im about to flip all the tables in the world, just trying to write a damn sentence. how can you stay calm? im about to blow a vein , its difficult putting my thoughts onto paper and im just finishing my 3rd cups of coffee

I've been trying to write a story for most of my (admittidly, thus far short) life, I know the feels so well.

Doesn't help that whenever pen is out to paper, how crap what I've written is just makes me angrier.

An episode of Only Fools and Horses taught me that alcohol is better for creativity than caffeine though. People who go through a jet engine are healed buy plastic surgery, good stuff.

Yeah i feel like tossing children out of windows and i dont think i handle drinks at all i learned the hard way the other day

That's generally the moment when you should stop and do something else, i.e. going a walk or something else that is relaxing.

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Yeah i feel like tossing children out of windows and i dont think i handle drinks at all i learned the hard way the other day

Well, not handling drinks is a common sight on the streets of England, and they always go back for more.

But if you're going to throw children out of was window, make sure to give them a helmet.

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Why don't you take a short walk outside, it always clears my head and brings inspiration. Though the alcohol does boost creativity(personal experience).

Yasss i will do that. right now my head is full of steam and im trying to get myself collected by listening to music and get some idea on how to put things together

Good luck then :)

thanks blackkity

Never happened to me. BTW. what are you writing?

I am writing the story for my comic which will be a yuri/action/comedy

Then we are in the same boat. Good luck ;3

im about to flip all the tables in the world, just trying to write a damn sentence. how can you stay calm? im about to blow a vein , its difficult putting my thoughts onto paper and im just finishing my 3rd cups of coffee

That's actually pretty simple. If it's your first draft, write it messy. Get the wording all fucked up. Not grammatical? Fine! All you need to do at this point is get down the gist of what you're trying to get across. Doesn't have to be pretty or even good. Hell, most first drafts are crap, why should yours be different?

Then when you've finished and given yourself a couple of days to breathe, go back and fix it on your second draft when you've had a chance to get some perspective. You'll almost guaranteed be able to write something better at that point. But for now? Let it be crappy, as long as the intent of the scene is clear.

It only gets more miserable when you start to try to panel things. -rolls in despair-

It only gets more miserable when you start to try to panel things. -rolls in despair-

Idk why, but when I try to imagine things, it always come to me naturally. I got perfect vision in my head instantly. Now if only you could just copy past it on paper...

im about to flip all the tables in the world, just trying to write a damn sentence. how can you stay calm? im about to blow a vein , its difficult putting my thoughts onto paper and im just finishing my 3rd cups of coffee

That's actually pretty simple. If it's your first draft, write it messy. Get the wording all fucked up. Not grammatical? Fine! All you need to do at this point is get down the gist of what you're trying to get across. Doesn't have to be pretty or even good. Hell, most first drafts are crap, why should yours be different?

Then when you've finished and given yourself a couple of days to breathe, go back and fix it on your second draft when you've had a chance to get some perspective. You'll almost guaranteed be able to write something better at that point. But for now? Let it be crappy, as long as the intent of the scene is clear.

Exactly that. Just write something, try to avoid letting your eyes fall back to the previous sentences and keep going.

At least for me, things get better once you consistently keep at it for a shorter while. Then when I go back and rework it, I find I have to rewrite most stuff in the beginning, but the latter parts were actually okay-ish.
The trick is to not expect everything go onto the paper as you have it in your head at first.

Maybe your inspiraton doesn't want to surface just yet, i had my moments of not being able to convey properly to the paper what my head was thinking, but being stuck on it won't help much, do as Nezkun said and write some shitty crap on it and then move on, if even this is proving to be a challenge then leave it blank, maybe the next page will shed some light on what you have to do on the previous one

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Relevant, from Comprehensive Tovarisch:

It's played for laughs, but the fact is that's the way professional writers do it. The #1 advice from successful writers and artists I've seen is "show up for work every day". Waiting around for inspiration is an amateur move, inspiration is actually a function of simple production.

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I love you all

yeah for a long time i had a hard time with writing but i should just go for it and see where it leads me

i dont know how i didnt fail english i couldnt write a goddamn essay

i dont know how i didnt fail english i couldnt write a goddamn essay

Good trick for you, especially when it comes to writing scripts: read it out loud. This works for fiction and non-fiction too, but it should really be mandatory for scripts. You'll see much quicker where awkward bits are, and your grammar will improve a lot because you'll see what sounds right or authentic in practice. It's simple, but it makes a big difference.

thanks nezchan

im going to write until i break my hands lel

Nezkun said

I wonder if Nezchan has a bingo card of all the honourifics we can add to the end of their name? How far are we off bingo?