#Kerishet

[gerrydelano]

Been listening to bloodwater ballad on repeat and it is harrowing

cannot even express how Honored i am to be on repeat for Anyone dkdjskdj thank you!

[drarry-lover]

Hey saw you help someone to find an old fic again so I thought you might be able to help me? It was drarry, post-war at hogwarts, I think where Draco had become a death eater so their relationship couldn't really be made public. The only thing I really remember is that they wore matching earrings so that people started speculating to a point where everyone just expected them to come out which they finally did with a kiss in the great Hall (on Valentine's Day?) I think it's in English, hopefully

These are the only ones I could find:

The Dragon’s Courtship by Madriddler: Draco Malfoy wakes up on his seventeenth birthday to intense pain. Finding out that he has a Creature inheritance of an old and powerful species of Dragon, Draco must use his new powers to protect his mate Harry from dangerous enemies. But first, he must prove to Harry that he can be a Dragon worthy to call Harry Potter his. 

The Final Direction by En Taiho: Harry received a gold earring for Christmas from an anonymous person but only wore it as the New Year came close. A nondescript voice talked to him from it. What was this person’s purpose in giving Harry this gift? 

But I know they’re not the ones you’re looking for. I’m sorry.

[hopeless-namjin]

Hey hello yes hi Just a quick question for you to come back to if you feel like answering What is your approach to writing? How much of the story do you plan ahead? Do you have a concrete plan for every chapter or more of a general idea? Basically what do you do before writing?

Mystories always begin with either a character or a scene. I get an image clearas day inside my head, like I’m remembering a movie or a picture. That scene orcharacter is always what I build my stories around. With IBFY is was thehospital scene, Jungkook having already said his goodbyes and Tae realisingthat Jungkook is his soulmate, crawling up in the bed to kiss him. It was thewhole visual at that moment, the emotional torment Tae would feel that beganunravelling IBFY at first. With Affinity, it was the idea of Taehyung walkingin, mushrooms sprouting from where his soles touch the floor and Yoongi’s angerthat suddenly created the idea of the garden and the shop and all the othersthat followed seconds behind. In Seasons, it was a scene with Jungkook thatbegan the idea.

Secondcomes the characters. I know where they’ll end up or begin… but who are they?This is easy for me. I’ll come right out and admit that. Some find it really hardbut these characters just pop up in my head and I just need to sit down and getto know them. I write character-based stories so this is the most importantstep and I’ve even taken people out of stories inside my head and moved toother works simply because they didn’t fit. I always think you need to buildyour characters. Why are they as they are? Why do they do this? Why do they dothat? How can they do as they do? Build them up from scratch. It’s hard, but ifyou build an iron tight character you know really well you won’t suddenly writea story that feels wrong because your character is contradiction the wholebackstory. I bounce ideas with Nan. She is good at asking questions like ‘whydoesn’t he just do this?’ or ‘how come all these people know each other?’. Justthe other day she asked me how the all the characters in IBFY made money andbecause I know my characters so well, I didn’t even have to think about whatthey we’re doing. Namjoon’s parents payed the security deposit for their flat,Yoongi bought Hoseok a place and Hoseok persuaded Jimin to leave his shittyplace to come entertain Hoseok and like we know Tae lived in a goshiwon (tinyone-bedroom flat, to those who don’t know). It’s a answer that doesn’t matterin the story, but makes all the difference to how thay act.

Itseems silly at first to know imaginary people that well, but I feel it helpsout later. Often you will want to move the plot in one direction, but if youfeel your character gets awkward or suddenly feel like they sound off, you’llbe able to stop yourself from making that character unreliable. Like, I knewKookie was lying to himself, becoming a more and more unreliable narrator asthe story progressed; meaning that him putting himself down, making Tae soundmore uncaring than he was fitted his personality since he was ready to give up.I also know Tae lies to everyone, even me and himself and I knew I had to makehim talk in riddles always hiding half of what he actually wanted to say. Itmakes some of Tae’s dialog with himself muddled and kinda uncaring at times,but that’s how he is. Full of secrets and contradictions. The more you know aboutyour character the easier it is to write. You don’t have to know everything andsome things will come to you later, for example, I didn’t know why IBFY Yoongiknew CPR, I just knew that he could, but some days ago me and Nan were talkingand then the reason as to why Yoongi knows CPR just came up.

Almostas important as the characters: What do I want to say? What the heck is thepoint of this? Do you want to have a quick glimpse of someone’s life? Do youwant a story about love and friendship? In short, once you reader is done, whatdo you want them to walk away with?InIBFY I wanted friendship to be central and I wanted to make sure that nobodywalked away feeling like one member hadn’t had a role, I wanted to tell howplatonic love matters just as much as romantic love and how friendship isbeautiful. With that in mind it’s much easier to plan ahead and build thestory.

BeforeI begin writing anything I always find out where I want to start and where Iwant to end. In IBFY it was the introduction, the true start of Jungkook’s lifein Seoul and the beginning of it all and in that hospital bed. Since I knew thedirection I just needed to add plot to make that journey possible. I wanted toshow the friendship between the characters in IBFY - then I need to show theminteract so Kookie just won’t ditch them after being “ignored” by Tae and italso gives a reason why he feels pain about dying. I need Jungkook to fall inlove – then I Have to show what it is about Tae he loves. I need Tae to hurtKookie – well, how can I do that in a way that makes Kookie upset enough tofeel unloved. Not all of these things will come right away and sometimes thingslike dialogue or interactions can’t be planned too much ahead, but you just needa general idea to at least get you to these points of your story. You have tohave a beginning, you need to build up you story, shit needs to hit the fan andthings must come to a conclusion and an end. There are many models for this, findone that works for your story. In this case I feel it’s easier to think as areader; show what you’d like to read if it was you read the story instead ofwriting it.

I’llusually come up with most of my plot points before writing, just quickly addingideas on a page in word. Most of Affinity is currently a list like this;

Tae tries to flirt

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Yoongi want to hit Namjoon over the head withan exploding yam

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Jin is an underappreciated saint and he is wearingforget-me-nots in his hair

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The Blood Oak has a tough life, fuck pruning

Doingthis I know what the key elements are that I need that scene to show. It makesit easier to keep the story flowing and to see where there is somethingmissing. Like here, why does a scene with Tae need to be followed by Namjoon;he must have done something above to make Yoongi upset, or whatever happensleads to what Jin is doing. Basically this is the easiest way to keep track ofthe plot progression (for me) and enable me to see what I’m going for in thenext scene as in writing the one above. It also makes it easier to see wherethe plot gets weak and needs to be backed up. Now I know what to do, if I finda weak spot, like why did Jungkook end up talking to Tae again after theirfirst fight in IBFY; I add scenes like the one with Jin in chapter 4 (that was Nan’sidea okay) or the take-away in Yoongi’s apartment (also Nan, she thought thechapter needed Yoonmin)….

In short get a Nan….

Jokesaside, keep it believable and keep all actions supported by characters traitsand behaviour and things will be alright.

Inthe comments of IBFY a lot of people was after me about why Jungkook keptrepeating the same thing over and over again, how he needed to keep silent, whyhe had to keep the secret, but he was convincing himself (and you as readers)that what he was doing was the only right choice. This was a way to shut thebiggest problem with IBFY; why didn’t Jungkook just tell Tae. I knew Jungkookwould want to tell him, but I also knew Jungkook wanted to avoid being a burdenand so the confession in chapter 10 came to be.That is how you need to think about everything when writing.

WithIBFY I wrote almost the whole story, went back an edited it…. And found outthat was a shit way to do it. I had rushed a lot of it, so while I had ageneral plan to follow all I really had - that I could use - was some dialogueand basic interaction. I also realized I needed to add a shit ton of extrascenes, and movement. Always freaking movement (Nan is meticulous about this,peeps, keep those people moving and keep them talking). Affinity is writtenchapter by chapter and with a much clearer direction. I’m a better writer nowso I don’t feel like I need to have a basic draft anymore. I had nothing to goon in chapter 16-17. That was all written after chapter 15. I ran out of mydraft around chapter 13 and had only partial scenes (like the realizationscene) in chapters 14-15. And tbh I think that I had a fresh mind made thosescenes better than if I had had a draft. This is a personal preference andchapter 1 of Affinity did go through an edit where I added a good 2k to some ofthe scenes because after writing the whole chapter I had a much better idea of whatI wanted.

Butthat is how first chapters are, confusing and usually they are the one I findneeds the most work.

Withthe above in mind me and Nan do edit several times, always adding and removing.This process makes us able to write like this. If you need a draft to edit,then do that. Writing is all about finding out how it works for you. It’susually why I say ‘to hell with authors advice’. Use what you can, everythingelse in the bin. I don’t care how many books people sell, they aren’t you andonly you can write like you do.

InIBFY the plot came mostly on its own, Affinity had a different kind of worldwhere it took a while (read: like 2 hours of 3am ramblings between me and Nan)to get the plot. Affinity Yoongi was harder to get to know, so the plot was moredifficult to spot and most of it wasn’t really clear until after we wrotechapter 1. With Seasons I just know where I need to end, everything in betweenis still being planned, but I know exactly what needs to happen (again keep tothose key points; beginning, build up, shit hits the fan and conclusion plusconsequences, gotta show that choices are hard. Rinse and repeat until storyfinishes) The only fic I have is that I really need to plan out in detail, isone I really wanna do but haven’t begun writing yet. I can’t say anything as itwon’t be written before next year and, yeah, life, so I can’t get into too muchdetail. But I have a mayor plot twist I want to pull off and it really needssome planning. It has like 6 separate documents and character profiles as ofnow. Other fics are just in a shared note on my computer, and we add ideas tothem (again often at 2-3am) and just go with it. The planning is all about howcomplicated the plot is or how detailed it needs to be.

Inshort; be true to your characters, show why they do as they do, know them andtreat them nicely, if the plot is good don’t force it and don’t be afraid of adetour if you need to shut a plot hole.

Nowyou have the idea, the characters and the plot… Now you just need to find the courageto write.

[jayphoenic]

Masterlist of Executive Assistant to the Batman

made by @heartslogos

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine | Chapter Ten | Chapter Eleven | Chapter Twelve | Chapter Thirteen | Chapter Fourteen | Chapter Fifteen | Chapter Sixteen | Chapter Seventeen | Chapter Eighteen | Chapter Nineteen | Chapter Twenty | Chapter Twenty One | Chapter Twenty Two | Chapter Twenty Three | Chapter Twenty Four | Chapter Twenty Five | Chapter Twenty Six | Chapter Twenty Seven | Chapter Twenty Eight | Chapter Twenty Nine | Chapter Thirty | Chapter Thirty One | Chapter Thirty Two | Chapter Thirty Three | Chapter Thirty Four | Chapter Thirty Five | Chapter Thirty Six | Chapter Thirty Seven | Chapter Thirty Eight | Chapter Thirty Nine | Chapter Forty | Chapter Forty One | Chapter Forty Two | Chapter Forty Three | Chapter Forty Four | Chapter Forty Five | Chapter Forty Six | Chapter Forty Seven | Chapter Forty Eight | Chapter Forty Nine | Chapter Fifty | Chapter Fifty One | Chapter Fifty Two | Chapter Fifty Three | Chapter Fifty Four | Chapter Fifty Five | Chapter Fifty Six | Chapter Fifty Seven | Chapter Fifty Eight | Chapter Fifty Nine | Chapter Sixty | Chapter Sixty One | Chapter Sixty Two

Note:

Chapter 31 is not numbered. And Chapter 38 is numbered 39 while Chapter 39 is numbered 29. Like ??? Chapter 53 is empty which is why it's crossed over.

Remember some chapters are longer than others

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

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[gerrydelano]

161 hURTS

IT DO! IT DO!!!! though tbh i recovered a lot faster than i thought i would + immediately went to jam in my pharos by right document because boy HOWDY did it give me SO much more to work with and i am LIVING

i am so sorry to all who are in agony i’m really just giddy as hell

[gerrydelano]

Archivist Gerry is now the only thing I care about and my mind is reeling

damn right damn right damn right!!!! you’re gonna actually lose it and go bananas about this then because this puppy is 20 installments long so far and we only JUST got a key character involved. who knows how long i can go. i’m shaking already. archivist gerry got me really fucked up but in the best way

[gerrydelano]

Okay so I'm back in a better mood now but I still have very little to add other than that shit hit real close and is very real and raw like the gender the neurodivergence and all the body jazz damn

aaaaaaaah i’m glad you’re feeling better! i hope it stays that way ;; gosh though OOF yeah i should probably have put a disclaimer on that for how close it was likely to hit because i think i nerfed a lot more people than i thought i would EEK. thank you so much though oof dfkdjsnf i’m 🥺

[gerrydelano]

(trying to condense these a bit and avoid spam!)

@ all anons - oh the neko case comparison OOF. you’re very welcome for the bops, thank you for listening!

@kerishet - definitely not weird at all, thank you so much! there was a part that i was iffy on (the way i said “save his from her bite / and i [...]” the T felt funky but! i’m glad it was still a quality that stood out overall!

@honourablefool - thank you very much!!!! TMA makes for a really great eerie ballad muse. maybe one day i’ll do something a little different! but it’s nice to see what style is Encouraged around here.

@voidfoxstarlight - oh hey you picked up on that huh :-) wow i wonder what’s going on with that lyric :-) i can’t begin to guess what this is all going to mean for pharos by right :-D (thank you so so so so much!)

[gerrydelano]

Okay so admittedly reading this after rocking to music for an hour beforehand myself after a rotten day might have been a mistake but quality chapter there it is pain and i care for these idiots

oh boy i am so sorry you had a bad day!!!! and i’m sorry that the chapter Definitely wouldn’t help with something like that EEK! thank you for taking the time regardless ;; aaaaaaaa take care of yourself + feel better!

[gerrydelano]

So this is to be taken in the context of a rubbish sleeping schedule well part midnight but I saw your update and by the time I clicked on it and started reading I had gotten so excited that my heart was beating very fast and I got physically dizzy so know you have literally made my head spin with your writing

oh my g-d please be safe! sleep!!!! holy shit i’m jvhbkn grinning like an idiot thank you? KFNDKJN

[gerrydelano]

I'm on Sasha's northanger Abbey stream but as soon as it's over I am reading that chapter + I had a dilemma when I saw the notification pop up because the stream is live but I WANT TO READ IT

it’ll be there when the stream is over don’t even worry! don't be so impatient for your doom!!!!!!!!!!!!

(your excitement makes me happy though thanksjhbfnkrn cries! enjoy the stream!)

[hopeless-namjin]

Please give us a physical description of owner noona for science

Imma post this because I’m pretty sure you aren’t the only one wondering.

Owner Noona is beautiful even if she looks completely ordinary, the kind of person that catches your eyes and you never know quite why. She is shorter than she sounds but not tiny, she loves the color red and wear it often. She likes how dominant it is. The coat she wears when she visits Kooks is her favorite. She likes to wear boots but usually only wear black sneakers since she is on her feet all day. Her hair is long, but only because she hasn’t cut it in while, she has been busy in cafe. Instead of the short bob she used to wear, she has it in it’s in a bun. Her eyes are almost black. She has her nails cut short, no nail polish since it takes to long to maintain. She hates how easily it chips, but if she could she would wear the color of the rainbow on her fingers. She rocks t-shirt and jean, but you can never figure out exactly how. She just does.

She is extraordinary and ordinary all at the same time, a woman that you wold never say was beautiful, but who would make you stop and look twice id you passed her on the street. Her looks doesn’t make her special, her aura does.