#writing difficulties

[bythelynx]

Editing is the process of looking at something

you once liked

and calmly deciding it no longer belongs.

Not because it’s bad.

Because it’s not right.

It’s a very specific kind of discipline.

[gatoquecontaestrelas]

That feeling of fulfillment and accomplishment that arises when you finally figure out how to resolve that plot hole that's been haunting you for weeks.

[tokkibean]

unfortunately ive long since decided to make writing my choice of creative pursuit and its been an interesting relationship so far !! to say the least

[aadhube]

Nobody told me how soul sucking it would be to be a new writer with no established audience. The constant struggle to motivate yourself to write, just so that maybe a few people might read it.... It's just soul-sucking, man...

The funny thing is, if I had even like a dozen dedicated readers on a site like Royal Road or Wattpad, at least, I could see myself being pushed enough to write more...

But in order to actually get any appreciable reader base, you do need to write quite a bit.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem there!

[thedogbard]

random thing I found in my sticky notes😭

For all the thousands of songs out there about love and heartbreak and all kinds of stuff, I’ve never come across one about writing. Or, like, the difficulties of writing.

I can kinda hear it, now. A distressed electric guitar screeching around lyrics describing the miseries of an opening line. Or a tense drum sequence accompanying the mental minefield that is plotting. A haunted orchestra of violins as a singer wails about the hellish experience of a first draft.

A tearful piano melody about the impossibilities of writing good flash fictions. Or a frantic combination of every instrument ever invented to describe the unspeakable torture of writer's block.

This could become an entire album.

[gloriousunderstanding]

WHY IS PLOT SO HARD????

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

Writing Confession

I have such a problem with writing scenes or developments where main characters trust the wrong people and/or making Cringe mistakes because I myself always cringe and yell when I read that content in other works and I just hate to do it to characters myself

you writers who do it do it SO well and I just am hardly ever brave enough to do it

[saphstories]

WHY *SLAM* MUST *SLAM* DESIGNING *SLAM* NEW *SLAM* LOCATIONS *SLAM* BE *SLAM* SO *SLAM* DIFFICULT???? *SLAM SLAM SLAM*