#I wrote mortification mostly linear-ways but 1. it is sub-2k and 2. the 2-day fugue state I was in at the time was. unusual

[corvuscorona]

the more I write in general but ESPECIALLY the more I work on This Long Fucking Thing the more horrified I am every time I remember that there are people who don't know yet that they don't have to write linear-ways. like when people talk about how "oh I want to write a thing but there has to be all this STUFF between the beginning and the good part so it's hard t—" WHAT!!! WHAT?!! WRITE THE GOOD PART do not DO this to yourself!! made-up rule!!!

if I had to wait until I thought of stuff to put Before the first scene of this Thing that put me in a chokehold in the literal woods, before I WROTE ANY OF IT DOWN, I would have WITHERED AWAY FROM SADNESS. I wrote my chapter 1 draft like FIVE MONTHS after I started doing all this other shit. my chapter 2 file has like 3 coherent thoughts in it & I added 1 of those literally today. oh my god. oh my god. Sophia Content overflows out of my brain every day I'm alive & it like All goes smack in the middle of this story I can't just NOT PRESERVE IT

like this is true for shorter stuff too obviously (eg, wrote the end of Keeper first. by several months) and if I had to GUESS I'd assume the longer a thing gets the Less likely the author is to be thinking "ok let's think of an Opening Line so I can Begin the Journey to Writing The Emotional Payoff" or whatever but I just w. (pulls out a megaphone) PLEASE MAKE SURE TO FREE YOURSELF FROM THE SHACKLES. OKAY? PLEASE SET THE FREAK LOOSE; YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THE FREAK LEADS YOU. TO SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS.

& BTW HAPPY JACKSTOS JUNE 📢📢📢