fleeting fictions

- trust your story

[wdarlingyap]

You have to write it all down or the people in your head will never get out. You have to let them haunt us too.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

heres how to fix it

[nondelphic]

writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this

[luna-azzurra]

Describing clothes can actually matter when clothes reveal strategy. Is the character dressing to disappear? to intimidate? to look richer than they are? to seem effortless after forty minutes of effort? A jacket can be armor. Lipstick can be a warning. Ugly shoes can be financial realism.

[luna-azzurra]

Stages of naming a character:

pick a normal name

google it "does this name mean anything weird in another language"

it means "goat disease" in Norwegian

start over

name him Kai

[luna-azzurra]

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

[live-from-flaturn]

“But you already wrote that trope.”

[artemisthehuntress]

[brainstreams]

Don't use AI to write. Use cocaine like a real author.

[nondelphic]

writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this

[nondelphic]

i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Character: *is finally happier than they ever expected to be in this life*

Writer: Great. Now you're definitely going to die.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

we need to be more bored. i used to be so creative in my spare time, now I'm just on my phone.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

I don't need AI to write. I can create fake scenarios in my head perfectly fine myself.

[luna-azzurra]

Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Canon? I hardly even know her.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

heres how to fix it