i’m raising up those metaphorical blinders to shield me from the sheer embarrassment of my bad writing and shame of having regressed so much to instead keep plowing through the gunk and rework the fiction writing muscle again until i slowly but surely can rebuild my writing craft arsenal back up

[whispering to myself] gotta keep on writing gotta keep on writing delusion delusion delusion novel writing is a marathon not a race novel writing is a marathon NOT A RACE delusion delusion delu-

- oh and the bear season 2!!! how could i forget

i refuse to finish the last three episodes of alchemy of souls part 2. i’m just not gonna do it. my heart can’t take it. i know it’s a happy ending. i just don’t want it to end

like influencing can’t be what you do. what knowledge do you have? what do you have to contribute? what opinions do you have? what is your actual skill set? that’s how you’ll build an influential platform with actual substance

she’s the epitome of what an influencer should be, i think. a person with an actual job and expertise in an industry/space, versus just a person who’s selling products and romanticizing hyper consumerism

we’ve also been watching a few of rf kuang’s lectures that are available online and she’s such an eloquent poised passionate smart speaker. i highly recommend watching her talks for some inspo