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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.

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

Somebody stop me- I am two seconds away from writing a whole journal about another fictional species. I want to know how these things live and I am unfortunately very familiar with the process of making fictional species. I made a whole slew that I still haven't quite finished, but most of them are done and the only one I haven't completed is the freaking sentient water. If I actually sat down and focused on it for a couple minutes, I could probably be done with it-

Getting off topic!! Anyway, the only thing that's really stopping me right now is that I don't have my computer. And that it's past midnight and I should very much get to sleep rather than staying up and typing things.

Dear WIP that I am working on right now,

If you end up being a three chapter fic I am going to riot

Sincerely,

The author who has to write the dang thing

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

That moment when you find a story you wrote five years ago and it is somehow the best and worst thing you've ever written? The dialogue? I'm so embarrassed. The plot twists? I'm on the edge of my seat.

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

Damn who knew a way to fix writer's block was to write about something different than the same exact characters and settings I've been writing about for years

Not me apparently

I’m not dead, just uninspired, and distracted and sad…

But like, boss Bakugo—

“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.