I Dont Want To Write This Extremely Specific Fanfic Of Which I Am The Primary Audience, I Just Want To

I don’t want to write this extremely specific fanfic of which I am the primary audience, I just want to read it.

Friend: oh, so you’re an author?

Me, nodding: yes.

Friend: so when do you find the time to write?

Me, still nodding, slightly teary-eyed: yes.

Me: *Opens word document and opens internet to research important science fact about something for my writing*

Me an hour later: *no words written, what fact was I even looking up, somehow on a page dictating the origins of cockney rhyming slang*

“First, get the story down. Resist the urge to rework your opening line or paragraph. The perfect opening may be the last thing you write. Once you have the story down, you can begin the real work.”

— Angela Savage, Award-winning Australian Writer (via rookiebooknookie)

“I hate writing, I love having written.”

— Dorothy Parker (via imaginethewords)

me: I should write

also me: