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the book I can't finish
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"pathetic" is almost the hottest thing a man can be, second only to "in pain"
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"Glimpsing at the seabed through the water and the complexity of the light within, at a soothing southern sea." By Shigeko Inoue (2002).
Born in 1945, Inoue studied traditional Japanese and Italian woodblock printing. Her work focuses on nature, transparency and the movement of water.
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The birth of Snake Venus
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I've been making progress on my story since I began writing in earnest last year, but it still feels like I've barely touched the surface of where things need to go. Only about 11 days have passed in the world. A lot of my time has been spent rethinking and rewriting.
It's been almost exactly a year since I started thinking about the plot again. People keep asking me how much I've written. How many chapters? Is it like a book length by now? I have been saying that it's definitely not book length yet. But actually, I had no idea how it compared to a book. So I googled how long a novel is and it said roughly 80,000-100,000 words, and that over 110,000 words is considered very long for a novel.
Friends, I have written 81,336 words.
I am both surprised, impressed, and dismayed. I have only 20,000 words left before it verges on "too long"? What will I do with them?
I had already begun to understand that there was a second book that would follow this one, but I didn't realize how close I was to it.
2023 was not a good year for me at work or personally in a lot of ways. But I did this, at least.
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#I've never been called out so fucking hard in my life#this is precisely it and i guess it's more universal than i thought#world building#creative writing#memes
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Resources For Writing Sketchy Topics
Medicine
A Study In Physical Injury
Comas
Medical Facts And Tips For Your Writing Needs
Broken Bones
Burns
Unconsciousness & Head Trauma
Blood Loss
Stab Wounds
Pain & Shock
All About Mechanical Injuries (Injuries Caused By Violence)
Writing Specific Characters
Portraying a kleptomaniac.
Playing a character with cancer.
How to portray a power driven character.
Playing the manipulative character.
Portraying a character with borderline personality disorder.
Playing a character with Orthorexia Nervosa.
Writing a character who lost someone important.
Playing the bullies.
Portraying the drug dealer.
Playing a rebellious character.
How to portray a sociopath.
How to write characters with PTSD.
Playing characters with memory loss.
Playing a pyromaniac.
How to write a mute character.
How to write a character with an OCD.
How to play a stoner.
Playing a character with an eating disorder.
Portraying a character who is anti-social.
Portraying a character who is depressed.
How to portray someone with dyslexia.
How to portray a character with bipolar disorder.
Portraying a character with severe depression.
How to play a serial killer.
Writing insane characters.
Playing a character under the influence of marijuana.
Tips on writing a drug addict.
How to write a character with HPD.
Writing a character with Nymphomania.
Writing a character with schizophrenia.
Writing a character with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Writing a character with depression.
Writing a character who suffers from night terrors.
Writing a character with paranoid personality disorder.
How to play a victim of rape.
How to play a mentally ill/insane character.
Writing a character who self-harms.
Writing a character who is high on amphetamines.
How to play the stalker.
How to portray a character high on cocaine.
Playing a character with ADHD.
How to play a sexual assault victim.
Writing a compulsive gambler.
Playing a character who is faking a disorder.
Playing a prisoner.
Portraying an emotionally detached character.
How to play a character with social anxiety.
Portraying a character who is high.
Portraying characters who have secrets.
Portraying a recovering alcoholic.
Portraying a sex addict.
How to play someone creepy.
Portraying sexually/emotionally abused characters.
Playing a character under the influence of drugs.
Playing a character who struggles with Bulimia.
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Here’s an invaluable writing resource for you.
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I've been world building by making a few specific choices and letting the strict implications of those ripple out through the story.
I just realized that one of my choices probably means that somewhere in my world there are sentient rocks.
I really don't like this, not least of all because Discworld already did this better and more humorously than I ever could.
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I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person
#Tumblr culture#q#exactly#sometimes I'll get a hint that someone i started following sucks because my recommended posts get terfy all of a sudden and then i go check
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Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel
Here are ten questions to ask that will not put your friend in a tough spot, but will still give you some useful input on your novel:
1. At what point did you feel like “Ah, now the story has really begun!”
2. What were the points where you found yourself skimming?
3. Which setting in the book was clearest to you as you were reading it? Which do you remember the best?
4. Which character would you most like to meet and get to know?
5. What was the most suspenseful moment in the book?
6. If you had to pick one character to get rid of, who would you axe?
7. Was there a situation in the novel that reminded you of something in your own life?
8. Where did you stop reading, the first time you cracked open the manuscript? (Can show you where your first dull part is, and help you fix your pacing.)
9. What was the last book you read, before this? And what did you think of it? (This can put their comments in context in surprising ways, when you find out what their general interests are. It might surprise you.)
10. Finish this sentence: “I kept reading because…”
Your friend is probably still going to tell you, “It was good!” However, if you can ask any specific questions, and read between the lines, you can still get some helpful information out of even the most well-meaning reader.
Source: Examiner
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I'm worried that it's going to be so obvious that I went on a hyperfocus rabbit hole for every topic in this story. It's going to be like Melville's 30 pages of whale oil descriptions but for the saddle gaits of specific horse breeds that are completely unnecessary to include in the description of how my characters get from one place to another.
I have to hope that it will provide a little delight for the nerds when I include a silly detail from their special interest. Assuming I don't just get it wildly wrong.
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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...
Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?
Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?
Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?
Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?
Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?
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I started this story when I was in middle school, and for the next ten years I kept rewriting the same handful of scenes as I got older and became dissatisfied with the characters, the plot, the setting.
I went to college, did creative writing classes. Produced poetry and short stories. Rewrote the handful of scenes again. Learned that I knew nothing about the craft and maybe wasn't very good at it. Chose a different career path. Went years without writing a single creative thing.
And now in my thirties, these characters suddenly began inhabiting my thoughts again. It's like they've been with me this whole time, and I owe them something.
I wrote yet another draft of the same scenes, and had to reinvent a world to make my handful of middle school ideas actually work. I started a new document just for my notes on the setting and the background. It became longer than the extant story. I don't actually know how to organize any of this. There's so much research needed.
I revised the scenes again and again, my ideas to patch plot holes forcing changes to other parts of the narrative, other parts of the history.
I couldn't get my characters out of the setting they've been in since I abandoned the original story narrative at age thirteen or so. They've been stuck there for twenty years having the same conversation because I didn't know where they would go next.
It's been almost a year since I picked up this story again, but last night I finally got them out. They're moving, and I have a goal for them.
I needed someone to know.
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