I always feel that the word writer is too big for me, but I would say that I am one (or at least I try to be one😹). I write a little bit of everything... In my case, at the beginning, I do very well writing what comes to mind, and when I have more material I try to make an outline/summary of where I want the story to go. If I'm writing poetry, I write directly what comes to my mind without thinking much about it. I encourage you to start writing whatever it is, many times it just comes out without thinking much about it or having it planned.😊
May 3, 2024
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I always plan what I can (outline, characters, plot, etc) but then when I write, I try not to think about it too much and just let it flow, in that way, things might surprise you or reveal themselves to you that you weren’t even thinking about. Play! You have to enjoy the process. Good luck!
Jan 16, 2025
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When I'm stuck or seem to lack motivation, I often force myself to start putting words on paper.
I just grab a notebook — not a digital device, gotta eliminate escapes and distractions — and start writing. Even if it it begins with "I don't know what the hell to write," at least I'm writing.
Eventually it goes somewhere.
Oct 16, 2024
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I write lyrics/poems/prose/essays/the occasional substack/text based art/performance art and the most successful process I've found works for me is just 'hold a pen and hope that it happens'. I can't get any real ideas done on a laptop (my substacks are all drafted in bullet points by hand first). I don't write every day because I don't have the energy or time or enough that is important to say. I only write when I really get the urge in my fingertips and then I get my notebook and just open the page and get whatever out I can. Sometimes it's an idea I've been mulling over that finally comes out and others it's just nonsense sentences that eventually form something.
Basically my advice if you're struggling to get started is just whenever you think you want to do it, just hold a pen and a blank piece of paper and just do it. Maybe it'll be brilliant from the off. First lines are hard so don't worry about it if it's not, fourth lines are where it gets good. I definitely produce 70/30 shit/good writing and that's okay because who's reading it??
Also sometimes you go back a few months later and realise that what you thought was terrible was actually great all along it just needed a different context!
May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024
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The other day, for external reasons beyond my control, I couldn't drink coffee all day. In the middle of the morning my head started to hurt and in the afternoon I started to have a fever. I think my body is addicted to caffeine, but I don't care, I was born because of my mother and I will die because of coffee.
May 7, 2024
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