I feel like when you’re writing, organizing chapters and dialogue is easy
but jfc, the amount of time it takes to constantly keep people moving and make sure they’re in the right spaces and trying to come up with wording for it is always such a shock.
Like, fuck, I made you pick up a coffee cup, you need to put it down at some point. also I can’t remember what I dressed you in, can you push up your sleeves? I don’t remember if you even have your shirt on.
and YOU. YOU OVER THERE, you got out of your chair earlier, but did you come back yet? Are you coming back? Where did you even go and why’d you get up? Fuck, I can’t make you sit down again already, you just stood up, go…over there. go get more coffee. Did you bring your mug with you? fine. bring the pot to the table and—wait, wasn’t the coffee pot already over here? shit, hold on, I need to go back and re-read and re-write
The worst decision I made in my current novel was to give my protagonist a back pack.
I’m laughing so hard, but this shit is so legit it hurts.
okay so you guys all need to get out of there, and go over here.
BUT HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET THERE.
You just said something, is that like you? shit he already answered that question.
*IRRITATED WRITER SCREECH*…the where-things-are problem always confuses me, because I see my stories like a movie in my head. Figuring out what emotions go with the actions, why somebody is leaving the room or whatever, that’s hard; remembering what they’re wearing and holding and drinking, that’s the easy part.
Does… nobody else write this way? O_O
Even amongst people who have mind’s eyes (not everyone), there’s a lot of variation in how detailed mental images are. Personally, my visual imagination is towards the low-detail end of the spectrum. Just because I’m watching a daydream unfold, it doesn’t mean I have any idea what the characters are wearing.
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#is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #someday I should use that tag for something other than mind’s eyes #I’m sure there’s plenty of other things that it would apply to #reply via reblog
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