Moderndayscribing - Scribing Away Little Chips In The Wall

you know what doesn’t get talked about enough in writing circles

completed story grief

That feeling you are left with when you have finished a long project - whether it is long because it contains a lot of words, or long because it took you a long time to write, or long because it took you a long time to start writing it - when you’re happy because you finished it but empty because it is finished. You took out all of the words that were inside of you, at least all of the ones that pertain to that story, and the relief that follows such an action can be devastatingly exhausting.

On top of just the empty feeling, there follows that bittersweet sense of understanding that this thing which has for so long been your companion is no longer just your companion, and that you have in some ways severed the ties with it, because you will not be writing it anymore. You might write other stories related to it. You might write stories in the same world. Or stories with the same characters. But THAT story is finished. That story has been taken out of you and put where it can be a part of everyone that reads it. That is unimaginably happy and sad at the same time.

So I just want to say, I guess, be nice to yourself after you finish a story. Yes it’s happy, yes it feels good. But if you also feel a little like you’ve just lost something, give yourself some time to process that, because in a way you did. It’s a happy loss, the sort of loss wildlife rescuers feel when an animal they saved is able to go back and be wild again. It’s a good, happy thing, but it’s also okay to take a little time to be sad and take care of yourself.

what the fuuuuuuuuuccck

was the ending to little nightmares II

what the fuck

give me my fixation back you stupid, gloriously amazing game

writing mandalorian fanfiction be like

if i misspell ‘Grogu’ as “gogy” one more fucking time i am going to go apeshit

what the fuck. op what the fuck. i looked forward to going to eeby deeby. i dreamt of the legends of eeby deeby.

and it’s just a room full of goddamn bees-

Eeby deeby has bee spelled backwards in it, ybee ybeed This means that the eeby deeby could just be a room full of bees

“Maybe I was unsettled. Maybe I was bitter - now you decide to work with me? When you’re actively trying to work against me? Faaaaaakeee.”

When you let yourself go free in your narrative it gets to be really, really fun.

this is the same work as the ‘I didn’t want to be a wanted fugitive’ by the way. It’s the same. I am Enjoying Myself

no more negative posts about writing!! i write because i genuinely love & enjoy the entire process, and when i do occasionally face problems, coming up with ways to solve them can be a fun challenge in its own right! even if i don't immediately get it to sound the way i imagined, no writing is ever useless, and word by word i am becoming a better writer than i was yesterday :-)

I’ve rose from the dead just to tell you to read this webcomic

http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/ bunny people go on adventures and things aren’t as they seem

honestly if it was enough to inspire me to write a 136k word fic about the villain and basically started my whole writing shibang then you know it’s worth it

also the art is cute