Nothing beats a good visual gag

Sometimes I feel like the best summation of my sense of humour is the Games as Lit 101 Portal analysis, where every time it cuts back to the Professor, more Companion Cubes have materialised in the background.

Writing about writing instead of writing continues

I think my current problem is that the one long project I still feel like working is at the state where it pretty much needs a whole rewrite based on the existing outline (which I love -- like, it's really good, it just needs a lot of effort poured in) and all the rest of my ideas really don't extend any farther than the vague concept of the elevator pitch.

Moments like this I wish I liked drawing, because a lot of these read more like comic or just image pitches rather than stories, because they're not very conductive to having plot -- or at least narrative -- added to them. They're all, across the board, mood pieces, and I still don't really know how to approach writing those because in my experience you need an endpoint planned before you start writing or it won't really go anywhere.

I guess I'll just... IDK, clean up my tagging system on DW and binge on Games As Lit, for now. If the inspiration is gonna come back, it'll come at some point -- all the things I've managed to written were written in a "nobody's gonna wanna read this but goddammit I just gotta write it" kinda mood, and while being proved correct that nobody did, indeed, wanna read them ( :') ) was a blow to my confidence... well, it's not like I had any confidence in them in the first place, lol. Just gotta wait for that creative second wind, or the moment when not writing becomes unbearable.

Writing some MORE about writing, actually

That being said, I don't really get the problem I have with writing things that are just... straight-up mood pieces. My more plotty stuff tends to be scripts, I am not a fan of writing lots of snappy prose that moves the proceedings along because the the way writing can stretch time to provide additional context to a scene moving too quickly for our eyes to keep up is one of my favourite parts of writing.

It might just be me being overly self-conscious and still kinda feeling vulnerable and unwilling to reveal much about my own feelings. Obviously not all art is personal, but the vast majority of my writing is, and has always been, so unless I'm writing from a place of "no, actually, I want you to listen", it's much harder for me to really get myself to commit to it. It feels, on some level, too much like that feeling I get when I'm talking and I recognise that people around me are deliberately putting their heads down to not listen.

Which, like... writing is a thing that goes on the internet and I'm not forcing anyone to look at it, so basically what I'm saying is that my brain is going through Some Stuff and if that means no writing is getting done? Lol, fair enough. My stress levels are high enough as they are for me to start kicking myself in the head for having a writer's block as well.