Can you hear it? My internal screaming is breaking the barriers of reality! I'm deep into writing this next chapter, wondering what in the world am I doing, how did I get here, and should I scarp it (and possibly a chunk of a previous chapter) to smooth things over? Sometimes this writing thing is a pain (aside from the constant depression of not having enough people read the work I already have out there). Anyway...

#StrugglingArtist #StrugglingWriter #Author #Writer #WritingIsHard #WritingIsLife #Life

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#SNIS
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#AmWriting

Is writing hard for me, and has it always been hard for me?

Yes... and also, no.

The wildly talented Leslye Penelope and I discuss in a recent episode of her podcast, My Imaginary Friends.

You can listen to the full interview at https://lpenelope.com/2024/02/imagining-success-with-mary-robinette-kowal-my-imaginary-friends-233/

#writingishard #writing #writerslife #author #scifi #interview

Been writing a writing style guide for my new job.

I've got The Economist Style Guide, guardian style, and frequent internet searches on the go to help me shape the points and preferences I'm trying to make so that we can edit our comms and content consistently.

It's over 3000 words long so far, and yet still shorter than the last one I encountered from Oracle.

#WritingIsHard

Adventures in #RStats package documentation:

Is it the world's longest vignette or the world's shortest book?

#WritingIsHard

Feeling called out regarding all my #WIP lol #writingishard

Ha! 😆
Sooooooo true.

#amwriting #thewritinglife #writingishard

TFW you're struggling getting a story to work. 😒
So you finally employ Dan Harmon's "Story Circle" to fix it, and wind up with (quite possibly) the BEST story you've ever come up with. That! 😊
Now time to re-write most of the dialog... 🤦‍♂️
#WritingIsHard #GameDev #AdventureGames

Summary of Day 1 of #AdvJam2023... 🤔

#WritingIsHard #IShouldFinishTheGameEngineFirstAnyway

@histodons Good gravy I wish I had had scrivener when I was writing my/ dissertation. #histodons #scrivener #writingishard #editing

Yesterday I braindumped over 1k of fic and today is just static. Some day I’ll understand why brains are like this. #writingishard #writing #fanfic

@histodons Mining a dissertation chapter for the introduction to my book. It's heartening to see it's not total dogshit. #writingishard #editing

Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever able to write a decent story and if I shouldn't ask someone to be my official writer 😭 #writing #WritingIsHard

11. Realize you have identically named files that aren't, in fact, identical at all.
12. Despair, but differently.
13. Come to the conclusion that you are an idiot.
14. Manually franken-fix the mostly complete file AND RENAME IT.
15. Open #dropbox and manually backup everything.
16. Open the file and feel sick for a moment because iT's StiLl wRoNG.
17. Realize it's yet another file with the same name.
18. Sigh.
19. Repeat steps 13-18 until finally done.
20. Blink. Perhaps tea?

#writingishard

It's happening. #amwriting #writing #writingishard #writingcommunity

“If only I had the same time to write as you…” I get this a lot from people who want to write a book. I wrote my first books while still in a job where I started at 7.30 am and finished at 5.30pm. I wrote at night and weekends. You have to make the time and give up other things #writingishard #writing #author

December means my brain is impatiently waiting for me to edit from NaNoWriMo, but my soul is outraged that I'm not taking all of December off in the wake of NaNoWriMo. I'm in a battle of wanting to accomplish more and needing a rest.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell when I need a real break versus when I'm just being a wimp cause writing is hard.

#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #NaNoWriMo #WritingIsHard

Y’all, remember last week, when I wrote all those words?
I’m trying to write again, in the same cafe, but those words aren’t coming out as fast as they did before.
Is it because I switched out my usual drink order? #amwriting #cafe #WritingIsHard

The main character in this YA I’m working on now wants so badly to be a good writer but can’t bring himself to —just write— without worrying if it’s good or not.

Is it me? Am I the problem?
😅

#amwriting #writingcommunity #amitheproblem #howdoiwriteagain? #whatarewords? #writingishard

Worked through reading over 44,000 words of my own fic WIP this weekend so I can go back to drafting and posting it.

Did also manage to reassure myself that it's not terrible.

#writingishard