sometimes it’s “no one loves me” other times it’s “I am not brave enough to look those who love me in the eye”

16 story steps to pull your reader more into your main character’s journey.

Re-Entering the Craft: How to Get Writing Again After a Hiatus

Every writer has periods where the craft falls by the wayside for one reason or another. Mental health issues, family commitments, work, and even a simple loss of enthusiasm or inspiration - all of these things can cause writers to put down the pen for a while. After this kind of hiatus, it is common to find that your writing skills have become a bit rusty - the average pace of writing may have slowed, and more complex scenes could be clunky or awkwardly written as you try to readjust and get your writer brain moving again.

Oiling the proverbial gears and hinges of your brain and getting the words flowing again can be tough, especially the first time you experience a hiatus or writing drought. While every person is different, there are some simple things that are generally effective at helping writers to get back into the swing of things.

10 Ways to Get Your Writer Brain Back in Gear

The brain is very much a muscle (despite being mostly jelly, electricity, and water), so when you use it to do something complex, like writing fiction, it needs practice to build its strength. Writing is such a brain-intensive activity, in fact, that writing therapy can be used for those who have suffered brain damage as a result of trauma, illness, or accidents.

So, it makes sense that trying to dive back into complex world-building and fiction writing after months on hiatus could prove challenging. These simple steps could help to stretch out those brain muscles and get you started once more:

1) Brain Storm

An oldie but a goodie, as my gran would say, and definitely a cliche for a reason - brainstorming ideas is one of the first things I do when trying to get out of a rut. Pen on paper and a collection of gel pens, felt tips, and highlighters to make any schoolgirl proud generally helps, too, because even if inspiration doesn't strike, I get to be a little creative.

Sometimes that's the first step - find some way to be creative, any way at all. Sometimes I even scrapbook or make mood boards - not only does this lift my own mood, but it also gives a creative outlet when the writing-centred part of my brain isn't firing on all cylinders.

2) Freewrite

Freewriting is a wonderful way to simply get used to the mechanics of forming sentences and getting them out onto the page once more. It could also help you to figure out what precisely is making it so hard for you to write.

There's a reason that freewriting is often used as therapy for those with trauma and mental health issues, after all - it can be a very useful way to order your thoughts and expose otherwise hidden issues.

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I like clingy. I like attention. I like affection. I like double texts. I like random calls. I like paragraphs.

… which is why my second name would be “annoying” if I wouldn’t supress all this ;)

The fact that normal people thinks having an ed consists in stopping to EAT COMPLETELY it's so fucking funny to me

A bunch of different dialogue prompts #41

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ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

not even risking that shit

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

Last comment same thing. Sorry to the next person who sees this. I just can’t risk it. I have things I need to do before my life becomes hell. Lol

man i fucking hate yall who tf put this up knowing damn well we all gonna reblog it im heated im really sick af bout this 

I don’t play that shit lol sorry

WHyyyy

Sorry everyone

If only if only the woodpecker sighs the bark on the tree was as soft as the sky why the wolf waits below hungry and lonely he cries to the moon if only if only

Shiddd

this post followed me to Facebook and im sooo annoyed!

It’s been a MINUTE since I’ve seen Madame Zeroni, fr fr

I HATE TUMBLR FKKKK SAKES

LMAOOOO

Not tryna fuck up any of my planetary Returns~

One time I didn’t and I was broke for like a month but the next time I seen it I rebloged it and a bitch just got 500 out the blue and a 20 gift card

Oh hell nah I can’t even risking it I’ll reblog this rn

Not in 2021! I can’t risk it.

For the record I would have reblogged her without the threat.

I can never not reblog this

there are two types of tumblr users.

1. likes only a few particular things

2. likes literally everything they see

Yknow one thing i hate? Teachers getting mad at students with executive dysfunction for “managing their time poorly” (when they know the student has it). Like yes Shirley, thats literally the whole point. sorry my disorder is disordering too hard for you

I remember in like 8th grade or some shit, before I was going to highschool, I was told that I have bad time management skills and I had really no understanding of what that meant. Anyway, it wasnt until I was in college that I learned that I had ADHD.

“Time Management” is just vague as fuck like ,,, my god.

A short thing about “weird triggers” inspired by this that I’ll end up deleting later honestly-

You can reblog this but like... don’t fuck around??? I won’t hesitate with the block button on this I swear to fuck I won’t.

rb and put in tags what the person you rbd this from would've been in their past life

Pianist (painting), 2017

Why do i love this painting? like i am literally obsessed and i can't take my eyes off it, send help

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

Deity of pressure

what the fuck

*shakes you gently*

Eat. Food was not made for you to turn it down. The human race didn’t perfect the invention of milkshakes for them to go ignored due to diet culture. We didn’t make hundreds and thousands of combinations of bread, vegetables, spices, and meat for all of that hard work to go to waste.

We made spaghetti. We made ice cream and chocolate and coffee and rice and pickles. We saw chickens making eggs and we discovered how to make them scrambled. We saw wheat and turned it into cakes and pies. Food was not created as an accident, it wasn’t perfected just to hurt you. We are living in a time where you can drink a strawberry milkshake with a silly straw shaped like a cat. Embrace it.

The future is infinite and made up of infinite moments from “now”. You can’t be happy in the future if you won’t allow yourself to be happy now. You might regret it later, or you might not. You don’t know that. All you’ll know is you’ll regret it now. Stop that.

Eat the goddamn meal. You have permission, you’re not a bad person for it, eating won’t make you a bad person. Eat. Drink. Enjoy yourself. Treat yourself. You have one body, stop neglecting it to fit your ED’s ideal. It wants you dead. It wants you hurting. It wants you to isolate yourself.

You won’t be “skinny enough” until you’re dead. The “ultimate ideal” of eating disorders will always result in being a cadaver six feet under. Saying “I’ll only skip this one meal” will end up turning into two, then three, then fasting. Your eating disorder wants you dead. Don’t let it succeed.

[if you leave negative comments on this post I will fucking GUT YOU and will I report every single thinspo blog that touches this]

ED drink alignment chart!!!

Tag urself I'm chaotic neutral also don't even try and tell me that there isn't a disordered bitch out there who wakes up and choses to chug pickle juice

im chaotic evil

Chaotic evil + neutral

chaotic good + neutral evil

lawful neutral and true neutral

true neutral + chaotic neutral