sam :)

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[multi-vxrse]

let me cook now

[ellecdc]

hey writer friends, just a warning that there is a blog stealing content and claiming it as their own. i don't recommend anyone indulge or engage with them, but i would recommend blocking/reporting them and checking their other posts in case yours have been stolen too.

my post from october last year vs the post they made 3hours ago.

[chastainromanova]

ai does not belong in creative spaces. period.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think the thing that's been bothering me about the "is it okay to use ChatGPT to plot/make characters/etc" is that at the end of the day, these are not tools that are helping your writing, they are shortcuts that are undercutting it.

These things are supposed to be hard, because you need to learn how to do them.

And listen, I know this sucks. I've got to knock off 4k of words from my current novel to make it more sellable, which seems like a completely arbitrary thing to do, but things like printing costs absolutely do factor into traditional publishing. It took me five drafts to figure out a completely obvious in hindsight plot point that explains why a character does what he does. It takes a few tries to pull together a detailed outline into a workable story, and it always will.

I would have loved to figure this all out way earlier, but I had to learn how to spot the gaps in my writing before I could fix them. Generative AI isn't ever going to bridge the gap between sitting down and learning how to work things out, because if you don't do that, you never will become a more competent writer. If that wasn't part of the point, none of us would be doing this in the first place.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Also not to harp on the obvious, but even if you are okay with using the Plagiarism Machine That Lies And Also Uses Enough Energy To Burn A Small Forest Down as a tool, it's just not... a good one. I've seen the argument that they're like calculators or synthesizers, but both exist to help you become better at something, not replace a skill or talent altogether.

There are loads of free resources that people put out there to help you right. Name/character/plot generators! Plot structures and bulleted outlines! Loads of fantastic advice that is given out openly by people who like writing for people who like writing. As much as we writers whine about doing it, you are genuinely missing out on a self-rewarding and satisfactory journey of creating something that you're proud of doing, even if no one will ever read it. It is worth the effort.

You can do better than the Grift Machine trying to convince you art isn't worth it. Both art - and you - deserve more.

[elumish]

To add on to this point, the act of figuring out your writing makes you a better writer.

The process of building your story builds you a better story. Literally writing the words, whether you type them or speak them or write them by hand, will help you build a better story. Two different sentences will give you two different thoughts--and making the decision of which sentence to write is what building a story looks like.

With GenAI, the intentionality isn't there. It doesn't know why one sentence means something different from a different sentence. It doesn't know which direction you're trying to go in. It doesn't know that you will evoke a different feeling by saying skin than by saying flesh, and so it won't choose one of them versus the other.

It won't choose anything. It's just a very energy-intensive autofill.

The same is true for building characters, for building settings, for building plot. GenAI doesn't know why something is the right answer for your story, to tell the story you want to tell in the way you want to tell it, because it doesn't know anything. It just picks the expected outcome based on what other people have done.

GenAI is just a machine filling in letters in an order that they have been filled in before. It's just averages. It's just likelihood.

If you want to write a good story, you have to sit down and write the story. You have to write the sentences. You have to know why you're writing the words you're writing. You have to make decisions.

And if you don't do it this time, you won't be any better at doing it next time.

[the-dumpster-fire-of-life]

Y'ALL

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SIGN THE PETITION TO HELP SAVE SHADOW AND BONE AND OUR BELOVED CROWS

Save Shadow And Bone

[terraterracotta]

My contribution to this meme

[terraterracotta]

Because I’m standing firm with this I decided to update it to be a little more specific since some people aren’t getting the hint.

[the-right-writing]

How to make a character's death sadder

 Don’t have them die of old age after a long, fulfilling life. Many people don’t even think of this as sad (note that this can still work if you have enough of the other factors).

 Leave one of their major goals unfinished. The more enthusiastic they are about completing the goal, the sadder.

 Give them strong relationships with other characters.

 Make them fight against whatever is causing their death. Their ultimate loss is sadder if they struggle.

 Kill them in the middle of their character arc.

 Don’t describe their funeral in detail. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that long descriptions of funerals kill the sadness.

[artistizzyrae]

That’s enough Satan’s publisher…

[iceb0x]

>B)

[theirisianprincess]

7. If possible, try to kill them off in the middle of the story, so we had time to like them and we will have time to let the loss settle in.

8. Also, place surviving characters in a situation where having the deceased person there would help them get out. You can choose whether you will point this fact out or if you want the audience to make the connection themselves.

[thehellspawnhero-deactivated202]

[peachdoxie]

9. Make them die by sacrificing themselves to save someone they love from a danger created by the antagonist.

[socialjusticeprincesses]

based on a few deaths that made me blub like a baby…

10. have their loved one, broken hearted, tell the team to stop fighting because “its over.” 

11. have their pet come looking for them. 

12. have their loved one perform a popular song at their funeral so it makes the fans cry whenever it’s played.

13. family witnessing the death and/or blaming themselves.

~ Mulan

[asbehsam]

so… let’s add some frustration to your dear readers’ sadness, shall we?

14. kill the character in the middle of making a joke, smiling, or expressing/experiencing joy/happiness.

15. make the character’s death slow and painful, but make them unable to call out for help even though they can literally see the other characters nearby.

16. after killing the character, have others think the character had betrayed them so they’d always hate them and remember them as traitors and never say nice things about them… Give your readers no chance to have group-therapy with other characters by making them the only ones who know the truth.

17. right before their death, show a side of them nobody has seen. (someone who is always tough and brave being genuinely scared of dying alone; someone who is always laughing being in tears before dying, etc.)

18. make them the only person who knows a big important secret that would help other characters in the story.

19. have them being lied to before dying. (thinking they’ve been betrayed; thinking they weren’t loved; thinking they’ve lost their loved ones, etc)

20. make the character very enthusiastic/passionate about a certain goal, constantly put stress on their goal, have them die unexpectedly before they can reach their goal. 

and the best one…

21. have another beloved character kill them–better be a close friend to your character, one that absolutely nobody suspects, one that everyone can’t help but love, one who is always enthusiastic about things and encourages your character. THEN

reveal the truth only later when it’s too late and the a-hole character has already escaped.

have a cowardly character know the truth and never tell anyone else

have another character find out the truth and have them die before revealing it to others. 

have the said character ^ not actually die, but go through something so they’d forget the friend of the deceased character is actually an asshole. 

This way only your readers will know the truth, thus the frustration would be… most enjoyable for you.

Satan out.

[fangirl--of-everything]

24. Show how it effects the other characters. Don’t just gloss over it. Is this the death that pushes them over the edge? Do they blame themselves? Do they scream at everyone and break down, or do they suffer silently?

25. Have their family find out. The mother screams, the dad cries, the brother punches the wall or holds the body sobbing “I was supposed to protect him”, or “come on, you need to wake up”

[runningnewtmas]

Antra no stop pls

22. Don’t kill their body.  Kill their mind.

Leave the physical shell walking and talking, but strip out everything that made that person who they were.  Make them forget all about their loved ones, themselves, their experiences and past, their skills, and have them have to start over completely from scratch.  Physical and mental disabilities bonus points.

And keep them in a place where their loved ones will be taunted every day by a living ghost.

[actualarishok]

27. Have them die by accident. Take the character the readers will love most, who has never been mundane throughout all the time the readers knew them. Take that special character, the leader, the fighter, and let them die from something none of your characters could have prevented. A rotten bridge, a runaway carriage or drunk driver. Anything that could happen to anyone. Let it happen to them.

[allenthelost]

I feel so much pain right now.

[kurosmind]

This post pleases me

[theravenofwynter]

Describe their death through a loved one’s eyes during a moment of triumph. Describe their exhilaration about their win, only to crush it later as the character dies

[moonlitceleste]

WTH THIS WHOLE POST IS EVIL BUT ESP #16 and 19????

[archangelbloodravenret]

28: Have them conceal a deadly injury incurred protecting the party from the enemy or the party’s own questionable choices.

29: Have any sort resurrection ex machina fail to bring them, or have them miss the requirements by seconds. Bonus points if the human element can’t figure out why it’s failing.

30: Let them suffer through everything and overcome all odds, and then kill them just before they get their happily ever after.

31: Make their death worthless! Heroic sacrifice for a “You shall not pass!” moment? Overwhelm the soon to be corpse with superior numbers while a small group of the villain’s elite lieutenants cut off the group and take them captive. They give their life to destroy the power source of the deus ex machina? The genre savvy antagonist takes the hero’s sacred pendant for an almost as good replacement. Destroying sealed evil in a can with their dying breath? Cool story, bro, but that evil was acting as a seal for a greater evil.

31: Have them die with their hands on whatever would have saved their lives.

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

Me? Making niche Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper memes? In this 2019? It’s more likely than you think.

[vintagegeekculture]

The distinctive and memorable Thailand-only covers for the Harry Potter novels.

[multi-vxrse]

I’m pretty sure I’m correct in this but @/apolar.arch on Instagram made these!!

[pettycentral]

[multi-vxrse]

KINGS👑👑

[skyrimquotations]

List of quotes:

I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.

Kill well… and often.

Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.

No lollygaggin’.

Nords are so serious about beards. So many beards. M'aiq thinks they wish they had glorious manes like Khajiit.

I am sworn to carry your burdens.

Let me guess… someone stole your sweetroll?

I’ve been huntin’ and fishin’ in these parts for years.

Nords’ armor has lots of fur. This sometimes makes M'aiq nervous.

Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.

You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

I look forward to hearing about the next person you murder!

I got to thinking… maybe i’m the Dragonborn and I just don’t know it yet!

Hail, Companion!

My cousins out fighting dragons, and what do I get? Guard duty.

All the living shall fear the dead.

Kill one person, and you can solve so many problems. I wonder at the possibilities.

What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

You know what we call people who mess with us? Suicide.

You’re either the bravest person i’ve ever met… or the biggest fool.

You want knives? You want them in your belly? No? Then you stop talking to Deeja!

Sorry lass, I’ve got important things to do. We’ll speak another time.

Ummm… you got no clothes. You should get some.

Psst! I know who you are… Hail Sithis!

I’m the older sister, by nearly five minutes. Sissel’s barely worthy to walk in my shadow.

Dragonborn, huh? Was it your ma or your pa that was the dragon?

These Forsworn don’t even have the decency to dress properly.

I faced him fearlessly, my fate inescapable, yet my honor unstained, can Ulfric say the same?

How high the mountains of Skyrim rise.

Giant Spiders? What’s next? Giant Snakes?

I will eat your heart.

[damn-stark]

Child of Ren series memes

Y/N to Kylo but also Poe to Rey

Poe in the recent chapter

[uncawanwo]

they’re not with me…

[gahdamnpunk]

BYE

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[power-of-words23]

I DON'T GET WHY PEOLE ARE SAYING THAT FANFICTION WRITERS AREN'T THE REAL ONES OR THAT THEY DON'T DESERVE CREDIT FOR THEIR WORK...

I mean, they are kind of like ghost writers, they work with somobody's else idea and characters BUT words, meaning and the emotions their writing evoke - That’s on them. And, oh man, that is the hardest part, sooo...

(And they do this for free, so I'm just saying, they are ANGELS OF FANDOM)

Thank you all for coming to my lecture.

[dayanarose]

Why does he have to look so handsome!? WHY!!!!