#writer's brain

[holylulusworld]

The urge to write for Misha's Harvey Dent...👀👀 But I have no idea for a story about him...sadly...😥

#ignore me #lulu talks nonsense #writer's brain

[shittygaypornmagazine]

me: I don't want to write a book with a Chosen One; there are just so many of those... I want to write about some normal, regular people, who go through some shit, and there's found family involved. that's it. no more.

me, two years later, two books deep in my "you thought he was the chosen one, that it was all a coincidence, but turns out there's an actual, valid reason behind everything, and he was not chosen for anything. in fact, he is ruining everyone's plans" story: oh boy.

#write #writers #writer's problems #writer's brain #writer's relief #writer community #writer confessions #writer problems #writerslife #writer humor #writer memes #writer struggles #writer things #writers and poets #writers community #writers life #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #female writers #writer

[weepingcollectorwhispers]

Me: Okay brain. I feel like writing. What you got?

Brain: Writing? WRITING?! Action! Okay, I've got four stories. They're all going to compete for your attention. And, I have two more already cooking on the back burner. Just for you! In case you need them. ;)

My overwhelmed ass: O.o

#writer's brain #creative curse #writing #too many ideas #not enough time #send energy #writerscommunity

[seaside-writings]

Sometimes you just have to force yourself to write.

Just pick a scene, any scene at all, and start writing.

I know you might think it’s bad right now, but you can always change it later.

#writing #writer's life #writer's brain #writer's block #writing tips #the life of a writer #the life of a creator #curse you writer's brain #curse you writer's block #sometimes it works #just keep going #keep writing #tips for writing #tips for writers #writblr #writblur #writbelr #writblr community #you've got this

[thestayathomedragon]

The last time I updated Social Engineering was March. I have been fighting with the next chapter ever since. It is October just in case you haven't noticed.

I'm dying here.

The first bit is the sticking point honestly. I don't like it. I have been tinkering with it for months. I'm too stubborn to scrap it entirely so it looks like I'm starting over again. Help.

#karl heisenberg #my fanfic #writer problems #writer's block #writer's brain #fic: social engineering

[lazypanartist]

I'm doing it! I'm writing!!

*Immediately runs face-first into a wall labeled Writer's Block*

Oh, I can get over this!

*Climbs the wall*

*Falls off the back, straight into a pit labeled No Motivation. All you can hear from the area is muffled screaming*

---

..if any of you were wondering why I haven't posted.. I had SO MUCH motivation Friday, lol

#writer's block #writer's brain #writing moods #writing #author #author issues #writing problems #writer's problems #writer #kana's chats

[mollyd76]

#writer's block #overthinking #writer's brain #sleepy brain

[just-french-me-up]

this is a PSA for fic writers who haven't updated in a while :

there are fics out there I'm subscribed to that have gone double digit months without updating.

rest assured the moment those babies catapult an AO3 email my way i'm dropping from the face of the earth to sink my teeth into them

i'll wait, and so will your readers

#writing #writing nightmare #writeblr #writers #writer's problems #writing problems #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic writers #this is a psa from me to me honestly #cause I have not abandoned my child #my brain is just suffering from my workload #mine

[ladysternchen]

Right. So there is little that surprises me about 'Yet Were Its Making Good, For This' anymore. But if there is one thing that makes the story feel even less like my own work is the fact that it might really and honestly end with the words 'and so they lived happily ever after' What the f**k?!

#writer's brain #I don't do happily ever after #so how did this happen?

[maddie-zylophone-hatter]

Me when I plan out a story and want to tell everyone

#writer brain #writeblr #writblr #writerblr #writblur #writer brainrot #writer woes #writerscommunity #ficblr #writerslife

[melodicwriter]

When you finally won the battle of opening up your WIP to edit but your brain is fighting you on touching the document so you’re in paralysis like

#writeblr #writing #writer #fic writer #fic writing #archive of our own #fic writer memes #writing memes #ao3 #pls for the love of god BRAIN DO SOMETHING

[stedesbonnets]

i can't stress it enough how crazy the love triangle situation is. mizu and akemi have a slow motion romcom first glance at each other. mizu and taigen are enemies to lovers. mizu taunts akemi about taigen while wearing his scarf. mizu imagines taigen while seeing a threesome. mizu and akemi have sex scenes juxtaposed with each other. taigen and mizu's brawl is an obvious parallel to mizu and mikio. "this isn't over" "i know". both could happen. neither could happen. all could happen all at once. and i'm watching it all like this

#THE MOST BIG BRAINED WRITERS OF ALL TIME #blue eye samurai #mizu #taigen #akemi

[ivaspinoza]

not me writing this giant synopsis of my own wip to myself so i can understand what i am actually trying to create

#and then my brain starts to give me lines #but it turns out they are for this other story that is not even a wip yet #shut up brain- oh wait thats actually such a good idea *writes it down #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing

[ionomycin]

Forest Guardians

#artists on tumblr #starting off 2024 with my favorite totally normal size animal the moose #if you've seen a big one irl you know what i mean #the year is starting with seemingly every big corporation hopping on the A I train #depressing #keep on creating my fellow artists #and crafters and writers #and musicians and voice actors #don't let them automate the fun out of your life #i don't care if machines can make art more “efficiently” #i don't want to be efficient! #i want to be unhinged! #be unhinged about your art draw your blorbos draw the things that claw at your brain don't be civil about it like the machines #whatever you're creating i'm proud of you

[seaside-writings]

I'm writing for everything except for what I want to write for!

#i'm going to scream #please help #writing #writbelr #writblr #writblr community #writer's life #writer's brain #writer's block #i don't know what i'm doing anymore

[dduane]

Do you have any recommendations on what to do when you can’t write?

I’ve been struggling to write for years, but telling stories is all I want to do. I have ideas and plots and characters all figured out! But actually getting the words onto paper? I just can’t do it. There’s a mental block or something getting in the way.

I want to write, I so badly do. I want to tell my stories! But no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I love the story, the words never work properly. I can day dream scenes up perfectly, but as soon as I’m near paper the words all vanish.

I guess what I’m actually asking is: how did you defeat the blank page?

Well, first of all, I can confidently tell you that your storytelling per se is working just fine. You just told me a perfectly cogent story right there, in writing. So that's good to know.

Now let me put your mind a little at rest by telling you something reassuring about the Writer's Brain:

It's not the sharpest knife in the block, if you take my meaning. It can be tricked. It can be fooled. It can be bamboozled into working when it doesn't want to... sometimes with embarrassing ease. (And this approach is, by and large, far preferable to sitting around over-analyzing one's interior life to figure out what went wrong with your developmental process somewhere in the dim lost past. Just hornswoggle the silly thing into working and then do the analysis later, if you can be bothered.)

Sometimes just changing something basic in the process the Writer's Brain is expecting is enough to make it lose the plot (so to speak...) and let you get on with work. And in your case I'd say, more or less immediately: Have you tried telling the story to yourself out loud, recording it, and then transcribing the recording?

Because this problem is a commonplace among storytellers. Sit them down in the pub and give them tea or a drink and start them going, and you'll get half an effortless hour of hilarious prose about What The Cat Did In The Middle Of The Night or When The Neighbors Were Fighting In The Street Again Yesterday. But show them blank paper, or an empty screen, and (now that the pressure to perform is suddenly in place) they freeze.

So try doing an end run around your writing brain. Borrow or otherwise procure a little recorder of some kind. (Or if you've got a smartphone, add a voice recording app to it.) Go get comfortable somewhere and get yourself into that daydream state, and then—making sure the recorder's on—start talking.

It doesn't have to be perfect unblemished prose. The pursuit of that comes later, after draft zero-minus-one. Just tell the story... or some of it. Or a fragment of it. Even a few paragraphs is a triumph, in a situation like this. You may, during the recording, have to talk yourself into the story stage by starting out talking about something else first. Let that happen.

Then when you're done recording, listen to it and transcribe it (typed or handwritten, as you please).

And maybe a day later, do this again. And a day or two later, once more. And so forth.

You're going to have to keep at this, because your Writer's Brain may start suspecting what you're up to, and try throwing spanners into the works. (Its favorite being "Oh, this isn't working, I may as well give up..." Pay no attention to that nagging little voice behind the curtain. Just keep doing what you're doing. Persistence is a superpower.)

The thing to keep reminding yourself, as you settle into this process, is that sooner or later the WB's resistance is going to flag, because you really do want to tell stories. It does too. What you have to teach it is that—to coin a phrase—resistance is useless. :)

Anyway: give this a try. You'll need to be doing this daily for at least a couple of months to find out whether it works or not. So let me know how it goes.

(BTW: once you've broken through the barrier, you may well find that dictation is a good routine way for you to generate your first draft. At that point—should you feel inclined to go a little higher-tech than recording and hand transcription—let me recommend Dragon Anywhere. This is a month-to-month subscription version of Dragon's flagship text to speech program—the one @petermorwood and I got Terry Pratchett to use when he started having difficulty typing. I use Anywhere a lot, on days when it's easier to write stretched out or lying down than it is sitting up. It transcribes what you say, and then you can just email it to yourself and cut-and-paste it into your writing document. Very handy.)

Hope this helps!

#writing #writing advice #the Writer's Brain #storytelling