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[veronicaleighauthor]

[starfleet-cadet]

Human half this, Vulcan half that. Spock actually takes after both of his parents by being unhinged (Amanda) and a bitch (Sarek)

[wednesdayshadow]

Neil Gaiman does both.

[write-on-world]

[for-the-freaks-and-geeks]

[sancticide]

see writing is funny because sometimes you have to google things like “can the human body survive with every rib broken” and other times you have to google things like “is there an ikea in manhattan???”

[lavamamma]

Warm up:

Make a list of each of your characters' motivations. (At least 3 each). Now, what do those motivations look like as behaviours?

[jamiesfootball]

I have typed 23 words but I have written 2 pages. With a pen and paper and everything. What’s my word count? Wtf knows

[emraev1212]

omfg the urge to spoil my entire book just so I can talk about all the cool things I'm doing is so STRONG

[anais-ninja-bitch]

how write book?

[cargopantsman]

like that but more

[anais-ninja-bitch]

oh noooooo

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

[homunculus-argument]

I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is autistic as hell and responds to her wish to rule with "oh thank god please do, I don't want to be bothered by these people. I can just tell them to go bother you instead, if you really want that. I've got beetles I wanted to study."

[stele3]

"I'm really not good at it," the king admits with horrible, aching grief. The country is in disarray. Peasants go hungry. Nobles trade power amongst themselves with impunity.

So the queen takes over and ruthlessly sets things to rights. Fires several generals, hangs nobles, redirects wealth to the peasantry. It isn't long before the first assassination attempt, which she expected.

She did not expect her docile, beetle-obsessed husband to go absolutely feral and fling himself at the assassins wielding a pair of sharp knives.

[stele3]

Also, the beetles are intended to attack and kill a certain type of invasive worm that has been killing off the gourd and potato crops for decades. He’s been trying since he was a child to crossbreed several native species to be hardier and better diggers. When he finally gets it right it’s all over for you bitches (“you bitches” being mass starvation of subsistence farmers).

[cowthropologist]

Do I actually want to write this fanfic or do I just want to wallow in the delicious daydream like a pig in the mud?

[thebitchywitchyone]

Unfortunately I wish for others to wallow in my magnificent mud pit

[writingdotcoffee]

“You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”

— Erica Jong

[writingdotcoffee]

“All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

— Robert Frost

[fleursdesmorts]

every year people get angry when ao3 requests donations but honestly in a world where almost all spaces online are slowly being eaten by corporations which censor the content on those sites, having a fan-run fan-sponsored place where people can create gay art without fear is great

[writingdotcoffee]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

— Aristotle