Chaos incarnate

I dont know what I'm doing, but I'm having a good time

[skeletomez]

LAST LINE TAG (last line you’ve written)

thx sm for the tag @paperplateprose! this is the end of a short story I was writing about two ocs that I’m obsessed with but cannot bring myself to write more than some episodic short stories about:

“ But the one man he called, the one who had stayed close and protected him for years, had vanished into the darkness .”

@write-on-world @write-with-will @that-one-writer-person @writers-bane @tokkibean @spaghetti-number1rated1997

[writers-bane]

thanks for the tag!

omg i haven't written anything in weeks but this is the last line from my 2nd (and also unnamed) wip:

"There will be a day where her heart wouldn’t do that whenever he entered, but it was not today."

Open tag :)

[writers-bane]

so what if I decide to change the plot after 40k words. what then

[writers-bane]

nothing is sadder than a failed baking attempt

[writers-bane]

so i was daydreaming about my story and having a conversation with myself in my head about something (as one does) then at one point said "this thing works this way in this world, I don't make the rules!" and quickly realized I do in fact make the rules. the thing works this way because I chose to make it work this way, and, actually, I can simply change it if I want to

[writers-bane]

writing after a long break is basically not remembering the timeline and having to scroll up 17 times to check, suddenly remembering a small detail that is important and end up searching for it for 30 minutes, scrolling up 56 times to make sure everything still makes sense in the story, the urge to give up, and the eventual "I'm just going to let my future self suffer editing this"

[writers-bane]

How it feels to finally string 5 coherent sentences together after a writing block

[tulipseason]

a canceled tv show is a kind of dead wife

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[midnightskywrites]

writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe

[luna-azzurra]

Nobody tells you that rewriting is actually just grief. you built something, you lived in it for months, you know every room, and now you have to tear out the walls because the foundation was wrong the whole time. and you knew. you knew on page 4 that something was off but you kept going because stopping felt worse.

So now you're on page 80 holding a chapter you love that has to die because it's beautiful in the wrong story. cut it. put it in a folder you'll never open. mourn it for a day. then go back and be ruthless because the story doesn't care about your feelings about the story. this is the part nobody romanticizes. this is most of writing.

[lovetechnique]

me at any point in time: I have got to listen to more music I have got to watch more movies I have got to read more books I have got t

[killue]

you have a headache because you have powers

[writers-bane]

ok but imagine, if you will, actually writing after spending all week planning to write

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

has anybody heard of writing / knows anything about how to do it

[rockshitty]

Yearning for what you can never have is beginner level. Real yearners know the good shit is what you could freely have if you allowed yourself to, but never will.