That Phase In Revising Your Novel When The Pieces Are Finally Connecting And You Finally Understand Why

“can i read your draft?” can you survive secondhand embarrassment?

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

Jos oikeesti jotenkin saan jotain joskus muokattua sellaseks että uskallan lähettää sen johonkin niin ihmeitä on tapahtunu

If I somehow ever manage to edit something to the point I can send it out miracles have happened

Kirjoittamisen tuska näköjään on oikeasti se kirjaimellisesti kirjoittaminen.

Me: I am going to stick to just one story idea. No more changing. No more abandoning half baked ideas. No more distractions. I will be focused. I will finish a project.

New idea:

the most humbling experience of being a writer is when you spend hours writing and think you wrote 10k words but it was actually more like 400. and then you do it again

Brainstorming at 3 AM: This will be an epic saga of love, betrayal, and redemption.

Drafting the next chapter: Uh...they eat soup, I guess?

Ihmiseks joka rakastaa kirjottaa mä vihaan kirjottamista aika paljon