Force Majeure

[forcemajeurebook]

Our book series!

---Force Majeure by Ashley J. Barner and Jennifer Sanders: Book 1 of the Lifeward Legacy series

Force Majeure Audiobook (Yes, the cover is different)

---Trial by Fire: Book 2 of the Lifeward Legacy series

[heytatertot]

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

[meg-moira]

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

[forcemajeurebook]

ouch

[catchymemes]

[forcemajeurebook]

@spark-of-jenius

[browniefox]

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

[streamofsalmon]

say more pls

[browniefox]

Yeah sure why not.

So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.

So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.

There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.

Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.

[house-of-neptune]

Illustration by Angela Barrett for Beauty and the Beast

[evenstevenh]

[bebewrites]

woop there it is

[nihilnovisubsole]

do you ever find yourself bedeviled by writing ideas that are the equivalent of finding a single carrot in your fridge. your brain goes "we should write a pirate story" or "we should write a parisian thief caper" and you ask, "all right, what do we cook with that, then?" and it says "no other ingredients (:"

[rusted-pipe-of-wisdom-deactivat]

wolf & bunny: a love story

[venomsbite]

[ad-wills]

[ad-wills]

[robininthelabyrinth]

There is no joy like the joy of a writer who has just figured out that a throwaway line they put into the first few paragraphs of a story is actually the key to a major plot point and possibly even the theme underlying the entire thing.

Just…yesssssss.

[bisexualratqueen]

Hehehe

[heytatertot]

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

[meg-moira]

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

[nilim]

Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

[panicblanket]

well would you look at that

[autisticexpression]

One of the best posts

[forcemajeurebook]

Jen just send me this gem from one of our h/c AU's...

Hulda came padding down the stairs a short time later, seeking her brother. All the sockpuppeting ever then happened, during which he described the circumstances under which he'd found Faolan (carefully edited so as not to upset her too much), and she confessed that though she'd restored his features, she couldn't restore his sight.

"I don't know what it is," she said helplessly. "Something's stopping my magic from taking hold--as though... I don't know, as though he's supposed to be blind, somehow."

"Sounds like a Deus ex Machina," Toby rumbled. "I've heard of those. They're dangerous."

Hulda shuddered. "I hope not--I have no idea how to heal something like that."

[strawberrydykke]

yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me