the writing side of tumblr - part 5

[@inariokami6696]

I’ve realized that not every idea needs a new story and that the original benefits from the layers.

[@edenrose4912]

That is incredibly smart and valid, but also… **holds all my ideas arms length apart** I trust none of you to work together. Especially not you, Manipulative Albus Dumbledore - you’ve already infected like 3 of my WIPs, you need to be quarantined.

[@fulana_de_tal]

But all my new ideas involve a completely fresh magic system that doesn't fit with any of the others, i live my own personal creation hell

[@aldenheterodyne2833]

I keep writing bits and pieces of random scenes as it inspires me. Sometimes it fits together, sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't matter because I'm never going to publish it anyway. I ain't never going to publish my shit because it's problematic as fuck and I don't want to put even more examples of unhealthy behavior out there! Plus I never have any plot. I only accidentally made a subplot once. None of my work is really publishable.

[@aceofspades2201]

@@fulana_de_tal SAME! At this point I just torture myself

[@b1zarr3vel]

yes that’s why my one story has so many different arcs 😭😭😭

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

My favorite type of character: God/goddess who’s personality doesn’t match what they’re associated with. Such as: Volcano deity with a really chill and laid back attitude.

[@vulomkaaz]

This makes me want to write a whole book with stuff like this but i already have like 4 wips im planning on :,)

[@internetlurker1850]

Persephone, Gaia, Zeus, Hades, Demeter.

[@pixeledroses4162]

Now I want to write my own mythology

[@rainwhal]

I have a sadist oc who’s a helper in yggdrasil

[@noviibutnotactive8385]

-Sweats with my goddess of wisdom lady who can think unless all her basic needs are met-

[@SupernaturalScream456]

Every post felt like an attack. 10/10 content

[@shazani18]

I feel atacked, so I'm going to write something right now...

[@cooliohoolio30]

yup. the thumbnail hit a little too close to home…

[@meizuo]

literally almost everything on this video is what i do ESPECIALLY THE LIST PART "I'll remember this" then doesnt remember it"

[@simplyramble9660]

Exactly my thoughts

[@Back-in-Brack]

yup

[@snekramen6094]

0:20 I love the implication that analyzing the flaws and deficiencies of a real person would be much more normal

[@shanonymous3551]

The KZbin commentary community would like a word with you

[@itsgirlcraft5842]

Depends on your profession. KZbin commentary channel? Psychologist? Normal Florist? Probably not!

[@Anonymous-ks1pn]

historians

[@monochromatic9601]

@@itsgirlcraft5842 I'm not a Florist but I get the feeling that a lot of florist end up getting a lot of info about a persons life, and thus analyze a persons terrible choices.

[@desolatedaydreams]

I don't post but I write a lot of horror because it's fun. You have no idea the joy I get from describing something extremely disturbing via descriptives like "his skin was peeled off with the same viciousness as a starving college student would tear away a yogurt lid" absolutely underrated. Amuses me to no end.

[@yellowfang42]

That is an incredible and terrifying visual well done

[@violetsfromanothertime3512]

I once described a cannibal caving someone’s head in with the descriptor “-like a kindergartener sticking their grubby fingers in the holes of a plastic picnic table” I love writing

[@anaspiringartist]

@@violetsfromanothertime3512 wow

[@number1toyafan]

We need more horror treated as crack treated serious

[@sockatoo_]

PLEASE WRITE MORE AND SEND ME THE LINKS THIS IS DISTURBING COMEDY INCARNATE

[@Haunted_Plush]

Hobbies are good, some of my favorites are Building a rocket Fighting a mummy Climbing up the Eiffel Tower Discovering something that doesn't exist Giving a monkey a shower Surfing tidal waves Creating nanobots Locating Frankenstein's brain Finding a dodo bird Painting a continent Driving my sister insane

[@shanonymous3551]

You should do all that before school starts in the fall

[@Haunted_Plush]

@@shanonymous3551 there's only 104 days before that

[@apocalypseofplush]

Oh wait, Phineas and Ferb already did it all.

[@shanonymous3551]

Probably should've stuck with them, huh?

[@bananabro1010]

They’re going to do it all

[@catastrophicfailure2745]

i find it concerning how im able to pop out two full pages of just plot points for a fanfiction, but i can't do my math homework on time

[@hollyro4665]

I was gonna have friends over this weekend. But seeing as I forgot to plan that beyond a picking a date I didn’t even manage to tell half of them and spent all my free time reading and writing fanfiction I’ve decided to postpone/probably not bother ever. Genuinely concerned about how much it’s consumed my life this week but oh well. Who needs a social life when I can read about being a killer kidnapped by another killer and developing a severely unhealthy attachment to them and then writing an AU in the regency era.

[@catastrophicfailure2745]

@@hollyro4665 idk man it sounds like you have your priorities straight

[@hollyro4665]

@@catastrophicfailure2745 that’s what I thought. Thank you for the affirmation 🤣

[@i_loveaxolotls059]

math homework: -questions you have to answer -you didnt pay attention to the source (the math class) -cant make a good plot with amazing chapters, you can only “show your work” fanfiction: -no questions or answers that you dint understand -payed attention to the source, you are in the fandom -make a good plot with many great chapters, no showing work because that IS your work

[@catastrophicfailure2745]

@@i_loveaxolotls059 that... that actually makes sense. thanks

[@marsh.al.mel0w162]

You know what's great? I never see those dumb bots on these videos. *They're too scared of the immense power of indecisive writers who torture their characters while at the same time are absolutely in love with minor details of them and potholes that will never be explained but make the story so much better. Not to mention the imaginary fandoms we all create in our heads and the Easter eggs we would put in our finished novels*

[@zeethezebra]

No joke, I was supposed to be writing the final few chapters for a long fic I've had in the works for a while. And then I wrote a five chapter short story a week ago. And then yesterday I designed a whole separate AU with a friend. I also have a bunch of other wips. I need to be stopped. Also as a side note, the short story fic has the tag "yes beta but we still die"

[@catastrophicfailure2745]

can i steal that tag if i ever get my fic beta read?

[@zeethezebra]

@@catastrophicfailure2745 Go right ahead! I’d love to see it again.

[@shanonymous3551]

That tag is genius

[@LeoparDusk]

I read that last line and nearly choked on my juice. You almost killed me… but at least there’s a beta

[@sneakysnek572]

You know you’re a writer when you black out with pain/disgust for a few seconds, and then immediately think “oh, I can finally describe blacking out in detail!” Edit: I also have done extensive research on 1. What electrocution feels like 2. The immediate and long term effects of a transgender man suddenly stopping testosterone treatment 3. Flower meanings 4. Chinese architecture (I can name the four main types of roofs used in ye olden times), ancient Chinese clothing (nobility specifically), and how to make baozi

[@lilowhitney8614]

I would love to hear more about 1 and 2

[@CadanL]

I have done research on: 1. Greek gods associated with dogs 2. Chaffinches 3. The average weight of a male tiger 4. Thermodynamics 5. How many people would a ballista go through

[@twiwatchesvocaloidstuff7159]

same (has done extensive research on electroshock therapy)

[@thesetwofloofs5397]

PLEASE tell me about the second I need it badly

[@sneakysnek572]

@@thesetwofloofs5397 so it’s been a while, but essentially you’ll go through a sort of “withdrawals.” Not as extreme as addiction withdrawals, but your body has gotten used to the testosterone, so it won’t be very happy if it leaves. Your fat will redistribute, and you will likely end up somewhere between where you started and where you ended in terms of body shape. Your voice, if it changed, will remain changed. Also, period cramps will likely come back, sometimes much more painfully than before, but for some people, the bleeding stops entirely. It varies from person to person, and there’s certainly more information to be found via proper research, but that’s the general rundown

[@Ratburger_]

My favourite thing to write about is there being one character that’s a absolute gremlin that has done literally nothing but cause chaos and all the other characters they’re friends(?) with act like a exhausted parent whenever their around them

[@Vixemint]

Made that gremlin character but I didn't think they were relatable enough so I made them the love interest/villain of my story

[@thesilverprincess]

My friend sent me a WIP about a bucket-obsessed adhd criminal, two main characters that split their traumatic experiences, a villain that’s the child of two heroes in a different unrelated story that they still haven’t sent me, and the best villain monologue I have ever read. I have never been so desperate to write something good before.

[@Meriadoc]

you are intriguing me so hard

[@XX_mxplesyrupwxffle_XX]

I need to read this

[@kerentan9446]

As for the first post: I'm working on a pretty shot story, just for fun. It starts off as a wish-fulfilment story with a Mary Sue as a protagonist, the whole twist is that it's actually a horror story (you can tell why I'm only working on this for fun). Anyway, the hardest part of writing this is the part where it's actually a wish fulfilment story. Every time I mention how the protag has "ethereal beauty" and it's so gosh darn pure and incorruptible, it pains me. So yeah. I actually might need to become a worse writer, at least temporarily.

[@ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108]

If you Google a Mary Sue test it talks about habits people have when they write they without realising. Like making them speak multiple languages fluently without needing to learn, or other characters questioning them and being proven wrong. This could add… depth? I guess? aside from ‘they’re perfect everyone loves them’. Also I really want to read your story.

[@SupernaturalScream456]

They’re great at everything and everyone loves them. The horror, everyone loves them so much it’s an infatuating cannibalistic love. The more time they spend with someone the more that person wants to be around them and part of them. Cue people doing anything to be with your Mary Sue character and their effect on people turns said people ravines or completely robs them of their free will. Mary Sue becomes a deity to people

[@Vixemint]

Yeah I keep trying to one-up My Immortal for the title of "Worst fic Ever" but then I keep writing well. Maybe I just need some more adverbs

[@itsgirlcraft5842]

@@Vixemint this is my mood Somehow my stupidest, weirdest fics have a super cool side to every single one of em and I don't know how

[@NCR_]

First second of the video: "do you like writing?" Me: *nervous laughter* "well about that-" Haven't even gotten past the intro and we're already off to a great start

[@Didierpelupessy]

I’m still surprised people don’t stick to schedules when it comes to writing… Granted, every other part of my life is a mess, but I’ve yet to miss an arbitrary writing deadline

[@merinofanfic4717]

I WAS WRITTING A FIC BUT THEN THE NOTIFICATION ON THIS VIDEO JUST APPEREAED AND I CLICKED IT AND NOW I AM IN THE COMMENT SECCION HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Didierpelupessy]

@@merinofanfic4717 hey, I was studying for exams. Got my fic in order earlier today

[@edenrose4912]

I can stick to a writing schedule for maybe 2 weeks at best before my attention span goes “Ooh! New shiny thing-“ and I’m left three weeks later, having done nothing productive, looking at my fic and thinking “oh the poor poor readers. Do they still remember when I posted daily? Such a long time ago.”. …so I envy you. (Not that I’m talking about anything in particular **sweats nervously as ‘Playing Pretend’, ‘Lions and Snakes and Phoenixes, oh my!’ and my original writing project stare at me, untouched for min 3 weeks and up to 3 months**)

[@Didierpelupessy]

@@edenrose4912 stupid but helpfull tip: every two days, take an hour to write at least something down. It really helps getting unstuck.

[@hikkicoreoshi]

how

[@juliefarrell6688]

When I was 10, I tried to write a slow burn because I HATED love at first sight. (And still do. Just... No.) However I was impatient as hell. I looked back on the story and damn I was genuis with slowly hinting the lord gradually and actually wrote trauma pretty well but the love story and character development was a mess. The IDEA of what the character development was ment to be was a good idea but I messed it up. At least I can learn from my past messes. I also wrote a different story when I was 10 and I'm not gonna tell you the plot but the first 3 or 5 chapters were actually really good and I enjoyed reading them again. But after chapter 5 you could tell I had ran the story into a brick wall. The protagonist kinda lost a lot of her personality, like being adopted had stripped her of everything that once made her herself. At least the humor was actually pretty funny. So I was like "I should've stopped writing at chapter 8" after re-reading that dumpsterfire of a novel. God should've stopped me from writing when I was 10.

[@hollyro4665]

I feel this. I wrote a One Direction fanfiction when I was like 12. Was a solid, stereotypical, teen drama. Had a great build up of some past drama slowly making its way into the plot. But I guess I got bored because then I decided to cause a literal car crash and catapult the characters to the end by comatose-ing all the conflict, again literally. One chapter after was the end. And then I wrote a one chapter follow up breaking up the leads that just got together because apparently I wanted to do that. Now I’m having much more fun writing a slow burn regency era romance. Two chapters in, still haven’t even mentioned the love interest and I love that I’ve done that to myself. Also there won’t be any car crashes. Or I guess horse and cart crashes? Actually I lie, there is but it’s a thing that happened before the time line that’s to do with a whole side character thing. Maybe I should stop with the crashes.

[@WalrusToaster]

@@hollyro4665 Did it involve the main character’s parents being broke and selling them to One Direction? PLEASE tell me it did, those are fucking hilarious 💀

[@hollyro4665]

@@WalrusToaster sorry to disappoint. It was a girl who hated one direction but no one knows why. Her best friend loved them and won tickets to tour with them. It’s there that we find out our main girl and Harry styles were previously together. But when he became famous they grew apart. The whole thing is them revealing the secret and falling back in love.

[@aceblitzgaming9783]

fun fact: "a toothy grin" actually means that the person's teeth are multiplying as they smile

[@bethebush867]

No but the trope where a villain gets resurrected and you think it’s gonna be bad but they actually learn and grow as a person and end up having a second chance at life and help fight against the new bad guy Like they forgive them, the villain didn’t want to become a villain and now the recognize that they get to start over

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

That’s nice, but what about when the horrifically traumatized and long-suffering character finally gets a break and is allowed to enjoy things as simple as sleeping in, looking at the clouds, going to the beach, etc.

[@hollyro4665]

@@monkewithinternetaccess6107 and here I am with horrifically traumatised characters and they only get relief when they’re even more traumatised and embrace that and go insane. My arcs aren’t villains that become hero’s they’re more like villains that become significantly worse villains. I’m fine

[@_AstaLily]

@@hollyro4665mood 😌

[@topaz_pie596]

Is anyone else like: “I don’t want to write a cool adventure story, I want to write a story about a queer slowburn romance” “But I don’t want to write a a queer slowburn romance, I want to write a cool adventure story”

[@arandomteto]

Yeah,sometimes I just mix the two into a cool adventure story with a queer slowburn romance

[@IMPERIALOZ]

COMBINE

[@RayDrawzDragonz]

@@arandomteto can i read your book please

[@coolbugfacts3953]

im not a writer but holy fuck i relate to these videos so hard. im more interested in stuff like game development, and one of the games i wanna make kinda requires me to like, write and stuff. had the game idea for years and have not written a single idea from it (even tho i really really should, and keep telling myself im gonna write it down eventually). i keep that shit organized in the only part of my brain that somehow doesnt forget everything 5 minutes later i also get constantly distracted by like, a new game idea every other week, try working on that instead but never get more than like 5 minutes of work in please help

[@clovertrashh]

Same. All of it.

[@artgoing]

Oh my god the synonym one is so accurate. Ever since I began writing my first novel, all I’ve done is google “opposite words of...” “different words for...” 😭

[@HokutoDokuro]

As someone intimately unfamiliar with the mystery novel, I would write the mystery novel where the narrator doesn't know what's going on.

[@rowan404]

4:14 I actually made a meta reference to this _in_ my WIP. There’s one part where the 2 main characters are on the run from the government and it results in a 12-hour drive through the desert. When they return to one character’s home, his brother asks, “How did you use the bathroom? Did you pee in the desert?”

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

Did they have access to water bottles?

[@whosminou]

as a writer, it's annoyingly frustrating when you write shorthand or code and ending up forgetting what it remotely meant.

[@kazzledazzle]

That happened to me once. I had to scrap the entire plot and start from scratch because I couldn't crack the code that I wrote.

[@whosminou]

@@kazzledazzle ahh that's unfortunate. But I'm sure you had plenty of other ideas after the incident :')

[@gvnlessktchn]

am i the only one who constantly feels like “i’ve gotten bored of writing my main fic, i wanna stop working on it for a while and come back to other stuff i have a lot more motivation and ideas for and come back to my main fic / maybe rewrite it when i improve and have better ideas :)” but also “if i post anything other than my main fic all my readers will think ‘wHeRe’S tHe NeW cHaPtEr YoU pRoMiSeD uS bAcK iN dEcEmBeR’ and hate me”

[@edenrose4912]

Ugh no, I feel the same way. It’s fun. Tbh tho, I probably wouldn’t finish my main fic if I got too distracted. I’m currently under the assumption that the people who read the fic I haven’t updated in 3 months despise me because up until like a month back (cause life got in the way and I had trouble getting the next chapter to feel right now I’m back to it) I had started a second fic that I updated daily

[@wickwebb4690]

how to write a novel step one: write the introduction step two: wait a week step three: rewrite the introduction because it was bad step four: rewrite it again step five: write the rest of the novel but never stop changing the introduction because oh my god it is never good enough

[@shadow_shine3578]

Yep!!!!

[@TheAntiChristsPlusOne]

I struggle so much with starting stories 😭😭😭

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

The bit about life preventing you from reading. Yeah, I relate to that. I'll get back to my 5 books in progress once I've finished this season of TMNT 2003.

[@Sickcrazyneet]

3:10 Amen, I use that site for so many town names

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

I use it for Skyrim characters :)

[@rowan404]

7:48 This is a mood. I thought I knew how my story would go, but part of it took place in 2020 and I planned it out in 2019. When the pandemic hit, the real-life plot twist caused me to have to change most of the middle and the entire ending of the story, and, to this day, idk how it’s going to end, but the entire story has evolved as a result and may have even changed genres. (It was going to be primarily slice-of-life, but there’s a lot more adventure now.)

[@crazycreaturestudios]

All this is so relatable. I can’t even describe how relatable this is.

[@Destinytheprecurefangirl2006]

As someone whos now working on they're fanfic on Wattpad, i can now relate to theses

[@WalrusToaster]

What fandom is it?

[@Destinytheprecurefangirl2006]

@@WalrusToaster it WAS a Rescue Bots Academy book but unfortunately due to me losing my Wattpad account, it won't be completed anymore

[@Arveral...]

Sometimes I want my character to do a musical number cause a song fits him a lot, then I remember that he's like 19-20 and not a Disney princess

[@juliefarrell6688]

Never did I think that writing a book about the war against monsters would cause me to need to research dog and cat breeds and how crops grow

[@progect3548]

7:38 this is me on a spiritual level. I have imagined an entire cartoon and the only thing that’s gonna start a giant sequence of events is me writing the script of the first episode. I have thought of so many memes, and I am the only person will understand it. I’m half tempted to just post them and when people ask what it is, I’ll say you’ll understand in a few months or years maybe. Edit: me writing this has inspired me to write said script. I’ll update this post once I finish it.

[@dragonunderfire4977]

The thing is that for me I have trouble hitting the word goal I want to. I am only just starting to write my first fanfic though so we'll see. That's also probably because I don't have most of the fic planned out but I just want to write about a troubled family with one character shouldering the burdens of running said family till they meet their long gone father and after a long road of acceptance finally hugs him again DAMNIT-

[@chalkwarrior5542]

my favorite part of writing is watching Grammarly scream in pain at me because I Don't Fucking Know How To Use Passive Voice Apparently. but then there's the iconic time i used "-" correctly as punctuation and i went fucking wild. edit: wait wait wait i just remembered an even better thing i wrote. unfortunately it's lost in the huge, calamity-inducing retcons I've done since then, but i remember having a "narrator" gimmick in this fourth-wall-based story of mine and one narrator got pissed at a regular character, so she just... stopped narrating the other person's actions, effectively paralyzing them for a minute out of spite. other person was pissed lmao. pettiest thing i've ever come up with and god i hope someone else can use this idea well. edit 2: the amount of 5-year-olds I've scarred in my main writing project is absurd. hopefully my Mass Retcon lowers that number. but then again i don't think traumatizing 8-year-olds is much better (referring to backstories)

[@sailorsable149]

It's OK, I've traumatised a three-year-old.

[@PaigeLTS05]

6:35 basically how all my fics work. I have a brainworm and I can't get my brain to write C# until it's vomited up the outline of another fic based on FNAF Security Breach with heavy inspiration from Poor Man's Poison's Feed the machine. Take these words, notes app, and I'll flesh em out later. Some wind up having a lot of thought and love poured into them. Others remain scrapped together ragdolls which I adore equally so.

[@Kathbunny2]

it's writing time

[@gemmonade_]

yes, yes, it is

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

Not to be confused with the much more popular thinking about writing time.

[@gemmonade_]

@@monkewithinternetaccess6107 yeah

[@papercraftcynder5430]

I feel like you can tell how much a writer likes a character by how much damage the writer does to them because the moment I got attached to a character who was dead long before the actual plot of my idea, they started suffering.

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

Accurate. Considering my favorite character is a goddess of pain that has felt nothing but pain since the moment of her conception.

[@mash9415]

after not writing for... a while... yesterday i wrote fanfic for hours instead of studying * fingerguns *

[@0XBlondie96X0]

Ok but I thought "toothy grin" meant like you're showing your teeth when you do it. Although tbf when I imagine a grin I imagine teeth showing so perhaps that's just redundant

[@orangetreestudiosII]

I just like to think that a grin is normal, and not all teeth can be seen. To me a toothy grin is someone deliberately trying to show as many teeth as they can (like a kid grinning for a photo)

[@matchedpowerofthesun]

This series vanished from my recommendations but I’m glad it reappeared

[@majora6767]

I'm writing a webtoon but my art isn't great yet so my excuse for never writing is practicing drawing I am around a quarter chapter in and it's been a year. I literally have spinoff ideas and I'm only on chapter 1

[@annagrant3328]

god same. except it’s a rpg maker game i’m making.

[@majora6767]

@Rainbow Rose Princess Mishti I actually lied, it's not really a spin-off. It's a different, way shorter story that I intend to publish first. so I thought "hey maybe the MC in that is the other MC's uncle! And the other MC is mentioned in a newspaper once!"

[@eleanormellor7905]

I kid you not, I'm planning a story in my free time atm, and I already want to make a sequel.

[@majora6767]

@@eleanormellor7905 it's nice to at least know I'm not the only one with this type of peoblem lol. At least my art is actually getting pretty good

[@bluejay316]

its gotten to the point with me that i have an actual and alternate universe for one story in the actual they (the pairing) live with a happy ending in alternate they've died and broken up with one another several times

[@CacoAA]

So, if any of you do spend long times looking up synonyms and the like (or like me, have to look up a dictionary cuz you think and write in different languages) wordreference might help I always have open when I write mostly because I am a dummy that forgets the simplest stuff (and how to conjugate) Hope it helps

[@lacrossestick132]

When I make the villain’s assistant more compelling than the MCs and the villain-

[@topazmoss1393]

*TRUEEE*

[@johnporter9034]

"As his lips travel towards his pupils, they part revealing his sparking teeth." That is a toothy smile.

[@celestia.5758]

do you like writing? today, no. tomorrow, maybe.

[@limena_et_cetera]

me: alright, is my character called mari or mira?? also me: ✨miari✨, take it or leave it

[@seishirowo]

Throw the names down the stairs, scrape up the shards, bake at 350 degrees farenheit for 35 minutes, new name acquired

[@Anaea]

@@seishirowo emphasis on the first one /j /ref

[@icarus_is_tired544]

2:35 I don't know what it is about the notes app, but writing there just, does something to the mind that you can't comprehend, like it possesses your mind and forces you to write the most soul wrenching sentences known to man

[@SOPHI529]

“Where did you get your idea for writing this book?” *weakly points to the song Amydala’s Rag-doll, the Roblox game Feild Trip Z, and the FNaF character, Michael Afton.*

[@Skye1421]

THE SYNONYM ONE IS SO ACCURATE IS THAT PERSON STALKING ME

[@rowan404]

1:06 I guess I’m God’s self-care… /j In all seriousness, though, my hobbies are writing, drawing, animating, voice acting, singing, piano, ukulele, computer science, and watching cartoons, and I have no idea what I’m gonna do with my life because I’m not particularly skilled at any specific one.

[@poppythedogofwonders]

These are so very relatable but the one thing I haven't seen thus far is the: Procrastinate writing story for days/weeks/months, open doc, write non-stop for hours straight, go to bed, repeat.

[@birdbird3000]

These videos always make me want to write a few hundred novels in the span of an hour, but when I actually start writing all that motivation shrivels up and dies in front of me ;-;

[@RiveriaFall]

The one about wanting to share references, except no on but you understands is so real. I'm writing a fic with a friend currently, and we essentially spent an hour throwing... dumpling lore into this thing. Like, dumplings were everything. They were references, and injokes and fhjwekfbwejlfk. And then I'm writing the next chapter of another WIP that's currently being uploaded, and I referenced a ton of dumplings lore. and.... i don't know where I was going with this.

[@just_a_joltik]

Im watching this while my cat is on my lap, as I remember all the WIPs and stories I need to write/continue writing, but have nowhere to put them due to strict parents. Ah, the days of being a teenager. I adore this video, and your content! Keep it up! Edit: spelling pf

[@rowan404]

I’ve had a WIP since 2019 (slow progress due to mental illness) and I used Fantasy Name Generators to help come up with the protagonist’s name. However, I later gave her name a deeper meaning while world-building.

[@amethysttheartist]

I FEEL the text post one, I have a whole doc for all the jokes I come up with for my chacaters. The story itself and all those jokes will probably never see the light of day thought

[@0nebulae0]

me thinking of the perfect characters and plot: im a genius me staring into a google doc: absolutely not

[@Bruhbookshelf]

…fantasy name generator?… THERE WAS A THING FOR THAT THIS WHOLE TIME!

[@superbbirdofparadise2791]

As someone who recently wrote the first THREE CHAPTERS of a fic in my notes app, I can confirm the thumbnail is accurate.

[@dutch_asocialite]

I was watching this pulling an all-dayer (don't ask) and right as I decided I would rest my eyes a little (start dozing off) I immediately heard 5:49 and it scared the shit out of me. All this to say, your presentation is immaculate.

[@sarahvanburen7819]

Hey, all of you with a bad case of Worldbuilders' disease, come on down and shout the names of your fictional worlds into this blank white void. I'll start! Mine are currently called Avianon and Mystinon, literally "bird land" and "magic land" in my fictional language. I'd love to hear yours! 🌎😁

[@thewriter7822]

We have Aristellis and Otrindix here on my end

[@lukewarmsoda1147]

My current world doesn´t have a name yet, is information about a religion which will be referenced maybe two or three times at max acceptable instead?

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

Valor. A mythic land of gods, monsters, and ambitious mortals.

[@sarahvanburen7819]

@@lukewarmsoda1147 Yeah, throw that in here if you'd like!

[@edenrose4912]

My fantasy world (I have two but this one acc has a name) is called Eplimengi. Which I think I took from some words I threw in google translate and nicked the bits that sounded cool.

[@magemalintent]

This is making me think I should become a writer

[@creaturefan216]

dont. save yourself

[@myrunnermyrunner]

I think the mostly frustrating part of writing characters is when you come up with their personality, backstory, and character arch, but just forgot to give them a name. So now you have a whole fleshed out character that you try to find a name for but nothing fits right.

[@ashnesslinguistics3570]

4:20 (ayy) abandoned boxes of MREs and bottled water. It's not great, but it'll do

[@weresofansie1457]

Not me looking at WRITING MEMES instead of working on that MAXLEY FANFICTION I promised myself I'd write-

[@mcdonaldsadmincourtney]

im watching this and commenting instead of writing

[@glassrose4525]

i wish you could organize your subscriptions like here is my "in need motivation to write folder"

[@moonbeamsun9066]

Me after finding out that the very specific fanfic I want to read doesn’t exist: Fine I’ll do it myself

[@noibean9645]

My favourite thing about having OCs is when you know exactly what they're like.....but you have no clue what they look like or even their name- Another is when you have this cool OC idea but you have no idea what their backstory is or when asked can't put it into words- Also having this cool story or picture in your head but it just.....doesn't come out right and at the end you wanna cry cuz you know how you want it to go but everytime you draw or write it just....ends up not quite night.

[@katangel115]

A toothy grin is a grin thats bigger than normal, one where you can see their canines clearly

[@IchaSwan]

Actually, the first "anti-advise" it's a pretty damn good advice when you're dealing with writer's block. Dedicate yourself to be a worse, but more prolific writer. Remember, while you're hiding behind "writer's block" and telling yourself you're not good enough, there's a worse writer somewhere who's having the results you want.

[@aminawinterwater2915]

I can so relate to the baby name website thing. They’re my go-to for names.

[@lilyposting]

I told myself I’d write a blog piece today but I got distracted and now I’m on KZbin. Thanks for reminding me to get back to work! 😅

[@Me-zz5zy]

The list of things all writers do forgot to mention write some stupid thing in the middle of the night but when you wake up you don’t understand it at all. Unless that’s just a me thing

[@ashlynhicks8859]

I HAVE AT LEAST 13-14 PARAGRAPHS OF A FANFIC PROLOGUE IN MY NOTES LMAO

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

Should probably make the prologue your main story then.

[@ashlynhicks8859]

@@legrandliseurtri7495 *no*

[@notimportant2360]

Enemies to lovers is weak. Enemies AND lovers is FAR superior.

[@SMUDGESEASON]

i haven’t written a real story in ages and i just wrote a summary of i think 1k+ words because of this video lmao, thank you for curing my writer’s block ((:

[@Error403HRD]

Behindthename is my favorite baby name site.

[@thatcrispyperson_arts]

rereading my own fics go both ways at the same time

[@HeavenlyMercury2800]

As someone who mainly gets story inspo/motivation from listening to a song I like on loop, I feel called out by 5:22

[@midnight_blue_moon]

7:37 THIS hurt me. I have a WIP that at this point is gonna take me years to finish but also there's this glorious series of jokes in it that I like to refer to as the tape jokes and sometimes I just wanna give people funny tape joke memes and laugh with them but NO ONE ELSE WILL GET IT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE KNOWS THE TAPE JOKES

[@mollyeng]

im literally watching this while procrastinating from writing

[@moonbeamsun9066]

My writing time: 20% research 20% re reading my old drafts 50% procrastinating by reading comic strips online and browsing Etsy 10% actual writing

[@Musiclover-fe5oc]

A lot of these things are things I do…but not for fanfiction… …there for role-plays…

[@randopersonhere]

Most of my writing is just comfort for me so I don't really cringe at my work.

[@maverickREAL]

3:28 I feel this DEEP within my SOUL. I am so bad at slowburn stuff because waiting on that kind of thing tortures me........ I tried reading ONE SLOWBURN FIC and it just... drained me

[@Diana03656]

I have a lesson in school where all we do is to write. I git to now that I need to have finished my book until in 6 weeks and Im only done with most of the planning

[@kriss0ul]

I wanna be a writer but all I do is imagine pre-existing characters from my favorite fandoms dying and stuff.

[@reharm_reality]

I was dying for more writing time all semester and now that I'm on break I can't stop writing and it's killing me. I'm doing the "waking up in the night just to write furiously in my notes app and then having to decipher it the next morning" thing, I have a new idea (which wasn't supposed to happen, I have a first section of a wip that's supposed to be fully scripted by the summer) and it's utter chaos trying to make a coherent plot from the random brain blasts, I'm writing my gf an essay on the first section of her book which is only making me think about writing more, and I just plotted out the entire ending of my main wip plus an idea for the sequel in one day. I'm getting way more done than I thought I would, but I have a creative writing class next semester and I just made the mistake of burning myself out on writing.

[@frostyhannah]

I hate it when I write a whole scene and finish my book afterward then when I go back to that scene I discover an obvious plot hole Like one time my characters were prisoners in cages for a month and for that whole month never left the cage. I now realized the plot hole. How the heck did they use the bathroom! They weren't holding it the whole time, that's not possible.

[@mariacuellar4764]

The last one is so mood xD

[@yeethittter1285]

I _could_ actually try to write my billions of in depth story ideas, or I could watch these videos

[@fatin2045]

The funny thing about writing for me is that i have created LOTS of AUs from my main story, which sometimes i would share with my friend or daydreams about to the point that i mix them up to make MORE AUs in my head. Like, oh if this one takes place in fantasy setting, and that one in highschool setting, why don't we just make this an entirely *new* one in an academy or some sort BUT in a _fantasy_ setting as well? Oooohhh yesssss, give me more of thoseee And that kids, is how i never finish my main storyline but continues to develop deeper and deeper into the side ones as much as i concerned.

[@gamemaster4947]

5:23 Two of my favorite terms/phrases that I came up with came from misheard song lyrics that I realized I could use because they aren't actually in the song, so they aren't trademarked

[@FizzieWebb]

ohhh... I hate how accurate that last one is.

[@kitocrystal]

I don't even consider myself a writer, and yet every post landed a critical hit on me

[@orionskittles]

4:22 I'm literally obsessed with a series on KZbin that has basically an entire first season about a bunch of people being trapped in a strange grassy, wasteland basically, with no food or water and they're stuck there for SEVEN MONTHS. some of them end up being stuck there for longer my guy no one cares about how they get food and water, at least I don't, as long as the story is compelling and interesting I'll enjoy it either way

[@buttercupkat]

All of these posts make me feel better about myself for hyperfixating on my word document for hours.