#the joys of being a writer

[croftersforlife]

I love rereading my own writing because it’s a constant switch between “I’m the funniest motherf*cker on the planet” and “who taught this b*tch how to write?”

[whatsk-poppinhomies]

I started writing my Seungmin request like, two weeks ago. I got 8k words in, reread it last night and realized…

I fucking HATE it

The plot is shit

The dynamics are shit

Everything about it is shit (except the characters)

Time to RESTART!

[pherryt]

rereading one of my own fics because not only was it exactly what i wanted when i wrote it, but it has so many feels and *Damn* i wrote that?

i just want to hug my own fics sometimes.

[margindoodles2407]

Going back to Of Hands and Heartbreak to do some more editing and writing and FINALLY someone has been mentioned by name!!! Yay!

But on the other hand. It's a bit hard for me to get back into the narrator's headspace so that's fun :/

[supervisormeero]

I'm currently participating in the "Write Frictious, You Idiot, You Have One Chapter Left" challenge. I am the only participant, and yet I am somehow still losing

[esor-ogramira]

It is 11:30pm local time

And I have just spent the past 4-5 hours rewriting an entire scene-and-a-half in The Fenrathae Saga Volume 1.

I’ve also been spending the past few days rewriting Volume 1 so that Kae, Ellira and Lerosenn are each 22 because them going through all the intense violence that happens in Volume 1 at age 19, especially Kae’s trauma from being killed and resurrected multiple times, just didn’t sit right with me

What do I have to show for 4-5 hours of rewriting tonight?

Well... The answer may surprise you...

I now have a very flirtatious and frankly kinda creepy goth Penumbrancer girlfriend who is in her early thirties and wants to steal Kae and make him her boyfriend instead of Ellira’s. And who I’ve already killed off a few chapters later.

Hopefully she won’t write herself to become a more important side character, because I am Not Equipped to rewrite the scene she’s killed off in so that she somehow survives!

P.S., Please don’t ask me how it happened. I sincerely don’t know how it came to be! All I wanted was for her to be an edgy goth Penumbrancer who is very blunt and kinda cruel to every protagonist, I SWEAR!!

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Me, thinking about chapter 33 of Showman...

[pollenallergie]

me sitting down to write a requested oneshot: ah yes, this is nice! it shouldn’t be very long, so i’ll probably finish it today and have it all edited and ready to go by tomorrow.

me six hours later: *has only written 600 words, at least 100 of which are just the brief description i gave myself for outlining purposes* *has also completely forgotten to eat lunch because i’ve just been sat at my desk alternating between staring blankly at the document while daydreaming about the plot of the oneshot and actually writing the oneshot* ah, yes, silly me, i’ve once again forgotten that writing is 90% daydreaming, 10% actually writing. damn, the harsh reality of the writing process has foiled my plans once again!

[tired-twili]

At this point my fanfiction is loosing any connection to cannon it had. The plot? What I say it is. The magic system? I thought it'd be cool so it is. The characters? They happen to have the same names as my little guys :)

[nateslehky]

i’m in a i-hate-my-writing phase rn which sucks cause i’m really in the mood to reread some of my works

[a-flux-uchiha]

Upsides of being a writer: have fun ideas!

Downside of being a writer: those ideas haunt you at all hours of the day please save me i am going Insane

[illunicae]

There's something dramatic about walking to class and your brain just shoots you with the perfect line for your current WIP, so you fish your phone out of your pocket and fight the wind chill while frantically typing the line into your notes app because you know that in the next five minutes it will cease to exist if you don't write it down.

Anyway here's the line my brain tripped me with on my walk to class:

“Tell me something little Seance, do you see the ghost of the future you could've had?”

[margindoodles2407]

11, 7, and 4 for the ask game :) and uhhh 8

:O HI UNI OF COURSE >:D (for this tag game)

4: A story idea you haven't written yet

Okay, by this does it mean like, I haven't written at all? Or one I haven't published? Well, never fear, I will give an example for both >:)

A fic I haven't written at all yet... Yeah, it's gonna have to be the Clone Pancake-Eating-Contest based on true events from my youth group. The idea is so fun, and to be honest that's probably why I haven't written it XD My style is much more suited to uh, sad things.

A fic I've technically started writing but haven't published yet is the one about how one of my OCs lost his leg. And by "technically started writing" I mean I've written the title XD But yes, there was an explosion and it had to be amputated. Fun times. Lots of pain. Anyway

7: Your preferred writing fonts

HOHOHO okay let me go take a screenshot real quick >:)

This is Courier, on Google Docs. The "Comic Sans" trick? It doesn't work for me. But Courier does. AND it looks pretty, unlike comic sans. So There.

8: If you had to write a sequel to a fic, you'd write one for...

I'd probably write a sequel to Son of the Sea, perhaps after Order Sixty-Six occurs. For maximum pain and anguish. But yeah, I think that'd be fun >:) (for me. not for the audience.)

11: A WIP you'd like to finish someday

I REALLY want to finish Of Hands and Heartbreak, but if we're talking any of my fics? Songs of the Galactic Archipelago. It's my baby, my favorite AU, and I have only written the prologue. Alas.

Thank you so much, Uni! I'll get to you in a moment >:)

[ailingwriter]

Here's a tip! Write what you want to write first. Sometimes it's easier to write something when you have a start point and an end point in mind.

[onceuponalegendbg]

I’ll never forget the one review I got on one of my stories years ago that was basically three long paragraphs of “this story had potential but you focused on the wrong thing. X is a boring character, and Y was barely in it and got pushed to the side. I didn’t even really read most of it after a point. I was so disinterested I started skimming chapters.”

That review was almost ten years ago but I still remember it and how crap it was. Basically saying “I didn’t even read all of it or pay much attention because you weren’t focusing on what I wanted you to focus on so that makes it bad.”

Sorry MY story that I wrote with my co-writer didn’t go the way YOU wanted. That sounds very much like a YOU problem, bud.

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

🍘 Is there a fic or idea for a fic that you've abandoned?

Is there a fic or idea for a fic that you've abandoned?

:’)

Yeah. Many.

Most of the fics I wrote last June/July/August, when I was getting into DSMP, I’ve just… forgotten about lol. I look back and think a lot of them are cringe, and they’re obviously OOC because I was so new to the fandom!

In addition, I tend to be real good about starting projects (I have over 100 WIPs) but really bad about finishing those projects (I have over 100 WIPs).

To name some particular examples of fics I’ve abandoned, at least for the time being…

Phil and Techno sneaking into a restaurant wearing terrible disguises (this was inspired by The Emperor’s New Groove)

Ghostbur writing his Things I Remember book, with flashbacks to every single memory on the list

Clingy Duo right after The Festival. Tubbo is kinda traumatized

Bedrock Bros babysitting Michael!

Beeduo attempting to make up a bedtime story for Michael (it goes in many weird directions)

Niki teaching Wilbur how to bake a cake :)

And those are just a few! I’ve got many many more!