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There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

nollimet

Vindictae Trahit Exitium

Those who seek revenge shall destroy themselves

lettucemakar

Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?

You made a computer that can't COUNT?!

jkottke

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

cryptotheism

You know how you can't get investor capital without slapping some [Powered by AI] sticker on the white paper? For 1515, that was "going to the new world to look for gold"

Doesn't matter if you found gold or not. If you got back from the new world, you had to tell everyone it was lousy with gold. You shipwrecked off the coast of northern Canada looking for the northwest passage? There was gold there.

cryptotheism

Caravel Navigator voice: "By 1585, it's likely that 80% of peasants will work on the treasure ships."

mikkeneko

How I write

I have been writing every day or so for a couple years now and I am starting to get how I get things done!

(usual caveat what works for me does not work for everyone, etc. etc. etc) (also I'm not saying I'm a good writer, only that I show up to work)

Usually it goes like this:

at the very beginning I make a very vague plan that may or may not change dramatically by the time I'm done

then I start writing the chapters in order, a little everyday. That way I don't lose motivation because I already wrote that scene I wanted to write (and which is at the end of the novel. Because it's always at the end of the novel)

Scribbook allows to pick colours for your files, so I'm using it very plainly: red for rough/unwritten stuff, orange for first drafts, and green for the finished chapter. It works for short stories too!

That doesn't mean I write in order whithin a chapter file. Instead I throw in everything. Writing chaotically, without any regard for consistency, rough dialogues, etc. So yeah, it's ugly, but it exists.

my drafts are usually sponsored by (parenthesis/and slashes)

then I reread and edit stuff up. I allows me to notice the several blocks the chapter is made of (ex. One scene in a garden, then another with another point of view in a cellar, etc.) For instance, chapter 14 of the current story is made of roughly three blocks: a big one and two small ones.

the others sponsors are * * * *staaaaars* * * * *

I edit block by block, following my fancy. You know that saying that in order to achieve something ridiculously difficult, you divide it in small difficult tasks, then smaller inconvenient ones, and so on? Well it works. What matters is that at the end, I have a coherent chapter that I can send to my ever-suffering beta-reader. And then I start working on the next chapter.

And when everything is written? It's time for the big edits. But that's a story for another time (because I don't like big edits)

Don't believe the green, I've been meaning to rewrite this thing for two years now

#writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing community

callizinc

When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas

trans-pickles

you don't need to write a dark deconstruction of Peter Pan where he's willing to kill people and his state of eternal childhood makes him morally ambiguous, JM Barrie already wrote one and it's called Peter Pan

creetch

'Revenge is bad' to YOU. i love when a character destroys everyone who wronged them. i love when they get to bite and maim and tear and rip and scratch and kill. Sorry ur catholic about it but i'm different

chaumas-deactivated20240115

frustrating when you are talking about folklore as the narratives a particular culture tells itself about itself and then someone else is talking about folklore as a dnd monster manual

ring2002

sexually repressed people be like “i have an ancient evil stirring within me. no one can know” and its literally just craving intimacy

#Sid is craving the ancient evil for intimacy

milf--adjacent

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

sunb1eeder

dare i say girlboss

mmocc123

Characters of the current story: a vampire who's overdue for a mental breakdown, a girl who brings her friends' downfall whilst doing everything to protect them, and a young man whose devotion destroys him

Characters of the next story: a goth teenager who is as chill as he is overpowered, his angry feminist best friend, and a 13 years old who can hear ghosts and is very blasé about it

#writing #ramblings #after all that misery a light hearted story is in order