#writer struggles

[arsonyourfav]

I blinked and suddenly i'm 1k words deep into a verstave actors au and i think im cooking

I love it but i also need to remind myself every 3 lines that im allowed to work on it and not only on alicia au pays des Sourds lol

Like why is this HOBBY im doing for FREE on my FREE TIME actually CAUSING ME STRESS

[linaslore]

writing fanfics feels like having already 10 tabs open at the same time and opening 5 more because you’re getting new ideas every minute but actually finishing none

[saphire-makesart]

How does one make themselves more creative again? I feel like ever since I’ve gotten more into fanfics and ocs that belong in preexisting worlds I’ve lost the ability to create completely original things, I mean I’ve never been great at world building but I used to make ocs with their own universe and storyline and I just feel kind of lazy now like I don’t even try and I can hardly pick up a book I mean I want to I really do I just.., always say I’ll do it later and never do

I think I’m just constantly avoiding sitting with myself or maybe trying to constantly stimulate myself and it’s an attention span issue but it’s not like I can’t pay attention to longer stuff it’s just harder to read instead of listen

Or maybe it’s not and I’m just not trying

Idk

[heebizkuz]

Guess who just wrote yet another script. Fuck me, does he even have enough time at this point? Am I a good writer? Should I just. uh, spend my time doing anything else like learning how to draw fat women or less important stuff like accepting my own flesh?

[jazzmine-lily-anakin]

The writer’s ultimate struggle

I love my skill as a writer and storyteller but sometimes it’s a curse. Had an idea for and was actively working on a fanfic for a specific fandom then watched a movie from a mostly unrelated fandom for inspiration and research on how to make a canon character in a canon divergent scenario feel true to character and flesh the character out and then in this process got an idea for a fanfic In the fandom that i used for inspiration and research

[espeon804]

If you feel like the emotional moments you've written aren't hitting hard enough, that they aren't making you want to cry, that they aren't making you want to grab a character by the shoulder and shake them, that they aren't making you want to run out your room and scream to the heavens... it's because you've read those moments a hundred times before. You know what's going to happen. You know how it ends. It doesn't surprise you. It probably doesn't faze you. The scene isn't bad at all. You've just grown immune to it. But, your readers will feel like you stabbed them with a knife and twisted the blade. That's what matters.

[z0mb13-34ts-br41ns]

writing fanfic while actively reading stuff like 1984 is so hard because I feel like Im a little baby playing with my mashed potatoes and these books are like molded masterpieces made using only potatoes, but like, in the end it's still mashed potatoes so it's fucking delicious no matter the presentation so I need to stop worrying too much