#Writing is Hard

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Do you know what is actually the best problem to have?

Too many fics to read.

I have fics open on six tabs at the moment. If I had nothing else to do, it would probably take me about two days to read through them all. But I've had about six tabs open with fics waiting for me to read for about two weeks now, because every time I finish one, I find another that I want to read. I can't seem to keep up with them and it's glorious.

Keep writing, friends. Keep posting. ♥️

#writing is hard #y'all're awesome

[feelingthedisaster]

drop your user/fic name and fandoms you write for if you like!!!

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[veronicaleighauthor]

Edit Note: I'm really amazed by how much love this post got. Guess it just shows we're all in the same boat. I do have other humorous writing memes on this tumblr under the same tag, if you're interested. Never give up writing! ❤️

Edit Note 2: I can't believe this has reached 8000 notes. Been on tumblr for almost ten years (different account) and nothing like this has ever happened before. Thank you! 😊

#writing humor #writing is hard #writing

[new-kit-on-the-block]

How I think I look when setting up twists

How I actually look

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[fandomsarefriends-notfood]

It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip

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[breakfastteatime]

*writing 5k of lead in to get to the original idea that kickstarted this fanfic*

#fanfic stuff #fanfic struggles #writing is hard #ao3 #writing fanfiction

[kotaface]

My favorite thing about fanfic is watching a writer go through all 5 stages of grief as their fluffy one-shot inexplicably becomes a 100k-word novel.

#this is a self callout btw #authors notes are the best part no I’m not accepting criticism #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic writers #writing is hard

[byoldervine]

Types Of Writer’s Block (And How To Fix Them)

1. High inspiration, low motivation. You have so many ideas to write, but you just don’t have the motivation to actually get them down, and even if you can make yourself start writing it you’ll often find yourself getting distracted or disengaged in favour of imagining everything playing out

Try just bullet pointing the ideas you have instead of writing them properly, especially if you won’t remember it afterwards if you don’t. At least you’ll have the ideas ready to use when you have the motivation later on

2. Low inspiration, high motivation. You’re all prepared, you’re so pumped to write, you open your document aaaaand… three hours later, that cursor is still blinking at the top of a blank page

RIP pantsers but this is where plotting wins out; refer back to your plans and figure out where to go from here. You can also use your bullet points from the last point if this is applicable

3. No inspiration, no motivation. You don’t have any ideas, you don’t feel like writing, all in all everything is just sucky when you think about it

Make a deal with yourself; usually when I’m feeling this way I can tell myself “Okay, just write anyway for ten minutes and after that, if you really want to stop, you can stop” and then once my ten minutes is up I’ve often found my flow. Just remember that, if you still don’t want to keep writing after your ten minutes is up, don’t keep writing anyway and break your deal - it’ll be harder to make deals with yourself in future if your brain knows you don’t honour them

4. Can’t bridge the gap. When you’re stuck on this one sentence/paragraph that you just don’t know how to progress through. Until you figure it out, productivity has slowed to a halt

Mark it up, bullet point what you want to happen here, then move on. A lot of people don’t know how to keep writing after skipping a part because they don’t know exactly what happened to lead up to this moment - but you have a general idea just like you do for everything else you’re writing, and that’s enough. Just keep it generic and know you can go back to edit later, at the same time as when you’re filling in the blank. It’ll give editing you a clear purpose, if nothing else

5. Perfectionism and self-doubt. You don’t think your writing is perfect first time, so you struggle to accept that it’s anything better than a total failure. Whether or not you’re aware of the fact that this is an unrealistic standard makes no difference

Perfection is stagnant. If you write the perfect story, which would require you to turn a good story into something objective rather than subjective, then after that you’d never write again, because nothing will ever meet that standard again. That or you would only ever write the same kind of stories over and over, never growing or developing as a writer. If you’re looking back on your writing and saying “This is so bad, I hate it”, that’s generally a good thing; it means you’ve grown and improved. Maybe your current writing isn’t bad, if just matched your skill level at the time, and since then you’re able to maintain a higher standard since you’ve learned more about your craft as time went on

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[girl-with-goats]

writer: screaming

readers: screaming back

#writing meme #writing is hard #writing woes #screaming #actually laughing

[lunarriviera]

#writing is hard #fanfiction problems

[entity56]

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[myownworstenemyyy]

#it's too specific for a request but I'm too damn lazy to write it 😭😭😭 #thanks i hate it #writing #fanfiction #fanfic #writing is hard #my meme #writing memes #just writer things #yes the idea is for an eddie munson x reader fic what about it

[feelingthedisaster]

it was 9 chapters and aside from horrified (which i was), i was also embarrased i read those chapters outloud to friends

#6th grade was something else #burned that notebook #writerblr #writer #teen writer #writers #writing #writers on tumblr #writing is hard

[urfriendlywriter]

i wrote a line in my work, that just hits.

"i stopped looking back at all the memories, pictures, and videos. It's painful to see the life that i lived and loved, knowing I'm still searching for pieces of myself that i lost as I grew up."

and that was my cue to stop writing n sit n sob

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[erraticprocrastinator]

I don't know who needs to hear this (yes I do, it's me), but I promise that nobody will notice that you used that word twice in the same paragraph.

#only you worry that you used the word “began” two sentences ago #it's okay I promise #writeblr #writer probz #writing problems #writing community #writers #fanfic writers #writers of tumblr #writing #writing mood #writer stuff #writer problems #writing struggles #writing is hard

[tswwwit]

Me, writing: Hm... I think I can save this problem for the Editing Stage. Me, editing: Hey what the fuck

#this is a shitpost #writing is hard #Letting some things be imperfect is an amazing way to make progress in terms of word count #But Editing Me never thanks me for that #Editing is a fresh new kind of suffering but sadly necessary