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friendly reminders with stock photos
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They also go by PEARs
Local minor now hates pears even more than previously thought upon discovering an acronym
new pedo terminology. know it, stay safe
Friendly reminder
Gotta clear out the trash because apparently I’ve accumulated terf and pedo followers
Write that story because you wanna see it created. Because you wanna read it.
Because in a month or a year or maybe ten years, whenever you come back to read what you wrote, it’s like rediscovering a gift you left for yourself. Like hearing the whispers of a younger you telling a story that feels both new and familiar, wondrous and nostalgic.
So go ahead. Write that story. Write that story, for the you in the future. 📖✨
something to remember when writing characters who use they/them pronouns:
an issue i see a lot in various excerpts when using the singular they pronoun is unintentional pluralization! changing ‘themself’ to ‘themselves’ isn’t grammatically correct when referring to a singular they-using character
instead of saying ‘they took it upon themselves to help’, say ‘they took it upon themself to help’
instead of saying ‘they themselves were well known in the area’, say ‘they themself were well known in the area’
instead of saying ‘they did it by themselves’, say ‘they did it by themself’
thank you for reading! the singular they is not ungrammatical, but the way some authors use it is, and it’s important to use it as correctly as you would any other pronoun
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my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”
he said, “you have to stop doing that.”
“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.
but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.”
i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”
as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck.
“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”
so, my friends: what are you writing about?
Me: I write mainly for myself, though I’d be happy if it happened to make someone else smile
Also me: * prints nice comments * * draws hearts on them * * giggles madly *
me, writing a little easter egg into a fic that perhaps only I will appreciate or notice
Cheers @mj_kuhn.
For a second I thought this wasn’t going to apply to me
but my drawer of notebooks, coffee mugs and Imposter’s Syndrome says otherwise
5 and 13 for the writeblr ask game 💕
5. How do you get over a bad writing day?
I just tell myself that bad writing is better than no writing. That this version isn’t the definitive version, that I can always edit later. And remind myself that I write for fun, so if I’m not having fun then there’s something I have to look into.
13. Tell us about your process. Do you set goals for yourself? If so, tell us about them.
I do set goals for myself, yes. A time goal. Generally, I will set a timer for 25 minutes and write whatever comes to my mind (I began with just 3 minutes and worked my way up to the 25 minute mark I use now). I use the Pomodoro timer for this, which you can find here.
Lately I’ve been too stuck for 25 minutes so I reverted back to 10 minutes of writing and also made a point of distracting myself. Reading other things, watching new TV shows, Marie Kondo my room, generally try new things or organize my surroundings and space to shake up the habit. I think that usually gets me to think differently and so far, it’s helped when I have a hard time writing. But usually I tell myself I will write for those 10 minutes. If I have nothing else to write after the mark, then hey at least I wrote for 10 minutes. But usually it’s the start that I need help with and once I get the ball rolling I go on.
Thank you for the ask! <3
Writeblr Ask Game 💕
Send me a numer and I’ll answer.
1. Which reoccuring theme is present in all of your WIPs?
2. Which character flaw would you never give to any of your OCs?
3. Name 3 songs that describe your WIP or give you WIP feels.
4. Which writer do you admire the most and why?
5. How do you get over a bad writing day?
6. Do you prefer to write heroes or villains?
7. Do you edit after the draft is done or do you edit as you go?
8. Which OC of yours is your favourite and why?
9. Tell us about your best experience in the writeblr community.
10. How much time do you spend writing?
11. Would you self-publish your WIP?
12. What’s the longest time you have worked on a WIP?
13. Tell us about your process. Do you set goals for yourself? If so, tell us about them.
14. Is there a specific moment you’re looking forward to when it comes to your WIP? Which one?
15. What’s the best writing advice you have come across? What’s the worst?
Bonus Question: Ask me anything!
I just gotta say, don't feel bad if you dont make detailed character sheets for your characters and instead have notes on each characters,
It's a lot to do and you dont necessarily need to do it.
Is it ok to mock teenagers for bad/mediocre writing & artwork?
Good. Then stop disparaging yourself for stuff you created in the past. You were and still are growing.
Twas a trap into good thinking habits!
I'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED
Hard same.
I made this meme because @the-singing-dove and I had a “SAME HAT” moment
I kinda feel like cancel culture is making it harder for me to write flawed characters. I want them to make mistakes and be irrational sometimes, and learn from that stuff (or not depending on the severity of it) but there’s this weight like “why is your character arguing here when the other person is right?” when the answer is “because they’re not rational right now due to x y z” or something like that. I feel like I need to clarify in the writing exactly why a character is doing something to the point where it’s extremely “tell” and no “show” instead of letting the reader figure it out on their own.
I also just want to write characters that grow into better people but I’m scared of the readers who won’t move past the initial wrong-doings. Sometimes it seems like some people think if you’re not perfect now, then you never will be, and that applies to writing characters as well.
We praise Zuko’s redemption arc all the time, and I agree that it’s great. I just wonder if the reception would be the same if it aired today with no changes. If as many viewers would still forgive him.
This was kinda inspired by a discussion of a show I saw. In it, it was clear that the two opposing sides were meant to have good intentions with not-so-great executions of varying degrees. Their reasoning for what they did made sense for their characters, but from an objective standpoint you can see where the mistakes were made and what might have been the best outcome if they had done this and that instead. But a lot of people are watching this scene with this expectation that one side should be 100% right and the other 100% wrong rather than the complicated situation that it is. I loved the scene because it showed the characters behaving like they would, without being forced into a black and white discussion. But some people are still looking at it like it should be a black and white discussion, and then saying it’s bad writing because character x is stupid for not doing this, why wouldn’t they do this, completely ignoring the personality and experience of the character themself.
This ended up much longer than I intended it to be, and kinda lost focus. I guess I just want characters to be allowed to grow and make mistakes and be irrational (as long as that makes sense for them and isn’t a forced attempt to drive the story somewhere).
I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.
For example:
For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.
For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.
And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.
I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.
….this explains SO MUCH.
someday, my novel will be written. I’ll have reworked and edited it into something I’m proud of. I’ll have sent it to publishers, and I’ll have pushed past the rejection letters, and I’ll have an actual, physical copy in my hands, and it will be
amazing
