That Awkward Writing Moment

trevelyans-inclination:

Only writers will understand that feeling of getting emotional over a story that could be unbelievably brilliant and beautiful, before it’s even written…

And be terrified of butchering such a potentially gorgeous and meaningful story…

vulpana:

When the cursor does the thing where it randomly jumps ten lines of text as you’re typing.

mylittlehorrorterror:

the search history of writers is a novel in itself

coffeeandpetrichor:

did i have to write an incredibly detailed backstory for my antagonists to better understand that character? 

No

But did i write an incredibly detailed backstory for my antagonists just for fucks and shits?

yes

Writing a story by hand:

for-the-love-of-the-words:

Expectation:

Reality:

How I feel writing descriptions of beautiful things/people/places:

for-the-love-of-the-words:

tictocrabbit:

Having doubts about your writing. Welcome, it’s (almost) 2am.

blue-scarves-and-bowties:

My problem is that I have at least seven different story ideas brewing in the back of my mind, but I can never seem to start writing any of them so they sit around in my head nagging me like vaguely bored children and I don’t know which one to pay attention to.

(Source: soulmadeofstories)

thegloryof:

the problem with the story I’m working on right now is that I’d rather read it than write it

verbs-everywhere:

Making titles for books, though. It’s hard.