Notes From A 5-day Creative Writing Course:

yall one of my characters has the saddest lore, i hate it sm i just wanna hug him😭😭😭 (me acting like i didn’t give him the sad lore in question)

As a writer, words fail me.

And my goal is to do that to someone else

my kink is being forcefully slammed back into my hyperfixations by outstanding pieces of art

personal interpretations and preferences aside, there's no limit to what you can make a character say/do without taking them out of character. everyone has a breaking point that pushes them to do what they normally wouldn't. give me the circumstances and events that pushed the character. tell me what they're thinking/feeling. tell me how they're justifying their words/actions, both to themselves and to others. if you can argue it, it'll still feel authentic.

Ok the update with the circle profile pics is distracting to look at

But maybe I just wanna write fanfic right now, even though I could hypothetically write original work and try to get published. Maybe I just wanna right novel length fics about my favorite K-Pop idols instead. Like is that allowed?

I love the notes I gave myself during my first draft. I think one of my favorites is: we need to standardize pet names.

Or I let my anxiety think, “what’s the worse that could happen?”

“how do you come up with your plots?” i let my intrusive thoughts win.

Me: changes my stories timeline and everyone’s age

Also me: roasts my characters for getting their kids ages wrong while I edit

And you know what, we’re just not gonna talk about how many wips I’ve started lately. We’re just not gonna do it. And I’m definitely not coming up with world building for another one based on a tiktok.