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trying to get together my submission for a writing contest thing. process is going like this:

me: *frustratedly going through five multi-page google docs*

me: why i have written literally nothing in my lifetime

When you can’t remember that really great sentence you wrote in your head five minutes ago but you can remember that really stupid thing you did ten years ago on a random Tuesday

me : *opens google docs and rubs my hand* LETS DO THIS also me : *stares at the google docs , head empty*

Working on a new thing instead of working on WIPs part 138024

I have so many WIPs that if only I knew how to work with myself, I’d have finished or at least made sm progress. I’m trying to actually plan my fanfic now but am struggling. Some of these WIPs will never see the light of day so I’m thinking of just posting them as prompts or headcanons

Shout out to my writers that don’t plan their fics at all. Readers be like “I can’t wait to find out what happens next!”

Babe me too

I have 4 WiPs and I'm forcing myself not to listen to music and hallucinate because I know it can get So. Much. Worse.

And I need to finish these 4 first.

Me when I have 20 fing drafts 💔

ma'am those are my 15 emotional support wip research tabs

f*ck a breakup, have you ever rated a book very highly and gone looking for the huge fandom it deserves, only to find out that it's small and/or inactive?

“feminine urge” this and “masculine urge” that, what about the urge to stop procrastinating writing your wips?

my villain origin story is realizing how many words i have to write just to get to my favorite scene

someone: can i be a character in your book??

me: sure! right here i have an opening for *squints at doc* insignificant side character who exists only for plot purposes

I swear Wild Hearts Can’t be Tamed was supposed to be a slow burn, then Din and Luke basically took the story hostage in chapter 2.

I keep thinking the story I'm writing is gonna go one way and then the characters in the book go 'Actually, no.'

I created you, why are you fighting me

Many writers say a blank word doc is their worst nightmare, but for me it's a little too appealing. That fresh start, the white page and a brand new story idea 😋😋 And I wonder why I have so many WIPs

Literally me right now

Me after a long day of writing: *closing the lid of my laptop nodding to myself* that was a good sentence

Trying to write decent erotica is crazy, like my notes for editing better not fall into the wrong hands. And it’s funny because when people see me handwriting notes while looking my laptop they always think I’m studying. I need to go back to sci fi.

I just made an actual schedule for what writing projects I should focus on each day for the next week. So that way I can hopefully make progress on my fic and on revising poems for my slam team at the same time. We’ll see if the adhd cooperates.

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.

I think I’ve been putting too much pressure on myself lately. I’m trying to revise some poems for my slam team and write a second draft of a fic (that is almost a complete rewrite because I wanna change too much), and I’ve been struggling to get anything done because I want my writing to sound like my favorite writers.

I will try to let go and see how much I get done before I go over to friends house in about an hour

So my health, both mentally and physically, is a hot mess. But at least I’ve been writing

And, unfortunately, yet again I’m convincing myself a dozen long writing projects is manageable

No seriously, writing “I” and “me” is so gross! Like do I switch to third person so I don’t fight nausea every sentence?

So I always write from third person, largely because I tend to write multiple POVs. Only, for my new wip, I’m trying to use first person. I don’t switch POVs. I also want the story to feel like the character is telling it to the reader. But I keep switching to second person. And a part of me is like, fuck it, just write in second person, but I know a lot of people hate it. Anyways, this draft is about to be me switching back and forth constantly.

On an unrelated note, should I start writing really indulgent one shots for my favorite fandoms? I’m tired of searching for my specific preferred flavor of bullshit and not finding what I want

Ok this book idea I’ve started drafting, I have no idea what’s gonna happen. Like I have vibes, a bit of world building, backstory, and three characters I barely know. I’m just gonna let the plot find me I guess

Maybe I should keep writing my weird fics for the 3 people that might like them

ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

So right now I have 9 wips (well, and 2 other ideas that I’ll come back to eventually).

4 of the wips are fanfiction. Because I don’t always finish things, I haven’t posted them yet, but one is close to posting level, probably in the next few weeks if I have time.

3 of the other wips are all different books in the same series that I know for sure I want to publish one day. (I’m just taking my time with it because I need to sort my life out before I’m able to dedicate time, money, and energy into publication)

1 wip I barely ever touch. It will be a series as well and I’ll get to it after the other series.

The last wip is one I’ve had mixed feelings about since I had the idea.

But today I had another idea, that would involve getting rid of the last wip to use the world building and one of the characters.

My life is still a mess, so publishing won’t happen any time soon, but there’s a part of me that wants to abandon my fanfics and just write original stories. I’ll just have to be okay knowing nobody will read them anytime soon.

Nothing like spending the night somewhere because of the snow, only I can’t sleep and my laptop’s at home so now I’m writing on my phone while my friends cat claws my shoulder