#writing processes

[writerpolls]

Writers: do you take inspiration from your real life experiences?

Yes, often

Yes, sometimes

Rarely

Not really

Never

Other (let us know in the notes!)

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Voting ended onMar 12, 2025

[ace-writer-lani]

rip I was supposed to write but I ate a bagel instead

[babyheartking]

Where would you set your next story ? Share your ideas in the comments section.

[niceminipotato]

Well I am officially off of work. My body’s request for a nap can now be processed. Everything points to the issue being resolved in a timely manner. This will result in a well rested brain. Once brain is well rested we can beginning working on request to write the next chapter of big vampire lady fic.

Let us see how Failing Grace goes this weekend. If real life permits that is.

[365runesoftheamalgamations]

Fun Fact Friday pt.2

Thank you to the lovely @bardic-tales for tagging us in these! We have once again remembered these and are doing this on actually Friday, bc yay!

Check out her response here! c:

Rules: List as many fun facts about your OCs, writing process, or WIPs as you want

Just like last time, we will be doing three facts each for the WIP itself, the Characters, and the writing process! :D

Content Tag List (ask to be added or removed) @a-completely-normal-writer | @aalinaaaaaa | @autumnalwalker | @bardic-tales | @emersonjydestein | @enchanted-lightning-aes | @fearofahumanplanet | @howsweetthewords |@jessica-writes22 | @junypr-camus | @lockejhaven | @midnight-and-his-melodiverse | @papercutsunset | @perasperaadastrawriting | @talesofsorrowandofruin

For this week, we think we will focus on one of our newest WIPs to be introduced, The Rapunzel Witch!

The Work In Progress:

This story was honestly supposed to just be a tiny drabble or short story about the shenanigans of a Queen, a Knight, and the Rapunzel who would really rather just stay in the Tower. Long story short: things got way out of hand.

The story is more going to be scenes ands soft plot points, since we really want this story to be a little more soft work and fickle timelines like normal fairytale retellings.

Honestly, this is one of the few stories where we don't have a clear path forward, and we are, for all intents and purposes, just absolutely rolling random dice and hoping for the best.

The Characters:

The Queen and the Knight are the only two people who have actual names at the moment and no, we did not think this through when we first introduced them. Angelina came when we were trying to figure out a part of the story, and we just came up with Bartlebee when we created the WIP Intro Post.

A small detail about the names and characters is that every one of them will hold a "namesake" or word that is supposed to help define them. You can see this with, "the Adored Angelina," and "the Beloved Bartlebee." We don't think that we will always match the name to the namesake, but who knows!

When first writing the Rapunzel's Witch, we forgot about the tiny little fact that the Queen was married. And so apparently, there is a King roaming around the Castle, and they are not under supervision, if something catches fire, we will now blame them.

The Writing Process:

This is one of the few stories that we aren't doing massive prepping and planning for. It kind of went from a small random story idea into its own thing, so they story is a little chaotic at the moment, but we are kind of happy of this story that is unfolding as it goes!

We kind of had a little trouble with the Tumblr Post regulations - we were a dumb and did not understand some of the things - so we might actually go back and shift things around so the flow is a bit better with the story.

Writing this kind of was nice, and for the writing process, we definitely took more inspiration from Disney's Rapunzel, but also this lovely story called, The Errant Prince, that we have read about. We wants the writing vibes to be the same as these ones, though we might put in some major conflicts in there at some point too.

We have added the Content Tag List, just bc it is content for our WIPs, but there will be no other pressure in having to do this if you don’t want to, or have been tagged before! The main tags will remain open, so if anyone wants to use this as an excuse do join in, then this is your excuse! c:

[aella-a]

Certain things get hooked in my brain for fic ideas and I tend to worry them around in my head. Most of the time nothing comes of that, sometimes it makes me come up with an idea.

One of the things that I’ve been poking at mentally is the part in the third novel where Banba tells Lin he used to be a womanizer in his early twenties and after being betrayed he’d decided to stop dating.

I’m sitting there thinking, what would Lin think of that?  What does that mean for Banba?  Has Banba given up romantic love forever?  What does this mean for Banlin?

So that swishes around my head.  And sometimes a hook appears, that hook is usually dialogue.  A piece of dialogue comes into my head and hooks me in, and then I write that dialogue down and from there it becomes a scene, from there it becomes a story.

So a hook hasn’t come yet, but that passage in the LN is still swishing around there and maybe a hook will appear.  The hooks come when I’m walking, or when I’m in the shower, or just before I fall asleep.  Or it may never come.

But...it’s interesting to think about these things, even if nothing ever comes of it. 

It’s harder in a smaller fandom because I often get ideas from other fic, or other people’s thoughts so it narrows the things that I end up poking at.

Those are my rambling thoughts on how I come up with ideas.

Does anyone else have ideas that they feel would be fun to explore?

[carriegessner]

I’m trying a new approach to writing. Instead of focusing on number of words per day (I generally try for 1000), I’m going to try to get each chapter finished in three days. It doesn’t mean they have to be polished, a fact that’s driving me crazy even as I type this, haha. But it does mean that if I stick to this schedule, I should have a working, albeit very rough, first draft of The Heartfriends Book 2 by the end of April. So, yay.