saltyoaktree:

don’t want to write I want to think very hard about my fic until it emerges from my head fully formed like athena

my writing happens almost like this sometimes

…I don’t recommend it. Those moments when you go into Sudden Inspirational Labor and have to be rushed to a computer or anything with the potential to transmit words from your brain onto a surface, and stay there for 5 to 8 hours, in whatever ergonomically horrendous position you started out in, until you are near passing out from back and shoulder pain and lack of food/ water/ bathroom breaks, until The Story Is Born? that is how I imagine the birth of Athena felt to Zeus