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I love my brain and the worlds, characters, and plots it creates.

I also hate my brain because it will never shut up, never rest, never take a break. It's exhausting sometimes.

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.

Spent 24 hours not writing to cleanse the brain and take a break.

I hated it.

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.

Y'all I actually wrote some more of this outline! Finally onto the final part which means I need to settle whether or not I want this story to be a tragedy

I'm back home and wow, did not do nearly as much writing as I thought I would. HOWEVER, I think I decided on making this story learn more towards tragedy. Am I surprised? No.

How is writing a simple outline harder and more exhausting than writing a 60-page script????? Save me from my own brain

the creative process & writing sh*t

Hello friends!

This week, as I get back into the swing of working on my original story and the challenge I’ve set for myself with tackling the seemingly insurmountable task of worldbuilding, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to approach crafting my fantasy world. I’ve been kicking around the interwebs for a bit for some guidance (how-to videos and blogs, inspirational content, etc.) and I’ve not had much luck. I’ve been looking into a few courses (mainly https://rmarcher.com/resource-library/the-worldbuilding-toolbox/) and resources (mainly https://milanote.com/guide/worldbuilding & https://inkarnate.com/) but I’m not sure about any of them. 

(^ me this week)

I’ve said before that I am not Tolkien (though I wish). I have never built a world with the extent of detail and specificity and concreteness to which I need to build the one in which my story takes place. I have no idea what I’m doing. 

I think, however, that's part of the creative process, though it pains me to say. I like when outcomes are known and things are in order (though life rarely ever truly is). I’m gonna admit something to y’all….  I am a total perfectionist. I like things the way that I like things, and I don't like not being able to make things the way I want them to be. 

But part of writing, as I am slowly coming to learn and accept, is creating complete sh*t. And if you create enough sh*t then every so often you’ll stumble across something that's gold. All you need to do is have the courage to dive in and the willingness to get messy.

Therefore, what I really need to do to start building this world for my story, is to just dive in and mess around. That scares the crap out of me because I know some of the stuff (maybe even most of the stuff) that I’m going to make will be terrible. But with all the terrible stuff, there is going to be some stuff that is awesome. And, I don’t know about you, but for me a lot of terrible stuff and a little bit of awesome stuff is better than no stuff at all. 

As I’ve been cutting down on procrastination, I’ve been trying to make intentional space to be creative. So, as I continue to make time to do my other creative hobbies like crocheting and graphic design, I am going to make time to write as well. I’m going to throw myself head first into this whole worldbuilding thing and just try stuff out. I may use worldbuilding resources or aids, but for the most part I’m just going to write. I want to  make the commitment to do this thing, but also give myself space to let my creativity grow. 

So, I will keep you all updated as I go along. Hopefully I'll have enough good stuff to share (because I don’t want to bog down my feed with crap), but we shall see. That’s all from me today, I guess.

And remember, dot your j’s and cross your t’s (even when your writing sh*t ᕱ__<)!

~Clementine J. Quincey 🪷

me at the moment

One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.

I want to write, i have ideas, i can't write. If I had someone with me to bounce ideas maybe. Or hire a scribe to write down every thing I say like in medieval times

If I am not, my characters must be. Someone must always be.

"Why is ur writing so sad all the time-??" I am constantly in anguish

I wrote zero words today, but I thought about writing words. Therefore, I'm a writer

You ever try writing angst and make yourself sad? Like yeah that was the goal, it was meant to be sad, but, like, not for me!!