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The myth of the tortured artist is bullshit. You don't have to burn yourself out in the service of your writing.

Art is FUN. Creativity is JOYFUL. Stories are vibrant and full of life and humanity and so should you be.

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"Developmental psychologist Ellen Winner talks about the ‘rage to master’. A phenomenon she observed in gifted children – a single minded, obsessive dedication to developing their skill and knowledge of their particular interest."

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MORNING GANG! What are we writing this week?

What joy and awe can teach us about writing - Writers' HQ Don't let the stress of the world deaden your still-beating heart

"Through all of this precarity, we come back to the same question over and over again: what does a writer do? What is a writer for? What is the use of words when destruction and oppression are hovering overhead?"

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Writing doesn't have to be an isolated, tortured affair. It can be *fun*! SHOCKED PIKACHU FACE

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The Write A Short Story Festival starts TODAY!

Come write the best goddamn story you've written so far. We've got soilpunk, we've got the archeology of fiction, we've got parallel lives, we've got editing, we've got publishing WE'VE GOT IT ALL GANG!

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You absolutely deserve one <3

ok but I would always beg for a burger

It's the end of Wild Draft March! Did you write? Did you draft? Did you stare out the window, a solitary tear rolling down your cheek as you pondered the plight of your protagonist without actually ever writing any fucking thing down? Pick your star, tell us how your month has gone.

"henceforth tootsweet let us [add this bit later], milady," he intoned, hissing while breathing in through his pursed clenched lipteeth.

Becoming human: the protective power of narrative In times like these, we need the full story

"In art, in stories, we find a moralistic sanctuary. The good guys win, the bad guys lose. This is the place where we can begin to outrun the shadows of our history and redraw the maps of humanity."

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It is absolutely going to be a banger and you should be there

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The number one reason people don’t finish their novel isn’t about structure or plot or technique. It's because they don't stop fucking about long enough to actually start writing.

Whyyy is it like this?!

I don't know how we got here but it's not how I thought the day would go

I will not be searching for vajazzle anywhere, but thank you

Fun fact: there is not one other person on this whole entire beautiful and terrible planet that can write the stories that you write.

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