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🌻 I!! love your writing so much!!!! that is all
gayndetergent replied to your post “got a laundry list of things I gotta do, so of course I’m spending all...”
i fully support you and your efforts like keith supports lance
no offence but *screams*
39 50 and 44 for the ask tag!
39) Do you prefer first, second or third person?
In general I’m definitely partial to third person limited, although I think first and second can be fun to play with and have their place! But in general, I appreciate the flexibility granted by third person (though I have written some personal stuff in first and second; they feel a lot more emotional and personal to me tho so like I don’t share it [also bc it’s all old as dick that part too])
50) If you could write only angst, fluff or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why?
gfjkgf okay so if we’re talking purely off the fact that I’ve got no selfie steam and subsist completely off of attention, smut. Smut gets a lot more hits and insomuch as I wish I could be a good example to other writers to care about your writing on its own merit, I’m so very far from perfect and crave the validation that comes with getting bigger numbers and shit
But in reality, what I’d actually choose is angst. Angst and conflict is where the most character development finds itself, and its driving force--hope--is what pulls along the intrigue of pretty much any story, it’s what keeps the characters pushing on and keeps you reading.
44) What is the last line you wrote?
I’m gonna cheat because the last sentence I wrote is unfinished (depression and ADHD are not mixing good for me tonight lads,) so I’ll go with the last sentence I completed (edited from what I wrote earlier on but shh if u don’t tell the teacher neither will I)
“Feeling Keith up was like getting to second base with one of those marble statues of Ancient Greek dudes, except he didn’t get escorted off the premises by museum security for trying.”
Yes hi I’m Squelette A. Butthole (christened such by Nanners not me don’t blame me) and I am a master of writing only the sexiest of sexy smut mhm definitely
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gayndetergent replied to your post “Typing up my ANs: Typing up the actual chapter:”
me, who still reads and appreciates every single line of your ANs: :D
Me readin dis:
gayndetergent replied to your post: lol we got plenty of patience over here... just...
if this preview is what i think it’s about i’m screaming into that remote corner of the universe and if i’m completely off base I’M shriveling and dying of shame
I w--uh... well, you see--
gayndetergent replied to your post: I love cucumbers!!!! especially in salad, in...
cucumbers and SALT? SALT?
A PINCH DON’T KNOCK IT TILL U TRY IT
spoiler!!!!!!!
It isn’t Krolia’s promise Keith hears; it’s Lance’s.
gayndetergent replied to your post “CATCH ME CRYING IN THE CLUB FINALLY DONE THE FIRST DRAFT I don’t know...”
aaah yay! congratulations! 40 thousand words and you did it!!!!
mysticalnights2 replied to your post “CATCH ME CRYING IN THE CLUB FINALLY DONE THE FIRST DRAFT I don’t know...”
@noussommeslessquelettes ❤️❤️❤️ You did it! Holy shit... 40k and 99 pages? That is incredible. You did something amazing!
hi! do you have a routine or anything when it comes to writing? what do you do to reach your word count goals (besides just like... write, the obvious answer lol)? i've been setting goals using writetrack but failing miserably at each one, oops.
I thought about this for a minute, and realized that my actual answer feels like it's to a different question.
For a starting point, something that helps me a lot is that I use Scrivener and make use of TONS of individual documents. Like, here's my current in-progress project:
I organize them into chapter folders, so there's some formal structure. But then I actually use the document names themselves to put together an outline of how the plot will flow in a very basic, loose, non-constricting manner. I find that allows me room to innovate and have fun later on, while still forcing me to identify in advance which plot beats must happen.
Like... in this piece, it's important that a certain piece of clothing is discussed before Some Asshole starts causing trouble. So I just titled a document with "pants fixing scene" and dropped it into the right spot in the line-up. Bam. Since the document is there with its title staring back at me, there's no way to overlook this plot-vital element.
I didn't write the scene, plot out where exactly it'd be set, or specify any other details that might make sense during early, sweeping plotting work (but would only be a source of frustration by the time I got to actually writing it). I just created a document, called it "pants fixing scene," and tossed in a handful of explanatory words into the document itself so I'd later remember what I meant by that, lol
I actually just wrote that scene two days ago, after knowing for months that it was important. And... in terms of setting, it ended up being nothing like I expected it to be! I got inspired to do something else with it that ended up making more sense. But it still happened in the right rhythm for the overall plot.
SO, my two major recommendations would be:
Know where you're going, but don't overplan. It's hard to write if you have no idea what's coming next. It's also hard to write if you're trying your best to stick to a blueprint with teeny tiny details that are 50k words out of date.
If you basically know where you're going, then that also means that there are tons of different sights to see and anticipate along the way! I generally try to work in order, but sometimes I am just STUCK with the dialogue, etc. that needs to happen to achieve thing happening right now, but get inspiration for thing happening in a couple days' time. So I just jump ahead and write the latter. The plot beats you've identified have gotta happen at some point, so why not when you're feeling inspired to do so?
(This is way way easier with Scrivener, but it's certainly not necessary. You could take the same basic approach with Notepad. Just drop some barebone plot bullets into plaintext and start writing under the appropriate one.)
The times when I just can't get writing done, it's almost always not because I haven't set enough reminders, blocked out enough time, or other out-of-story things like that. It's because the words just don't want to flow, because I haven't structurally set myself up to let them flow.
I hope at least part of that helps!
