Merlin writes

Merlin | 20 y/o | any pronouns | Here I'll post everything to my story and reblog writing stuff and Merlin headcanon-stuff and stuff. Very eloquent, I know. Profile pictureonly temporary.

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

writers will really have a doc titled ‘fic planning’ and then it’s just blank

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writers will say “i’m going to write!” and then do something else with the doc open in the background

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writers will literally put out the most heart-wrenching and devastating piece of fiction that’s a million times better than the source and go haha hope you liked :)

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writers will have a life changing event happen to them (married, natural disaster, accident etc etc) and then still manage to put out an incredible fic and go ‘sorry this was 0.394838373 seconds late guys :(‘

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writers will go ‘love writing!’ and then don’t write for 10 years

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anyway i love writing and i love writers

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

now hold on a goddamned second

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writers will complain about this post while continuing to not write

[dduane]

(chuckle)

[neil-gaiman]

All of the above. And everything else as well.

[official-lucifers-child]

NEIL GAIMAN????

[dimonds456]

Creating a huge story with multiple chapters while having ADHD is the worst thing ever since you plan out every single detail over the span of 3 days and infodump to all your unwilling friends and family and then you go full-in for a few weeks and then you come up with new ideas and you lose interest, only to get even worse when your hyperfixation changes and then you make a new huge story with multiple chapters while having ADHD and it's the worth thing ever since

[inks-books]

Alexander Pennington here with the facts that hurt

[inks-books]

STOP CALLING ME OUT

[nilla-wafer]

step 1: conceptualize fic

step 2: plot out intricate details of fic

step 3: avoid actually writing fic

step 4: eventually get bored of fic and abandon it for a new project

step 5: repeat.

[dragonhoardingwips-deactivated2]

When you leave your writing in the middle of a sentence, come back to it and you're like "Where the FUCK was I going with this?"

[carpisuns-archive]

no, YOU have a microwave brain that slowly rotates blorbos. I have a washing machine brain that rotates AND soaks them and sometimes things get a little intense and it starts going THUNK THUNK THUNK and nearly breaks itself because of blorbo overload

[o-writers-woes]

[ocmaker]

After finishing the scene you've been hyperfixating on writing

[the-writing-merlin]

dear merlin,

fuck you and your angst. the boys deserved some happiness and if you wont give it to them i will.

- with no respect, your younger brother, friend, and beta reader.

P.S. : cant wait for chapter 10!

dear younger brother, friend and beta reader,

asdfghjkl i love this so much they are so cute i love them so much

and they will get happiness, or at least some, it'll just take some time

- with no respect because you give me none, your older sibling, friend, and writer of this story

P.S.: chapter 10 will be finished tomorrow, learn to be a bit more patient /t

[aesterea-archived]

if you’re ever about to comment on a writer’s work and think, oh, they probably know how good they are, you’re definitely wrong. every time a writer posts or publishes anything, no matter how many years they’ve been doing it and no matter how many readers they have, they are struck with the idea that perhaps they aren’t very good at all.

if you think you’re annoying for commenting, or that we won’t see your comments anyway, you’re wrong. we see your comments. we actively look for them. we are starved for them no matter how many we get. we remember them and they fuel us. leave comments, even if it’s just saying “oh i like this”. i see an “oh i like this” and my heart grows three times its size and i am seized with an urge to provide you more writing just to hear you say “oh i like this” again.

[intj-confessions]

Every writing advice thing ever: Don’t get bogged down in details on your first draft. Just write! ☺️

Me: How I begin this scene hinges on whether cheese sandwiches were served with mayo in the 50’s.

[valtsv]

not as bad as writer's block, but still pretty bad: when you have an idea you're excited to get out of your head but you can only write it really really really slowly

[valtsv]

writer's traffic jam

[the-writing-merlin]

Hi as your sibling I'm legally obligated to bully you for this

Oh fuck off I hate you /affectionate

[nachtwaechterin-ao3]

Well, guess who got inspired ... These are for @the-writing-merlin's not-yet-posted fic and funnily enough, we had the same idea for a picture literally at the same time! You can find their version here.

[the-writing-merlin]

Look at tis! My sibling drew this for my story, and I love it.

[the-writing-merlin]

[ID: Two hands that hold each other at the little finger, coming from the upper corners of the picture. On the right arm is a white sleeve. The right hand has a silver ring on the index finger, the left one has a golden ring on the ring finger. The background is purple with golden loops. Over the hands, golden writing says, “Like It Happened Before.” In the left corner is the water mark of the artist, and next of it it says in white, “Do not repost.”

I did a thing. Namely I painted a picture which was prompted by my newest beta reader. It’s not a scene in the fanfic (yet?), but I love it.

[the-writing-merlin]

My beta reader: *sends me an angsty song*

Me: Is that a Colin song? Yes, it’s a Colin song!

My beta reader: Nonononono!

[isabellaofparma]

‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony