Writing Memes from Tumblr (part 7)

[@hermitsunite953]

you know you're a fanfiction writer when you consider faking your death just to get out of updating an old story.

[@PhoenixDreamz1]

Fair enough

[@mash9415]

two types of people: the "sorry omg i got run over by a car last week and couldn't update my fic, here's a short 7k chapter, apologies!" and the ones considering faking their deaths.

[@hermitsunite953]

@@mash9415 True. Thankfully I didn't go to the dark side and I updated my fic

[@xfirefeather]

Why fake the death when you can make it as real as possible? :P

[@mash9415]

@@xfirefeather the ao3 writer curse is already trying as hard as possible to kill you off lmao

[@spy588]

Has anyone ever imagined memes about their own incomplete books and thought "Oh yeah the fans are gonna love this one" and then thought "wait what fans" because you have no fans and are just a sad lonely writer who still hasn't remembered that one word

[@justvibin1447]

I've never felt so seen 🙏

[@RealCryptoTest]

Try chartreuse, always works if you want an evil/magic/chaos colour. Not green enough to be natural, not yellow enough to be vibrant. Just… Adventure Time Lich.

[@JayTohab]

Yes

[@callmesummon]

FOR. REAL. I always imagine animations and fics for my characters before remembering that I can’t make them myself or I’ll spoil the story and then proceed to give up writing the book because I want to make animations too

[@renoirrr]

i use wattpad for fics (not like id ever publish anything 💀) and i just imagine the fucking things they would say for the inline comments and memes they would bring up even tho the fic would never see the light of day

[@K1nk4j0u]

I once had to Google some weird things for a story, like psychosis and stuff along with if dead bodies float in water. I think Google thinks I need help, and I think I was put on a list of some sort.

[@rowan404]

I researched psychosis, like, last week, but not for writing. I found an old note from June that was completely incoherent, remembered that my psychiatrist mentioned that I may be bipolar, and panicked. I ended up categorizing it as flight of thought, which, unfortunately, is most often seen in those who are bipolar. Edit: My mom came in with my lithium pill (I was prescribed lithium over a year ago) right after I finished this comment. Also, I just remembered that bipolar is more frequently found in writers than in the general population. HELP.

[@LEGO_IndianaJones69420_]

If your writing research google search results doesn't at least ONCE link you to the suicide hotline, then, son, you ain't writing right.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Hey hey at least it wasn't : Cannibalism, home made weapons, how to topple a gov , warlord life and nuclear power plant systems ...it was all to make an in universe video game

[@alittlekittycat21]

I’ve looked up torture methods, and how hot a soldering iron gets-if it’s possible to get fourth-degree burns, and various mental disorders for an intense whump fic… I’m sure I’m on a list too…😅

[@ghastlygavin]

Not a writing thing but I remember looking up actual victims of shit like electrocution and acid burning so my character designs could be more accurate Yes, I regret it.

[@AmberMaytions]

“Oh no, my thought process is oddly similar to the villain I wrote” -me, after writing me with less morals

[@imperfectwaffles5688]

Lol same. It’s actually a good strategy for creating realistic thought processes and motivations for villains.

[@_AstaLily]

I’ve been there 🫠

[@humanperson2480]

The thing about suddenly growing a strong attachment to a character you made to be killed off is so relatable. I was in charge of making 4 characters for a story I’m co-writing. All 4 would be killed by a cult to give the protagonist motivation to start their journey. Only problem? I really like all of them now. Feeling bad that these characters are gonna die is kinda the point, but what good is a heart wrenching character death if it makes the author cry more than the audience.

[@coyotix]

I'm writing an animated series and i'm so tempted to kill off the main character at the end, but i will CRY if i do that because every character in the series is just me projecting onto them. This is a character that i really relate to, and while I know that sacrificing him will be the best for his story arc, i just don't think i'm ready to let him go. And I want to be able to have both- kill him off and bring him back again, but then the sacrifice would fall flat. AGHH I HATE THIS

[@user-LoomaMoth226]

I had the same problem. I had a character who's dad was supposed to die as part of their backstory. But after I gave him a personality change I got so incredibly attatched that I ended up sparing him. He still dies in the 4th installment, but is brought back to life in the end. I can't end this dorky loving father. He needs to live.

[@Local_custard]

imo the best character deaths are ones that feel like they matter. With a few exceptions, I find myself heavily disappointed when an author decides to bring a character back to life after the death was fully established. You could pour your love into them by trying to show why you love them so much. That way, the audience could cry with you

[@user-LoomaMoth226]

@@Local_custard I see your point but the problem with that is if he wasn't brought back, the plot wouldn't work out like it should. Plus he wasn't really "dead" per say, he's a wizard and because his magic was stolen from an evil wizard he was turned to stone and the entire point of the book was for the main character to save him and defeat the evil wizard. it's a whole thing and i could go on hours explaining it

[@Local_custard]

@@user-LoomaMoth226 that's understandable! I think I wasn't being clear when I was speaking more generally and for that I apologize. I'm glad it worked out!

[@lost.oracle]

Something funny about having Maladaptive Daydreaming is that I'll be going about my daily routine when suddenly I've just watched 3 episodes of a show that doesn't exist I now feel compelled to write down everything that happened and expand upon it.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

Do you also mentally flip the channel only to end up on a fictional documentary about the previous daydream?

[@finn9396]

​@@BonaparteBardithion OMG YES "How good the romance plot is in X fanfic"

[@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754]

thanks to this very comment, im EXTREMELY convinced i have a bad case of MD and even looked it up and everything checks out even while im working, i come up with some random stuff about my ocs and even short storylines with them and connect them all together into this much larger, overarching story i get so into it too that i start questioning myself if this is really ok

[@darkacadpresenceinblood]

my life in a nutshell

[@qwaty8978]

Me....people tell me I never pay attention because I'm always daydreamimg. And my parents tell me to wake up from this fantasy, but that's the thing:I can't. Because I don't want to. That's why I also got into shifting.

[@thelunarwizard]

People sometimes ask me 'how do you decide what your characters are going to do'. I don't. I just put my fingers to the keys and they do their own thing. It's like they're Remi the rat and I'm Linguini. I have no choice or say in what they do.

[@Aguywandering]

Writers are my favorite type of people because instead of saying simple things like, “I just start typing and the words come to me.” They look at their plate of alphabet spaghetti-oes and decides comparing them writing and ratatouille is a good idea

[@tticusFinch]

For me, it's not so much that I don't have control it's that I'm wrestling with another person for control. I'll try to direct them and they'll push back like "I wasn't done talking" or "I wouldn't do that." I once wanted my MC, a touch-starved, literally tortured kid, take an entire book before he could hug someone when I had wanted him to hug in the first 50 pages and throughout the story. I kept trying and he kept refusing. It ended up being so much better and impactful because of it but I had to rewrite so many other scenes because he either couldn't process things like a normal kid and he couldn't regulate his emotions as well. He still is a hot-tempered kid who doesn't always make the right decisions but he's not afraid or constantly angry like he was.

[@BooTheEater]

I am in love with this comparison and these replies Man i love writers they brain built different

[@wer_3too]

I have a vague idea, my fingers make contact with the keyboard. I am now possessed and I will come out of my trance in 2 days and my eyes will open and there will be a chapter written but I will have no memory of writing it.

[@AgathaVara]

It’s a sign that the characters, the scenes are alive, it just naturally comes into play (I think, I hope I’m not wrong, if I am wrong, sorry)

[@UJEvans]

Me: This character just has to explain that they all need to go back home. My story: "what's wrong, grandad?" "..." Me: Crap. How do people talk? What's a conversation?

[@ghastlygavin]

Fucking same Whenever I write a super sociable popular with lots of friends character I always got myself thinking: "How the fuck do I start a conversation"

[@nocturnalpixies]

@@ghastlygavin my main character dont have friends- (no its not emo) they just have a group of people attempting to murder him as he travels from one country to another :)

[@Isabel-sr8ep]

@@ghastlygavin one of my side characters is a popular girl idk where to start with this because Idk how popular kids work💀

[@sinimeg]

“Writing can’t be that hard” Me every time that I’m about to start a story, then having a melting after writing 100 words because I’m already struggling

[@Aguywandering]

You get to 100 words? Props to you mate I’m a blob of gelatinous goop by word four

[@Getawaycarll]

I always regret it after

[@belynda1224]

I’m on Chapter 3 and have no idea what the main protag is gonna do next 😭😭

[@zeykriid]

never forget: “The only writer you should be comparing yourself to is the one you were yesterday.” whoever needs to hear this about their writing rn: keep pushing, fam; you’re doing great.

[@Arty_Apple_Bee]

That moment you're daydreaming about being interviewed by a great newspaper about when your book will be published saying things like "yes, absolutely, this specific scene was actually happening while this other character was living this event, and it does demonstrate a breakthrough in their trauma because the tree metaphor appears in this other scene and-" And then you snap out of it and two words are written on your gdoc : "title" and "poop".

[@SwedishTalkingWolf]

A good thing about having a sister as a nurse is I can ask her morbid questions, like, what does a corspe smell like? Or how long does it take for a person to die from blood loss?

[@cryingchild4209]

what are the answers? lol

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@cryingchild4209 I would assume the answer to the first is 'rotting meat' but I haven't actually spent any time around unpreserved human corpses. As for the second, that depends entirely on how quickly blood is exiting the body, and where exactly the injury is located. For instance, if we're talking a slashed carotid artery it could take as little as a couple minutes or so if nothing's done to slow the bleeding down. This is because it's a major artery so the blood is under a lot of pressure and thus will exit the wound very quickly (specifically it will be squirting out in pulses in time with the heartbeat,) additionally the carotid arteries are the main supplier of blood to the brain, so if it's cut that blood isn't getting there, the brain will quickly run out of oxygen and die. Really, any artery cut is going to be bad because they're ALL pressurized (and they all splurt) but ones that aren't directly supplying blood to a major organ won't kill you as fast, as in those cases death is due to the drop in blood volume making it impossible to keep the blood going where it needs to, causing various tissues to slowly succumb to hypoxia. The same thing occurs with veins, though since they aren't pressurized they bleed much more slowly. This process is referred to as hypovolemic shock and begins to occur when you lose 15% of your blood, though at that stage its still pretty mild and you wouldn't be looking at organ damage yet. At around 40% you'll be looking at serious organ damage or death. Interestingly, it can usually be treated with just IV fluid to get the blood volume back to a normal level, as you can still function pretty well with a lot fewer red blood cells than normal, though obviously if too many of them or gone you'll need a transfusion. This long explanation was brought to you by a combination of my anatomy class and my extensive research to depict blood loss accurately in my rather violent fantasy writing (the reason I know so much about the carotid artery in particular is due to needing to know if a character could feasibly stab someone before dying from having their throat slit.)

[@cryingchild4209]

@@Amy_the_Lizard thanks for answering my question and also geez how long did that take for you to type 😭

[@WilliametcCook]

Yeah, I'm writing a story. How many pages? Well, you see, I haven't actually _written_ anything yet

[@BooTheEater]

"well, theres no ACTUAL pages or anything yet. But i did write the full story and also multiple au's of said story inside my brain, so i think that counts"

[@gc1823]

Omg I'm not the only one

[@consumethetea]

I used to love writing when I was in middle school, I’ve made countless Google Docs of fantasy stories with characters and lore of my own. But I deleted every single one of them because they were cringy and I believed I was never going to finish them. I am in college now and have long since lost any talent of writing I have had, and I deeply miss my many unfinished, two chapter long novels. So to any artist out there who took the time to read this: keep your unfinished projects, don’t throw them away. Even if it amounts to nothing, it’s always nice to look back on it and get new inspiration. Your future self will thank you.

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

100% agree! I was sooo tempted to just trash everything I wrote from ages 10 to 16, especially the later stuff because I actually shared it on social media and had people read my awful cringy WIPs, but I saved it. Now 10 years later, I actually really enjoy reading it from time to time. I even plan to re-write some of the stories where 14 year old me was on to something but didn't have the skill to pull it off quite right. Yet. Now I do.

[@bumbabees]

@@Lewisiaisoutofcontext I hope I can get to that point some day. I recently reread some writing from when I was like 13 and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it was so bad lmao.

[@hailghidorah2536]

Hey, you didn’t actually lose all your talent. It’s incredibly tempting to think that you did, but just try writing again. You'll find that even if it takes months or even years to get back into the swing of things, you’ll realize that the old dog still remembers its tricks.

[@midnight_blue_moon]

This. This a million times. I have literally never gotten rid of a single doc. I don't even know what half of them are supposed to be, but I've never gotten rid of them. Occasionally I scroll through and look at different old docs when I feel in a writing mood but can't come u with something to write. Sometimes I discover golden documents I have no memory of creating. It's quite entertaining at times.

[@lydiawalton4822]

Although I agree with you, I have also deleted old works that I now regret deleting, but you shouldn't give up on writing. If you love doing it, do it! It doesn't have to be good, and you can improve over time. I believe in you (:

[@REIN-carnation]

“Some writers know what they’re doing, but me-?” *ad plays* **”I have ruled for eons.”**

[@pageturner2958]

"Huh, I wonder what headcannons people are going to have about my silly headcharacters"

[@omori3703]

This is motivating me to write a novel length fic about two characters who have about 30 seconds of collective screen time and their ship tag has 14 works and we know almost nothing about either of them Wish me luck

[@BooTheEater]

I wish you luck

[@stygian6642]

Yikes good luck

[@Cody_Wolf1]

Me: I want the end of this character’s arc to be left up to interpretation. There is no right answer to what happened to her Also me:[has such a clear image in my head as to what happened to the character at the end of her arc but legit can’t explore it cause honestly- the character needs a damn break]

[@ballpitwater]

I once forgot how to describe pain and I wasted minutes of my life searching up stuff like "what does it feel like to hit your head against the roof of a car" and indirectly asking someone to describe such pain to me (even though I have experienced it before) only for me to search up something along the lines of "how to describe pain in writing" and being reminded of the fact that the word "ache" exists

[@weirdcakes304]

I feel the having AUs for your own characters. I have one where character A’s s/o turns into a harsh ruler of a kingdom after they break up. Character B has become cold and distance, and reunites with character A when they are trying to steal the crown from the kingdom. They fight, character A realizing there is no way to get to them. But suddenly character A is put in life-threatening danger to where character B saves them, realizing that they still love them! They go in for a kiss, but character A has been stabbed by their enemy. As they bleed out, they hug their lover and tell them how much they love them. I also have an AU where they work at a circus!

[@edslushie570]

Now imagine trying to write multiple stories *and* their respective soundtracks at the same time. "Ugh I meant for these characters to exist in two unrelated works but their leitmotifs fit together so well I'm gonna have to find a way to pair them up."

[@abigailcowling-smith3532]

Dude, I feel the thumbnail 😢

[@theforgotten1213]

Me too. In my story the love interest will die (it's based on a poem and I don't want to say too much in case it will be spoilery) but now I don't want him to. :(

[@K1nk4j0u]

I had the main character die, she was a kid, too.

[@HelloTrandler]

I had to kill off Aunt May in one of my Spiderman fanfic and it hurt my heart like hell

[@_AstaLily]

@@K1nk4j0uI wanted to kill my main character in a short story. But he was such a sweet guy, I decided not to. Instead, I put him through all the horrors and hells it is possible to go through in the dystopian world I had created. He wound up wishing he had died. It’s now a novel I’m looking to publish.

[@K1nk4j0u]

@_AstaLily omg when you do, drop the name and I'll get it. That's awesome dude

[@vulomkaaz]

2:19 my poor friend has to hear all of the lore of my ocs AND the aus. There are specific genres and subgenres of them. Some of them have names. One time she had to read like 4 giant walls of text about one specific au and ill sometimes "threaten" her by saying ill do it again

[@ccappa2001]

I often lie in bed imagining a whole story. The next morning I write it thinking I will be able to sleep better, but NO, I then realize there are 100 different ways I could make it better and it never, ever stops.

[@rainboSnails]

the seeing characters in your dreams one is so true . legit all of my ideas come from dreams

[@Thepeopleinmybrainloveyou]

One time in my psychology class, lobotomies were brought up and I just started talking about everything I knew about them-

[@sumthnunreal5502]

Me salivating to get to the fun part only to realize that I still haven't written the important parts that lead into the fan part.

[@LunaticoniSolar]

Ikr! Me FR

[@whitebread3872]

I love being a writer that doesn’t write I have so many cool ideas but the lack of motivation to actually write anything down

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

00:47 I thought the punchline would be "I asked you to do the laundry, do you know how to do that too?" and then an offended/upset face.

[@Agent-John]

Or ‘Sir, this is a Wendy’s ‘

[@grimla7883]

i keep having really interesting dreams but i have to sit there with my eyes closed trying to memorise them before i fully wake up and it never works and its so frustrating because all i can ever remember is that it was so good that i really wanted to write it down

[@musicalmysteries7039]

To be fair, men don't obsess over every part of an outfit, we just put on something we find comfy and go from there, at least I do

[@shanerdude8121]

5:42 Sometimes I come up with a name for a character that will get overwritten by the next thing I think of, but other times I'm just like, "Yep, this one's name is Locus. I don't care that it's probably not an actual name. It was the first thing that came to mind so that's their name forever."

[@c0zmozys]

meanwhile me just (nick)naming my characters after a trait in their clothing / what they were originally based on / just kind of… whatever??? (example: i nicknamed a character “Other” brcause i didnt have a name for her, i ended up with her being named Aether)

[@CandyThePuppy]

Bro I took a college course for writing and the only thing I ACTUALLY learned was how to use semi-colons correctly..maybe. 😂

[@tticusFinch]

It took me reading Jane Austen to realize colons weren't used solely for the purpose of listing things. Now I have to hold myself back using them lol

[@justvibin1447]

Yeah I may have written a cringy novel at 14 about getting together with my favorite actor through some science fiction mumbo-jumbo, but God damn it, it was still a novel and without all that hard work I would never be where I am now.

[@StraightUpDoor]

as someone who is currently waiting for my ao3 invite and already has many fic ideas I am on the edge of “this is MY writing and nobody can tell me what to do” and “but what if people don’t like it though” social anxiety go hard rn ✨

[@spacedoutwriter]

10:54 i think theres a middle-grade novel like this called Project Mullberry by Linda Sue Park. in-between chapters (or every few, i havent read the book in a while), the author has a conversation with the main character about what's currently going on in the story, and the main character actually inspires the author to finish the story after they start losing motivation. it's about the main character and her best friend doing a project for the state fair, and the main char's mom suggests some kind of worm because she used to raise them when she was a young girl in Korea. but the main character feels that all the other kids are doing traditional "American" projects, while she's doing..well, worms. It's a sweet story about identity, and i really reccomend it to people who like middle-grade books!!

[@Summyer]

One of the writers in Baldur's Gate 3 actually interviewed their character (j think it was Astarion?) And it actually added depth on the said character! Also I think Arcane writers did this too?

[@aether2kye]

6:26 THIS IS LITERALLY HOW I NAMED MOST OF MY CHARACTERS- I once literally dissociated during an episode of the Magnus Archives and suddenly got a name for one of my then unnamed characters. I think it also helps that my characters are basically all from really weird and kinda screwed up dreams I had in the past so the names come like dlc for them-

[@PantherCat64]

10:46 I’m writing an entire series of small book length stories that’s just this. It’s really fun actually, it’s basically like writing a fictional autobiography.

[@gooseberryfool]

6:26 i once had a dream that i used as a story idea and the main character was nicknamed master yoghurt for some reason? and now i'm very emotionally attached to the name

[@dutch_asocialite]

I relate too much to 9:45. I once planned a story up to two and half instalments, creating a whole fictional subcontinent and 100 years of history just to provide a background to the small town that the high school setting was in, with a wide cast of uniquely designed characters with thick, fluffy backstories and clashing personalities _all_ for the intention of (progressively) killing off 90% of them in the last act of the first book. I did this because the majority of the story would've been regular high school bs with a military theme until that point and I wanted a real _gut punch_ to emphasise the harshness of the world, which was so effective I haven't touched the project since.

[@lizbombplaysXD]

0:22 this is super relatable. I was doing a multiverse rift rp thing with a few friends writing Tim Drake and in this act one ending fight he lost his arm. Ended up reading 15 reports on the effects of losing an arm, speed of blood loss and fatality of emergency amputation without medical supervision, how different prosthetics and bionic limbs work, recovery time from losing a limb, how phantom pain works, and pricing on the highest tech and most highly respected bionic limbs.

[@rexcake]

Speaking of Common Writing Advice That Actually Sucks, your story doesn't need to have some profound message or moral, atleast not when you first conceptualize it. Don't get me wrong, if you have a message you wanna share with the world by writing a story that's great, more power to ya! But don't stress over whether your story is Inspiring Enough or Philosophical Enough or anything like that. Personally I've had better success developing a story first and letting a message come to me as I work on it, and if one never does, no biggie! You wouldn't believe how long I spent not writing cuz I couldn't come up with profound enough moral, instead of just coming up with something I enjoyed writing and would enjoy reading!

[@tticusFinch]

Right?? If I have a moral in mind, my writing comes out stilted and my story flat. If I release my characters to do what they want and we get to see real, impactful consequences of their beliefs, motivations, and actions, a moral kind of forms itself that I can build on in later drafts.

[@ohnoimscared3703]

This is honestly what really stifled my creative juices during high school, among other external factors. I consumed a lot of analysis from paintings, books, movies and all kinds of medias. That distant feeling of someone could have a completely different reading than what i intended from my work is not unwelcomed; but I'm terrified of making the wrong move and didn't have enough hindsight to cover all of the necessities. Nowadays I'm trying to just throw everything on paper and let the stuff simmer in a few days. If I don't see anything fundamentally needed to be changed, then I just keep it as it is, even if I may edit stuff later on

[@hadhey8137]

Once I was writing a story and after a few pages I realized the main character’s rival is wayyy more interesting than the MC. The rival ended up becoming the new MC because she had far more interesting backstory and love interest. Anddddd I can torture her more! :)

[@the.mushroom.faerie]

3:19 same applies for artists and sketchbooks. I have like 20 of my favourite type of sketchbooks because I buy them in bulk when they're actually at the dollar tree because I can't find them anywhere else and it's so rare that they're there

[@FloraMecha]

I've had a story idea for literal YEARS and I still haven't written it

[@caramel_frappe]

11:31 I'm an amateur writer and man, this made me feel good

[@Scatterbrained_Watching]

4:13 This post genuinely brought tears to my eyes. Tears of shame

[@Nikonikotine]

1:08 My story is about humanized songs. For example, I had some good album songs there. I noticed I didn't want some of them and had to rename them. However, I realised that the first letter of the characters name is the first letter of the song they're based off. And I don't have time to find a new album that suits it well. I was gonna change it, but then I thought renaming was weird. "Huh, so you CAN rename your characters if you want?" is what I thought, looking at this.

[@sprout-undercover]

The thing about my writing is that I have so many ideas for the past of my characters, little details about their lives, and the entire ending of the story. But not the rest of it. I have little clue how the events will connect and I am in peril

[@childeofepickness]

this is why I’m scared to write fanfiction or literally any kind of story about my ocs lmbo

[@sapix6937]

That post at 7:03 got me thinking about what I could write in my fic that I didn’t plan to write but would hurt me as the writer the most, so practically pulling a plot twist on myself. I hadn’t introduced the identity of one of the antagonists yet despite being far into the story, and now I’m fully considering making it the protagonists ‘traumatized artist type’ replacement father figure. He’s just a vibing little dude but it fits so well in the plot. I’m internally screaming but thank you for making this video.

[@lunaria973]

2:26 I feel called out because I want my stuff to gain fandoms 4:09 *I have written the prologue and 3 chapters for my Eddsworld au fanfic and I already have a sequel planned and have what the future of it looks like.* 10:55 I imagine this with my ocs sometimes.

[@DocKrazy]

These type of videos are steadily dwindling down my HP to the point I need a snack close-by, just so I can finish watching without dying from all the callout.

[@sarahvanburen7819]

Who else is watching this instead of writing the next chapter of their fanfiction? :p

[@swankytable84]

*Sighs before pitifully raising a hand*

[@pikaqte5418]

Me....

[@3starsburningbright]

8:06 oh my god THIS. and its _why_ i rarely even write anything (dont even have an account on any fanfic or book site like ao3 or anything, dont read any sort of fanfic nor am i an actual writer but i just like watching these videos cause of how many ocs i have and how badly i want to actually showcase them to people lol) i can tend to talk rather formal (or at least, more formal than expected for casual conversation) aswell as i can have trouble with what is and isnt actually deemed normal for casual conversation because of never really actually socializing with anyone for most of my life and having a hard time with social cues and such. so literally nobody has ever read any snippets of dialogue ive written cause im scared theyre gonna read it and be like “why do they talk like that” IDK I TALK LIKE THAT SO THEY HAVE TO TOO OK LEAVE ME ALONE

[@october6432]

I can imagine whenever someone searches something questionable on the internet the FBI or whatever is like "Bro someone searched if dead bodies float in water, should we investigate them?" "Nah it's probably just another writer"

[@Danka42]

Those deep-dives into random info at 2am are the best part of writing! (currently combing through recipes from medieval europe)

[@edenrose4912]

This video actively pushed me towards working on a WIP i havent touched in a while. Idk how long that motivation will last but im excited right now so thank you

[@renoirrr]

very random things somehow push me to continuing that wip but this honestly wasn’t that random like ive watched all of the videos in this series and each time i ended up getting motivation to write with new ideas

[@Person-O_o]

9:50 me when i play sims 3. attempts: broken family with runaway son who turns to a life of crime what happens instead: no one has died, i have a genie and 3 sassy robots for some reason, and the sons really into gardening

[@NotThisAnonymous]

The son turned to a life of crime with added plants

[@clxo1273]

The thing is when you've got a very good story going you're so excited to complete then forget about it for weeks then come up with a new idea and simultaneously wanting to write both as you've wrote to much of the first story to delete it.

[@PhoenixDreamz1]

I have the sudden urge to write a novel. Lol

[@crazycreaturestudios]

9:45 I’ve had this moment but almost worse cause it was a character I didn’t initially plan to die. But then after making everything about her and her relationship to the mc I realized the story would work better if she died to give the mc motivation.

[@PantherCat64]

0:14 solve this problem, be like a programer and leaving comments all over the place of what you’re trying to do and what this part’s purpose is supposed to be. My only issue with that is when I program I forget to place comments anywhere and everything ends up breaking because I forgot to finish a whole function.

[@lilianlav175]

8:12 you don't understand how much that fucking bothers me when I'm writing my fanfic! How much fucking work I have to put in to actually keep the speech pattern consistent because my dumbass brain does not realise when it's slipping into 'my speech'! ...but I still enjoy it...keeps me at my toes.

[@xfirefeather]

I love watching these because it helps me build motivation to write when my meds refuse to :D

[@raqchealv8719]

To the three loyal readers who've been relentlessly supporting my genshin fanfic that is completely unplanned, takes months to update 4k words, and is quickly spiraling into an analysis of the political dynamics of genshin organizations, I apologize.

[@theforgotten1213]

The thumbnail is so true.

[@unaestheticfrog11]

The one about starting to like a character you created to die hits hard I have one named Na. He is precious and a cute little artist dragon. I would say "protect him at all costs", but that's a bit too late. 😅

[@soup_sarah8590]

Omg please don’t kill him off. 🥺

[@unaestheticfrog11]

@@soup_sarah8590 It's a bit too late

[@soup_sarah8590]

@@unaestheticfrog11 :’(

[@unaestheticfrog11]

@@soup_sarah8590 I'll write an au in which Na survives :)

[@soup_sarah8590]

@@unaestheticfrog11 thank you fam :>

[@geklethegremlin8066]

Watching these reminds me of the time I completely chanced a whole chapter on ao3 because the story changed slightly

[@SephTheHuntress]

Some of these actually made me feel better about my fanfics, because I'm constantly worrying if the story or the characters are good enough. People have read it on ao3, but not much constructive criticisms or stuff like that. I've asked people to read it so I could know if it's good or not, but they never do. I was about this || close to deleting them, but these memes actually made me feel better. Thanks Tonka Joey.

[@EllpaFox47]

3:31 my current WIP is just the plot of someone’s ASMR with my OC’s reaction to it all I made sure to give credit tho

[@dutch_asocialite]

6:32 is why I always have someone else interrupt the conversation when it's been going on too long.

[@mangle6850]

What I’ve been learning from these is that most writers are probably on a government watch list because of their search history and if I continue down this path of fanfiction I will probably be next. I can’t wait >:]

[@gooseberryfool]

6:37 i have such a love hate relationship w writing dialogue because on the one hand my fiction children interacting!!! yay!! but on the other hand how. how does one smoothly change a subject. when having a conversation. how does it work.

[@ballpitwater]

I feel this on a spiritual level, my dialogue literally looks like it's ai-generated

[@wintig245]

I get way too attached to my characters. Just a side note... I'm in the Danganronpa fandom. These are fanganronpa characters. I picked the wrong fandom to get attached to my ocs in. I keep talking about the one character I've killed of so far on my page, because it wasn't until I wrote her death that I realized how much I would miss her. I can't bring myself to write anymore, even though I'm literally in the first of 5 chapters and the story is still under an hour of read time. It's too painful to go on.

[@Plipaya]

This is all so niche and enjoyable ☺️ and yet as an artist I can still relate even when they are two different medias!

[@diamonddragon8733]

7:12 I have a series of fanfics that often jumps from High School shenanigans to action movie subplot back to high school shenanigans then back to action movie subplot. Not to mention the few times I had to put a gore warning in a couple of them.

[@L1lmab3ans]

I had to research the healing process of neck & facial scars and ended up going down a rabbit hole. Idk if it is worse that it had something to do with the timeline of the story and was going to happen at some point, or better. (also it was only for one sentence)

[@Stratelier]

3:36 - This legit happened to me during mid-November when I tried to make a portmanteau from a few (Japanese!) loanwords. I broke it down into basically every permutation of syllables I could think of & ran every one of them through Google Translate to check for any obvious problems, but it came back clean (a few actually translated _more_ appropriately to my context than anticipated).

[@G-Cole-01]

1:30 yeah that's kind of what I do with them too; I call it the Shakespeare approach regardless of whether he _was_ actually the "idk just fuc around with the words until i get something that sounds good" guy that I'm thinking of.

[@Mayoooooooooooooo]

This channel is singlehandedly what keeps my motivation for writing up.

[@smileyfacepalm]

1:56 To avoid the dilemma of not writing adults mature enough, I made all the characters be children except parents or grandparents that have one line.

[@RealCryptoTest]

Me- Mmm I’m really struggling to write this chapter… even though my favourite chapters are coming up and the endgame of the whole book… the vibes are off Also me, on my side project- I have one (1) character I really like and it’s a monthly upload but I’m finishing three chapters in a week so I can write about Maria again.

[@mythologyalt3966]

I was once googling some word stuff about how grace robbery and the police knocked on the fire and I thought they had seen my search history but in reality my mum had ended up calling the police about me being hate crimed. I’ll never forget the relief on my face

[@Ziffelzoovop]

A spent a solid few days googling different poisons and their exact symptoms, lasting effects, ratio to potency, how to make them and the best (worst) ways of use because I wanted my fantasy poison leave my character smi-crippled with lasting nerve damage. I swear, computer FBI, I'm not actually plotting a murder!!!

[@hyphurr.rarelypostsifever1220]

One of my favorite things about writing is that a story can start out as a self indulgent, positive self-insert to make you happy and now the main character is nothing like you other than being short as shit, all of the characters are even more traumatized than they already were, but at least your main character gets to be best friends with your favorite character!

[@_sour.patch_]

4:58 being a fanmade danganronpa writer and making cases be like

[@silverstar1726]

2:27 this is so realatable. me and my friend are working together to make a videogame and we have spent so long deep diving into the main character’s religion that the figures that main characters worship have their own personalities, canon designs, character arcs, and aus that are somehow interacting with the canon characters and other aus in non-canon stories that we roleplay about for fun.

[@Toadstool22]

1:59 ‘Cough’ *sans* ’cough cough’

[@2yukkoo702]

I have a really life-saving lifehack for situations when I can't describe my new character's traits, emotions, habits, mentality, experiences! I google some psychological tests and stuff like this: "your type of character based on your...", "your mental age", "how much your childhood trauma affected your life", "do you like to be alone or not". And then I answer the test questions exactly as my character would answer. I use the results of the tests to make my characters more interesting and alive 😅

[@wolfsarco9701]

*pileing 4 WIPs on top of eachother while sobbing* see it's only 1

[@awesomeperson3342]

Me trying to write normal stuff: Me writing the suffering and agony of a stuffed animal: ✍🏻 ✍🏻 ✍🏻 ✍🏻 ✍🏻

[@annaelizabeth7806]

2:19 listen, the only way i can intrinsically understand and comprehend the cause and effect of all my ocs traumatic lore is creating aus of their most important choices and life events, it is the only way, especially since they only exist inside my head and will never get a fandom of their own to do it for me, i will die on this hill

[@Frostfern94]

I don't know how people talk. Like... I was meant to hug my friend goodbye but I forgot how, panicked, saluted and said "Comrade" and THIS is why I don't write dialogue well.

[@katharinafranke0351]

Banger premiere, I am glad to have been part of the bread cult! ^^ 🍞🍞🍞

[@muddashucka9743]

BREAD

[@muddashucka9743]

🍞

[@cryingchild4209]

the bread cult?

[@treefish008]

That interview idea is actually pretty good… time to not sleep tonight

[@yoyohan9]

1:35 The #1 reason I can never finish a story 😭

[@swankytable84]

Ditto :,)

[@Jacob-Jack]

the thumbnail post reminded me of one bit of a story of mine I have in my head I had come up with a character, who in a certain encounter was supposed to die and cause angst I got too attached, so changed to them getting crippled from the waist down, so there is still angst while having potential for things to get better

[@wind64a39]

They have to be morally questionable the right way. They'll have my undying hatred if they're morally questionable the wrong way.

[@CRKindle149]

Me making character be like: let’s just sprinkle- I mean pour a bunch of trauma onto this innocent boy