#writerblock

[thepathetickind]

JULY 02 🪷 TWIN FLOWER LETTERS writing prompts by laurenmaerie

[ water lily & delphinium ]

[fishdroidloving]

writing characters I don't relate to is lowkey a biblical trial

i'm not a white man, but my oc is!

this is my boy, Pan, yes, pan, not like the kitchen utensil, more like the greek god of the wild

for a guy named after the god of the wild he sure is a corporate shoelicker!

so here's my dilemma

i've had pan for years now, but he is the brother of the main- and my favorite oc, so I never really came to develop him until recently, but I always had a vague idea of what he is

to make it easier for you people, picture, a mix between achilles, specifically the achilles from song of achilles, AND mr peanutbutter from bojack horseman

generally he is a good man, a good friend a good brother, on the outside he looks like the ideal man, he's attractive, smart, like REALLY smart, he's hardworking, he's loving he's rich, what's the issue? well the issue is he lacks absolute and complete emotional awareness and accountability, I like to call it the cishet man phenomenon, he's got everything going for him EXCEPT personality, like he's not a horrible person! but you can immediately tell his problems run too deep for him to worth being a lifelong partner to

i'm saying this because part of his lore is the fact that he is a virgin at 40, yes he is a wizard

the first ever showcase of his flaws was with his brother, the main character, Pan wanted to leave to japan to study, and instead of telling his brother and working on a plan together, pan just decided, yeah, i'll drop this on him final notice! and i'll fully expect him to just run along with my plans

and obviously his brother didn't he got upset, even lowkey resented him for treating him like a to-go package, but pan never realized that was a problem yaknow? pan assumed his brother just didn't want to leave (which he didn't) but beyond that it's the principle, the respect the treatment, pan assuming, he is the main character

that flaw continues to persist

it's overbearing even, I think that's why he struggled so much in keeping friends despite being charismatic, my question is, how does one right a struggle like that ?

because I sure as hell am not charismatic, Idk what it's like to always be sought after and admired the way pan is, to constantly have his ego inflated, and always be so praised that he never realized what he was doing wrong, because in instances where he WAS called out for his behavior, he always, like the idiot he is, assumed that was a one time wonder, instead of it being a problem at his core. like mr.peanutbutter, Pan is loving and optimistic, and he struggles to listen to people, to give them the space they deserve, and because of that the people in his life never stick around long

how do you write that sort of loneliness? that mindset? how does he never, for a SECOND stop to think "wait maybe this is my fault?" because that is such a bizarre notion to me

because I don't want him to be the type that ends up resenting the people around him he is nothing like that, so what is the other option? him just thinking he is different? he's special? i'd imagine so

what ends up breaking his rose coloured glasses view of himself is a girl he met and fell inlove with, no she didn't fix him, quite the opposite really, she got engaged, and he got rejected without her even having to say anything, causing my boy to spiral, and sleep with like the first girl that offers it to him, now THIS this girl calls him out for his shit

but once again- HOW DO you write that?

this girl, scarlet, will play an important role, but here's the thing, this place takes place in the cyberpunk universe setting, scarlet is poor, bottom of the barrel, a cog in the machine, while pan is a penthouse dwelling pig, how do two characters with SUCH different backgrounds get along, because- from what I witness often in media, this is such a princess and the pauper type of dynamic, it's hard to sympathize with the princess in situations like this, especially considering pan is being serviced sex on a regular basis by her

neither of them are meant to be villains in each others story, just a reactor to their circumstances, I struggle to write that, especially with a character as posh as pan, who, again, initially, assumed he could buy both his brother, his exes and now scarlets affection, not in the way you usually see rich people buying poor people, more in a "oh you have a problem? I can pay it off i have the money" so in a way, buying them life changing favours, he, personally has no ulterior motives! I believe pan lacks emotional intelligence so deeply he cannot really manipulate people

how do I go about this? any ideas? advice? similar characters I can extract from?

(I think this is important to mention, pan didn't start off rich, hell he lived in the middle of nowhere in a small governally independent town, he got to the rank he is through sheer determination, so, I do expect he had a history of stepping on people without even realizing, or even unintendedly, just the subsequent of his field of work )

[mirrorworld12]

Knowing that something is boiling in your chest and you can't do much to hold it down. Knowing that it came from the days you survived and nights you were barely breathing. Knowing there isn't much you can do about it other than gulp it down several times a day is heartbreaking . But as long as it keeps you alive it is okay . It is better than the hollowness that you felt for years . The emptiness that reminded you of an empty room with no windows .where someone hid all their griefs and let you in deliberately . The world wasn't very bright before and now when it feels a bit too dark to be seen by anyone it hurts more I think . So you just gulp it down silently till you can and move. To be on the move is the play. It is only okay you were ever allowed to choose .

[isolatedwriter]

Prompts for your otp (scene and a twist)

I got bored one day and decided to just come up with a random prompt selection because I know I have been struggling with prompts lately, so here it is

Prompt selector (you can either use your the first letter of your first and last name or the names of the people in your otp) (or just pick two or more, I don’t care)

The scene:

A - Relationship reveal

B - Reunion of established relationship after a long time apart

C - Friends to lovers, confession of feelings

D - Coming home after a bad day

E - Having a snowball fight

F - Long car trip

G - Person B gets jealous of the S.O. Person A has been describing, not realizing A is talking about B

H - Anniversary celebration

I - Meet the parents (or friends)

J - Jealousy at a party

K - The blind date but they are already friends who have been pinning for each other and their friends are tired of it

L - Stargazing

M - Insecurity about relationship

N - Protecting the other from physical harm

O - Person A hates camping, Person B seeks to change that

P - Drunk confessions

Q - Friends on a kiss cam

R - Game night

S - Exs caught in a stuck elevator

T - Snowed in with crush (huddling for warmth)

U - Sharing an umbrella

V - walking up next to the person they love

W - Kissing in the rain

X - Person A getting Person B to try a new food

Y - Seeing a friend differently for the first time

Z - Person A and Person B are rivals, but B has a problem only A can help with

The twist:

A - Person A has something they’ve been meaning to give Person B

B - Person B has something they have been meaning to tell person A, and now is the time it finally comes out

C - They are making up after a fight

D - Person A admits to Person B that they were their first kiss, or that they have never kissed anyone (depending what makes sense in context)

E - One of them has a secret that they think could change their relationship

F - Person A overhears Person B saying that they regret doing a recent action to Person A, which Person A did not expect them to regret.

G - One of them was recently in an accident and has amnesia, they are in post-recovery now but don’t remember everything (How long ago was the incident? What do they remember? Will they ever remember? Did they have a prior relationship? Up to you)

H - Blood has a part to play

I - Put your music library on shuffle. The third song to come up is what you are basing this on

J - It is told from the perspective of Person C who has a crush on either person B or person A

K - Someone walks in during a key moment (possibly a friend, ex, parent, current partner if you want to make it really spicy)

L - They are living together and in the middle of a multiple day long domestic dispute about the dishes

M - They find out they are soulmates

N - One of them is secretly terrified of something happening (and it is not a super common fear), and they refuse to admit it to the other person

O - The last thing they said to each other before this starts was “don’t talk to me until you’ve figured yourself out”

P - One of them made a promise, and this is them making good on that promise

Q - I don’t know where, I don’t know how, but there is time travel

R - One of them had a really weird dream last night about the other person

S - One of them is injured (the severity is up to you)

T - It ends in them making out, not much of a twist

U - Meeting themselves from an alternate universe

V - Getting caught wearing each other’s clothes

W - At least one of them is famous

X - Someone has a new tattoo that is very meaningful

Y - Number 12 on the iTunes chart is your inspiration (haha have fun)

Z - Character asks themselves, how do I find the other person doing this attractive?

[lost-thoughts15]

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

[writingthelife]

[ghostly-thorn]

I AM ALIVE

What's up boys and girls? Bet you've been wondering where I've gone. Now-now, i know i promised the release of Deceiving Waters by the end of the July but uh-... yeah that won't do. Those who follow me know I've been moved around like a fucking 🎠 during the covid outbreak, and boy it's far from over... still, i deserved a nice break to let go of all that stress. And i think it's safe to say now that i finally feel relieved. With that in mind, I'm free to PROPERLY resume writing. I was previously stuck at Hop s battle with a writer's block as hard as rocks, but last week i finally managed to finish this damn battle. And I'm somewhat proud of the final result. Now I'm finally about to write those Rose and Zera scenes you've been dreading waiting for.

Stay tuned

[littlewriterqueen]

So today I did not what to write about so I look up to in search of something amazing to explore and make people interested in me.

But I got nothing but the old tradition.

ASK ME ANYTHING.

OK so I will answer any question you want to ask, if it's not vulgar I will answer it.

OK you can ask I will randomly pic the question.

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