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I couldn't sleep (and am still woefully awake) so I practiced casting on my knitting needles for about an hour.
A higher dimension has been reached and infinitely many earths have been discovered, each seemingly identical. Our hero wants to shut herself off on her earth as much as possible. As she finds the most ideal place to settle and farm, she relaxes to the absence of human noise pollution.
One day, a pig escapes and she goes to find it only to literally stumble upon ruins from unknown beings.
She was supposed to be the only being able to build to have touched down. Things go from there
So I made the mistake of going back through my notes and got bit by the bug for this again. Iāve already done some brainstorming plot points and I could cry, Iām so excited about it.
hey itās october so i just thought iād let you guys know iāll never post jump scares and am extremely anti-screamer or anything else along those lines. i hope youāre all ok and stay safe this month
feel free to rb this as much as you want! just because itās tagged with āpersonalā doesnāt mean you shouldnāt tell your followers this too. let people know you have a safe blog!
no offence but your acidic cynicism, your edgy ābrutal honestyā, yourĀ āgod is deadā āpeople aint shitā āthe world is a nasty nasty place so deal with it, sweetieā enlightened nihilism is not enlightenment. itās cowardice.
So I was just brainstorming little details that may or may not matter in my story that I'm going to be writing for Nano when I realized that there could be symbolism and meaning read into it all outside of what I meant for it to be (which was literally just what I wrote - a thing happened) and now I'm even more motivated
Writing and thinking about people reading your nonsense is so cool.
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I really like playlists, so this page was an experiment to see if I could make a full playlist page. Itās designed to play through custom playlists from start to finish, but also comes with a full audio player. Itās mean to be as easy to edit as possible:
Upload your songs to somewhere like Dropbox.
Paste each song URL into the code where it says āSongURLhereā.
Add any track info you like.
Add a playlist cover (540px wide).
Thatās it!
You can also automatically share your playlist in a tumblr post using the share button, and there is the option to include multiple playlists.
How to stop researching (or worldbuilding) and start writing
This is actually advice my mentoring professor gave me when I was writing my first thesis.
He said: Accept that you are never done. There is always more to know, more to research, more questions raised than answered. At some point, you just got to start writing.
Now, āeasier said than done, this acceptingā, I thought.
I started writing because my thesis deadline was looming. But what if youāre writing a novel and you have no deadline? How do you know when itās okay to stop researching? When is it okay to stop worldbuilding? (Which is just like doing research, but in your own head instead of in reality.)
My advice to you is: start writing, and youāll run into the gaps you still need to fill. Then you know what to research before starting your second draft. Let your story tell you what it needs.
For example:
Just fill your margins with a to-research-list for your future self.
That way, itās also managable: āI finished my first draft, and I have a list of 317 things I need to decide on.ā Instead of: āI saw on tumblr that you canāt build a world without knowing everything about the sewage system! And gosh, I havenāt invented three languages yet!ā
Advantages:
You get things done.
Itās not overwhelming.
You donāt spend your time inventing things youāll like so much that you want to infodump them into your story.
You mainly research things that are relevant to your story.
Well, knowing you, you already researched enough irrelevant stuff too.
You get things done.
I hope this was helpful. Donāt hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!
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This is actually amazing advice, a couple years ago I started keeping a lore section at the end of each of my books, and it has done wonders not just for my writing (went from maybe a paragraph a month to at least a page or two per week), but itās also helped me flesh out so much of my series, even when the story Iām working on isnāt totally related to the main series. So yah, great advice!Ā
Can you tell me more about this lore section? What does it contain?
NaNoWriMo 2019
My current idea is as follows:Ā
-slightly in the future real world where humanity has taken steps to curb any type of climate crisis that is/was on the horizon
- as such, the society looks very different from what weāve got going on right nowĀ
- insert: all of mintās wildest dreams in one place thanx
- our main character, however, isnāt focusing on the outer world but rather their own little world and the absolute horror thatās unfolding around them
- what that horror is, no one is entirely sure (least of all me, okay)
if anyone wants to be buddies on site (@dynamicsneeze), Iād be hecka down. If anyoneās doing something similar re: eco speculative fiction, whether or not thatās the main focus of the piece, IāD BE SUPER DUPER DOWN TO CHITCHAT YO (this invitation is really only to people 20+ because Iām 26 and thatās just my comfort level sorry).Ā
Man, I'm getting a ton of blueberry bushes to make a living hedge and I wanna make cute little mason jar covers for the jam and stuff I'm gonna make with lil embroidered blueberries on it
Where I live, people have signs in their yards that read, 'Every Family Needs A Farmer'. It makes me want to start a service where farmers go into peoples' yards, design a permaculture food forest, and work it/harvest it for the family or teach them how to do it, if they would like to learn.
Iāve already seen dumb fuck yankee liberals acting like southern women deserve whatever happens to punish us forā¦. living in the south
It was horrific enough when itās talk about tornadoes and hurricanes and shit but can you imagine seeing these abortion laws being passed and being like āha hah stupid middle school drop out racist queerphobic hicks getting what they deserveā
Not to mention the incest jokes that are apparently totally fine to make
Yeah the amount of āha ha this horrible guy must be sexually abusing his kid sister because heās white trashā sure is something
If you buy me a stuffed animal just because you think iād like it you automatically have my heart
My therapist wants me to write down my nightmares so lol here we goooo
FRIDAY, MARCH 8TH - WOKE UP AT 3 AM ON MARCH 9TH
I was in a high school building but taking college classes, forgot to go to one all semester, and somehow ended up walking to my childhood home where, on the road, I was surrounded by men armed with knives who closed in when I woke up in a panic.Ā
I had a nightmare
Someone kept driving past a house I lived in and I ran inside where my husband was. I looked out the window and there was a hearse and car and so we called the police while pushing furniture against the door. While on the phone with the police on my cell phone, I got my addresses mixed up at first and then, as I was repeating the correct address, I heard another voice chime in: can I get that address too? I repeated the address and the voice said: oh wow, the police wonāt be here in under ten minutes
and I woke up in a panic and my doasidj[asdasd god
Unnamed Wip
I decided to try and rewrite a story I wrote yeeeeeeears ago because a) I canāt find it anywhere and b) I think itād be neat to revisit. Iām putting it below a cut for the sake of your dash and also because thereās implied depression right out the gate.
Today is gonna be Create A WIP Day, if nothing else
Iām gonna haha screamĀ
I forgot to take my keys out of my husbandās car because we carpool to school and so, I canāt go to my medication appointment (: and I canāt go get groceries (:Ā
I legit thought about throwing myself down the steps. Obviously I didnāt, but oh my god, the thought crossed my mind. Iām so fucking mad at myself. What the fuck. I have literally everything else out of that goddamn car, why not my car keys?Ā
I make everything 10000000000x harder than it needs to be and holy hell I am just, seethingĀ