#writer panic

[the-split-if]

"They're flexible"

Pls Z continue ⚆ᴥ⚆

Patience. Working on it 🙈

Z

[desperatejoys]

WRITER PANIC!!!

I have gotten myself out on the metaphorical ledge of writer anxiety, and I'm going to have to start negotiating myself down here in a minute before I start deleting things.

The Problem: I am 80k words deep into my villain romance for BG3, and I am about two chapters away from a serious departure from canon. This is planned. I planned it. If there's going to be a (villainous) happy ending, it must happen. There is no canon compliant way for this to happen. But I am second guessing like mad. Am I just being ridiculously self-indulgent by forcing this ending? Am I tanking an incredible tragedy because I don't like being sad?

The Solution: There's only two possible outcomes here, and they both require me putting on my brave writer pants, choosing a path, and sticking to it. I have a fully outlined and plotted story with a (hopefully) satisfying ending, and all I have to do to get there is trust my own creativity. Why is that so hard???

[cmishwrites]

rereading my FO4 fanfics, realizing I really suck at finishing them >.<.

that said, the one I really want to throw at the greyspace is... well complicated. Do I post as I wrote it, with the long intro that sets things up or... And the themes in some of this is a bit.. well it could def be called triggery. I'm so out of the loop. is anyone even activly sharing falllout fanfic anymore? Not that it matters honestly but still. I hate this wishy-washy me. It's been too long since I've shared my writing in any capacity. then there's the whole... I gotta finish the damn thing too... ANYWAYS... *goes back to tidying up a not as messy as I thought WIP*

Edited to add: I wish my drawing skills were better, one little scene in that fanfic I would love to draw (maxson getting teased about a hickey, I mean come on that would be epic) but alas, I've neglected my drawing skills and I think even stick figures might be beyond my abilities atm. XD

[oceanera12]

Guuuuyyyyysssss

I realized I accidentally left out part of a chapter in The Birds that I ALREADY POSTED and I don't know what to do about it------

[demented-tours]

The line between writer panic and comfort is so damned thin.

...that moment when you have a reasonable idea of how long a story is going to be based on the outline/past experience/your inability to write anything less than 100K words, and this one will be almost 2x that due to character complexity and the story structure you're exploring, and you also know your general output of words and how often that output can occur, so the math for how long it will take you to finish the story is pretty straightforward...

...and you realize you'll be writing this beast for another seven months. And part of you wants to roll around in happiness because OMG STORY FEELS SO GOOD AND IS SO DARK AND SEXY AND MMMM CHARACTER JOY and the other part of you looks at the long queue of creatures waiting to get written, and then you start calculating how long you have left to live, given a certain set of parameters and barring critical system failures, and you realize you need to cut out some major time sinks in order for this to all work, like sleeping, eating, and going to the bathroom...

...but your health journey dictates that you can no longer do that, as it's Bad For You, so, okay, you'll just have to flex the space/time continuum in order to bend reality and make additional pockets of time and hope you don't cause some kind of storyline event horizon that sucks down the entire planet or opens a hell gate or perhaps resets the universe to zero...

...but THEN you realize that if you DO that in the quest to make more stories, then that'd be an awfully good story for somebody (not you; you'll be squished flat by the terrible, infinite weight of dark matter, space, and time compression and/or eaten by demons and/or be too busy RULING the demons that your writing pursuits just need to go on hold for a little while for the sake of your new career, and KAREN, THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY MAKE ME A FAILURE AS I WILL BE THE QUEEN OF THE MOTHERFUCKING DAMNED AND PLEASE STOP TRYING TO PUT ME IN A BOX AND NOT EVERYTHING IS MEANT TO BE FOREVER EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLY THIS NEW HELL DIMENSION THING THAT IS POTENTIALLY HAPPENING), once, you know, we develop out of primordial sludge and get those opposable thumbs happening again, and it won't MATTER that you can't finish all your stories because somebody else will... ...which just speaks to the continual wheel that is time and purpose and destiny and there's always another life around the corner and you won't KNOW you missed out on writing stories as it's a soul purpose, not a life purpose, and there will be new ones to tell in THAT life and in THAT existence, so, honestly, just do your best with the fucking word count, Dee, and maybe go have a goddamned cookie or some fruit or something because all of this spiraling over math computation is likely because you forgot to eat again, AS YOU DO, which is WHY WE ARE IN THERAPY.

*huff... puff... gasp... wheeze*

Okay. So, um. Yeah. Gonna go... get a snack. And, um... I'll be done with this story in July.

Cool.

Peace.

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

Jaskier: Some days I impress myself with how brilliant a musician I am

Geralt: But no one came to your show

Jaskier: Psh, they just couldn't handle my greatness

Jaskier: They'll regret it

Jaskier: You'll see

Geralt: You're frighteningly confident

Geralt: That's what's impressive

Jaskier, shrugging: It's the only way to cope with being an artist

[middleofnowhere92]

I’ve been pretty comfortable with my drafts for the ATLA rarepair ship challenge and now that it’s time to post I’m nervous/not confident. 👉🏽👈🏽

I wrote two Jetka arranged marriage AUs. I just need to pick one and post it. 

[shypitaya]

I’ve just written a plan of my fanfiction, cause i felt that i was doing the plot too fast, but i i discovered I’m one chapter to the half of the whole of the fanfic so the plot is on its place and everything is alright and It feels so weird, i’ve never made the whole plan of my writing and i’ve never got through to this point. I mean, I’VE NEVER BEEN THIS FAR IN FANFIC I LITERALLY GET PANIC WHAT AM I DOing WHAT IS HAPPENING

OMG i feel like I do sth right for the first time in my live