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The thing about a good character flaw is that it has to be the same thing as their greatest strength just turned up too high. the person who loves deeply and therefore controls. the person who sees everything and therefore trusts nothing. the person who is so loyal they lose themselves. there are no clean villains and no clean heroes and once you understand that in fiction you can't unsee it in people. everyone is just their best quality at the wrong volume.
Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest
Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people
dodge questions
answer indirectly
lie (badly)
change the subject
crack jokes to avoid serious answers
lie (convincingly)
say half of what they mean
tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying
If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.
Subtext is where tension lives.
more so,
people don’t always speak in full sentences,
slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &
don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)
and please use contractions. not everyone speaks like captain holt (brooklyn 99)!
me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.
fun character types
character who is not allowed to kill themself
related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself
alive character who has successfully committed suicide
character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self
character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself
We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.
Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.
The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?
been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter
Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire
Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say
my favorite ao3 writers be like this
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Awkward Conversations, Practice Kissing, Awkward Kissing, French Kissing, Gender Play, Gender Confusion, Sexuality Crisis, Friends to Lovers, First Time Together, Hair-pulling, Hickeys, Nipple Play, Hand Job, Frottage, Cum Play, Exhibitionism, Confessions
He watch Gerard look down, feeling his thumb rub circles into Ray's knee, "You don't have to look, if that works." Ray swallowed, he was probably getting in his own head again. Nothing about Gerard really scared him, Ray just didn't want to weird him out with a horrible kiss. He was making this a bigger thing than it needed to be. Ray closed his eyes, forcing himself to relax so his face didn't scrunch up again. "I can lead," Gerard's voice was getting softer, "I'm… just a girl you met after a show. And it's really dark…" Ray's shoulders loosened a bit at at that, he had forgotten that was what he was supposed to be doing. This is just girl-kissing, and… he was at some bar that couldn't bother to get any decent lighting. Yeah, that's all this was. He could feel… the girl's breath warm against his chin as she got closer. It smelled like lingering cigarettes and a bit of the tortilla chips she definitely hadn't shared with Ray about an hour ago. He still couldn't bring himself to open his mouth for her, but he let himself relax into this new, warm feeling as her knees pressed against his own. He heard her take a soft breath, quickly closing the space before either of them could begin to regret this.
I AM A PROPHET.
Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"
died and came back refreshed and ready to appreciate life to its fullest but everyone was so ready for something to be wrong with me that they take my positive attitude as some kind of frightening mania and refuse to see anything otherwise
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.
Thanks for Letting Me Borrow Your Shirt
Awkward Conversations, Practice Kissing, Awkward Kissing, French Kissing, Gender Play, Gender Confusion, Sexuality Crisis, Friends to Lovers, First Time Together, Hair-pulling, Hickeys, Nipple Play, Hand Job, Frottage, Cum Play, Exhibitionism, Confessions
He watch Gerard look down, feeling his thumb rub circles into Ray's knee, "You don't have to look, if that works." Ray swallowed, he was probably getting in his own head again. Nothing about Gerard really scared him, Ray just didn't want to weird him out with a horrible kiss. He was making this a bigger thing than it needed to be. Ray closed his eyes, forcing himself to relax so his face didn't scrunch up again. "I can lead," Gerard's voice was getting softer, "I'm… just a girl you met after a show. And it's really dark…" Ray's shoulders loosened a bit at at that, he had forgotten that was what he was supposed to be doing. This is just girl-kissing, and… he was at some bar that couldn't bother to get any decent lighting. Yeah, that's all this was. He could feel… the girl's breath warm against his chin as she got closer. It smelled like lingering cigarettes and a bit of the tortilla chips she definitely hadn't shared with Ray about an hour ago. He still couldn't bring himself to open his mouth for her, but he let himself relax into this new, warm feeling as her knees pressed against his own. He heard her take a soft breath, quickly closing the space before either of them could begin to regret this.
the key to avoiding symbolismslop is sincere, thoughtful intent btw
it's fine to create art that has deer skull god (she/her) (queering it) pomegranate sun/moon symbolism in it but you need to ask yourself, why a deer skull and not another animal? what does queering it add to the text's portrayal of religion? why a pomegranate specifically? are the sun and moon the most appropriate celestial bodies to represent the meaning i'm trying to convey to my audience? what am i trying to say here?
"it looks cool" and "everyone else is doing it so i guess i should as well" are the creativity killers. inspiration requires introspection otherwise it's just imitation!!!
+ as the notes have pointed out being open to critique is also the fuel of creativity, not the antithesis of it. inviting interpretation only increases the space you have to work with and respond to!
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