Andrasta14

I see writers despairing or making self-deprecating jokes about how many wips they have, as if the ability to come up with the idea is equal to the ability to finish it out into an end product.

It isn’t.

A lot of our ideas come about, not because we were determined to be productive writers, but because daydreaming is an internal escape from life’s demands.

Writing is a demand, too.

Resting and relaxing are basic needs, unlike the high level, abstract satisfaction of being creatively productive. That’s why you might daydream (which is a mild and normal form of dissociation) ideas that you feel good about, and then struggle to research, write the words, fill plotholes, check grammar, revise— all the critical thinking and executive function things involved in creation. Your basic needs must be satisfied before your higher needs can be met effectively.

So, if you’re daydreaming about your stories extensively to mitigate stress, it’s expecting a lot of your stressed self to return from fantasy land, sit down in the cold hard real world and do the hard work to write masterpieces of literature. Those operations are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Writing is hard. Making yourself feel guilty is only going to make it harder. You don’t have to atone for entertaining or distracting your mind by making that available to other people. Daydreaming is a valid end in itself.

He meets Buffy at the Bronze and asks her to dance, but instead she chooses to leave in rapid pursuit of some girl he's never seen before.

The next day he's walking out of class when he runs into that girl again (even though he must be pretty sure she doesn't go to his school), he recognizes her as Buffy's new friend and he's chatting to her when Buffy runs up and all but drags her away.

Once he actually starts dating Buffy, he notices that she's "distracted" all the time, she keeps giving him mixed signals about how serious she wants to take their relationship, and often runs off in the middle of conversations with the flimsiest of excuses

Also, presumably unrelatedly, she's spending a lot of time hanging out in the school library with that girl from before, who he now must know definitely doesn't go their school. They don't seem to be reading a lot of books.

After he breaks up with Buffy, he runs into the same girl again at the Homecoming dance (and, remember, she does not go to this school) and she seems to be really angry with him. If Scott asks around later, he might find out that she was there using the tickets that he and Buffy originally got for themselves.

A couple of months later, he might also hear that Buffy was in the middle of a chemistry test when the girl in question showed up outside and drew a heart on the window, and that Buffy responded by climbing out of the window and running off with her.