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[author-preneur]

How to Write Sibling Arguments That Feel Real

Sibling arguments aren’t loud because they’re angry.

They’re loud because they’re familiar.

1. Start the Fight Over Something Small

Real sibling fights rarely begin with the real issue.

It’s:

“You took my charger.”

“You ate the last slice.”

“Why are you in my room?”

But what it’s actually about? Years of resentment stacked neatly under the bed.

Example:

“It was just a hoodie.”

“It was my hoodie. Like everything else you take.”

Now the argument has history.

2. Let Them Interrupt Each Other

Siblings don’t wait their turn. They talk over, past, and through each other.

Use:

Half sentences

Cut-offs

Repeated phrases

Example:

“You always—”

“No, you always—”

“I’m not doing this with you.”

“You say that every time.”

Messy dialogue = believable argument.

3. Use Old Wounds Like Weapons

Siblings fight dirty without meaning to. They know where it hurts because they grew up there.

Example:

“At least I didn’t run away the moment things got hard.”

Silence.

That one landed.

If it makes the room go quiet, you’re doing it right.

4. Mix Love Into the Anger

The best sibling arguments hurt because love is underneath them.

Example:

“I wouldn’t care this much if it was anyone else.”

“Yeah, well, congratulations.”

They’re angry because they care.

5. Don’t Resolve It Perfectly

Sibling arguments don’t end with apologies. They end with:

A slammed door

Someone making food at 2 a.m.

An awkward peace offering

Example:

The argument ends.

Later, one sibling leaves a charger on the desk without a word.

That’s resolution.

Final Tip

If your sibling argument could be said by strangers, it’s not deep enough.

Make it personal. Make it uncomfortable. Make it sound like they’ve been fighting like this their whole lives.

That’s how you write siblings.

[wemmyreader]

A beta reader doesn't replace an editor.

A beta reader answers: "How does this story feel to an actual reader?"

[goldammerchen]

Ellipsus accepts markdown (.md) imports, right? Here some markdown writing programs.

Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

(Using Obsidian for Creative Writing Guides:)

For Creative Writing (3 guides + 3 Zettelkasten ones)

Turning Obsidian into My Perfect Writing App (+1)

r/ObsidianMD: Using Obsidian for novel writing/planning (see comments)

Others:

No excuses. No distractions. Just write.

GitHub - marktext/marktext: 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. - marktext/marktext

Also learned that Scrivener can convert rich text to MultiMarkdown. You can make .md files with it!

🖊️ Scrivener and Markdown 📝

Since we’re on the topic of Markdown, let’s not forget that Scrivener, my absolute favorite writing tool, can handle Markdown no problem. No

The blog posts mentions this one made for research writing instead of fiction, but...

MonsterWriter - Don't be bothered by formatting content, moving headings from one page to another, manual creation of bibliographies, ... Mo

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Two writers discuss the differences between plotting and pantsing a novel. 

[thehunternovels]

You can't guess what happened. Whether it's not a big deal, at all.

He came back to me.

Who the fuck is he?

Damon's old body.

I know, it's goddamn surprising for you. So for Damon too, but not for me.

I just told I setted this up. This is my game, and I play, I choose, I end. It's a bit weird to have a 'whole day conversation' through social media again. Especially if we consider about the 'addiction of his sex', that he is talking the same topic twice in one minute.

Do you remember the singer one? The singer emo boy I dated, just like I mentioned in 'the brutal truth about me' vlog of mine?

He came out a sex addicter at the end, texted me. Just like this one.

I'd call him different if he would show up a couple of months ago, but not right now, he is nothing but a distraction to me.

I can't feel. I will never gonna be able to. I shutted my humanity off. My feelings, the notion of love, the sense of humor, passion.. I can't deal with all. I dedicated myself to Danny Damian Sainy, and this time there was no coming back. No more promises.

So that is, we made a conversation like this, at the third of December, four o'clock, quarter to fourty nine, twenty eight is the second.

''Yeah my boy, now you can talk to me about your feelings. What the fuck do you think?''

''I'm done looking for myself,'' Damon said, with a hopeless, weary voice, controlling her. He stopped, continued, ''and this is my last decision.''

Alena drawed in.

''Shall I believe in this? This time?''

''Yeah. You should.''

She took another breath, ''I do, but, anytime we give up, then, this is being the time that we find you.'' She recorrected, ''Or.. we think that we find you.''

''But this time,'' Damon completed with a tiny voice below his breath, ''trust me, there won't be a next time.''

''I trust you, but I don't trust myself.'' It was one of the times that Alena gives her answer directly without thinking for a moment. She got used to it. Used to not trust herself.

''You just follow my rules, trust me. You don't need to trust yourself. Because we are the same, my princess.''

Alena took another another breath against his special word. Here he is, melting her heart again.

''Great,'' she said, ready for jumping to another subject. ''Do you remember the time when I told Mr. Scott like, 'I'm going to sing with two voice, are you ready for it?'''

''He didn't give a shit. He didn't even fucking understand this.''

''I know,'' she laughs, ''and this is the funny part of it.''

Laughs and makes Damon laugh too. Not that long, he gets back to the main subject.

''This is my last decision. Never fucking do love someone, okay?''

''If this is what you want, I'll follow you.''

''I know that this time you will,'' he responded with a determined voice, ''because.. you're kinda done with this shit too, I know.''

''We made this mistake in time. We should have never been make, this mistake, but we did and, now here is the consequences, the consequences that always gonna be permanent and constant, but never get fade out or get deleted, from our lives.''

''Hell yeah.''

''So..''

His following sentence was intense. ''Goodbye Danny Damian Sainy.. or the one that who were going to pretend me.''

''Goodbye,'' Alena followed, ''Damian Sainy. My Danny.. and welcome, my soul. The soul that going to stay in me forever.''

''Gonna live with you until we die.'' Damon completed. ''Until..''

''If we die, we die together.''

''That's my girl.'' An enormous voice comes out of nowhere. ''Shut the fuck up.'' They laugh the moving, no target man together. ''That's my girl.''

Aha, here is the time to say the famous last words.

''Let's go on with our lives now, my prince.''

''Let's go on, with our life, my princess.''

BOOM.

The end of the conversation. Me and him just decided to upload this in person, towards Youtube. Herewith, when we die, we'll be history and die together.

I had make a promise against him. Looks like I'm breaking it into pieces, by accepting to be with his old body, and not just that but touch to his naked skin.

I'm sorry my love.

But it is what it is.

What is meant to be.

[reader-shawna]

I just got a new desk from ikea on Saturday. This is it all set up. I love it so much. It’s going to be perfect for doing my homework and writing my novel for NaNoWriMo this November.

[wortmalerin2014]

Wie dankbar dürfen wir sein … 🙏🏻🧘🏻‍♀️🙏🏻 …nur ein paar Schritte und schon eröffnen sich die Wunder dieser Welt … Ein Moment des Innehaltens. Ein Augenblick des Staunens. Der ein Lächeln zaubert, um Herz und Seele zu erfüllen. Und damit Impuls gibt für neue Geschichten. 💫✨💫 📕 Für die Frau, die Geschichten schreibt. 💫✨💫📕 Für den Autor, der bereits vier Romane verfasst hat. 💫📕💫 und sich für uns als Autorenpaar als Kraftquelle erweist, deren Energie in die gemeinsamen Romane einfließen darf … 📕✍️📕 „Das Hochzeitszimmer“ 📕✍️📕 „Die Aisbergh-Akte“ 📕✍️📕 „Der Trommelwächter“ @srl_autorenpaar @r.lehmann_autor @die_wortmalerin #momentesammlerin #imaugenblicksein #diefraudiegeschichtenschreibt #autor #novelwriter #storypainting #inspirationsquellenatur #dankbarkeit #rosenheim #badaibling #bayernliebe #heimatverbundenundweltoffen (hier: Die Wortmalerin) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coz8MgWNcEH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cardboardfox]

I just finished the second sprint for today and it's not enough that im way behind the word count goal, my novelWriter document gave up and erased like 500 words worth of good dialogue that didn't move the story forward but helped me figure out both some world building aspects as well as some motivations for the characters. It at least saved the word count somewhere in the Writing Statistics... I will have to rewrite it when NaNo will be over, and I'm sure it won't be as good as the first time but oh, well... I guess that's how life is. Imagine if the word count would have been bigger. I guess I'll have to exit the app after each session just to save the progress