#nci7

[tipsylucif3r]

Fanart / requested sketch for @noco7 my ENEMY (/j ) I did at 4:30 am. Yes they're "secretely" holding hands behind Emma

[cutetinytoe]

Fan art for the amazing @noco7! Your fic is soo good and I'm invested in it!

I really like how you can't really just root for one person, they both are flawed and you just wanna see how it all works out☺︎

Lyric: I Bet on Losing Dogs - mitski (get it he has a dog) I have another version with the lyric "But I'm not her and she's not me" (Twilight - bôa)🤧🙏🏽

[noco7]

Hi hope your well! I was just wondering — your fics have a lot of dialogue and as a writer myself that’s something I struggle on… how do you know what to make them talk about/introduce certain conversations? does it just come to you?

I am well! A lot of things have happened (not in a bad way), and I am single no longer. (Yippee!) (And our relationship is nothing like the one in NCi7 lmao... not that it hasn’t had it’s share of miscommunication tensions.) Anway... as for dialogue that’s a tricky question. One part of NCi7 having so much dialogue is that Noah and Cody are quite talkative characters themselves, and that helps. Especially Cody. Especially Cody when he likes someone. He wants to ask questions, he wants to flirt, he wants to show off. Everything. Chatty lil’ man. Noah is a bit more reserved, but he will never miss a chance to snark. It’s why they have such good banter. Additionally, NCi7 is a fic based on “communication.” The whole point is for them to become better communicators, so the story just HAS to have a lot of dialogue. So I can show their bad communication and how it slowly becomes good communication. But how do I know what to make them talk about? Well... that’s an odd question to me, because what they talk about is just the story. So for me, coming up for things for my characters to talk about equals coming up with the chapter outline. In NCi7′s case, I wanted the characters to change how they thought about physical affection, sex, sexuality, guilt, relationship roles, gender, career, family, etc. Just the whole shebang. So ... I had a lot of things for them to talk about. That’s probably my best tip. If you want your characters to talk more, give them something to talk about! If you don’t have much plot (which is fine), then maybe think about ... Dialogue as a characterization tool. What kind of words are the characters using? What kind of tone? What do they think is appropriate conversation?  What questions do they ask? The more in-character you make it, the more fun it is. And dialogue is so, so useful with backstories. It’s one thing for a character to ruminate on what happened in their life. It’s another to see them say it out loud. And what kind of snap-judgements will the other person make? I wish I could give more specific advice, but I don’t know what story you’re writing (feel free to DM or discord me about it, I’d love to hear) but without specific details, I don’t have specific advice. Lastly, how do I introduce conversations? Honestly, I don’t remember. I do remember sometimes writing a chapter, not knowing how to transition to a topic, and putting in [INSERT TRANSITION HERE] so I could fill it in later. I would say try to use the environment to your advantage. If you need your characters to argue over PDA, bring in a public place. If you want a character to relfect on their parenting, have them see/do something that reminds them of it. Have a character notice something’s off with the other and ask.  Give them a reason to speak.  Anyway, thanks for asking this question! If you want to send me your work so I could read it, I’d love to. It doesn’t even have to be an advice thing, I love seeing how other writers write, and there’s a huge chance I could learn something from your writing as well. But it can be a suggestions/advice thing if you want it to be.

[noco7]

i like noco so much, and as im writing my fic i’m realizing how far noah’s come? like noah’s being playfully flirty rn and he wasn’t like that in ch.1, for a long time he didn’t really flirt at all, he was playfully mean. and then when he starts doing flirty stuff he’s nervous. but now he’s more secure, and it comes easy to him, and noco have this good back and forth. also i rlly like noco. because it’s the direct result of cody being so flirty and teasing and noah getting used to it and being able to rely on it, and also just their easy banter. 

[cutetinytoe]

"She's pale."

AHHHHHH this part hit too close to home 💔amazing job as always @noco7 and I'm so glad it ended on a good note!

ik this never happened in the fic but I like to think Noah and Courtney bond over their thoughts about Gwen🙁

I didn't write lyrics on this piece, but I like to think this song relates to them especially considering the meaning behind the music video (I'm projecting) ✌🏽

[noco7]

the fic

the fic. the next chapter is not out. im sorry. but i am working on it i swear. im just. very slow this time around. the outline is done, im writing the scenes. i have my plan. but im not more than 3k words in, which if you’ve read my fic... is not even halfway done. aaaaa. i’ll get it to you soon guys. somehow. i need to stop watching youtube i think. and get off tumblr. 

[noco7]

Do you think that Gwen and Courtney are ever going to be featured in this and make up?

We most probably will see Gwen again. Will we see the two makeup... I don't know. This fic isn't about them, and also my fic is kinda canon compliant, sort of? At least I'm not changing anything that happened in the show. This is not a rewrite fic! But it's not impossible we don't see them makeup, though it'd be far into the future. And also not sure it'd happen on screen, so to speak. I think if they makeup after All Stars, it should be a private, honest affair. And then Cody hears about it later.

[noco7]

i just pulled an allnighter reading your fic and it was totally worth it but also oh my god ow my eyelids. i actually began crying at some points bc you write cody and his struggles and everything so well

thank you!! i actually saw this ask a while ago and showed it to my friends! i hope you get some good sleep anon! And thank you for the compliments on Cody! He's... he's going through things in his own way. That's smth I strove for in this fic, I wanted Cody's POV to not just be about Noah. Of course it's a large part of it, because this is a romance fic and Cody is the type to get obsessive. But he's also his own person. And he needs to be interesting on his own.