yall one of my characters has the saddest lore, i hate it sm i just wanna hug him😭😭😭 (me acting like i didn’t give him the sad lore in question)
i’ve never trusted my heart and ~gone with the flow~ more than i do with writing.
idk if this makes me an unhinged or ~irresponsible writer~ but i have never enjoyed the idea of outlining my work. something about it makes my writing feel so caged and limited and i HATE it!!!
obviously you can always simply go off script and change whatever the hell u want, but i still refuse to completely plan out every. single. thing. in some overly detailed outline. (and that’s just me, i’m not knocking anyone who does!!!)
of course i write down important plot points and key notes to incorporate and remember but other than that, i’m a big believer in “sharing” control with my characters.
sure i have solid ideas of how i want a story to pan out, but if the story just so happens to take me elsewhere in a spur of the moment manner, i’m all for it!
shameless chaotic writer here👋🏼
dad just sarcastically told me he hopes i become a millionaire from my books because i’ve been working on them “forever” so i decided i have to now just to prove him wrong ᡣ𐭩 •。ꪆৎ ˚⋅
Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025
eras tour just ended haha no one talk to me hahahahaha
i’m a writer, of course my love language is words of affirmation
(say you melt at the touch of my hand, tell me how your desire burns with the heat of a thousand suns, make me feel like you could remember me even if our paths crossed in another life; if i had different eyes, would you recognize me?)
"please picture me in the weeds before i learned civility ... are there still beautiful things?" just... yeah. yeah.
just tried to outline future chapters and my brain nearly short circuited. my creative mind is not meant to be confined to the chains of bullet points and organization she simply isn’t
i love when i write out a scene idea (with plans to incorporate it into the storyline) and then i sit at my computer desk to do just that and my characters are just like:
“nah, we’ll take it from here tyvm.”
and i’m just like: oh ok! yes chef🫡
i can’t tell you how many “deleted scenes” i have in my notes app because my characters love to take the wheel from me🙄
literally me 75% of the time i write
‧₊˚🌈✩ ₊˚🫧⊹♡ wannabe romance author hiding somewhere over the rainbow ‧₊˚🌈✩ ₊˚🫧⊹♡https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CTFRJHW6?storeType=ebooks
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