If you're a creative with a day job, do you ever feel like you're adrift? Just going through the motions like a cog, doing what you're needed to do, but never actually getting to be you? Whoever the hell you actually are?
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@jsavagesteele.bsky.socialIf you're a creative with a day job, do you ever feel like you're adrift? Just going through the motions like a cog, doing what you're needed to do, but never actually getting to be you? Whoever the hell you actually are?
@balthazarhowle.comAn alarming amount of unsweetened, over-steeped black tea.
I decide to share this questionable habit to one of my characters in vol. 2!
@inventingreality.bsky.social@balthazarhowle.comBeen hitting a pretty serious writing slump for the last week or so…
#FellowWriters, what do you do when drafting feels like you’re dragging yourself through molasses?
@radium26.bsky.socialIs “It’s Just Nick” too impersonal? 🤔 I’m open to suggestions
@radium26.bsky.socialWriting is absolutely a lesson in patience. Especially when you start sharing your work. Every now and then I’ve got to remind myself to forget everything else and focus on the writing. Nothing else can happen if I don’t write something first!
@inventingreality.bsky.social@radium26.bsky.social📚📝 Creating characters is one of my favourite parts of #writing! Their desires, their fears, their strengths, their weaknesses, who they like and *especially* who they don’t like. That last part is always the most fun 🤔
@radium26.bsky.socialA break is always appreciated but I *was* on a roll with my writing and now I’ve got to figure out what the next short story is about…
#WritingCommunity #Authorproblems #Writingfrustrations #Writerthoughts
@balthazarhowle.com"And there's, like, an elf and an orc and they... like each other a lot." 🎃 #amwriting #writerthoughts #writercommunity #writersky #halloween #october #queerfantasy
@inventingreality.bsky.social@radium26.bsky.socialStory research teaches you a lot. Today’s lesson is how a Wankel Engine works and other random facts about aircraft maintenance. All of this means I’m neck deep in FAA manuals and I might need rescuing at some point.
#writerslife #writingproblems #writerthoughts #WritingCommunity
@inventingreality.bsky.social@inventingreality.bsky.social@inventingreality.bsky.social@balthazarhowle.comIt looks like a busy weekend for me! ✏️ #selfpublishing #amwriting #writerthoughts #authorhumor
@balthazarhowle.comYay! Your Main Couple Just Got Together! 🥳
…now what?
Some #writerthoughts about closing out the romantic arc🧵
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