I am a Christian, female, Zelda fan. If you have prayer requests, toss them in my ask box or message me. I would love to lift you up to my Saviour. Also, I love doing little writing games! Feel free to send me an LU boy and a word.
There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.
They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:
Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor)
You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.
Write around the story
Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try:
⋆ A character ramble / journal entry
⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft
⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud
⋆ A messy summary of what should happen
Engage with the story from a different angle.
Borrow a voice until yours comes back
No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.
Write the emotion, not the plot.
What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.
Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first.
You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.
You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.
Reblogging for the writers who need to hear it, but also for the readers who have no idea how much work and courage it takes to write and post the stories they love to read.
All of this. One more that I may humbly add that works for me is retype the chapter.
For me, opening a new doc and placing it side-by-side against what I've written, and then transcribing what's already been done (and editing in the process) helps ground me in the scene/chapter/voice/characters and helps me discover ways to get unstuck (maybe I didn't explore an emotion earlier that needed to be dug into. Maybe they should not have left that room when they did and lingered longer. Maybe the conversation needed to get cut off before the character made the statement that derails everything). Starting from the beginning is like re-tracing your steps and editing at the same time, and most times it really helps get the brain closer to where it needs to be.
And yeah, I've done it multiple times on the same chapter. How many? You'll have to buy me a drink before I tell you that.
Travel Through the Darkness: Prologue/Chapter I: "Once Upon a Dream..." Pages 1-7
"A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn't get him here, then he's not much of a knight in shining armor."
~ Charile Lovett
Here we are, the beginning of the adventure! And like many Zelda Games and Classic Fairy-tales, it begins with a dreamer.
“Fairy-tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy-tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
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in my heart the reason why it took a week for the phantom ruby experiments to start was because tails was loose on the death egg. like they’re in space so it’s not like he can go anywhere but he sure was missing
Four sketchboard + Minish Cap + more doods (I'm having too much fun. ha.)
Explanation below:
1. 4444444444444
2. Minish Cap doodlies: Ain't baby Four the cutest thing ever? his job is being smol, broke, and confused. (Everything about Minish Cap is so colorful and cute okkk except for Vaati he can live in the sewers or sumn. (Affectionate))
3-4. Tavern shenanigans:
Some ppl hc Wind to be an early drinker bc he's a pirate-in-training and all, but I think he never got the chance on the era of LU because Time is a responsible dad >:) (He only orders fun drinks like small beer, apple ciders, or other fuzzy non-alcoholic drinks for Wind. Sugar rush is guaranteed.).
5. Time is the kind of person that reviews every milk store that exists all over Hyrule, even on different dimension. (5/5 for Lon Lon Milk only).
6. Self explanatory, but it's so easy to get rupees on your adventures in BOTW. Consumerism runs in his blood 100/10.
If. If you still want doodle requests... May I suggest z1 rulie meets z2 rulie meets lu rulie? Two Hyrules looking at the one before like "you dont even know about the next thing coming ..." While the youngest one is like 0.0
Alternatively Rulie being cute with Aurora or Dawn scheming to get them to spend time together or something, idk
This was such a cool request!!!! I made it wholesome tho.
Hyrule knows everything the other guys will go through and I think that he would encourage them more than joke about it (maybe after the yap he makes some jokes). And idk it was a good excuse to draw baby Hyrule, cause I mean, WHO WOULDN'T HUG THAT BOY T^T!!!!!!!! Also Hyrule being a Legend fanboy, hell yeah, like Four being a Sky fanboy, let the blorbos have blorbos too.
Thank you for the ask!!! I really appreciate them, hope you like the doodle!!!!! 💖🥹
I got this finished a while ago... But now i have decided to re-do the whole thing on my tablet instead of my phone lol. So have the abandoned vers of this panel from my LU AMV♡
Another view of my Fairy AU designs for Rulie and Legend I made for fun (and probably last one of just these two for now so I can stop procrastinating the rest of the chain's designs).
I'm glad that my first post of what had originally just been a spontaneous idea for a prompt was received so positively, not to mention I love seeing others be as enamored as I am over these guys so thank you!