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[forthegraveyard]

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[archangelbelletti]

How to write softness

(if reposting, please use @irbelletti)

If you’re writing a book with a lot of action, battles, death, and blood, you should definitely add a little softness!

But how should you do it?

I gathered here a couple tips from great books I read that portray softness beautifully.

1. Get contrast

If your characters are grumpy and generally aggressive or cold, a fluffy moment is guaranteed to MELT the reader. Believe me, it does. 

Make your characters show softness only in specific moments if they’re not super warm people, and only towards specific friends, members of their family, or their significant other.

It will give your story a lot more depth and will make the reader yearn for more.

2. Decide the degree

A little stroke or a full blown eight-minute hug?

Make sure the softness is appropriate to the moment (for instance, it’s weird for two people to start embracing and kissing if they’re in the middle of a literal war) and if it’s in character.

Remember that for colder characters a simple arm caress shows a lot, and will never be forgotten by either the other character (the reiver) and your audience!

3. Brainstorm

Ideas for gentle softness can be:

Ask for consent to touch the other (meaning to caress them or kiss them)

Brushing leg against leg (or elbows, shoulders, arms)

holding hands

holding pinkies

stroking

blowing kisses

smiling encouragingly from afar

asking if they’re okay

moving closer without saying anything

resting their arm on the other character’s shoulder

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writing should be fun.

make oc playlists. spend hours on moodboards that have no purpose. write self-indulgent fluff that’s never going to be published. scribble three lines of poetry in the back of your history notebook. draw fanart of your own characters. write stupid dialogue that your publishers might hate. start new wips that you might never finish but write those three chapters that make you happy because if you don’t write them, who else will?

writing shouldn’t always be about “will publishers like this” or “i have to reach this word count” or “how do i get the most likes”.

have fun with your writing.

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[forthegraveyard]

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[byesatvik-deactivated20211102]

the way some (most lol) of you joke about trauma is disgusting. it’s one thing to make jokes out of your own trauma to cope but this bullshit about “i can tell you don’t have trauma” “trauma builds character” “dni if you aren’t traumatized” etc etc like i’m sorry but kids not having severe trauma is, god forbid, a good thing. keep your jokes to your dms like i understand being frustrated that someone doesn’t get what it’s like to have childhood trauma but for the love of god stop acting like trauma is part of growing up. no one deserves to be traumatized lol

[byesatvik-deactivated20211102]

like i’m sorry but you should not be telling people that they didn’t deserve to have normal parents. you should not be telling people that abusive parents are normal. because they’re not!! this website’s userbase is so used to this shit and make it seem like there’s something wrong with you if you didn’t experience abuse/bullying/etc but that’s the goal that’s the fucking goal!! and by no means am i trying to imply that shitty parents are the only source of trauma; that’s just an example. but it’s not a bad thing to be on good terms with your mom. it’s not a bad thing to not be suicidal. i promise it’s not.

[byesatvik-deactivated20211102]

you all act like having a shitty life is integral to being normal, but like…you’re all traumatized as hell and you didn’t deserve that shit. it’s not normal. stop acting like it is and stop belittling people who were lucky enough to have a good childhood.

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