The old adage is true—writing is rewriting. But it takes a kind of courage to confront your own awfulness (and you will be awful) and realize that, if you sleep on it, you can come back and bang at the thing some more, and it will be less awful. And then you sleep again, and bang even more, and you have something middling. Then you sleep some more, and bang, and you get something that is actually coherent. Hopefully when you are done you have a piece that reasonably approximates the music in your head. And some day, having done that for years, perhaps you will get something that is even better than the music in your head. Becoming a better writer means becoming a re-writer. But that first phase is so awful that most people don’t want any part.
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bonerguardingoverness:

madebyelija:

I AM A MONSTER, 2013

Part of my body of work for my OCADU undergrad thesis (more details can be found here).  Photographed around Toronto, Canada.

Copies of these prints are available for purchase.

can relate

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powslayer:

Reflection and Emission Nebulas

— Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

Credit: Gerald Rhemann // Astrostudio

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I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation…or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you… I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn’t work for me? I don’t want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too…scary. I want to be someone’s everything. I want fire and passion, and love that’s returned, equally. I want to be someone’s heart… Even if it means breaking my own.
— S.C Stephens, Thoughtless (via work-hard-no-excuses)
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lovelyydarkanddeep:

dorothea lange, worker’s hand and hat. 1938

Gorgeous hands.  

lovelyydarkanddeep:

dorothea lange, worker’s hand and hat. 1938

Gorgeous hands.  

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x-enial:

jökulsárlón (by Stígur Már Karlsson)

This is how i feel.

x-enial:

jökulsárlón (by Stígur Már Karlsson)

This is how i feel.

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