Midnightskywrites

I post whatever comes to mind and my complaints about writing cause why not also I do write on ao3 here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Midnight_sky1

[midnightskywrites]

i don’t have writer’s block i have writer’s “i was absolutely fluent in storytelling five minutes ago but now i am a single confused fih”

[midnightskywrites]

my writing process is 10% plotting a beautifully intricate story and 90% staring at the sentence “he walked into the room” like it personally betrayed me

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writers will be like “this dialogue is going to change lives” and then type “hi” “hey” “um” for seven paragraphs like it’s a Victorian tragedy

[midnightskywrites]

i love writing because nothing compares to the feeling of knowing exactly what the scene sounds like in your head and absolutely zero words being willing to cooperate

[midnightskywrites]

Currently stuck between this scene is amazing and this is the worst thing ever written

[midnightskywrites]

the real enemy of writing isn't writer's block. it's remembering a cool scene when you’re falling asleep

[midnightskywrites]

nothing says confidence like posting a chapter and immediately rereading it seventeen times to make sure words still exist

[midnightskywrites]

writers will say “this scene practically wrote itself” meanwhile they were hunched over their keyboard at 2:14am bargaining with fictional people

[midnightskywrites]

me: i’ll just write one quick scene

the scene: unpacking a character’s entire relationship with vulnerability through a conversation about takeout food

[midnightskywrites]

writers love saying “slow burn” when they actually mean “these idiots will emotionally circle each other for 87k words”

[midnightskywrites]

some days writing flows like a river of brilliance and other days the keyboard feels like it’s been replaced with a cursed artifact that only produces silence and backspace

[midnightskywrites]

writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe

[midnightskywrites]

Imagining a scene is free. Writing it costs my entire lifespan

[midnightskywrites]

no escape

being a writer is great because now your hobby follows you around like a ghost demanding attention

[midnightskywrites]

this is normal

some days writing is ✨inspiration✨

other days it’s rewriting the same sentence five times and somehow making it worse

[midnightskywrites]

foolproof method

how to fix writer’s block:

STEP 1: simply start writing

STEP 2: if that doesn’t work, stare at the document until it feels bad

STEP 3: open ao3 “just for a minute”

STEP 4: accept your new reality

[midnightskywrites]

Coping Mechanisms

i may be sick

but at least i have ao3 and poor decision making characters to keep me company