The Best Writer Memes
S.R. Beaston
Crafty with words, wit, and wisdom, just add caffeine to make it more interesting.
The writing world can be a lonely one, with experiences you swear only you have been through. Sometimes, the only way to tell you are not the only one suffering through these trials of writing is through the crazy memes scattered throughout the community. Here are some of the best writing memes that sometimes hit too hard.
The first draft plight
The first draft can be the easiest or the hardest draft in the world. I spent years on a first draft, shelved it, then wrote my second novel's first draft in a month. The process will forever be an enigma to me, and thankfully I’m not the only one.
Well, it did not take long for me to get called out.
It’s sad when even Yoda doesn’t look forward to a first draft.
Raise your hands if you are a pantser!
If you don’t resist, the intrusive thoughts win.
Too many people have seen my first draft. They have to stay as my friends…for their safety.
If all else fails, shame yourself into finishing the draft!
Honestly that’s it. That’s the process.
And then there’s editing…
Okay so this is where I am at - the second draft, the forever edits, the "I really thought this throughline would work but it doesn’t so I have to go back to chapter four to plant this idea better so it makes sense in chapter eleven but I’m tired!"
Pro tip, don’t go back if you can help it. Save it for draft three…cause there will be a draft three.
Kill your darlings. Please.
I’m pretty sure this is the state of my house after my mind melts from these edits.
‘Unhinged’ is an understatement.
I remember running to my parents' house, hugging my dad and crying when I finished my first draft, and then feeling like this the very next day.
Sometimes it’s both right and easy to shut off the computer and walk away for a bit.
The Universal Writer
Here’s a great collection of writers expressing being writers by making memes rather than writing, cause that’s pretty accurate.
See, told you.
Listen, sometimes stereotypes exist for a reason. That reason is ‘writer’.
Both. It’s both.
We’ll do anything but the thing we claim to be.
I don’t get embarrassed often, but there is something about someone asking about your book. You know they don’t know what they are asking. You know they are not ready for it. And yet you cannot control the animated word vomit that comes out of you at 70 miles per hour until you see their face. Then you shrink into yourself realizing what you have just done.
It certainly doesn’t help when we word vomit our novel when we’re otherwise painfully introverted creatures.
No amount of embarrassment can take away the glee I feel when I set up a clever plot twist.
The yellow is me when I feel my brain melt staring at the same sentence for 15 minutes. It’s the best description I’ve seen yet.
I actually laughed out loud at this one. Writers have the best and sometimes darkest humor.
And to the lovely fanfic writers, I wouldn’t leave you out! Has anyone experienced this? I’d love to know.
I’ll leave you with this warning. If you hear faint sounds in the dead of night, a choir of chanting so low you convince yourself it’s not real, just remember your writer friend and make sure they are okay.
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