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This might sound strange... writing a romance I started to see romantic potential between my lead and a side character, rather than strictly between the two leads... I'm starting to swerve. How can I suit my writing/mindset to keep the relationship with the side character platonic?
When characters develop minds of their own...
Writing is one of those mediums where people tend to overlook the importance of experimentation. It's seen as a fairly linear process: brainstorm, map the plot, write the draft, edit the draft, publish. If any other type of creation was done this way, most would see the process as incomplete, because experimentation is imperative to creativity. Curiosity is the key to finding satisfaction, and no matter how brilliant you think an idea is at its conception, the best way to do it justice is to question it.
If you find yourself in a situation where your story begins to develop outside your control, don't strangle it back into the shape you imagined for it at first. See where it goes. Let it bleed outside the lines and see what you prefer. You can always return to the original plan. The beauty in fiction is that it has infinite possibility, and if you have the talent to write characters and worlds that determine their own trajectory, enjoy the reward.
In your case, you've designed a romance between two characters but the chemistry of a different pairing has become more compelling, so see what happens. There is a good chance you've simply written a secondary character that serves the story better in a leading role, and there's no harm in experimenting to see if that's correct. If it doesn't work and you're convinced the relationship is more suitable in the platonic category, you will find the reason along the way and that reason will speak for itself as you return to writing the original pairing. If anything, this might become an organic way for you to misdirect the reader in order to make the payoff of your original idea more substantial.
Writing should be an intuitive process. If you're swerving in another direction, satiate your curiosity and then make decisions with all of the information. Just like any other artistic medium, you will only know what's right once you've established what isn't.
Best of luck,
x Kate
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Stupidly Simple Writing Tip
If you get stuck in a difficult scene, put
[fill in]
Under it and skip to a bit you're excited about.
You're allowed to do that!
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🥳 this blog's coming up 10 years old so i wanna hold a giveaway to celebrate! 🥳
samples:
💌 completed physical work: one / two / three
🖌 fanart / art commission: my art tag / one / two / three
📓 fanfic / fic commission: my ao3 / one / two / three
notes:
all physical work would be shipped by me, free of charge. if this ends up winning i'll announce the details on the giveaway
all fic/art commissions will be DIGITAL ONLY but can be open to fanwork OR original work
fandoms tbd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
depending on results i may hold another poll asking for more info, but for now pls feel free to vote and reblog!
and no matter how long you've been around, thank you so much for sticking with me for 10 years~!! 🥳❤️
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indulging my own damn self with more wild shipping, femslash edition -- all of these ships will be brand-new to AO3, as far as i can tell none of these ship tags exist yet! perfect for the @hpsaffics new year's challenge if anyone wants to take literally anything at all from these for inspiration 😌
petunia/angelina: angelina takes petunia flying. a whole new world, but the carpet is a broom
petunia/eileen prince: some sort of DV shelter au. one of them is working there, either for a while or they’re brand new, and the other comes in. i could also see angst with mega tragic UHEA!
petunia/andromeda: the nichest preschool/primary school teacher au imaginable. the first week of petunia’s job makes her wonder if preschool teacher really was the right career for her - but anything sev can do she can do better, damn it. that hellion nymphadora really tries her patience though. one day she’s forced to call in dora’s parent and then oh. oh.
petunia/hermione: easy mode: librarians AU, or maybe established relationship tender hairdressing. hard mode: postwar canonverse. hermione finds petunia’s letter asking to be let into hogwarts in dumbledore’s things, tucks it away and tells no one. years later, one of her kids with ron turns out to be a squib, and it breaks up their marriage and derails her career at the ministry. cue one drunk angsty night with petunia.
ginny/petunia: i’m feeling a creature!ginny and monster hunter!petunia that ends in petunia MCD.
petunia/hooch: hooch runs a gay bar. new to the city petunia wanders in not knowing what she’s in for. was this ALOTO inspired? maybe.
cho/molly: she’s dating harry and goes to the burrow for christmas. one-sided crush on your partner’s adoptive mother, because the one thing that this relationship needs is more awkwardness
cho/lily: no voldemort no jily au. it’s cho’s first day as a full-fledged unspeakable and she definitely doesn’t have a crush on her boss. it’s just she can’t stop thinking about lily’s eyes and her perfectly curled hair and her lips and why does the amortentia in the love room smell exactly like her perfume? oh fuck
cho/mcgonagall: hmmmm postwar rebuilding hogwarts? cho is back as a professor and something something she too was a gryff/claw hatstall
cho/hooch: cho repeatedly breaks basic common etiquette rules with the shared quidditch practice equipment and hooch might just have to punish her. is common etiquette the title? maybe lmfao
cho/rose weasley: healer & apprentice
cho/poppy
cho/andromeda
cho/helena or cho/rowena: tbh i'm feeling some sort of china (ancient? modern?) au
poppy/hope lupin
poppy/fleur
helena/poppy
katie/poppy
fleur/hannah
ginny/pomona sprout
ginny/madam rosmerta
poppy pomfrey/madam rosmerta
madam rosmerta/angelina (or alicia or katie or all): they celebrate a quidditch victory?
rose weasley/hannah abbott
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Writing is like a germinal center. There’s always room for improvement, but you have to start with something. Even a low-affinity draft is better than nothing, because you can tweak and mutate it and, with feedback from T follicular helper cells, turn it into something great. But beware of original antigenic sin in the drafting process, and be willing to discard and reconceptualize anything that doesn’t really fit.
#writing advice#but make it about B cells#writing inspiration#writespo#immunology#B cells#germinal centers#affinity maturation
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Hey, y'all! Next week I'm hosting a fun writing-related workshop at the Guthrie Memorial teen library.
You can register here: https://www.yorklibraries.org/event/writing-workshop-for-teens-local-ya-author/
The event is free! Looking forward to seeing everybody. 📚🖋🗺
(P.S., how awesome is it that my books are at the library!? Thanks to the Guthrie Memorial library for supporting local Authors ❤️)
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Juicy Tips: Maintaining Focus
One of the biggest difficulties in the writer’s life is maintaining focus! For some writers this isn’t actually too difficult, but many of us also have the tendency to struggle with this. It can be much harder for writers who are neurodivergent, or it can simply be based on how big your workload is! Either way, here are some tips that might help you to improve your focus when writing.
Personally I’ve also found it difficult for the longest time. There are all kinds of ways you can trick your brain into working more efficiently while writing, though, and I’m just going to share some things I’ve picked up over the years. Some have arrived via my own discovery and others have been taught to me by mentors and tutors. The goal of this juicy tip piece is to help out writers who are struggling to focus on their work for any reason. It may or may not help you out! Here’s the basic rundown:
Setting The Mood
The brain is pretty easy to train, pavlov style, if you know how. The story goes, ring a bell every time you feed your pet and your pet will eventually become hungry whenever they hear the bell.
Try setting up a routine to get your brain into “writing mode” and stick to it, more or less. What I like to do is brew a hot drink, get myself a snack and then put on one of my playlists. Sometimes I might even go outside for a quick walk before sitting down to write. I find that some genres of music also help me write better than others. I also have two specific places in my apartment that I like to write, and I like to make sure that I’m fully comfortable so I can concentrate.
Setting up ‘rituals’ and specific environments to write in can gradually improve your ability to focus and produce more writing. It isn’t by any means a quick solution, but in the long run it can be the best decision. If you have a hard time remembering, maybe write something on a post-it note and place it near your work space to remind you of your rituals.
Fine-tune Your Surroundings
Make sure your surroundings are fully prepared for your writing session. Anything that can distract or disrupt your work flow should be dealt with. If you need to put your phone on silent, go ahead and do that. If you have books and comics on your desk it might be a good idea to move them out of arms reach so you don’t feel tempted to read instead.
Make sure your work area is tidy, too. If you have a lot of clutter and chaos on your desk or table, and I mean more than usual, go ahead and move some stuff around. I know I’m guilty of leaving things out on my desk and it tends to make my space feel more cramped. A messy space can worsen messy thinking, and tidying it up can help you get into the right mindset. If you want to really focus and work at your best, tidying up can make a world of difference.
Anything that you might need should be close at hand! You should have a drink, a light snack and other essentials handy. I like to have a chapstick on my desk, for example, as well as a pen pot and all the notebooks and scraps of paper I might need to look at for notes I’ve made. If you have a corkboard, this is a great place to pin up notes for quick access. It’s important that your space is constructed to help you write and to keep you inspired.
If it helps, hang up things that inspire you - decorations, artworks or even photographs that spark some kind of creativity in you. I’ve got all sorts of things pinned up on the walls in my office area, from my own artwork to posters to decorative items I found in thrift stores. Surround yourself with inspiration and make sure you’re comfortable.
Break Down Your Tasks And Notes
A task can feel much more intimidating and harder to pull off, if it seems nebulous or unstructured. We all have different ways of compartmentalising our tasks, whether it be with a list or a table, or even just using sticky notes. If you don’t know what works best for you it may be a good idea to experiment.
Making some form of organised document to tell you what needs to be done can make the whole task of writing easier. This can be in regards to juggling multiple projects, or even just in the context of one thing you’re working on. If you’re struggling to plot your stories or plan your essays, maybe starting with a list of things that need to occur within the work will help. From there, you can create other lists to keep track of names, dates and even story beats. Before you know it, you should find that your ideas are a bit easier to process. Sometimes you might need a table or graph of some sort for your world building. You might find that other formats work better for you. No matter how you use these things, they can help you map things out and break them down. Making your information and notes easy to read will streamline your workflow.
You might find that planning too much is dangerous though - never over-do it with your lists and tables. You don’t need a list for everything or a sticky note for everything; sometimes you might find that mixing and matching these methods is best for you. Eventually you will find the sweet spot that most writers have, somewhere between neat organisation and improvisation.
Enlist Assistance Where Needed
Know when to tackle something head on, and when to admit that you’re not able to do it alone. It’s best to have friends that are also interested in writing so that you can assist each other whenever needed or even just show them your ideas so that you can enthuse about them together. The added enthusiasm of others can be a strong motivator to continue, and they could even offer input to help develop your work.
Even if you don’t have writer friends, you can always bring in friends who have enthusiasm for fiction in general - a friend who is an avid reader, or who has interest in the genre or format you’re writing in. They could always offer input as well, in a pinch. Don’t be afraid to ask, even if they’re not able to help. It’s always worth trying to reach out. Other writers and enthusiasts can be found online as well, if real-life friends aren’t able to assist you.
For more informative posts, inspiration and ideas to help you improve as a writer, follow this blog! I post often and also take requests for specific advice. FJWS is funded by your donations.
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Bro, I love Felicia so much, it’s not even funny. Sis really said ‘You still got money 👀 gimmie some’
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I was looking up types of witchcraft cuz I couldn't remember what the kind where you kinda of use whatever you want and might call on different deities for different things is called (it's eclectic), and the list I found had one I haven't seen before: sex witch. Which obviously involves sex magic, but it specified that it can be practiced either partnered or solo. So I'm now determined to write something with an ace sex witch.
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Writing Prompt
You have been kidnapped by a cult preparing to sacrifice you to their god. However, you are immortal, the god they worship is a close friend of yours, and the entire cult was a prank you pulled centuries ago.
Tag your responses with #wordsnstuff // Ko-Fi
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New WIP Project Black
#ao3 fanfic#draco malfoy#dramione#fanfic#harry potter#tw#enemies to lovers#pansy parkinson#studyblr#writeblr#writespo#teen writer#writers on tumblr#writers#writing#writing community#writblr#current wip
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I'm interested to know- what themes reoccur continually in your art, writing, or music.
For me it's:
- The difference between Nice and Good.
- Broken, scarred people who are rightly considered scary also being empathetic and tender.
- The unique character of female rage.
- The stripping of glamour and heroism from violence in settings that generally romanticise it (historical fiction, fantasy fiction etc)
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so i was lying in bed in the dark in the middle of the day with a rainy music playlist on youtube and ???????????????? maybe i should do this everyday bc i came up with a story idea that im so genuinely excited to write and find out what happens and i would actually want to read if somebody else wrote it??? which never happens?? i usually think of ideas but am not actually interested in them enough to put in the effort to write them which ofc means nobody else would want to read them but this story is like ????????? i want to write it like RIGHT NOW so that i know how it ends and to find out more about these characters like omg i love writing
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[dear bird,
protect me.
the fall is too high. catch me.
i'm not ready to fly. eat me.
in your inside, take me.
don't leave me, so i can live in you.
see through you
what i can't be
be for two, for we, for i
and drown deep above
[in the vacuum.
jales.
#poetry#poems on tumblr#existencialism#poem#writing#writespo#writers and poets#writblr#writeblr#absurdism#original writing
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Listen, romanticize your writing. Just fucking do it. I don't care how recently you started writing, find the things that you love about your writing and build the foundation of your belief in yourself from there. Even if you put your first words down on paper yesterday, there is something compelling you about a story that came from your own brain that is keeping you here. Find those things and love them. That's the only way you ever get to a place of saying, "I am a great writer and I like what I have written."
#writeblr#writing inspiration#writespo#writing positivity#this post brought to you by my shower plotting#I was thinking about my wip going 'what if I include this as a plot point to serve this theme'#and was like 'am I gonna have to rewrite parts of what I already have to make that feel cohesive?'#and then realized I'd already set it up#because I know I'm good at patterns! I know I'm good at cohesive themes because of that!#and I was like 'I'm a great writer! this is excellent!'#and then I got sad cuz! I say that to myself all the time! it really helps me! even when I don't believe it I say it!#and I know so many people don't and I genuinely think it helps your self-esteem with writing#just like removing self-deprecation from your vocabulary helps your actual self-esteem#anyway just do it#idgaf
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