seriouslyshutupcasey:

Please don’t listen to people who tell you it’s not okay to write for yourself. If you want to write a 650 word drabble about a character going grocery shopping when you haven’t even wrote your first chapter yet, do it. I know we all read writing articles and forums and everything else because us writers have an obession with being the best we can be. But don’t let anyone tell you writing is only worthwhile when you’re making money off of it. You literally don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. This is art. There are no rules. This goes for prose, too. If using epithets and descriptors for your dialogue tags feels right, keep at it. No matter what you do, there will be people who like it and don’t like it, but what really counts is that you still enjoy yourself. And I think with all this focus on “PUBLISH PUBLISH PUBLISH GET FEEDBACK” advice that’s out there, it’s easy to lose sight of why we started writing.