#i think about these guys waaaaaaayyyy too much

[xechoecho88x]

some midwest headcanons that refuse to leave my mind

ohio has two degrees, one in astrophysics and the other in aerospace engineering (his love for planes and space coming together in one degree)

the only times you'll see minnesota and indiana angry is when hockey or basketball are involved, respectively. the rest of the time they are unanimously considered to be the nicest and most peaceful midwestern states

minnesota can and will hold grudges, but it's very rare that he's obvious about it

indiana sometimes works as a car mechanic, but he loves to buy old cars and restore them before selling them again

wisconsin has a harley and is extremely proud of it

every year, minnesota and wisconsin go hunting together on the first day of hunting season, there is no hope of contacting either of them that entire first week

illinois is a closet theatre kid. he doesn't want to admit it out of fear of being called chicago even more than he already does

illinois has a personal vendetta against The Bean. the only joy he gets from that thing is calling it "The Bean" to piss off the artist

michigan is the go to driver when it comes to midwest events. not only is he the best driver out of the group, but he also refuses to get in a car if ohio, wisconsin, or illinois is driving

kansas has a dog called Toto because he unironically loves the wizard of oz. his favorite musical is, of course, wicked

kansas has a little farm with chickens, goats, a vegetable garden, and a sunflower garden and tries to live off the land as much as possible

michigan and wisconsin love to make the states outside of the midwest try to pronounce their city names

ohio is attracted to fire like, well, a moth to a flame. the same goes for fire to ohio. even when he has nothing to do with it, things just happen to spontaneously combust around him

[noona-la-la-la]

how long does it take for you to write one-shots? i've been working on an one-shot for almost a week now and i'm honestly worried about my working rhythm. do you think that's normal? D:

I wouldn’t worry about your working pace.  Write what you can, whenever you can.  Personally, I’m really slow getting stuff done because my work is very time consuming, my motivation is inconsistent, my mind wanders a lot while writing, and I edit as I go instead of just getting the story out and editing later (which really slows me down, but I can’t seem to do it any other way).

For example, I think Nursemaid took me about 3 weeks to work on.  I got the idea to do a Jimin handjob smut after seeing a particular gif of him and then I bounced the idea around in my head for a couple days until I came up with a rough idea of a plot line that I liked.  Then I changed the plot line the next day.  Then I started writing it but only got a few paragraphs in before I paused writing to go focus on writing chapter 12 of The Fitting instead.  Then work got really busy so I couldn’t write for a few days.  Then I went back to writing but thought I should really do a little research to make sure I understood what kinds of masturbation techniques men used (thank you reddit for all your ideas) and then I thought I should watch porn to see what those techniques actually look like (and I spent waaaaaaayyyy too much time doing that).  Then I decided I needed to buckle down and really write, so I dedicated an entire day to writing but instead ended up writing a paragraph and then taking a nap, write another paragraph, take another nap, etc... Days later, when I got to the main smut scene, I decided I needed to do more research on handjobs because I don’t have a penis of my own and I wanted to make sure I was being true to the male perspective -- so back to reddit and some other websites to get a guy’s take on what it feels like to get a handjob and what they like or don’t like.  Then wrote some more until I was done (probably another 2 days.)  

As you can see - I have no discipline or order to writing  Other people are very disciplined and focused; I envy them.  But whenever I try to be more efficient or structured in my approach, I see the quality of my writing suffer.  I think you just need to find what produces the best result for you and not worry about how long it takes.