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I feel this in my soul
I made this to combat my current issue:
The question: what are you thinking about?
My answer:
headcanons for my characters
or
something really existential to the point that it disturbs the average person, including myself
Sometimes it’s both!
why is it that I have a document for random scenes that appear at some point, and the first one is a character having a crisis over a dead person? to be fair, they watched the person die, and then have to tell that person’s family about their death, but why is that the first scene in the document?
I can’t be the only one who does this
okay, so. I have my main wip, but it’s barely my main any more because of an AU I created of my own work.
I also make headcannons of the characters, forgetting I’m the creator.
Having multiple wips be like:
Morning: Oh, that’s a good idea for wip 1!
midday: wait, I should work on wip 2’s plot, I have ideas
afternoon: *thinking about random scenarios for wip 3*
evening: What wip is this for again? Meh, I’ll figure it out
If anyone asks me what I’m writing, I will say nothing. But in a conversation that I can use to talk about my writing, I will take that opportunity.
That feeling when you research/write a lot about something that’s only going to be mentioned for a sentence for so
When in doubt, stay away from the main story and think about what those other random OCs of yours can do, accidentally make an entire story for them, want to write it into its own book/series, and finally realize there’s no plot. The only reason you haven’t done anything else with them is because you don’t want to get rid of them. Writer issues.
When I say I’m writing what I really mean is I’m thinking about the prologue and second half of the plot in extreme detail before considering the idea of what happens in the beginning, coincidentally making it so I get nothing done.
Me, in reference to a D&D character: He’s just a little guy!
Normal Person: That “little guy” could easily kill you. He’s not even that short
Me: Leave me and my little depressed tiefling alone!
When the normal brain says sleep but the neurodivergent brain says “okay, but…” and proceeds to give a fuck ton of ideas to fill in p(l)otholes in the book
they work half the time. It would also be useful if I could remember them. And which story they belong to out of the three I haven’t abandoned yet
Why…
I can imagine what I want to write and how I want it to go, but words simply cannot be manifested onto the page.
so I’m left with the dreaded blinking cursor. A line that stares at me without mercy, mocking me, taunting me, temping me to write when it knows I can’t.
“Start writing”
Hah, no.
“Why not?”
I will, absolutely will against my will, revise and edit as I write, so I write the total of multiple chapters but it ends up being only one and half chapters. I fucking hate it
Writing
Is really difficult. Give yourself a break every once in a while. I’ve been on break from starting writing my main wip for over a year, and I still procrastinate the hell out of it. Writing takes time. Let it happen on its own
It would be wayyyyyy too awkward to explain that yes, I wrote two gay men that go through extreme trauma together, but no, they aren’t official until the last third or so of the story (and all the little lore bits that I have to tell otherwise it would make sense).
reblog if you're a writer but would rather drink straight cyanide than show any of your family members your work
An Average Night
Me, casually trying to sleep:
My brain: Heyyyyyyyyy
Me: Shut. The fuck. Up
Brain: Is the way [character] acts after [relevant plot point] considered [mental disorder/trauma response]?
Me: *Grabbing phone off desk to Google it* I hate you
My story’s antagonist: I’m not just a bitch…
I’m a bitch with a backstory
Me: *Furiously Googling about who knows what*
Also me: You write fantasy, you know that, right?
Me:
Me talking to myself
yes, I talk to myself in the second person. I will also use the fourth person collective on occasion.
“Why can’t I write what I want to today?”
maybe because what you want to write is a cohesive story and you would mostly be staring at that damn taunting, blinking line of a cursor on the Google Doc
“I want to write chronologically!” too bad, you’re thinking of a random scene that’s over halfway through the story. I don’t make the rules
“Why can’t I write the main plot?”
because I said so. Now go back to writing about what happened hundreds of years before the main plot to explain the tension between the two sides
“What’s this character’s name again?”
Think of a new one. You know what it is, and it causes the Tiffany Problem. Think of a new one, you fucking idiot
What if I wrote a smau Hawks x reader AU where Hawks is a baseball player and the reader is a dancer.
What then.
I was so scared of the MHA fandom that, instead of writing a ff about it with a Jūni Taisen crossover, I wrote a whole ass book just to run away from the fandom.
people are S C A R Y
happened to me this morning tbh i’ll just die at this point
so real for this
the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
Random idea I just had:
Imagine, if you will, a genie. A good genie who would even twist wishes to make them better, but the person who summoned them is the biggest dumbass in the universe. Now the genie must figure out how they can twist the wishes so the idiot remains unharmed.
When you find that song that resonates with your plot and you just listen to it on repeat while imagining your story.
I wish I had a little goblin assistant to help me write.
Love writing my traumas into my characters. It's like therapy, but more convoluted.
Writing is like bargaining your first child to a fey except the child is your energy and the fey is everything but writing.
I don't plan my stories. It's all just vibes.