This Is Gorgeous!! Love Yousana!!!

This is gorgeous!! Love yousana!!!

Yousana number 6 Thanks!

Isak, Even and Jonas

A great author of the skam fandom needs help!

help needed and commissions

i never thought it’d come to this but here i am. i’m going through some serious financial struggles right now and while i am figuring things out i thought i’d ask for help. 

unlock tragic backstory: as you may know, i’m living in rome, trying to achieve my dream to work as a translator and dialogue writer for dubbing. i am currently doing my first paid freelance translations, and it’s very rewarding (we are working on the good place too!) but payments are very delayed. making my way in this industry will require a lot of time, but as you may imagine, rome is expensive, and i’m still by all means a broke student. my father lost his job and my mother can’t support a family of five, including me and my rent, with 500€ a month. she wants the best for me and will sacrifice a lot, but i can’t ask her to do it for much longer, the guilt is too much. on top of this, i was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in august, a life-long disease of the brain and central nervous system, and i’ll have to go back to my hometown once every three months for checkups, spending at least 50€ on train tickets each time. i’m looking for a part time job that will allow me to keep up the freelance work and cover some expenses, but it could take a couple of weeks or a month at least.

i don’t ask for much because i know there are people out there in worse situations and in much more severe need than me. but this is my paypal. i also made a ko-fi page! i know i am not the most incredible or prolific writer, but i think i’ve made some people happy with my fics in this small, loving fandom, over the last year. so as a thanks to anyone who chooses to support me, i want to offer a drabble in return (500-1.5k w.). if you’re interested, send me a message here (on anon too) to let me know the prompt. marti/nico only, smut is fine, and no extreme angst or kinks please. i am also happy and willing to try commissions for longer fics between 1.5-5k w., but i don’t want to make promises i can’t keep, so it’ll need to be discussed privately! 

i got told this morning to “leave dreams to people who can afford them”, but i want to try to hold on and stay in rome at least until the end of my lease in february without putting my mom in too much trouble. going back to my hometown for good would be incredibly detrimental for my mental health, i can’t even think about it. so thank you for reading, even if you can’t donate, you can share if you want. anything helps. i can’t tell you how grateful i’ll be. <3

To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless

/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

How to recover from Post-Inspiration Burnout

What is post Inspiration Burnout?

We’ve all been there. The muses hit us hard, and we spend days, weeks if we’re lucky, churning out thousands of words a day. Our stories are on fire, it’s all we can think about, and if we’re not writing, something feels wrong. 

And then it ends, as inspiration always does. 

This is normal! Inspiration isn’t a personality trait, it’s a temporary state of being. When that fire burns out, we’re usually left feeling tired and uncreative. So how do we recover? 

Why are you slowing down? 

First things first, figure out the why. Take a good, hard look not just at your writing, but your life around it. Maybe you don’t know what happens next in the story, and you’re stuck. Maybe you’ve been working a lot of hours and staying up late writing, and you’re physically exhausted. Maybe something emotional happened in your life, like a breakup, or a fight with a friend or loved one. Sometimes it might just be the natural cycle of the muses, but before you chalk it up to that, really look at all the other options. 

Some of those causes, like writers block, can be solved by going back to outlines or using brainstorming techniques. Others, like a fight, can only be solved by time. Which brings us to our next question….

Do you need a break? 

I always say, if it’s a problem inside your story, you can write around it, write through it, or write about it, but you can’t solve it by not writing. If it’s a problem outside of your story? Then you need to take a honest look at what’s going on in your life to see if you can benefit from a break.

Not everyone needs one in the post-inspiration burnout phase, but plenty do. Let it be an option! Take some time to explore another hobby, another writing project, or to just lay on the couch and watch netflix. Whatever you know is going to help you recover those creative juices.

 It helps to choose a start and end date to your break, whether that’s a day or a week or a month, so you can mindfully take time off from your project. 

Can you recreate your inspiration? 

While you’re reflecting on the reasons you slowed down, and if you should take a break or not, there’s one more thing you should try to figure out: was there something that prompted your inspiration, and if so, can it be recreated? Maybe you moved to a new writing place, and it awakened something. Great! Find another new spot, and see if that helps. Maybe it was a song you listened to over and over and over again until you wrung out all the inspirational juices from it. If it’s on spotify, go to that song’s radio to find other similar jams, or listen to other songs by that artist. 

There’s not always a rhyme or reason to inspiration, but if you can find a source, take advantage of that! 

Reread for fun

If you find yourself slowing down, give yourself a nice time by rereading all the fevered words you just furiously typed on the page. It’s a good way to spot check yourself to make sure you didn’t just throw out half your outline in a muse-induced haze, and it can bring back some of the excitement you felt when you were writing it. Besides, there’s something about reading words that were written joyously that is just so much fun. Let yourself have a moment. 

Don’t hold yourself to the same standard

Were you writing for five hours a night? Were you writing 6k words a day? That’s great, but that’s done now. Don’t expect yourself to be able to sprint forever. Writing is a marathon sport, and there is no shame in physically and mentally slowing it down. If you work well off goals, that’s great, but choose a more realistic word count or time goal for your lifestyle, something that you could conceivably achieve every day, not just when inspiration lights a fire under your ass. 

Be proud of what you achieved

Whether your inspiration lasted a day, a week, or months, it’s not something to mourn the loss of; it’s something to celebrate the existence of. Whatever you achieved during this time, be proud of it! Chances are, you wrote words you never would have gotten down without these moments, and had ideas that are going to serve you for much longer than any temporary period of inspiration could ever last. Throw a party! 

Remember, no writer writes off of inspiration alone. It takes work, discipline, and some well timed breaks to be a consistent and healthy writer. I hope you enjoy your periods of inspiration, and smile during your periods of work.