If the writing advice doesn’t make you feel good/make you feel like you’ve had a light bulb moment/doesn’t make you feel like you’ve got something to jump off from and genuinely improve and instead makes you feel bad then it’s shit advice and you can ignore it.

jcckwrites:

and man… all of my professors in creative writing basically said this too??? like the entire department that even dipped a toe into creative writing said “fuck structure and rules and anything that isn’t you writing from your soul.” even my nonfiction writing class ended up becoming the academic equivalent of a lawless over-dramatized cowboy western.

mutated-bunnies-deactivated2020:

I see… so many writing advice posts on Tumblr that can single handedly kill a young/beginning writer’s style that it makes me want to scream sometimes. Let yourself be messy in writing. If artists are allowed to get paint over everything, including themselves, you’re allowed to have choppy sentences where the rhythm is weird and where you, god forbid, used an adverb. Be the literary equivalent of an elementary school art class and be wild, innovative, and try new things out. In the end you’ll have created something you had fun doing rather than trying to fit yourself into a set of rules set forth by “Who Knows What Their Credentials Are Besides That They’re A Creative Writing Major”.

writing is, to me at least, trying to take the ever-evolving knotted string ball of ideas and words and plots and characters and everything else in your soul and trying to give it words as best you can. and if that means a fuckshit of adverbs then adverb away, bitches