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@garnet-butterfly
The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation
One of my writing teachers in community college told me that the first step of writing fiction was to run a character up a tree, and the second step was to throw rocks at him. Words to live by
another day, another opportunity to create. you get to shape this moment as a thousand different timelines pour off of you in a thousand different ways. so fill it with beauty. how? give today the the uniqueness that makes YOU you. you are the perfect ingredient for this moment bud. LETS TROT
thats exactly what i meant
I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.
Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.
Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.
Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it
It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.
Somewhere in the middle is the epiphany that happens when you're nowhere near technology. The heavens part and the gods bestow the most perfect line/scene ever imagined. You need to repeat that line to yourself over and over and over like a madman as you dash to the nearest writing implements, hoping you don't lose the inspiration.
And then you promptly forget it the minute you cross a threshold.
That place is the shower
EP16: Part 4
Just so many expressions
One technique that's been helping me with story outlines lately is figuring out what my story ISN'T going to do.
When I'm having trouble deciding what I want from my characters, who I want them to be, how I want them to change, it can be helpful to stop and think about what I definitely don't want to write. Then I can sometimes reverse-engineer those hard no's into what DOES appeal to me.
I don't want this plot to just be a repeat of this other thing. I don't want the story to fall into this trope. I don't want this scene to be comfortable. I don't want the prose to feel natural here. I don't want the audience to guess the way the twist unfolds.
I don't want the pacing to drag on by having too many chapters. I don't really want to cover that theme so I'm going to leave that part of things unexplored. I don't like this element, so I'm cutting it. Etc..
Sometimes, it's easier to express a "DO NOT WANT!!!" than a desire, you know?
anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a character’s life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)
My novel has stagnated. . .
So I'm taking a break and writing short fiction. I'm currently writing a tarot themed short for a short fiction competition and I'm having a lot of fun with the new challenge of trying to say everything in fewer words.
I think I'm actually better at this than at novels. That won't change my desire to finish a novel, but the bite size is so fun.
I have a tarot etiquette question:
I don't really tarot. I have a deck, it's the D&D tarot deck that I use for games and story telling prompts. I'm writing a short story about a woman equally inexperienced with tarot as a practice and I have a question:
Would flipping a card into the inverse position at the end of a reading to declare your intention to change be a faux pas?
Controversial, but I think it's harmful to tell people you're never going to write something good on the first try or it's always going to be pure garbage, like that may be helpful for some on some level, but I personally don't think it's a healthy way of thinking, and it causes others to second guess work that is good. Is editing often helpful? Yes. But you're not going to have to Ship of Theseus everything you ever make. Anyway, the phrase "idk, man, it depends" strikes again.
THIS
creative angel gonna visit you tonight. you gonna get some idea
75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it
It is. In case you were wondering. Your story is worth the effort you are putting into it. It’s an amazing thing because you are writing it.
Okay, we got a new one, boys.
Please allow me to scream into the void for a moment.
I am reading a book that I absolutely hate. I try to go into books with little to no expectations. I don't even read blurbs very often. They either give you nothing or tell you everything. It's not worth it.
This book is marketed as Gothic Fiction. . . where's the Gothic???
There is no atmosphere. There is no isolation. There is no psychological distress. There is no examination of generational patterns. We are 43% of the way through the book and they haven't gotten to the eponymous haunted manor.
So why am I still reading it? Because I love to read a book that makes me feel and I am absolutely furious. I know that this kind of media consumption isn't for everyone, but I really like to read a book I hate every once in a while to remind me of what I love about books.
if you ever find yourself writing fanfiction and thinking "this is too indulgent" that is the devil talking and he can go ahead and shut the fuck up
I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.
