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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

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?

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

New ideas create writers block

The most annoying thing I find about writing is mid-story, getting a new idea for another story and you can't get rid of it. You make notes for when you finish the WIP, but it doesn't go away. It grows and grows until you've got writers block with the story you are currently working on.

So you start on the new story, promising yourself you'll just write a couple of chapters to get it out of your system before returning to your WIP. Except when you look at your WIP and the notes you made, nothing makes sense. You can't remember where you were going with the plot.

Sometimes I don't want to to imagine the ink as my blood. Sometimes I truly want to bleed.

REAL

Like, bro, we’re not all furries, we’re just trying to make you have a better reading experience than

‘Yells’ and ‘says’

ALSO these terms are EXCELLENT characterization opportunities for showing the reader the relationship between characters

So, no, it’s not furry speak

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

Bitches be like:

let's randomly start writing a fanfiction that i don't know the ending of.Then bitches don't know how to continue writing anymore and have to come up with something.

It's me, i'm bitches

You didn't need to call me out like this :(

writers be like ‘i want to write’ but then spend their entire day on tumblr doing nothing

Have you ever looked at your search history and saw things that are so freaking suspicious and then proceeded to have your third "what am i doing with my life" crisis of the week?

No? Me neither.

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

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

Fic writers: You can write porn without plot

Me, a demisexual, writing my own fics: 2K words before anyone even SEES a dick, MINIMUM.

Me frantically putting together notes for my next dnd session to try and connect my cool scenes to a vaguely comprehensive story line… minutes before the session… every time

(because apparently you have to provide some context for the cool scenes you had planned out for a weeks… unbelievable)

It connects, okay!

I don’t go anywhere and I don’t do anything and I don’t have close friends I can trust with my life.

How am I supposed to write a book if I don’t know what living feels like

I Used to Write

I used to write. I used to have paper and pens and pencils and crayons and markers stuffing my purse to bursting, and I used to USE them. My purse would be full of character ideas and dialogue and descriptions of lights and sounds and emotion. There were words in everything I did, my mind narrating my every action as if I were in a parallel fantasy world.

And now my purse is full of pens that don’t work, pencils with no lead, and half-filled papers with faded words that will never know their fate. My mind only speaks my fears. I feel nothing but regret and longing for a time where I could feel more. I used to write.