love and deepspace is so wild i went in expecting minimal fan service, a blank slate mc, lots of stuff it wanted me to buy what i got was an insanely fun combat system, tons of ways to earn currency, an MC with: a traumatic backstory, PTSD, heart problems and not one but TWO glocks!?! and yeah the men are there too and are absolutely down bad for the mc LMAOO SKAJSJ

oh my god this fucking seroquel

can i ask how you get the motivation to write? ive been writing for most of my life but i have such a hard time sticking with it

Honestly it just comes from the overwhelming desire to create. In a perfect world, I would rather animate or make comics, but my life is short on time, so I write instead. I can take my fic with me everywhere, squeezing in writing time while in lines or alone in the office or whatever. It's versatile.

For long projects specifically, it helps to have a plan. You don't have to outline everything [though I know people who do that]. Knowing you have a premise and a major climax somewhere is sufficient. The premise is interesting to you, the major climax is the very cool finish line you want to cross. Setting that goal of "write until you write the thing you desperately want to write" keeps me going. It's why I write chronologically instead of cherry picking scenes I have ideas for and then filling in the blanks later. I treat those scenes like they're dessert. You want it? Work for it :3 not to say cherry picking is a bad thing. I know plenty of people it works for. I just know myself, and if I give myself the fun payoff when I want it, I won't slog through the rest.

In the shorter term other things that help:

Making music playlists or mood boards or whatever. Give your brain a reason to keep picking at the story outside of the story context. Make it fun to work on. Don't feel like writing but don't want to forget you have a project? Add songs to the playlist, look up photos for setting inspiration, make a Tumblr tag for quotes. It has the added bonus of helping your story along, and giving you a reason to make the world and characters better.

Don't be afraid to drop it. Like, seriously. I know this whole post is about motivation, but nothing kills a project more than getting insanely guilty about said project. You're allowed to take days, weeks, months, years to rest on a project. Just because you put it down doesn't mean it'll stay down, and agonizing over putting it down will just ensure it's harder to pick up again. If you're staring at a project and you would rather do literally anything but work on it, don't work on it.

Uhm, counter to that, if it's been awhile and you're scared to start again? Just write gibberish. I have a section on every large document called "cut pieces" where I slam out the most dogshit writing and after I get warmed up, I cut it and put it at the bottom of the doc. For two reasons. The first being you've got the swing of things so you can get rid of all the practice you did getting to that point. The second being it might not be as bad as you think it is. Someday you're gonna remember that dialogue, and you're going to want to salvage it.

Keep aids handy! Especially for things that bring you trouble. For me it's descriptions. I love descriptions, but I often have trouble thinking up good ones or I have something specific in mind I can't nail down, or I've been staring at a wall for an hour trying to think of a good way to describe clouds and I can't. So I keep a description document, full of descriptions from books I've read or previous ones I've written, that I can use as a jumping off point. It speeds things up, keeps me from dithering on something stupid, and sometimes someone already described the perfect cloud, yanno? [As before so again, if anyone wants my description document, feel free to ask. It's massive and it's organized.]

Never stop at the end of a chapter. Well, you can stop at the end of a chapter sometimes it's 2am and you just wanna write [Chapter 11] on the header and go to bed. But normally I like to keep writing a few more paragraphs? So when I start [Chapter 11] I'm not staring at a blank page. Blank pages will always win a staring context. Put an I there so it blinks instead.

Change your document color. Like the paper color? White is so mean sometimes. My screen is black with white text. Other writers I know swear by lavender or green. White is just so hard to break man there's just something about it.

Last one but, keep reading. Like, why do you want to write? Because you want to tell a story sure, but why do you want to tell a story? Well, probably because you read a good one somewhere, and you want to give other people that "I read a good story" feeling. So keep reading. One of the most motivating things you can do is remind yourself why you're slaving over a hot keyboard.

.... And this got very long sorry :'D

Hope this? Helps?

ofc they will randomly show gojo every episode what’s the point if they don’t

my family gave me watercolors for christmast !! :D And obviously my first practice was going to be Yoosungie 💚

Hey beautiful souls! It is currently 2AM where I am at, so I am going to finish up some asks and then go to sleep but I will answer the rest of the asks I have when I wake up. So don't worry if it takes a little while for me to get to you, I am just sleeping lol. I will be back in the morning. Also I am pretty sleepy so sorry if I wrote a little silly in the last few asks, I am a little tired and it has been a lot of energy to pick up on. Good night lovelies!

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it, have a lovely day!

I baked shepherds-pie and it smells really good! :0)

valid to go to bed at 6:10 pm

Sleepy, tired, well worn out: but shouldn't I do just one more thing today...

dunno if its just the depression but i have like 0 motivation to write and complete writers block atm :/ if you have any suggestions itd really help me out <3 i write for all genshin characters and dazai and chuuya :3

I hate allergies. That is all.

if domi gets broken again I think I need to go to sleep

It’s twenty past six and I’m so ready to fall asleep 🥹😭

Can seven o’clock hurry up so I won’t wake up before five????

this is genuinely how i feel and look rn

don’t think i’m gonna make it till midnight besties

Me and my entire family got covid and I currently have a fever and am stuck in bed but that just means I finally had the time to finish this!!

Zeke's POV into some of the past events that were mentioned in my last fic, and some insight into why he and Jimmy Jr. haven't been talking the whole summer.