When you try talking to a friend who seemingly ignores you for days at a time and gives no attention back, and overall acts like they don't want to be your friend anymore. Just like giving water to a dead plant, the plant will never grow again or give anything back. Hence the name, watering a dead plant.
girl 1: damn, I was talking to Emily last night and it feels like I'm watering a dead plant
girl 2: ditch him, you shouldn't be friends with someone who doesn't match your energy
the act of authorship, the essence of being a writer, of having writerly qualities and possessing writerly skillz, especially in the case of creating fiction
Often includes the believable manipulation of truth, the careful adjustment of events, and the insertion of multi-layered meaning in everything that is said or done, despite the fact that no one else probably gets it.