writer culture is struggling to connect the dots in draft, doing something (still unknown) and suddenly accending to a higher level of being because holy hell how did I not realize this connection before-

And then you just got to rinse and repeat, hoping to hit that nirvana again

coming up with a whole book idea within 10 minutes, starting to write it, then stopping 5 sentences in to look up how to spell ‘lenient’ (I thought it was ‘leniant’)

(forgetful) writer culture is being your own proofreader because you write everything right before bed and wake up and go "...what the fuck was that? i need to fix that"

writer culture is reading literally anything and having to physically restrain yourself from accidentally copying it in your own work

Writer culture is having an exam tomorrow (philosophy) which I haven’t learned for yet, but instead of doing so, I keep complaining how unfair the world is because. I wanna write.

writer culture is getting less kudos than the amount of chapters you’ve posted and still not giving up

Writer culture is getting back inspiration to write your hockey AU after starting heated rivalry

writer culture is writing the same fic with the same characters and getting them together with the same characterization. But just a little to the left this time.

Working on your story for three hours only to get an idea that changes the entire plot and requires you to rewrite the entire thing

writing culture is not having a beta reader so you reread the chapter until your eyes bleed and you can’t figure out if it’s good or bad anymore

writing culture is projecting your disorders on your blorbo and when the commentors go “you portray ()’s character so well” im like thanks its my mental illness

writer culture is being too embarrassed to proof read your writing because then you'd....you'd have to READ...oh god I can't even say it...YOUR OWN WRITING 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢

Writer culture is rereading your old fics because you're actually a genius and what you wrote is still good many years later

writer culture is only being able to write on your school provided computer because the website restrictions (mostly) keep you from getting distracted

writer culture is being excited about writing sth holiday theme and releasing it on that holiday while knowing full well that the chance of u reaching that self-imposed deadline is 0.01% (just trying to get in the christmas spirit is all)

Writer culture is having to write an entire trilogy for a character that only appears once or twice in your story - but keeps forgetting where the protagonist is when you left off.