Being Obsessed With Your Own Ocs Is So So Good For You I Seriously Can't Recommend It Enough

(If you write for multiple of these, just pick the one you write for the most)

i have to stop reading immediately after writing

i'll finish my little short story or chapter or whatever I'm working on and I'll be like oh, i should reward myself with a book. and then i crack open a literary masterpiece and proceed to doubt every sentence i've ever written

*writes a sentence or two after writing nothing for days*

the stages of writing a novel:

denial

bargaining

crying

do you ever just find the most inscrutable shit in your notes app from three months ago and think what the fuck was i planning to do with this? because me too

Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

Always the writer, never the reader.

Draft 1: Trash.

Draft 2: Slightly better trash.

Draft 3: Compacted and recycled trash.

Final draft: *iconic trash.