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Sneak peak pls?🙏

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your neighbour knew my name before I even shook his hand - echo x mc

You could stay here forever. Make out until your lips are sore, but you've been craving more than just this for too long to let it go now. You have another job lined up across town starting tomorrow night and your time is as limited as ever so you make the executive decision and push them off just enough to look at the purple of their eyes, their mouth spit slick and as red as your own. You grin, the expression wolfish and nip at their jaw. Run your tongue down their throat, the smallest of bites placed against their throat as they groan, hips rutting against your own until you can feel their dick through the fabric of their pants.

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#remember you will die #**patreon content #**ko-fi content #**fave positions #**writing #this is 9k hehe

I saw a post a while ago about Tommy and Buck running into Buck's exes, but I'd be interested in them running into Tommy's exes (boyfriend and/or girlfriends)

i spent such a long time fleshing out an OC for this tiny little oneshot but i could not get this out of my head gfhdhsjjdf.

EDIT: okay this isn't tiny and maybe i got over excited.

bucktommy / rated t / prompt requests still open

"Tommy?"

Chim stops mid-sentence, hands still up in a gesture, and his mouth is a little open as he looks over Buck's shoulder, behind him. Hen and Eddie seem similarly afflicted. Confused, Buck turns around, and-

Woah.

Buck's not unfamiliar with attractive people - he works in an environment with a lot of hot, athletic people, who do insane, heroic things, and since discovering that he's playing equal time for both teams, the pool of people that are nice to look at has grown considerably. That's a given. But... woah.

Green. Very green eyes.

"Dan! Oh, shit, how long has it been?" Tommy grins, getting up quickly enough that his chair scrapes against the concrete.

#bucktommy #tevan #911 #911 fic #**writing #bucktommy tag #thank you for the prompt!!!! <333 #this really got away from me but i have Feelings about them

If you're still taking prompts maybe ❛ you'd look better down on your knees. ❜ for atlas? I really wonder how atlas would react if mc said it to them lol

"How do I look?" Atlas asks, turning around. Cocky grin firm on their lips. They wink, lashes fluttering over their cheek prettily.

#asks #ch. atlas #**prompts #**writing #enjoy!

Do you have any advice for someone who wants to write drabbles? I don't know how you do it, it's almost as if you don't sleep 🤣

Ooh! Thanks for the question! :) I actually talked a lot about this recently on @ishipitpod with @idontgettechnology, so if you want lots of tips for writing drabbles, plus some silly stories and lots of giggling, go check out that episode! It was really fun.

I definitely sleep! 😂 BUT, drabbles are writing, and writing does take time. Once you've written enough drabbles, you'll get faster at them, just like most other skills and hobbies. At this point, I can write a drabble in about ten minutes... though that being said, I post between 5-10 drabbles a day and try to write 500-1000 words of longfic or other writing every day, too, so I spend between an hour and three hours every day just writing. Writing is a skill that requires active practice, and the only way to get better at it is to put in the time. "Ten thousand hours of work or 1,000,000 words on the page" etc.

*And I'd put in a self-deprecating caveat here about "not saying I'm a GOOD writer," but like, I am a good writer. Not every drabble I write is prizeworthy, but they're also 97% of the time not crappy, and working hard on something only to denigrate your own skills is a Tool Of The Patriarchy and I Refuse.

So: my biggest tip for writing drabbles is just to try writing drabbles. They're definitely a skill that takes practice, like any other writing, and the only way to build the "muscle" for it is to do it. What's really nice about them is that they're also building your scene-writing muscle and your concision muscle and your to-the-point dialogue muscle and your grounding muscle in a really tight, focused way, which I've personally found super helpful for writing longer things as well. Because really, I think if the idea of writing drabbles seems intimidating, you can very easily not think of them as "drabbles" and instead think of them as 100-word scenes.

Drabbles kind of straddle the line between being short stories and being story beats/scenes, IMO. You can handle them in either way and you're not wrong, you know? Both require your drabble to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You should try in both to ground your characters in a space so that their actions or dialogue have meaning. Both need something to happen either physically or emotionally that changes the scope of things for the characters (unless you're writing a drabble that is purely imagery scene-setting world-building candyfloss which, IMO, is also totally valid).

When you're first starting to write drabbles, these are my biggest tips:

1. REMEMBER YOUR SCOPE. It's only 100 words long, so don't try to tell too big of a story for your wordcount. This is why I don't let people suggest plot points or AU scenarios when they request drabbles and why I use single-word prompts. Trying to tell too much story in too small a space, or vice-versa, is a really frustrating writing experience. You don't have room to set up an elaborate AU or tell a complete sex scene from foreplay to afterglow, so keep that in mind when you decide what you want to write your drabble about.

2. START WITH 1:1:1 AND THEN PLAY LATER. One sentence exposition, one sentence climax or change, and one sentence denouement is a good place to start with drabbles. Set up your scenario in one sentence, write one sentence of the "point" of the scene, and one sentence to sum up or demonstrate how things have changed since the set-up. If you write long sentences, like, ahem, I often do, then you've got 33 words-per-sentence to play with, and even I'm rarely that verbose. But that's a good thing, because it means you'll be under 100 words and can go back and beef up whichever section(s) need more meat.

Ex)

SET-UP: Because of Cinna’s expertise in clothing, he saw that something was wrong with the Districts.

ESSENTIAL CHANGE: He only saw the Districts the same way that all Capitolites did, in the nightly news propos about how grateful the Districts were to be under the guidance of the great Capitol, or how these backwoods heathens needed the strict hand of the Capitol to even pass for human.

CLOSURE: But Cinna saw the moth-eaten wool, the stretched-out soiled cotton.

74 words. I can go back and add more detail of what Cinna noticed in the propos, or I can go back and add more detail to what Capitol life is like, or I can set up what he's going to do about the noticing. There's a LOT of room left in 26 words!

3. 100 WORDS IS LONGER THAN YOU THINK. It is! If the idea of a 33-word sentence is insane (and it probably is), then naturally you can assume you've got way more than 3 sentences' worth of room in a drabble. One page in Microsoft Word TNR-12 is ~250 words, so a drabble is really half a page long. That's not nothing. You have to be purposeful and concise, but not to a degree that feels actively stifling. Don't stress about HOW SHORT 100 words is. Fanfiction is often, compared to book-books, insanely long. 100 words is a pretty normal scene/beat length, tbh. Focus on how much you can fit into the wordcount, not how much you can't fit in.

4. BE SPECIFIC. Drabbles are not a place to eschew $4 vocabulary words if you can use them correctly and if they mean the particular, specific thing you want them to mean. In longer works, I'm generally not a fan of Fancy Dialogue Tags, but in a drabble, if someone whispers or mutters or exclaims, then that's what they're doing and it's okay because that word exists to set the tone of the line. Most writing advice about eliminating adverbs/adjectives/dialogue tags neglects to mention that their PURPOSE determines whether they're appropriate, not their existence as a part of speech. Drabbles are GREAT practice for this, tbh, because you really have to be judicious about WHEN and WHY you're deploying your words.

Ex)

"Yelena, I'm gonna kill you," Kate muttered as they pressed together in the suddenly-not-unoccupied dorm shower. <- Muttered sets the tone of the whole line and what comes after in this case as a drabble-opener because we have no other context to show the reader how she's speaking. She could be yelling it. She could be texting it! She could be saying it as she's literally committing murder. We don't know because it's the scene-opener. It's fine to use an illustrative tag when it's opening a scene because you're grounding the scene into a context. It also doesn't add anything more to your wordcount than the less-illustrative "said" would.

"Yelena, I'm gonna kill you," Kate said calmly as she looked at the arsenal that appeared in her apartment overnight. <- Again, you can use an adjective here because it defines the tone of the whole scenario for the reader in a way that NOT using the adjective leaves out. There is no indication otherwise what Kate is feeling or how she is reacting in seeing an arsenal in her apartment, and in a way, saying something "calmly" is counter to what the reader expects from both what Kate says and the situation in which she's saying it. It adds a word to your wordcount, but it's a GOOD wordcount expenditure.

"Yelena, I'm gonna kill you." Kate clenched her hands into fists, trying not to succumb to the urge to grab some blonde hair and yank. <- You can also avoid using dialogue tags and/or adjectives at all by utilizing your verbs and putting those into context, in this case "trying not to succumb to the urge to..." This adds the most words, even though you're taking out the dialogue tags, but it also gives you more space for imagery and can be great for tone.

ALSO, giving yourself a 100-word limit is excellent practice for training yourself out of using phrases like "the dark-haired boy" or "the verdant green orbs," because they're fucking longer than "Jesse" or "his eyes." Be specific, not poetic, unless poesy is the whole point of your particular drabble.

5. TONE TONE TONE TONE TONE. The single biggest way to eliminate extraneous words and tell a complete story/scene/beat is to know exactly what, who, and how you're writing about. You should ideally be able to write a drabble in just dialogue, no dialogue tags or narrative, and still have it be clear which character is saying what, if you're writing fic and your readers know the characters already, yk? Like, if you can capture the idiosyncrasies of your characters in concise ways, that's the best way to keep your wordcount down. Not every character ducks their head and blushes when they're feeling shy, not every character speaks in grammatically proper Writer's English, etc. Writing each character's behavior and/or speech patterns as they actually are in the show/movie/book/whatever is a GREAT way to keep your wordcounts low AND practice writing in different tones and voices. Plus, it's fic; people are probably reading it because they like the characters, and you should want to have it feel like the characters, yk?

But tone is also the structure of the drabble. A short, staccato drabble is going to have a disjointed and fractured feel to it, so it fits a character whose mentality is disjointed and fractured. A beat from a really sensuous sex scene will probably involve longer sentences with more sibilant adjectives and slow, soft pacing to get between clauses (whereas a really hard fucking scene will be shorter sentences and more consonants). Semicolons and em-dashes and ellipses can be your friends if you use them properly--ending a tense drabble with an em-dash leaves the reader hanging on the precipice, where ending on an ellipsis lets them tumble over. USE YOUR WRITING CRAFT. Study writing craft! And then use it!

So overall, just treat drabbles like you would treat any other piece of writing: with care and respect to your readers. Don't over-promise and under-deliver; you literally cannot set up and execute a wild AU in a drabble, so don't say that you're going to do that. What you can do in a drabble is show a scene. So SHOW it.

Use every one of your 100 words on purpose.

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