Baldwin Is A Cool Name. It Is The Opposite Of Hairloss

Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

Can we stop arguing over whether keep inventory on Minecraft is cheating or not? Who the fuck cares if you're cheating or not in a video game? It's not even a competitive game. It's so stupid seeing grown adults get mad because someone doesn't want to lose everything they got while playing. I've literally seen people send death threats over a SANDBOX GAME! Everyone shut up and just play how you want.

Guys?

Neurotypicals entering my room immediately take 1d10 psychic damage

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

Me remembering one of the most beautiful video games I've ever played and realizing I'll never be able to experience it for the first time ever again:

I think you should be able to fish in every video game

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