HONESTLY (more Than I Can Count Too Haha)

HONESTLY (more than i can count too haha)

thank you so much! it's just one of those drafts that helped me refine my writing overall, and gave me writing practice. maybe one day i'll completely start from scratch and rewrite it, but not today haha.

12:01 has me like 👀, I want to know more!

i'm glad (young me would be proud lmao).

the short version of it is: about a teen who has recurring nightmares about her father's death a minute after midnight, the time the accident happened

the longer explanation: young me had no idea what to do. i had an interesting premise and ran with it for like 50k words, then got stuck, then never went back.

maybe future me knows better than to follow through with a shiny idea when it won't go very far? 😂

i'm telling you this because i'm struggling with it, too.

stop second guessing and doubting yourself. stop getting imposter syndrome while writing. stop comparing.

i know it's hard to stop, and this is a process i always struggle with. but it's awful when you get tunnel vision, seeing all the plot holes and every little grammatical error made. i open my wip's sometimes, and get such bad anxiety that i can't even write, because i'm so scared. it literally doesn't make sense, but it happens.

but learn to love what you write. grow attached to your characters, and write whatever you want. write for yourself first. and no matter what, whether it's one word or sentence that you wrote that day, be proud of yourself.

self validation and self care comes before a completed novel or mesmerizing characters.

<3

trying to get some writing done today

gonna try to get some tasks done today

Art by Richard Lay

feeling very confident and good about my writing at the moment which is rare so here ✨✨✨ is me spreading the magic ✨✨✨ and good vibes ✨✨✨ to the rest of y’all may your writing prosper and may you feel accomplished

plotting day 25 (or something along those lines, maybe longer)

We live in the same four walls, in the same courtyard, in the same pagoda. And yet, we couldn’t be more far away, like when there was a vast ocean between us. There is no glue to reunite my family together—only determination and desperation. 

everything and nothing makes sense.