#but whatever at least im writing WORDS.

[lokh]

hehehe did u know you can draw anything at all <3 so i drew my two favorite characters. together LMAO love wins

[rowanisawriter]

writing original work sucks ASS lol this is awful…. there is no way to pull inspiration except from within myself, i can’t just go play a game or watch a movie or read a book to see my blorbo because he doesn’t and won’t exist unless i write him and only have the voices in my head to turn to for inspiration fuck this lol

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

'mori ougai is his own warning' 'mori typical creepiness' 'tw m*ri' what if i started killing people should i start killing people

[gringoslur]

theres nothing revolutionary in writing w//incest ppl reblogging that post of the dude explaning why hes not ashamed of saying that he wrote it are wild. Comparing the "censorship" of w//incest to the AIDS crisis is wild. Do not cry and say people shouldnt look at you as a freak because you write 2 brothers fucking. You are a weirdo.

[ambersky0319]

I love and hate getting hit with big project ideas (both of the writing and art variety)

love it bc they seem so fun!! i would like to do them for various reasons! i know finishing would leave me feeling accomplished, id learn some new stuff and practice some skills

hate it cause i have no time to finish and i eventually lose motivation to keep up

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

had 3 cups of coffee feeling bold....intermezzo was not that good:(

[acaciapines]

decided to do nano this year! despite the fact that i will be! perhaps! the most busy! in november!! but i am DETERMINED to try and finish the owl house daemon au this year goddamnit i wanna be DONE!!! i want to be free!!!! its been eight million years!!

[animentality]

Nice try at a roast, kid. People actually like my writing though. I got three r/nosleep stories on the front page. What is you got? A book nobody wants to read? Kek you wokies are delusional. By the frickin way... my pronouns are fuck/you so don't misgender me!

oh my god guys, i've never gotten an ask that reeked so strongly of reddit

i could smell this guy coming from 2000 miles away.

a good thing too, because i sure am terrified of reddit toughguys. gotta pack my bags and get my things, or else he might give me a lecture on how minorities such as Women in video games signal the end of civilization as we know it.

he might Just Tell Me How It Is, or say Facts Don't Care About My Feelings, or even call me a Kid again. How will I ever recover?

[starlooove]

He is in fact not cool with his friends killing people he just can’t do shit about it and the fact that he thinks he can do smth about (and does!) when it comes to his kids is like a major point

[milfygerard]

im sorry and it was a post from a mutual no hate but every post i see comparing taylor swift to mitski makes me want to pull my hair out. the reason their music is so different is because they ARENT IN THE SAME GENRE!!!!!!!! TAYLOR SWIFT IS A COUNTRY SONGWRITER WHO MAKES MULTIGENRE POP MUSIC!!!!!! at LEAST compare her to someone closer to her genre like a kelsea ballerini or a kacey musgraves like its just bad song analysis

[mejomonster]

Coming up with ideas for writing 💜💜💜

Actually writing ;-;

[izzy-b-hands]

Attempting to organise the our flag characters into levels for that complete cast challenge thing bc surely attempting this challenge on hard mode with a huge cast will help my writer's block/s

and checking imdb for all of it and just....there's a guy on here for a character named Dax, and it went uncredited and i'm just sat here like. Whomst in the fuck was Dax and where was he. How in the fuck am I gonna write for this guy and the huge list of other extras when I can't even place the fucking scene some of them were in. Like, some like Abshir I remember of course but others im just. fuckin' patrick looking under his rock like 'whomst the fuck are y'all????' I know I probably saw y'all but had no idea this is who you were meant to be playing and-

I make good decisions lmao

[potatobugz]

my WRITING THING just CRASHED and i lost ALL OF MY PROGRESS im Never Writing Again

[ambersky0319]

I'm gonna bash somebody's head into a wall

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Ugh. The urge to ask ppl for art requests vs the pile of ideas that I plan to draw at some point. There r so many things to draw 😭

[wolfsbanesparks]

just wondering how do you find the time to write? especially regular updates

Honestly for a long time I didn't write because I didn't have time, especially with school and work. Its the main reason only started writing fanfiction like two years ago despite always wanting to. I've been lucky enough to have a lot of free time to write over the past few months as i finished up school and began looking for a new job, and I've been using that time to build up better, more consistent writing habits.

I try to write at least a little bit everyday though that doesn't always happen. I don’t really track word counts except during events like Nanowrimo because sometimes trying to meet daily word counts is too stressful. I keep my daily goals small: work on just one scene, one conversation and see where it goes.

Personally I like having multiple stories to bounce between so I can switch it up if I'm feeling bogged down or uninspired for a WIP. I know that doesn't work for everyone, but it helps me.

Finding a time of day that works for you is essential. I write best in the early afternoon and really late at night, but some people write best in the morning before school/work. When you find the time that fits both your schedule and your moods (which I know can be difficult) set up a block of time to write. Even if you spend most of that time staring at a blank screen and only type out one sentence, you'll be making progress!

My secret for regular updates is that when I write multichapter stories that I want to update consistently, I prewrite several chapters before posting.

So say I write 4 chapters before posting (my general minimum goal), if I update weekly then I have a full month to write chapter 5 (and probably more) and my readers see a seamless update. So when I do need to take break from writing because of holidays or just life getting busy, I have that cushion of several chapters to fall back on.

There was a time last summer that I didn't write a single word for like two months! But because I still had a few chapters ready it didn't seem that long to my readers.

And usually by the time I no longer have that cushion, I'm deep enough in the story that I know exactly where it's going and don't need to actively work out plot points. And with experience I rarely get too hung up on things like sentence structure or grammar and can write faster than a newer writer who needs to focus on those things. That's just something that comes with practice though.

In the past year I've also joined a few online writing groups (like my local chapter of Nanowrimo) where I can hop online and do a couple writing sprints with fellow writers where we write as much as we can in 10 or 15 minutes. If you're short on time for writing then it's a great way to get some words out! It's also nice to have some encouragement from other writers!

This got kind of long and rambling but I hope it answers your question and maybe helps out any writers out there.