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A quick list of things you are not:

damaged goods.

a burden.

worthless.

a failure.

stupid.

a waste of space.

weak.

a lost cause.

alone.

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wordfather

creative curses i like using

shut the hell your mouth

billions of bilious blistering barnacles

what the goose

pirates!

bloody hell

slutbags

motherhugger

lord farquaad

great snakes!

crikey

well i’ll be a bitch

flippity flop you’re a cock

well butter my buns and call me betty crocker

dusty doughnuts

kiss my sass

daily doses of dingleberries

theliteraryarchitect

Writers: You Can Have as Many Fucking WIPs as You Want

Hey friends. I just wanted to throw this out there because I see a lot of posts from writers lamenting that they’re starting new WIPs without finishing the old ones. Some of this is in the form of memes and jokes, some of it is in the form of updates or confessionals, but there’s always this implication that writers are doing something wrong by starting something new before the old thing is finished, hopping from project to project, or working on multiple WIPs at once. So I just want to say this:

The writing process is not linear.

Bouncing between multiple WIPs is totally okay.

Abandoning old WIPs that you’re no longer interested in is totally okay.

Starting 10 or 20 or 30 stories for every 1 story that you finish is totally okay.

Only wanting to work on something that’s exciting to you (a new thing) and not something you’ve burned out on (an old thing) is totally okay.

I get that feeling like you’re always starting and never finishing anything is a big bummer. But it may help to remember that despite years of capitalist indoctrination, the creative process is not an assembly line.

Sometimes it takes writing 100 pages to realize that your idea is untenable, or that you’re not actually that interested in it, or that you want to take things in a completely different direction with a totally new story.

I’m a published writer and I average at least 10-15 WIPs for each one that I actually finish. It may take me two sentences to abandon it, or 200 pages. And sometimes I come back to them and finish them in the future. But after 20 years of writing my computer is full of barely-started stories that were destined, for whatever reason, to die.

If you’re turning your back on a story that really excites you and you deeply wish you could complete because you’re scared or blocked, that’s a frustrating pattern that’s totally worth trying to fix (I’ll be addressing this problem in detail in a new book I’m working on!). But for the most part, having a ton more WIPs that you actually finish is a completely normal part of the creative process and you don’t need to be so hard on yourself about it. You’re doing great, and I’m cheering for you.

theliteraryarchitect

Case in point: I have WIP folders like this going back to 2007. Number of WIPs in the 2020 folder so far? 46. Number of stories published so far this year? 2. I promise you it’s super normal, even for “professional” published writers.

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zevveli

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

elsajeni

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

princessnijireiki

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

siderealsandman

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

kc749

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

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Magical realism is real!

Final Mastery Journal, describing my experience here at Full Sail University in the CWMFA Program.

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Celebration Prompt!! Publicly declared that "I am a Writer" on the side of a busy road way, at my children's bus stop.

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Here is the Week 4 Production Diary video for my AV S class here at Full Sail

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Here is the Final Cut of my video for my Mini-series “Mom’s Life”. I added a few transitions and fixed the opening sequence. Hope you like it!

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Production Diary Week 3 Video - Discusses What we did for AVS week 3 and making our scene and plans for next week!

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Here is the finalized “Rough Cut” of my animated video for my Mini-series “Mom’s Life” Ep.1 - Dishes.

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Week 2 Production Diary for my scene “Dishes” for my AVS class at Full Sail University.

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Here is the Director’s Treatment I wrote for my animated scene “Dishes.”

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Production Diary Video _Week 1_AVS - Refelctiohn on the activities of Week 1.

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Here is the final revision, for my script of a scene. The scene I chose is the ending scene from my mini-series “Mom’s Life.”

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