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this has the dual purpose giving your poems a loose style and also making you objectively worse at writing
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Its way more productive to be overly critical of your bad writing than overly critical of your good writing
Jun 3, 2024
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consistency makes you better, setting a kind of low goal for yourself is a good way to get going. i don't really want to be a poet, but it's nice to feel like i'm slowly being better at poetry and it's just something i can do now. do this with any type of writing for results!!
Nov 25, 2024
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setting a timer for ~20 minutes and just writing without stopping until the timer goes off is *really* good - because at the end of it you have a draft you can revise, which i think is easier and feels a lot more like making progress than emotionally preparing to write something you might not like.
dan harmon has this quote that i think was really helpful to getting me to see the value of just getting the reps in (without all the self-loathing):
*“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material…Prove it. It will go faster. And then, after you write something incredibly shitty in about six hours, it’s no problem making it better in passes, because in addition to being absolutely untalented, you are also a mean, petty CRITIC. You know how you suck and you know how everything sucks and when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it.”*
Mar 22, 2024
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youll love the thrill of knowing what you have is only brief! yeah you’ll be sad when they go and you’ll want them to stay and you’ll want to go with them and you’ll know that you can’t and they can’t but it’ll make it feel all the more special! right?
Dec 19, 2024
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get drunk at 3pm on a wednesday and feel fancy doing it!! put orange juice in it, use the right glass, do it with your friends! it is summer in sydney and nothing feels as good as prosecco under the sun.
Dec 19, 2024
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i love the little whine in the chorus that just came from the shitty broken guitar they were using
Jan 8, 2025