- Staring into nothingness at 12:52 a.m. in hopes that the darkness will somehow spark your brain to come up with something; the delusions of success always hit hardest past midnight.
- Pouring your heart and soul into a piece that you work on for four hours straight, just to abandon it instantly.
- Finishing your pieces at 11:53 p.m. when it’s due at 11:59 p.m., because everybody knows that the thrill of a deadline does magic to your brain.
- Waking up in the middle of the night to write down the craziest, but best ideas that you’ve ever thought of on a random piece of scratch paper.
- Daydreaming in AP Biology about the most unparalleled plots that you promise to actually write a story about.
- Reading a random book to try to jump-start your imagination. On the plus side, it might make you stop thinking about that one brain-rottingly stupid TV show that annihilated any creativity left in you.
- Drowning in your 37-page-long world-building planner that you started three years ago, full of random, elaborate details that you’ll never end up using.
- Attempting to draw your original characters, getting everything wrong and then scrapping the sketches immediately.
- Book-binging classics and calling upon the spirit of John Donne to assist you with the pile of assignments festering on your desk.
- Playing the most hype music ever to help you lock in (I see you Studio Ghibli instrumentals), but getting too distracted by the insane beats to actually write anything…
