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Just a reminder -
DON'T EDIT WHILE WRITING
Fastest way to never finish what you're working on. Get it all out on a page and then edit it.
If you're not sure how to do that, make all the text the same color as your page so it blends in. You won't be able to see it as you write, therefore you won't be editing as you write.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel (finishing my work) and suddenly the train (my brain) has slammed on the breaks (stopped producing thoughts) and now I'm stalling (watching YouTube)
I got an idea!
*gets distracted*
No, I need to write down the idea so I don't forget.
*forgets that I wrote down idea*
rinse and repeat
How sacrilegious is it to actually USE one of those cute notebooks we writers buy instead of just hoarding at them? Asking for a friend.
Ever had a moment when you're brainstorming/daydreaming and you don't like the way the plot has played out in your head so you gotta mentally rewind the action and it's basically a VHS tape in your head until you get to a point you do like it and then you gotta re-do all the action in whatever new way you wanted but then mentally save it like a file on a computer in your brain and hope you remember long enough until you get to a notebook or something to jot it down?
Sometimes I feel like a turtle.
Slow, nothing done, taking so long...
Then suddenly I'm at the end wondering how the hell I got there.
Writing my first fantasy piece and I'm five seconds away from sticking an extra vowel in a normal name so it sounds slightly different and I can stop overthinking this.
Elenor? No, Elenoor.
I just scrapped my entire outline (granted I didn't really like it anyways) because I worked out a whole new one IN THE SHOWER.
SHOWERS ARE ORACLES AND WATER IS MAGIC
If someone invented time travel, I hate to say it but I would just use it to write more and watch as much television as possible. Fixing my past mistakes or finally get through 17 seasons of Criminal Minds in a timely manner?
My characters: so what's the lore? What's our backstory?
Me: great question you see --
*sprints away*
Going on a trip and spent a good twenty minutes debating which notebook to bring (since I'm not taking my laptop) and weighing the pros and cons of size, binding, and page count.
Will I write a novel or nothing over the 14 days? Who knows.
I remember when I wrote 60+ page fanfics in tiny font so people couldn't read it over my shoulder after school and thought it wasn't enough and I should probably do a sequel to it.
Now I'm like words?
Not doing any writing today cause I get to quite literally touch grass at a music festival!
As someone who wants to be a tv screenwriter, I write pilots. This means I don't necessarily need to have an ending in mind. I normally know where it should go, but it's never set in stone.
Trying to write a novel is just spinning my head in all directions since it means I need to actually have an ending that is complete, done, and dusted.
That's wild.
How is writing a simple outline harder and more exhausting than writing a 60-page script????? Save me from my own brain
self care is taking one look at NaNoWriMo and saying “oh fuck no”
“you’re a writer, can you explain your process?” yes. first, i panic. then i procrastinate. then, in a fit of productivity at 3 a.m., i create chaos.