[ID: tweet by roro, PhD (@/fuglibetty): i was challenged to a '48 hour only say real words' challenge and immediately failed an hour in by referring to a drug binge as 'going to divatown' /end ID]
We need to have places like bars where instead of only 18+ year olds allowed in it’s ONLY people who had fucked up childhoods so we can joke about it without running into a surprise normal who gets all sad and weird
One time in college I was joking around with a classmate and she told me “I’m gonna beat you with a stick” and I was like “Dad? 🥺” and she got all shocked and shit. Like no you don’t understand, that was hilarious. I was hilarious
Felt like pouring a fine aged brandy down a toilet tbh
Hey, Simon! How do you start writing fics? What's your outlining process like?
Nobody has ever asked me this, and I doubt anyone will, but I'm telling you anyway.
I consider myself to be somewhere between a planner and a pantser. A planster, perhaps. I prefer to use a recipe, but improvisation in healthy doses adds character and flavor.
First, I usually write an author's note. Something about writing the A/N first helps me keep my motivation in mind during the writing process. I like to put things into words. I think I'm pretty good at using words. Explication is one of the only skills I've maxed out in life, dammit. I hope I'm good at it.
Anyway. I start with bullet points. Think of a concept or an idea that I can fixate on, and condense it into a few bullet points. Hell, a single sentence.
Did any of you have to do the burgers back in school when you wrote essays? You know what I'm talking about? Like. The papers they'd give out split into three sections. Top bun, meat, bottom bun. Meant to signify the introduction, body, and conclusion of an essay.
I guess it's the same concept. Just add one bullet point, a sentence or even a few words each, for as many or as few scenes you have the slightest bit of an idea about. Literally anything is fine as long as it's something. We're all just stringing words together and hoping it isn't shit. No such thing as extra credit when you're writing for writing's sake.
The basic idea of the burger is to add to it over time. It's an outlining tool. I don't know how many of you have heard of the burger, though, so I'm trying to explain it the best I can. When I used it in school for outlining essays, they said to come up with the most important sentence - the "thesis" sentence, if you will - to summarize the main idea of the paragraph. Do that for every paragraph. Okay, now add to it with shit that supports that main idea. Rinse and repeat per paragraph. You now have an essay.
That's, like, the basic idea of outlining? I think? Who cares, this is fanfiction, you have free will, etc etc.
So here's an example, using my Nensatousai outline:
This is the before. Please excuse the shitty Google Docs screenshot! I usually use Samsung Notes, but there was an Incident. This incident is also the reason my old A/N is no longer available on account of being banished to the shadow realm, so I'm working on a new one. This is basically me trying to recreate my old huge outline from scratch based on the points I remember. Good thing I kept reading it over and over again! Narcissism wins again.
...And this is the after! Note how it's basically the same, but I just added to it. If you just keep going back and adding shit, you eventually have a thing you made to be proud of. Good job.
I hope this helped someone out there. Either way, it's an excuse to show off my fic progress. That's most of the reason I made this post anyway, aside from needing to know that I'm not the only one who was taught about the burger outline thing. Seriously, I didn't hallucinate that, did I? Kind of weird. But it works, so that's cool.
I had someone in to help me clean today (because I'm all fucked and arthritic), and when she arrived I was like "if the little cat bothers you, please let me know, I can take him into a room with me." and she was like no no, he's fine. but then just a few minutes later I hear "OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
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dailybridgerton
