snow, reindeer + mistletoe
someone asked me a thing! christmas rph edition
snow ━ underrated character connections
platonic soulmate, “we’re best friends but if we’re both still single by 30 let’s get married for the tax benefits,” step-sibling rivalry
reindeer ━ a writing tip you live by
if you’re writing a genre, read tons of things from that genre. read the things you’ll love, read the things you’ll hate. know what you like and why you like it. know what works and why it worked. know what’s popular and why it has popularity. know your genre from the inside-out because 1. even if you think your idea is original, it probably happened before in that one thing you didn’t read 2. think of it like food; you know what foods you dis/like from what you tried, writing is the same 3. i believe you’re at a disadvantage if you write a genre without knowing it inside and out
this is something that i learned over the course of my writing degree and it is still the single most valuable thought process i’ve ever had in creating original writing, even in roleplay
mistletoe ━ create a character based on a lyric from a song on shuffle
song: “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” by Panic at the Disco
“'Cause I'm a hooker sellin' songs / And my pimp's a record label”
Dean Thorne, 27, an aspiring violinist from just outside Seattle who was discovered after playing one of his weekly solo concerts in a locally-owned coffee house. His life went from surfing on his friends’ couches to living in a fully-furnished condo in New York, training with some of the finest concert violinists in the world. But he’s wracked with guilt and the feeling that he’s “selling out” his talent; as the agent who discovered him has demanded he change everything about himself--hair, wardrobe, social media presence--all to fit the “image” of a Nobody Who Became Somebody.
