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Such good advice for writing fanfic in here. Or, really, writing anything. It has to hold your interest and you need to cut yourself some slack in order to be truly creative. I've read some stuff where the author had clearly given up and was just barfing words onto the page. Not fun.

MAJOR W

aw this is awesome :)

thanks everyone :)) <3

I teach kids how to read all day, & while reading & listening are different skills, you're still practicing comprehension skills when listening to writing. I also think it's worth noting that reading as opposed to listening to writing only became widespread with the advent of the printing press. For much of our history, people listened to stories. We read Shakespeare now, but much of his work was intended to be seen

as a play. We read Homer's Odyssey, but that was a poem that people would listen to. Obviously that's not the size of literature, but those two probably made up some of the "tough" classics of your high school canon. While I agree that it's important to read & I love reading, I also think you should afford yourself some grace.

& from the perspective of someone who teaches reading, if you're not there yet & can't read on your own, focus on listening to longer works, like audiobooks. Then if you can, listen to audiobooks as you follow with the text in front of you. I would also say if you're really serious, try to just read twenty minutes a day.

And also, I'm sorry to keep blathering unsolicitedly, (I just feel strongly about this), but please remember that you deserve stories too. People have shared art & stories throughout our history. It's part of being human. You are not barred from this part of human experience because you can't read books. At the end of the day, just find a way to experience art.

I think "you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)" is kind of weird considering like 80% of important information is already paywalled so like. what would learning to read actually do? allow you to listen better to your oppressors who exploit you for money? ok bro

ooff same. everytime i try reading a fiction book, my brain stays engaged for a few pages, and then before i realise it i've turned 15 page without reading anything. as i'm backtracking, i realise i never really read anything before that either and i just shut the book and give up.

2 words away from 500 words collected ...

Also, gathered some links: On (over)consumption, overstimulation & dissociation, and moving offline https://swiftred.neocities.org/index/links#consumption

!!! [will def peruse this page to some degree :,)]

I love this - "Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life."

i remember seeing a comic someone drew for tumblr a while back (a fricken DECADE ago) that said "the most important filter is the photographer" and it was a table with one clean space amidst a wreck of a room. that hit. online authenticity has /never/ been authentic :(

Take it from me— You can be as suicidal as you want when writing. Nothing’s going to happen to you, except that you’ll feel better for it.

"but I don't want to distress others and I have this weird complex that, at least spiritually, somebody is calling the cops on me." OHHHH SAME. i don't feel safe being 100% authentic with some things. i just allude to them. however i generally think i'm an honest person on my site, i go into pretty deep parts of my minmdset i guess. just not the full way. because im worried its illegal or smth (PROBABLY IS)