#writing i guess

[natavinsmoke06]

Yeah for sure I could write a book. I just need to have free time. Finish College. Have ideas. Good grammar. Actually sit and write. Edit. Like what I'm writing. And repeat until I have 500 pages. Easy peasy lemon squisy

[bark-barkley]

buddie au where eddie and shannon never actually got married and shannon decides she isnt actually ready to be a mother, she liked dating eddie but she isnt going to marry him just because his family is pressuring her into it. so she gives birth and signs away custody of chris and moves to la with her mother or something. so eddie is single parenting chris in el paso with his parents being extremely overbearing and constantly telling him that a kid needs a mother and a father who can actually parent them instead of working three jobs. eddie does try one tour od the military but in a sped up timeline the convoy goes down and he gets shot on his first one, so he comes back riddled with and ptsd and misses his son like a limb while feeling guilty for ever leaving chris in the first place. flash to buck who is going around the states finding himself doing various jobs and has gotten to el paso. he decides to try street performance when no one will hire him, and lands on human statue due to some nebulous research he did at the public library. eddie still feels absolutely awful about not being there for chris and so takes him out for the day before running into buck as a statue out on the street and chris is entranced with this statue that moves so obviously eddie keeps coincidentally walking past his normal performing spot even when he isnt bringing chris until he runs into buck out of make up one day

[cheesymcbriz]

i don't want to eat

the flesh on my plate

lathered with slime

and seasoned in grit

i don't want to eat

the mush on the side

vegetables made spongy

and squishy and wet

"honey, please eat something"

mother begs across the table

"your father worked so hard

to make this lovely feast"

but mother, i'm not hungry

though my stomach may protest

i can just eat something later

something cold and made of guilt

[star-riding-through-clouds]

What is the secret that holds us behind from love or from loving?

Who is the creature tying our hands and biting our necks all so slowly?

I think it’s us,

I think it’s me.

We drink our own blood and choke our own neck as we wonder why our brothers don’t save us.

But we are the monsters we’re trying to run from,

don’t take it the wrong way—I’m just trying to tell you.

Remember, with comfort, that no one will save you.

And plunge in the dagger right back to your heart

Because that’s the only comfort you or I will ever have.

[estro-gem]

If I may ask, do you have any tips for beginner writers? I’ve read your work and it’s GOOD (like REALLY good) and I was wondering if you had any advice on how to improve. Once again LOVE YOUR WORK KEEP IT UP!! ❤️❤️❤️

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE COMPLIMENTS!

I don't know if I'm the best person to answer; English isn't even my mother tongue.

I hardly see myself as a 'writer,' (lol) but I'll try. My word of advice:

Just. Write. Something.

And then POST IT.

Even if you give it your best shot, it will be bad. There's people out there that will think it's ABSOLUTE GARBAGE - even if no one openly acknowledge it. People will look passed it/ignore it. You'll look back think it's the worst thing you ever attempted. You'll want to take down and never write again.

LEAVE IT UP.

Screw it, write something else - POST THAT.

Long, short, good, bad - post it.

Keep writing. Keep posting. It will get easier. It will get better. If you write, write because you want to. Write whatever you want and give it your all.

Then share it.

Someone will see it and someone will like it just as much as you do.

Best of luck, love!

I'm rooting for you. <3

[politenuclearbomb]

optimism not in a blind "everything is gonna be okay!" sunshine-and-rainbows way, but in the way that i'm gripping hope white-knuckled and repeating "it will be okay because i'm gonna make it okay, even if it kills me"

[empress-runner]

You've been pranked! See, what you thought was the righteous holy blade that saved the souls of all felled by it was actually a cursed sword of damnation, forcing your enemies into eternal conscription into the army against heaven.

[thesugarplumdisaster]

| The Pink Circle

Today I had to explain to a friend why I'm against generative AI. He wasn't understanding it so I made a short story to explain the basics and decided to share it here. Again, it's just a silly story, very basic, that I did for fun to explain something to a friend while texting him. Don't expect much from it other than that.

Okay, you're FF-p, a new AI I'm creating. You don't know anything, you don't know what day or night is, you don't know colors and you don't know numbers.

But I need you to know stuff and how to do things.

So I'll show you a drawing of a circle I've made. A simple one, graphite on a white sheet of paper.

Now, if I ask you for a circle, you'll be able to make me the exact same circle I showed you.

But I want a pink one this time. Only I didn't teach you how to make a pink one because I don't know how to make a pink one, so you won't be able to give me a pink circle either.

But my neighbor hung a drawing of a pink circle on his door.

Since I don't know how to make a pink circle, but I really want you to make me one and my neighbor has a pink circle on his door, I'll go and borrow the pink circle to show you and then I put it back on the door.

Now you know how to make the same pink circle as my neighbor. And I can get the pink circle I wanted, just like everyone else who wants a pink circle and asks you for one will be able to get one too.

And for some reason pink circles are very popular and lots of people ask you for a pink circle.

Suddenly there are pink circles everywhere. People like it so much that they use it as their wallpaper, print it on t-shirts, and even make logos with the pink circle.

But the person who created the pink circle that everyone loves wasn't me, and certainly not you, it was my neighbor.

And what you — because you're an AI— and all those other people who loved the pink circle don't know, is that it took my neighbor eight months to make that circle as perfect as it is, and that after a very long time trying to sell it on the shape store, he gave up.

But he liked that pink circle so much, that he decided to put it somewhere where other people could see it too, maybe someone would show up who enjoyed circles just as much as him and the sight of that circle on his door would bring them a little bit of joy.

After a while, my neighbor noticed that the circle he had made with such care and dedication was on someone's shirt, another one showed up on TV, and one more became the local children's school mascot.

But nobody knew that the circle was his. And no matter how much he claimed to be, he couldn't prove it. Even after showing everyone the pink circle on the door — the one that took him eight months to make— it didn't matter. Because anyone could have that circle now.

So my neighbor watched as his circle became famous, being used in many places all over the world, while he remained unknown. Without anyone ever finding out that he created the pink circle, with no control over who gets to use it and where, and with no one ever knowing how much work it takes to make a perfect pink circle like that.

Because I gave it to you and now everyone can make it too.

And suddenly, the fact that my neighbor could create the most amazing pink circle in the world didn't matter anymore, because you can make one just like his in a thousandth of the time it took him.

[ryderdire]

*grabs you by the face* yes the world around us is often hostile and cruel but they doesn’t mean we have to be. Yes things are so hard and yes things are very bleak, yes changing the systems we have is a massive task that will be incredibly difficult, but before all that please in your everyday life remember to be kind.

Tell someone you love them , give a meal to someone in need, smile at a stranger, acknowledge someone’s hard work.

While these actions won’t save the world they can and often do make a difference to someone, and in a world that is often indifferent and cruel that can mean so much more then you know.

I promise you with all my soul kindness is not a weakness.

[tamiwhoisveryanxious]

“Sometimes I’m the villain in my own story”

“Why do you think that?”

“When someone stabs me, I’ll often just.. twist the knife”

[natavinsmoke06]

My new book is gonna be so woke you'll need a new word to describe it

[thebeesforeleg]

Star Trek stop adding random words and prefixes to real medical conditions. I’m trying to come up with realistic pathogenesis for these fictional disorders and the random adjectives are making it difficult

Vegan choriomeningitis? Are we sure about that? What do vegans have to do with brain inflammation?

Xenopolycythemia? Alien many celled blood? Because the body’s making too many alien red blood cells? Actually that could work

[cheesymcbriz]

What if I'm using my accommodations as a crutch? What if I really do just need to push myself harder? What if I am just being dramatic about things?

What if I could have done that amazing thing, and I lost that opportunity because I assumed I couldn't?

Is the price tag on self improvement in my budget? Can I afford to take that risk? Can I afford to assume I'm capable and be wrong?

I don't want to have to live in this bubble, but I fear it's the only way I know how to survive.

[estro-gem]

The voices are winning

Writing original story shenanigans

(I don't know what I'm doing)

First time trying to do it this way. Its honestly fun, but a weird way of doing this.

We'll see if this goes anywhere.

If not? Eh, I tried.

[politenuclearbomb]

listen. today i got to take my lunch break in my truck with the windows down. the air smelled green, even if the plants haven't caught onto it yet. it is the warmest it's been in months.

i was reminded that the spring will come. the spring will always come. winter seems easy until you're in the dead of it and you can't feel your fingers and the sun is blinding you without giving any warmth, but the spring will come anyway. the spring will come. the earth stops spinning for no one and nothing.

i'm rephrasing: this too shall pass.

every spring is different from the last but it comes anyway. you have to survive the cold if you're going to see it.

[shootmewithasilverbullet]

Okay, I've been working on this... document, for like, the last year, to help me with getting better at writing affection and uh. Porn. It's actually helped me a lot in figuring out what ways I like and prefer to write it, and it's really helped me practice writing general affection ( If you ever wondered why I write LONG slowburns, it's because I wasn't comfortable writing affection, yet I craved it so much lmao). It's a coherent work, but the writing style kinda changes (and gets better imo as I figure out more of how I like writing things)

so anyways. I'm asking those of you who are following me, who know about my writing, whether you'd be interested in reading it if I posted it?

It's Convin ( barely. Honestly I think I've just kidnapped these characters and am using them in whatever way I choose at this point, in character or not. )

it's Omegaverse ( I have no explanation I just really wanted to explore that. )

Anyway, just let me know. /Shrugs