I find it ironic, that I came here to procrastinate writing.

He touched grass, stone, river, stone in a river, flower, and water. *All in the same day.*

I love how these Blank vs. Blank videos start off with just the most raw dialogue for three and a half minutes straight

Step #1: Write something. Step #2: Edit it until it's worth reading. Do not skip step #1.

The blinking cursor is the reason why the character can't write it all down. It distracts, it diverts and shows us the passage of our short, fleeting lives with its every blink.

Staring at the screen after writing "The" gotta be my favourite movement 👌

The thoughts about what you'll write: Entertainment The actual thing you write: Generic

Brandon Sanderson: "You guys have time for thinking?"

Worst part is that 99% percent of my writing is: "I dont like this prologue... But I dont dislike it enough to change it".

This skit should win a nobel prize, not for literature, but for peace.

To be fair, Carboniferous period animals should be used more

My plot: godly wars, polygamy, death, magic, suicide cults, death, interperatation of imagination as reality, true meaning of evil, more death The google doc: So they died

write the plot? excuse me? how about I construct extremely spicific vibes in my head instead of actually even giving the main character a name.

No need for a novel, you've written a masterpiece here. I'll call up the Nobel committee.

The hardest part isn't usually even coming up with Ideas, it's remembering them all and then somehow piecing them all together in a way that makes sense. Also as soon as I start writing my grammar goes out the window

Imagine brainstorming a book while on an idyllic walk- everybody knows REAL authors think about books in bed at 3am. (For clarity, joke)

You know a joke is good when you know exactly how it's going to end but you laugh all the way through anyway

I love reinventing the modern equivalent of the Odyssey through patchwork shower thoughts only to lose them all the moment the towel hits me.

I think that one major factor that explains the distance between thinking about writing and writing for real is the simple fact that when you are thinking about writing you are doing the fun part of the job, you are putting the plan into place, you are creating the story and it's foundations. When you are engaging in the actual process of writing you're doing construction work, you know what you are doing so you don't end up being surprised by the things that work. What you do end up being surprised by tends to be annoying busywork like rewrites and thinking about the wider narrative has to accommodate them. TLDR actually writing is the boring and time consuming part of a job that requires 80% of the work and gives 20% of the results.

Brandon Sanderson wrote 5 books in the span of this video.

Legend has it that James Joyce actually wrote that book being planned out here, only to have Ezra Pound reject all but volume VI and edit it so heavily (excising the magic, nearly all the characters and doing much more tempering) that the original was rendered beyond recognition. We now know that book as Ulysses.

This is too real hahahah! Half the time I don't even get to the part where I open up Word.

Starting is the hardest part. Get words on the page and let them flow. You can fix things later. Also, careful with the Tolstoy mention. You'll provoke an essay on the world's greatest storytellers.

i'll be honest i got very distracted by those consonants for a minute

Actual trick: If you are this guy, and you can _talk about_ your story ideas way more easily than you can write them down - buy a voice memo recorder, or a note recorder, or whatever they're called, and take it with you on these walks. If you can't afford one, and you have a smart phone, record voice notes on that. Looks goofy as hell, but if it lets you capture these ideas when you have them, so that you can actually access them later when you're in a better position to write - business people do it, musicians do it, no reason a writer can't do it too.

I’m starting to think generic entertainment just really wants a nobel prize

I think of that one SpongeBob episode where he writes for hours but all he can come up with is… The, but the T is super duper fancy and the rest are just squiggles

This is the second time you’ve so accurately slandered me sir, lmao

You've got the outline and plot, that's half the work.

I knew what I signed up for when I clicked but being personally called out like this still hurts!

That actually sounds like a very interesting read.

I'm not a writer. But sometimes I like to pretend maybe I will become one. I wanted to write one of my childhood story ideas into an actual story, but they had all grown far too unwieldy and vast for what would be my first writing project. So I decided to start with something simple, and that I wasn't attached to: barbarian lady in cold northern wastes fights monsters 'n' wizards 'n' shit. That should be easy. But then I procrastinated in writing it, and before long the idea had grown into a story about a woman who leaves her remote village on the outskirts of an empire, and travels towards its cosmopolitan center becoming, in the process, enchanted by its art, architecture, philosophies, peoples, religions, and scholarly works. She begins to assimilate into the culture, and strives to live a life of virtue according to the moral teachings of popular philosophers and religious leaders within the empire, even as she aspires to become a famed warrior-scholar. Yet in order to lead such a life, she must struggle against her upbringing, leaving more and more of her old self behind. She also struggles with her perception-as an 'educated barbarian' she is seen as mostly a curiosity or amusement, and it becomes increasingly clear she will never truly be able to earn a place among the people of the empire. It would be a heavily introspective story that would explore ideas of nature vs. nurture, how we find our place in the world, and the dissonance between the lives we aspire to and envision for ourselves, vs. the lives we actually lead. I was going to title this story 'The Sword Sent Them' which would actually be a triple entendre because there's a moment earlier on in the story whe- The point is, I need a new idea again.

I will BE as old as the carboniferous period once I finally figure out a way to start my story that I like

No fr you're super good at writing monologues

I feel called out. My skillset goes Worldbuilding > Character Building > Outlining > Prose & Dialogue. Realistically I know the only way I will improve is through practice but as you progress through that list they become increasingly harder to just do in your head and require actual time sitting down and just doing them. I have a bunch of worlds and stories I have developed heavily in my head but only like 2 or 3 I've gotten a chapter written for and those chapters are short and bad.

I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE BEEN CALLED OUT LIKE THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭

i was pretty stuck in that infinite idea cycle but now i think im actually ready to get started because i have a solid idea of an intro that im going to stick with

hitting way too close to home with this one man

When I get ideas like this, I jot them down in a note app on my phone. A quick scratchpad scribble of scenes, scraps of dialogue, anything and everything. Sitting with laptop comes later, where I piece them together and refine them into something actually usable. Far better than staring at a blank editor trying to find that perfect opening which you totally won't redraft a dozen times before you're done.

God fucking damnit was literally procrastinating coming up with a story idea for a game and this popped up in my reccomended 😭😭😭

This is so relatable. There have been many stories I have thought of writing and had so many ideas for with a clear vision but when I finally am about to type the story I just lose all motivation.

Im sorry did you implant a recorder into my brain?! Everything from the extreme symbolization and than staring at the blank doc with a smile, you just depicted my entire writing prosses in less than four minutes.

I hate how real it is. I have hundreds of ideas for worlds, characters and stories, but I can't finish a single short story. I can't even share them because I know I will never write them then. One of them is a trilogy of books where every book is a different route of the story of the protagonist and reveals different parts of the world and characters. A character that is a friend in first book would be the villain in the next. In the last book it would be revealed that the changes come from a character that is able to see other timelines, but doesn't know the future of the one he lives in. If someone wants to use this can go ahead

Honestly I really liked the plot ideas and just ideas in general for this lol

This felt painfully relatable

The giant internal plotting monologue always either ends with that iconic blank Word doc, or “after a whole evening of jubilant hyperfixation, I now hate this idea.” 😅 Both are crushing, and both can only be solved by- write it anyway!

I keep getting an insanely good idea for a story or a character but those ideas either fade away or I just straight up decide “nah im not in the mood to write”

I actually managed to start the novel I have always wanted to write and it is amazing

Yeah it do be like this. Especially as the writer friend who has to go "ok but how many words you written yet"

I once knew a person who was like this unironically half of the time. Planning to write a book, changing the world. He was bipolar. I didn’t know him well, but when I once met him during his manic phase, it was legit scary. My parents were there with me at the time, and they felt compelled to stop him from what he was trying to do more than once because he was certainly going to regret it once the phase was over. I never met him in his depressive phases. If they were anywhere near as severe, I wager he spent them huddled in his room, staying away from anything sharp. It’s horrifying what our own mind can do to us.

I have been called out thoroughly by this video. Time to go clean a cabinet instead of writing my endless space opera based off of the snow queen story and my love for the idea of giant sentient sea slugs. Oh and the overcomplicated character dynamics and timelines. /Am i joking or not? I don't know anymore

These flashes of inspiration are always more like an experience we want to have consuming media. It's just a feeling. Nothing concrete

WHY IS IT LIKE THIS, I HAVE EVERYTHING PLANNED, BUT WHEN I TRY TO PASS IT IN THE DAMN PAGE, IT JUST DISAPPEARS

i remeber when i wanted to get my friends into that cool dark fantasy world i created in my mind over the years throught dnd. Now i make my own system and now they love my world more than i do😅

A masterpiece! I've been t h i n k i n g a lot about writing recently, so this is highly relatable.

the Nobel prize reference 😂

My thoughts usually only goes as far as 0:05

As someone in the process of writing an epic novel during my free time, I feel personally attacked by this video. (It's mostly just for fun, though, and I have made a lot of actual progress!)

When it plays out in your head completely fine as you lie in bed at 2am but once you actually get it onto paper the dialogue is like Attack of the Clones fell down the stairs

When you're not trying to write a book: * Creates a long-form poem in prose format by reinventing the Old Testment in contemprary Australia where the character's discuss the legendary status of Napolean's dismemebered genitals and other rambling literary and historical references that commentators will use like a thematic rorschach test for generations to come like he's James Joyce * When you're trying to write a book: * Dial up noises in brain *

My story is so phenomenal that I literally have no words to describe it.

it always happens when i’m walking around in circles at 10 AM and randomly think of the most powerful, most deep and complex story of all time

Not gonna lie that brainstormed idea sounds like it would be a fantastic series of books

As a video artist - I really enjoyed the work that went into those dramatic nature shots. As a writer - I relate to this so much! I think that imagining and getting excited about your own ideas is an important part of creating a story, but not more important then actually sitting down and writing the booi

YOOO BIBLARIDION MENTIONED! But this video is so entirely true, I am looking at my setting I have been brewing for 5 years now. Have I written down anything about it? Lol no.

"And an entirely original biosphere based on the Carboniferous period" I almost SCREAMED holy shit get out of my head 😭 So many books on the Ordovician in my amazon cart right now goddammit

I came here for a good time and I didn’t expect to be called out here. 😂 (Also I should get back to writing. I haven’t done it since before the pandemic).

In a journey of 1000 steps, the most difficult step to take is the first.

so fucking true. If someone doesn't force me to write something that is also SIMPLE i won't write a thing. In the meanwhile i've created in my mind a whole iperverse full of gods and creatures of the night, the lifes they live, the problems, blessings and curses they got from existence itself, the relation between humans and monstrosities that are more emphatic than humans themself, magic systems, languages that could be spoken by them, the releases of frustration through whole organisations that travel a multivers that connects any kind of fictional world that isn't completely limited by the author or the canonic elements and limits just to torture some kind of characters that i don't like, as one of the gods makes fun of me for having created that organization and as it realizes nothing makes much sense because it's all about opinions and world views and consciousness is the curse that took us all and made us seek for completely useless power. I just can't write shit

How dare you destroy everything I held dear in my writing with that single "iroal" scene :(

Happens with music too. I listen to music at work and get all these ideas for drum arrangements and melodies and textures and sound effects and then when I get home and open Live I write one bit out and say, “this sounds bad, I’ll come back to it”

this is actually beautiful

This was just an excuse to show off your book ideas, wasn’t it?

I was like "oh nice dark mode on word just like me!" and then the closeup on the keyboard happened and i realized it was also the same laptop as mine

Felt this too hard

What did I just watch 😭😭. A mirror of my life

Almost scary how accurate this is

I had to laugh at the very first shot because the walking around outside while daydreaming is the most real part 😂

me after a good walk when ideas come to mind.

So true. But this problem can be overcome. In theory.

That's what I do except I have no concept of a plan, and just open a word document without being able to think of a single thing...

This is the most relatable video I've ever seen lol. At least I've gotten to the point where I write garbage and tear my beautiful vision apart word by word instead of writing nothing?

This is a very accurate portrayal of my creative process

I feel seen. Thank you for putting in the effort to *write* that and record it.

Honestly, it scared me, because I'm doing the same thing right now with the expectation of a reaction to what I've created. It's comforting that my desires are not gathering dust in my skull.

This was me the other day, I kept daydreaming of scenes between my two characters and theyr dynamic and their emotional moments. Started a google doc about it and got demotivated real fast... the reason? Writing straightforwardly like this is not my forté. I need to envision the little scenes in a haphazardly manner, just like I do it in my head. If I try to condense it into a single doc, it stops being so fun, and even if there are multiple docs, it just gets messy. Solution: Outlining the novel through a mind map app, that allows you to make notes and connect them to eachother, where you can clearly see the different scenes and how they connect, plus you can always change them. It's really flexible. Bonus points if you can insert images, so that there's a visual aspect to your outline- thats very fun to me as well. The app I use currently that has these features is obsidian md (canva feature), the only con is that you can't really acces it from different platforms.

I feel called out bro 😭

You have my respect for using a dark theme in Word.

As an author this is so true.

Are you spying on me?? 🤣🤣 And the Moonlight sonata is a perfect background ♥

So painfully accurate...

1. while most seem to be here to procrastinate on writing, I feel very upbeat about having just finished a multiple thousand word outline at 3am for a story I came up with just yesterday. for once it has a beggining, middle and end. tomorrow I begin fleshing it out. 2. the ideas in this video seem really cool. I might just steal them, if you don't mind. Don't want to get burned out on one project so having a book B to work intermittently on might be a good idea. carboniferous era scorpian god hybrids here we go!

me who has 1800 Pages and it's still not over and scope bloat continues.... I still agree. Took me a hell of a time to actually start writing

It sounds like a good game idea

you cooked so hard with the concept tho

This is the most painfully relatable thing I've ever seen

The opening is always the hardest

This channel has some hella specific scenarios but I also understand so many of them 😂

Yes. Exactly like that. Everytime. Sidenote: We need more stories with people who ride giant centipedes and hunt dragonflies.

Lol, I learned this piano piece back in the day