Note to self: in order to write, you have to actually do more than stare at a Word document rereading what you’ve already written. For example, maybe typing new words would be a good strategy.
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Tag: writer problems
Inktober is ending, nanowrimo begins. the artists breathe a sigh of relief, the writers begin to scream.
Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest
you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink
having ocs is weird
some of them are just like ideas and concepts while others are like people living inside your head demanding a nice room and snacks and attention and occasionally they poke you in the feelings when you’re least expecting it
some of them you spend forever coaxing out from a dark corner of your mind with some candy and some of them are always up in your shit
me: god, i’ve been writing for hours
word counter: 283 words
me: BULLSHIT
*re-reads my own story*: Damn this is some good shit
*gets to the part where I stopped writing*: WTF WHERE’S THE REST OF IT HOW DO I GET MORE
Brain: You’re the author, if you want more you have to write it
Me: *flips tables*
types of writing hell
- blank page hell
- too many words hell
- not enough words hell
- not the right words hell
- why isn’t there a word for this hell
- in my damn feelings hell
- edit hell
- wrong music hell
- i love this too much hell
- CHARACTERS, NO! hell
- why can’t i word hell
- repetition hell
- line break hell
- GRAMMAR HELL
tag yourself i’m not enough words hell
me: extensively develops a new au, super excited to write it
also me: is a lazy fake ho
