![]() If we’re being honest, most of us are actually some combination of the first and the sixth image here. ![]() This is where you convince yourself that you never really liked the story, so you can start that new idea. Yes, kill the character, but make sure you wear gloves and bury the body deep. It’s the lack of a pen and paper to write them down while on the toilet. It’s not a lack of ideas that plagues most writers. Honestly, there’s not much of a difference between vampires and writers, except that vampires tend to be more organized and better dressers. The List of Books That I’ve Actually Finished Writing It’s like doing long division in your head while walking barefoot across a floor filled with Legos. Plot seems easy, but we all know it’s not. Trying to Work Out if the Plot Ties Together Oh, that plot twist feels so great when you come up with it… until you realize that you confused twist with a trope. Now what happens when they start trying to get in touch with you? Well, this is a great way to start a horror story. If only we all had this kind of confidence in ourselves as writers! Honestly, though, don’t write reviews for yourself… the Internet will find you and make sure you know how wrong you are. We all know that it’s usually in the bathroom. Hey, this is rather accurate, except we’re missing the parts about feeling like an imposter and wondering whether that new show you want to stream is out yet.Įven worse is the location where you tend to have those great ideas. Tell your therapist and your tissue box the same thing.Īnd here you are… reading these memes and telling yourself that it’s still “writing work” because you are “getting ready”. Just keep telling yourself that it’s only a fictional death. The only thing worse than cringing when reading your first draft is finding out that someone else has seen your first draft. It’s messy, it might be a dog or a dinosaur, but it can be turned into something special. Your brain is a wonderful, powerful tool, but that first draft always comes out like a child’s first finger painting. Seriously, how many characters have one or more dead parents to give them “character”? In literature and pop culture, from Bambi to Batman, parents have it rough. With this type of tense problem, it might just be easier to give up and learn a completely new skill. And then we wind up using Jack or Kate because it’s easier to type. We’ve all gone down the rabbit hole of character names for hours and days on end, searching for that perfect name with meaning, history, and gravitas. Want to make a writer curse like Yosemite Sam and fight like a Spartan? Go ahead and dogear the pages in their favorite books.Īdmit it. Sounds good now, but just wait until you have to edit. It appears you even threw the kitchen sink into the first draft. It’s no wonder writers spend so much time in their own heads. Writing isn’t easy, but it’s a lot harder when your biggest obstacle to getting things done is the weirdo staring back at you from the mirror. Surely, if you just tweak the beginning another one or fifty times, the middle will be easier. ![]() The middle is where many writers fear to tread. It’s also how a lot of manifestos tend to start, so be careful. This is how a lot of great stories start. Overcomplicating things and spending hours creating the perfect Spotify playlist for a story that will never see the light of day hits close to home, doesn’t it?Īll publicity’s good publicity, right? While bad reviews aren’t going to do you any favors, lashing out against a reviewer will hurt your brand… no matter how good it might feel.įew things make writers tenser than talking about tenses. It feels so good when you find a typo in someone else’s published book, but so bad when you see one in your own. What some may see as scatterbrained, we can tell ourselves, is simply a mad genius at work.Īh, yes, the dichotomy of typos. It always feels like the best characters are trapped inside our big brains, but we aren’t quite smart enough to help them get out and on the page.ĭoes this sound familiar? It’s not our fault. Why finish a book when there are so many other important things to do, like, well, anything except finish? After all, the crevices in the keyboard don’t clean themselves, do they? Writers When They’re Determined to Do Anything You beautiful genius, why didn’t we writers think of that? Just tell a publisher to publish the book…. “Why Can’t You Just Get Your Book Published?” You might just see a bit of yourself in them. Of course, we know that it’s important to have some downtime and to have a bit of a laugh, which is why we’ve collected these 77 fun memes that do a rather good job of poking fun at the truth of what it is to be a writer. It’s good to see you here instead of hard at work on your current writing project.
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