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Private commision

i still get these asks a fair bit, so i’m going to publish this one publicly to refer back to in future.

honestly, i’m not really a writer anymore, so i’m not the best person to dispense advice. i’d recommend looking up the writing advice of some of your favorite authors, but always keep in mind every writer is different and has their own way they like to approach it professionally.

i will say from my experience in the past that the best way (for me, at least) to get through writing longer pieces was to be sure i was completely in love with the story itself before i began it. most of my longer pieces and my books were written on caffeine and stubborn, blind passion alone, because i lack any real discipline.

if that’s the course you want to try, you write when it completely takes you over and you feel like you have to or you’ll go insane. when you feel like you need to tell the story, rather than you just want to write something for the sake of writing it, it kind of starts to take over everything and consume you. you fall asleep thinking about it, roll over in the middle of the night to scribble phrases on your notepad or type them into your phone’s notes. when you get time alone, you start to write for huge periods of time (six to eight hours) and it doesn’t feel like any time has passed, you know? but that’s just my experience, the way i worked back-when.

the other extreme is a completely different mindset, and it’s a lot healtheir, but takes a lot more dedication and patience. that said, if you can work at it, it’s far more stable and reliable than bursts of all-consuming creativity which - trust me - die out and run the risk of never coming back again.

pre-planning for writing long works takes a lot of discipline and patience, and self control. for professional writers who do it for a living, that discipline grows out of practice and sitting down to write even on the days when writing was the last thing they wanted to do. that takes strength, and a love for writing that runs a lot deeper than the unpredictable bursts of mad passionate typing on zero sleep.

when you still write even when you hate writing, that’s when you’re meant to be a writer.