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Not that I think anyone here cares much about it but I just finished my first pass at the final chapter of the wtsd rewrite. I still have to wait for Hannah to go over them (and often she substantially changes what I wrote) but the very first preliminary draft of original!wtsd exists
for anyone looking for any of my fics, I have privated almost my entire ao3 for now due to personal reasons! If anyone is interested in a pdf of any fic in particular, feel free to dm me :)
thanks!
Master List of Soulmate AUs
Edit: Updated 25/October/2019
[ALL THE LINKS HERE] <- Easier reblogging
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Part 8] [Part 9] [Part 10] [More TBA] (Full list below, these are just the posts the lists are from)
Gosh I hope there’s no repeats… Let me know if there are, I’ll edit it. Some of these AUs are probably in an improper category, sorry.
—–START OF LIST—–
–Something Written/Drawn–
-Each others’ names on their wrist/palm/etc
-Names on both wrist, one soulmate other enemy, can’t tell which one is which
-Each other’s initials on their wrist/palm/etc
-Each others’ first words to one another
-Each others’ last words (to one another)
-Same marking on each other’s skin
- Each soulmate has one half of a quote that is important to their relationship.
-A timer for when they shall first meet
-A timer for when the other dies
-Timer counting up and stops when you’ll meet your soulmate
-Timer starts counting the moment you meet your soulmate
-Writing that says how old your soulmate will be when you meet
- Everyone is born with a unique number only they and their soulmates have.
-Writing that says what your soulmate is most passionate about
-Your soulmate’s feelings about you is written on your body
-Your soulmates first impression/thoughts about you is written on your body
-Written on your palm is what your soulmate is thinking
- Each year imprinted on your arm, whispered in a dream, sent in a mail or whatever, is a hint to who/where is your soulmate.
- Each day on your arm is a particular event your soulmate will face today. (Examples: Promotion, family death, new pet, meeting soulmate…)
-Every night you receive a message about a random sentence your soulmate has said that day.
-You have a watch that says the timezone your soulmate is in
-The first drawing you see from your soulmate is tattoo-ed on your skin
-Meter of how dangerous your soulmate is
-Meter of how in danger your soulmate is
- A touch from your soulmate will leave an imprint there (like a different coloured area on your skin, or a symbol, or name)
- Ink marks (similar to tattoos) are on your body. When your soulmate is in the vicinity, it’ll slowly move, as if reaching out. When you two touch, the tattoos will connect with each other.
-Counter (maybe on your palm) that depicts how many times you pass your soulmate
-Timer of how much time you spent with your soulmate
-Timer of how much time you don’t spend with your soulmate (maybe only in effect after you meet them)
-You only get the first letter of your soulmate’s name
- The first (or last) words your soulmate speaks every day is written on your arm.
- The first sentence you say to your soulmate is written on yourself (after you say it, maybe).
- The most important thing your soulmate says to you is written on you.
- The most important thing your soulmate says (to you?) that day will be written on you.
- The most frequent thing your soulmate says to you is written on you.
- There’s a symbol (or written words) of what weather your soulmate is experiencing right now (or going to experience later in the day).
- Your soulmate’s birthday is written on your arm.
- The last thing you were thinking about before meeting your soulmate is written on them.
- Your thoughts about your soulmate or having a soulmate is written on their body. Over time the words accumulate, some growing smaller or fading, but never disappear.
- Amount of time you’re with your soulmate written on you. Could be a permanent number or a number that accumulates over time.
- Written on you is a badly worded description of how you’ll meet your soulmate (Ex. Reality: Meet in coffee shop spill drink- - > Description: “You’ll meet in a place of high energy and it’ll be hot”)
- Soulmate marks are only visible after meeting and/or touching.
- Every time your soulmate lies, their words are written on you.
- All the nicknames your soulmate is called by is written on you.
- Whenever someone describes your soulmate, those words appear in a special journal.
–Changed Vision–
-See colour for the first time when you meet, fades away when they die
-Will only see shades of your soulmate’s eye colour until you meet
-Can only see colour to places your soulmate’s been/touched
- Human beings themselves and everything they touch is monochrome, until they meet their soulmate. Then everything they touch is in colour (except for human beings who aren’t your soulmate).
-Everyone is technically “blind”. You can only see what your soulmate sees (until you meet them maybe)
- Each genuine emotion your soulmate expresses to you adds colour to your world (Ex: yellow for happiness, blue for sorrow, red for passion, etc).
–Different Abilities–
-See/hear/speak/etc for the first time when you meet
-Being next to soulmate heals injuries
- You stop aging at a certain age, until you meet your soulmate and grow old together.
- Everyone has super powers, but when soulmates are together their powers are nullified by each other.
- Everyone has weak powers, but when soulmates are together their powers are amplified
-Have the same super power
-Soulmates have opposite powers from each other (fire and water, invisibility and high noticeability, etc)
- Teleport to each others side
- Everyone has the ability to manipulate the force of wind to an extent. The wind blows in the direction of where their soulmate is. (Maybe the wind is stronger depending on your bond)
- Everyone has powers, and when you meet your soul mate you swap powers. (Probably have to hang out with them to get pointers on your new powers)
- You can cast one portal anywhere and so does your soulmate. Your portal leads to your soulmate’s portal and vice versa.
–Sharing–
-Get the same emotions as your soulmate does (They’re sad, you’re suddenly sad)
- Get the same injuries as your soulmate does
-When you get sick, so does your soulmate
-Soulmates share the same handwriting
-Soulmates share the same fingerprints
-You share your knowledge with your soulmate
-You share your temperature with your soulmate
- Songs sung by your soulmate is stuck in your head.
- Whatever music that is stuck in your soulmate’s head is stuck in yours too.
-There’s a radio in everyone’s heads that they share with their soulmates, the two(?) of you can change the tunes
-Unique song imprinted in your mind that only you and your soulmate knows
-Have the same tics at the same time (verbal tics, drumming fingers, humming, etc)
-Cellphones between soulmates are in the same condition (cracked screens are in the same places)
-If you’re having a good/bad day, your soulmate will have the same amount of good/bad day. (Or alternatively, the opposite)
- There’s a small screen only visible to you that allows you to see what your soulmate is seeing (think kind of like those video games with splits screens)
- Soulmates share the same afterlife
-Have the same heart beat
-Heartbeat morse code for soulmates name
-Soulmate’s heart beat on your wrist
-Everyone has life points/years left in their life, and people can give their soulmates their own life points/years if they’re lacking
-Whenever you lose an item (like a sock), it ends up in your soulmates’ possession somehow
-Everyone has a different sky that is shared with their soulmate (except clouds/sun/moon stay in the same position for everybody, so weather is not affected). Everyone has the ability to draw on the sky, making splash of colours or little notes for only them and their soulmate to see.
- Everyone receives a special accessory (hat, watch, necklace, bracelet, etc) that is exactly alike with their soulmate. Many people, when they meet their soulmate, like to swap theirs with the other.
- Taste the things your soulmate is eating/drinking.
- You share talents with your soulmate.
- Everything you record is sent to your soulmate.
- Everybody has some type of tablet thing that’s a shared space you and your soulmate can draw on.
- Wake up and sleep at the same time.
- Special pens where if both soulmates are holding their special pen, they can both write/draw the same thing. (Like sharing one pen in different locations.)
- People have a tendency to experience whatever emotions their soulmate have pent up inside them.
- Once you hit a certain age, or once a year, you swap bodies with your soulmate.
- Same as above, except with your soulmate’s closest friend/enemy.
- Soulmates can swap bodies with each other any time.
- When someone touches your soulmate, you can feel it mirrored on your skin.
- Whatever your soulmate eats, you get a craving for it.
- You’re forced to sing whatever song your soulmate is singing, or get into a perfect duet.
–Communication–
- Telepathic link with your soulmate.
-Write something on your own skin, appears on the other’s skin as well
-Meet soulmate in dreams every night (with the ability to interact)
-Can meet soulmate any time in a shared mind space
-Before you die, you get to send one last message to your soulmate
-You can send one item to your soulmate every year (or whenever)
-You have this limited stack of sticky notes. Write whatever you want on it, and that note would magically appear somewhere in your soulmate’s line of sight during that day.
- Soulmates can communicate with each other in a language only they understand.
- When concentrating, you can write out your soulmate’s thoughts.
–Changed Physical Features–
-Your eyes are your soulmate’s hair colour, changes when they dye it
-Everyone has heterochromia, one eye is your natural colour the other is your soulmate’s natural colour. Once you meet all eyes return to natural colour.
-Your hair colour is your soulmate’s sexuality flag (remember that there can be platonic soulmates, and that sometimes you can be soulmates with someone but they’re not soulmates with you)
- Once you meet your soulmate, you grow wings like an angel. You gain one new feather each time something special happens between you two. When your soulmate dies, you lose all your feathers and can no longer fly.
–Restrictions–
- It is impossible to lie to your destined soulmate.
- Under a curse until you meet your soulmate
- They have to say each other’s name to figure out they’re soulmates.
- Only your soulmate can kill you.
-The only voice in the world you can/can’t hear is your soulmate’s
-If you don’t find your soulmate by your #th birthday, you die
-Everyone wears a mask. You get to finally take it off when you meet the one with your identical mask, your soulmate.
-You’re stuck in a room filled with clones (with maybe slight differences) of your soulmate. You need to kill all except your soulmate or else you won’t get out/be together.
- On top of everybody’s head is the name of their soulmate. You can’t see your own. If you tell somebody their soulmate’s name, something unfortunate/death will happen to them/yourself/a soulmate.
-Your soulmate is invisible to you until you figure out a certain trigger.
- If anyone except for your soulmate says your name, you die
- Opposite of the above, if your soulmate says your name you die
-The only words you can say is your soulmates name until you meet them.
-You can’t harm your soulmate
-You can only harm your soulmate
-You have a limited number of words, and you can only recharge when you’re with your soulmate (when you use up your word count, you die)
- Everyone has a special pen that can only have the writing erased by their soulmate.
- Every human has a limited number of words they can say before turning mute, but to their soulmate that limit is gone and they can speak endlessly to them.
- Opposite of above, you have a limited number of words you can say to your soulmate before turning mute (only to them?)
–Experiences/Actions–
- When you meet your soulmate, time stops for a month for everyone besides you two.
-For a month, you and your soulmates have to go through different soulmate AUs each day (ooh you can use my lists for ideas *cough cough*)
-Each year at a certain age, soulmates are paired together into some sort of battle royal thing, best OTP wins
-At the corner of your eye, you can see a blurry vision of whatever your soulmate is doing (like sitting down drinking coffee in your living room, even though they’re doing this in another area)
-Soulmates can switch lives whenever they feel like it
-When you meet your soulmate for the first time, you get a flashback/relive their entire lives
-Similar to above, except you get glimpses of their future
-Before you die, you flash through your soulmate’s entire life (what they were doing before they met you, if they’ve ever lied to you, etc
-Hidden in dreams, but never interacting, is your soulmate
-A certain time frame began to loop, and the only way for it to stop is to find your soulmate
- You will keep looping your life until you meet your soulmate.
- Legend says that if you fold 1000 paper (Cranes? Planes? Rabbits? Anything really) You can meet your soulmate.
- Everyday, you have the chance to spin a wheel that will determine an event your soul mate will face. (Some people may avoid it for bad luck, others may spin it for the slim chance of your soulmate getting a cure for their illness or something)
-There’s this special video game where your partner is your soulmate. You only get to meet if the two of you finish the game.
-At the age of sixteen, everyone goes into another world for two years, hanging out with their soulmate. Time is warped to make sure the two of you are sixteen in this world. When the two years are up, you’re sent back into the real world, with fractured memories of what happened. These foggy memories make it hard to find them again. (Numbers can be changed.)
- The first time you touch your soulmate, you’re forced to relive their best day and/or worst day of their lives (past or future).
- Human beings die on their 25th birthday (or any number). To prevent this, they have to meet their soulmate. But only one of them can survive.
- If you haven’t met your soulmate but have been in the same vicinity of each other (like passing each other on a street or in the same building), that day will keep repeating until you find each other.
- Once you meet your soulmate you’re literally stuck to each other for the rest of the day.
- After death, you become your soulmate’s guardian angel (may require going back in time, or not).
- Every night, dream about what your soulmate is going to experience the next day.
- Something fills up before meeting your soulmate, like a heart ink tattoo getting coloured in or a bottle filling up with liquid/sand/origami stars/etc. The moment it is full is the moment you meet your soulmate.
–Compasses–
- A red string tied around your pinky is connected to your soulmate’s pinky (when the two of you are in a certain distance)
- You can only see the string of fate when you close your eyes.
-Temperature gets hotter the nearer they are, colder when they are further away
-Each person has a spirit animal that can lead you to your soulmate
-If you send off a paper airplane, it shall reach (or move in the direction of) your soulmate.
- Counter of how many footsteps away you are from your soulmate
- Your soulmate leaves coloured footprints only visible to you
- Throwing something you love on the full moon will land on your soul mate
-You can feel a tug from wherever your soulmate is. These may either be automatic, or have stronger tugs whenever your soulmate is in distress.
- Each soulmate pair has a constellation, and the constellation that you perceive to be the brightest is pointing towards where your soulmate is.
- Progress bar of how close you are to your soulmate.
- Herding goose that herds people to their soulmates. (No I did not make that one up and it has been written more than once apparently, even before the Untitled Goose Game.)
–Hints–
-You get a photograph of your soulmate and vice versa, somehow (Could be yearly, could be at a certain age, could be a photo of when you first met, etc)
-The voice in your head (example: your conscious) is your soulmate’s voice (by that I meant that they have the same voice, not that’s it’s your soulmate’s personality in your head– y’know, take it as you will)
- Every year, you receive a puzzle piece. The whole picture is your soulmate’s name/appearance/location/etc.
-Mysterious letter detailing to one person when they’ll meet, and another letter detailing where they’ll meet to their soulmate, but not both (Person A gets when they’ll meet, Person B gets where they’ll meet)
-Letter about details of how the meeting between soulmates go (example: “you get pushed into a lake by a guy in a duck suit and your soulmate helps you”, etc)
-Bubbles gives you a blurry glimpse into your soulmate’s world (visions of possessions, friends, family, laughter, crying, etc)
- Everyone holds a locket with their soulmate’s picture, but it can only open when certain conditions are met
- Instead of removing flower petals for “loves me, loves me not” the flower petals dictate whether you’ll meet in this lifetime (“meet me, meet me not”) and it’s forever accurate.
- Everyone has memories of their soulmate in their past life.
- Everyone receives a picture of their soulmate (at a certain age) taken the year they met.
- There’s a point system in life. You can purchase clues as to who your soulmate is for 50 (or any number) points.
- You get to meet the parents of your children’s soulmates.
- You dream of the place of where you’ll meet your soulmate.
- The first picture you and your soulmate are in will be sent to you on a birthday (which can be tricky if it was, for example, a class photo. Or a newspaper picture of a crowd).
- Counter of how many times you’ve passed by or seen your soulmate.
- One soulmate owns a lock and the other owns the key to that lock.
–Your Soulmate–
-If you and your soulmate possess the same item, it’ll glow
-Everyone has a special pen/marker/drawing utensil. Using it, the lines are thicker when their soulmates feel strong emotions, thinner when they’re feeling weak, run out of ink when they die, etc.
-There’s this special block of clay that represents your soulmate. It has a special colour and changes forms depending on how your soulmate is feeling.
- There’s an object that changes colour depending on what mood your soulmate is in
-Reflecting in the mirrors is the appearance of your soulmate
-Plant that represents the soulmate
-Receive piece of cloth with soulmate’s scent
-You get a notification whenever your soulmate is asleep or awake (like a real life friends list)
-Everyone gets a list of their soulmate’ worst qualities
-Everyone is born knowing their soulmate’s (future) biggest secret
-List detailing the differences between you and your soulmate
- You can sense when your soulmate is in distress
-Whenever you have a question, your soul mate has the answer.
-Once you’re an adult, you get kicked out of the house until you find your soulmate.
-Everyone gets little books of what people think about their soulmate (but never said out loud)
- Everyone has a device to check if the other person is their soulmate (like a light that’s red when it’s not and green when it is). It gets brighter when they’re full of life, dimmer when they get sick, and out of batteries when they’re dead.
- Literal sparks fly when you’re near your soulmate, soothing for the two of you but static shock for others.
- Your level of talent at a hobby is determined by how close you are with your soulmate.
- The outline of your shadow is your soulmate.
- You meet your soulmate the day after the worst event of your life.
- Everyone somehow owns a creature who possesses the same (general) personality as your soulmate.
- You know every number about your soulmate (Phone number, number of times they said hello, social insurance number, number of days left, etc…)
—–END OF LIST—–
Enjoy! You can use any of these without permission (but if you do tell me you’ll use one I’ll be giddy that you read this and it’ll make my day, I swear). Happy writing! :D
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Creatures | Cow Chop RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Anna Marie | intricateornate, Original Characters, Original Demon Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Casters, Twins, Sisters, Resurrection, Demonic Possession Series: Part 4 of Cow Chop Modern Magics Summary:
Foresight: the ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future. Regarded throughout the magical community as the rarest and most powerful gift a caster’s magic can be claimed for.
And having a twin sister with the same power? Unprecedented!
And yet, when all is said and done, what good is such power when you don’t see the one tragedy that will haunt you forever until it’s far too late to stop it?
me flirting: oh fuck, your spiral horns are wicked and would be excellent for grabbing during carnal pleasures
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Just dropped almost 95k of new fic on ao3!!! Roughly 30k of it is plot, the rest is karlnapity/feral boys smut and a one piece smutfic 🙏
questions for fic writers
a collection of questions i, as a writer, would love to be asked !!!
1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)
2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?
3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?
4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?
5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!
6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?
7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?
8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?
9. How do you find new fic to read?
10. How do you decide what to write?
11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?
12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?
13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?
14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?
15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?
16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?
17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?
18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?
19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?
20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?
21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [insert fic], what would it be?
22. Who is your favorite character in [insert fic] and why?
23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?
24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?
25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?
26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?
27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.
28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?
29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want!
30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?
31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?
32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?
33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?
34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?
35. What aspects of your writing are completely unlike your real life?
36. Do you visualize what you read/write?
37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?
38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?
39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?
40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?
41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”
42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?
43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?
44. If you take/write prompts: do you prefer dialogue or scenario/narrative prompts?
45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?
46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?
47. If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.
48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?
49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!
50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!
As a huge Eragon fan from when I was young (pls don’t judge me) I am BEGGING on my KNEES for an Wilbur&Mellon centric drabble. I need to know their dynamic. Is she sweet and soft with him? Is Wilbur cursed to forever love “people” who will ceaselessly snark at him? My kingdom for more about these soulmates please please
Mellon is a sweet girl.
That's hard to believe if one just happens to see her; after all, she's the size of a horse, with long horns and slitted eyes, and she's a fucking dragon, so most people bolt at just the sight of her. But, truly, she is very sweet. She is polite and patient and kind, though she has her moments of being stubborn and is never willing to let go of having the last word.
Her first words to Wilbur, the ones that were actually articulated through their bond, were 'It's nice to meet you, Mr. Soot.'
The words had brought tears to his eyes.
Since then, she'd grown far less formal. Wilbur grew to become her favorite person, second (or sixth, as the case may be) only to her fathers. Wilbur was happy to take sixth place, knowing it was more than he really deserved. She was the best that the world had to offer - well-mannered and good natured, always a laugh or a soft word, a reminder that Wilbur had to be better. That he had to grow up, because one day he would be all she had left in the world and he needed to be ready for that.
The first time she sassed him, she was what equated to a pre-teen, about fourteen years old. He'd made a remark about Philza being an old man and she'd said, 'As if you're not close behind him.'
Wilbur had been too shocked to do much more than laugh, unaware that this was the start of a long future of Mellon taking after her parents far too much for his comfort.
Mellon wasn't ever mean - her sass was nearly always funny enough that it made Wilbur laugh, even as he was forced to deal with the fact that she was smarter and funnier than him. He also had to deal with the fact that he couldn't snark back because he was an adult (or that was his excuse, at least).
That excuse goes away, eventually, as she ages. She never gets mean but, in her adulthood, she grows a bit sharper and at least Wilbur can respond in kind. It's all in good fun, though Mellon is never scared to call out behavior she doesn't like - and Wilbur sometimes does the same. They're a team, after all, and the two of them are all each other has, eventually. Well, and Technoblade, but Technoblade had never hesitated to razz Mellon, even when she was only a baby.
Most of all, though, Mellon is Wilbur's best friend. He loves her and he loves talking with her, he loves her personality and her sass. He loves the dragon she's grown in to, his soulmate and his Guardian.
And, even if he won't say it, he loves that she has wit so similar to Quackity's. A gentle reminder of the man that had changed Wilbur so intrinsically, of the people who raised her to be so very perfect, a perfect match for him.
Hi there! Your writing style is so amazing! What stands out to me is your ability to keep everyone in character (especially through dialogue!) and your storytelling itself. Each story flows through beginning - middle - end perfectly and never drags; you always manage to make every chapter interesting and exciting while also progressing the plot. My question is - HOW? What helped you improve your writing, more specifically storytelling abilities? Any tips? Your writing process? I'm stuck! Thanks!
AHHH oh gosh friend what a kind message!!!! Thank you so much??
I am always very worried about my dialogue and pacing so knowing that at least to a few ppl those tend to be fun to read is very reassuring! Thank you!!
Idk that I have any tips, just stuff that works for me - when it comes to pacing, I imagine myself as the reader and just write what I'd want to see. This will change depending on ur style! I always say my writing style is like a brick, it is blunt and pretty in ur face! So most of my fics rely on bluntness and I deliever a lot of lines like punches bc my style is heavy. But if u have a lighter style of writing, then ur work might lend itself to more passive scene writing, if that makes sense?
Also, I am a huge proponent of plotting ur work!! My writing is like a body - I NEED the skeleton (the plot) or my stuff is just going to be a mushy pile of skin and muscle on the floor. I plot my whole fic out first in not!fic style and then break it up into scenes and then write each scene chronologically. I know other ppl like to jump around but that often leads to abrupt tone changes, plot inconsistencies, and/or heavy editing afterward for me so I try to avoid doing it. It does work for some people! Just not me
For dialogue, I do that bit last! Just write what you are trying to convey in a line and then go back and edit for dialogue flavor.
Ex:
"I just think you're being gullible right now, it sounds fake!" is edited into: "I think you're bein' an idiot about this. Too good to be true."
My writing process is pretty basic; ideal > decide my themes and cast > plot > chronologically write, edit casually as I go > finish, edit > wait, edit one last time > post
My last tip; get a beta reader! And not just anyone - it has to be someone you both trust with ur work and who gets ur style, but also someone who can accept "no". I can think if like 5 ppl that I trust to edit my stuff off the top of my head! And all of them know that I'm picky and will only accept about half of their edits alskdjf but they vibe with my style and I trust them when they make edits that they're helping me tell my story!
I hope this helped, I didnt mean to ramble LOL thank you again for such a kind message <3
not as bad as writer's block, but still pretty bad: when you have an idea you're excited to get out of your head but you can only write it really really really slowly
writer's traffic jam
i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times
Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz
rlly hope ur doin well jess!!
Life is #busy but I am doing very well! I hope things are going okay for you too, Nero! 😊
Hay Bales and Heartbeats
So hey, I was sitting there watching the latest CCTV, and you know what I figured the world was missing out on? A McFreakin’ HundarBot Farm AU!
Even though Brett is only in his mid-thirties, he’s just completely done with city life. The hustle and bustle, the noise and traffic, he’s over it all.
He up and quits his job, sells his apartment and takes his life savings with him. Everyone thinks he’s gone loopy, and he has little reason to doubt them, but he just needs to go.
It’s so sudden, he really doesn’t do any planning, and he just drives until his car runs out of gas.
He looks up and all he sees is this beautiful little farmhouse, sort of rustic and run down, but homely all the same. There’s a barn too, and he can see some animals all the way from the road.
He’s never seen anything so wonderful.
There’s a sign posted near the road, large words scrawled across the surface: “Help Wanted”
He walks down the drive and gingerly knocks at the door. There’s no response.
He’s sitting there like “Shit, I’m stuck here”, so he decides to have a look around for anyone else.
He explores the farm, sees a horse, a cow, some goats and chickens, too. The closer he looks, though, the more he notices the things that need fixing. He understands the sign now.
He suddenly hears thundering hoofbeats coming closer, and he whips around as a horse tears around the side of the barn. He makes a noise that he’ll never admit to, a sort of startled half-screech, and narrowly dodges out of the way.
The woman riding curses as she circles back, and there’s fire in her eyes as she looks down at him.
She’s gorgeous.
A hat drawn low to block the sun, plaid shirt, jeans and boots. She looks like an angel, natural and somehow ethereal at the same time.
“Who the fuck are ya?” She snaps, gently stroking her horse’s neck to calm it down, “and what the hell are ya doin’ on my property.”
Brett is taken aback, stumbles over his own feet at her intensity, but he’s still a little lost in those eyes.
“I— uh, I ran… I’m out of gas.” He manages, a little feebly, and the woman snorts.
She grabs a spare can from around the back of the house, and she walks beside him to his car.
They get to talking, a little awkwardly, and the woman asks where he’s from and why he’s here.
“I couldn’t handle it anymore, the city. It’s just— it’s not for me…”
He points out the sign as she fills his tank, and she explains that she inherited the farm from her parents, and she loves it more than anything in the entire world, but it’s just too much upkeep for one person.
“What about me?” he asks. She takes one long look at him, and it feels like she’s staring right through to his soul.
“Big city boy, huh?” she smirks, and there’s a bit of a drawl there that he shouldn’t find cute, but he really does. “You ain’t gonna last a week, bud.”
“Try me.”
Brett lodges at Lindsey’s – he finds out her name eventually – house, and he helps out.
She wakes him up at the crack of dawn to help her feed the animals, gets him to hold the boards steady as she patches up a hole in the barn, has him working from sunrise to sunset.
He’s absolutely exhausted; his muscles ache and he struggles to get out of bed in the morning.
But he lasts. One day becomes a week, one week becomes two, pretty soon it’s been a month.
And he’s happy, so goddamn happy that he feels like he can’t contain it.
Lindsey seems to see it too, because she slowly warms to him, starts to let those walls come down.
She watches him staring at her riding with wide-eyed awe and offers to teach him. He’s terrified, of course, but there’s a surprising gentleness to Lindsey once she lets him in. She takes things slow, allows him to explore at his own pace, and pretty soon they’re riding around the property all day.
One of the goats is a tiny little thing, and he can’t stop himself from holding it to his chest and just chatting to it quietly about how much he likes this place. He doesn’t know that Lindsey listens to him, but she always does.
They climb up onto the roof of the barn one night, lay there and just look at the sky. Brett has never seen so many stars in his life.
He kisses her that night.
She smiles now, all the time, and he’s never not blown away by how radiant she looks.
He’ll have the fire going and dinner ready, because she insisted on staying behind to finish up a job, and he doesn’t want her to worry about anything when she gets back.
He reads books now, for the first time in his life. It actually feels like he can finally sit down and enjoy them.
She sits behind him and messes with his hair, plays with braids and ponytails or even just runs her fingers through it.
He loves her, and although he wants to believe she does too, there’s that little voice in his head that wonders whether he’s good enough.
And then she calls him out to the barn and he sees wine and candles and blankets and her.
They sleep together for the first time that night.
It’s cautious to begin with, hesitant almost, but that melts away with the gentle buzz of alcohol and the warmth of lips and bodies that just seem to fit perfectly together.
They wake up the next morning to the rooster’s crow, sunlight streaming through the slats of the barn, little patterns dancing across their skin. They’re wrapped up together, only a thin blanket covering them.
It’s a beautiful moment, a peaceful one.
He tells her he loves her, and when she says it too, he finally believes her.
If putting up with the city for 30 years was the price he had to pay to have this life, it had been worth every single second.
miss ur cow chop content 😭
I miss making cow chop content :( they're in my heart at all times
i still love cow chop i think about it every day
