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Exactly how I feel when I get in The Zone™
I am being so WRITER rn I am using WORDS to put little CHARACTERS into SCENARIOS and makin some PLOTS and then I'm stirring it all up and I'm creating ENTIRE FICTIONAL WORLDS and I am such a writer yeah
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sometimes projecting onto your characters is serious business. sometimes it's me 🤝my OC being incapable of slicing bread neatly.
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They'll find so much more about their world. They will find the little details I daydreamed into their universe to satisfy their curiosity and if they run out, I can always make more.
Or that's what some of them will do. The others will probably screw things up enough to kickstart a new story (maybe screw with the very forces that run the universe and have a few scuffles with the law here and there. Maybe go on a few power trips idk) they'll die cackling I will laugh with them as I create the new generation of projections heroes.
Imagine your oc growing old with their loved ones. There's no question on this post I just get a little emotional thinking about it. You can ramble about this in the tags or rbs if you want, just imagine your oc and their loved ones in the far future and where they've gotten by then
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I don't usually write fanfic but yeah. Accurate.
when fanfic authors say that they don’t decide what happens in the story that the characters make the decisions i imagine it like this:
writer: *sitting down* type type type type *squinting at the screen* type type type
writer: *gasp* WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT…… type type type
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I usually put a rug over it and wait for someone to fall in, then make up a bs reason and pretend it was my grand plan all along
Been seeing a lot of plothole negativity, so here are a few fun things to do with plotholes:
Bury your insecurities there
Store ideas in it. It's cold and will perserve them well
Dig. Dig until you reach hell and the make a deal with the devil to have the most flawless plotlines in the history or mankind
Plotholes get lonely on their own. Make more! Make a colony! Leave them to their own devices for 10+ year until they develop sentience and try to rebel against their creator!
Hide a body. Nobody'll go looking there
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Wowie wow
empty city and abandoned mall (BGs I painted for We Lost Our Human)
thanks to layout artists Robin Thompson & Hena Hong for designing these! AD: Chris Garbutt & Elaine Wu
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Smae
ANOTHER NEW WIP IDEA? it's more likely than you think
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Haha
I do that
The dichotomy of writing.
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This was really usefull!!!! Thank you so much!
writing realistic dialogue
I try not to give out writing advice unless it’s advice I haven’t seen anybody give out before. I haven’t seen anybody give out this advice before.
1) Figure out your characters’ point of focus. This is a term that I think I made up, but it’s very useful to me, and something I do with all my dialogue. I think it does much more to differentiate character voices than dialect, catchphrases, et cetera, will ever do. Basically: a character’s point of focus is the thing they are most focused on. This does not change from scene to scene, rather, it’s a part of their personality.
For instance, I approach things focusing mostly on analyzing the emotional, philosophical, or moral element of the thing–even if that’s not really the main point of the thing. It’s something that, if you know me, you’ll probably pick up on from me–I’m not the type of person you want to talk finance or investments with, because I don’t approach anything at that level. If you tried to talk finance with me, I’d start talking about the moral issues I have with our financial system.
You see? A point of focus is the lens that your character views the world through, and that means it’s the way they approach situations and subjects–and it’s going to show in the way they talk to other people. If you know your character well enough, you probably have an idea of what their point of focus is. Let that shine through in their dialogue. Doing this intentionally will really help your characters have unique voices and distinct personalities, and your dialogue will be a lot better for it. (I find that personality tests are very useful in this regard.)
2) Write your characters as if they have a train of thought. I think this is something that some writers avoid because they’ve been told to “trim the fat” off of their dialogue and only include the “important bits.” This is true, in that you don’t want your characters to have a whole scene talking about the weather if the weather doesn’t matter to your story. But at the same time, you don’t want your characters to sound as if they’ve rehearsed what they’re going to say ahead of time, unless if they literally have in-universe.
Some writers try to show this through lots of pauses and “uh, um,” which… is fine, but isn’t the most realistic. I find that the most useful tool for writing characters as if they have a train of thought is to let them backtrack, and often. You can do it in the middle of a sentence:
“She wasn’t trying to–I mean, I don’t think she wanted to overpower me.”
Or you can do it over the course of the conversation:
“She wasn’t trying to overpower me,” he said.
She gave him a disbelieving look. “Well, she definitely looked like she was.”
“I don’t think she was trying to overpower me,” he corrected. “I mean, she didn’t seem like she wanted to. She seemed like she was holding back, kind of.”
You can draw it out longer than that, but there’s a short example for the sake of keeping this post fairly short.
Think of writing a train of thought as an opportunity to show more of your character’s point of focus/personality. By letting less-edited thoughts of theirs slip out, and showing how your characters edit their words to communicate better with someone else, you let your reader peek behind the curtain just a tiny bit into your character’s thought process–which can tell us quite a lot.
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:D
socially inept smartass x charismatic dumbass
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i have thought a lot about censorship and what is “appropriate”. not a lot of people know this, but lolita was written to show what we allow on our bookshelves: there being no swear words in it meant it was free from censorship. a book about child molestation was allowed because it didn’t explicitly use the word “fuck”. he wrote it to show we don’t really care about protecting children, and it ended up being seen as a romance.
someone once told me - actually, many people have - that lgbt content isn’t appropriate for children. any content. not just kissing. i’m drowned in questions: “won’t the parents have to explain it?” “kids shouldn’t be thinking about sex at this age, or do you think differently?” “what will the kids think?”
at six i saw disney movies. people kiss and get married. i didn’t ask “what does that mean.” i didn’t ask “are those people going to have sex?” i didn’t ask anything, because i was six, and no six year old thinks twice about these things. nobody ever “explained” being straight to me, it was a fact, and it existed, and i was fine with that. why would being gay require a thesis, i wonder.
someone once told me that the one of the reasons people hate lgbt individuals is because they can’t see us as anything but sexual. we’re not people, so much as sinners. that they don’t see love, they see sex. just sex. it’s perversion, not a matter of the heart. only of the body.
i think i was in my early twenties before i saw someone like me.
how old were you, though, before you saw violence? before you saw sexual assault on tv? i think something like that is only pg-13, and if it’s implied, they can get away with anything. i remember watching things and learning about blood, but knowing sex - sex was what was really wrong. sex was always rated r. sex was always kind of a bad word. i was told a lot that i wasn’t ready.
i had a dream last night that i made a site where people could ask any question they wanted about sex and get answered by a professional. it was shut down in moments because 15 year olds wanted to know if it should hurt, if “double-bagging” was a real thing, if this, if that. we shudder. don’t let the children know about that!
but at thirteen i had seen enough violence it no longer struck me. i couldn’t say “fuck” but i knew that if you break your femur, you can bleed out internally in under half an hour. in school i wasn’t allowed to write about loving girls because what would the administration think - but i could write about wanting to kill myself and people would say how lovely, how blistering.
i have thought a lot about censorship. sometimes people on this site try it with me: don’t write this, don’t be so nasty. some of it is intrinsic. we know as people with a uterus not to complain about “that time of the month”, we know better than to talk about sexual assault (how shameful), we know that talking about a vagina is somehow scandalous. i can say “dick” and nobody questions me. some people only refer to the bottom half of me by “pussy”. they won’t wrap a mouth around “vagina” like it’s poison to them. even discussing this, that the language halts, that there’s an intrinsic desire to say “girls” instead of “women” - feels naughty, illicit. not for children.
the other day someone suggested i make my blog 18+. i said, okay, it deals a lot with depression and other problems that might be for a mature audience. oh no, they said, that’s not it, i think that’s helpful. i said, okay. so what is it then. well, you’re gay. you write about loving women. and i said, i don’t write about sex often and they said. it’s not about the sex. but wlw isn’t for a general audience. teenagers aren’t ready.
oh.
lolita is recommended for high school and up. i think about that a lot. i know girls who love it, who say it speaks to them on a deep level. it’s beautiful prose, after all. that was the whole point of the novel. something that looked like a rose but was intrinsically awful. i think about how if i was a model they’d want me to look young, thin, prepubescent. how my body would be sold and how through the mall i walk by images of barely-clothed women while mothers cannot breastfeed in public without fear of retribution.
i think about how i can write a novel about violence and it will be pg-13 but if my characters say “fuck” twice it’s inappropriate. i said fuck three times so far in this post, which makes it only appropriate for adults.
i think about that, and how my identity is something that people suggest lines up with a swear word. that people shouldn’t talk about it. that it’s a vulgarity. bad for children, harsh, confusing.
fuck. i love women. which one makes this only for those over eighteen.
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Hmmm
ok gamers im so sorry for making u do math but! i think it will be cool!!
look at the current votes! add the individual digits together, then add the individual digits together of that number until you get a single digit number
example -> 3689 votes ->
3 + 6 + 8 + 9 = 26 ->
2 + 6 = 8
idk what this will show but i think it will be neat
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Oui
Please reblog this so that I can get a bigger sample size, but DO NOT include anything in the tags about the results, as that could influence other responses
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After voting, put what you voted in the tags
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Are any of your characters celestial (related to space or the stars)? In what way (powers, magic, space travel, species, they live there, etc.)?
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Yaaaas
My blog is always open for oc sharing (one of its core gimmicks) but honestly there ought to be more places people can go share if they'd like! So!
Reblog if you're down to listen to other people's oc rambles in the inbox :]
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