Overcaffeinated Jo March

Writer / Reader / Sometimes Human Querying: 90k YA Fantasy WIP: YA Sci-Fi Fantasy

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

I thought I had escaped, but no, these characters still make me very unwell. 😭

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

Lol first query denial after only 24 hours. I think I’m going to be annoyed every time this manuscript gets rejected considering I poured my entire chronic illness into one of these characters. 🙃

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

Are they lovers? Yes, and worse. One of them finally confessed their love after being childhood friends and unspoken dating for a while. Now they’re soulmates separated across the cosmos on different planets…and they’re stuck like that until some idiot (me) writes the sequel.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can be trusted in bookstores and libraries and you should take me to those locations

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

When you finish writing a book, but then realize you have to do something with it now. 😅

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

I feel more and more like Frankenstein’s monster, burdened by a weight of knowledge I didn’t ask for. Oh, to be blissfully ignorant at the fall of civilization.

[sourdough-seal]

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

[k4tattck]

me while writing: ah yes, this character should do this, it feels so natural with what they're saying

me while editing: why the FUCK does he lean on the doorway SEVENTEEN TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

I just got a query rejection and the agent was like “your book doesn’t have the crucial spark I need to work with it…but lucky for you I support the writers I can’t represent with ✨my podcast✨”

Thanks, that’s the only rejection I’ve ever received that made me viscerally angry. Did I ask for podcast recs?

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve forced myself to continue writing a dystopian novel during an orange administration, I’d have two nickels…

[kamilas-memories]

Writing about ppl falling in love, when I have been in only one disastrous relationship my whole life describes me as a person.

[stuckinapril]

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

[prisilasweetheart]

yall one of my characters has the saddest lore, i hate it sm i just wanna hug him😭😭😭 (me acting like i didn’t give him the sad lore in question)

[nondelphic]

me, every time i write: this is the worst thing i’ve ever done.

also me: this is pure genius.

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

Writers, please tell me this is a common experience and not just me.

Once I’ve decided a draft is likely the last draft of what I’m writing my brain engages imposter syndrome and suddenly I think all my writing is shit. Like the finishing part of every long form writing project I’ve done deals me psychic damage. Does this also happen to you? 😅

[overcaffeinatedjomarch]

A writer on another app alluded to the idea that if they’d started writing in 2012 they would already be published several times and I had to restrain myself because I started writing in 2012 and now I have four manuscripts and still no agent or publication. The journey is a journey. Time does not guarantee anything. It’s mostly luck.