#i want to draw my cute lesbain half orc

[mephestopheles]

speaking as someone who needs to listen to their own advice and just never will, I think writers need to learn to warm up more. I think we're all aware of the terror that is a blank page and a blinking cursor, but I think this is where artists have us beat. what's the biggest bit of advice you see on art blogs, fill your sketch book with everything, doodles, line weights, shapes, everything, loosen up your hands and keep moving. writers need to do this too. The first batch of words that come from your fingertips are gonna suck, it's like that first bit of water from the tap, or that video of the damn being opened for the first time in a while. Detritus builds up over time, stuck phrases, excess words, bits and pieces of sentences, all mishmashed together in a muddy gross soup.

I know I spend half the time writing a word, deleting it, writing another and deleting that, ad nauseum. I'm too focused on putting down the right words, as if I can't edit them later, as if putting them down once means they're stuck, trapped at the top of the page forever.

They're no more permanent than anything else, flow only happens when I push through the muck of the first dozen or so hundred words and get past the "this is too hard" whine my brain pulls because I'm doing something slightly harder than scrolling on tumblr.

I've gotten too used to easy dopamine and easy answers, I need things that challenge me, in small but useful ways to keep sharp.

Anyway the point is, maybe if you're finding writing hard on a blank page, just write junk for a paragraph, the colour of your desk, the view outside, your grocery list. The page won't be empty anymore and you might find it easier to transfer into what you want to write after a few sentences.

#writing advice #hopefully I'll take my own advice some day #currently im working on learning how to draw #i am going back to basics and foundation stuff because i keep trying to jump start the process #i want to draw my cute lesbain half orc #but first i need to figure out how shapes work in 3d #happy writing