im here

damnit

fuck

I'M SORRY

ok

MalarkeyInc apothanate fourstrings sorry for the doubleping i typoed something

lmao

everything is fine

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

<_>! I could not have put it better myself

pops in here

oh god time stop

i know im telling the clock to go faster cuz im sleepy but also to slow tf down because what the hell

hooray zelly

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GO!!!!!!!

WELCOme back you birthed athena out of your metaphorical skull, i think, how's she looking

ldskfjds;f

340 i think

341 /panting

403!

382

i spent like, a minute rereading the past stuff i did

to get my head back into it

tilly u champion. and good job zelly!!

everyone is beating me why

because you're going for quality over quanitity??/

you're still a winner in our hearts

you're a weiner in my heart

sausages wearily

tomorrows gonna be 6pm pst/9est/1pm nzst, 7 pm pst/10est/2pm nzst, and 10pm/1est/6pm nzst

then we're on break til tues or weds next week cuz im going to the other hemispherrrre

salutes

keep me in the loop i should be around for them tomorrow

how much pre-planning do yall put into your stories? im in a land of writing simple-ish short fiction but am tackling a more complex thing

and trying not to tailspin into procrastination

man having never successfully completed a long...well that's not true.

i have no idea how i managed to finish my dissertation but i did.

it was shit. i think it's gone in harddrive crashes. im glad of it even tho i normally hate losing things

for me so far my notes are all largely for the purpose of, when im sitting around flailing in a panic of writer's block of "holy shit it's go time what am I doing", then i can look and know what i'm doing

i do months of prep-work lmfa

and it's never even enough

in the end i keep bumping into issues where im like ah shit i don't know this

quickly make something up/quickly go to wiki/leave some brackets with idea you're trying to make

save for later

haha i imagine that to some degree is inevitable

leigh bardugo talked about it a little actually let me find ..

here. it was nice to see.

this speaks to my method w short fiction for sure

that first draft that is complete nonsense and random asides

c:

oooh i should read this!

ty for the link!

im always curious about how other writers do their thing

ofc!

neil gaiman seems to talk about his process a lil too. altho mostly i just know this from his forward in the version of american gods that i have. but it's pretty interesting even then because it's clear

hes just been tearing it apart and putting it back together and grooming it for years and years

excising whole scenes then reconsidering and ptting it back

and its like oh i guess even ngaiman isnt sure

yeah! he used to talk a lot about his writing process

i remember reading or listening to him talk about how he'd write a novel totally by hand in moleskines and a fountain pen in a super isolated, remote place - either a friend's cabin or whatever

and then his assistant would be the one who would type it out for him

i think he's since changed his pace

but i thought that was interesting too

just how you couldn't be distracted by the rest of what the computer could do

it's just about you and the writing

and yeah i think he talked about growing a beard while writing, and then he'd shave it off when he was done haha

lol yeah i think i heard about that!