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Ro’s writing corner
Hey there!
This is where I go to post/advertise my own work and reblog inspiration and other snippets of writing and art. I mostly write for the Soul Eater fandom when I’m not working on original stuff in private.
Thanks so much for checking out my work!
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cromaka/somacro doodlin'
fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.
When you remove a line in your manuscript and then read on further and have to add it back because you realize why it was there in the first place
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Pre-orders for Two Girl Revolution, an Utena/Anthy RGU zine, are now open! Incredibly honored to work with such a wonderful team of creatives, here's a little snippet of something I wrote for it! 🌹⚔️
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Some Things I Wish I Knew as a Baby Writer
You can find writing advice of every shape and form online, and most of it will never fit your process entirely.
I wish someone had told me that it's ok to disagree with the advice you see, even if the person is more experienced than you.
I wish someone had told me that writing is part craft part art; there is no right way to build a fictional concept, only tried and tested ways to bring it to life.
I wish someone had told me that it's ok to fail.
So I'm telling all of you this:
Failure is a blessing because we can learn from it
Success is dangerous because it can make us complacent
The joy of creation outweighs the comfort of acclaim
Persistence matters more than talent in most cases
Writing as a hobby and writing as a job are two different beasts, neither is better or worse
The stories you hate most may be your best because they have tried you and frustrated you; we rarely see the beauty in our own faces - our writing is no different.
You deserve to love your stories, but it's not the only way to measure growth.
Does anyone have any tips on writing flashbacks? I'm finding the tense a pain -- "When Jonathan was a boy, he had once run into friends at the local chip shop. "What are you doing here?" Biff had said .... But if not using perfect tense, what's a good way to transition into and out of flashbacks?
I know I've read good ones, but I can't remember how it worked (because it was "invisible")
One big issue with flashbacks is that there are so many ways to do them. That makes juggling when and where to do them a bit tough. However, there's definitely some things to keep in mind:
Some Don'ts
Don't use a flashback right before conveying information the flashback makes essential. The one is a bit confusing, but imagine this - you're in the middle of a confrontation with the big bad. Right before they start fighting, a flashback reveals the villain killed your main character's brother and therefore this is personal! ...Except that information would have been better revealed much earlier in the novel, especially if everyone but the reader knows it.
Don't start a flashback in the middle of an action scene. You could, for example, throw some quick remembrances of something that happened in the past, but if you're interrupting a critical scene to yank the reader back to a multi-page event in the past, you're killing all the tension in the story.
Don't let a flashback take over the main plot. If the flashback is more important than what's happening in the present, you're writing the story from the wrong point of time. You might want to consider shifting the narrative to that time period, and dealing with the "current" plot at a later point in the book or settling for quick, contextualizing flash forwards.
Don't use a flashback to hide things from the audience. The absolute worst way to use a flashback is to make a scene look like it happened in a way that it didn't. If your flashback is deliberately misleading in a way the characters of the story are aware of, don't use it. For example, let's say your MC flashes back to her father's murder. It's framed to look like her uncle did it. But your MC has known all along her mother was the murderer. The flashback isn't a story she's telling, it only exists for the readers, and audience she's not aware of. Even in first-person with an unreliable narrator, a flashback is not a good way to introduce doubt in a story. It makes the reader feel as if they've been cheated.
Some Dos
Use flashbacks to convey something essential to the story. You might have pages of past events that you've cut out of your story. I certainly do. But including them slowed down the pacing and killed the tension, and ultimately, I narrowed it down to what was essential for moving forward the plot. If the flashback tells us nothing about the character, the plot, or the world in relation to either, it's probably not necessary.
Use flashbacks for character-building. Your character is formed by their past. You will need to touch on that past in some ways. A flashback triggered by a painful memory (discovering an old toy, looking at a photograph, etc) might be a way to go about it.
To show how the character got there. Your character stumbles into a bar with a head injury. As they attempt to have a normal conversation, we flash back to the car accident they fled from.
Use flashbacks to highlight but not show the real issue. This is harder to convey, but if your character is trying to avoid the truth of an event, they might often revisit the event (a fight, an argument, a conversation), but not cover all the details. This skews toward hiding things from the reader, so you should be careful about it. However, if the narrator is avoiding the truth, there are ways to do it (flashing back but not covering the whole event, flashing back to pieces of the event, etc).
Use flashbacks to frame what actually happened. Your character tells a story about themselves the whole book, but the flashback reveals what actually happened in a moment that reveals the true nature of their character.
Types of Flashbacks
Mid-scene, short paragraphs. Good for characters struggling with trauma, trying to avoid the truth of something, or looking at an image or thing that jogs their memory.
A few pages of needed context. Your MCs are at a party. They're laughing it up, seemingly having a good time. The next page or so steps back into the fight they had in the car on the way there, and how they spent time fixing their makeup before going inside.
A whole chapter - maybe. As I said above, the longer you spend in a past event, the more likely that is the main story. But if you need the POV of a character from the past, or need to highlight a critical event that you deliberately skipped over when it happened, a chapter might be a good call.
How to determine what kind of flashback you need and where you need it? That depends on where you're at in the story.
Does this flashback convey critical information about your character?
Does this flashback convey critical information about your plot?
Does this flashback add to or fit into the tension of the scenes around it?
Does the flashback slow down or stop the action? (It may be in the wrong place in your story.)
On that note, is your finale flashback-free? (If you're wrapping up the story, you need to have all your cards on the table.)
There's many, many more things we could get into, but that's a decent start. Working in flashbacks is a matter of trial and error at times, so don't shy away from them when drafting. You'll figure it out!
to write, you must write. to make art, you must make art. it doesn’t need to feel holy. i find that others expect too much of the process, like a magical euphoria
you can go through the motions like a piece of machinery. it will often be dull, draft work. again, again, and again.
but you must start. you may create something amateurish and ugly now or you may do so in five years from now -- but wouldn’t you prefer that it was now?
Outside the World We Dreamt We Built
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Rating: T
Pairings: Soul/Maka, Tsubaki/Liz, and a whole lotta friendship
Summary:
“Hey, Soul?” Liz started. “Have you ever considered what you were going to do after this?” “The gala? Go back to Death City, I guess.” He flicked a rhythm on the can’s tab before bringing it to his lips. “Maybe try to bleach the image of Black Star’s bare chest from my brain.” “No, I meant,” she made a vague sweeping gesture in the air, cigarette ash dusting her jeans like freshly fallen snow. “All of this. Everything.”
Three years after the Battle on the Moon, the Shibusen kids go on a road trip and think about what comes next.
you COMMENT on fic? you comment on the story like it's worth something? oh! oh! love for reader! love for reader for One Thousand Years!!!!
''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.
ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website
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I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!
Dirt Road through the Desert, 1969
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you should contribute more fics to the cromaso tag i think (only if you want to, of course!)
I WOULD LOOOOVE TO ANON!! I haven't uploaded anything in a while but I've been cooking up a few things on and off in my spare time (this ask might actually give me the motivation to finish one of them...). Gosh I love this ship to death, and it makes me indescribably happy to see that there's an audience for my rare pair stuff! Thanks so much!
Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.
Writers, how long would it take you to write 5-7k words?
1-2 days
3-4 days
A week
2-3 weeks
A month
2-3 months
Even longer than that (how long?)
curious to see something
The people saying 1-2 days are powerful on a level I can't even imagine, as someone who would take at least 8 months to write this much for a single project.
