I love Pokemon! It’s just the best. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that it’s not cool or anything of the like.
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“The first draft is nothing more than a starting point, so be wrong as fast as you can.”
Andrew Stanton (Pixar)
I’ve recently started writing with this advice in mind, after previously taking the opposite approach and being a super-perfectionist right out of the gate. For me, at least, I’ve found it to be freeing and immensely helpful.
(via dangurewitch)
The best advice can sometimes be the most difficult to accept. This is definitely the case for me here: letting go, trusting myself to put my thoughts down, and being willing to take the time to sort through them later.
The other best advice I ever heard - the one that’s become my mantra - is, “Everything is important and nothing matters.” Care about your details but be willing to let go of them if or when the time comes. Or, put even better, “Kill your babies.”
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There are no sacred cows in writing. (I would say it’s the same for all art, but considering how shitty an artist I am outside of the written word, I’ll stick to that which I know.) You may love a character, chapter, scene, or a single turn of phrase, but unless it fits and pushes the whole construct forward, it needs to die a highly-edited death and be buried in a separate Word doc called “Things I loved that will someday find a new home in another piece.” Then four years later you’ll read it again and wonder what it was that made you so reticent to cut it in the first place.
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(Source: anthonyking, via spytap)
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Tracey Sketchit. One of the coolest Pokemon researchers of all time. Oak and Elm know their stuff and have sweet labs, but come on, noone does it like Tracey.
