Hi. I have something to say based off a post I just saw.Â
If you want to write everyday, that’s awesome. If you can write everyday, that’s great.Â
If you can’t write everyday? That’s okay. If you don’t want to write everyday? That’s also okay.Â
Tips for how to write everyday are so lovely and helpful, but if you just cannot do it? THAT’S. OKAY.Â
I used to be in a writing discord (which was really elitist to begin with, but I stayed, because it was the least of that in comparison to all the others I’d found so far) and everyday they’d post writing questions. Sometimes these were questions about writing in general, sometimes about your OCs, sometimes to be answered from your OCs perspective, etc. You get the point.Â
WELL, one day, one of the questions was: How do you help a friend who’s feeling demotivated with writing?Â
And this one girl’s answer literally PUT me into a position of writers block because her answer made me feel THAT bad about myself. She said something along the lines of, “I don’t. That’s not my job. If you don’t feel like writing, then sorry, but you’re not a writer. Real writer’s don’t have this problem.”
And no one said anything. And I just…. Â
It honestly wasn’t until I made a writeblr and began to immerse myself into this little community that I realized that WASN’T true at all. If you can’t write everyday for whatever reason, even if you don’t WANT to write everyday, YOU ARE STILL A WRITER.YOU ARE VERY MUCH A REAL. WRITER.Â
Please remember that. “Real writers” encourage each other.Â
Same with art! You don’t need to draw all day and try new techniques and study study study art.
Your brains and body both need recovering time. Inspiration and insight stems the best from relaxed state of mind. That’s why you get your best ideas before falling asleep, in a shower, in a long car drive, while idling, while walking etc.
Writing and art still suffer from the horrible “Artists Need To Starve And Suffer”-idealism. Please ditch that. Be much more healthier in your approach to your creations and creativity. Ignore assholes and naysayers.
the day steve irwin died this one kid stood at the school gate yelling the news over and over as everyone went home like… it was so important that he literally took on the role of town crier… and no one believed him…
sarahyyy 