What Do I Bring To The Table? I Bring My Presence, My Time, And My Devotion. I Have Nothing Else To Prove

forgive me for all the things I did,

but mostly for the ones I did not

This is why you can't finish your book

How long have you been trying to finish that idea you had for a book? Why is it that you can never see the finish line?

There’s different reasons for different writers, but in most cases it comes down to one simple thing:

Overwhelm.

You look at your project and you WANT to work on it, but…

you need to research a topic first to write it well

you need to go back and work out a character’s backstory first

you should probably fix the consistency of this character’s voice, they changed so much since you started chapter 1

you probably want to plot this out more

a couple of these chapters here and there are just a mess… which you promised to deal with later

Basically…. you’ve got a HEAP of tasks and issues ahead of you that you have to work out, before you can call the piece complete. And it is SO much work. And it’s overwhelming.

It’s easier to say you’ll untangle it a little later, or when you’ve got a clearer head.

But allow me to let you in on a little secret…

Writing is always messy.

The only way writing gets less messy is if you write it out, and then you rewrite it. And then maybe rewrite it again.

But the only way to move forward is put all these current issues out of your mind, until you finish that first draft, no matter how much of a MESS it is.

It’ll be a smaller mess in the next rewrite.

dear authors, if a character has dark ANYTHING, why does it have to be likened to food 😒

“If you’re happy in a dream…does that count? The happiness- does it count?”

-Arundhati Roy

that moment when you kick yourself for not picking up that book you put off sooner

and they're super casual about it? I mean I wasn't shocked there were other minorities making the same offensive "jokes" over and over bc poc unity just doesnt exist

Watching MaskedArab has made me realize just how islamophobic and racist people are.

did that w white hot kiss. there's books that are junk food material, bad for your vocabulary intake but entertaining, and then there's the trash.

Hey. You know that book you don't particularly like but are reading it anyway? This is your reminder to chuck that baby across the room. Close the tab. Return it to the library. Life is too short to torture yourself with less-than-mediocre fiction

Overthinking is a sign that you do not trust Allah. As you learn to trust him, your mind will become calmer.