You know you're a writer if...

[[deleted user]]

You know you're a writer if--oh, crap. Writer's block. I'm going to have to come back to this later.

[Colby]

...and then you get a new idea and never come back to it.

[Elliott]

Stupid curse of the fresh idea.

[Colby]

I'm totally having that happen to me right now. The distracting shiny new idea, that is. I still feel inspired to write the one I'm writing now, though, so I'm pushing the new shiny out of my mind for a while.

[[deleted user]]

I get the curse of the shiny new idea, quickly accompanied by the curse of "This has no plot, so why continue".

[Elliott]

*nods* Yeah, I definitely have a combination of both of those things quite often.

[Colby]

Maxy wrote: "I get the curse of the shiny new idea, quickly accompanied by the curse of "This has no plot, so why continue"."

Oh, god. That is awful. It kills most of my stories.
I also have the curse of 'I have to get to the fun part NOW' which causes my 'novels' to end up climaxing at like 10,000 words. It's frustrating. Luckily, that's not actually happening with this one.

[Elliott]

Colby wrote: "Maxy wrote: "I get the curse of the shiny new idea, quickly accompanied by the curse of "This has no plot, so why continue"."

Oh, god. That is awful. It kills most of my stories.
I also have th..."

YES SAME HERE. I hate hate hate filler and build-up and all that.

[Colby]

I'm just like, Oh, so I just wrote the opening scene? This means that I can't write the climax yet? Wut? o.O

[Elliott]

What do you mean people need time to get attached to the characters? That's ridiculous!

[Colby]

I have to describe things? It can't just be a bunch of dialogue? What?

[Elliott]

Things are generally supposed to happen in a logical order? Why?

[Colby]

A 30-page YA novel won't get published?

[Elliott]

Why is 5 chapters not an acceptable amount?

[Colby]

My chapters should be more than a single paragraph?!?

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

Yeah, writing can be really slow, expecially when you're trying to make yourself learn how to write right handed (I'm a lefty)

[Colby]

Keyboards FTW.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

Me is confused

[Elliott]

TYPEWRITERS. ALWAYS.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

Still confused.

[Elliott]

He's saying that keyboards aren't right or left-handed.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

...I was talking about hand wrighting. With a pen.

[Elliott]

*nods* He was just saying that when you use a keyboard, that problem doesn't exist, I'm pretty sure.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

True, but I can't take my computer everywhere and whatnot.

[Elliott]

*nods* Yeah.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

*shruggs*

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

You know you're a writer when you stayed up til 1 AM last night picking quotes out of your own book because it's fun ... DANG IT, ACACIA. YOU GOT ME ADDICTED.

[Colby]

PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~ wrote: "True, but I can't take my computer everywhere and whatnot."

LAPTOPS FTW.
:D

[Colby]

(If what was confusing you was the FTW, it stands for for the win.)

[Elliott]

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "You know you're a writer when you stayed up til 1 AM last night picking quotes out of your own book because it's fun ... DANG IT, ACACIA. YOU GOT ME ADDICTED."

*GASP* YOU CONCEITED PERSON.
How dare you think you're quote worthy?
(I mean, maybe because you... are. But... yeah. That sounds like a lot of fun. xD)

[Elliott]

Colby wrote: "PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~ wrote: "True, but I can't take my computer everywhere and whatnot."

LAPTOPS FTW.
:D"

Colby, leave the poor girl alone and let her write by hand in peace! ;)

[Jo]

You're a writer when you want a typewriter because it's tiring to write so much by hand and it's tiring for your eyes to watch that computer screen so much.

[Elliott]

Typewriters are very frustrating machines at times, but I think they're worth it.

I still need more ink for mine. *grumbles*

[Jo]

I WANT ONE. Ink may be frustrating, but at least it isn't tiring.

[Elliott]

Eh, I don't think if you're looking for something "less tiring" a typewriter will be the best thing for you. The keys stick sometimes, you have to type slowly or you'll get ahead of yourself. You have to constantly be watching the margins. You have to take the paper out and put new paper in. It's actually a lot of work.

However, if you're into the magic of things that are older and love the sound of keys clicking and the way that a typewritten page looks, they can be magical.

If you want one, they have some pretty cheap old typewriters online, and when I was still looking for one, I found some new ones that are under $70, I think.

[Jo]

Just the fact that I love "The Typewriter" by Telemann says it all. And I've used the typewriter once before. It's be wonderful.

[Elliott]

They really are. :3 I have my mom's from college so it's sentimental too, which is always fun.

[Jo]

The one I've used before is this typewriter my great aunt has.

[Elliott]

Ooh, that sounds interesting.

[Jo]

We once played an arrangement of The Typewriter at my school orchestra.

[Elliott]

I've never heard that song before, but it sounds fabulous.

[Colby]

I think I have a typwriter in my basement...*goes on a hunt* although I would probably never write on that, because A) You waste ink even if what you write sucks, B) I would have to write it twice to post it online, and C) It would be infinitely more frustrating than computer.
But I still want the sense of nostalgia...

[Elliott]

GO. FIND. IT. NOW.

[Jo]

Lav [lately I've been feeling] wrote: "I've never heard that song before, but it sounds fabulous."

Piece, Lav, piece.

[Elliott]

Yeah, yeah.

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

I had a electric typewritier that I'd gotten one year for christmas that I never used.

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Lav [lately I've been feeling] wrote: "Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "You know you're a writer when you stayed up til 1 AM last night picking quotes out of your own book because it's fun ... DANG IT, ACACIA. YOU GOT ME ADDICTED."

..."

I don't think I'm very quote-worthy, actually. It's very difficult finding quotes that I actually like. lol. It's just that, Acacia did this cool thing where she made this like, collage of quotes from her books and I was like, "I WANNA DO THAT." So, that's what I'm doing. It's just for fun. :P

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

On the subject of typewriters... I got one very recently. My friend gave it to me because he didn't want it for some reason. I just need to buy a ribbon for it... Yaaay.

[Isaac]

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "Lav [lately I've been feeling] wrote: "Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "You know you're a writer when you stayed up til 1 AM last night picking quotes out of your own book because it's fun ... D..."

I've never had a decent quote from my writing. XP

[PyroLily ~Qui scribit bis legit~]

I do...where I don't have any idea x)