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Started December 13, 2018 by @NobleWolf

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When you have the idea for the story but you constantly worry over whether your writing will be good enough

I can't see the doc you're trying to show

sorry and fixed~

I saw it XD
I wonder how much pain is too much pain

My main problem: Maaking a bunch of ocs and wanting to make them all the MC… (I have six MCs, three MC villains…)

True. They can't all be MCs, but they're all just so interesting

-Getting discouraged because you reread some of your older and it's s o b a d h o w c o u l d I e v e n t r y
-Randomly shoving a computer at your friends like 'sOMEBODY READ MY NOVEL'
-Laughing randomly because someone said something that resembled a quote from your novel
-Stopping in the middle of a conversation to write down an idea
-"DO NOT DISTURB! Writing."
-Getting mad at your parents cause they keep bugging you right when you have the perfect idea and making you do something else so you forget about it
-Being known around your school as something like: "Hey, you know Bat?" "Bat? You mean that weird kid who only talks about her novel?" "That's not true. She talks about theatre too."
-Your characters seem more real to you than your friends
-Alternatively, your characters ARE your friends
-They are your friends
-Your only friends
-Help me
-Not writing for a month, and then writing fifteen pages in a week
-Your friends' reactions are either "Hey, Bat, this is really good!" or "Oh. Meh. It's okay, I guess. I think there should be more aliens. And you should add a rabid zombie invasion. Can we talk about something else now?"

• That moment you don't want anyone to critique your story/characters because you're too soft and you'll probably wind up feeling slightly upset. But at the same time knowing that you probably need someone to proofread (or maybe that's just me).
• "Is this a real name, or did I make it up?" The struggle.
• Coming up with the perfect name for someone/something only to forget it because you didn't write it down
• Knowing exactly how something/someone in your story looks, but being unable to find the right words to accurately describe it
• Realizing that you just used the same word to describe the same thing like 3 times in a row.
• Forgetting random bits of information about your characters and trying to remember if or where you wrote it down.
• When inspiration strikes at a time when you can't write (usually happens at work for me) but as soon as you get the opportunity to sit down at a computer you've got nothing.
• Making memes that no one will get other than you because no one has read your story yet.
• HAS NO ONE MENTIONED WRITER'S BLOCK YET???!?!

Help, I made the mistake of having coffee that was not decaf and now my hands are shaking so much I can barely type and my heart is just going whkskwkhywlkkjwhkjrkwykjr

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