AHopelessNecromantic
Congratulations to the Wattys winners! Excited to read your books.
AHopelessNecromantic
JamieSweet_1
Thanks for following! I hope you enjoy reading my novel DARK HUMAN!
Lad-Highgun-0
Lost all motivation what you guys do when you should be writing but all you do is mess around?
AHopelessNecromantic
@Lad-Highgun-0 I get it! Staying motivated to write can be a challenge. I don't think any one trick works for every writer, but I have some suggestions. Firstly, take a break! Go for a walk. Grab a coffee. Put the work aside for a little while and just let yourself rest. Sometimes the lack of motivation is just burnout in disguise. Second, remind yourself why you write. Reread your work, even. The answer, for a lot of us, is that we enjoy it. Remind yourself that this is supposed to be a enjoyable hobby. If it's not maybe rethink why you're writing or if the piece you're working on is the one you really want to be working on right now. Lastly, force it. I know, that's not a very romanticized view of writing. But if you want to form a good habit, you have to make yourself do it on the regular. In my deepest slumps I force myself to write for at least ten minutes a day. Even if what I'm writing is pure garbage. But I can't let myself break the habit and write nothing. And just ten minutes? That's not so bad. I can do ten minutes. Sometimes, that's it. As soon as my minutes are up, I'm done. I can't force myself to type another word. Most days, though, I wind up going 'oh yeah, this IS fun' and those ten minutes turn into many more. Hope this helps!
EvangelineNott
Thank you so much for the follow! \(^-^)/
AHopelessNecromantic
Cheers to all those who made the Watty's shortlist!
therealkayelle
Hey thanks for following me! ❤️ Have a great week!
AHopelessNecromantic
Just when I was starting to wonder "huh when will the Watty's awards be announced," Wattpad delivers. Guidelines for the 2024 Watty's were posted today. Who's submitting this year?
Lad-Highgun-0
@AHopelessNecromantic nothing for me too many words, I do one chapter and I'm dead to the world
AHopelessNecromantic
I've missed a lot.
I have been away from Wattpad quite a bit lately. On top of a lot of personal challenges (got stupidly ill while on a business trip, a relative passed, etc.), I got some dissappointing writing news a couple months ago (tl;dr: a potential publication got axed) and have honestly been in a deep trench of writer's block since. I know rejection is an all too common part of the process, but it still stung. So I am trying real dang hard to claw my way up and out of the trench.
A big thanks to everyone who has been reading my books lately. For both the first and second (or third? or fourth?) times!
On top of all the other nonsense the universe has thrown my way lately, I have realized that my Wattpad app is a bit screwy. I'm not receiving any push notifications and no matter what I do to my settings or how many times I uninstall/reinstall, nothing fixes it. Shrug. So, sincere apologies for all the comments or likes or follows I may have missed in the past few months! I'll do my best to catch up. I really do appreciate every one of you!
MacaronUnicron
Thanks for sharing your struggles I def relate rn <33 u got this and just give yourself a break. You’re amazing and like my favorite writer
AHopelessNecromantic
Happy Valentine's Day, my darlings! What better a day to revisit the second chapter in Greg and Isla's story: Doubull Indemnity.
It's Valentine's Day in Philadelphia, and our favorite former criminal necromancer turned (kind of? Sort of?) Private Eye-la refuses to spend it alone.
When a certain workaholic vampire (kind of boss? Sort of fling?) simply won't take the hint, Isla resorts to drastic measures.
Calling her horny ex.
The "Bites Twice" Mysteries
This book contains mature sexual content.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/329566162
AHopelessNecromantic
@Another_Blurryface To each their own! It's been fun seeing everyone's choices compared to my own.
AHopelessNecromantic
Alrighty, Tumblr seems to be having fun with this poll so I'll post it here too.
For my fellow writers, misfortune has befallen you and you must choose! Would you rather...
1. be forced to write every 1st draft by hand
2. forever lose ideas if you don't jot them down within 5 minutes of thinking of them
3. totally lose a completed first draft of a manuscript in a saving error
4. have your parents read and offer genuine critique to everything you write
5. type exactly 4 words per minute; this doesn't include thinking time, you're typing speed is 4 word per minute regardless of how inspired/not inspired you are
6. always be interrupted midway through an inspiring blast of productivity
7. have a more popular writer publish a story with a similar premise to yours 1st
8. be unable to use "said/says" anywhere in your work
MissLollyGag
2. Because that’s me already. I have my mobile notes open all the time with countless ideas, which otherwise would have been forgotten.
Another_Blurryface
@AHopelessNecromantic Being interrupted in the middle of a productive streak really sets me back, and it's quite difficult for me to find that productiveness again after that. And I used to write everything by hand, but it starts making my hands ache and I get a sore spot on my finger from the pen.