#my wordcount spreadsheet is the only proof i have that the fic didn't spring from my skull fully formed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

anistarrose · 2 months ago

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You know, I'm starting to think that weird freak incident earlier this year where I wrote essentially a full novel in less than four months, barring editing, has left me with some unrealistic standards regarding turnaround times for all other creative writing endeavors

#back in the day i would take nine months to write less than 4k words about an old man playing checkers with a ghost #and people *loved* it! people ate that shit up!#to this day i struggle to understand what was happening to my brain chemistry when i wrote the 58k monster #or “monsterpiece” as i've dubbed it #i was incapable of thinking of anything else #i look back on those three and a half months through a haze #my wordcount spreadsheet is the only proof i have that the fic didn't spring from my skull fully formed #i exaggerate but i cannot stress enough how abnormal it was for me #i had a thought in the shower one day and the course of the next few months of my life was changed irrevocably #rosalia talks

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