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Driving down a busy street

Turning the corner is like

Entering another world

Everything quiet as night

The old church stands on the corner

Welcoming me home

I've waved hello a million times

I'll wave hello once more

I pull into the driveway

Step out and take a breath

Unlatch the door and walk inside

To where loneliness rests

Everything's as I remember

The cold wooden floors quite bare

The furniture's right where you left it

Nothing's strayed even a hair

I walk into the kitchen

Which is just down the hall

Stabilizing myself

With a hand on the wall

The fridge is empty

I don't even need to look

You never buy anything

'Cause there never was a worse cook

You taught me all you knew

Mac and cheese and cigarettes

Part of me hates it all

But I'm not ready to let go just yet

I love you, there I said it

Don't ask me to say it again

I'm leaving now for one more time

I might not come again

The house creaks as I leave

It begs me not to go

Because it knows it'll never be as full

As with the emptiness we know

Emptiness takes up space you see

In the house and in my heart

I'm not sure how to cast it out but

Now I think I know where to start

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the sins of the guilty

Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

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I'd trust Mel for at least a short time, though the baby would probably come back with some very concerning new skills

I saw an Instagram post that asked if you had a baby how much would you trust the main character of your current wip to take care of them. I would like to get writeblrs ideas about this.

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heye every one.

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i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

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tumblr users will reblog anything. have half a peanut

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I LOVE MY WIP SO MUCH

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"no spam liking" stfu that's how i know my mutuals are alive smh

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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

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I LOVE YOUR WRITING!!! ONLY WROTE ONE WORD? BEAUTIFUL. WROTE TEN PAGES? AWESOME. HAVENT WRITTEN IN MONTHS? YOURE STILL DOING GREAT SWEETIE

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I love the twins in Appearances Are Deceiving. They're so similar and yet so different.

Both of them are the top students at Hornfel, they're tied for first and everyone knows they could never surpass each other, nor could anyone hope to surpass them. They're overachievers and perfectionists through and through, and if anyone even begins to think they could be better than them they will be swiftly and completely proven wrong.

Kairna and Taren were taken in by the school as young children when their mother died, and they decided they'd repay this kindness by becoming the best damn students the school had ever seen. Of course they both go about this goal in slightly different ways.

There's no doubt that both of the twins work incredibly hard, but Taren approaches every assignment, every test, and every mission with an easy smile and a confident attitude that frequently earns him the title of cocky douchebag. And to be fair to those who call him that, he does tend to like showing off, and has become a master of the humble brag. He doesn't let it go to his head though, and never stops pushing himself to be better.

Kairna on the other hand, when presented a challenge, becomes so determined that her focus is impossible to shake. She'll win even if it kills her, and doesn't think it's worth her time to convince herself that she can do it, instead opting to just do it. Unlike Taren, she's very rarely seen celebrating her victories, so Taren takes it upon himself to help her celebrate, usually in the form of drawing attention to her success that he's knows she doesn't want just to annoy her.

Taren is far more social than Kairna. He has a large group of friends and can usually be found cheating at playing cards with them at the nearby tavern.

Kairna is more reserved however, with a small, tight-knit group of friends, and she can generally be found reading in her favourite hidden nook in the library in her downtime, where only the librarian knows where to find her.

Taren is a go with the flow kind of guy. He welcomes change with open arms and is okay with going through his day without any semblance of a plan. Kairna can handle change fine as well, because you have to in this kind of environment, but she much prefers to have a routine and know what's about to happen.

Both are of course very good under pressure, but Taren tends to be quicker to act, whereas Kairna will try to quickly come up with a plan.

Neither are particularly trusting, but they go about it in different ways. Taren will be very friendly, even if he doesn't trust you, trying to figure out if he can, whereas Kairna will keep you at a distance, avoiding you if possible while trying to find out if you're safe.

That's all I got for now, enjoy!

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I wanna talk about narrative styles let's talk about narrative styles for a bit.

Each of my wips has a distinctly different narrative style, and I love that so much.

Let's start with the most surface level thing: point of view

What's Your Story and Nearly Parallel Lives are both first person with different narrators on different chapters. I became obsessed with this kind of narration after reading some Rick Riordan books and for awhile that was how I was writing all my books. Until I realized it was really fucking annoying. The stuff I was writing at the time just really wasn't made for that kind of narration, so I ended up scrapping it, but I didn’t want to completely stop using it, so I found new projects that it actually worked for. This is actually part of what prompted WYS and NPL, I just really wanted to write like that lol. Anyways, switching perspectives is fantastic for showing different characters mindsets and personalities, as well as events that might be happening at the same time in different places, but it can get chaotic and confusing easily, so you have to be careful with it or you'll get tangled up in your own narration.

Appearances Are Deceiving, Survival Is A Team Sport, and Like A Movie are all first person with only the one perspective. This one is probably the one I'm the most familiar and comfortable with. It has the benefits of the switching perspectives one without its drawbacks, and it has the benefit of making it easier to have an unreliable narrator and use them to hide things from the readers. One drawback is that your narrator has to be either present for or somehow hear about everything important that you want your readers to know about. You can’t just switch to someone who was there like in the first method or zoom the camera out like you can with third person. This can mean some hard decisions on what to include in your story, because it's unrealistic for one character to know about everything going on in your story and world (unless they're an omniscient godlike being, in which case you might be able to pull it off).

And finally We All Lie Amongst The Thorns, The Enchanted Forests, and Twisted Inspirations. These three are all in third person, though in slightly different styles.

We All Lie Amongst The Thorns and The Enchanted Forests are both third person omniscient. Having a narrator that knows everything is a lot of fun, and it makes it so that you can tell readers things that the characters don't necessarily know. Neither of these books would work without that ability, WALATT especially. One downside of this narration is that it can be a bit more difficult to develop a strong character voice, especially if your story isn't big on dialogue.

Twisted Inspirations on the other hand, is third person limited, meaning that it only follows the mc and can only hear her thoughts. This is a fun one because it means you get a wide perspective while still being able to affect the readers perception of the story with the MC's thoughts. The downsides are similar to first person in that you can only see so much via the mc and such

I highly recommend experimenting with different narration styles if you don’t already. Even if nothing makes the final cut, it's a l9t of good experience.

This post is getting a bit long for my tastes, but let me know if you want me to deep dive into the narration styles of any wip, or just any of the points I made in general lol

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the nerd i reblogged this from has a quality blog & i recommend you all follow them.

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A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

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Personifying magic my beloved

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Thanks for the tag!

Things you'll always find in my writing

1. Opposites attract (romantic or platonic)

2. At least one character that's way more dramatic than they need to be

3. Complicated interpersonal relationships

4. Sarcasm

5. Found family

Tagging @pheonix358 @thecomfywriter @leahnardo-da-veggie @inseasofgreen @sm-writes-chaos

5 things you will always find in my fics

Tagged by @cromwelll thank you!

Shipping

Present tense

Song lyric titles

Pop culture references

Exact word counts

Now I want to write something that includes NONE of these lol </3

Tagging five fellow fic writers: @0nelittlebirdtoldme @complicitsacrilege @goblins-riddles-or-frocks @udaberriwrites and @17panicattacksinatrenchcoat or anyone who wants to play :)