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howilearnedtocope:

Mental illness is not your fault.

Mental illness is not your fault, even if there are things that can theoretically help. You don’t have this mental illness because you didn’t do those things.

Mental illness is not your fault even if you’ve been sick for a long time, and have had access to treatment that hasn’t helped. You are fighting real chemical and biological barriers that make this difficult, and it’s not your fault that it hasn’t worked yet.

Mental illness is not your fault even if you self sabotage sometimes. Those actions are a result OF your mental illness, they are not the cause of it.

Mental illness is not your fault, even if you play up symptoms. You want attention because you are suffering, but it did not cause your mental illness.

Mental illness is not your fault even if you are bad at taking care of yourself. Again, mental illness is what makes this difficult in the first place.

I believe that there is always reason to have hope that things can get better, and that eventually you will find a way to feel better.

But mental illness is never your fault. 

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superhero-nerd:

stuckinthe-climb:

*plays assassins creed to study for my ap history exam*

This is actually really funny. In high school my humanities teacher told us a story about one of the Europe trips he had gone on with the school a few summers past. So him and the group of kids were in the middle of Rome and the tour guide had gotten lost. They could figure out how to get to some church they were going to see. All of a sudden one of the students like call attention to himself. He says he knows where to go and just start walking around the streets, taking back roads and side streets and within 20 mins they’re at the church they needed to get to. My teacher asks the kid if he has every been to Italy before. He says no, he just knew where to go because he played Assassins Creed Brotherhood.

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caffeinewitchcraft:

epicfangirl01:

softestvirgil:

melindawrites:

ittybittytatertot:

melindawrites:

ittybittytatertot:

Some of the best writing advice I ever got was if you’re stuck on a scene or a line, the problem is actually about 10 lines back and that’s saved me from writer’s block so many times.

I feel like I need an elaborate explanation

Often times, I find myself stuck on what a character should say next or what should happen in a scene to connect A to B or so on. When this happens, I fall into the trap of writing and rewriting the same few lines over and over, and becoming more and more dissatisfied every time until I give up. 

But problem is almost never actually whatever line I’m trying to write at the moment; the issue is the stuff leading up to the line. Maybe there are structural issues with the set up, maybe I wrote a bit of dialogue that was out of character leading to a discussion that doesn’t make sense, maybe I’m missing a vital piece of exposition or expositing too much. It could be a lot of things, but the important part of the advice is to look back and be willing to consider changes to something earlier in the work (even if you’re really attached to like a piece of dialogue or a particular sentence or something) instead of trying to find a way to force out a scene that’s not working.

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining!

This is really helpful!

Woah! I never thought about that! Thanks!

I one hundred percent agree with this! Sometimes, when I have really bad writer’s block, I’ll take an hour break and then sit back down to read the entire work over again. 

Whenever I start feeling irritated/confused, I put a notation by that section and keep reading. I mark where the rough patch starts and where it ends. Sometimes the parts after the rough patches are good, sometimes they’re not. Little rough patches are fine, but big ones will need to be addressed in the second edit!

When I get to the point where I’m in a rough patch that doesn’t end, I know I’ve found where I need to re-write. I go back to the start of that rough patch and copy everything from that point forward. I put the whole rough patch in a “graveyard” file (in case I need it later), then delete it from the main document.

Then I start writing again. It works 7/10 times!

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figmentof:

awakecorgi704:

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under-the-arch:

@under-palemoonlight

i’m gonna be honest i didn’t even read the tweet because i had to hit reblog too fast when i saw this guy’s name is “i like hitting police because i am homosexual”

can confirm that is legit what that says lmaooo

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