the concept of writing a full outline and never starting on the draft.

Oh my god. I posted the new chapter of my story on Ao3 thirty seconds ago. Why haven't I gotten a hundred new kudos yet?

structural editing has me so overwhelmed that i've just made thousands of different plans and outlines and summaries instead of doing something about the issues in my manuscript.

They say you should write every day, but sometimes a functional writing process looks like writing 1k in a sitting because you're getting a head of yourself, writing 500 words because you had a chapter to wrap up, writing 50 words because you felt too sad to write, writing no words because the state of the world overcame you for a few days, writing 1.5k because sometimes ennui turns into fury and purpose, and then 700 the next day because you remembered that there was a cool scene you wanted to get around to and—