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heymylaptopisfloatingagain · 4 months ago
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1. One time I cried in a bookstore because I was writing in the cafe and it turned out the assassin in that WIP wouldn't live through his final mission and see his daughter again.
2. All my OCs have mommy issues. Completely coincidental.
3. Worldbuilding and research...I absolutely LOVE it but boy howdy does it come at the cost of actual PLOT and WRITING if (when) I let it! *foams at the mouth* So what if that mental asylum will only be in two chapters of my fanfic? I need the building layout, the security system, staff protocol. That fantasy WIP? GOTTA CONSTRUCT A WHOLE THEOCRACY FROM THE GROUND UP.
4. Kind of an offshoot of #3, but I'm also obsessed with ancient/obscure languages and runes/scripts. Genuinely tried learning Coptic and Esperanto, but learning Japanese is hard enough... :(
5. I am a total plantser. The first half or third of a story will be bullet-pointed to death, but after that it's the narrative equivalent of bumper cars.
6. Recently getting back into poetry, and it's more fun than I remember. I used to write tons of it, but after a bad experience in college I thought all my stuff was cringe and stopped. Darling past self, you should've just said f**k it and kept on. You were only 19, for goodness sakes.
7. Finally worked up the courage to go to a writers group two years ago. Personally speaking? BEST DECISION I EVER MADE. (Also ended with me crying in the library after the group facilitator assured me my work was honest-to-gods good. I really should stop crying in public...)
8. I'm most productive when I'm away from home in general, but the weirdest place I ever wrote was in a cemetery. But the caretaker knew me well enough not to care, because I'd taken many walks there before.
9. Do I know what Briggs-Myers type my characters are? Sure do!
10. For some reason I cannot eat and write at the same time. And it's not because I'm worried about messing up the keyboard/notebook (I can and will drink when writing, and have straight up spilled coffee on my laptop before). But for some reason eating's out of the question. My best guess is that I associate eating with taking breaks, and I don't like breaking my momentum.
✨ 10 chaotic writer facts you didn’t ask for but are getting anyway ✨
I write 1,000–3,000 words a day. Not because I’m disciplined, but because I have no social life and mild control issues. It’s fine. I’m fine.
Before I ever touched a keyboard, I was an artist. Like, sketchbook-at-recess, drew-my-own-manga-level obsessed. I’ve been drawing since I was five. Now I use those powers to procrastinate writing.
I talk to my characters like they’re real people. I once argued with one out loud in a grocery store. We’re not on speaking terms anymore.
I name all my WIPs things like “pain_project” or “he cries again.docx” because I enjoy foreshadowing my own breakdowns.
I collect empty notebooks like a Victorian ghost who died tragically in a stationary store.
I have cried because a character forgave someone. That’s it. That’s the fact.
Sometimes I start new projects just to avoid editing old ones. This is not a healthy system but it is a personality.
I finish a gut-wrenching scene and then go eat cereal like nothing happened. Cold emotional whiplash is my brand.
I regularly forget what my characters are supposed to know, and when it happens, I just give them sudden intuition or full-blown memory loss.
I’ve rage-deleted whole chapters because a side character took over and made the main one look bland. And yes, I made the side character the lead.
Okay, now your turn—drop your own ✨10 chaotic writer facts✨. I know you’ve got them. Don’t leave me screaming into the void alone. Reblog this with your chaos, I want to see the beautiful mess.
Love u all!
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