Do you ever write fluff and wonder “ok, but is this too fluffy to publish?”

Writer Problems Number #1079

having a different style for literary writing and fanfiction writing

Fanfic Writer Problem #742173

“Wow this chapter I just finished writing is so fucking amazing, I can’t wait to share it!”

*realises that with my weekly updates format it won’t go up til like may*

when you bring in an oc and they work just perfect with the story

When someone tries to read your unedited book

When you write anything

me: is in a writing mood

also me: doesn’t want to write anything already started but also doesn’t have any new prompts

in other news, writing fanfiction still takes a lot longer than i expect it to.

Me: today I'm gonna write a happy and lovely story

Brain: kill the main character

Me: but he's supposed to have a happy ending

Brain: kill the main character and make his lover fuck the corpse

Me: why???

Brain: you gotta

writer problems

me, a writer: *writes 40+ pages of a stupid satirical fanfic that was meant completely as a joke and will never see the light of day*

also me: *can't write 2 sentences of a fully-fleshed out, actually good story that i actually want to write*

It really ticks me off when people don’t realize that artists and writers have a life outside of tumblr. We don’t sit down and draw or write all the live long day, 365 days a year in front of our computers and tablets. For some of us, yes it’s a job, but we don’t do it on such a constant basis that we have no life outside of it all and it pisses me off when people just say, “Well, it shouldn’t be too hard, right? You do it all the time!”

Yes. Let me whip out my magic pen that will create a story or an image for you in 5 seconds flat with everything exactly the way you want it.

Art takes time. Writing takes time. It takes practice and thinking and references and researching to do what we do. If we get it all done in an hour - full blown story/picture/mini-comic/webcomic - then holy shit we were on a role and we must actually be magic. But not everything works out that way. Life gets in the way and our priorities make certain projects be put on the back burner and it just irks me that there are people out there who just don’t get it.

I’ve had my fair share of people getting mad at me for having to put shit on the back burner because I had things in my life to prioritize and apparently apologizing yet confirming it will be done no matter what isn’t enough. And then there are the people who bug the shit out of you day in and day out and what kills me is that you get so pressured you go, “Do I really want to finish this? Do I really want to even do this? Do I even have the drive to do it anymore?”

Don’t be the people who make an artist or a writer feel like unappreciated or pressured like this. It’s awful, especially when life hands them something they need to take care of first.

That feeling when you reread something you only just posted on AO3 and notice all the typos that evaded your lousy editing skills

That feel when someone thanks you for doing your research to portray their culture as accurate as possible and mentions that it’s one of the best they’ve seen on the matter and you’re just like:

No, no, you deserve better, oh my god, YOU DESERVE BETTER. It’s our duty as writers (most of whom are part of a culture that oppresses yours and I know some of them get off on stereotypes of yours) to do the research and you aren’t getting served by this fandom oh my god noooo

you

deserve

so

much

better

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try to write

fail

cry

repeat

You know you’re living the Real Writer Life when you spend more time creating good writing conditions than actually writing.

The problem you can have, if you write too many shippy fanfics, is that you can see all the romantic possibilities in every single thing you do.