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If you want to “shock your audience” maybe you should just try writing a good story.

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okay it’s soooo so easy to make me cry, but a definite surefire way to make me break tf down is quote that euripides quote that was like, it’s not hard work to take care of the one you love or something

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i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

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If you want to “shock your audience” maybe you should just try writing a good story.

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I love when previously neutral third person omniscient narration just utterly rips into a character for no apparent reason.

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Saw this on the Twitter and this bleeds true for so many goddamn fandoms!

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a hard pill to swallow: if an audience can pick up on where the story is going, it’s a good story.

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“You are allowed to like no one, you know. The characters are not people. They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict.”

— Persephone the Wanderer, by Louise Gluck

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Hey Laini, just wondering what you think about age gap romances, especially in fantasy and such. I'm planning on one in which the characters are 4 years apart in age (17 & 21), but it isn't coming off as pedophilic or anything like that-consent is involved. Plus, the whole age gap thing with ACOTAR and TOG is just not good.

I have a feeling that you’re a younger writer because four years is huge to me. I myself am 21 and I would never even consider dating a 17 year old. I’m in my last year of college and they would be just finishing high school and that’s just yuck. There’s too much of a difference in maturity and life experience.

Honestly, when one character is under 18, any gap of more that 1 year feels like too much. Even if explicit consent is given, there’s such a power imbalance been a 17 and 21 year old that unless there’s some really significant special circumstances, it will still feel manipulative in my opinion.

Without knowing more about the specific circumstances of your characters, I can’t really give a more concrete answer. But you should ask yourself a couple questions: Is there a reason why there needs to be a gap at all? Like what’s stopping you from making them 17 and 18? If the gap must remain, do they need to be romantically involved, or could the character have a different love interest who is closer to their age?

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Good stuff.

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Refuse to differentiate between important and unimportant information in your scene descriptions. “Looking around the ruined street you see a few burnt out houses, various bits of rubble, 4000 demons pointing swords at you, a pile of knocked over street signs and a stray cat.”

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if yo gurl look like this she a keeper

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Writing tip: the purpose of chapter breaks is to divide a work up according to breaks in narrative flow, not to slice a work into arbitrarily equally-sized chunks.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s ten thousand words long followed by a chapter that’s five hundred words long.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s one sentence long.

Heck, one of the most famous and well-regarded novels in the whole of the world’s literary canon has a chapter that contains no text at all.

The only reason you’d ever want to try to make chapters equally sized is a. you’re writing for serial publication in a printed magazine and have a fixed page count to work with, or b. your jerkass high school English teacher insisted upon it. In any other circumstance, go wild.

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, February 25, 1935

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less “chosen one” heroes, more heroes that chose THEMSELVES. give me heroes that see a problem, look around, and think, “WELP, clearly no one ELSE is gonna fix it, so APPARENTLY it has to be me” and goes to their friends and is like “Y’ALL, GET YOUR SHIT, WE’RE GOING ON A QUEST”

“what wait why”

“the world is broken and the people in charge aren’t doing anything, so we’re gonna do something for them”

“didn’t the prophecy say a wise and noble mage would choose someone to conquer the evil?”

“yeah well, i can do magic, and i’m pretty fucking wise and noble, right?”

“…..”

“……………….RIGHT?!”

*hasty statements of agreement*

“exactly. so, i’ve come to the conclusion that i’m the mage of the prophecy. and guess what. i choose myself. now let’s go.”

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