#writer memes

[i-will-write]

Me choosing my next protagonist

been building a collection of posts from like minded individuals

[verynichewritingadvice]

World-building Ideas for Cosmology Myths

Meaning, essentially, "origin of the world", cosmogony describes where your world comes from, mainly via a story called the creation myth. There are several basic templates for them:

From Nothing, where a supreme deity or force of some sort creates the world with nothing to work with. What ends up becoming the world varies — Judeo-Christian God manifests matter and time out of literal void, while in other religions, a god will dream a world into existence, or use their own bodily fluids as the material (a little squicky, but there you have it).

From Chaos, where there is some omnipresent, nebulous substance (the chaos) and it slowly becomes ordered, possibly giving birth to gods in the process. Most famous of those myths would be the Greek one, where the first gods — Gaia (and, by extension, our planet), Eros, Tartarus and Erebus — were born from Chaos, and all others were descended from those four.

Several creation myths feature the god(s) defeating a primordial monster of some sort which represents Chaos — think of Marduk's victory over Tiamat, or the slaying of the Leviathan by God. This subset, when the creation myth involves a battle against a representation of chaos, is called Chaoskampf.

From Gods, which comes in two forms. In one, two deities (typically sky and earth, though you're free to make your own versions) have sex and one gives birth to the world (or other gods). In other, a deity breaks apart (whether by actions of outside forces or by choice), and the resulting body parts form the world.

From Another World, where our world is merely the last in a long line of worlds, each of them emerging from the last. Buddhist and Aztec Mythology are the most famous for this, with the Aztecs believing we're currently on the fifth world, and Buddhists believing in an endless cycle of universal destruction/recreation, one that's been going on for eternity.

From The Ocean, where initially, the world was a giant ocean before something lifted the rock and mud from the bottom, creating land.

No Beginning, No End, where the world was never created, because it has always existed, and will always continue to exist (though not always in forms we'd be familiar or comfortable with). This is what Jainism teaches.

Those stories will often overlap, and in fantasy, you can probably imagine a few more origin stories particular to your world.

[noneotter]

See, I have a solution for that.

I pull out my phone and write a basic storyboard of the scene, so I can flesh it out later.

Which tends to startle my fiance, when I emerge from my three blankets in the middle of the night like a zombie clawing itself out of the dirt, grab my phone, angrily type for 5-10 minutes, then yeet it to the floor and instantly pass out.

writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

[redroses07]

Y’all ever be adding smut into your fics cause you know it’ll perform better?…Just me?

[thesefallenembers]

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

[aurinavenir]

Writers should NOT feel guilty about:

Skipping a day of writing.

Not having a perfect first draft.

Partaking in sinister, arcane rituals for inspiration.

Working at their own pace.

Enlisting demons and/or helpful spirits to aid them with editing.

[so-many-ocs]

i’m like if a writer did not write and did other things instead

[i-will-write]

I've always heard said that we humans create for the sake of creating, but recently I've started to wonder if it's true for everyone.

I mean, if we think about it, we all create because we all are searching for something (recognition, validation, praise, connection, etc). I wonder if there are really writers who don't pay attention to the lack of response from their readers...

[snapshot-of-an-immortal]

"Last night, I told ya I loved ya"

no wait

those were my ocs

in a dream

during the three hours of sleep I got

Tell me you are a writer without telling you are a writer.

I'll go first

I have 1000s of pinterest boards that all start with a "project something" as title.

[psalmieee]

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

[chilipepperconverse]

surprised this hadn't been made yet

[silverolivia-upsidedown]

Omg, get out of my freaking head!

Right now I have a fic I'm sitting on that has about 6 chapters done.... and I DESPERATELY WANT TO POST THEM ALL RIGBT NOW

Me, writing a couple chapters so I can be on top of my updating schedule: this is good

The gremlin living on my shoulder: you should post them now, post them right now, the people need to read them right this second, post them, don't wait, the schedule is a lie, post the chapt-

[anexistingexistence]

Yes I want to write my story but my story doesn't want to be written so what the fuck am I supposed to do about that huh?

[initialcellar]

Me: *writes an amazing chapter*

Me: Ah yes. That is amazing. Can't wait to begin the next one. So many possibilities!

Me: *turns off my laptop and goes into a month-long depression*

[graceless-writing]

“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”