Wish we would stop telling young writers that depression or mental illness helps your work or that you need to suffer to create. If you’re feeling mentally ill, you should go to a therapist or a psychiatrist. Writing will not fix it. Hemingway blew his fucking brains out.

This doesn’t mean creating art cannot be therapy, I’m just saying we can’t keep encouraging kids to wallow in their illnesses for the sake of creating things. Well-meaning teachers said this to me my whole life. Plenty of your favorite artists or writers are perfectly happy.

Also this is the absolute closest I will ever get to participating in ~*wRiTeR tWiTtEr*~ and I already hate myself for it