It's not all fun and games folks, as I'm quickly learning the life of a writer is pretty messy.

It's not like we're all just sitting here day by day with these amazing ideas flowing into our heads right when we need them. Rather it's more like days, weeks, sometimes even months go by before we find the inspiration to write again.

Here are some funny while totally legit things that each writer faces.

1. Lack of inspiration... ANYWHERE

But like actually though, the struggle is real. Sometimes we can go days without any inspiration, even if we sit outside we find nothing.

2. People always dissing what you do

People are always questioning you as to why you even write, or what you plan on doing with that, or even worse "when will you write something that actually means something." Like hi, please stop now.

3. Sometimes you even question yourself

But can we just talk about this for a minute? Sometimes you write something really late at night or on little sleep and you go and reread it again and it makes zero sense to you. Yet you submit it anyways and hope you editor doesn't question your sanity because nobody has time or energy to resubmit an article can I get an amen?

4. The Struggle

Midnight snack runs are real, and so are the midnight deadlines.

5. When someone asks you if you're going to publish a book

STOPPPPPPPPP

6. When you actually meet your deadline

I know I'm not the only one that struggles with meeting their deadline. So when it does finally happen we feel amazing, until we realize how close our next deadline is...

7. You have too many Journals

They look pretty, they feel nice and you just can't help yourself from buying yet another one. You have a journal for your thoughts, poetry, church, random things you think about, even your journals have journals (okay that's not true but you get the point) At this point if we were to save all that money from buying journals we could probably afford a real meal.

8. What it's like applying for a job

You take the time to think through everything you will say and redo it multiple times practicing and overthinking the whole thing. Oh, and filling out an application is even worse because you're a writer so you can't just write it and be done you have to overlook it and edit it. But in reality, all you really want to say is this Greys anatomy quote because I mean it worked for Meredith right

9. What getting inspiration actually feels like

It's like your brain actually decides to work and then you just can't seem to get the ideas down on paper fast enough.

10. But at least we have one good thing going for us:

We can write some pretty great letters and notes. Like actually though, we try really hard to write those for the people we care about most and tend to rewrite and edit them many times. So if you get one, it's actually a big deal. #blessed