Shoutout to the notoriously #slowwriters who struggle with: productivity, an induced competition mindset, and what being prolific entails. I write in fevered bursts of time, then I have periods—days, weeks, entire months—when I don’t write at all. I’m here to state to writers like me, that it’s okay. It’s okay to be cyclical in your #creativity, to have fallow periods of nothingness, to not have tight turnarounds or day-to-day #writing goals. It’s okay, and I see you.

#writingcommunity

My well-being is enhanced whenever there’s the possibility of coffee and pastries

#moa

A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:

1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.

2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.

3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.

The escalating scale of writing revisions:
1. Tiny change.
2. Minor change.
3. Polishing.
4. Tweak.
5. Uncomfortable change but you know it’s right.
6. That thing you ignored hoping no one would notice.
7. Deleting a character.
8. Amalgamating two characters without creating a hideous chimaera.
9. Extensive structural change.
10. Extensive structural change that could affect the very nature of space and time.
11. Turning your story into a canoe instead.

#writers #writing #revising