#writing progress 2020

[sarah-yyy]

me: i'm going to write some mindless smut, it's going to be QUICK, i'm going to be done in NO TIME my brain: or!! it can 95% misunderstandings, 5% feelings, -20% smut, and take you 3 months!!

#clowning myself as usual!! nothing new here!! #posting an excerpt so you guys can shame me into writing when this inevitably ends up taking >3 months #ANYWAY!!! some progress!!! #let's aim for like............500 words a day and maybe this could be done by the weekend 😭 #where is the sarah who had the creative energy to drop 3-5 ficlets every day in 2020 😭 give her back to me #writing with sarah #shenlai

[starlooove]

And it’s like for the ‘be the change’ niggas even if I learned how to write and draw right now and pumped 50 fanart and fics a day that doesn’t change the rancid fucking fandom they’d exist in. Like it’s not lost on me that every three weeks like 3 popular blogs stumble onto a convo already existing about smth that happened in the comics and it spreads like wildfire throughout the fandom not just here but on tiktok and Twitter but somehow every post about the racism Duke and cass and Damián go through is just swept under the rug and it just so happens nobody sees it. Ppl shining more light on these characters doesn’t change the core issue which is that the things that we do get is trash. Me writing 50000 Duke fics doesn’t change that the popular and acceptable version of him is a whitewashed racist caricature and that more ppl are willing to build OFF of that than they are to just read smth with him in it. Like when we say include Duke it’s bc we KNOW y’all are purposely avoiding him but I’ve never gone into a tim centric fic and wondered why Duke wasn’t there UNLESS y’all tagged him. Which is another insidious thing y’all will take up space in these character tags for reach and then get confused when we don’t fucking like you bc all you can type is Duke asking a question or being confused or a sassy one liner. Like making 20 Duke posts a day doesn’t change that the core issue is that ur racism and lack of reading is what created the characterization that’s unfortunately now popular and that the creators yall follow (who say they read but can they COMPREHEND!) will only ever focus on their faves in a way that always turns out to be detrimental and racist.

#anyways one thing I WILL agree with is that I should be more positive #like idk if y’all noticed but I do enjoy hating one of my fave things #however spreading more Duke positivity would soothe my soul more and the ppl who draw and write him well deserve #now. the issue is the that y’all keep clogging those fucking tags #stay out of the Duke tags 2020 #if u wanna exclude him just take the fact that ur a lil racist and move on #don’t try to prove how progressive u are without actually doing shit it’s annoying as fuck #Batman #wayne family adventures #WFA #Batman WFA #batfans #tim Drake #Bruce wayne #Jason Todd #dick Grayson #everyone else ur doing great sweetie not clogging ur tags <3 #fandom racism #batfandom racism #yalll do this everytime #literally Sam Wilson is a good bro all over again #wait I think that’s an actual ao3 Duke tag. el oh el. #but actually maybe it slides bc every sibling dhas one #but also everytime that’s a tag for Duke it’s just him being a therapist instead of a person

[lindirs-gaze]

just did the tally, i wrote 189k this year! my best since 2020, and my second best since i've started keeping track

#turns out i was writing like an insane person in 2020 #but yeah proud of myself for my progress this year

[veliseraptor]

beginning to think that one way of knowing when i'm in a real bad depressive episode is the way that i fixate on one and only one thing that brings me joy and right now apparently it's fullmetal alchemist. finished my rewatch, blitzing through the manga, contemplating doing another rewatch (no, really), reading a fuckton of fic...i didn't sign up for this but here i am i guess

#hope i get back to being able to think about other things soon #i did reread a yi city fic of mine today and it made me go 'man i miss writing these guys' #so that's some kind of progress #important text posts #this is my real life #in 2020 it was critical role #at another point it was pillars of eternity i think #there's just a particular feeling where it's like #'this is the only thing that i want to think about because nothing else matters' but like. in kind of a bleak way #not the fun exciting way exactly #there's a specific sort of desperation i guess is what it is

[hiimbloblos]

he aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- <- a piece of bread fell on my keyboard and I tried to take it out

#bloblopost #I'm writing!! This is progress!!! #I'm kinda forcing myself to sit down and write Something but!! as long as it works I don't mind!! #Obviously not punishing myself for not writing a lot. I'd burn myself like that and stop writing again #Which is bad because looking back at the amount of writing from 2016-2019 and the amount in 2020+... It's not good chat. It's not #Trying to find joy in throwing all of myself into writing and reading physical books. We'll see what's gonna happen #ALSO YES it's a Stardew Valley Harvey fic :D #I still have a couple of transformers fics written down but I'm not feelin them right now

[sureuncertainty]

hopefully it's just tonight but i haven't written at all in the last couple of days and i tried again tonight and it didn't work AGAIN i just can't get myself to write idk sometimes i really feel like the sequel to silence agenda is literally never ever going to actually get written and there's no point in even trying

#like i go thru phases where i'm all excited about it and they never last and i NEVER fucking finish anything with it #like literally ever #i have started to write this novel literally like 4 or 5 times now at this point? #and i can't get it done ever #since 2020 i've been working on it for almost three years #i've been making steady progress on tmtou i literally rewrite silence agenda like every fucking year #and yet i fucking can't get this story written #and idk how much of the problem is me how much of the problem is US and how much of the problem is my motivation levels and stuff #idk idk i think i'm just In It tonight and i'll probably feel differently later #it goes in these cycles #but idk man for awhile i was REALLY CONVINCED that this was gonna be the Time that i actually got this book written #i have the story! i have it! i just need to make it! and idk how!!! #i try and then a week later i can't #and my brain is hyperfixating on other things (idk why i decided to reread aftg) so i just Can't #and i do wanna get silence agenda published soon so i wanna focus on that #but i feel like i can't deliver on this sequel i feel like i can't even write it #idk i've never spent THIS LONG and gotten THIS MANY DRAFTS out of a book without being even like. close to the halfway point #i should finish it! i want to! i want to want to! but i fucking CAN'T #part of it is me part of it is the fact that it's hard to write when kat's not around and she hasn't been lately #idk i really thought i was gonna be able to do it this time. but apparently not #idk when i'll learn #that i can't write this fucking book #win rambles

[runawaymarbles]

Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people.

I was tagged by @displayheartcode

Tagging: @monstrous-femme @lindstrom2020 @thegeminisage @bomberqueen17 @dingdongyouarewrong @eeddis and anyone who wants to do it say I tagged you

1. The restaurant has two exits. One grand entrance on the street, complete with plaster carvings painted to look like marble, and one fire door out the back, with no decoration whatsoever. 

2. The first sense to come back is sound.

3. WH #40. Macon, Georgia. 2/3/91. Dean Winchester: banned after failing to pay bills despite repeated warnings, coming back in various “disguises”, and using a younger boy as a distraction during an attempted dine and ditch.

4. It’s happened before. Sam, bloody. Neck twisted, face white, raspy gasps twice a minute. Looking no more like himself than an angel looks like its vessel.

5. Marka is nine years old, and she knows what death looks like: stillness where there was movement. Silence where there was noise. A lifetime of memories turned into an object on a pyre, in need of safe disposal. The whole Pod dressed in the green of mourning, singing the Funeral Song in the Mother-Tongue of the Young God, their tongues tripping over unfamiliar syllables:  Ay-nd ss-he’s bee-u-why-ing ay suh-tay-ire w-ay-why to he-ay-v-ee-n.  

6. I will love you when we stand tall in the moonlight and I will love you when feathers sprout from our skin, when my heart shrinks and beats between hollow bones because it is yours no matter the size.

7.  “I can’t keep doing this.” God says it like this as though it is is He, not Death, who is bound by the nature’s laws. He says it as though the world is not what He wants it to be.  

8. Kathryyn Ngo@kathryyn2ys · 2h Okay you know how most of the statues on buildings in New York are all the same lady?? Well. I have found her Renaissance counterpart. Behold: whoever this guy was. He c l e a r l y got around

9. What no one tells you about a life of crime is that it’s often very, very dull.

10. It’s six weeks before she breaks down and checks her Facebook page.

#fanfic #writing #man this went back to 2020 #I should really.... #finish some of these WIPs #though i was literally working on one five minutes ago so PROGRESS #op

[sunshinereddie]

He turned, perhaps a little too quickly at the sweet sound of Richie’s gentle voice cutting through the silence, and looked over at Richie from across the lawn. Richie had his hands stuffed into his pockets, his shoulders tensing slightly as he stood up a little straighter to meet Eddie’s gaze. “Thank you,” he said. “For everything.” 

Eddie smiled, one that he wasn’t sure if it came from happiness or sadness. “Of course,” he said. “We losers have to stick together, don’t we?” A sudden wave of nostalgia washed over Eddie, a brief flash of a memory through his mind as he remembered standing outside of Keene’s pharmacy all those years ago, Richie’s arm slung around his shoulders and proudly saying those words, after he, Stanley, and Bill had saved him from his first encounter with Henry Bowers. 

“You know I’ll be there for you,” Eddie went on. “No matter what.”

Richie matched Eddie’s grin. “You always have.” 

“Always will.”

wip: puppy love ch 11

#ok i couldn't help myself #:) #also i've written 1.3k words today !!!! #very good for me considering ive been in a bit of a writing block recently #also the word count of this chapter is already 9k and im not done #aljkfbhsefbaewkbhfa #ive also been planning out this scene literally since i first started writing this fic back in 2020 #so finally finishing it is. very satisfying #writing progress #puppy love

[tirsynni]

I finally broke 70k on my original novel! Now probably 30k to 40k to go! Lol

Trying to be happy with the progress and push aside that it is my 2020 Nano and has barely been touched since then.

#random #2020 nanowrimo #just writing stuff #yay progress! #maybe i will finish before 2022 nano!

[sol-flo]

only now finding out about neumorphism and. how can people miss the point of skeumorphism so bad

#not even gonna go on whether it looks good or not (it depends. some designs look like shit some are cool etc) #but the point / fun of skeumorphism is that things are represented by physical objects #neumorphism realizes we're starved for buttons after 10+ years of progressively touchscreen-ization of interfaces but can't let go of #minimalism and sleekness (as defined by the 2020s) #idk early mac os was super minimalist in style so maybe that argument doesn't make a lot of sense #but it feels like the point is to look elegant and Premium? hm 🤔 #whatever. dont wanna write A Whole Thing #btw sorry for who i might become now ill be working as an ux designer #ive a feeling ill have a ton of web thoughts in a short period of time #(would prolly happen with any job tbqh)

[chaoswillcalmusdown]

i haven't been able to let go of glass onion (in a bad way) bc there's just something so frustrating about it and earlier today, i was trying to explain it to my brother and i said something about it feeling like "baby(aka rian) just saw get out and wants to write an equally clever script but for some reason it's also a murder mystery" and like. i think i got there. i think my main problem is how heavy handed everything is. but it's acting like it's so subtle and cool and smarT. saying "millionaire is bad bc he's dumb, actually!" is so lazy. saying "haha influencer thinks sweatshops make sWEATpants" is lazy. whatever the fuck he was saying about duke, the "haha alt-right man lives in mama's basement and is bullied by her hahaha" is lazy ?!?!?!?

get out(as my example of an actual clever movie) was smart because when you watch a second time you're like "oh shit that's why he said he couldn't bare to let them go after his parents died. he MEANT HIS PARENTS ANd NOT THE HELP" but in glass onion, a second viewing would just be you sitting there like "that's not actually andi, that's helen." that's not clever ?!?!?!?!?

#i'm convinced i would have enjoyed glass onion if they had shown us that andi was dead from the start #and cut between helen & blanc and the dickheads throughout #like. the “terminally online in 2020” references would have still annoyed me a lOT #but i would have watched it and been like 'sure whatever' #instead of 3 days of 'why the fuck did he exposition the entire fucking plot at me after i wasted an hour' 😠 #i hate when a writer of a movie makes the audience feel stupid for watching their movie and buying what they showed us #it's not CLEVER that this woman was actually her secret sister all along! #that's lazy writing #i get so riled up abt this bc you know how much hype this is all buying rian sdfghfdsfg johnson? #every time this white mediocrity gets swallowed up by people en masse #i feel so sad for the good stories we won't get to see from miniorities #like. one rich white straight man writes some 'quirky leftist oneliners' and it's like we're back in the height of the mcu fandom #but now everyone thinks it's progressive bc it's making fun of unwoke people or 'elon musk' #i also hate how much rian's writing makes it seem like all these horrific rich people are bad bc they're dumb #i'm gonna go watch get out a 50th time and maybe some day glass onion will not be on my dash and then #i won't have to have a stroke abt it #i feel like janis ian with you people #the 'did you hang with AWESOME people and drink AWEOMSE shoooters?????' but it's about glass onion #i don't care if people enjoy it #i care that people genuinely think it's smart or good #i love bad movies #i love practically every early 2000s romcom #maid in manhattan is not a masterpiece just bc i love and enjoy it #i'm gonna go watch maid in manhattan and cry sdfvvds

[happygomadhatter]

i have now officially embarked on a quest to find beta readers for my book! it is nerve wracking and stressful but also very exciting 💖💖

that being said, if anyone here is interested in giving it a read, just shoot me a message! it's a 150k word fantasy novel full of magic and family drama. lots of fun and it definitely doesn't end on a cliffhanger (I'm lying, it definitely does)

if you are interested, please note some trigger warnings: suicide mention, substance use, and toxic relationships

#personal #beta reader #it's called A Witch In Progress and im very proud of it #been working on this sucker since 2020 lmao #writing things

[starlooove]

“There is no fanfic on Stephs treatment I have checked” that’s like the whole point.

#I’m not saying ur wrong bc it’s not canon #I’m saying ur wrong bc ur perpetuating the misogyny that got u there in the first place #and yeah imma take it there it IS that deep to me sorry #like this isn’t like a diff in opinion on an arc or smth #this is quite literally the bigotry that fandoms supposed to be an escape from manifesting itself again with a rainbow flag over it it’s so #like first of all not that serious but concerning to me is getting into smth without knowing the source material #u don’t need to know the exact timeline of events and which specific Batmobile Bruce had in every era duh #that’d be hypocritical to say I read character to character screw the timeline lmao #but it’s like. ur telling me u adore Dick Grayson and have never picked up NTT? #u wanna analyze the queer coding in Tim’s character but you’ve never read his og robin run? #u wanna talk about Damian’s character growth but you’ve only read Batman and Robin 2020s? #u ADORRRRE steph and cass and you haven’t even read batgirls #and that’s like nonissues #my issues are u wanna discuss how Barbara is actually so cold and cruel to dick for how she handled Catalina and you’ve never read birds of #prey and actually dick never cheated so (this isn’t me being hypocritical if you’ve seen that post I just lowk changed my mind) #or if he did it was justified or whatever #you wanna talk about how Jason and Roy are soulmates and you can’t tell me a single thing besides he’s an archer a father and an addict #it’s like ur putting shit out there about these characters and their relationships and you don’t know them #and more people who don’t know them see ur shit and do the same thing #and that’s mid level issue #the BIG issue is that y’all have not unpacked ur racism misogyny or classism enough to do this and then turn around and say ur fixing dc or #whatever. u have not done enough work to speak on Jason or Damian and say they deserve better whilst u water down their anger into smth #palatable and sweet on ur white faves. u don’t get to complain about how there’s not enough about steph and all u do is spread more made up #shit to infantilize tim. and I’m not saying I’ll never read a tim centric fic that’s ooc and stupid and have fun #I do that and I don’t talk about it bc that shit should not be the main writing you find when you look for BATMAN lmao #and even then they HIGHEST problem is that even when people make more content centering the woc poc and yes even WW it still doesn’t get any #traction bc y’all haven’t unpacked as much of ur racism and misogyny as u think u have #making hcs about tim being a Barbie and Jason being a feminist and dick painting his nails is not progressive when Steph and cass are #cardboard cutouts or the vehicles through which the white men discover feminity is ok actually and nothing else #and then Duke and Damian are the token straights or allies. like y’all are so sick lmao

[butchvamp]

trying to write anything since halloween has just been pulling teeth

#really sucks. i had hoped i would have finished the other chapter by now but ive barely written anything #going to go a whole year with no new update lol..... sad #and i want to start the second draft of my novel #but now i somehow think i can write a total new project in like 2 months #well guess we'll find out #i feel like im in a worse place mentally than i've ever been like it's almost fascinating to see how badly #everything has nosedived for me since 2020 #and every year just gets progressively worse and worse lol #how much longer can i take it! lol!

[maybankiara]

okay but i'm working on phone swap again and i had to read the full thing to remember all the details and man. the way i was squealing like i was 14 again, reading some cute shit. the way i woke up in the morning and my boyfriend was trying to get me out of bed but i was just like 'no i can't i have to keep reading it's so tense these characters just broke up' and he was like. okay. aren't you reading your own story. and i was like yes i am sir and that is precisely why i need to get back into it because holy shit phone swap is so good in some aspects and i just. i can't wait to start sharing it with the world again, whenever that may be

#phone swap series #d.writes #in all honesty though i do love phone swap and there were times when i had to put my phone down because the feelings got too intense #and some of the bits that i wrote years ago (because ps is 3 years old) resonate with my life rn too much #i planned addie's life before i lived out most of my own and it was like my life followed the events of addie's #even the first chapter i worked on since getting back to it this year resonates so intensely #and it's been planned since 2020 #also it's quite interesting to see the creative progression of my writing style and quality #you can tell which parts were written when #although there is a drastic change between 2021 and 2022 whereas 2023 is similar to the previous year #which is partially why i'm procrastinating editing because i need to make the 2021 ones sound better to not be such a drastic difference #so i just keep writing new ones instead #i'm not making this official but my hope is to be able to update in the beginning of october #i've got over 20 prewritten chapters they just need to be edited so it's highly likely #i've also finally got some free time #and i want to finish ps before i get back to my novel which is hopefully for nanowrimo #but yeah!!! all things considered ps might be making a return if everything goes well #literally it gets so much better in the second half aka the one that hasn't been posted yet #and i know that i've probably lost the majority of the readers but if i wrote a whole ass novel without immediate gratification #then i don't need validation for ps either

[kajmasterclass]

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