I found this meme on Writers Write’s Facebook page the other day, and it really summed up my writing process:

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Me, right now.

Technically, right now I have an idea for a new short story (that will also be part of the trilogy I want to write some day). But I’m trying to edit my stupid fucking book, and I don’t wanna.

Me, trying to have an idea while writing: Idea?

Brain: Crickets.

Me, trying to edit book: Idea?

Brain: Ooh look at all the shiny new ideas….

Me: But I still need to finish fixing this fucking book, then I have to finish fixing the other fucking book, then I have to finish WRITING the OTHER fucking book….

Brain: Here is another idea that has nothing to do with any of that.

Me: Brain, you’re fired.

Brain: You can’t fire me, neener-neener-neener.

Me: Please can I have something to help me with the task at hand?

Brain: No, but here is another unrelated idea.

Me: NO. FOCUS ON TASK AT HAND.

Brain: It has dystopian sprinkles.

Me: NO.

Brain: But there’s a plague and a nuclear holocaust and an insane president and—

Me: NO.

Brain: But it has that new story smell!

Me: Idea. Make current book better.

Brain: ——-

Me: Fuck you, brain.

V. R. Craft is the author of Stupid Humans, a thought-provoking science fiction book series that asks the question, “What if all the intelligent humans abandoned Earth—and we’re what’s left?”