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The Bowery Presents
trying on a metaphor
Noah Kahan
Andulka
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Claire Keane
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Product Placement
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Jules of Nature
almost home
Cosimo Galluzzi
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
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@chasingplotbunnies
They tend to show up uninvited, small, curious ideas that refuse to sit still. They multiply, demanding to get their own page, their own story. They're constantly interrupting any current works in progress.
Welcome to the burrow!
You’ll find: • plot bunnies • writing prompts • fragments of stories waiting to be told
If one follows you home, feel free to adopt it. And if you do… I’d love to see it.
The unlikely alliance Prompts!!
₊⊹ "Let me be clear. I don't like you. I don't trust you. And I will absolutely work with you because the alternative is worse."
₊⊹ "I need you to do something that is technically illegal and morally complicated and I need you to stop asking questions." -- "That's my whole personality though."
₊⊹ "We want different things for completely different reasons and right now those reasons point in the same direction. Let's not overthink it."
₊⊹ "You cover my blind side I cover yours. We don't have to like each other for geometry to work."
₊⊹ "I've fought you three times." -- "Four." -- "You counted." -- "Professionally yes." -- "...Fine. Four. You're better than I told anyone." -- "You're worse than your reputation. That's a compliment."
₊⊹ "If anyone asks we never did this." -- "Agreed." -- "And you owe me." -- "I was going to say you owe me." -- "We'll discuss it when we're not about to die." -- "Fair."
₊⊹ "Can I trust you?" -- "No. But I need this to work as much as you do. That's better than trust."
₊⊹ "Don't go soft on me because we're on the same side temporarily." -- "Don't flatter yourself. You're a tool I'm using." -- "Good. Same." --"...Good."
₊⊹ "Tell anyone about this and I'll deny it." -- "Already planning to. Let's go."
If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.
Some writing advice I will never give up:
Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.
It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.
Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?
One- as OP said, your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.
Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop.
And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.
Ways to Show Anger!!<3
Prompt #1303
"You almost kissed me."
"And you sound disappointed that I didn't."
Caretaker Lines!!
✮ "Stop trying to act tough. You're shaking."
✮ "When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
✮ "Hold still--I know it stings, but I have to do this."
✮ "You scared me half to death, you know that?"
✮ "I've got you. You don't have to hold yourself up anymore."
✮ "Just breathe. In and out. I'm right here."
✮ "You're going to need stitches and I swear, if you say you're fine one more time--"
✮ "Don't argue with me right now. Just let me help you."
✮ "I'm not going anywhere, so stop telling me to leave."
✮ "Can you squeeze my hand? I need to know you can hear me."
✮ "You're running a fever on top of everything else. Of course you are."
✮ "I found you on the floor. Do you understand how terrifying that was?"
