#writing advice request

[gay-mormon-wizard]

any Native Americans on this website willing to help me with a sensitivity matter in a fanfiction I'm writing? reply if so

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

is there like a discord server or anything where tales of arcadia fanfic writers can like ask for advice or bounce ideas? or simply someone who has experience in beta-ing?

-a new writer who has no idea what they are doing

[aerion111]

As someone who’s bad at reading the unwritten rules of proper conduct... What’s the actual rules for writing about disabled people in a magical setting?

Like, I’m a writer (who mostly writes for himself, but I’m working on it) who’s ‘technically’ disabled in a way that doesn’t really count in this case (no missing senses/limbs, and I can walk around as long as my poor fitness allows).

I get that people don’t (usually) like it when a disability gets magically restored. (Sometimes, people do want to read about that. And personally, as someone who grew up with bad hearing (that got partially better with age but never fully hit ‘normal’), I’d love to read about a hard-of-hearing person getting magical super-hearing and using that to do shenanigans. But usually, it comes across as insensitive and dismissive.) But what about stuff that makes the disability not matter?

My latest story idea is going to involve people being ‘Isekaied’ into a new world and, long (unwritten) story short, being given new forms. It’s more complicated, but that part’s where I’m concerned: (Oh, but importantly, they’ll have the chance to try multiple forms, it’ll only become permanent when they’ve found ‘the one’ form that suits them. So, the characters will have agency, to some extent.) If someone comes in with a missing leg, don’t just have the process give them the leg back. Fair enough. But what if I replace their legs with roots, making them a largely stationary plant person? Or take a blind person and give them mole-claws so they can dig around in dark tunnels without having to worry about a light? Is that still problematic, or is that a clever way to help them overcome many of the unwanted symptoms of disability (discrimination, reduced agency, vulnerability, etcetera) without brushing aside a very real issue that real people deal with?

Between my ADHD-driven ‘laziness’, and general social anxiety, I’m NOT willing to just go around interrogating random disabled people about their life experiences. (Which I’m sure people are grateful for, since that sounds like a rude thing to do.) And I wouldn’t even know where to start to look into ‘research’ that I can trust on the subject.

I don’t have the greatest audience (I mean, this is just a personal blog), but maybe I’ll get lucky and this’ll get bounced out to someone who can answer.

[hold-on-a-little-longer-whump]

whump advice request

I’m drawing a huge blank. everything went swimmingly until this part, bc i can’t really articulate what it’d be like?? Even one-worded responses are welcome.

How would you write/describe a feverish/exhausted character waking up to find their arm in a sling?

[salt-and-a-dash-of-pepper]

Does anyone have any good writing resources on accurate depictions of people on the autism spectrum? 

[niamhuncensored]

please help me how do i rephrase the bolded part so it’s less awkward

         A cool breeze played with Ashley’s hair as she and her father stared through the trees. It was hard to see; light was patchy coming through the leaves, and it was made worse at sun down. But Dad said it wasn’t dark enough to leave yet, so she zipped up her jacket against the cold and kept waiting.

         “Finally,” Dad whispered. Ashley followed his line of sight. Drinking from the creek, standing broadside to them, was a big, brown buck.

         “You wanna take the shot, pumpkin?”

         Ashley had wanted to go hunting with her dad for as long as she could remember. She’d even had an imaginary friend that hunted. But she never really thought about actually killing something.

         She knocked an arrow and drew her bow, just how Dad had taught her. She could see the arrowhead shaking and then-

         She saw her hands stop shaking. She saw her arms move and posture straighten. She hadn’t chosen to, but it was happening. And then her hands let go of the arrow. Again, she didn’t choose it. Almost didn’t want to. But her hands let go and the arrow hit the deer square in the shoulder.

         And all at once, she came back to herself. Her dad was already congratulating her and climbing down from the blind. She followed, a bit stunned.

[dono-harm-totonystark]

I'm having a disagreement with my friend and I need the court of public opinion

Consider this sentence: "His thoughts violently snapped back to reality at the sizzling sensation of bare thighs wrapping around his hips as she straddled him anew and teased the edges of his earhole with a purr."

Now, I know there's something wrong with it and I tried asking my friend and he gave me an answer I didn't have in my top 5 possibilities in my wildest dreams

so

Which part of the above sentence is a turn-off for you?

'sizzling'

'bare thighs'

'straddled'

'anew'

'teased the edges'

'earhole'

'purr'

something else?? (put in tags)

Voting ended onDec 5, 2023

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