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This gave me goosebumps...

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I'm writing everything wrong right now

Behold the latest additions to the English LanguageTM:

superpoered

lughthearted

confrknts

sayinf

plnning

d9ne

[fredwendelin]

Honestly, this is my favorite anime opening of all time

I love others, of course: Death Note, Hetalia, Saint Seiya (the first one from Hades Saga & the Lost Canvas were amazing), Dan Dan Dan, and countless others I can't think of right now. But Deadman Wonderland just hits different, I guess.

Guess who is my fav character from DM?

Of course, the muscle man.

[fredwendelin]

C&D Book Update #27

Now that I've put the deadline toward 2026 instead of 2025, things are improving slowly.

I've been thinking on the side about five plot problems and I think I know how to tackle them now. I'll need to add at least three new chapters.

As for my main antagonist, I still am not sure on how to improve him... As he is now, I confess he's bland and just your typical villain, which is not how I like doing things, I crave nuance. I'm still wondering how I'll improve his portrayal.

I've written a bit of the dialogue for the new chapters, but I'm not rushing it this time. I'm just letting it flow.

Meanwhile, what is helping me the most (seeing as I did burn myself out with C&D) is focusing on a personal project that is turning out pretty fun. It makes fresh ideas come and go from my head, and is helping "calm" my brain a bit. I noticed better and more mature ideas are coming to C&D because of my indulging a personal project.

Anyway, things have never looked better.

──★ ˙ ̟🐇 !!

[fredwendelin]

The Problem With The "Threads" Platform

I've decided on going out of threads. It was a great space to meet other authors and all, but I can't be in a place where I can't even defend myself, even more so when comments I write rebuking homophobic content are censored when I write LGBTQIA+ books. I'm not going to be a sacrificial lamb thrown to wannabe-wolves.

It had already come to my attention how minorities are regularly attacked in that medium and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. Now, I know why: impossibly, Threads side with nasty perpetrators. You are left with the option of staying silent, blocking people and going on your merry way.

Yet, is this echo chamber of hate really worth my invested time? I decided, nah.

I'll miss the good part of the community, surely, but the flagrant disrespect is too much for me to take. (Not in, oh this is too violent for my fragile heart, but in a, I just want peace of mind nowadays.)

Also, is it only Threads? Am I that inexperienced with social media that I failed to notice this in other places, as well? I'd like your thoughts.

[fredwendelin]

"I don't outline"

Writers, how?? Howw??? HOW?

If I don't outline and just write, well guess what, I'll arrive at chapter 14 with no idea on how to go on! And maybe I had to trash three or so ideas along the way because they 'don't fit what I've previously written'! Good ideas!

Ok, outlining can suck, you can spend months designing it (who am I kidding, years) and it can ultimately fail and leave you hanging (I experienced this with a personal project I had just been writing) but honestly, I found that if I want to have a complex and surprising book at the end, outliling is the only way. Only way I can look at my plot points from a distance and ponder on how to surprise the reader for real. And considering my next projet (TCYK), well, it's WAAY too complex, there is no way I'm 'just writing' and then having to rewrite 200.000 or so words 6 times, AND the end result still not being properly surprising and complex, just because I didn't outline it. (I'm talking about my first book.)

Writers who write incredibly without outlining, more power to you.

[fredwendelin]

C&D Book Update #26

I've been writing chapter 41 for an ungodly amount of hours. It needs to be perfect.

Also, I've been to a doc who gave me new pain meds. Stronger, but somehow my mind feels way cleaner than before. I've noticed my writing is not aching like it did just last week; neither is it floating, but waxing instead. Weird. I had never felt that before. Maybe I need to gaslight myself out of self-suspicion or something and just let it be.

Ok now I'm scaring myself. I've lowkey just written the most deep shit I've ever written before in my life, and it's just the summary of an idea I had for book7 of the MS series (not C&D). Uh??? This really me??? Was I abducted by some alien that gave me some writing skills out of pity??? Or did my daily pain incapacitate me that much and I just fought for every breath until forgetting how much it cost me? This is so creepy. I'd advise anyone to not write under meds (lest your own voice changes, APPARENTLY) but I need those. Hm. Hmmm. I do hope the voice change isn't that clear cut?? Because I'm not rewriting 100.000 words??? (Also, I don't even know if I won't need to change meds again in a month???) This feels like a nightmare.

(edit: no I don't think the voice change is really a change. It isn't two different voices. I just am writing with a more relaxed mind.)

Why am I a better writer when I'm not contorting in pain. Now I'm only 50% in pain and it's coming out so much better

I really wanted to use the concept of "borbulhando" (for an emotion, D.'s emotion) in chapter 41, but apparently it reads really weird for a native English speaker. As in, I couldn't find anything about it in the internet, only videos of babies making cute noises. And I can't really make a reader think of babies when I'm trying to make a metaphor akin to drowning. Like, I'd probably make it work with a ton of paragraphs and different words (not direct translations to borbulhando), but that really isn't warranted in this chapter.

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Just wrote "mide" instead of "mind"

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I want to hear a voice wavering. But like, every video ever talks about how to make it STOP shaking, not how it sounds like. But I need to hear it and see for myself if it's the proper description for my character :( does anyone have any writer resources for shit like this?

On another hand, I was able to find this:

I don't think there are many main characters with voices like those. Writers, this is a call to arms! The comments made it ignite in me the need for it. I once got something entirely different; it was a physician's mistake, wrong med, and it destroyed my muscles and made me unable to walk. I could barely speak, it made me suffer so much. And while this is not the same, I couldn't help remembering this part of my life when seeing them. Not out of pity, but out of the tiniest bit of understanding. After all, people who saw me struggling thought I was faking, for starters.

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Is it normal for a writer to cringe at one's own words? I'm trying to salvage things here, but oh my. Oh my. It's weird because I love the ending for chapter 41, but it's cheesy as well. I shouldn't love it. I should change it. Will I change it?

I remember how long I researched and studied the word 'caved' at the end, when I was writing it in the very first draft. Yes, yes, just write the first draft and don't worry about words, but I'm a hypocrite, I overanalyze. Honestly, I still think this specific word reads too vulgar, but that's exactly what is needed at this part. It doubles down on the meaning I want to express. It would be easier if I was a native English speaker and had a better grasp on how things feel to a native, but... well, at the same time, I would never be me if I wasn't Brazilian first. (And kinda Argentinian second. Maybe a bit Hobbit third.)

...

Ok I'm officially moving this project to 2026. I realized that me rushing this just so I can get it out this year is ludicrous, and I'm allowed to work on it until I'm happy. That's self-love right there.

For some reason, my cellphone insists "enouguh" is the right word. What

──★ ˙ ̟🐇 !!

[fredwendelin]

MBTI resorting: INFJ to INTP to ENTP&Autism Talk

How I went from INFJ to INTP: another blog post here. Basically, when I took the MBTI test for the first time, I was with poor health and I don't think I portrayed myself accurately. It became a more relevant issue when I saw how my mother is a textbook INFJ and she does not entertain the thought of debating, at all. Which is my life. So, I saw there was a big problem going on; INFJ, really? I took another test and it said no.

The new diagnosis, INTP, did make sense. It ticked all the boxes. I saw a few Frank James videos AND other content creators from the internet poking fun at INTPs and I had to admit, it did strike a point. On the other hand, today, I stumbled upon a video that made me pause.

Am I extroverted or introverted?

I do have many symptoms of introversion, and yet.

Yet.

I'll hand you the video so you tell me, which one do you think I am?

Yes. Without a doubt, the person who can't stop talking. I've bothered my family too much doing this and they all agree with my point (edit: which was explained exactly as in this video... my bad). In the history of my life, I'm guessing this (me suffering because of another's endless talk) happened only twice, truly. The other times I was gathering information about people so I could pinpoint if we could make good friends. So I let myself suffer through their endless talking, but it had a good reason. So, I don't really think it counts as Introversion/the guy with the glasses.

Yes, it does make me sound like an odd person, but hear me out.

As you have of course concluded, I'm dangerously autistic. Autistic because I've formally been diagnosed as so. Dangerously because it makes this appear more dramatic and humorous, even though you'll probably not agree.

I was the six year old who only wanted to make friends. It literally was my only wish. I couldn't, because I just could never understand their social clues. It ended with me being an adult obsessed with social clues to a point that I became quite neurotic about myself and my relationships. I had to always beware the tiniest quirk of another's lips, trying to ascertain if I was on a tight spot with them due to anything I had just said or implied unknowingly. Maddening.

With autism acceptance came also acceptance of me not being perfect, and not needing to make everybody else feel good all the time. I think I've suceeded in throwing my previous people pleasing obsession out the window. But.

But this made me notice something I had not noticed about myself until now, until this very video. My six year old self was... extroverted. Sunny. Disturbingly so. I'd strike conversations with basically anyone. I lived for the debate, the pointing out of different ideas, the penetration into the depths of another persons' heart and mind. F cking mental, of course. I guess my major hyperfocus as an autistic specimen has been on the human mind, most specifically, on people's creeds.

Of course, that is f cking weird. My devotion was mistaken as psychopathy, my nonchalance as coldness, and my lack of self-awareness and lack of the right words made me say hurtful things to others that I honestly hadn't even imagined as such. Thus, me closing off to others. Thus, me only approaching people when I had something to say to them and that I was sure would not be taken badly. And of course, me being shunned and ignored did not contribute to increasing amounts of careless and mindless socialization (I = introverted conclusion began). I wish I could just do what everybody does with others, but I care too much about strangers to do that.

So. An autistic extrovert. Wow. Macabre. And beautiful, frankly. If only I'd just let it flourish out of myself again, this deep love of a human's 'soul', and not let it wither like I've been doing all my life. Decades. Decades taken by rot. I'm grabbing a cloth to clean it all up, and more Frank James' videos won't bother anyone, as well.

This Frank James' video is also me, I've actually thought/acted like 90% of this:

On another thought...

It makes what I've been feeling these past few months make sense. So, if you haven't read it before, I've been using tumblr as a way to show my journey in writing a historical gay romance I'm calling C&D at the moment. C. is INFJ, and D. is ESTP. I thought writing D. would be harder because, frankly, he's... extroverted. And 'I'm of course not one of those'. But the more I wrote, around the 50th chapter or so, I realized that the character I related the most was D., without a doubt. This was before me discovering I wasn't INFJ to start with, as well. I found that so peculiar... I thought, maybe I'm messing it all up and C=INFJ and D=ESTP isn't valid anymore?

Turns out, I was just relating more to the experience of being out and about as an extrovert, one that wasn't forced into their own insides with the pitchforks of another's hatred. Curious.

I always try to not make characters=me... but I did do a self-insert in the second book I wrote (which will never be formally published). My favorite approach is making every character a combination of me+something I learned with other people+something unique I saw in someone I love/loved+something special I saw in a book/inspiration/movie/art/music. So each character is a complex shawl of different emotions, colors and textures. And, frankly, I also learn about them while writing them. (Sometimes they even decide stuff I had never seen coming!)

Maybe this is why writing is such a healing hobby for me. It's like I finally have people that have to listen to my rants, theories and my harborings of opposite and lethal views, without fleeing or ghosting or anything. On the contrary, I can actually produce something that contributes to the world. That gives a new viewpoint, another gem through which the world shines brighter.

(I'm totally imagining it being another gem in Smaug's den, cue the Hobbit.)

Excuse all this talk, I'm old and hopeful, which appears to be the most lethal combination of myself as of yet.

More video candies:

The 2nd statement in this video is spot on, and something I was struggling with this very day. Like, I wish I'd make C&D WAAAY better. More historical tidbits, more scenes, seamless progression of feelings (it's a romance), and, well, perfect. But perfect it can never be. I'm realizing it now. I can launch it as the imperfect thing it's or I'll never lauch it. Just like my first book was bullsh... but at least I finished it.

One can never be enough. One can always be enough.

Two opposing thoughts that can mean the same and mean the world.

I should probably go back to the emotional scene I'm avoiding writing now, if you hadn't already intuited by the lenght of this post.

──★ ˙ ̟🐇 !!

(PS: who created a hashtag that's just #entp things???? That's so on brand)

[fredwendelin]

C&D Book Update #25

New dream: having three voice actors, two for my main characters and a third for narration/other characters. To hell with the costs. That is my top dream.

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I improved the 'poetry' thingy (not actually poetry) at the end of the book. It is waaay better... but I'm still not certain if I've arrived at the final draft of it, yet. We'll see.

Some of the resources I used to see if my 'poetry' (not really poetry) was any good:

Language, Line Breaks, And Punctuation. Poetry With Abi Pollokoff

Joanna: Yes, line breaks are really interesting. Again, coming back to literature, I think older literature has a lot to answer for with huge, dense paragraphs with no line breaks, because I presume the cost of printing or whatever. I feel like modern—I'm thinking particularly of James Patterson, who certainly won't be to everyone's taste—but it's the master of the line break. Pretty much every sentence in his faster paced sections, every sentence is a new line break. It's a new paragraph, basically, for every line, and it moves you much faster through the text. As a thriller writer, I pay more attention to that, but I certainly didn't know about that as a newer writer.

C. character in chapter 39:

And this is D. in the same chapter, as a response:

HAHAHAHAHAAH I'm laughing so much

Another good resource:

BE GAY - 8 Synonyms and Antonyms - Cambridge English

Also, it's so funny when I despair at a horribly-written sentence. Like, C. just stated the obvious. I write what happened, and then C., "So (it) happened." OH NO SHIT, C. ARE YOU DUMB and then I realize that it was ME who wrote this dumb shit and I shut my mouth shut.

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I think I've been spending too much of my free time writing? Cuz I just dreamed last night of talking to my main characters. What

At least they are chill and didn't kill me or something

But it makes the prospect of my next book HAUNTING

If I ever get in the same room as my next main characters, they are totally chewing me up, and it won't be in a nice way

....also, I don't think ANY of my next main characters will like me much. At all. I'm afraid of sleeping now. I just trauma dumped more stuff into E.'s mind, a character in a book I'm calling TCIM right now (don't confound with TCYK). The idea was too juicy to not shove down his throat, but now I'm afraid. He's already going to grow into quite the asshole. Maybe I'll make him rich or something, try to buy him out if I ever have a nightmare with him in it. Maybe THEN he won't torture me or something. I hope.

I can only hope.

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So maybe not in the first draft, but as you're revising a piece of prose, don't just think about the nuance of the words you're using, but think about how the punctuation is connecting your ideas and how changing it will develop a different texture to the piece that you're working on.

(Source: first link)

REALLY don't do it on the first draft. Like, really. First draft = (AFTER outlining every important stuff in every damn chapter) it's about sitting down and playing around with your ideas until getting a 'good' and kinda-mythological-feeling chapter out of it (which generally involves having to add subplots you didn't see coming and CHANGING YOUR OUTLINE and redoing it all over again, sometimes, like always).

This video deals with this subject that is soooo important. I'm trying to understand where my book fits in all of this... because when I wrote it, I had no idea. Book stuff in Brazil is different (?) and I wish I'd just label my book as +18 for its darker themes (death and loss) but at the same time, every author out there seems to agree to never tick the +18 box of death on Amazon and such, because +18 is only for erotica (which my book is not). Also, those darker themes? Not THAT dark, no dead dove. So no +18, technically. I'm very confused and reaching out to the writing community, trying to make sense of it...

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I legit had to stop editing my book, many times, because of feels. I hate the feels. Like, of couse, I want my readers to feel stuff when reading my books. But when >>I<< feel stuff? Horrible, nasty! It can take me many hours, even days, to go back to the passage I'm working on. All because it pains me so much. Maybe that's why there is death and I just, don't mention it again. The characters learn to live with it, as if this is the reality, now. (That is an actual theme throughout all my past works, including C&D, which technically is my third book.) It's horrible, but at the same time, it's exactly how grief happens to me as well. Kinda cold, I realize, but if I was to grieve every single tragedy in my life, I'd just grieve for the rest of my life and never feel happy again. I need to think hard on this, though, just to make my characters feel like 'real people', not people like me.

Why that last sentence sounded so awful.

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After days where I felt funky, I finally, finally gained my writing powers back. I feel like I can finally tackle the awful snake bite scene I just couldn't stomach. Idk how readers will read the stuff I'm writing. Will they read it and think, oh no this author is so cold how could they write it? Or will they read like, oh yeah that made me feel, not good, but feel.

always coming, always haunting.

This is chapter 40. That one bit was inspired by one of my father's poems, a poem that he actually won a prize for (decades ago). It's weird how inspiration cherry picks stuff in your head that actually isn't related and just mixes it up and makes things work out. And how reading always messes up, in a good way, the ways of the mind.

Yay.

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Beware when writing 'rasped'. BEWARE THE 'S'. PLEASE. DOUBLE CHECK. I got the scream of a lifetime just now and it WASNT FUNNY. Like, I forgot the 's' and implied something that had me dead for a second.

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You got no idea how bad my book would be if there was no word correction. Like, poultice? I've written that word in at least 4 different wrong ways. There should be a spelling bee, but this time the premise should be: how horrendously wrong can you spell the word?

For instance, spell 'bee'. I'd end up saying, V Y A. Easily won that one.

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Really good resource! I was afraid I was mixing up good. (And I'm still. Oh the perils of being your own editor.)

The next book I want to read (apart from Christopher Hitchen's books):

This one I want to read before jotting down the book "S-S". That one is to be the fairytale of my heart, forever, and I want to devote a properly enamored heart to it.

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It really was gone, leaving no trace behind.

Or

It really was gone.

when in doubt, I just delete the part that's doubling down on a previous statement. But at the same time, I worry my writing is getting too dry?? Something to think about on the fourth and fifth draft.

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Docs is being really funny with me. This is my sentence:

The entire room seemed to still.

He wants me to fix it up and write this instead:

The entire room seemed to still be there.

As in, it really doesn't make any sense, at all. At least, not for this setting. But it's an interesting writing prompt!!

──★ ˙ ̟🐇 !!

[fredwendelin]

My favorite poem

I just watched a video where I sing it and all. From, like, many years ago. Totally not posting it.

Here's the poem, oh so beloved by me (Cecília Meireles):

Timidez

Basta-me um pequeno gesto, feito de longe e de leve, para que venhas comigo e eu para sempre te leve...

- mas só esse eu não farei.

Uma palavra caída das montanhas dos instantes desmancha todos os mares e une as terras mais distantes...

- palavra que não direi.

Para que tu me adivinhes, entre os ventos taciturnos, apago meus pensamentos, ponho vestidos noturnos,

- que amargamente inventei.

E, enquanto não me descobres, os mundos vão navegando nos ares certos do tempo, até não se sabe quando...

- e um dia me acabarei.

[fredwendelin]

Amazing!

[fredwendelin]

MS Book Series Update #1

This one is a bit weird for me. Historical, a ton of research, and quite a bit of sarcasm could go into it. But at the same time, I wish to exchange historical for fantasy, (neverending) research for (symbolic) caricatures, and sarcasm with hope. Oh. Am I crazy.

I don't know how I'll end up outlining this one (fantasy or historical?). The freedom is too much. It is a nightmare.

(edit I'm leaning heavily on fantasy right now)

SO MANY PUZZLES I'D NEED TO JUST, Y'KNOW, THINK AND FILL. BUT THEY ARE NOT NORMAL PUZZLES. OH NO. THEY ARE LIKE, BLACK HOLES.

Sometimes I think I'll have three books, sometimes 7, sometimes 8 (but then I hate the 8th book...) Not even that is set out yet. And 8 books is a lot. A ton. And they are all interconnected, so no way can I just outline 1 and escape write. (At least my newly unlocked power of Spreadsheets will help a ton with the outlining because, 8 books???)

The only thing I'm leaning strongly toward today is making it (in book 1 only, I think) a POV more like Song of Achilles? As in, Achilles=main, but it's from Patroclus' POV. But then there's this other thing going on witht he POV that I can't reveal right now; this thing, I fear, could dumb down and make my book childish, but I'm favoring it as of now for the texture it would add to the writing.

In a single sentence: I got no idea what to do.

(edit: spent the whole day thinking nonstop about it and finally arrived at some conclusions, I'm so excited to write this series now, I've made the books more of my own thing and less historical; it's more creative)

This is why making these blog posts is fun: how will this project be in a few years? I want to see the evolution of the ideas, watch out and observe how I do and do not thrive. The clearest thing to me today, ever since I first started posting (I think it was about C&D book?) is that I thrive with music. I helps a lot, it makes my mind wander and actively want to solve the puzzles.

We'll see.

A sneak peak of the project?

As in, what happens inside?

This image:

Also, these are the emoji I chose for each book (still deciding if I'll have the 8th book or not...):

Surprisingly enough, I ended up writing a ton of stuff on book 7. Like, the bones of the most important chapter. It made me cry. Of course it made me cry. Of course. In which alternate universe am I writing something more devoid of feels??? Because I don't want to be there.

──★ ˙ ̟🐇 !!

(PS this rabbit is gonna be my ending line now, I think.)

[fredwendelin]

I love this about English

grammatical number - Gerunds are always in singular - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

"I resent your inviting"

In Portuguese,

"Fico ressentido com o seu convite" or "Fico ressentido de você ter convidado (...)" (if you're planning on translating the whole sentence)

Nothing wrong with either language, but the English wording makes something in my head go like this:

જ⁀➴♡

[fredwendelin]

TBIS Book Update #1

I really wish I can retain this title to the very end. I really wish I can build my entire book around this premise. It seems strong at first glance, but it's very difficult to actually make it make sense to the overall plot and not make it just something that makes sense at the end, and only for the ending scene.

I'm having a blast listening to Lila's music (the amazing South African singer) and it gave me a ton of fresh ideas.

I think I've had an epiphany: mixing lore! Like, a gazillion authors must have done this exact thing before, and I know plenty that did, but I had never thought about doing it for my own writings. As in, there are two very specific lore 'identities' that I'm wanting to mix up in this book, and the whole concept completely changed (in the vibes) to me. Like I've said before, I need my book ideas to feel alive before writing them down. And this one finally has its bones, and a bit of its heart.

I'm playing f Frankenstein-style. Oh.

Another thing: I got no idea when this book will go out. As I've said in another post about my book situation, well, I do have books to write for the next 10 years. But I really wish I'm alive to write this one. It has such a devastating ending that kills my soul everytime I think about it and I can't possibly keep it only to myself. Other people need the feels too. So... maybe in between the trilogy (SoS)? And before the MS series, or in between the MS series books. I think that will work.

Anyway, listen to music and read books. They always give the best ideas.

[fredwendelin]

SoS Trilogy Book Update #2

So, it's a trilogy. Three books. Yeah.

The beginning of book 1? I think I got it down. I don't have the fine details out yet, but I did write an exchange between the protagonist and an old woman that made my friend irk when reading it, so I'm counting it as a victory.

The end of book 1, 2: i decided on playing on the last words of each book, but I don't know how exactly I'll do that yet. I have two ideas, but they cancel each other out. So I guess I'll wait and see.

The end of book 3: I've at least 4 versions written down already (not complete, finished scenes, just the basic structure and dialogue). I like the 4, but the 4 I cannot have. I guess this is yet ANOTHER thing I'll just 'see later'.

Some of the major plot points throughout the book: there are two minor romance pairs to this date; there's conflicting emotions for the protagonist on the love aspect (of course); there's an awful thing that's revealed around book 2 and which I doubled down and I really want to write and expose, but it makes my trilogy adult-only because I'm not dumbing it down; I have a trans character that is the most feisty character I've ever written (probably that I'll ever write) and I'm enamored; and that's what I can remember right now. I have around 20 important characters for this trilogy and I really, really, really want to give each of them a moment in the spotlight and something important to do and contribute to the overall plot.

I'm considering writing POVs from different characters throughout the books. So, there's the main protagonist in the first three chapters or so; then it cuts to the minor romance pair character for a chapter; then so on and so forth, but mostly the main character, of course. This needs to be carefully planned out so 1) it makes the reading fresh and interesting, there always will be something new going on 2) at the same time, I need people to root for my main character (mostly) and not forget him, so he still needs to be at the center of things; the other POVs need to be measured carefully.

So, basically, it's Durarara! (I only watched season 1) where my main protag is a male Celty and everyone else is important and contributes to the plot, while still making it interesting and about Celty. Yay. I might want to rewatch that season just for technique-watching because from what I remember, it was really good.

And I loved that guy that threw stuff

I suspect this will take a few years. The planning is beyond anything I've ever done and does involve research on specific topics as well, topics that are vast and complex and too symbolic for my pea-sized brain. Uhghh this is really a big passion project ever since I started planning it, and the puzzle of making it complex+interesting+symbolic is freaking awesome, but I really need to bite size 'each step of the way' so I can actually get stuff done, or I'll forever bemoan the labor.

[fredwendelin]

OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT TO SHOW YOU MY SON

he’s named after the night guard from fnaf 2 :3

jeremy fitzgerald the rat prism

[fredwendelin]

TCYK Book Update #9

I feel dumb.

Like, of course I knew people used Spreadsheets for book planning and stuff. And of course I knew that WHAT I WAS DOING FOR THIS BOOK wasn't working out. Just docs wasn't cutting it. Just look at the 6 or so docs full of notes that I don't know where to stuff.

But then I was doing some uni stuff and wow wow wwwwoooow. I can do something like this: colored-line, stuff stuff stuff. Below colored-line, s. Below Colored line, s. Each colored line = time outline for a specific character, for the stuff I want to happen, so I know what each character is doing at all times AND in relation to each other.

Mind BLOW

Simple, simple, simple, everybody is doing it, BUT I WASN'T.

I wish I had done this for C&D. I'm on my third draft with that one and I still sometimes catch myself wondering, has event X happened yet? And I got no idea how to search it. Oh well. We all learn.