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16 Writing Memes That Perfectly Depict the Writer’s Life
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by Holly Riddle
If you’ve been writing for a while, then you know a few things.
One: the writer life is, in reality, not at all like the glamorous perception you’ll see in movies and on TV.
Two: your friends, unless they’re writers too, just aren’t going to understand challenges like your writer’s block, procrastination when it comes to actually getting something on the page, or how much you can hate writing and find it fun at the same time.
Three: sometimes, the best thing to do about your writers woes is to just laugh about them—and that’s where these funny writer memes can come in handy.
Here are some of our 16 favorite funny writing memes that perfectly encapsulate the highs, lows, and humor of the writer’s life, from the struggles with a first draft to the constant story ideas to the way your characters just live in your head rent-free (even if your novel doesn’t technically exist yet).
1. Oh, you thought you were actually going to finish that novel?
Think again! Time for procrastination to set in. Writers do whatever they can to not finish that WIP (Work In Progress), until something kicks their butt into gear, whether it be National Novel Writing Month, a challenge with a writer friend, etc.
Source: Writers Write
2. Unfortunately, a writer only has themself to blame
Alas, even though you try to blame everything else in the world for your procrastination—the dog needed walking, the laundry needed doing!—you just can’t at the end of the day. Get that idea down on paper!
Source: September C Fawkes
3. Some days the new ideas just keep flowing… other days, not so much
You know how it goes. Once you get into your writing flow, the shiny new ideas begin—until they dry up completely and you have a bad case of writer’s block.
Source: Writing About Writing on Facebook
But guess what? We have a super helpful article on dealing with this very problem .
4. Don’t worry, though…
Daydreaming about writing and writing are actually the same thing… right?
Totally. Definitely. We relate.
Source: Aela Writes
5. You started? Great! Now, where’s the plot?
Once you get started on that novel, though, inevitably there’s going to be a time that you sit back, look at what you wrote, and really start to question whether or not your words actually form a cohesive plot. That’s where, of course, a writing schedule that incorporates a little beta reading can come in handy.
Your writer friends are the best folks to give insight into whether or not you truly have a story.
And! You can also swing by our article on finding the perfect plot .
6. Sometimes, you just gotta plow forward
Occasionally, though, you have to just keep writing, plot or no plot.
Source: Daddies Drarryy
7. Writing is just rewriting
Eventually, you’ll have to go back and address those rambling sentences. Newbie writers may not recognize it yet, but the old pros will. Sometimes, being a writer is just rewriting, rewriting, and rewriting some more—especially those pesky opening pages.
Source: Liz Lawson on Twitter
8. That said, perfection isn’t everything
Not everyone is going to love what you write and, frankly, that’s okay.
Source: Aye Write
9. Your biggest fan is you
Because, after all, you won’t be happy unless you write things you actually want to read. Don’t aim to please readers or other writers when you’re the first audience you’ll ever have.
Source: Writeous Writing
10. But maybe try to keep the tenses straight?
Past tense, future tense, present tense—it’s hard enough just deciding which one you want to use on a new project, let alone sticking to it while you write.
Source: Macademmia
To help you through this troubling time, check out our post on narrative tenses .
11. You and your characters are best friends forever
Oh, don’t mind me. I’m not talking to myself; I’m talking to my novel characters.
Don’t get us wrong—we love a good cast of heroes and villains .
12. Being a writer isn’t as easy as it looks
Yes, we all love writing (we hope you you do, anyway, since you’re here). Unfortunately, when many of us say we like writing, we like having written more than the actual getting the words on the page.
Source: The Darklings
13. No one understands
But no matter how easy or hard friends and family think your writing is, chances are they have no real clue what you really do.
Your parents call your writing “cute.” Friends think you lay around. You think you’re a big shot. You’re really just drinking coffee at your desk and creating stories from the looping picture in your head.
Source: Jenni Merritt
14. An editor will not make your life easier
Editors are amazing. They make your book better. If you have a publishing deal with a big publisher, they vouch for your book and make your writing dreams a reality. They don’t make your life easier, though.
That first edit letter? Ouch.
Source: The Mom Who Runs
15. So just enjoy the ride!
It’s not always easy to enjoy the ride that is the writing life, but at least try to. And stop feeling guilty about not keeping to your writing goals for the day/week/etc.!
Source: Memes for Writers on Instagram
16. And whatever you do…
Source: UniversityStudent.org
We believe in you! And if you ever need to step back from the pain and existential angst of being a writer, you’ll always have these writing memes here to help you have fun on your creative journey.
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- 17 Writing Memes That Are Too Relatable
Jackie Pearce
What Are Memes?
Why writers should enjoy memes, writing memes, 1. life as a writer, 2. grammar memes, 3. first draft jokes, 4. procrastination as a writer, 5. writing hours, 6. author humor, 7. focus for writing, 8. how we see our work vs how editors or clients do, 9. battling resistance, 10. the freelance writing life, 11. forgetting a brilliant idea, 12. spending time with a thesaurus, 13. fighting against distractions, 14. ideas as a writer, 15. finally beating writer’s block, 16. working and writing through holidays, 17. the dreaded first draft, ready to become a writer.
Writers might enjoy looking at writing memes because they often humorously capture the common struggles, quirks, and experiences that writers face in their creative endeavors.
Additionally, such memes can offer a brief but welcome break from the sometimes solitary and intense nature of writing, serving as a source of inspiration, motivation, or a good laugh amidst the writing process.
In this article, there are 17 of the best writing memes out there, but keep in mind that there are an endless amount out there for you to enjoy. This is simply for you to scroll through while you take a break (probably from a writing assignment you are putting off).
Let’s take a look at some great ones for you to enjoy!
For the most part, I can assume that almost everyone knows what memes are, but on the off chance you do not know what they are, let’s define what they are.
According to the dictionary, a meme is:
An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. Dictionary definition of a meme
When it comes to making it as a freelance writer, it can be a hard, lonesome journey. Not everyone will be able to write with people around them, or if they do, it is still a solitary venture.
Writing memes can help give you a much-needed laugh when you need it most. There is a lot of help that comedy can provide when it comes to enjoying your career .
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When it comes to being a writer of any kind, so many people think our careers are different than they are day-to-day. For example, how many people think of us as starving artists who can barely afford their morning coffee?
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Not everyone appreciates a good grammar joke, but most writers certainly will!
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For most of us, our first drafts are… not great. What we publish to the world and what we first put down on paper are usually two very different types of writing.
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Is there anything more relatable than putting off your writing? Even for the most prolific of professionals, there will be times when writer’s block is heavy and hard to get through.
Raise your hand if you are guilty of doing things like cleaning your house, doing the dishes, color coding your Google Sheets, or rearranging your closet by colors instead of actually sitting down to write?
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Whether you are a night owl or a morning bird, you might be able to relate to writing at weird times.
You never know when inspiration will strike and sometimes that’s at 2 AM.
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Which author do you think is the most guilty of this? Some just love to kill off characters and make the story extra painful for the reader.
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Is there anything worse than when you’re in the middle of writing and someone interrupts your thought? Statistics show it can take at least 20 minutes to get focused again once you have been distracted.
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This not only applies to authors, but this also applies to the freelance writing life as well. Sometimes, you will submit what you think is amazing, fantastic writing and your client or editor will think that your work is just average.
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Sometimes life gets in the way of creating and it is easy to feel guilty over not spending time writing! It does not always last forever, but it certainly is hard when it does happen.
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Similar to the other post about being a writer above, this is more specific to freelance writers. It is amazing what so many people think about when it comes to what the freelance writing life is like!
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As a writer, you have probably had the frustrating situation of realizing that you had a great idea in the middle of the night for something to write but cannot remember it by the time you need to sit down and put that idea on paper.
This is why a lot of writers choose to keep a little notebook or voice memo recorder beside their bed.
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Almost all of us can relate to the idea of needing to use the thesaurus to come up with different words to use when it comes to writing. Whether you are repeating yourself over and over with a blog you are writing, or your want to mix up your pitches to potential clients, you want to find new ways to mix up your writing.
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The internet (and especially social media) is one of the greatest and also the worst things that ever happened to writers. Writers have always found ways to distract themselves, but having endless content just the click of a thumb away has made it even harder to focus.
This is why a lot of writers have to go somewhere without internet in order to get any quality writing done.
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Not every idea we have as writers are always good ones! The most important part is that you keep coming up with ideas, even when they are not the best ideas.
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Is there anything better than finally fighting back against writer’s block and getting some words (or even pages!) written?
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Now, it is not a good idea to work so much that you completely ignore and forget to celebrate any of the holidays or fun times in your life.
However, most of us can relate to doing so either through necessity or passion when it comes to writing. Just do not forget to celebrate every once in a while!
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While this one is not as funny as some of the others, it still rings true for most of us!
The dreaded first draft is often the hardest hurdle for writers to overcome, no matter what kind of writing you do. It is important to sit down, focus, and get those words out!
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“Why Can’t You Just Get Your Book Published?”
Just tell a publisher to publish the book…. You beautiful genius, why didn’t we writers think of that?
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Writers When They’re Determined to Do Anything
Why finish a book when there are so many other important things to do, like, well, anything except finish? After all, the crevices in the keyboard don’t clean themselves, do they?
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Getting Those Thoughts Down on Paper
It always feels like the best characters are trapped inside our big brains, but we aren’t quite smart enough to help them get out and on the page.
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How I Tell a Story
Does this sound familiar? It’s not our fault. What some may see as scatterbrained, we can tell ourselves, is simply a mad genius at work.
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When You Find a Typo in a Published Book
Ah, yes, the dichotomy of typos. It feels so good when you find a typo in someone else’s published book, but so bad when you see one in your own.
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Red Pill or Blue Pill?
Overcomplicating things and spending hours creating the perfect Spotify playlist for a story that will never see the light of day hits close to home, doesn’t it?
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Respond to Bad Reviews
All publicity’s good publicity, right? While bad reviews aren’t going to do you any favors, lashing out against a reviewer will hurt your brand… no matter how good it might feel.
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Picking Between Past and Present Tenses
Few things make writers tenser than talking about tenses.
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I Just Hope I Find It Along the Way
This is how a lot of great stories start . It’s also how a lot of manifestos tend to start, so be careful.
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Rewriting the Beginning 50 Times
The middle is where many writers fear to tread. Surely, if you just tweak the beginning another one or fifty times, the middle will be easier.
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Who’s Been Keeping Me From Writing
Writing isn’t easy, but it’s a lot harder when your biggest obstacle to getting things done is the weirdo staring back at you from the mirror.
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The World Right Now
The real world can be a bummer. It’s no wonder writers spend so much time in their own heads. It’s often the best place to be.
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Writing vs. Editing the First Draft
It appears you even threw the kitchen sink into the first draft. Sounds good now, but just wait until you have to edit.
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Two Kinds of People
Want to make a writer curse like Yosemite Sam and fight like a Spartan? Go ahead and dogear the pages in their favorite books.
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Most Difficult Things About Writing
Admit it. We’ve all gone down the rabbit hole of character names for hours and days on end, searching for that perfect name with meaning, history, and gravitas. And then we wind up using Jack or Kate because it’s easier to type.
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The Present Tense
With this type of tense problem, it might just be easier to give up and learn a completely new skill. Maybe basketweaving.
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“Your Parents Are Dead”
Seriously, how many characters have one or more dead parents to give them “character”? In literature and pop culture, from Bambi to Batman, parents have it rough.
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My First Draft
Your brain is a wonderful, powerful tool, but that first draft always comes out like a child’s first finger painting. It’s messy, it might be a dog or a dinosaur, but it can be turned into something special. Probably.
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When Someone Finds Your First Draft
The only thing worse than cringing when reading your first draft is finding out that someone else has seen your first draft.
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“I Trusted You”
Just keep telling yourself that it’s only a fictional death. Tell your therapist and your tissue box the same thing.
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Being a Good Writer
And here you are… reading these memes and telling yourself that it’s still “writing work” because you are “getting ready”.
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A Day in the Life of a Writer
Hey, this is rather accurate, except we’re missing the parts about feeling like an imposter and wondering whether that new show you want to stream is out yet.
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Genius Level of an Author
Even worse is the location where you tend to have those great ideas. We all know that it’s usually in the bathroom.
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I Think I Did a Pretty Good Job
If only we all had this kind of confidence in ourselves as writers! Honestly, though, don’t write reviews for yourself… the Internet will find you and make sure you know how wrong you are.
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I Wonder if…
Well, this is a great way to start a horror story . Now what happens when they start trying to get in touch with you?
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How I Feel When I Write a Plot Twist
Oh, that plot twist feels so great when you come up with it… until you realize that you confused twist with a trope.
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Trying to Work Out if the Plot Ties Together
Plot seems easy, but we all know it’s not. It’s like doing long division in your head while walking barefoot across a floor filled with Legos.
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The List of Books That I’ve Actually Finished Writing
Yeah… but at least you have a list.
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Writing in the Middle of the Night
Honestly, there’s not much of a difference between vampires and writers, except that vampires tend to be more organized and better dressers.
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I Will Find You
It’s not a lack of ideas that plagues most writers. It’s the lack of a pen and paper to write them down while on the toilet.
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Brace Yourself and Kill the Character
Yes, kill the character, but make sure you wear gloves and bury the body deep.
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I Have No Memory of This Place
This is where you convince yourself that you never really liked the story, so you can start that new idea.
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If we’re being honest, most of us are actually some combination of the first and the sixth image here. I mean, we sometimes look at a sheet of paper.
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When You Write Something Really Dark
And then you start to worry about the authorities checking your online search history.
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Me Listening to Music While Writing
We all know that we have those ideal “theme songs” for everything we write. Don’t pretend you’re any different.
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The Reality of My Writing
With a little massaging and edits even this could work… or not.
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When People Try to Read Your Unfinished Writing
This is when it’s time to start poking at some eyes and smacking hands.
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New Project vs. Unfinished Projects
There’s nothing sweeter than the kernel of a new idea. Until you’ve actually thought about it and played around a bit. Then there’s that next new idea.
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My Creativity
Creativity is like the friend who tries to hype you up to do something dangerous and then just leaves you standing alone in the middle of the restaurant in your underwear.
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20 More Words for a Paper
And here’s why writing toward word counts can be a problem. I mean, “here is”.
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Writers have more excuses than a kid who wants to get out of gym class on dodgeball day.
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Finding Your First Typo in Your Published Book
If you’ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to have your heart drop into a bucket of ice water and embarrassment, here it is.
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I Wrote a Novel in Second Person
To be honest, the writer deserves to be there. Second person for a novel is an abomination.
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How to Be Successful
“Here’s what you need, kid. You need a little luck, a little talent, and a couple of those plot things from Jersey Jim down on 52nd Street. Yeah, that’s how you do it.”
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A Famous Writer
You would probably be better off with a career in just about anything else aside from venomous snake wrangler. And even then…
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Time to Get to Work
So, this is what it’s like when people feel called out about something. Not cool, Padme. Not cool.
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A Serial Killer’s Google Search History
Seriously, if there’s a serial killer in the city and the authorities started looking at search histories, writers are screwed.
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The Main Villain
This is a little like turning a raging wolf into a tiny lap dog wearing a jaunty hat. It doesn’t always work, and it can take away some of the allure and mystery from your original Big Bad.
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A Character With Living Parents
Well, that’s impossible. Characters don’t have living parents. Time to pack it up and become a full-time blueberry farmer.
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A Total Emotional Hellscape
Sure, it makes us sad. Yet, we continue to do it. We writers are sadistic gods of our created worlds, and we like the power.
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Writers After Killing Your Favorite Character
Writers have a heart. Honest. We just keep ours in a little jar in the cabinet.
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When You Write 200 Years of World History
Worldbuilding is nature’s way to keep the population of fantasy writers in check.
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Adverbs Everywhere
Think of adverbs as characters you don’t like. Kill them with impunity and smile while doing it.
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Story Idea vs. First Draft
At least you recognize that the first draft is a little goofy… some writers just press submit.
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It’s Called an Oughtobiography
Instead of reading this clever meme, you “ought to be” writing.
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Delete Charakter
When you have a character that doesn’t fit… just pluck them out of the story like aliens beaming up a farmer in Indiana. Find another story for them.
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Manuscript Evolution
I’d like to say that it gets easier with time, but I don’t like to lie.
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All the Random Subplots Without Cohesion
Don’t worry. No one will notice. Honest. Wait, I don’t like to lie.
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When I Finally Write the End
Honestly, there’s no better feeling. So, to get that good feeling faster, start your books backwards.
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Something Useless and Unpractical
It’s a good feeling. All that worldbuilding is great. You aren’t getting any further on your story, but hey, you do you.
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Where Does It Hurt
Everyone says technology is the way of the future. This happens too often, and everyone starts looking for stone tablets and chisels.
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When Only 10 People Read Your Book
It’s not the size of your audience that counts, it’s the journey. You’ll grow stronger, and maybe some fresh “eyes” to see where you can do better.
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I’m Going to Become a Writer
This is disturbingly accurate. Of course, it would’ve been nice if the guidance counselor had actually told me this. At least then, I could’ve made an informed decision.
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Alright… “Chapter 1”
You laugh, but how many would-be writers are slowly decaying in front of the blank page right now. Not so funny now is it?
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At the Third and Last Act of Editing
Editing has to be some sort of karmic retribution we’re all suffering because of the transgressions of some writer from the past, right?
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Some Sort of Bullshit Energy
If you use enough fancy high-tech-sounding words and have people with lab coats and clipboards in scenes, no one will notice.
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How I Speak vs. How I Write
Writers have two creatures living in us. One is refined, charming, and intelligent. It doesn’t get out much. The other creature is rabid, weird, and always present.
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What Gives People Feelings of Power
It doesn’t seem like it takes much to please a writer. Just finish a chapter… just finish a chapter. Little do people know that’s like milking a cobra.
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Villain vs. Mentor Character
Sometimes, we do get attached to the characters. We don’t want to let them go. But our villains have to be villainous. They can’t just shake their fist at the sky.
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After a Character Runs Out of Meaning
Of course, for fantasy, urban fantasy, and horror authors, the coffin just ends up adding more character meaning.
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Am I Researching or Just Procrastinating
To the untrained eye, it appears as though I’m procrastinating. But am I researching? No, I’m procrastinating!
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It’s Free Character Development
Well, it’s part of humanity, so it can be part of a character. Of course, this often serves as a dark mirror for many writers.
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Finishing the Current Chapter
Yes, this is procrastinating, but it’s also writing… so, we should probably come up with another word for it. Procrastin-writing?
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Very Little Overlap
These little circles show the truth. But when you hit that sliver in the middle, it’s like magic.
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That Plot Twist
This is like a surprise fart, but one that you and others will enjoy because it doesn’t stink.
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The Tone I Wanted to Write the Story in
Honestly, this might say a lot about you and what you have inside. Not that it’s a bad thing.
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Killing New Characters, You’re Attached to
Sometimes killing makes us sad, sometimes it makes us happy. If we weren’t writers, we’d be in prison.
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How many times did you see yourself in these memes? Let’s be honest. Writers who have been at it for more than a couple of days are sure to find a lot of humor and a lot of truth in the memes. Hope you had fun with them and even more importantly, isn’t it time you got back to that work in progress?
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Yves Lummer
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