#this is like a really really rough draft of an idea I just vomited out of my brain when I got home
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Greetings fella, I have way too many ideas and since I love your writing I'll drop some over time. Can I request an s/o with calloused and rough hands with some of the hsr ladies maybe Kafka, Stelle and Serval ? I don't know if you do Asta too, there isn't enough love for her she is so witty and sweet 😞
Hsr ladies with a s/o who has rough hands?? Count me in babes🫡
This is basically a word vomit i did while speed running through my projects🤭
Kafka x reader
Stelle x reader
Asta x reader
✨ fluff, established relationships, women❤️, cuteness, reader is a fighter in Stelle's, and Asta's.
Kafka
(your a violinist in this.)(no questions asked. Shush.)
Kafka doesn't really mind it cause she has calloused hands too since she wields a katana (probably?) And she loves that your hands are calloused and rough because you play the violin. Shows how much of a hardworking person you are.
Also loves it when you play for her. As a certified violin enjoyer, Kafka would definitely ask you to play her a a song and would praise you for how well you play.
Holds your hands ALL the time. Clingiest women in the whole of HSR fr.
Will unconsciously play with your hands or hair while talking to you or doing other things. She just loves touching you all the time. Overall she's a touchy women so let her touch you (😏)
Stelle
Stelle calls you and her as the "Power couple of the century" (self proclaimed)
This women is just absolutely, shamelessly, indefinitely in love with you (let me be delulu for a while pls) and so she loves every part of you which includes your hands too. As a fighter herself she too has calloused hands, and in her words, having rough hands shows how strong you are! Maybe it was her way of saying she loves your hands.
Will hold your hands all the time too(like mother like daughter) clingy women no.2 also shows off to everyone that your her lover. You don't see the point but oh well. Just let her go crazy(as if she wasn't already ❤️) the type of girl to boast about her lover and tell how great and nice they are .
Also loves how strong you are. Kinda relieved to know that you can keep yourself safe, but that won't stop her from protecting you.
Asta
This girlfailure probably doesn't even notice! But ofc you don't care. But really she does know how rough your hands are but just doesn't ask cause she knows it's normal for someone who fights
She's quite busy too so less time with you. The most time you spend together are in the mornings and night or when she has a break. It's sad but it's fineee you know how much she loves you.
Will also hold your hands when you're out on a date(which is rare af) and most of your dates consist of going to the museum or an aquarium!(you'd have to scold and stop her cuz she ends up spending too much money.)
On days you feel insecure of your hands or body, she'll always be right next to you. She'll say something cheesy like" this shows how strong you are, and how much you've practiced and improved in fighting love" with a geeky smile and a flushed face(such a girlfailure fr. I love her) Will try to take you clothes shopping but then again she bought you clothes just a few days ago. And a few days before that. And a few more days before that. And- well you get the point she spoils you rotten and doesn't even realise that she's spoiling you. Sugar mommy (unintentionally)
Only wrote for three cause now I'm just tryna speedrun through my drafts cause I'm busy for the next two weeks. But ANYWAYS women + boobies=happiness (this is exactly why I'm single 😔)
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Shattered Realities Prt.1 (Hobie brown/P!Reader)
ALSO THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT SINCE IVE NEVER WRITTEN LIKE THIS BEFORE.
What happens if someone from our universe where no superheroes exist, falls into the society of superheroes
"She isn't glitching"
She doesn't remember falling until she feels her stomach flip, her eyes flying open with the multitude of colors that blind her vision as she catapulted.
She also dosent remember screaming but she most definitely was.
"Holy shit-" Her arms are flailed and bent in all types of positions trying to possibly slow her descent as she hits the hard pavement.
It doesn't.
She thinks something pops but pays no mind to it because of the crowd forming around her.
Multiple people in a familiar red jumpsuit surround her vision.
She slowly gets up despite the pain in her left shoulder to examine everything around her.
Before she even tries to run away someone shoots something that reminded her of a tazer she saw in a minions movie once, but without the electric shock part, causing her to fall before her hands were stuck together making her fall on her face.
Though the impact alone didn't hurt her elbow sent a jolt of pain across her entire body making her scream in pain.
"Who is she?" One says on a horse.
Oh my god was she on drugs?
"Is she another Spiderman?" Another who looks almost the same as the other's outfit but blue says.
No way she can't be on drugs.
"Why is she here dressed all normal" A talking Lego says.
So many questions were asked before someone pulled her upright by a strong person, he kind of looked like a bear.
She considers the idea of her being on LSD at this very moment.
A really buff one in fact.
Who was also wearing a skin-tight suit?
He summons, well calls some robots to do a scan on her which sends a little shiver down her body.
The machine speaks "Foreign entity, no universe"
This sends the crowd of people into a frenzy, are they people? Probably some weird nerds.
Why are so many lights?
The strong angry teddy looing man manages to calm everyone.
"Who are you?" He says not even introducing himself, what a rude bear she thinks to herself.
So many red people.
Her eyes hurt.
Her shoulder hurts.
She wants to vomit.
Her head lolls to the back, something he recognized making his heart almost drop before going back to interrogation mode "Kid answer- Hey, hey hey don't just fall!"
She vomits and passes out.
-
".............We can't find out where she's from"
"............Maybe your system is bugged"
"............Maybe your brain is bugged"
Then the door closes when she hears someone complain about them being too loud and hears whoever that was talking stomp out.
She groans waking up, throwing off the blanket that was kindly placed on her, and stretches her arm - was it fixed? "Can you guys keep it down, my head hurts"
"You're awake" The one with The hijabi says, coming toward her "How did you get here?"
"I just fell?"
"Fell?" The girl in twin buns said before retracting her words "I'm Byte by the way, but is that all you remember before you fell? Like can you at least tell us your name so we can narrow down your location?"
"Yeah, it's..." Her heart drops.
Her brain is swirling on itself.
"My name is..."
The two share a look that makes her play with her hair nervously, trying to figure out what was happening.
Her body feels empty all of a sudden.
Sun-spider who has entered the room for nothing other than snooping coughs (who has not introduced herself by name) to try to break whatever nervous silence that was forming "As much as I love suspense, please tell us. I gotta get the ice cream machine working again"
She tries again, this time she's clawing her hair to grasp on anything - but every time she seems to get closer to anything, the memory falls into itself.
A nervous smile exits her lips.
It seems like the static in her head becomes louder and louder.
"I don't know..."
Byte raises a brow in concern, checking her head for injuries while questioning her "What do you mean you don't know?"
"I just can't, I don't remember anything" She says, all of the uncomfortable aura leaving her in an instant like a reset button.
Essentially returning her back to her ditsy self.
But Byte isn't convinced
"Are you sure?" She says moving closer to her and turning on another device to scan her heartbeat in case she was lying.
"Yup" The girl replies her bright mood suddenly lifted, which the others found odd, but she spins her head around "Where is the scary guy?"
"Why are you asking?" Byte says
"Just so I can avoid him, he scares me"
Byte chuckles and turns off her device, grabs the other girl, and shakes her head.
"He uh...A little rough on the edges"
The girl nods suddenly like she gets it "Like a cool brooding backstory?"
"Brooding?"
"Ah you know like usually that's what you describe an angry old person with a backstory that made them all like lonely and sad when originally they were a happy and nice person"
Malala nods trying to understand the girl, but also invested in anything about that is about Miguel.
"I haven't read a book in ages so it's like a character thing" Byte tries.
"Yeah! It's like that..."
"What's wrong?"
"Just remembering something, I used to write fanfiction"
Malala claps her hands seemingly finding it amusing as Byte signals the girl to continue "And?"
The anomaly girl looks slightly confused, what else was she supposed to say? "And that's all"
"That's all you remembered?"
"Yup, I used to write stuff like ship stuff that was a little canon divergent I think? I don't remember-"
Malala jumps onto the girl "Dont say that out loud again"
The girl looks at her and Byte whose expression was similarly as frightened as the Hijabi.
"But it-"
"Remember big Bear man?" The girl nods and lets Byte continue "Well he is rather....what's the word"
Malala awkwardly twidles with her headscarf "...Sensitive"
Byte nods "Yup that word, he's already worked up about you being here. I don't think he is getting much sleep so we need to just ban that word"
"Yup, banzo it" Malala adlibs on top of the girl.
Byte feels a lightbulb appear on her head "Why not we just talk about hobbies to try to get you to remember stuff about yourself so we can narrow your universe's location now?"
The anomaly girl gasps "You want to talk about my hobbies? Wow " She stays silent for a moment before saying "Wait universe?"
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Somehow they've only found three things after three hours.
"So we narrowed down your universe with the little information you gave us about...Whale calling noises and the Lorax musical with the deleted song biggering"
"Hey, the noises whales make are cool and doesn't every universe have a deleted Lorax song?"
"Well, a couple but most of them use 'Biggering' in the musical number"
"But that's like the best song ever. Does my universe just suck?"
"Maybe" Byte shakes her head "We're getting sidetracked, is there anything else you remember?"
"Nope. Anyways, back to the Lorax-"
Miguel cusses something inaudible in Spanish when he overhears the conversation and calls Lylla "Did you do a scan on her yet?"
"Already did" He groans and signals her to continue "She showed no signs of memory loss or even anything developing like dementia"
He looks back at the scene, of the glitch he likes to call rambling to Byte about the amazing soundtrack that is 'Biggering'
"Lylla scan possible universes with minimal to no superheroes"
"Gotcha"
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Jessica comes back from a mission thinking she can just report to Miguel that her mission went smoothly and go home, she always thinks that "You're telling me you just want to drop the girl to a random universe?"
"Ideally, no. But we need to then yes" He said, catching her up on the situation that happened while she was out.
She watches Miguel pace back and forth "Won't that affect the canon?"
"From the information I gathered from Malala and Byte who are getting along with her just fine. She says that Spiderman is fiction where she's from, from what she remembers at least. There were many but with her knowledge of her musical we managed to narrow down surprisingly three potential universes"
Jess nods at this information and watches the security footage to analyze how she got here in the first place until she notices something abnormal and zooms into the anomaly girl and rewinds the video.
She calls for Miguel and replays the footage, which he replies with "Dont bother I've rewatched that footage and analyzed all the portals"
"Please tell me you at least noticed this"
"Notice what?" Miguel has not had time to take an actual look in the mirror for a couple days due to a new anomaly from earth-1048, a video game anomaly, nothing new, but another headache.
Jess zooms into the anomaly girl for the rest of the footage "She isn't wearing a wrist band"
His eyes widen, she's right.
Since she's arrived here, she has never glitched.
Not even once.
Thats...impossible
"What do we do now" Jess says equally as distraught as him.
Miguel sends a quick text to Byte and gets an immediate reply then looks back at Jess "I don't know either, but Byte is running a few tests on her while she naps with her and I quote 'Enthusiastic consent'. Everyone was so shocked by her being a non-spiderperson and since she never glitched no one noticed"
Miguel takes a very slow exhale to think.
If she wasn't glitching then she can't be an anomaly.
Maybe that was a glitch on its own?
He notices Jessica scanning his face for a response, so he gives her one "Let's just put it to rest for now, since she isn't causing any trouble" He had stayed up monitoring the activity of the universes that involved Spiderman.
She nods her head, seemingly tired out for the day also, before she leaves a question pops up in her mind You said that you narrowed down her universe to three, that's a tight deduction. What musical was it? Hamilton?"
Miguel does not want to say the ridiculous cartoon name but says it anyways "......It was the Lorax"
Jessica almost snorts when she leaves the room leaving him alone.
He might as well get some sleep while he can.
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After he knocks out for a thirteen-hour nap, Miguel looks at the anomaly girl and is reluctant on how to call her while she's converting with Malala and Byte so he just barges in and calls out "Girl"
The three girls turn to him with a confused expression.
"The one that's not Spiderman"
They all make an oh noise.
"Webby tie your shoe lasses you might trip" Says Byte.
"You remember your name?" Miguel is almost hopeful.
She placed her hand on her hip "Uhm no? I just named myself Webby since all of you have web designs on you"
Miguel is hopeless.
Anomaly girl- no Webby says with sass with her hands on her hips after poorly tying her shoe lasses like it's a fact that everyone should know but Miguel certainly does not seem to care enough.
He tosses her an empanada from the cafeteria which she catches, he notes her reflex "Eat something now because we're going"
"Goinsh?" She asks while chewing.
"Yes going" He cringes at her and gives her a tissue to wipe her face, she blows her nose instead "Just eat some motion sickness pills before we go"
Webby rolls her eyes but nods at the tall man as he still intimidated her, so she quickly finishes her food and gets some pills before meeting up with Jessica Drew, who had a small bump on her belly.
It was either bloating or that she was pregnant, Webby didn't want to ask but she thinks it was the after when Jessica held her stomach in a cradling motion.
Webby made sure she mentally remembered every single detail about this place so she could never forget it in her brain.
Jess looks at the girl whose eyes were becoming a little bugged out and red from how much she was forcing the open to take in the view.
"You know you can just take a picture right?"
She finally blinked her eyes in pain "Ouch, I would if I had a phone. It might have fallen when I was uh...Falling through the portal"
"I'll make sure we do a full sweep of the place to find it"
The girl's eyes widen and profusely thanks her hand as they walk "Thank you so much"
"Likewise, we can walk slower, just so you can get a good look at everything"
And that's exactly what they did, Webby is sure to talk about this to her friends (If she can remember them) about this.
Something catches her eyes in the distance, it was a boy whose entire border was changing as if he was made out of scrapbooks, his ears adorned with piercings.
As he played the guitar, every new strum seemed to change his color palate.
Webby couldn't help but stare
Jess also couldn't stop staring, mostly because she was telling him that his guitar was untuned.
He yelled back something about consistency and groaned when Jess told him to show the newbies around saying "I'm doing this because I like to see newbies, not because you told me to"
For a split moment, they both retain eye contact before Jess pulls her aside to go to Bytes lab because they needed to go.
Byte, Malala, and Sun Spider share a hug before Miguel calls for her and opens a portal, coincidently what she can assume emo punk was in the room bringing what she can assume is a newbie.
"Hobie what are you doing here, we're kinda busy" He says tiredly.
The guy who she assumed was Hobie just shrugs "You told me to show 'em newbies around, just gotta grab one on these and this-" They all were staring at him "Just imagine that 'm not here"
Miguel ignores him and offers Webby a hand to grab which she accepts reluctantly and waves goodbye to her short-term friends who waved back.
Once they reach the other universe Miguel readjusts his armband and looks for Webby to find her on the ground.
"Don't tell me you got sick again, I told you to take the medicine-"
But he dosent finish his sentence because Webby was glitching.
He wanted to help her up and call Lylla until she let out an excruciating scream like she's been stung by something and cradled her stomach. The pain was travelling all over her body as if she were electrocuted in the rain.
Webby doesn't know what's happening or what to feel other than the pain that surrounds her, she dosent even realize she isn't in control of her body and is slamming herself on the floornofnthe hard roof.
Miguel rushed to open a portal as her body was quickly becoming translucent.
The same type of translucent he's all too familiar with and grabs her to the portal.
She can't bare to open her eyes, her irises were stinging.
It was a bodily reaction, he wasted no time to grab her.
"That was quick-Oh God" Jess frantically calls for help
Webby thinks breathing slowly stabilizes because her body isn't burning , but not relaxing.
"Get the medic, now" Webby thinks the scary bear yells something.
Her eyes close, and finally, her body stops hurting when a mask is placed over her head as the coloured lights she thinks she sees now dissappear as her consciousness.
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"What exactly happened out there"
"I.." He rubs his temples "Don't know"
Jess looks over to Webbie's vitals as Byte observes them carefully and Malala watches her from a distance.
Jess hasn't known Webbie for a long time but the gas mask on her face irks her so she tries one more time "Miguel, what happened out there"
"She stopped glitching only when we came back but was glitching hard when she got to the other universe, but not like normal" He looks at Jess's shocked face knowing Miguel spoke from experience as he continued his sentence.
"It was like her body was collapsing into herself"
HI AUTHOR HERE, this isn't my first fanfic but I haven't really written in this type of format (Also I'm bilingual so my English might be not epic) so it might be wonkey (I write mostly self-loathing type of things) I might or might now make this whole thing int a mini series of 6 chapters. ALSO I JUST GOT A JOB?! So if I do make it into a miniseries plz be patient because the 10 hour shift is no joke
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I ACCDITENTLY PUT MY NITARA HC OUT OF THE DRAFTS WHAT I DIDNT EVEN FINISHED WRITING 😭😭
dude this is what happens when you have shity internet Dx i know there was a option to edit but before i realize that i deleted the post 🔫 idc anymore i'm gonna write it again
how tf does this app work i'm sorry mutual who reposted my draftJDKS
ANYWAYS MY NITARA DELULU HC LETS GO
tw: death of a character, mentions of vomit
• Remember Kahil? You know the vampire who once was user of the datusha/kriss and bc of it's power he kill most of the Vaeternus, moments later he commits suicide trapping the sword with him?
Well lets put more emotional damage and say this was a relative to Nitara, maybe a brother why not
(i rewatched the Nitara intros and her mother also died damn, that's rough buddy)
they had a really strong bond, so Nitara was broken and devastated by his brother's tragic end, and after a long time of grief, this "revelation" as she would say, came to mind. From this time she tries so hard to save her so no Vaeternus could face the fate of death
And you know, "trying" is a strong word, the coven at this point are kinda tired of her all the time visiting them and bringing her failed ideas
The coven are like: "yeah yeah you know why don't you go and try to take over outworld or something" as a joke just to get rid of her.
And she did go to Outworld so..
• Now, her voice... It's not the best, it's so monotone and she doesnt realize it
But now i can't stop thinking about her with a valley girl accent, the way she would say the word "like" repetitively in one sentence is insane
There were times when Havik just rip of his own ears to not hear her, she talks a lot
She likes to do monologues, i feel like it's normal for Vaeternus to have this... Theatrical way of speaking, that goes on and on
Nitara does not know how to lie, if you dig enough she would accidentally say the truth or let out her plans without knowing
• At first the interactions Nitara has with Rain were harsh but later he starts to understand the big problem that the Vaeternus were living in, so maybe these two will be allies in the future??? Please??
Tho at this point she is trying to persue ppl to help her cause, whether it's from the good guys or the bad guys, and not even god itself wants to make a solution to help the Vaeternus yeah she's fucked
With the fictional dead family i create around her it makes a little bit of sense when she's trying to make Smoke a vampire too, Nitara sees herself since the guy also lost his mom and sister
or instead he sees her brother in Smoke, which is kinda creepy and dark but thats how my girl copes <33 /j
• The Vaeternus have a way to go to Earthrealm from centuries ago, this could mean that the vampires have more noledge of human traditions, slangs and even technology than Outworld does
This can also includes Earthrealm pop culture, influencing the way they dress or act, there could be Vaeternus who moved to Earthrealm permanently, hiding in the shadows
Imagine miss girl tries to make chitchat with Havik, Darrius and Sareena making a Earthrealm references and everyone just look at her like "wtf r u talkin about?"
This is chronically online comunicating with normal people
Nitara finds Earthrealm movies about vampires fascinating by the way of how they portrayed her kind, bc sometimes those movies are so wrong and sometimes they are so accurate its scary
She finds the "familiar" character to be very useful, she will have it in mind and maybe find one of those to help her look for food and other plans
• There was a time when the vaeternus didnt need blood to maintain their survival (idk if it was on Liu Kang or Geras intros) and there was were other things they could have feed on, but little by little vampirism began to be part of their nature that it was impossible to change their ways, condemning their own species.
Trying to get back to a normal diet probably would take another millenia
And if they eat or drink something no blood related i imagine them vomiting A LOT and with a horrible stomach pain, not the best moment for a vampire
• Her eyes glow in the dark
Once Nitara tried to sleep upside down bc she saw it in one of those movies, and she find it so comfortable??? It's kinda embarrasing for her but she keeps sleeping on that position from now on
She's a failure, she's a loser, and i think that's beautiful
Yeah i don't have more to say, also
WWDITS MENTIONED‼️‼️
Yeah that's it bye
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Could I perhaps gift you a very rough draft for a Hazbin Hotel sickfic? (I don't have a fetish for it, but I really like sickfics and I have too much anxiety to post my ideas to my blog a lot of the time, so someone may as well get to enjoy them!)
It'd be a chaos comedy with lots of sweet fluff, with an illness spreading around the Hotel and everyone's powers making it manifest differently (and the fluff would be them all, some of them begrudingly, taking care of one another)
Alastor gets the worst of it (because he's my favorite lol) with a very high fever w/some amusing delirium, deep mucusy coughs and sneezes (leaning in to his deer attributes idk how to best describe it but picture an exhausted deer panting), and vomiting
Sir Pentious is hacking up a lot of very toxic mucus, can't navigate since his since of smell is compromised, and he just cannot seem to get warm enough so he's having to be plied with blankets & hot water bottles (because he's such a drama queen that of course he has to be doted on), but also he's such a "gentleman" that he doesn't want to do anything uncouth in front of a lady so he's trying to hide all of his grosser symptoms until he almost chokes and/or runs into walls multiple times and Vaggie is finally just like "omfg stop" and helps him
Baxter is an unfortunate little snot machine, and borderline refuses to leave one of the restrooms because he just wants to soak in the tub and steam the sickness out with hot showers. At some point he'd probably end up overheating himself and have to get an ice bath.
Husk has tiny little kitten sneezes (which he's embarrassed about, Charlie finds them ADORABLE, which makes him even more embarrassed). He'd end up making hot toddies for everyone
Angel's sneezes shoot webs and he keeps getting stuck to things. I realize it's not accurate to spiders, I just think it would be funny.
Vox (because he's at the hotel now, he left Valentino and moved in, because I said so) and his monitor keeps leaking a black fluid, his body's overheating (as in he starts a few minor fires around the hotel), and his audio system is on the fritz so he keeps making weird "coughing" static and sneeze audio effects that blow out glass
Niffty goes into germaphobia mode and tries to clean even more than normal (causing a few dangerous chemical mixtures in the process) and trying to deny once she does get sick only to be forced to admit defeat when she falls off of a chandelier she was dusting in a dead faint.
Cherri Bomb (because she's also there too) apparently has uncontrollable pyrokinetic powers that illness sets off, she runs a high fever (with delirium, yes it's a favored trope of mine), and keeps blowing things up and setting them on fire when she sneezes, and her coughing results in thick clouds of infectious smoke.
Charlie ends up getting sick from taking care of everyone, but puts off resting and taking meds because she wants to make sure everyone else is ok first. She has to take some kind of insanely potent medicine because of her potential power and the medicine makes her kind of loopy. Angel dust tries to sneak a little bit thinking it's just cough syrup and it makes him start tripping balls.
Vaggie is the only one not to get sick because that way she'd have to be the one to deal with everyone else's crap (maybe constant exposure to angel weaponry provides her with immunity?)
Holy fucking shit I don’t check tumblr for a few days cos I’ve been in the middle of a forest with no service and come back to THIS??
I don’t think the human race can even COMPREHEND what this makes me feel- this is the best damn thing I’ve seen in a LONG time
✨ 1000000000/10 ✨
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Hiii, I really admire your writing and I was wondering: What's your usual drafting process? I have my own, (which i will admit, is somewhat nightmarish) (Seen below (text color has no meaning)) Though I'm wondering how you usually draft your own writings?
How long do you usually spend on a "first draft" as well?
Oh my gosh first off - THANK U?! That’s so nice of you to say omg
Secondly: WOAH. I can’t say anything ‘cus my files are also a mess but that’s also a rly cool layout.
Thirdly: I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’ll do my best to explain
This got away from me. TLDR:
How I usually draft: Breaking down from big to small. Chapter outline to scene outlines to fleshing out scenes etc etc. Big to small.
How Long It takes: For my first draft, if I’m in a good mood/know where I’m going, I can get a chapter’s first draft (think rough ‘they did this and then they argued about this’ between actual writing) done in a couple of 20 minute writing sprints.
4 scenes would equal 80 minutes, done over a period of days. After that I usually spend like, a few weeks to a month editing over and over until I like it.
Now for the long shit. I ramble, I’m so sorry, I am not clear headed and that’s why It takes me so long to Edit/Publish lmao.
TA and BB are the first fics I’ve ever like. Decided that they were going to be Long and that I Really Want To Finish. I used to just write without knowing where I’m going, and that always ends with me abandoning things. So THIS TIME, I tried smth different.
The way I’ve done it so far (that has worked) has been:
Initial idea >
short desc. Of scenes that are driving me to write this in the first place / dialogue ideas i have >
rough bare bones outline start to finish >
Take a story beat template I like/fits and use that to flesh things out >
story beats >
draft scene by scene for chapters >
flesh out the rough scenes >
keep editing until i like it.
That. is the ideal way it would happen. It does not happen that way, lol.
This for an example is my first attempt at TA. Only a few lines of it made it to chapter one/i changed tenses and rewrite the whole thing. I haven't opened this file in a year or two and have moved everything to a new scrivener file since then.
For TA and BB I used Take Off Your Pants by Libbie Hawker for my initial outline.
I had it as a library book at the time and transcribed the outline process for it so I could come back and refer to it later. I’ll link my google docs here for that, (sorry about the shitty mouse drawing), though I do recommend reading the book.
Sorry, Rambling.
For TA and BB, I outlined it using that. TA I left a lot more loose / there are parts I don’t know how it’s going to go chapter by chapter.
For BB, that’s completely outlined, every chapter.
The idea is to go Big > Medium > Small.
After the broad strokes outline, I go to chapter by chapter outline. Bare bones, just a few paragraphs.
Then I break that chapter into scenes.
For that, I’ve used a couple of different things. Usually I make sure to note character goals.
Most Recently I read 5,000 Words Per Hour and then Lifelong Writing Habit, both by Christ Fox. Those were more about habits, but I liked how he broke down the ‘scene summaries’.
For each scene I break down I usually fill this out:
Characters: (who will be here, even if only minor)
Location: (where this happens. I try to keep it to one location per scene)
Major Action: (what happens. This part gets long, it’s where I summarize what happens in the scene)
Goal: (what I want to happen. Either I want info to be given to readers, or I need to move someone from point A to point B)
End: (how the scene ends/where it breaks off for new scene. Where characters are by this point.)
Emotions: (Emotions I want to get across/focus on during writing.)
Then I do a 20 minute Writing Sprint where I just word vomit that scene. I don’t let myself edit or press backspace (HARD!!!) and that’s my Draft 1 for that scene.
Usually that’s about 1k words. I know I’m an overwriter so I can kinda guess how long the scene will be once it’s fleshed out.
It goes from This kinda stuff (spoilers for chapter 6 of TA)
To
This is my draft 1/first ‘serious’ write thru. I’m fine sharing screenshots cus most likely it will end up very different by the time I publish it.
TIME wise? Oh god it really depends. Sometimes I get it down right the first few times. Others…
Oogh.
I have a checklist I try to go through. Once I sort of get what I want down/solid/stop with my cuts, I go thru the list with each pass.
So like Draft 3 could be just fixing dialogue. Draft 4 would be adding ‘show don’t tell’ and reworking sentence structure.
……… i just went to take a screenshot of my ‘final edit’ list and it looks like i wrote. everything out that I do in a far more concise way at some other point. God dang.
Anyway
All that is to say, time wise, it depends!
My goal is to publish once a month. Around the middle of the month. If I’m actively working on something/make myself work on it i could get draft 2 banged out in a few days, and then I spend the next couple weeks picking at it/fixing it.
Other times, I avoid it until I get a sudden rush of inspo and write it out in one day. Again, spend a month editing it/hating it, then do one last rush job edit and post it (even if i think it’s not ‘perfect’ yet) and run away from my computer.
I don’t recommend doing it like this. I’m doing a mix of ‘serious’ writing habits (schedules, deadlines) and ‘i just write for fun’. And it’s. Not great.
I’m sure it’ll get streamlined eventually/the more I write since I’m new to like. Publishing long form stuff. But yeah. Sobs.
SORRY FOR RAMBLING AUGH. I hope this makes sense. As I said I'm not clearheaded/have a loto f brain fog so. yeagh.
I forget to write things down so most of my 'planning; is just floating around in my head until I remember it last second and have to scramble to put it back in/move it around my drafts lol.
#txt#TA#BB#this is really long and got out of hand#just a total ramble so sorry im super tired kaldfjhkasdjkl#i hope this makes sense#bleedingbonemarrow#writing#asks#TA spoilers#Reed#well#reed mention#I call pov chara Reed just cus i like writing that more than 'you' every time
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The more I look into Sparklecare, the more I see it as a failed "social commentary" as it claims itself to be. There's no nuance. All doctors are evil or clueless. I've been reading the preboot in bits to understand how it got here, and I see homophobia a bunch, but no real indication that it feels like vent art or actually says something about the world. So much of this in the reboot is shock horror to trick you into believing what it says is deep and meaningful, a trait from the preboot's use of blood, gore, and vomit. (For the people that will say it: I will read them even if it makes kit uncomfortable. The rough drafts of a media can say a lot about how it developed over time and help understand the mindset of the author. That is why preservation and checking it out is so important.)
The creator (Kittycorn) is currently 23. The comic has a patreon. Everything Sucks is meant to have fifteen volumes. As far as I can tell, volume four is unfinished and kit is already bored of the project by creating AUs for kits self-claimed vent art. Really, the patreon should not have started until it got at least halfway through the first series so it had more to show.
It fails as a social commentary because it will show you ableism- and then do nothing and move on to more ship content. A social commentary needs to do more than go "This happens" and move on to shipping. It needs to show what can be done about it or how it impacts people. The Discworld books are excellent examples of this. Sam Vimes, the chugger of "Respect my wife" juice, in Snuff sees injustice- and does something about it. He doesn't just let people be enslaved and move on to making out with his wife because he recognized slavery existed. That's kind of what this is doing, especially when the ideas of ableism get steamrolled by ship content or just seems to have no lasting impact.
Calling drawn gore safe for kids because there's no porn is actually really gross. Just age gate your comic for fuck's sake. That can actually be traumatizing for some people to see or used for grooming and normalizing gore to kids, which is why gore is considered not safe for work. There's people below TOS ages online and everyone knows that. You're just willingly letting children into your fandom space that has a lot of subjects that are not safe for them. Especially when there is at least one confirmed minor on staff currently. Porn is not the only decider if something is safe for kids or not.
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hello :3c all questions with the number 3 ( :3c ) in them, my good friend mis! :3c
Admittedlty, I started this. I shall accept my punishment with grace (💖).
Disclaimer here that there will be references to nsfw under the cut because I peddle smut. There's also a brief mention of vomit in a snippet I share.
3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic
I write on my phone mainly, and I like to be curled up in a nest of some kind and comfy when I open up my Big Doc of Ideas and start typing. if it gets long enough (~1k words) I move it into its own doc. I reread constantly when I write, and often times I just sit and stare at a sentence until my brain clicks on. It also helps to bounce ideas off friends as I'm working, if I feel my steam running low. Otherwise I get into Da Zone and everything else disappear.
13. What’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?
Ah. Hm. I don't actually know many "common" tips. I find a lot of them not very useful, like "write every day" just leads to burnout. I suppose there's this: sometimes, when you write yourself into a corner and don't know how to continue, go back a little bit further and try a new direction. Still Stuck? When I don't want to write a scene I simply don't and move on. Sometimes you never have to go back. It's fine. It wasn't that important anyway.
23. Best writing advice for other writers?
ARE THE TIPS NOT GOOD ENOUGH? Okay Fine. Write what you want. Write weird shit, write horny shit, write stuff that disgusts and uncomfortablises people. Write the stuff that interests you rather than what you think other people would like. I made a promise to myself when I stepped back into fandom, and that was that I wouldn't be ashamed of anything that I liked anymore, and it's been an absolute blast.
(Coming back up here after a few questions) WAIT- When you don't know what to do, ask yourself, what would be sexiest? and go with that. Never fails.
30. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished?
I'm happy sharing rough drafts. I tend to edit as I go so the top of my docs always end up pretty polished as opposed to the endings... shhh. I don't tend to share much of rough drafts in public, though, some friends get basically the entire thing through screenshots, lol. I can't resist okay! I'm excited about what I'm writing! I can't keep it all inside!
31. Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?
Characters, definitely. Most of my stories are character-driven, and plot tends to happen around them, even aus are usually 'well what if they were brought up in THIS environment?' and whatever happens to them grows around what the consequences of their actions. I'm not very good at longfic and a lot of my fics are oneshot character studies so :Va Not that I'm saying I'm bad at what I do, plot is just not my priority! I Find characters, their relationships, and their personalities more fun to explore! (<- was raised on the Tales Of games)
32. Name three of your favorite fanfic writers.
Fuck, okay. Well it probably doesn't surprise you that I make friends thru fanfic so I have a lot of writer friends and I don't LIKE to pick favs, simply because I don't think of them that way. That would be weird. Additionally, I only really read stuff my friends write nowadays ;w; I'll name the people who I've reached out to over completely losing my shit over their fics instead, in order of meeting them: Elcie/BurningLio, Bee/println0/slothencholy, Mango/MalevolentMango (and here, an honourary mention of Ailem for appearing alongside Mango though I hadn't read any of its fics until after we had become friends).
33. Five years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer?
Sure. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
34. Do you want to be published some day? (yes I swapped 33 and 34 by accident so sue me)
Eeehhhh, as someone who writes mostly erotica I don't reaaaally see any of my stuff being published by any mainstream publishing houses. I certainly WANTED to when I was younger, and it would certainly be cool, but it's not something I am persuing or even have an interest in persuing.
35. What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain?
They gotta be as hot as possible.
36. How do you write kissing scenes?
Okay so disclaimer, I've been writing fanfic for a VERY long time. I was on the internet before I should have been. My parents didn't speak english very well, and stuff like google translate didn't even exist (rather, it did, but it wasn't very good). I was ten, and I asked Google sensei how to write kisses, and the first result took me to a yahoo questions page where the answer was something like, describe how they feel instead of the kiss itself. I then deleted my history because I was not a stupid child. I remember that advice to this day.
37. How do you choose where to end a chapter?
I uh. Write oneshots. I end it where the story ends. Hope this helps :)
38. Would you ever write commissions?
Yes but nothing too long. I've been meaning to open up writing commissions for literal years but I KEEP getting too sick to be able to dedicate the time it deserves to run commissions.
39. Share a snippet from a WIP
Huff okay. This should be shiny and new for even you, Mango.
"Akechi-"
"I'm fine," Akechi grits, spitting more acid onto the ground before he finally straightens and wipes a sleeve over his face. Akira doesn't even try to hide his expression when Akechi deigns to face them again.
He states the fact plainly. "You're not fine."
"Don't try to tell me what I am or not," Akechi sneers in return. He's clutching at his stomach despite his nonchalance, and a grimace clings to the edges of his pissed off expression.
Akira rolls his eyes. There's no point arguing with Akechi on a good day, never mind when he's defensive and scared of being benched.
They don't exactly have a choice to keep Akechi in combat as there are only three of them, and Kasumi is completely new to this kind of palace exploration. He may not be Futaba, but he has the most experience in the Metaverse by far; he's observant, meticulous, and his ability to memorise the attributes of new shadows is impressive. Akechi really had been holding back on them in Sae's Casino, and Akira isn't stupid enough to let that kind of usefulness go to waste.
43. Do you take a sadistic joy in whumping your characters, or are you more the "If you hurt them I would kill everyone and then myself" kind of person?
lmao. do i even need to answer this?
53. How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both?
I'm primarily a writer. I used to read a lot but I have a hard time reading anything nowadays. I need to be doing something or else I'll EXPLODE. KABOOM. No more mis. splat like watermelon.
63. Something you hate to see in smut.
I hate it when the author takes their time to write 'btw this is pure good non fetishistic sex' through the characters. It's ridiculous. I'm here for a good time not to get lectured on what safe sex is. If the reader needs to be told what consent is, I'd argue that they aren't old enough to be reading it.
73. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?
Brother I do not know. I kind of fly by the seat of my pants. Lich Rally Just Vibin.
#YAHOO DONE#malevolentmango#mis-types#also some#mis-takes#postmoogling#tumblr has a bug where the read more moves down a block of text upon clicking edit#cool
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Oh no you're not a piece of shit!! I'm in a writers slump too, it's rough out here. Something I find that has helped me is just writing. No matter how shitty I think it might be. Just kinda word vomit. And I make myself keep in mind that I can go back and rewrite that word vomit of ideas as many times as I want before sharing it. Keep in mind there are professional authors out there who had over 10 different drafts of the same story before they liked it enough to share! You're doing great and I love your work.
Screaming crying throwing up idk but it’s rarely driving me crazy 😭 and it’s one of those things where it’s like “oh it’s my work, I can do what I want” except sometimes I feel like no one will give a shit about this or that and then I kinda don’t wanna write it 🥲 or I’ve been having trouble really streamlining the story the way it’s supposed to progress? Idk lots of sudden issues that I never had a problem with before lol. But I thank you for the support! And I know how frustrating the writers block is so I wish you the best with it too :(
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how the fuck do you infuse so much personality into your doodles. are you pulling a fnaf and putting human souls in them?? if so, could you tell me how to do it?
ok first off, THANK YOU? got me going teehee blink blink face. Didn't expect to have an art question but I'm very glad, it's my first one so I'll answer to the best I can!
When it comes to personality in drawings (assuming your talking about characters), I often like to think about my characters as friends or someone you know. Often times I'm just saying to myself, "OH! Character would definitely react like this or say this!" (like how you would say your friend would do something unique only to them in a silly situation) Stepping into you characters' shoes or viewing them as a buddy can help you apply and do a bunch!
Though I do understand that you can know a ton about a character but still struggle on what to apply to a drawing with them in it!
There are a few things I tend to do and add when it comes to drawings!
First off is expression, putting some extra thought into expressions can really help add more to your character. Especially pushing expression! (Won't go too deep with expression because that's a whole other can of beans)
My silly goofy cat is a real happy and loud guy, so a simple smile won't always cut it! Really pushing that joy and loudness helps add more to him as a character!
Another thing you may have noticed in the drawing is how I added some (very silly looking) arms to the surface he was near! This moves on to the next thing I often do. Body language! (Which could also be seen as, gesture/posing)
Though relatively the same expression (note the eyes size difference makes the first doodle look more aware/awake, that just shows expression can change even with the slightest difference, this was accidental though), the change of the pose adds story to the character. The first drawing comes off as a more plain hello, while the second drawing adds more excitement and characterization to the goofy guy! As we see how he waves his hand quickly with joy while his left foot taps up with energy, most likely meeting up with a friend! All this movement also makes your characters look less stiff and lifeless.
I also like to add my own stylistic ways of movement or little reaction marks, I'm not too sure what to call them exactly tho (what I mean are the extra colored bits around the character below, they dont always need color though).
This is just a nice way to add more flavor to a drawing! And you can always experiment, or mix and match to see what you like.
Another thing I do is try to imagine scenarios or scenes that would work well with what I have in mind. To get to that point I'm often writing it down or doing thumbnails and lil roughs before I actually make my sketches that I post (insider secrets right here!).
(Here's an example of my drafting process with poses and expressions for this ask I did a while ago, yes it is cursed so read at ur own cost❤ )
Another thing would be textures, you often see me switching colors and brushes, even software's as I draw! that's why every doodle feels a little different, which I feel helps give off different ideas and emotions (or laziness who knows).
Some other factors that play into the "personality" of my drawings is the reactions, with cause and effect. Which has actions that make a new reaction for each character (or even object) that is exaggerated. Like someone making a disgusted face to someone vomiting, even a cat knocking a cup over, or a cat getting scared by a glass breaking (this could also just be a continuation of the last statement). Possibly even the IRS coming for you after evading your taxes and you having to jump out the window.
I mainly use this for comics! But you could do this in a single drawing, I like to have a moment kind of frozen in place either after or in the middle of an action (sorta lets your brain imagine the in-betweens). Though when it comes to exaggerating your reactions or causes, it takes some practice and imagination, so don't be discouraged if it takes some trial and error to get the hand of it! Honestly I'm still practicing too.
Other things that help me put some more life into my drawings is well... life itself! lots of interactions, faces, and poses are based on things I've seen in real life, from watching people (while in the bushes).
Though that isn't the only thing! I also use what I see in media, or photos! even some shows and movies, since there are so many good scenes or frames that can be used as great inspiration!
lastly, yes I do put human souls in my drawings, as well as sacrifice some squirrels here and there to my Elmo shrine, but thats not tooo important right?
#geckos gibberish#gecko answers#thank you for the ask!#yes yes i know its long#wow me giving art advice???#hopefully i didnt go too off topic
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13, 30 and 45 for the writer's ask game?? <3
13. Describe your writing process from idea to polished
It always starts with an image. A scene disconnected from almost any context but I can't get it out of my head. In fanfic terms, this typically relates to a question I felt was unanswered in canon, a negative space it left that my brain can't help but fill in. From there, I like to give my ideas a good long marinate. It helps me consider the premise and the characters involved from different angles and add a lot more nuance to it than I would if I forged right ahead.
When I feel like I want to start putting down an idea for real, I take all the notes I made during the fomenting period and wrangle them into rough chronological order. With that done it's usually easy enough to fill in the gaps and create a loose outline. A tighter outline follows, with a rough description of each scene and the information I want to impart in it - knowing full well that a lot of things will change place or be added or subtracted once I'm actually writing and in the character's head.
I do a vomit draft first just to get it all down on paper. There's always issues with the pacing and cadence of the story that I don't see until it's out there. The second draft (written out in full a second time) is typically about fixing that and generally tightening things up, putting my motifs and imagery in place, and honing the character's voice more precisely. If there are any particularly challenging scenes that aren't quite coming together, I'll sometimes give them a third full rewrite if I feel it's necessary. After that I edit the whole thing and pay more attention to details, atmospherics, the showing/telling balance, and how the scene as a whole feels. It's at this point my partner and beta gets to see it; once we've discussed her suggestions and implemented them, I do a final run through to smooth out the phrasing and correct any spelling or grammar errors, and then the dratted thing's finally posted and out of my hands.
30. Favourite idea you haven’t started on yet
The Big One in my FFVII series, which I can't really talk about!
45. How much world building do you do?
A fair bit. I'm currently writing for properties that don't take place in our world, and the canon worldbuilding is generally good with a lot of gaps. In imagining its history it's always a fun question as to where I should bring in parallels to our own world, or just let myself go off the rails, but what I really love is coming up with the details that colour everyday life in a new setting. Music and food and art and pop culture and daily habits can all communicate a lot about the society that spawns them, and without the need for awkward expository tracts.
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Hiii! This is @riddlesia if you don't remember, it's totally understandable. I sometimes forget my food in the middle of making it, and the only reason i would remember it is because my mom would yell at me for leaving a half made sandwich on the counter
First off, you are sort of a teacher to me. You know that one English teacher you'll never forget? Yeah, you're kinda like that to me
And second, if you don't mind fo course, could you give tips on writing multi chaptered long fics??
I am yet to brainstorm it properly, but my main problem is getting started. Like... How do you begin???
hellooOOoo yes ofc i remember you :)
lmao omg me, a teacher.. that’s so sweet, bc i also have an english teacher i’ll never forget, except that he really was one!
okay so i usually plan my multi chapter fics in advance but not very thoroughly. most of the time there’s just one line, trope, scenario or even just a ~vibe~ i have in mind that inspires a whole series. and at first i only know where it starts and where it’ll end. nothing in between lol, that’s the hard part.
i then start word vomiting inside a google doc and just type my thoughts and where everything could lead. i type this very rough first draft exactly as i would say it eg “so first they meet, idk where yet and then theres this guy. his name could be josh. no, maybe jake. anyway, they’re by this tree that can talk (lmao) and then….” and so on. i found this helps me to keep going the most. just stupid rambling.
once the word vomit is out (that’s a very very rough draft of the whole story, could only be one page), i start drafting chapters - also roughly but less word-vomity. just so i get a sense of how many chapters it’ll be in total.
and then i draft the first and second chapter more precisely. i always do the one i’m writing rn and the one after, so i know where to lead everything. and then i just 🙄🙏🏼 finally write something. if i’m lucky!
when i get stuck even though i have ideas and theoretically know where the story should go, i set a timer for like 20 or 30 minutes and just write, no distractions, researching, spell checking, just try and write as many words as i possibly can and edit it afterwards.
hope this helps xx
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J: Write or describe an alternative ending to The Sun In My Eyes.
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? (this is a call-out)
Thank you for the ask (I think) @longbobmckenzie!
J: Holy shit. Um.... hmmm. You really went for it huh? Okay, so... Bobby returns from CA and friend zones Lili just like in the game. Only Lili is pissed off. She finds out that he did what he did and she's like, well fuck this noise. She tells Noah not to choose her under any circumstances, knowing Bobby won't choose her. He doesn't. She gets eliminated. He's shocked. She's fine with it. She leaves without any fanfare or tears. Just silent, condemning acceptance that Bobby's an asshole. Then she goes home and licks her wounds and after a solid year of self-pity and hiding, Hope drags her to a show at the Liverpool Comedy Center where she meets a brand new, slightly terrible comedian named Bruno. When the NY Eve party occurs, Lili does indeed attend and she's about four months pregnant with a baby, that will have terrible taste in hairstyles, but will be delightfully snarky. Bobby is shocked and when he tries to talk to her, she has nothing to say because she's getting the D from someone who doesn't have a ton of baggage and she's happy. Bobby is sad and... I don't know. He fucks Priya in a broom closet and that's his low point to realizing he needs help. He doesn't get a happy, romantic ending. Just a hopeful, he'll be okay ending. Or maybe he'll bump into Emily and they'll fall in love. Yeah let's go with that 😆
K: Haha, oh mannnnnn. Honestly nothing is angstier than Lili's backstory. Jesus, I made myself cry with that one. Other than TSIME, I think it's the werewolf fic I've been noodling for ages, which would involve forced marriages and a TWENTY-FIVE YEAR SLOW BURN.
L: You are going for blood tonight 😂 I revise chapters at least four to five times. Let's see, first I write a ton of word vomit/nonsense. Then I go through and do a rough edit to make it make sense. Once it makes sense, I go back and fill in things. Then I pass it off to my beta Sam-- @throughthejunobush--hoping for validation that I'm not as bad of a writer as I believe I am. She gives me amazing notes. I agonize over every decision but eventually clean up the draft, stare at it for two weeks, while I eat candy and weep, obsessing over every detail and all the scene endings I hate. Then I sent it back to Sam and beg her to save me from myself and tell me it's ready to post. And she does. Then I still go back and edit it one more time, because of who I am inside.
It's not a PERFECT process, but it IS a sign of my mental instability 🤣
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YES HI IM THE ONE ASKING ABOUT FICS!! i wanna get into both. fic and smau writings. i have so many ideas but idk how to like put it all together. like your work is good. i’m really picky when it comes to what i wanna read and your writings and smaus never fail to impress me! you’re literally amazing at it! and your graphics are amazing too!! i wanna know how you do that as well. i just love you sm omg 😭😭
OOO NICE HIHIII 🥰 and omg pleaseee you’re too sweet 😭💘 i totally understand having too many ideas and then feeling like your brain’s sort of cluttered :’) maybe it would help to throw around ideas with a friend?? :o or you could throw them around w me if that helps !! if you feel like you have a lot of filler in your head, it helps to just write out all the fluff and word vomit for you rough draft, and then you can go back and fix it up later ♡ something that also helps me is organizing all the fics i write (tbh kinda slacking on that rn) LOL but it helps to write down all my ideas in a place i can go back to and recall them so that i can jump back into writing that particular fic !! do you have any ideas for fics/smaus that you’d need help in certain areas with? :o
also for smaus i try to keep it as lighthearted as i can HAHAH i don’t rlly like making angsty smaus bc it feels sort of watered down when your characters are texting all this sad stuff to each other instead of being able to describe the emotions in a fic. i also try to keep the conversations and banter as close to actual convos i have w my friends :’’)
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Do you edit as you go or do you finish the chapter/scene then edit? I find myself rereading my work after I read and thinking it sucks and stopping it. Do you edit your work? I feel as though I compare myself to writers believing they write so well they don’t edit and that I must suck if i edit so much. So sorry if i’m rambling 😭. Writing is hard.
Hi! Thanks for asking this question. Every writer I've met has a different process. For myself, I can't edit too much as I go, or else I'll never finish anything. I often hate my first drafts, I've worked really hard to see them simply as a rough sketch of what I want the piece to eventually be. So yes I edit the hell out of my work!
My process shifts, but mostly consists of brainstorming, then writing with sprints just to get it out. This is often a mash up of dialogue, action and thoughts of the characters. I'm then left with a big giant mess, which to me is where the magic happens. I go back over it again and again, adding things, going over the prose, watching for mistakes and inconsistencies, focusing on showing versus telling. I edit the chapter until I'm happy with it. If I'm working with a beta, they give me notes/fix things and then I go over it yet again after.
Anon, I would just find whatever works for you and makes the process fun. For me it's having a big mug of tea, music, and candles (or treating myself to a coffee shop day) and just letting myself word vomit without my inner critic at full blast. I'm a huge advocate for sprinting, turn off the editor part of your brain and see where your story goes. So much can be fixed later, but you can't edit a blank page.
Also every writer I've talked to hates their work at least some of the time. We are our own worst critics. I have a tendency to compare as well, and wish I had a solution for that! I just try to remember the only person I should try to write better than is myself in my last story. I read somewhere that we've never seen the first drafts of our favorite books, so we have no idea what they were like without professional editors! And this makes me feel a whole lot better. A great example is if you love Harry Potter, is to re-read the first chapter of book one, then compare it to the the first chapter of the later books. I noticed when re-reading to my cousin just how much better the prose gets with time (and clearly lots and lots more practice).
Hope this was helpful ❤️
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SPOTLIGHT ON: LOVEMUPPET
(@haybibiboi)
What does your writing process look like?
Mostly word-vomit at first. I get a page or two in—one clear scene—and then I figure there’s enough of an idea to write an outline. How I outline’s determined by how long the fic’s gonna be. It’s usually just a simple bullet point that, by the time I’m halfway through the fic, I’ve totally gone off the rails on (it’s part of the process) and have to adjust.
Then, everything’s guided word-vomit. I call this the “raw dog” draft. It’s disgusting, I’ve broken every grammar rule and I have sentences like “[put an incredibly witty joke here]” but I cannot stress the importance of just getting through the story.
Writing the rough draft takes some time, but what takes the most time is the second, Alpha, draft. This is when I’m going through from the very beginning, now that I know how it ends and FLESHING EVERYTHING OUT. “He winked at him” turns into “It had to be a trick of the light—must have been. There was no way that stuffy, pretentious ass would wink at him.”
Then it gets sent to another pair of eyes or two for grammar and flow check and then—
Boom! Post.
What is your favorite trope to write?
I’m not sure it’s a trope but I like stories where the characters have known each other for a long time and already have a relationship of some kind and then something pushes it into a new territory. Friends to lovers, ENEMIES to friends to lovers. That sort of thing.
What advice do you have for other writers?
I got good advice from a friend who I really respect as a creator when I was having a really strong bout of impostor syndrome: There are two kinds of creators--ones who create purely for self expression and ones who do it as a way to communicate. And both are valid.
I’m totally one of those ones who use story telling as a way to communicate. I care about comments and Kudos. And it’s okay. It’s OKAY to care about them. But my advice isn’t to get disheartened when you don’t get much activity on a fic. Even if it’s one you loved and really wanted to do well. Keep going. Don’t let a dip in feedback stop you from starting a new work.
Get it out there.
If it tanks, it tanks.
But finish it and start a new one.
What is a fic you love with less than 500 kudos?
Splatter by Violetlyvanilla is great and has less than 500 kudos. The world is really well built and the plot is really well developed.
What is your favorite fic you’ve written? Why?
This one’s hard. These fics are my babies and it’s always hard to pick a favorite. I’m torn between two. Desert Rituals is the one that’s done the best with others and it was the one that for some reason or another, I didn’t think anyone would like. So I really poured my heart into it and I think it came out pretty well :)
Desert Rituals
Rating: Explicit
Words: 26,191
Tags: Pining, Castiel/Dean Winchester Mutual Pining, Desert, Long-Distance Relationship, Friends With Benefits, Hotel Sex, Anal Sex, Public Hand Jobs, Dead John Winchester, Alternate Universe, Dean winchester has friends, Writer Dean Winchester, truck driver Castiel, Store Owner Dean Winchester, sibling dynamics, the end of a slow burn, Dean joins a book club, dean gardens, Dean gets a dog, Canon-Typical Violence, Retired Hunter Dean Winchester, Retired Hunter Sam Winchester
Summary:
Since the death of John Winchester, Dean’s come a long way. In the small desert town of Joshua, Dean’s carved a healthy life for himself. He has a home. A business. A dog. He has friends. He even has a… Cas.
Castiel Novak is the name of the long-haul trucker that frequents Joshua’s Desert Rose Truck Stop. They have this… /thing/. They don’t talk about it, but it started when Cas pulled a stranded Dean into the cab of his 18 wheeler and brought him to the Desert rose. Six years later, it hasn’t stopped, this… whatever it was. And it’s great! It’s enough.
Until it isn’t.
When Dean’s brother, Sam, finally moves into the spare bedroom, things change. As long-kept secrets come to light, Dean’s only hope is that things will change for the better.
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i have an amazing idea for a book, truly could be an incredible story. one that i would love to read myself. two things tho, how tf do i write it when i suck so bad at writing and how tf do i get it all out of my brain. i wish i could just unhinge my skull and let it pour out like one does with warm laundry from the basket to the couch (for folding of course) but yet it’s stuck in there like a bird in a warehouse. i ask you because the way you churn out stories is awe inspiring and i was hoping you might have some words of advice for a dumbass 🥺 ty, ily, i hope you get to eat a brownie today 🧡
First of all nonny, thank you, I'm delighted that you like my writing so much. I'm really flattered that you want to come to me for advice. Hey @extasiswings you have an admirer!
Second of all, that is the mood of writers everywhere - wishing we could just pour our thoughts for the story onto the page and voila.
Third of all - to answer your question. The second part is easy. You get it out of your brain by writing it.
Which brings us back to the first part of the question. What if you're not great at writing yet? Well first of all - who gives a fuck? First drafts are called vomit drafts for a reason. The first draft only has to exist. That is all. It can be an utter pile of cliche shit. So long as it exists, that's all that matters. Get the story out of your head by writing it.
Many people find it helpful to voice record things instead of writing it, since they can't write as fast as their thoughts go, and they get caught up in whether or not something reads well as opposed to just vomiting out all the shit they need to. "I hate the sound of my own voice!" Tough titties, my ducklings! If you're going to let something like "I hate the sound of my voice" stop you then by all means don't force yourself, but what you're really saying is, "I don't care enough about this story to overcome my personal discomfort." Nobody's going to hear these voice recordings except you. Nobody's cringing. You just need to talk out the plot points or verbalize a really good bit of dialogue before it forever vanishes into the ether, and that's all you need.
(You will never get it entirely out of your brain until the story is finished, by the way. Welcome to being a writer.)
As for "sucking so bad..." there's only one cure for that, and nobody likes it. In fact, we loathe it.
The cure is to write.
Read books by authors whose writing you like and want to emulate. Watch well-written films and television. We practice what we are shown as examples, so give your brain good examples. And then just write! You will never, ever get good at something if you don't practice it. Not a single person woke up one day able to be a genius at [enter talent here]. Even the "prodigies" and the "natural talents" took training at some point, and quite intensive training usually.
I'm going to be honest with you, it will be a while before you write that story the way you see it in your head. It will be a while before you're satisfied. But that's okay. I've been writing for literally twenty years. That’s two decades of practice. And even I have my bad days! From roughly September last year until a month or so ago I hated every fic I wrote. My friends encouraged me to post them because they loved them. I didn’t think they were good enough. I still don’t. You mention how my friend and I can write stories for each other on demand. It took me twenty years to get to that place.
So be patient with yourself. Writing is a habit, a journey, a practice. If you really want to write a book, prepare to settle in for the long haul. The only way to get better is to write. The only way to get the story out of your head is to write it. The only way to not suck is to practice the thing you suck at. There’s no magical tricks, no secret ingredient, no special shortcuts. You just gotta write.
Of course, nobody is forcing you to do this. Please do not take this as some kind of “do this or else” message. But if you really, genuinely want to write something you’re proud of, then the only solution is to practice writing, and accept that improvement takes time.
“But what if I sit down and there’s no inspiration?” you say. Well, there’s the voice recording as I said, but also, treat writing like brushing your teeth. It’s not an art. It’s a habit that you have to practice every day in order to train your brain until it becomes automatic. Write at the same time, do the same thing every time before you write (like walk the dog) and be sure to reward yourself afterwards (get a cookie). Doing the same thing at the same time will mean that now, at 10am after you walked the dog, your brain goes “oh writing time!” and turns on that part of your brain. And because there’s a reward, your brain goes OH BOY COOKIE!!! and that motivates your brain. Start small. Don’t go by word count, go by time. Set a timer and for ten minutes write, even if what you write is “I fucking hate this shit and I’m shit and everything is shit.” Write literally anything! “They do this and then this and then this happens.” YAY! Eventually you’ll be able to fill that time, and then increase it. 15 minutes. 20 minutes. 25. 30. An hour. Don’t write for too long without a break. Twenty minutes of consistent steady writing with a break is better than an hour staring at a blank Word doc.
Again: be patient with yourself!
That’s really the only advice I can give you. Please remember, nonny dear, what you are seeing is the result of twenty years of nonstop practice. “Wow she just churns them out!” Well, sure, now I can. I couldn’t for the first ten years. Sometimes just because I can churn ‘em out doesn’t mean they’re any good. And I have my bad days and rough patches too. I have my periods where I don’t write anything at all. So be kind to yourself. Treat yourself. You and your story deserve it.
#mads answers things#also nonny your analogies in your ask were lovely#so I suspect you aren't as bad of a writer as you think you are
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