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“We absolutely must subvert your expectations” ass creators: uhhhh we NEED TO CHANGE THE PLOT IMMEDIATELY THE FANS UNDERSTOOD BASIC FORESHADOWING AND GUESSED PLOT ELEMENTS ON REDDIT WE NEED TO RESHOOT IMMEDIATELY.

Brennan big dick lee mulligan: One of my best friends is absolutely right about one of my big villain reveals way too early and calling it out constantly. Which, let me be clear, is a fucking nightmare for insecure storytellers. Anyway I will keep to my principles and hold onto this reveal and the foreshadowing i used for 5 fucking years.

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I accidentally wrote a paragraph that’s way too good and now I can’t write anymore because everything feels like I’m severely disappointing my PCs expectations that I myself raised.

So you did that thing, where you wrote a line, and then deleted it? And you don’t feel like you’ve made progress? Well, you are - you’re finding what doesn’t work.

And! You’re still working on it, even if you’re not happy with what you’re putting on the page. You’ve made it farther than a lot of people do.

Keep going! I believe in you!

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i do enjoy in survival-esque escape-type movies when someone gets hurt and someone else is like “i can help, don’t worry i’m a doctor.” like. they’re probably not lying, but they totally could be

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i do enjoy in survival-esque escape-type movies when someone gets hurt and someone else is like “i can help, don’t worry i’m a doctor.” like. they’re probably not lying, but they totally could be

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I sat down with the internet to just write.

No thinking about what the perfect word to use is or about how to phrase that part for 30 minutes for every single sentence.

But the one (1) paragraph I wrote turned out way to good and now it feels like I’m disappointing my pc if I don’t write the rest just as good.

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I sat down with the intent to just write.

No thinking about what the perfect word to use is or about how to phrase that part for 30 minutes for every single sentence.

But the one (1) paragraph I wrote turned out way to good and now it feels like I’m disappointing my pc if I don’t write the rest just as good.

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PSA Research is nice and necessary for good writing but you don’t need to become an expert on everything

A lot of stuff that actually exists irl sounds like it was created by an author who knew nothing about the topic and didn’t even try to write it in at least a somewhat believable way anyway.

Like the ministry of finance’s jamming transmitters to prevent leakage of classified information being placed not around the archives and the vault but only in the cafeteria for example.

Author really went “Ah yes I need another obstacle for when MC hides from the night guards that prevents them from calling help. But I also need space for the fight scene. Let’s put jamming transmitters in the cafeteria. Yeah that’ll do it.”

And that’s realistic because it’s actually real.

Just don’t have your characters act like whatever half-assed half informed thing you wrote is not weird as fuck. Because a real person doesn’t just notice jamming transmitters being placed only in the cafeteria instead of around all the classified stuff and not write a tumblr shit post or at least think about it all day.

As long as your characters acknowledge something’s weird you’re good.

Just don’t accidentally foreshadow stuff that doesn’t actually happen later.

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PSA Research is nice and necessary for good writing but you don’t need to become an expert on everything

A lot of stuff that actually exists irl sounds like it was created by an author who knew nothing about the topic and didn’t even try to write it in at least a somewhat believable way anyway.

Like the ministry of finance’s jamming transmitters to prevent leakage of classified information being placed not around the archives and the vault but only in the cafeteria for example.

Author really went “Ah yes I need another obstacle for when MC hides from the night guards that prevents them from calling help. But I also need space for the fight scene. Let’s put jamming transmitters in the cafeteria. Yeah that’ll do it.”

And that’s realistic because it’s actually real.

Just don’t have your characters act like whatever half-assed half informed thing you wrote is not weird as fuck. Because a real person doesn’t just notice jamming transmitters being placed only in the cafeteria instead of around all the classified stuff and not write a tumblr shit post or at least think about it all day.

As long as your characters acknowledge something’s weird you’re good.

Just don’t accidentally foreshadow stuff that doesn’t actually happen later.

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Types Of Writer’s Block (And How To Fix Them)

1. High inspiration, low motivation. You have so many ideas to write, but you just don’t have the motivation to actually get them down, and even if you can make yourself start writing it you’ll often find yourself getting distracted or disengaged in favour of imagining everything playing out

Try just bullet pointing the ideas you have instead of writing them properly, especially if you won’t remember it afterwards if you don’t. At least you’ll have the ideas ready to use when you have the motivation later on

2. Low inspiration, high motivation. You’re all prepared, you’re so pumped to write, you open your document aaaaand… three hours later, that cursor is still blinking at the top of a blank page

RIP pantsers but this is where plotting wins out; refer back to your plans and figure out where to go from here. You can also use your bullet points from the last point if this is applicable

3. No inspiration, no motivation. You don’t have any ideas, you don’t feel like writing, all in all everything is just sucky when you think about it

Make a deal with yourself; usually when I’m feeling this way I can tell myself “Okay, just write anyway for ten minutes and after that, if you really want to stop, you can stop” and then once my ten minutes is up I’ve often found my flow. Just remember that, if you still don’t want to keep writing after your ten minutes is up, don’t keep writing anyway and break your deal - it’ll be harder to make deals with yourself in future if your brain knows you don’t honour them

4. Can’t bridge the gap. When you’re stuck on this one sentence/paragraph that you just don’t know how to progress through. Until you figure it out, productivity has slowed to a halt

Mark it up, bullet point what you want to happen here, then move on. A lot of people don’t know how to keep writing after skipping a part because they don’t know exactly what happened to lead up to this moment - but you have a general idea just like you do for everything else you’re writing, and that’s enough. Just keep it generic and know you can go back to edit later, at the same time as when you’re filling in the blank. It’ll give editing you a clear purpose, if nothing else

5. Perfectionism and self-doubt. You don’t think your writing is perfect first time, so you struggle to accept that it’s anything better than a total failure. Whether or not you’re aware of the fact that this is an unrealistic standard makes no difference

Perfection is stagnant. If you write the perfect story, which would require you to turn a good story into something objective rather than subjective, then after that you’d never write again, because nothing will ever meet that standard again. That or you would only ever write the same kind of stories over and over, never growing or developing as a writer. If you’re looking back on your writing and saying “This is so bad, I hate it”, that’s generally a good thing; it means you’ve grown and improved. Maybe your current writing isn’t bad, if just matched your skill level at the time, and since then you’re able to maintain a higher standard since you’ve learned more about your craft as time went on

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I haven’t posted anything on here for literal weeks but honestly that just perfectly reflects the way I write.

Masterpieces or nothing at all for half a year.

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Stephen King, I cannot stress this enough, wrote actual literal self-insert fanfiction set in his own canonical universe. It’s published.

Do. Whatever. You. Want.

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Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924

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I had a really good writing idea while trying to fall asleep and I still remembered it in the morning even without a cryptic 3am notes app entry!!!

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Not even god can escape an existential crisis in my lore lol