#WRITE IT DOWNNN RGRHRHEH 😭

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I shouldn't be either because I literally failed english time after time (in my defense, it was MOSTLY the school's fault), but this is GENUINELY the best advice you can take for writing a story, if I could show you my planning doc for WAS, you'd see how it's just barely scrapping by as organized, I've got like 5 or 6 conversations/scenes that are supposed to occur later in the story almost completely written out.

Even if its bad, that's THE POINT. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD, IT HAS TO BE BAD TO EVENTUALLY BE GOOD, write it down, and go back to it later when you can, going back to my planning doc, I have some scene concepts written out roughly, is it bad? absolutely, does it matter? no, why? Because at least I know what I was talking about and can fix it later when I can.

here's a note that i keep on my phone on my home page at all times with just, ideas, concepts that I wanna make into a scene or conversation (scribbled out, but you get the point, also don't worry about the thing at the top of the first ss LMFAOOO)

With ADHD, it's a constant onslaught of ideas, I have groups of tabs on Google that I've saved with songs that I wanna use for scene ideas, even if it's just a song, and you write the lyric that you wanna base the scene off of down and expand later, it's better than NOT. WRITING. THE IDEA. DOWN. I'm sure I'm not preaching anything new by all means, I just say this to continue to encourage people to write the ideas that they have down, I write my ideas down pretty much anywhere I am, in the store grabbing groceries and I got an idea for my story? Write a basic note of the concept I'm thinking of. in my bed about to fall asleep and I just had an idea for a new sim? writing it down RIGHT NOW. wherever you are when you get your idea, WRITE IT DOWN (unless your actively driving... please wait til you park to write it down 😭).

and going off topic for a second, but if your idea doesn't make it to the cut/another idea takes the place of the previous idea, THATS COMPLETELY FINE!! It happens SO often, it's incredibly prevalent in song writing, just look up unreleased song lyrics vs released song lyrics, they often end up being completely different. When I was gonna start NSB back up, my idea for the first post after the recap was to have Cataleya cleaning around the house and yelling at Calico, that NEVER happened, and that's okay!!! I love what came out instead, and it gave me an opportunity to start doing something I never really realized I was passionate in doing which is making gifs out of scenes.

I rlly shouldn’t be sharing writing advice, bc I’m by no means an expert on it, but if I were to recommended anything, write shit down as you think about it.

My best ideas come to me at the most random moments, so I use my phone a lot, but writing things down as immediately as possible has absolutely improved my productivity. Even if it’s just a sentence, even if it’s rough as fuck, or doesn’t entirely make sense, write it anyway, you’ll thank yourself later.