Questions tagged [psychology-of-writing]

This tag should be used for questions that deal with the psychological aspects of the task of writing something, such as when asking about the feelings you have before, during and after your writing or about the psychological background of getting yourself to work by for example setting goals and treating yourself to for example cookies after you have finished your current writing goal.

This tag should be used for questions that deal with the psychological aspects of the task of writing something, such as when asking about the feelings you have before, during and after your writing or about the psychological background of getting yourself to work by for example setting goals and treating yourself to for example cookies after you have finished your current writing .

Do not use this tag to ask about writing for psychology, such as when writing a psychological guide, or when asking about psychological aspects of your in your writing.

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How do you deal with procrastination when writing?

Most of the time when I get ideas for a story, I first get really excited about it, start writing it immediately and get roughly 1-2K words. Afterwards, it starts to fizzle, the idea, inspiration, and motivation for it dies down. I keep adding it to…
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Procrastination on a Crucial Scene in my Book

I'm in the process of writing a book and through my plans I know I have a fairly crucial, game-changing scene coming up. I can't help but put it off! I don't want to force myself to sit and write it through because quality will suffer. How do I help…
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Does making a young protagonist necessarily mean that it is a children/preteen book?

I don't know why I always like to write things where my MCs are young, and when I say young, I mean from 7 to 14 years old. Maybe it makes it much easier and more comfortable for me to write, especially that English is not my mother tongue. Yet, I…
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Once written down it's set in stone

What's the strange property/disease/habit called in which you need everything you write down to be 'the truth' once it's written down. Even while drafting, resulting in not daring to change past written stuff because you can't change 'the written…
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How can I write like Fyodor Dostoevsky?

I want to write a book like Fyodor Dostoevsky. If you read "Crime and Punishment", you know he does not describe his characters with clothes and appearances, he describes their minds. I don't know how. I'm practicing to learn how to write like him.…
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How can I overcome that paralyzing fear that my writing isn’t good enough

I've written a large section of my book. The questions that keep haunting me are: Is this story unique? Will people like it? I think it's becoming repetitive. Will the characters be loved? And a lot of questions.
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