Lmaooo

This is why you can't finish your book

How long have you been trying to finish that idea you had for a book? Why is it that you can never see the finish line?

There’s different reasons for different writers, but in most cases it comes down to one simple thing:

Overwhelm.

You look at your project and you WANT to work on it, but…

you need to research a topic first to write it well

you need to go back and work out a character’s backstory first

you should probably fix the consistency of this character’s voice, they changed so much since you started chapter 1

you probably want to plot this out more

a couple of these chapters here and there are just a mess… which you promised to deal with later

Basically…. you’ve got a HEAP of tasks and issues ahead of you that you have to work out, before you can call the piece complete. And it is SO much work. And it’s overwhelming.

It’s easier to say you’ll untangle it a little later, or when you’ve got a clearer head.

But allow me to let you in on a little secret…

Writing is always messy.

The only way writing gets less messy is if you write it out, and then you rewrite it. And then maybe rewrite it again.

But the only way to move forward is put all these current issues out of your mind, until you finish that first draft, no matter how much of a MESS it is.

It’ll be a smaller mess in the next rewrite.

I wish someone told me to just imagine my characters oversharing and going from there

no bc how does a grown ass adult go onto the internet to post about how “annoying” anya is? she is SIX YEARS OLD, not spoilt or bratty, minding her own business, and awfully considerate of concealing her adoptive parents’ identities despite them accidentally traumatising her with their bloodthirsty thoughts lmao. (I mean this cant be helped since they’re not aware but bless her little heart)

“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”

my biggest flex is that I am my own safe space

wake me up when they start producing these typa movies again

im gonna give the royal treatment a go and maybe its cuz I matured but the recent ones dont hit the same

we truly have reach era of hourly “anonymised people of the global south” incident

A happy ending:

“She agreed to love herself deeply.She was finally the sun of her own life.”

-Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction

it’s so inspirational how the Prophet (‎ ‎ﷺ) would pray the Fard, Sunnah and Nafl prayers, despite being guaranteed Paradise and yet we find it hard to even just pray the Fard prayers and we don’t know if we will be granted Paradise