out a thousand ways,
Through the panic and the pain we're writing on!

Whoa-oh-oah, whoa-oh-oah, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oooohhhhh,
Whoa-oh-oah, whoa-oh-oah, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oooohhhhh!

Now we tweak our small offering a ton,
Wrote to the pain, it's impossibly fun,
So we'll party on this thread until Monday comes,
With stories for everyone!

So now we flail, and fail for that day
If our inbox has presents, we're DONE,
And though the wandering conclusion plays out a thousand ways,
Through the panic and the pain we're writing on!

I'm not saying that I spent my time writing this instead of cleaning up my story, except that's kinda what I just did. :-P

[Siana Blackwood]

Like an artist by DeviantArt user JellyVampire.

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

When red ink bleeds

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

[Siana Blackwood]

Chuck Wendig: Defy reality, become an artist.

My favourite bit:

When I sit down and I start to write, I take a secret thrill in what I’m doing. Because this is forbidden territory. This is verboten. Everyone has built a fence of expectation around what I’m doing and yet, here I am, having climbed the fence. I’m making art and the world doesn’t want me to make art. I’m in a secret garden stealing your vegetables. I’m traipsing about someone’s home in the dark while they sleep. I’m mixing potions. I’m making monsters. I’m tap-dancing on the edge of a cliff, and the world can watch me kick off my shoes, pirouette, and lift both middle fingers in the air with a smugly self-satisfied look on my big beardo face.

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

[Siana Blackwood]

Just saw this on Twitter and decided I had to share it:

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

Come darlings.

We ride at dawn.

[Danielle Wayland]

Just a second ago I was telling myself I need to just pound out this next chapter, and then I remembered Shia LaBeouf's speech and I was like DUDE. This totally belongs here.

(It's the 1 minute version, so if you want more goodness there's more for you out there (plus funny compilation vids people put together)). Enjoy!

[Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍]

Thank you. I needed that in my life.

Also we need an inspiring metal song called "Stop Giving Up." Maybe by Rhapsody. Or Sabaton. Or Dream Theater.

[Siana Blackwood]

How about this?

Oh, in the calm before the storm
Another legend will be born
Another battle will be won
We will rise
Oh, so heed the call of confrontation
Today we feed on domination
Secure a legacy that will never die
Be immortalized

('Immortalized' by Disturbed)