hiii frankie i hope you’re doing well!! i have a writing question and since you are lowkey. actually even highkey i’d say one of the writers i admire most i am looking to you for advice if you have any <3 this year i have started to write original fiction for the first time since i was writing stories on the family computer in grade 6 and it is Very daunting. i feel like i have no idea what im doing and like everything i write makes 0 sense and has no substance. i am trying to write a short story/novella and i feel like i have a decent grasp on the characters/what the plot is supposed to be but i dont know how to move it forward or give the characters depth etc etc. basically my question is do you have any advice for original fiction writing? how to make the story mean something, how to give it depth and meat and make it interesting. with the characters, the relationships, the world building etc. thank you king🫶
I have been ruminating on this ask because (1) I love you and (2) I feel like my previous answers to this question did not capture what I was trying to convey.. but I think I’ve found the words now ^u^ I have a highly model-based and verbal thinking style! Once I have a few defining pieces of a character(/person) slotted into place in my mind machine, the writing just happens, the characters write themselves, because they have their intuition, drives, taste, fears, desires, rage, already baked into the system/program….. my head thrives in metaphor, it primarily thinks in text, and it clings to moments of tragic earnest humanity from life with autobiographical precision—I don’t remember everything I’ve ever heard or have photographic memory or anything like that. But until I met Weed Pen I remembered everything I said, everything that was said to me, that I was an active participant in…… fortunate for my natural Investigator traits. Horrible for my learned Predictor-to-preempt-safety traits. this is why I struggle to answer this question—because the writing process (even the editing process) is so intuitive to me—it’s making microadjustments based upon data collected through thorough observation and the testing of hypotheses—but again, most of this is subconscious. I collect data points that orient me inside/around a person, and then I am locked in, the character and I are locked in together, and I cannot help writing the story, the letters fall out of me. It’s not a puppeteering process, it’s not manipulating external influences to watch a character lose or gain everything.. its not entertainment fodder to me. it’s playing out the model of circumstances. And with me, it’s usually modeling circumstances past the point where the story lost interest in the character(s) driving my narrative. I am obsessed with concept/theme of “the fallout” in general, specifically a soft fallout for gravely misunderstood and imperfect people, a landing where they can be exactly as they are, can be seen as exactly that, and are loved for it……. That’s my driving purpose. To make invisible alive moments visible, to remember with every word that aliveness is why they’re visible, and making them visible is worthy enough a purpose to continue this living thing.. recognition. Empathy. That’s why and how and when I write, and it’s more like the writing takes control of my body like a scary demon… it’s about finding the variables to create the situation that will make YOU feel like that. idk or something :-))
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