#writing...

[0neir0z]

hob gadling thinking he is the moon only bright in the light of his all consuming stranger, a small man in scope and comparison. grand to any mortal, sure, but he's just the moon. not his stranger of many riches, stranger of great power, stranger who he believes granted him the eternal gift of life. someone so grand and magnificent he would recognize from presence alone. he couldn't possibly be anything but the sun.

dream thinking gadling is the sun because he is all that is warm and bright and lively that he is not. the spokesperson of the humanity that worships the daytime as he carries out his work under the dark cover of night. he the solemn sleep, always present but never noticed, is the cold and ever-changing moon. he revels in the warmth when they are together. he couldn't possibly be anything other than the sun.

[krrwpsnm]

I need to write butter where they fool around in uni and never think it is serious until Mark starts getting palpitations whenever he pulls Jenson's hoodie off and skews his glasses & Jenson keeps drawing hearts on his notebook margins in class oohhhhohooohhh... And I could amplify by making them initial "enemies" because Mark shall be an econs major who Jenson will flip off at the start... Yeah

[anakinh]

New COE33 Fic: Nautilus

title: Nautilus

summary:

The other Verso loved water, and so he did as well. Other Verso Painted water everywhere in the Canvas, although presumably, like the rest of the Canvas, he Painted it for fun and not for death. Flying Waters, which was Painted in a fit of childish fury after he realized he could not live in the ocean, contained something like breathable water. It made for an adequate alternative to the traditional ocean on days when Verso craved the peace of being underwater but not the pain of drowning. It wasn’t nearly as calming as swimming in real water, but it at least didn’t tempt him with the sleep of death. Not more than usual, anyway.

Or, an exploration of Verso and his relationship to water, the sea, and a certain very cute aquatic mammal.

Written for day 5 of Verso Hell Week: Drowning ( @verso-hell-week )

link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79829381

characters: painted verso dessendre; mentioned clea, monoco, and esquie

tags: pre-canon/canon, existential angst, dark humor, depression, suicide, you know. the usual verso tags.

gen | complete one-shot | 2.3k words

serious TW for the depression, suicide, and for somewhat graphic depictions of drowning. Not too bad, but not fade-to-black either

[violetmuses]

Um...I got it... 👀

@thekittysmeow @miss-kuki-nz @teamchasez @goddesschoi @arination99 🏷

[sillysnack]

thinking about kusuke in london makes me sad... that flight must've been hard. like..WAAHHHHh

kusuke isn't scared of planes, he understands that the pilots and all other staff members are skilled at their respective field. though there was a sinking feeling in his stomach he couldn't get rid of– nausea? not quite. only certain foods made him feel nauseated, he's had a strict diet for years now; it couldn't've been that.

the plane finally lands. that was it. finally in london. then kusuke would navigate the place alone, not that he needed much help. oddly, at every turn, he can hear his parents. rather, he was imagining things they'd say if they were in london with him.

there are a lot of people in the airport. kusuke thinks of kusuo. he'll be fine. kusuke tries to imagine all the thoughts that would make itself heard in kusuo's head. it rather annoys him, wasting his thoughts on locals and foreigners alike. what does he gain from thinking of what other people are thinking–? when there was someone kilometers away that could effortlessly know it without even wanting to do so?

kusuke shrugs his shoulders, fixing his jacket. while he's adjusting to cambridge, he'll have to try not to dwell too much on why he moved there in the first place.

i just hope dad doesn't rely on him too much while i'm gone. he'll be fine. i'll be fine.

[bitch-butter]

hiiiii! im not sure if you’re on here much anymore but I just have to say i am in LOVE with your fics and I can’t get enough of them. Like in every universe you are a fucking Artist and tour de force. and i’m just wondering if you have any advice for beginners and…like beginnings? lmao. Like I am trying my hand at writing for the first time this year and it is slow going and rewarding but it is the INTROS to a story I am struggling the most with. like, getting things first off the ground. nothing every feels authentic or like, a good enough set up and I don’t know. i feel like I’m overthinking it and I am sure that is just making it worse. I’ve always heard you should just jump right into action but maybe that’s outdated af?

How do you know where to begin a story? How do you kick things off and just step right into someone’s world? thank you so much for any advice 😘🙏😭

babe thank you so much for your kind words! 🖤✨ i am on here but i'm in my anti-social era - however, i'm going to make more of an effort to be present lol

i completely get what you're saying, sometimes the hardest thing to understand about a story is how it begins. they're easily the most inorganic part of writing, because depending on where and when you're setting the story you need to catch people up to the rules of your universe in a way that feels both intuitive and also doesn't challenge them too hard off the bat, and there's really no elegant way of doing that. it is definitely easy to overthink it and scare yourself even more, so my best advice would be to just play it as it lays a little bit and write as much of it as you can and let the information come out where it feels right. sometimes after i do that I discover i have a whole new idea for where i want the story to begin, and sometimes it just occurs to me that i have more space than i thought i did to help things make sense for the reader because it's my story and i can play by my rules - which is the most chic part of writing tbh lol

just do your own thing! the reader is never as clueless or judgmental as we think they're going to be, they'll be able to get what you're laying down. if a story wants to be told badly enough it will teach you the way to tell it, so the best thing you can do is just write ~

good luck 🖤

[amkgal]