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“But I’ve already written this a hundred times” <- write it a hundred more times, this is not your job, do what you want

“But who is this for” <- do it for yourself so that your soul doesn’t die

“But what if I don’t get any likes or comments” <- this voice is the death of all creative joy, ignore it as much as possible

me: i miss my wip

wip: then get back to writing

*blankly stares at page*

it sounds ridiculously obvious now, but one of the best pieces of writing advice i've ever received is that most of the time, a character's flaws are also their strengths. a smart person might have trouble admitting they're wrong, or break down when they don't know how to solve something; a practical, capable person might lack emotional intelligence. a determined person might be so focused on their goals that they neglect their friends and ignore anything "superfluous" (i.e. they don't notice minor details that turn out to be important later on). kindness can become naivety; open-mindedness can become centrism; confidence can become arrogance. sometimes it's tempting to just reach into a grab bag of positive and negative traits and sprinkle them in at random, but it's much better to instead isolate the things you like about your character and take those traits to the logical extreme.

I really just need to sit down and work on what I plan to work on and stop getting distracted by my invasive thoughts.

Cosmic horror protagonist who has seen the Terrible Truth but is so good at repression and compartmentalization that she goes about her life just fine.

you will accidentally activate keyboard shortcuts you didnt know god could think of

damn straight and I'll do it in the middle of tanking the last boss

like idk as a writer i resent the idea that it's always my fault or responsibility when people misunderstand my writing. some people are just stupid and im not obligated to dumb down my art to fit their myopic point of view

I stand by this 100% because sometimes yours is the first piece of literature that ever required someone to think and it shows.

However, in defense of some readers many of the dumb comments I get are resolved by the reader simply reading the passage a second time and realizing they initially read it wrong. Brains are funny like that.

you ever get an ao3 comment that makes you feel so validated like YES you got EXACTLY what i was trying to say. we are mind melding. we should kiss on the lips

starting a support group for ppl who proofread their chapters and still find typos years later after they've been posted

me as writer: "they sighed, sighingly, loosing a heavy sigh as the sigh escaped them in a tired sigh, all the while sighing in expaseration."

Exits my Google Doc covered in blood not to imply I have been killing off or otherwise torturing my characters, but to convey that my WIP is currently lying on the operating table with its organs in the process of rearrangement

not as bad as writer's block, but still pretty bad: when you have an idea you're excited to get out of your head but you can only write it really really really slowly

writer's traffic jam

the human need to sleep vs the writer need to inflict pain and misery upon my blorbo: fight

I'm so bored. *stares at multiple unfinished fanfics then quickly looks away* Gods, if only there was something to cure this never ending boredom.