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Writers on a random Tuesday: Sits down, locks in, giggles, writes 10k, does not sleep

Also writers on a random Tuesday: writes one sentence and then stares into the abyss for five fours

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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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sometimes I’ll be looking at my own fic just to see how long it’s been since I last updated it and all I feel is

✨shame✨

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You’re not just a writer.

You’re a goddamn survivor of your own imagination.

You live with noise in your head that never shuts up until you bleed it onto the page, and even then, it whispers, “Make it better.”

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Some stories aren’t written to be read, they’re written to survive the silence inside you.

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me using my phone as a flashlight at 4 am trying to find where i dropped that brownie square

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imagine if it were that easy

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Is it me or Mukoda have pretty hands

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You know you're a writer when you’ve had entire conversations in your head with your characters but can’t remember what you had for breakfast.

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the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

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I wanted to write today… but my brain said, “Nope.” Not sure if it’s a motivation issue or just good old-fashioned writer’s block, but either way—progress needed to happen.

So, I cheated (but like, in a totally productive way). I followed my plot outline and wrote just the dialogue. No fancy descriptions, no deep internal monologues—just vibes and conversation. And you know what? It worked.

I once said that the only job of the first draft is to exist. A skeletal scene with dialogue and the barest hint of description? Totally fine. That’s what the second draft is for. Future Me can deal with the details—Current Me just needs to keep the story moving.

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WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

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Full and finished short-story of the black cat. Please have a heart for black pets in general, animals do not deserve this kind of hostility. Please give credit when reposting, Thank you :)

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I can and will spend hours crafting an entire fictional country but cannot name a single street in my hometown.

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The question mark option will never not be funny to me.

Like, how many chapters?

Idk.

I—the author—am just as curious as you are.

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Urusei Yatsura: Only You

“On my planet, stepping on someone’s shadow is a marriage proposal. I’ll be back in 11 years to pick you up ok? Wait for me until then, ok?”

“….in 11 years I’ll be 17 though. That’s a long time…”