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Inspiringly boring

It’s morning, oh say it ain’t so, that bright sunny time of day that nobody likes. Unless you’re one of those morning people. May God have mercy on your poor misguided soul. But, alas, you’re awake my blarghers, and today we’re going to sit down and talk about inspiration. If you read that in a magical, awe inspired voice while making enigmatic and ethereal arm waves—stop it. I do the arm waving around here.

Inspiration, what is it? Is it bottled? Where do you buy it? Does it smell like lemon pledge?! Who knows, but we’ve all had it hit us over the noggin’ from time to time. It’s a writers best boost…but make no mistake, waiting for it is terrible! It’s why you shouldn’t. Because inspiration is unreliable. You can sit waiting forever, but the thing I’ve learned about it is that it likes to wait too. I mean, if everyone in the world waiting around for inspiration to get things done, little would in fact get done. Inspiration is fickle, lazy, and waiting for it is Bo…ring!

It’s true, sit around and wait on your (btw it looks amazing today) bootay, and see how far that gets you. The answer…nowhere because you’ll still be sitting in that chair duncebucket. At least if you listened to what I said. If you didn’t, you little rule breaker you! *Waves admonishing finger*

But inspiration is unreliable and to be an author, you can’t have that. You just can’t. You have to get work done, polished, and published in a timely fashion. Sure, maybe you’re George RR Martin and or Patrick Rothfuss, you have a massive fanbase loving your work so much they’re willing to wait patiently (not so much) for you to finish. If you’re not, then you can’t afford that. Plus it’s just nice, to yourself and your friends/readers/fans, to put the content out there. Nothing wrong with taking your time to craft the best novel you can. But don’t sit around waiting for inspiration to strike. You get it by striking the anvil yourself. That’s how writing is done!

Don’t me wrong, yes inspiration is great, but from experience, it strikes more in editing, you know when you have a full story done, than during the writing of it. It happens, just not as much as when you have a fleshed out novel from top to bottom to look it. When you see the whole picture. So don’t wait. Remember, by waiting, you’re essentially halting/slowing up, your own story/world. That insanity will bubble and build and then oh noes, what will happen to you!!??

Dun dun dun.

For your sake, and your squishy floofygumps brain, don’t wait. Write. Because waiting is what waiters do. That’s how you become a movie star, not an author…

Yes I had a point there, although now…I think I encouraged to you become an actor. Yay me. Yay you. Succeed, make money, make movies, adopt me. I’m poor. Please… give me money. Don’t wait.

Daze Off

Bwah! I am be return! < (Yes, I know that’s not proper English, it’s a reference, you don’t have to get it.) So my blogophiles, bloglolites, bloglings, and fellow readers of this blargh, sup?

Today I’m going to talk about taking time off for yourself. Because guess what? Authors are not superheroes, they, we, us, yous guys, get worn out. We do. It happens, we’re human. So what do you do then? You take time off. It’s okay. Yes it’s great to write everyday, but life happens, and sometimes it doesn’t care about your writing plans. You get strung out and worked up, frazzled, pushed to the neurotic edge and you’re itching to punch someone, or hyperventilate. Why settle? Do both! But, you’re left in a tizzy, a daze, and it’s fine. Ssssh there little author, tis fine. Take a day or two off. Recharge your batteries. This is a permission post.

You have my permission to relax and recover, okay? So do it. Read a book, that’s still writing practice. It’s the only apprenticeship we have. It’s like Skyrim, you can’t be a master black smith making a million iron daggers….well you can… but no one wants a million iron daggers. You got to read other things, and just read, and have fun. Make an orcish warhammer, read a new novel. Same thing, right? My point being, sometimes you need down time to let the ole brainpan untangle itself and see things in a new way. Maybe a new book will give you new ideas, show you a new way to write something. It happens. Trust me. Writing is not supposed to be a grind.

Stephen King said it best, “Writing is not life, it’s a way back to life.” It’s a part of life, not life. That’s true. Authors write about life, but we have to have one to do that. You have to experience and live it to narrate one. Now this is now a write what you know bit. I’m not saying you need to live a dragon slaying life to write about that. But you need to live so you can properly translate whatever emotions you do want to convey—onto paper. So take time off, when in a daze, take days off. It’s not as bad as you think. The whole, I’ll lose momentum thing is a mindset, a writers block. It’s not real. I used to think that until I realized, hey, I’m making my story up anyways, I don’t know the next bit now, but if I write, I’ll figure it out. Why wouldn’t that be true two or three days from now if I took a break?

See my point. And if you have an outline, then what’s your excuse for worrying? It’s life. If you make it up, you’re making it up anyways, you don’t need to worry about two days off. You didn’t have the next bit anyways. Nothing is magical about writing on Saturday, if you miss it, so what? Relax, come back maybe Monday, then make it up. Hmmm?

So take time off when you need to, write hard when you can, remember to enjoy life. Writing is part of it, so make sure you’re in tip top shape to write when you can. Yes writing everyday is awesome, I want to do it too. Sometimes, I just can’t. Even authors who claim to do it, have off days, they just do. I mean, disasters happen. Stress occurs. It’s life. Live it. Writing is flexible, it’s here for you always, that’s its job. So breathe. Write. Take time off and come back ready to whoop your word counts butt. Okay?

Don’t be a waiter

Greetings mortals, humans, bloglites and fellow blarghers, it’s morning!

Dun dun dun!!!

It’s so common, sitting around, lounging, watching cat videos until inspiration strikes. I have a secret for you, inspiration plays the waiting game too, if you sit around waiting for it, it waits for you to get writing. Waiting is good only for one thing, waiting, using up time. You can’t wait a novel in to completion, you have to write it. Get over it. Stop waiting for perfections, new flash, it’s never going to be perfect, even after editing. Handfuls of New York Times best selling authors will and have said that. Mistakes happen, not everyone will love and adore every line of your novel. So what? It happens. The perfect, heck, even great lines are for first drafts, they’re for editing. But you can’t edit a novel you haven’t written. And you can’t write one by waiting. But sure, go ahead, try, I mean what do I know? Show me how it’s done, wait it out.

Waiting will make you in expert in waiting. The muse doesn’t show up at random, they show up when you do. Writing is like any other craft, you get good at it, better at it, by doing it! Not by waiting and dreaming about being good at it. Practice makes almost perfect, because in writing, in art, there is no perfect. Sorry.

That’s a good thing, perfection is boring, it means there is an acceptable top end level. And that’s boring because if you could hit perfect, that means there’s a standard, at that point everything would start to sound and read the same. That’s against the nature of writing. Everyone has a unique, singular voice, start writing and find yours. You can’t dig up treasure without getting to work, shoveling up the sand and busting your rump.

Waiting does one thing, it puts off your writing till later. Wonderful, let me know when later comes around. I’ve tried finding on the calendar, I couldn’t. Maybe it’s just me. You, you of course must have some secret knowledge of where to find later. I don’t.

It’s why so many authors have daily goals, word counts to hit, or page counts. Some are easier than others, but the principle is to keep you writing constantly, hammering away at completing a work. Because here’s the truth, if you want to make a career out of this, you have to start treating it like one. That’s not a bad thing. I love writing. I hate writing a certain amount. Guess which one wins though? Writing. So I do it, I make it a fun challenge, and you know what? The muse responds to that challenge. Push yourself and you will grow. People grow into promotions and new roles in life, don’t they? Writers grow into new challenges.

But no, no, it’s cool, wait around. It’s awesome. Sure… Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying burn yourself out, by all means, take time off when you need to. You know you better than anyone. If you need to take time off, do it. But learn the difference between when you’re taking time off to help you, and when you’re just procrastinating. Writing novels is not writing college essays. You can’t pop an adderall and pull it out of your butt at the last second. You can only do one of those. Psst, the right answer is pulling it out your butt, because at the end of the day, every author is doing that at some point in there novel.

But I mean, if you’re writing a book about waiting, go get some practice. I’m sure waiting to write it will make you an expert in writing it…Wait? How does that work? Hm…

Most people wait out of this fear that the first words they write in their first, their ROUGH draft, aren’t going to be perfect. Secret time. They’re not going to be perfect even if you did wait. Writing is like sculpting. You have to get that lumpy mass of clay before you can shape it into something perfect. A great many of successful authors have said that the best authors are the best editors. It’s not about making the sculpture perfect the first time, it’s about polishing and chiseling it afterwards. Learn that writing is not a one step thing. You don’t write, and then done. When you learn that, you’ll learn to stop waiting to write. Write, get it done, edit later. You’re first words are never going to be as good as you want them to. I guarantee your first spoken words weren’t Shakespeare or Chaucer.

Get over yourself and write. Stop waiting. WRITE!

Pooping your pants towards a plot

Oh yes, it’s that non standard time again bloglings, because I don’t blog and post at a set time, I do it whenever. Because AUTHOR!

And yes indeedy you read that right, today I’m talking about pooping, pants, and plots. How do they all go together you might be wondering, oh ho ho, do I have a tale for you. Well not really a tale, but, you know, this is a blargh, so I’ve got some knowledge to lay on ya.

You see, thoughts and plots aren’t always thunk in order and clear to see. So what do you do when you can’t see ahead? You write anyways! It’s like shoveling a load of crap onto a garden, you’ve got to do it to make it grow. You’re going to have scenes that aren’t all rip roarin’ roller coaster ridin’ action. And you know what? That’s okay. Sshhh, sshhh, there there little writer. It’s okay. Slow parts don’t just happen, they’re necessary, they happen in life too. We all need breathers, so do our novels and characters. We need time for them to slow down and process, recount events, share some info with each other and us, the writers and or readers.

But, (speaking of which, yours is particularly fine this moment you feisty fine thing you. Here’s lookin’ at you kid. Ahem, sorry, back to blarghing) it’s going to feel slow and poopey. That’s fine, I guarantee you that if you write on the slow days, the days it all feels, writes and reads like crap, it will still be better than not doing it all. Here’s a wordsmithing secret, after you finish your novel and let it sit for a few months before editing, I swear you won’t be able to tell what you wrote on the bad days, and or on the good ones. It’ll all be one giant story, you won’t be able to pick apart the crappy days from the good. And you’ll have a finished work to boot. Nifty huh.

But that means dealing with muck and yuck. The gunk and crap, the poop! You have to shovel the slow scenes and write them. You have to move on! You have to write it. Especially especially and thrice be it said, especially if you’re a pantser. If you don’t have an outline, slow scenes are going to come up, filler happens, just make sure it’s important or entertaining filer. Yes all novels have it. I swear they do no matter how profusely its creator swears it doesn’t. Filler happens, so what? Make it good! Make it fun. You have fun with it and I promise it’ll be fun to read. And if you try, you can twist and work filler into your story so it doesn’t read like filler. And that’s where poop and pants come together. See what I mean? Together they can help further your plot. You need to learn to roll with the punches and shovel crap when it comes time to.

Strap on your crap wadin’ boots folks, we’re gonna dig deep today! Because even plotters have to pants and poop at times. Oh yes, because even the best laid of plans can go to crap when that first word flys. Plotters have to pants and adapt too, they’ve got to shovel the same poo and the pantsers do. So, at the end of the day. You’ve got to shovel the crap. So what? It is in crap that plants and stuff and inspiring quotes stuff grows. You can do it….. um wrong time?

My point is, that it’s part of writing, don’t whine or hate it, embrace it, but don’t deal with it, enjoy it, make it a challenge and something twist. If you’ve got to shovel crap, and you do, make it pay you back, it’s like a garden, you pile the crud, but you get the fruits and veggies. Or bacon… whatever you grow in your garden.

Poop and pantsing come together to advance plots whether you want them to or not. But you’ve got to be willing to shovel the poop and write by the seat of your pants at time. It’s okay. It’s okay. I promise you. There’s this magical thing called editing, which we will save for another time, where the crap cannot be seen, it’s sunk deep down to bring you veggies and foods you just need to clean, and wash up and prepare into a wonderful dish. I know right? Crap to food, don’t think about it. Or pants…

My point is, that it will work out. Just shovel crap when you have to, adapt and pants when you have to and you will plot it out. When the time comes, you can fix it all, and then send it to beta readers and editors to really polish up. But remember, crap gets absorbed, its food for your novel, shovel it, shovel the poop, pants and plot! You can do it.

An Act of Faith

Faithfully Penning!
All writing is indeed an act of faith, not in others, but in yourself. I've learned that an author has to have faith in the unknown, the muse, the late night inspired ideas that come in hazy waves, unclear, unformed. You have to take a leap of faith that those ideas will somehow work themselves out into something larger, something better than you originally thought. George R.R. Martin did that with A Song of Fire and Ice. He started with just the scene of the Starks coming across the direwolves, look what that turned into! Who are we to question the ideas we get!? I mean, they're coming from somewhere, our subconscious, our muses, whatever, wherever, it doesn't matter.

What we all need to learn to do is stop over thinking our inspiration and starting learning to follow them. What else is the point of writing? I do it because I love it, because it frees me from the drudgery of the world around me. It lets me be creative and give all these stories a place to go lest they frazzle my noggin'. Who am I, who are we to stop that, to muddle it all up with fear and doubts of whether other people will like our stories or not? How about we just have faith and write, see what happen, when it happens. How about that? I don't have time to worry about people liking this passage or not, because it has to be written, the longer I worry the less I write. That's bad because my muse is a mean and violent chick.....so I prefer not to get on her bad side! So write, have faith and yeah. Enjoy it!

Writing is like Rabbits!

Once You Write, You Just Can't Stop!
Greeting's non believers and non existers! I'm back, not in black but gray, why? Because, my black shirt is in the laundry! Anyways, I'm going to talk about what I normally do, writers block and how to keep on/start, writing! Seems a lot of people have problems with this, why? I don't know, but I'll do what I can to help!







Couldn't have said it better myself! I got this picture from the facebook group, Freedom With Writing, if you are a wordsmith, check 'em out. But it's the truth, all you have to do is start, the rest will come! Writing begets writing! If you start, more will follow. Listen to picture, well, read and comprehend it anyways. It's like Bruce Lee once said, "Be like water!" Water flows, turn on a water source, it starts with one drip and more follows. All you need to do is drip.

That sounded disgusting.

You know what I mean, put down that first word, a second will surely follow. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OVER THINK THIS!!! That's how writers hold themselves back!!!!! Is this good, is this great, is this bad? Will you shut up!? How about that one!? HUH!?!?!? You can decide how good/great it is when it's time to edit you lumpy dumpies!!!! Write it first, you can't edit what you don't have! That's where books are made and broken, editing. *Hisses* That nasty stuffs!

But alas, I leave now to begin work on my own novel. Being like water, I shall flow....and swear profusely, watch videos of stupid cats and epic rap battles. Adieu non existers, good bye, this has been a great warm up!

One Word to Rule Them All

One Word to Start Them All.
Okay non existers, today I will once again be readdressing the topic of how to start your writing for the day. It's always hard at first, your brain starts running ahead with all the scenes and things you want to do, but you have no idea how to pick up from where you left off. Well, how's about you start with the first word? Just one. Pretty easy huh? I did it here, that's why I'm writing here, can you say WARMUP!? So yeah, all it takes is one word, the singular beginning word and the rest will come. In fact, it's nearly impossible to write just one word in your novel and not have the following lines come to you. Unless you were/are writing a single word line. That's rare, more often than not, its the beginning of a sentence, if you start it, the rest will come and finish it. After that, guess what? You'll probably have the next few sentences, rinse, repeat and then you'll have the next few paragraphs. Keep that up and *gasp* a page, then two and then more!!!! ZOMGS!!!!

I mean look at this, I had no idea where to start today, I opened word and just stared. Then I remembered I have a blog where I just blargh about nothing to no one and it helps. Lo and behold, tis helping. I've already churned out nearly two paragraphs, *self applause* awesome right? I think so, you of course agree because you're in my head. My head always agrees with me, except when it's food time, then the epic war between healthy and yummy wages and leaves me torn in two! Anyways, my point being, writing is like a set of dominoes, you have to knock over the first to get the reaction you want. Your story is the full set of them little blocks, occasionally you will have breaks, the momentum and story stop. So what, you take you finger, give a little flick and send them all cascading down once again. Poof!!!! Not so hard right?

So yeah, use that noggin' and them fingers to whittle out that first God forsaken word, that's it. That's why I do this if it hasn't sunk into your heads, the very act of writing begets more writing. If you're compelled to write as I am, once you start, you just can't stop. But to get to that point, you have to once again, START. Get it yet? Yes, no, maybe so.

Here, lemme show you.

Ahem, first word typed, it was ahem. Omg, i just cleared my throat in text format. Now im rambling and disregard all manner of writing rules but im writing! fun writing, sloppy messy oh so enjoyable writing like being a kid!!!! oh so funnnsss!!! but thats what writing is supposed to be the funs! if youre doing it for the monies, wrong reason, fail. so be sloppy have fun and get it done. the cleaning up is for the evil editing *hisses* see though, right here oh so quick, ive written near about a page of blatherings, if thats a warm up, what will i be able to do once i get to my novel !!! omg potential!!!

here let me help you again [insert first word] thats all you have to do, insert word there, go begin and word frolic. bye!

Writing and Ruts

Writing Ruts and Writing Through 'Em!
Okay, first of all, happy American independence day, non existers! I don't know what's up with me today, I have the mental fatigues, the foggy brains, the mind clouds and don't want to write. Which is exactly why I'm writing this. I am in a rut and know it, it's hard, even starting this was difficult but as always, you have to write. Here I am.

I've realized that when you're in a rut and don't want to write, well that is precisely the time YOU MUST WRITE. Otherwise, if you neglect to write and keep up the momentum, it stops. Once it stops, it's harder to get it back going again. Ugh. So here I am, I don't know if I will hit my daily word count of 2000 words today, but even if I don't for a day, I will still have written. Some progress is better than no progress. Easier to keep things rolling than to let them waver off and die. NO! I can't do that. I hate days where I don't write! In a perfect world, that's all I would be able to do, just write. No day jobs, even having to sleep, eat, go to the bathroom and do adult things like socialize and stuffs. So again, that's why I'm here writing. I know no one really reads these, I don't have much to say, nothing interesting at all. So what. This is for me, not for you!

I am warming up once again, whilst other people talks about whatever, I'm getting ready to write! That's how you get through ruts, by writing. If you can't work on your novel or whatever work you have in progress, then write something! That's what this is, this is my something. My blargh, nonsense piled atop nonsense that helps my fingers do the dance. If I can type up this dribble, than I can hit up my novel with gusto and write what I need to write! I've experienced it, so I know it's true that when you take too many days off, you don't want to go back and write! You're afraid, I hate that, I never want to be afraid of writing, nah ah!

I know I'm not Jim Butcher, Stephen King or any other big shot, I know that this means nothing to most people. I wish I had something to say, something profound, I don't. I can't do that here, on some blog, no. That's not me. I'm an author, I write and say what I can and want in my novels. That's my love, where I leave a piece of myself, a bit of my soul and share it with others. Maybe that's why the bad reviews and people's criticisms hurt so much to artists of any medium. We're pouring our souls out for the world to see, and being that most people don't care (correct me if I'm wrong, and be honest) they trod all over 'em.

So yeah, I think for today I have said my nonsensical disjointed off on a tangent piece. I have work to do, stuff I actually like than being online and blogging and pretending that this gets read. Pretending that this is building my audience, fan base and readers ugh!

The Writer's Ball

Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
Three days in a row non existers! Three days of consecutive blogging, or as I call it, blarghing! Maybe if I say it enough, it will stick?! So long as I am credited for it, MINE! Now that I have impressed upon you my insanity, let's move onto more important thingymagigs.

How to start the ball rollin', keep it tumbling and kicking it back up again on your writings!

So, I've already talked about how to start up writing, vaguely I know but whatever. I'm not writing a novel on how to write here, I'm warming up for my own writings. That's what you should do, so, how do you start up your writing day? By that I mean how do I do it, because you don't exist do you? You're in my head, alongside the millions of characters and stories I've created. Trust me, I know, you think you're real but you're not, did you ever imagine that you might only exist to help ME believe in the illusion that you are real?

What? You're a mind eff! Think about it.... *Whispers* You are an extension of my imagination here to serve the purpose of making me think, I'M REAL!???

Okay sorry, but see that's what writing is about. You have a stupid idea, disregard the notion it's stupid and run with it and out come words! Don't think, don't try, DO!

So, now that I have shared with you the tao of Edgar Allen Poda (for those that get the joke) let's move on to something that can really help.

Writing when you first wake up! Oh I know *groan* I have to turn on my computer, I have to do this, and this and (insert excuses here.) and that? Nope. Right now you need to SHUT UP! You're not real, I can say that to you, so shut up.

Listen *waves hands in an enigmatic manner*

Get. A. Journal.

A cheapo little lined bound journal like you used in highschool. Keep it by the bed and upon waking up, write!!!! Don't think about what, just do it! Write whatever comes to you, fragmented dreams, blargh blah blahs, groanings about the day to come, whatever, do it! This will train you to just write, that's it, freeing you of thought. You can think later about writing, if you want, when working on your novels. But learn to just write first. How you can you write a novel if you don't want to write, if you don't want to actively and enthusiastically approach the page?

How????

*in Tolkien's voice* WRITE YOU FOOLS!

he wasn't an outliner, he just wrote and let it come to him. never let the words to come daunt you, you can always edit them later, but you have to pen them first!!!!

i am now disregarding rules of grammar. this isnt a novel, unprofessoinalism HO!!!!!!! you rock sir hammerlock

anyways, back to this stuffs. look, im being nonsensical here, but you know what? im going to go write and hammer away on my second novel slated to be published, what are you going to do hmmm? huh? what?

if youre neil gaiman, jim butcher, stephen king or some other big shot author and reading this.......first of all......go write your stuffs!!! PEOPLE ARE WAITING YOU JERK OFF LAZIES! second, shut up! Two books is a lot for me okay. *grumbles* im getting there!

im just saying, two books is something for me, i feel accomplished, and it feels good. it got (great english there) two book by done doing that writing stuffs. i did it by learning to write consistently, its not always muse inspired but so what? its work, but fun work! dont believe that lie about if you do something you love youll never work. you will! but YOU WILL LOVE THAT WORK! thats the truth and difference folks. i love writing, coming up with the stories, i dont love fearing the criticism, the editing the marketing and so on, but so what? i can still write! its hard work but its worth it, i get a feeling like no other upon completing it, publishing it and seeing the great reviews and people asking me, what happens next, tell me!???!?!

THATS WHY I WRITE! thats how i keep the ball rollin' because other people expect me to. but also, because ( now im breaking so many rules just to irk off the grammar nazis muwhahahahha and potato) [suffer editors like us lowly authors] i have to keep it rollin'. thats how you progress and grow as a wordsmith, by writing, building learning and practicing. you cant come to this once every 6 months to write a novel. No!!!!!!! EVERY.DAY!!!

try that first, trust me, just keep a journal to start, you overachievers, write twice a day. write once upon waking up in it, and once at night. its why i do this blog, i am now warmed up you fictional people things you. take what you will, or dont, doesn't matter, youre just dust in my noggin' anyhow!

Around the Block: Lies of friendzone, cake and writers block.

Writer's Block and How to SMASH It!
Okie Dokie true believers, today I'm going to tackle writers block. I'm doing this mostly for a dear friend of mine who has started a story and doesn't know where to take it from there. I'm going to start with a quote from the King himself, Stephen King.

"You must not come to the page lightly."

Get it?

If you are already having mixed feelings about what to write, where it's going to go and so on, you're stacking the deck against yourself from the get go. Just come ready, willing, raring, eager to write! That's all you need, the attitude. You don't need to know where it's going to go, just take the first step and show up! It's like a race, you don't complete it in a single bound do you? NO! First you show up, then you take step after step and keep on moving. Eventually you get to where you wanted to go! The same with writing, first you show up. Don't give yourself the block before you even open up the work and get to writing.

Once you've shown up then what? Good question. How about starting the next sentence with ONE, UNO, 1, UN, SINGULAR WORD! who said you had to write a whole sentence? I didn't. Try, the, he she, them, I, for the simplest of starts. Don't worry how it sounds, that's what editing is for. Books are made and broken there, not in the roughest of drafts. Once you have the first word the rest will come I swear, there's only soo many ways it can progress from there but honestly DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! Thinking is your enemy, writing is an art, let it flow. END! Don't think about how it flows or why, just write it, dont question it ugh!

It's why it's been shown people write best when tired, not even that but are more creative then. Your subconscious takes over and you are too tired to rationalize and question, thus you just are creative. If youre over thinking, go for a walk, jog, skip rope, climb stairs or workout! It helps me, then show up ready to write but by GOD SHOW UP TO WRITE! Thats why i do this folks, i dont type blogs for you lot, nobody see's these, i know, i can see the views and comments lol.

But by doing this ive already started writing something, letting my brain and fingers get accustomed to the work ahead, its my warmup before the workout. Writers block is like the friend zone is to guys, a myth. Its something to make you feel comfortable about something imaginary going on in your head. THERE IS NO FRIEND ZONE IT IS A LIE, LIKE THE CAKE. THERE IS NO WRITERS BLOCK, ITS JUST YOU MAKING AN EXCUSE NOT TO WRITE.

You CAN write something. who cares if its not the best the first time around, finish your draft before you critique, in fact poof you are no longer allowed to critique yourself till done. I have seized your inner doubt, editor and more, they are being strung up over a pit of lava with fire breathing turtle monkey....things? that will eat them if you do not finish. want em back then write! then you can judge when done! It's all a lie, only the words are real so just start with something. you can even just write blah blah blah i hate this and i swear something will eventually come, then erase the blah blah and write what truly comes. I mean i know im no ny times best seller but ive been doing this for 6 years now. trust me, i atleast know how to start and finish a project. i know how to write and make no excuses, im not a best seller but i can write and complete a novel theres a difference. jeez

so there you go, the friend zone (dunno how that popped up buts its a lie so it fits) the cake and writers blocks are ALL LIES!!!!! now go forth and write!