#prose is rlly good im a fan already

[real-fakedoors]

so, ive recently been wanting to write, and i rlly love your tododeku fanfic, and the way you write so I’m kinda asking for advice? what do you do when your brain keeps bugging you to write but when you finally try to do so your mind goes blank? It’s okay if you don’t answer!! just asking cause it’s honestly making me want to bang my head against a wall : ) ✨ 🧚🏽‍♀️

“when you finally try to [write] so your mind goes blank”



what a MOOD

(first of all thank you so much xoxo im glad you liked ‘read between the lines’

(ɔˆ ³(ˆ⌣ˆc) it’s one of my greatest prides and joys!!)

but YES anonymous-san, I have some suggestions that might help you with your writers block/desire to write without knowing what to write about! 
 1. if you aren’t able to make fully-formed thoughts, outline!! ideally, I use sticky notes with big plot points on them in semi-linear order of how I want the story to play out, and then I play with some of the details by imagining how I’ll connect the scenes. that way, if you feel up for writing later, you’ll already have something to go off of!

2. if you just need to get ideas going, I’m a big fan of digging through tumblr tags like #writingprompts or #spilledink, just to expose myself to more and more creative space out there. sometimes, it just takes one little piece of dialogue or an AU concept to spark something!

3. related to above, if I know what I want to describe but I don’t know how to describe it, like a room, an outfit, or some kind of specific space (like a forest, a dining hall, a sci-fi ship bay) I like to look at original artwork that’s out there and it helps me to paint a scene in my head that reflects what I want to capture. pinterest is really good for this!

4. if I’m trying to describe something with really vivid imagery, I’ll write out a “simple” version of the scene and then take time to really pull apart different ways to say the same thing, sort of like if I was turning a piece of prose into a poem. that’s how I do my best world-building, and while it’s not super “productive” in terms of word count, it can really make the difference between something that is just OK and something that feels really polished and well-thought out. :)

5. this one seems simple, but, read!!! read as much as you can, as often as you can! even if it’s not intentional, we are all constantly expanding our vocabularies and receiving stimuli that helps us to recreate worlds in our heads when we read, so while I would never endorse plucking out another author’s word-for-word descriptions, exposing yourself to more written language can only serve to improve your own writing. 

 6. last but not least, sometimes, your muse just doesn’t cooperate. I’ve totally been there. if it just outright refuses to Make Words Happen, I’ll try drawing for a change so I can keep my creative energy going without forcing myself to participate in something that just isn’t working. sometimes your muse just can’t work on a specific subject anymore—that’s why so many AO3 fics end up incomplete—and that’s okay! our lives are too short to spend time writing things that don’t call out to our hearts. just do what feels right, and the rest will work itself out.