@TimClarePoet I love the guinea pig analogy! Especially as someone with 8 Guinea pigs.
When Piggies wheek for snacks, it's exactly like that writing idea that won't go away until you write it down.
Hope the story writing gets easier for you soon :)
I see other authors putting together stories piece by piece, just diligently over time, & I regret not checking in with my story brain each day. Creativity is like a guinea pig. It dies unless you feed it. You can't just leave it in its hutch until you decide you want it.
I have very mixed feelings about people proudly telling the story of how they wrote their novel by getting up 3 hrs early every day before their shitty job for a year, or during the commute every morning, or every evening once the kids were asleep. It normalises hellish overwork.
This is Sisu. He kept breaking into a dollar general to steal this purple unicorn. He tried so often they had to lock the doors and call animal control. Before the responding officer took him to the shelter, she bought it for him. Now he, and the unicorn, have been adopted. 14/10
Bees had been living in this backyard shed for over two years. The landlord wanted to call an exterminator, but the family who lived here wanted to save the bees so they called me! #savethebees
@HelenMcClory Aargh! It's so hard to pick only 1! I'm currently reading The Once and Future Witches by @AlixEHarrow. The vivid characters and the raw magic of witching are blowing me away and I'm not yet halfway through!