erin gilberts @erin-gilberts - Tumblr Blog

"I think everyone ships themself with at least one Ghostbuster!" - me and my entire investment in the franchise built on this one looking soft and pretty when I'm gay and stupid tho

#erin is talking #erin gilbert #ghostbusters atc #ghostbusters 2016 #ghostbusters

starstrucklunatic

guys, land yourself a writer, they will write personalized fanfics for you. I am in heaven 🤭

#awww hahaha was this from the night I wrote Alex crying for her mum just for you??#that was a fun night. I felt drunk and FREE staying up way late into the wee hours of the morning writing that for you 🤭

birdplushie

torture the character some more. put her in her worst nightmare and don't let her out

freakoutgirl

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

freakoutgirl

and love..........

animentality

lmaonade

there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit

mspaintsuggestion

letters i thought i wouldnt send but then did

catchymemes

wumbreon

May we all know decadence such as this

jackdaw-kraai

More writers should consider just not telling their readers all of shit. Just don’t tell them stuff. What’s that monster? Fuck if you’ll find out. How did that weird as hell landscape marker come to be? Wouldn’t you like to know. How does the magic work? Just believe it does, motherfucker.

Readers don’t need to know everything. In fact, I absolutely advocate for not telling them certain stuff. If the characters don’t know, neither do they. If the narrator is omniscient? Lol no they aren’t.

Is this necessary for every story? Probably not. There’s plenty of good stories you could write while explaining all of it. But leaving those gaps, leaving those holes, can bring a story to life. Sometimes things happen in life that just… happen. Fucked if anyone knows why. Sometimes information gets lost. Sometimes information is hidden. But even beyond that, it expands the narrative.

If you explain when and why and how the murder monster became a murder monster, well… that’s forever set in stone now. Now they know. But if you leave it blank, absent of explanation, any explanation… it becomes an unknown. It forces your audience to wonder. Makes them think. That, more than you might think, makes a story get into your audience’s head, and once you’re there, you can make some real impacts.

So yeah, tell a story. But sometimes? Don’t tell your readers something. Make them fill in the blanks themselves.

alnaperera

Or if you want to be particularly chaotic, have every character give three different contradictory explanations, and don't confirm anything.

zonnemaagd

I personally love "Who's that monster? I won't explain figure it out or don't it's fun either way"

qqueenofhades

More and more often these days, in what is surely a sign that everything is just absolutely fine, I find myself recalling the wise words of the prophets written on the subway walls: