mother-entropy:

with-antlers-gleaming-deactivat:

mother-entropy:

tell me a pretty thing.

In Uzbek we have this concept of the divine dark, the darkness from which all things came. So there’s this idea that shows up in a lot of our literature that when the world was first made it was like a gentle night, peaceful, quiet and pitch-black. The night is when creation started and the night is when you’re closest to glimpsing what it was like at the very start of the world.

oh wow that’s gorgeous.

scribeofred:

mareebrittenford:

unfocused-overwriter:

anomaly00:

Person/writing advice/whatever: what is the theme of your story? What message are you trying to tell to the world?

Me:

Originally posted by giffinggif

Does my story really need a message? Isn’t it not enough to vicariously live my unattainable fantasies through characters?

Just because you didn’t figure it out in advance doesn’t mean your story doesn’t have a theme or message. The only reason why I know what the thematic message of my writing is is because people tell it to me. Often it’s something so core and essential to the writer’s view of the world that it’s invisible to them. Writers often suck at analyzing their own work.

Tell your stories. Don’t doubt they have meaning.

Oh, I like this take.

luchia13:

1. go to one in three events you are invited to, as long as you are given that invitation over a week in advance to prepare,
2. tell people beforehand that you have to leave by a specific time due to Excuse (even ‘early morning tomorrow’ works if you inform them immediately upon receiving invitation), stick to this departure time at all costs, regardless of events,
3. pretend to be Hannibal Lecter when you get there.
1. you must at all times be amiable and charming so people don’t realize you are a serial killer
2. you can hang out by the food and compliment it and ask questions about ingredients and stuff
3. you can focus on making subtle cannibalism puns throughout the night (and yes this does help)
4. you are interested in people, and learning about those people, because you have that whole ‘choosing victims’ thing going on and also have to think of an ironically beautiful way to kill them
5. THEY CAN NEVER KNOW YOU ARE PRETENDING YOU’RE HANNIBAL LECTER, so you better use a cover story of being yourself when they ask questions. quickly deflect back to your target conversation partner.