writing high

shea | 22 | writer & STEM grad student | currently working on ~the summit~, my very tentatively titled nano 2019 project

[valtsv]

every conflict in fake dating fics is like “we literally kissed in front of my whole family today but you won’t face me while we’re both sleeping in my bed because that’s just too personal i guess”

[valtsv]

@dykeiel is cyberbullying me you guys

[klywrites]

very rude and foolish of me not to lean fully into self-indulgence and unbridled joy when writing first drafts. the audacity

[chemistwriter]

officially giving up on nano

idk honestly it was fun and it was good to put a bit of a fire under my ass but the truth is i just had a lot to do this month and i would rather take a break during thanksgiving than pull my hair out in stress about making up my word count

i’ll post a final word count but yeah i def liked it and am not mad i didn’t “win” bc i still managed quite a lot of words 

i also realized that for me, writing goals are pretty tricky bc i def need to set goals but also if my goals are too constricting i tend to panic and write much worse content

i’m definitely trying again next year tho!!

[0ffwhite]

Yea sex is fun but have u ever been happy for a week straight? Nah me either who tryna fuck

[chemistwriter]

nano day 24 (UH OH)

str8 grinded today and wrote a full 4.6k words (not an all time record i don’t think, but def a nano record)

on the negative side i’m still 10k words behind and have 6 days to write 20k words

i will not surrender, for it is thanksgiving break and i am immortal

[chemistwriter]

being in grad school for an entirely non-writing-related purpose while trying to also win nano: the sordid tale

according to my projections i will be at least 8k (realistically, closer to at least 10k) words behind by the time thanksgiving break hits

then i will have exactly 7 days to str8 grind and make up that massive deficit 

not saying i don’t believe in myself but also i’m tired so we’ll just have to fuckin see won’t we

[chemistwriter]

nano day 18

currently shedding very real tears over the treasured tv series crazy ex girlfriend. extremely behind on nano but whatever losers we out here giving up a little 

[chemistwriter]

the plan for tomorrow

-attend my ungodly early class

-stay on campus until all the quizzes are graded

-ideally also start the midterm review sheet i plan to give my children before i leave campus but if i have no energy this one can slide

-get home in the early afternoon and str8 grind to catch up on nano

-1st social event is at 6

-2nd is at 8 

let’s get it ladies

[chemistwriter]

nano day 14

haha hey what’s up, so guess what, this fool was supposed to catch up yesterday and in fact did have the time to do it but squandered all that time and wrote a measly 600 words instead. i need about 3.3k to do it tomorrow which is very possible for me and my past abilities but the question is... WILL I do it? i fuckin hope so, but i do have a couple of school tasks i also wanted to get done tomorrow, and also i have not one, but two social engagements which i should NOT complain about bc i get lonely on fridays so therefore i will NOT complain about them

i think i MIGHT be able to do this

[chemistwriter]

nano day 13

things are getting alarmingly kicky 

[imp]

some of you never had an intense homoerotic years-long friendship in your early to mid teens that culminated in a dramatic friend breakup and it shows.

[chemistwriter]

been str8 grinding the past 3 days and this gap is now only 1k wide hell yeah boi. i think i can close it off tomorrow. 2.6k words in a day? extremely possible

also i wrote REALLY gay pining content today and really lovin it so i’ll probably post that shit soon

[chemistwriter]

nano day 12

i actually really like nano and i think it’s a good thing for me because i often feel like i write best when i have someone forcing me to be done in time. like i finished my first novel when i was trying to finish before my creative writing class ended so i could show my professor, and literally every other novel i have tried to finish has just gotten abandoned at some point or another. i am definitely planning on doing nano again in the future (also isn’t there an april version now? down for that for sure)

that being said i’m still behind LOL!

[chemistwriter]

why is everything i write so fucking autobiographical

also pretty fucking lame how the coolest parts of my life that i accidentally reference all the time in stories are with the person i am high key in love with whom does not live in the same state as me any longer (but that’s another issue)

[chemistwriter]

fuckkkkkk ok we clawing our way back

just made a semi excruciating push that i’m sure did not turn out good even by first draft standards but uhhh 

also just realized my next chapter is when the ~gay shit~ really starts so that’s something to look forward to. would love to hit 20k tomorrow but also would just be satisfied to keep closing the gap (went from 5k behind --> 3k behind --> 2k behind as of today so being only 1k behind would honestly be fine)

[chemistwriter]

nano day 10: scremes internally

positive side: i busted out a cool 3.3k today, which is more than i do on an “average” day (but pretty typical for a “good” day)

negative side: still a cool 3k behind where i’m supposed to be 

the plan: in theory, if i could bust out 4.6k tomorrow i would be fully caught up #wow #imagine but i highly doubt i can do that since i have a problem set due on tuesday morning. so the real plan is to try to lock down at least 2k tomorrow and then i guess the remaining 4.2k on tuesday. would LOVE to be caught up before thursday because on thursdays i am so fucking tired that i truly cannot write (at least, that’s how things went last thursday) so in the interest of not getting so behind that i’m tempted to quit again i really just want to be in a good place on wednesday 

[chemistwriter]

congrats to me

for being 6,000 words behind on nano and being so stressed about that that i am motivated to do my problem set more than 1 day before it’s due rather than work on my writing #wow