The Universe Inside You

Reblog if you’d rather legalize gay marriage than legalize marijuana.

jensnapbowls:

myheartdiedwithyou:

uhm.. what?

 

Even gay people shouldn’t want to legalize gay marriage over pot. The fuck do you think this is?!

(Source: teap0ts)

The Writing Process (revised)

I tend to get a lot of questions about how I write. It’s nothing all that amazing really, and in all reality I bypass a lot of effort that people assume I put into my work based on its quality. And besides, everybody is different, so everyone should write differently. My method is just what works for me, so don’t use it as a model for high quality work. (I feel like I write a lot of shitty things too.) Anyways I’m gonna break it down step-by-step.

1) Inspiration

Inspiration is for amateurs. Meaning if you can only write when you’re inspired then it wastes your ability. You should still write when you’re inspired just try not to rely on it. It also helps to be able to create inspiration which is something I’m not sure how to explain.

2) Genesis of Idea

Once I have the initial inspired idea, I look at it and try to determine how I can use it to make a statement. I wrote a story about orphanages being grocery stores for cannibals once. Not because I wanted to say that cannibals had grocery stores, but because I wanted to say something about orphaned children who are looking for hope or salvation in a new family’s arms and only find cruelty and mistreatment. (Not that this is always the case.) The story serves both as a horror story and social commentary, which are both created when you take something that is real, and modify it so that an audience can view it another way.

3) Writing

I usually write under some type of influence, just because. I seem to focus better but that’s not a very big motivator. I don’t prepare much if at all and usually don’t know how I’m going to end my story. I try to discover my story as I’m writing so that I can feel like I want the reader to feel. This usually involves getting an idea, running with it, losing where I was going, rereading, and getting another idea deciding where I go from there. Somewhere about halfway through I usually have the ending figured out. On rare occasions the ending is the first thing I have down, then it’s an issue of building up to it. I also use a variety of sentences and descriptive vocabulary. Each little detail from the kind of sentence I use to the content of it shapes the atmosphere of my writing. I also write with enough description for me to go back and convert to a screenplay since I would like to be a director one day. Writing is a very natural process for me and it usually does not take very long for me to come up with impressive pages. 

4) Re-reading

When I reread I’m proofreading, revising, and trying to get a sense of what the reader goes through in one solid read. If I see a word used too often, I change it in a few places. If dialogue seems unrealistic or unintentionally corny, I modify it. If a sentence seems to confusing, if I’m too vague, if I leave out key details, I immediately change them without wondering if I should. If I as an author could not understand what I was trying to say from a reader’s perspective it needs to be corrected. It could take me days after I finish a story to reread it, or I could do it on the spot. It depends on how busy I am and how I’m feeling.

5) Show to a Fresh Pair of Eyes

I try not to let people read my work until I’m finished with it. When I’m done, I let someone else read it and ask their opinion of it and how they responded. I would like everyone to interpret what I write as they see it so that they can garner more personal meaning from it. If I successfully inspire some kind of interpretation then I have succeeded, if the reader is confused and cannot even piece together the plot I explicitly wrote, then I have failed (or perhaps they simply just don’t understand.) I don’t usually experience failure in my writing, not because it is always flawless, but because I have taught myself to always achieve my main goal or “single effect” as Poe would like to call it.