From Caleb Nichols' Chapbook, Chan Says & Other Songs, A Companion Piece To Caleb's Kill Rock Stars EP

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

The St. Louis Star and Times, Missouri, November 4, 1910

did you guys see the poem from a couple of days ago in poetry dot org’s daily poem it was so good and a treat to read 

I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

"Impossibly Precious, Terribly Small" a mixed media poetry zine I'm working on about how time is passing and there's no going back.

really crazy how much one (1) friend hang out can do for your mental health. do people know about this?

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

What's the worst trap you see amateur writers falling into?

Not appreciating the whole story.

Scroll around "Writing Tumblr" for a few hours and you'll see something to the effect of "I was daydreaming about this big fight/plot twist/dramatic irony, but I hate writing all the stuff leading up to it!"

Everything leading up to the big third act is treated as an obligation. The 'homework' before you get to the 'fun part.'

See this enough times, and you start to realize why you see so many stories meandering around for the first two acts until they can have their big, dramatic climax. You start to see why everything that isn't a Baysplosion is considered "filler" now.

If you're only into writing to write memorable third act reveals, then everything you write is going to be terrible.

There's a video by Noralities going over an old anime, which she admits she hated at first because she was skipping the episodes that were dubbed "filler" by some idiot, and her friend who suggested it to her had to sit her down and tell her that the filler was some of the best parts. And she was in disbelief about that.

"A character-based show feels worse when you watch only the plot episodes and none of the character episodes? Say it ain't so!"

It is a moment of spectacular brainrot in what is otherwise an S-Tier Youtuber, because it's such a basic concept that some people will weirdly fight you on.

Character moments, slow moments, things that might be considered boring to a hyperactive, plot-obsessed weirdo, these are all important. Trying to have a big grand plot without these things is like trying to build a bridge without supports. If you don't have as much of a deep love for those things as you do for the big fight scene at the end, you're going to make shit, because you don't actually like writing.

There are entire genres of storytelling that don't have villains, fight scenes, or dramatic plot twists. There are NO genres of storytelling that don't have characters and character relationships as a core component of them.

I feel like tumblr would really like As It Should Be by Derek Mahon

Why?

Uhhh no reason