Tag: writing inspiration
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animal companions for your heroes and villains
The only pets I’ve ever had were hamsters when I was a kid. Though I love them dearly, I do wonder if owning hamsters was more traumatizing than anything else. One of my go-to stress dreams is of hamsters running amok in the house and me desperately trying to contain them. Also the first hamster…
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Vibes and Aesthetics Only: Winter Edition
So the northeast got a big dumping of snow a few days ago, which meant I received a big dumping of snow. Woke up Monday morning to the cars practically buried in the driveway, and when (thanks due to dad and the neighbor) I got on the highway, it was one lane that was vagueishly…
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a fall mood blog for all us freaks buying pumpkins in august
I uh….love fall (on the Buzzfeed quiz I got 100% autumn) If I could enter through a pumpkin portal into a perpetually fall world, I would and I would stay there (with an occasional vacation because I also like being warm). (Also, please understand that though my love for fall is endless and knows no…
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Vibe and Aesthetics Only (no plots allowed)
Writers get ideas for books in different ways. Sometimes plot comes first, sometimes characters, and sometimes….just vibes. I’m the third type. Vague character vibes, vague plot vibes….I could totally come up with a color palette but not a coherent plot. Plots come later. So I thought today I pull some pretty photos and just…vibe with…
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Creativity is hungry, give it a snack
“Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house, everyone was panicking, even the mouse” (Actually I’m not panicking, just sort of like “Christmas….is…..NEXT WEEK???? WHAT??) The holidays usually bring a rush and even with the weirdness of the pandemic, things are still busy, or maybe for you it has nothing to do with…
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We Found Inspiration in a Weird Place
I had a dream a giant flaming meteor had hurtled into earth and like half the buildings in New York were going down and we were all like “yep, that’s 2020”. Fun fact (that may or may not come in useful when writing): you can hear a car knocking over a street lamp from 1.5…
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Who knew that daydreaming could be so productive
So besides being slowly killed by Mother Nature (I mean “allergies”), I’ve been really missing one thing in particular (well a couple more things but whatever). D A Y D R E A M I N G Daydreaming in the car going to work. In the car back to work. Standing still for 20 min…
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Make Inspiration a Habit, Not Luck (writing without inspiration)
It’s pounded into the heads of us writers: we must write even when uninspired. Write anyways. Force yourself. Don’t wait for inspiration or you’ll never get it done. Just stick yourself in a chair and write. None of that’s wrong. But it does sound very grueling. Pulling words out of your head even when you…
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How to Find Inspiration (without banging your head on a brick wall)
Everyone knows that if you wait till you have inspiration to write, you will never write anything, etc. Blah, blah, blah. *ahem* This is all true, but that’s not what we are talking about today. So, shove that all aside, please. Today we are talking about finding inspiration, which is also entitled, “How to kidnap…
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Stages of Writing a 2nd Draft (as told by gifs)
So. You have finished your first draft. HIP HIP HORRAY!! Good for you! *pat on back* So you have your beautiful, gleaming – confusing, junk filled, messy, first draft. Time to fix it and write the 2nd draft. And now I present to you an illustrated guide to the stages of writing your 2nd draft,…
Bernadette Benda 