anyone else ever get intimidated by their own wips? like i wanna write, i love the story and all but then i sit down and it's just this huge project that i cannot seem to work on bc it's so huge and daunting?
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Yes bit it's every WIP after the base sketch phase (which ironically hasn't changed with an art job, just the pressure to finish them cus JobDeadline™️ is there where for personal stuff they just sit abandoned in the procreate folder forever)
I've always heard WIP as "work in progress" no matter the creative medium, so writing or drawing or knitting or whatever before finished 🤷♀️ personally I draw, but I have the same issue as the original poster who writes where it gets daunting before it's done.
The disconnect between this could be so good... and idk if I have the skills to accomplish this. Not to mention, oh, this has grown far larger than I initially expected. Yeah. It happens all the time.
omg the growing far larger thing is so real, like i thought this was going to be a 20k one shot now it has seven chapters and chapter one and two alone are 20k already 🙃🙃🙃
Classic iceberg situation. I thought this was a short story. It turns out it was a novel. I personally am unable to write small things. My brain runs away with it. Every time without fail. But what if I... and ooh, it would be cool if... that feels unearned it needs more build-up... etc.
Uuuuuggh and then you go too long on it and you gotta reread parts and you want to edit them but you already posted it and then your brain is in editing mode and you can’t shift into writing and when you do the voice is all weird and uuuuuuuuugh
it literally is the worst!! like especially when it takes a long time i forget stuff i wrote like five months ago and then i go read back over something and notice ah cool i just wrote the absolute opposite of what i wrote here but i cannot reread 20k words every time i want to work on a new scene
shapechanger is for sure like this for me, like i want it to be so tight and polished bc its such a complicated story, so i try to remember just how excited i am by it
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