If You’re Reading This, I’m Not Writing

Just another writer on the internet broadcasting the trials and tribulations of the writing process. Hey! Call me Kae (they/she) I write stuff sometimes and procrastinate by complaining about it. Posts about specific works in progress can be found in the tags preceded by a slash.

[tokkibean]

see my problem is that i KNOW this is a first draft i KNOW i can write terribly and as long as its coherent-ish i can edit it later i KNOW having a high wc in my first draft will motivate me to write more but also this sentence...just this sentence...let me just reposition this word...just this one...

[unknownwriter404]

I want to be a better writer, but it's hard when it's:

• 5% cool shit that you think of

• 95% filler to justify the cool shit

[dionysiaproductions]

"Who's a good story?" I whisper to my word doc like it's a puppy before writing the most mentally unwell plot beat I can imagine.

[cartwrong]

surely that italicized word will be the one that turns my fic into a masterpiece

[goqmir]

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

[dialupmodern]

it feels so good loading the gun when you're Chekhov

[authorinthemaking]

Plotting it in the shower? Writing. Dramatizing scenes in your head at 2am? Writing. Pacing the kitchen in full existential crisis? WRITING.

Progress isn’t always on the page. But it’s still happening.

[nondelphic]

the first draft won’t kill you. it will just chew you up and spit you out and make you better. like emotionally. or like. worse. but in a literary way.

[kuebiko-writing]

[writtenbyevie]

do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

[keyboardandquill]

You just gotta unclog the pipe. Are you dumb now? No. The water was sitting stagnant because you were busy doing other things (100% fine btw). If any 'dumb' got in the water then it will quickly leave once you let the water start flowing again. Go get all the stupid out into a doc that doesn't matter. Even several of them. It might take a good while, especially if you're returning to writing after years or after a period of intense burnout, or both (waves). But you're just rusty, and letting that stop you will only ensure you stay stuck! Go forth and write some nonsense!

[lettering-is-my-music]

this applies to art as well btw

[write-on-world]

[ghoul-icious]

Correction:

[glassfrogforest]

[glassfrogforest]

[goldenjetpack]

[specialagentartemis]

“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic

[sdwolfpup]

“Weird about each other” is how I’ve always put it. It’s my favorite thing.

[thoughts-ofawriter]

on a high after one successful writing day that will never match anything you could prescribe to me

[seaweedguy-deactivated20250109]

may all the people who see this finish their current wip this year

[nondelphic]

"if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life" except i do love writing, and yet every time i open my document, i feel like a victorian child being sent to the coal mines, so where’s the lie.