*glances at giant pile of unread books* I feel very called out right now

Exactly, I would rather die than let anyone I know read my stuff.

I have real conversations with imaginary people and imaginary conversations with real people

But the opposite is not true.. I can't write..

Me, taking a month to write a transition that makes sense… in the prologue.

Why is this so accurate tho

Literally me

Thesaurus.com is my best friend!

Okay, so I'm writing my very first manga. I really wanna show my family, but I want to add some stuff in it that they might not like (not any inappropriate). . Idk what to do!

Oh I have a lot of ideas that somehow combine romance, comedy, action-adventure, and fantasy. They forever remain in my mind bc I ain't gonna write all that

As someone who writes fanfic and told my husband, who then proceeded to abuse me and call me a cheater before ultimately divorcing… would not recommend unless 100% sure.

It's the worst when someone in your family talks about a stranger, acquaintance, neighbor who wrote a book in hushed tones. "They're an author." And you, whom they know have written SEVERAL that are acknowledged to be good -- they shrug their shoulders. Cause you are just YOU, to them; you've shared a bathroom growing up, done chores. You're "family"... *Rolling my eyes till they hit the back of my skull*

Wait it doesnt?!?

I'm the deer, this post in the headlights...

*glances around for mind reader*

Re-reading the pages of torture you put your characters through, worrying that they’re boring, worrying that JK Rowling already did it better…

But it was so pretty! And had little boxes for dates and a table of contents and attached pockets! I had to buy it and put it in the drawer-of-disappearing-things

My story is a trash fire and I love it

I feel personally attacked.

Two cakes! /ref

Yes, but they mightily wished to quit.

I FINALLY got time to write more of my book, waited three months for this, thought whoo gonna actually start! Most of the time I just ate cheese to be honest

This is why I don’t tell friends my book ideas

Every single time I read some great book. On the other hand, sometimes I read some published book and think "I can do better than this."

I actually do have a really good vocabulary, I just don't use it regularly and it mysteriously disappears whenever om trying to write. The only time it actually gets used is vocabulary tests.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Y'all finish your first drafts?

Me to my ELA teacher after writing a 100 page “short” story

You know what, I'm feeling way better about my struggles after this, amazing to know I'm not the only one

Time to unleash my pain- I self-published a book, it went through so many drafts, and now I can’t look back on it without feeling that it was terribly written.

Uuuuuh, whhhhyyyyy

Me: I've written for hours I must have at least half a book by now! What I've written; once upon a time