#my hobby: abandon wip

[cinmonpunch]

Ellie’d totally got banned from all Jackson fairs.

[sentimentalslut]

Sometimes I want to yell at you to update your fics but I remember you’re a whole ass lawyer and have a life.

also writers block dont forget the writers block

[intakeofbreath]

not brandon sanderson saying on his lecture that one of the worst jobs to have if you plan to write is the one i have 💀

[televenus]

auughghhhhhhgghggggghhhhhhhhghghhh

[fulcrvm]

2670 words into a new dreamling wip, which means i now have 16408 words of across 14 (?!) different dreamling fic wips after nearly one and a half years of trying to post even one complete sandman fic at all. goal for the next five months to get at least one or two of them posted 💪💪

[returntotheground]

something happened with my art and it doesn't look like complete shit rn even in the wip stage what the fuck

[inga-don-studio]

Thinking about starting a new hobby at 1:30am is the Devil talking and they’re so right

[hollybell51]

Heyyyy bestie 👀

just read your jack frost series (so good btw) and have been reading some of your other work *cough* smut *cough* and i was wondering if you'd venture into the spicier stuff with him? ik some people think its a bit weird bc rotg is a kids movie and all, so obv your choice, but just thought i'd put it out there xx

yknow now that you mention it...

[imwritesometimes]

I've reached that stage in creativity stagnation where I once again go back and read my own fics and go omg this is good.... how'd I ever do this???

[mimicteruyo]

tfw you finally put together a full chapter outline of the wip that’s become the bane of your existence and realise to your horror that you need to invent a whole new chapter to put in the middle (unrelated to the other chapter in the middle where you know about one plot point and that’s it)

[ghost-in-the-stalls]

WIP Folder Game

I was tagged by @sagemoderocklee <3

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Oof okay here we go. These are literally just named by what the document is called lol you'll see that many of them do not have proper titles unless they've already started being posted to ao3

Also, do outline-onlys count? I'm adding them

Naruto:

[REDACTED ZINE PIECE]

North Star (posted)

Holy Fool Colored Blue/My Sweetest Downfall (technically posted)

I Come With Knives (posted)

It's Disco, Baby! (posted)

Not God, Not Us, But Something Else (posted)

lemon-wedges art fic

tarot story

AFTG:

angstober days 1 2 3

blair witch au

Dawn Won't End the Night (posted)

musician au

Haikyuu!!:

Big Brother Daichi Feel Good Story

daichi fightchi

Jujustu Kaisen:

The Sound We Make Inbetween

yuuta pre zero scene

Ouran High School Host Club:

kyouya horror exercise

kyouya possession

Devilman:

rewrite

I'm..... not ever comfortable tagging people but I'm ESPECIALLY not gonna be able to tag as many people as I have wips lmao sorry.

I'll tag @bananahwormz @nightingaleflow and @uriekukistan (if you guys want to/haven't been tagged already, ofc <3) Everyone else I can think to tag has already been tagged :')

[louisferrignojr]

i think someone tagged me for the tease tidbit thing. i've lost the notif bc today has been wild

once again from my fic "where everyone realises eddie is gay before eddie does" this time i'm gonna share this bit of dialogue

tagging: @wikiangela @bidisasterevankinard @cliophilyra @ayo-buck @neverevan and anyone else who wants to do this!

also no obligation to reblog this silly post guys <3

[appalachianapologies]

Paradigm Check-in

welcome to a new series- that i'm going to call "paradigm pwednesday" because there aren't any days of the week that start with p so pwednesday is just going to have to- where i write something in paradigm and share it because otherwise i'm never going to finish this book

8/2 (somewhere in chapter seven)

But now she's at the motel, alone, and it's been hours. Sid had two people to take down tonight, so it certainly makes sense that he'd be taking longer than Delilah, but it still doesn't make it any easier to handle. She's not so much worrying about the man as wondering what it would mean in terms of Marcus. If Sid got caught, would Marcus blame her? Probably not. They're partners, sure, but it's clear that Marcus thinks of Sid in a higher regard than Delilah. It might make sense for Marcus to blame Sid if something went wrong with her, but not the other way around. Sid has at least twenty years of this under his belt, which means if anything happens it's his own damn fault. Somehow, the thought isn't as comforting as she thinks it should be. 

[tossawary]

Having written a lot of complete, novel-length fics at this point... I want to say that it's a lot of work and that it's not weird to struggle to complete a creative project. I don't think it's a moral failing to have WIPs or abandoned works or ideas that just don't pan out for whatever reason. It's not a Bad Thing that you've done to yourself or to anyone else.

Like, I don't want to position myself as a big fandom authority here, I just want to speak from my experience and maybe reassure someone by agreeing that completing any creative project is not easy. I have WIPs and abandoned works you haven't seen. I have ideas that I know I'll never follow through on, both achievable and unachievable ones. Writing takes time and effort that has to be taken from elsewhere, and sometimes work is too exhausting and dinner still has to be made and decent sleep is too important, so you just can't do it. Dedicating time to any one hobby means less time for others and that kind of sucks sometimes. Sometimes, I just don't FEEL like writing and I'm not going to "suffer for my art".

It's flattering to be held in high esteem sometimes for writing long and complete fan stories (I have other fan creators I personally admire for similar reasons), but I do want to make it clear that it's a lot of work (writing is work no matter what you're writing!), I'm pretty lucky to be able to do that work more frequently than many others, and I personally don't think anyone should hold it against themselves (or against anyone else!) if circumstances get in the way. Sometimes, things just don't work out and we need to give ourselves time, or even just move on. I appreciate people's slow-to-update WIPs and abandoned works and stories on lengthy hiatus and fic ideas that will never be written.

So, like, if anyone is feeling a little down because they have a story that they're struggling with... I feel that. I don't think it's weird if your fanfiction is important to you or to feel like you've fucked it up somehow. I don't think you're a bad person or a bad writer if you take years to finish a story or if you have to give up on one because you've outgrown it. I think it's cool to share what you have if you want to share it. I think you're cool.

[woozivrse]

um hi here are little bits of wips :3 all of them are like, kinda abandoned rn but i'm trying!!

popular! seungkwan x introvert! reader

digging through his bag, seungkwan pulled out a jacket for you. “here, wear it. if you're going to be here to keep me company then you will do it warm!”

“but won’t you be cold once you’re out of practice?” you held the jacket in your hands.

how svt cuddle, hoshi!

hoshi loves loves LOVES nuzzling into you. doesn't matter where, the neck? nuzzle. the top of the head? nuzzle. he also likes laying on top of you, he treats you as a personal pillow at all times, though it's usually just his head on you so he doesn't hurt you.

summer camp! (i don't actually have any ideas for this, so send some in if you have any!) it's all of svt but im considering making it a series where all the boys have an individual fic?

you looked fondly on the clearing, recalling so many memories from your childhood. soon, the campers from the city would be pouring into the field, excited–or maybe, just a little peeved that they had to be separated from their family and friends– for the start of the summer.

wonwoo x implied aromantic! reader! (this is pretty self indulgent tbh. also, not all aromantic ppl never end up in relationships! it's a spectrum)

books and other hobbies occupied your attention. it's not like you never noticed cute people, you had eyes of course, but you chalked it up to just aesthetic attraction and not romantic. and when your college literature class first began, you assumed it was the same thing. jeon wonwoo was, objectively, really cute.

girl group stan! seungkwan x boy group stan! reader— smau! (heavily HEAVILY wip. don't expect this anytime soon)

reader: “WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT [IDOL] HUH???”

seungkwan: “JIHYOS BETTER. JEALOUSY IS A DISEASE GET BETTER SOON😘”

legally blonde au! elle! dk x emmett! reader, based more on the musical than the movie!

“sorry! i- that came out wrong. i don't mean to judge but, for a girl? who doesn't even like you?”

“it's love!” he argued. “i love her and she loves me,”

“...you sound insane, you know,”

“i know…” he sighed, holding his head in his hands, “just, we dated for years before this, we were together since senior year of high school!”

college au! both reader and dk are leads of the same musical! dk x reader (yes this is also legally blonde based PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE I WAS IN A PHASE) (also, HEAVYYYY WIP. NOT CURRENTLY BEING WORKED ON)

soulmate au! no one rn actually x reader! (this is the final boss of all my wips i started this back in october of last year so we'll find out if it makes it out of the trenches)

he grabbed your wrist, your compasses calming down at the touch.

“found you,” he grinned, eyes bright and breathless.

and that's it! feel free to come talk to me about your favs, maybe they'll make it out of the trenches<3

[jetii]

hey roy :)

must say quickly that I'm very excited for the fox fic !

but for the writer asks: 3, 19, 25 🫶

Thank you for the ask friend!!! 💙💙

3. how you feel about your current WIP

On the Fox fic: I lowkey hate it rn 😭 It has a similar vibe to Lessons of the Heart. Similar open, very grumpy/sunshine and fluffy, but the longer I work on editing it, the more I’m worrying it’s actually way too similar? idk i’ll still post it, but I think I’m going to break it up into more parts to give myself time to make it feel more unique.

I also have a Jesse request that was supposed to be purely smut but took a strange sad turn so I’m trying to reel it back lol

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

This is so hard!!! Probably like colonial and Native American recipes and agriculture during the late 1700s for an Assassin’s Creed fic I abandoned. I have a few books of early American recipes, and I just think they’re neat!

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

My ADHD doesn’t let me keep the same hobby for longer than a few weeks at most, so I mostly play a lot of video games 😭 I also bake and cook fairly elaborate meals on weekends with my fiancé. I love tweaking a recipe until it’s perfect, so we normally have a lot of excess baked goods that I make him bring to our neighbors. I have kind of an absurd amount of cook books, and most of them are covered in my notes omg

And even though this is also my job, I like doing little graphic design things like making fake movie posters and stuff! Oh and lego, so much lego.