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Post by Siana Blackwood on Oct 30, 2016 4:00:15 GMT
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Post by Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍 on Nov 5, 2016 4:03:20 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Nov 12, 2016 2:54:18 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Nov 19, 2016 0:53:06 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jan 2, 2017 0:16:06 GMT
Writer Resolution, 2017: Write Despite. ...no matter what happens, keep writing. No matter how exciting or terrifying the news becomes, write anyway. Force the time. Look away. Focus up. Eyes on your paper. Demand of yourself the creation of stories. Carve out the mental and emotional territory, and the temporal and physical landscape, in order to keep doing what you’re doing. In times like this, the distractions are endless. It’s easy to stop. It’s all too simple to feel overwhelmed by what’s going on and to stare at the Eye of Mordor as it fixes its gaze upon you. And yet, no matter what, you gotta do the thing. You gotta tell the stories. You gotta write it all down.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 26, 2017 4:04:58 GMT
Apparently I haven't tried to motivate anyone since January, so this is sort of ironic, but... 
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 28, 2017 12:49:50 GMT
Continuing my token efforts at motivation... 
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jun 28, 2017 1:55:17 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jul 12, 2017 1:34:15 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jul 14, 2017 6:36:32 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Oct 30, 2017 2:11:15 GMT
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Post by Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍 on Nov 8, 2017 23:50:38 GMT
I saw this quote from the Dean Koontz pep talk for NaNo today, and I think it's a rather important thing to remember... Sound familiar? I'd say this applies equally well to anything your shit brain says. It usually tends to get really active right about now, as the Week 2 Blues set in, and you start to question yourself. It also opens up the mental gates to allow others' negativity to warp your perception of yourself as a writer. I think it's a very useful thing to remember that constructive criticism, wherever it comes from, is useful when it applies to specific things, when it comes from a qualified source, and when it it is polite and balanced rather than snarky and shitty. Just now, I was going through the old impostor syndrome - I'm not a real writer, I don't deserve to put a pen to the page, my story is shit, I'm breaking all the rules, I'll never get it to amount to anything, nobody wants to buy another fantasy epic, and I should just burn the whole thing down and give up. Now, I won't say that this entirely went away, but I did need to be reminded that the voice saying this is spouting the type of negativity that I don't need. Who cares about any of it? I'm not writing this for anyone but myself right now. Nobody - not even I - have the right to take away the joy of creating. So go forth and create, and don't overthink it. Now's not the time for thinking - but just writing. I would highly recommend reading the whole thing here.
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Post by Ohaeri on Jan 1, 2018 0:13:44 GMT
I found this helpful:
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Post by Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍 on Jan 3, 2018 21:22:52 GMT
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Post by Jᴀy A. Rᴀᴍᴀ 💀🐍 on Feb 11, 2018 3:38:16 GMT
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