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I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more
@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?
actually writing the fic down
what is a writer, if not a miserable little pile of ideas and half written google docs
Fanfic authors be like "stay tuned for more" or "to be continued" and then don't update for twenty years, lmao.
what a dilemma
“WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.”
— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (via almost-always-eventually-right)
Write it badly and call it an outline if writing a bad first draft scares you. Outlines are made to be written more fully the second time.
The bad draft is the “okay if I die and someone needs to finish this posthumously for me what do they need to know in order to get My Vision.” Doing it good is someone else’s problem.
Unfortunately, if you don’t die its your problem but a later you.
Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block
“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess
What’s the comic sans trick?
It doesn’t fix everything but I have used it for essays at minimum since I discovered this, and it really does help.
Just, uh, remember to change it back to something appropriate before you submit your essay to your favorite professor…
Comic sans is a font designed specifically to help dyslexics. It’s one of the few dyslexic friendly fonts that come standard with your computer. Verdana is another. Mayhap now you simply find it easier on the eyes to process?
when you finally realize why your wip is going nowhere:
“WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.”
— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (via almost-always-eventually-right)
Tips for Writing a Difficult Scene
Every writer inevitably gets to that scene that just doesn’t want to work. It doesn’t flow, no matter how hard you try. Well, here are some things to try to get out of that rut:
1. Change the weather
I know this doesn’t sound like it’ll make much of a difference, but trust me when I say it does.
Every single time I’ve tried this, it worked and the scene flowed magically.
2. Change the POV
If your book has multiple POV characters, it might be a good idea to switch the scene to another character’s perspective.
9/10 times, this will make the scene flow better.
3. Start the scene earlier/later
Oftentimes, a scene just doesn’t work because you’re not starting in the right place.
Perhaps you’re starting too late and giving too little context. Perhaps some description or character introspection is needed before you dive in.
Alternatively, you may be taking too long to get to the actual point of the scene. Would it help to dive straight into the action without much ado?
4. Write only the dialogue
If your scene involves dialogue, it can help immensely to write only the spoken words the first time round.
It’s even better if you highlight different characters’ speech in different colors.
Then, later on, you can go back and fill in the dialogue tags, description etc.
5. Fuck it and use a placeholder
If nothing works, it’s time to move on.
Rather than perpetually getting stuck on that one scene, use a placeholder. Something like: [they escape somehow] or [big emotional talk].
And then continue with the draft.
This’ll help you keep momentum and, maybe, make the scene easier to write later on once you have a better grasp on the plot and characters.
Trust me, I do this all the time.
It can take some practice to get past your Type A brain screaming at you, but it’s worth it.
So, those are some things to try when a scene is being difficult. I hope that these tips help :)
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author’s note on fanfic ch4: i’ll probably have it updated by the end of this week!
author’s note on fanfic ch5: so i know it’s been two years but i can explain
author’s note on fanfic ch6:
I’m curious about something, if you write, reblog this post and put in the tags what you write with (MS Word, Google Docs, etc)
It is a painful truth that actually none of my fics are abandoned, no, not even the ones that haven’t updated in five years. I still know exactly what happens next, and after that, and so on. They’re not abandoned; they’re right here, haunting me, characters climbing up my pants like kittens nagging for dinner.
