It's Not An "abandoned" WIP, I Didn't Intentionally Leave It In The Forest To Die And Forget About It,

is whump the new term for angst or what ?? im starting to see writers use whump a lot nowadays, are they the same thing ?

A mood board: Desmond & Alia

– More than royalty

"Every time I see you again I feel more alone. You're always changing nowadays." "I tried to change for the better, you know, for– for you"

Rayen Perez - a mood board

– Song of lost secrets

"Hey stop, you know that wasn't your fault right? Neither of us could have predicted that night. "

remember: writing has guidelines not rules.

fuck expectations. all my homies love and appreciate writing for fun.

yeah i love writing. me banging my head into a wall trying not to hate everything i write is just part of the process dude. no i don't think i should seek help what are you talking about haha.

hey if you're the type of writer that's like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.

my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it's hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.

but with obsidian there's this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.

here's the canvas i've created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)

as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don't have a proper place quite yet or it's just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!

best of all, it's FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it's completely free! EDIT: some reblogs have mentioned that you can apparently link your own personal cloud storage (dropbox, gdrive, icloud, etc.) to obsidian for free! that way you can access your obsidian vaults across multiple devices without the extra fee. i don't mind supporting the devs but just something to look into if costs is a concern.

i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they're all in one document that i can edit.

one time i stopped writing in the middle of noting down a wip idea i had and i havent been the same since. it literally stops mid-sentence at "and". AND WHAT ????

If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

Anyone else really enjoy writing characters that make a drastic decision and are totally justified for it, yet almost everyone is against them for it regardless?