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have you guys done that “what kind of reader are you” quiz and if so what did you get

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Who you got that has SUPERPOWERS and is SAD ABOUT IT? (all forms of angst may count as sad for the purposes of this ask)

:O Thanks for the ask!!

I have many characters with superpowers who are also sad, but I think the best match would be my boys Robin and Jay. They both gain elemental powers unexpectedly in their late teens. Because they can’t control them, these “powers” act more like a disability. Robin’s skin is cold enough to freeze water and he has to walk around bundled up with hand warmers and heating pads. Jay’s skin is hot enough to evaporate water and he has to be constantly hydrating.

They’ll eventually have the ability to control ice and fire respectively, but their story is mainly about the struggles they face before they can get to that point. Extra bonus points to Robin for not only being really upset about his predicament, but incapable of asking for help because he’s too prideful.

I’ve written a couple of scenes from their debut novel and posted them under #meltingpointwip

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Writers are scary because we’ll take personal trauma and think, "Hmm… what if this happened to my fictional characters but worse?"

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Don't you get it? In order to write a character with a particular hobby or job, I need to have the exact same amount of experience with it as the character!

There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

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I guess we'll just keep going on, not quite holding each other's hands but never willing to fully let go.

Me writing a story about people fidgeting with each other's bracelets: DO YOU UNDERSTAND. THE METAPHOR??

Also me: no, but I'm trying my best 😭

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Me writing a story about people fidgeting with each other's bracelets: DO YOU UNDERSTAND. THE METAPHOR??

Also me: no, but I'm trying my best 😭

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y'all I'm writing a klance fic (qpr) and I just wrote a scene where they're talking in semi-circles about their feelings while falling asleep in each other's arms 🥺

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both beginning and ending

When I write, I start with a scene that's been playing in my mind. I never know how to start it, so I deliberately skip the first bit because "it's too hard" and go in medias res.

Once I'm done writing the main part of the scene, I have a hard time ending it. I don't give the ending any thought at all. So once I've gotten started, I just let the scene keep "playing" until I'm thoroughly bored of it.

I think I treat whole WIPs like this, too. Establishing the setting and characters is tedious, so I skip straight to the inciting incident. The middle is a series of scenes where I take the characters and scenario and ask, "what if?" I usually don't really think about the ending, though I know where I want the characters to end up. When I start actually finishing WIPs I think I'll have a case of too many epilogues or overextended resolutions.

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I noticed a pattern while writing this wip of using water-based language: overflowing, pouring, drowning, washed away, etc. I thought I'd keep with it since one of the MCs is pyrophobic, but I may be going overboard

... heh-

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I wish metaphors were real

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me: I'm gonna use the extra time this morning to plan my day!

The klance fic that just sprouted in my brain: FEED ME

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I want to be a ghost in the way that people have heard of me and desperately want to catch a glimpse, but can only find me in stories of the past and drawings on the wall of my childhood bedroom. You can't touch or see me, but you desperately want to know more.

Though maybe I am already a ghost in the way that I float through life on an endless loop, repeating the same habits and the same mistakes like a never-ending death. I wish I couldn't hear the floorboards creaking when strangers explore my halls. I wish I could stop the urge to wail, to let them know that I'm here.

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Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

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ohhh we love a good “forced to torture your friend while undercover as a bad guy” don’t we

like. when you meet their eyes and you both know you have to do it and you have to do it well

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i think that childhood best friends to enemies trope is the most tragic thing to ever exist bc like. we’ve both done unspeakable things to each other and there’s no getting back to what we were at the start of this but there’s a part of me that still knows you like no one else could ever possibly know you. the whole idea of trust and devotion turned to a mutual, burning hunger to destroy each other. I hate you this much because i loved you this much. drives me insane.

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holy shit it's literally Oliv from my wip A Dream Come False. She's even got the same hair

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