Rec | THINKING LONG AND HARD BEFORE GOING IN HEAD FIRST

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THINKING LONG AND HARD BEFORE GOING IN HEAD FIRST

2am thoughts so don’t mind me but as u can see i’ve been ruminating on reading and writing a lot as of late. i’m happy trying to make a name for myself as a visual artist but i’ve always joked in another life i was a novelist or poet… i’ve still been posting on my poetry substack now and that took the edge off but i realize i need more. i cringed at my old wattpad earlier in the week. i looked over my google docs of a story i wanted to write in college then abandoned bc i lost hope and steam. i'm not getting any younger so i'm just gonna commit. i have two little fiction things that i've been toying around with for years that i’ve decided i'm going to take more seriously. who knows if ill do anything with them…i used to put too much pressure on myself when it came to fictional endeavors anyway. i just need an outlet. my brain and heart might just burst.

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@tiff

good luck with writin!!

1d ago

@deardoveswings

@TIFF thank u <333

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