Em.

I write instead of vanishing completely. She . Studying human suffering.

[catastrophiccynic]

"I'm sorry if I sounded mean it was the character I was writing for two straight hours talking instead of me."

[petron-a]

wip tag game!

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. people send in an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

i love how this is based off file names because i've wanted to talk about my codenames for a while!! and i have several that i haven't written a huge amount of words on yet so.... i would be happy to just tell yall about those(:

your turn to yearn

camisado

welcome to the bullshit theatre

rain and withered cain

maligno

tagging the mutes i havent seen tagged but anybody can try it!! @inert-pen-maid @catastrophiccynic @justhere4thevibez

[catastrophiccynic]

Thanks for tagging. (and I just love the title Welcome to bullshit theater. Tell me about it.)

Mine is crazy. Please don't ask what they are:

Untitled document 1

Untitled document 2 (it goes on)

Fix this.

Fucking madness.

Death of a dream.

Crossover.

Last version fr.

The tagging part: @carrion-v + mutuals

[catastrophiccynic]

Now I kind of get it why singers hate their old songs.

[catastrophiccynic]

Some ideas are just not meant to be written. They're meant to be scenarios before sleep. Small guilty pleasures. No responsibilities. Absolute freedom.

[carrion-v]

Hard agree. AND ☝️ also they're meant for when you are listening to songs and having little music videos or conversations in your head.

[catastrophiccynic]

Some ideas are just not meant to be written. They're meant to be scenarios before sleep. Small guilty pleasures. No responsibilities. Absolute freedom.

[catastrophiccynic]

Sometimes I think I'm the main character but then I see rich people and realize I'm just a mosquito.

[catastrophiccynic]

Everyone tell me about your character's love language (original, fanfic, not written, only in your mind, doesn't really matter)

[corex39]

words of affirmation and just. presence. presence but not physical touch, she likes her personal space and isn't used to physical contact [i *swear* im not projecting (i lied)]

[catastrophiccynic]

"Presence but not physical touch "

I love it.

[catastrophiccynic]

Has anyone ever fucked up a character so bad you don't know what to do with them anymore or is it just me.

[carrion-v]

I am in the process. A new storyline has popped into my head and though I'm still at the "throw the characters about in my head" part of the process, rather than the writing a draft process, it is very up in the air. BUT... I already can feel the ending of their story will be a nightmare. Probably very sudden, and tragic, and who knows? Maybe I'll never settle on one.

I have done so before and will do so again. <3

[catastrophiccynic]

At least you saw it coming. And the only good endings are tragic ones. So do it again.

But I didn't see it coming. And they'll end up like our abandoned children living on the streets.

[carrion-v]

Damn... poor guys. Well maybe one day you'll pick em up again. Or not and they shall maybe transpose by whatever brainwave writers share and you'll read something one day and think "Huh... didn't I have a guy like that?". It happens more often than one would think.

[catastrophiccynic]

Yes, damn.

Hopefully they won't be left out.

And thank you for your words, you have a nice way with them.

[catastrophiccynic]

Has anyone ever fucked up a character so bad you don't know what to do with them anymore or is it just me.

[carrion-v]

I am in the process. A new storyline has popped into my head and though I'm still at the "throw the characters about in my head" part of the process, rather than the writing a draft process, it is very up in the air. BUT... I already can feel the ending of their story will be a nightmare. Probably very sudden, and tragic, and who knows? Maybe I'll never settle on one.

I have done so before and will do so again. <3

[catastrophiccynic]

At least you saw it coming. And the only good endings are tragic ones. So do it again.

But I didn't see it coming. And they'll end up like our abandoned children living on the streets.

[catastrophiccynic]

Has anyone ever fucked up a character so bad you don't know what to do with them anymore or is it just me.

[catastrophiccynic]

I deleted social medias for a week after my exams and watched twin peaks under the blanket. Definitely recommended.

[catastrophiccynic]

I think we should all collectively call it "Me and my characters are sick of each other." Instead of "Writer's block."

[catastrophiccynic]

I could fix him. (the character I'm writing)

(I'm only making him more miserable)

[catastrophiccynic]

Long showers: creating plot lines, legendary scenes and forgetting your own existence.

[corex39]

and forgetting them the moment you step out

[catastrophiccynic]

Exactly.

[skuwu]

do you ever try to write but instead just go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[catastrophiccynic]

"I'm sorry if I sounded mean it was the character I was writing for two straight hours talking instead of me."

[carrion-v]

Jokes on you: my entire personality is a hodgepodge of characters I like and/or have written for between a few hours and years of my life.

And I do not apologise. I refuse to apologise for what has become... just... me. <3

[catastrophiccynic]

What if your character is mentally ill and you don't want to become... Just... Mentally ill.

[carrion-v]

Pfff- Probably a jokey response but this fine day I feel like responding in earnest:

Obviously, one writes everything at least to a degree from their perspective, and so an illness of any kind may draw in small part on experiences of the author. We have all felt pain and been in various emotional states, but the severity, consistency, and way they impact everyday life is what makes them illnesses/conditions in the first place.

So you can realise through research that you write a character a certain way because of a predisposition or undiagnosed illness, or... you could simply write a character who is very different from you, but you can still take on the affect of! You need not take everything, and you can't, because you lack the given character's experiences and disposition. But they can still hold a small part of your soul and you can find connection in them to parts of yourself, especially stigmatised ones. And also thus empathise with others who are more similar than you to said character.

(Writing, as with acting, is the artistic form of empathy after all.)

[catastrophiccynic]

HONEY I WAS JOKING. (But you're right about everything you said, characters are part of us, some of them more than the others, especially the ones without a mental illness.)

[catastrophiccynic]

Have you ever felt like your writing has summoned a wicked, tragic, real incident in your life? Like when you wrote something and it happens and all of a sudden it makes disgusting, perfect sense and you're thinking perhaps I made it real.