I’m a fan fiction writer so it’s like: “Why the $&@% can’t I write this?!”
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Yay for fanfic! I’m reading fanfic right now! The Supergirl cast’s public mockery of Supercorp shippers (Kara/Lena) accomplished two things for me:
- It made me far less interested in watching the show.
- It made me even more ravenous for Supergirl femslash.
So, I’m reading Supercorp fanfic and sending evil, witchy thoughts to Melissa Benoist and Jeremy Jordan, because I’m nothing if not vindictive. Still love Katie McGrath, though. (God, I’m such a nerd.)
P.S. Sorry for going off-topic, but I 
fanfic!
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Sorry, I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. Im guessing you talking about the Supergirl TV series. I only write for anime and video games.
My mindset before I write is:
-Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182
My mindset when writing is:
-John Steinbeck, New York Times (2 June 1969)
My mindset after writing is:
-Neil Gaiman. somewhat less sinister ducks Blog entry. (23 April 2004).
John Steinbeck’s quote is the one I focus on the most.
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“If a story is in you, it has to come out.” - William Faulkner
This pretty much describes my attitude towards most of how I end up putting my pen to the page the first time around. (Er… fingers to the keyboard.)
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“You are younger now than you are now.”
I don’t know who said it. But do what you love before you die.
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“Be dry in humor, never in prose. Be vivid yet dark, airy but sensual–make it leap off the page with scents, sights, sounds, and tastes. Be unique. And always, always, always remember to finish the damnable thing…”
-Me circa this moment.
Everyday life is the bane of my creative existence.
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My inspiration?
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
My reality?
“It may just be my imagination, but I might just be onto something real here.”
Me, two seconds ago.
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“Passion Colors everything” This is lyric from Poets of The Fall song. In my younger days, i had no passion to do anything. I was like “Meh” on every task i took (except video games i guess) So to make it short…writing is my passion that gives me color to this world, otherwise everything is grey and uninteresting.
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“I am in need of nothing else, but rope enough to hang myself. Laughing through the gates of hell I go.” - Sabbat
Yep. First thing that came to mind. Think I might have some issues…
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I’ve quoted this before, but it’s a bit from Marianne Moore’s Poetry:
Poetry
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers that there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful; when they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible, the
same thing may be said for all of us—that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand. The bat,
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless
wolf under
a tree, the immovable critic twinkling his skin like a horse
that feels a flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician—case after case
could be cited did
one wish it; nor is it valid
to discriminate against “business documents and
school-books”; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets,
the result is not poetry,
nor till the autocrats among us can be
“literalists of
the imagination”—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them,
shall we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, in defiance
of their opinion—
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness, and
that which is on the other hand,
genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
Whenever I get overwhelmed by what I’m trying to do, I repeat to myself, “Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”
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Hmm, I’ve seen the ‘imaginary gardens with real toads’ quoted places, but I don’t recall seeing the full context before. Thanks!
“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
-Lord Byron
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" Writing this is the only way to introduce people to this fabulous idea and world "
" I have to rid myself from these thoughts so others may dwell upon them "
-Krieg ( basically me )
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Ok. In my research, this morning the following quote came up:
Doc Snopes, in the Gonzo Chronicles.
I have mixed feelings about this quote.
“All my hard work means nothing, unless its appreciated.”
“Practice makes perfect, but nobody is perfect. So, why practice at all?” A quote from my nephew
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Two other quotes, that sort of say the same thing.
I have a very complicated ritual about writing. It’s psychologically impossible for me to sit down [and just write] , so I have to trick myself. I operate a very simple strategy which, at least with me, it works. I put down ideas. But I put them down usually in a very elaborate way. A line of thought and then in full sentences and so on. So up to a certain point I am telling myself: “No, I’m not yet writing. I’m just putting down ideas”. Then at a certain point I tell myself: “Everything is already there, now I just have to edit”. - Slavoj Zizek.
“We’re all so good at recognizing what’s shitty about something and how we fix it and we’re all so bad at making something, so just make something bad and then criticize it until it’s good.” - Dan Harmon
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