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My Writing Journey: Working On A Title

Hey, been struggling on my working project. It's my pinned Tumblr post so if you need context

Here's a little question: "Which is a better title: "If God Is A Failed Actress", "How Roku Rolled Across The Guilotine", "A God Called Artistic Integrity", "Synthetic Iron In Paint", "Gotta Loveit", and "Do Not Steal My Character!!!"

Genre: Cyberpunk, Rom-Com Without The Romance But Still Elements Of It

Shipping-Not Shipping Dynamics: Marriage of Convenience, Cute But Evil x Evil But Cute, Social Genius x Book Genius, Badass Couple, Antihero Couple, Power Dynamics, "Sugar Baby" x Willful Rich Guy, Non-Serious Flirt That Wins The Heart Of The Cold Guy And Did Not Expect It

Motifs: Art Movements, Art History, Art In General. Roku (protag) is literally made after Rococo and Harvey (male lead) is for Baroque art. Home Streaming Services. I got: Hulu, Net and Flic, Youtu, and Roku for the main characters and everyone else is named after a combo of Artists and Art patrons.

Roku Antoiny: Roku Antoinette

Harvey Caberval: Caravaggio and Diego Velazquez (I was so tempted to name him Harvey Gentile for Artemisia Gentileschi )

(As you can tell, I'm not good with names)

Tagging: @differentnighttale, @drivingmebonkas, @fanwriting93, @heckcareoxytwit, @largestmothinnorthamerica, @procrazedfan, @prezofinsanity, @wyvchard, @imbecominggayer,

If I forgot your name: Suck it >:)

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New Writing Characters!

I'm currently working on something else because my brain is obsessed with characters. (god save me <3)

In the setting of a cyberpunk city an era away from now, society has rapidly developed and continues to evolve as superheroes pave the way. The main character is a woman named Roku Antoiny, inspired by Roku and the rococo art period, specifically female artists and key figures such as Marie Antoinette. Roku is a dark ingenue and failed actress whose previous manager suggested becoming a vigilante and then using the fame from that, after a big dramatic reveal, to up her career.

Seeing that she has nothing left to do, Roku goes for it, becoming te heroine Rococo and working her social skills, love for disguise, ambition, and assortment of talents to bag future sugar daddy Harvey Caberval, who is inspired by the Baroque art movement and artists such as Caravaggio, a baby born on the coldest day on Earth and saved out of his mother's womb when she died of hypothermia. Harvey is a part-time streamer and businessmaker who is working to be the richest man in Vizja against rivals.

During Harvey and Roku's "Romance" period, the wacky, wider cast of characters is shown, including:

Hulu Rauslain, an african-american man inspired by a combo of Hulu and Dadaism artwork looking to settle down with his on-off again girlfriend, Ynesé, despite their combined commitment issues and the fact that Ynesé, inspired by surrealism, specifically The Lovers by Rene Magritte, permanently wears a face covering.

Youtu Shanowen, inspired by native american cyberpunk, a Choctaw woman and terraformist advocator and businesswoman looking to protect and create vegetation after the rapid industrialization, cybernetic shit of the Earth and other planets.

Flic and Net Parliaton, twins, F being a boy and N being a girl. Flic is inspired by recycling art movements such as El Anatsui, and is an activists who works with Youtu. Net is a classical musician, inspired by Afrofuturism, who shares a rivalry and enemy relationship with Roku since Roku was jealous of her.

Yuu Shunyoji, a frenemy of Roku since Roku is insane and insists on maintaining one-sided rivalries, and is also an actress. They/Them. They were inspired by Nihonga artwork.

Some Enemies Include:

Parmoretto Longneck, a rival of Harvey for richest man in the city and inspired by the Mannerist movement a la Madonna with a Long Neck.

Anghelward Helio, an aesthetic supervillain who wishes to return the world back to a previous state of technology, the 2020 era of technology, as he believes that the social, cultural, religiousness of the "now" is horrid. He was inspired by that victorian time period where artists were drawing the idealized middle age because they believed it was a golden time in british history.

Ono Girl, an abstract movement inspired that wishes to use Harvey's house as a part of her next performance art against the westernization of immigrants and commercialization of the now.

Ante Raphloral, inspired by Pre-Raphaelic Brotherhood which wishes to take down what he considers the "reality distorters" of truth: Actors.

These are not the only characters or only art movements. There's the Rayonist adoptive parents of Harvey and more characters coming along. These inspirations are also combined with different cyberpunk and cyberpunk related aesthetics like Steampunk for victorian characters and solarpunk for naturalist characters and such

Feel free to reccommend some art movements! <3

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She mentioned me, I gotta.

My Journey to Escape the War in Gaza

My name is Abdelmajed. I never imagined I’d be sharing my story like this, but life in Gaza has become unbearable. I am a survivor of the war here, and in the blink of an eye, everything I once knew—my home, my safety, my community—was ripped away from me.

The war has transformed Gaza into a graveyard of broken dreams. The buildings that once stood as symbols of life and resilience are now piles of rubble. Every corner is filled with the echoes of explosions. Every moment is shrouded in uncertainty. There is no security. There is no stability. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Basic needs have become luxuries. Food is scarce. Clean water is even scarcer. Hospitals are overwhelmed and under-resourced, and there is almost no medical care to be found. Every night, families go to bed hungry, praying they’ll wake up to see another day. The cost of basic necessities has skyrocketed, and it’s become a daily battle just to survive.

I’ve seen things I never thought possible—standing in long lines for a piece of bread, rationing every drop of water, and watching my people suffer in silence. I have lost everything—my home, my safety, my dignity.

Escape from Gaza is my only hope, but it’s almost impossible without financial help. The cost of evacuation is far beyond my means, and without support, I’m trapped in a warzone with no way out.

I’m reaching out to you now, in the hopes that someone, anyone, can help. I am not asking for luxury. I am asking for a chance—just a chance—to live. A chance to escape this never-ending cycle of fear, destruction, and loss. A chance to rebuild my life somewhere safe, where I can begin again, where I can find hope once more.

Any amount you can give will help me get closer to safety. Even the smallest donation will make a difference—it could be the lifeline I need to survive. If you are unable to donate, please share my story. The more people who hear it, the better the chance that I can find the support I desperately need.

Your kindness and support mean the world to me. You’re not just helping me escape a war; you’re giving me a chance to live, to rebuild, to breathe again.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for caring.

Vetted by @gazavetters

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Send Me Your Questions!

Whether you want to ask me about my characters, my writing process, or ask for advice on how to write specific something something, my inbox is open! :D

For some base information, I am currently working on a story centered around a detective agency operated by Hacen, basically those that have an abstract called a Haceless, kind of like a disembodied entity that gives the host powers depending on the spirit. In place of Homo Sapiens, the world is operated under the descendents of anthropomorphic objects, such as the main character, Colander. Colander was just your regular, happy-go-lucky homeless adult with a god complex in a corn field who was randomly approached by a man who called him self Hall. One thing led to another and Hall hired Colander to the detective agency as a 'personal assistance' when Colander is practically a regular employee that just helps Hall with his medical condition, primarily cooking his home town childhood food, and with keeping the entire detective agency together since nobody is here for the right reasons.

Davenport is just a method actor who is going to be playing a detective and decided to work at this agency since it's closer to his house and pretty lacksadaisy. Credenza wants access to people's homes so she can prove ghosts exist. Stereo is here because he wants to continue his argument with Credenza. Duvet is trying to catch love. Locke wants a place to brag about how smart he is, above average. Window is here to work in the downstairs restaurant.

Colander ends up friend-adopting a child called Stranger, who is here to kill his old pals and because he has a puppy dog secret 'if it ever gets discovered, murder is next' love for Colander, Obligatory, who is constantly trying to die because she believes that her purpose in society, and Handkerchief, a servant enabler.

He also ends up falling in love with Hall.

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How do you write a character's slow descent to madness?

Also hi ,been a while.

Just Posted iT!!!! @differentnighttale

also thank you and happy to see you :)

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Writing Insanity And The Descent

From @differentnighttale we have : "How do you write a character's slow descent to madness?"

"Also hi ,been a while." Sorry, for that. I've been trying to be a little bit less chronically online and little bit less reliant on external validation and the dopamine boosts of replies, mentions, and likes so I stopped for a while.

But I am here! In this post, we'll cover what insanity is, how to write it, and some examples!

A) What Is Insanity?

Insanity is traditionally described as a total seperation from reality with an inability to distinguish between reality and fiction. While this is rarely used in criminal and definitely not used in psychology, it's a term used frequently in literature to describe certain examples of unreliable narrators, which are characters that, in cases of insanity, are mentally incapable of giving an objective summary of the real-world story as it is objectively happening, and often times, the antagonist or tragedy.

Insanity in stories, but not necessarily in real-life so don't use it as an example of real-life people since the symptoms I'm going to be discussing are possessed by real, lovely people, is often shown through:

Anti-social behavior with anti-social meaning 'against society and acting in a total contrarian way to societal behavior such as politeness, public decency, and niceness'

Hallucinations, experiencing something that does not exist but believing it does

Obsession, a fixation on something or someone that impedes on ADLs (activities of daily living such as cleaning, cooking, working, and home maintance) or negatively impact their life in general

Delusion, fixed false beliefs that can't be dissuaded no matter the evidence.

Criminal Activity

Erratic Mood Swings that involve rapid-cycling between heightened states of emotions that are not proportional to the events and are not due to intervening circumstances such as the grief

B) How To Write It

This depends on who the character is. When it's the pov character experiencing the 'slow descent into insanity', it gives the writer more opportunities to include subtle hints at the character's slipping away from the sane coil but there is a specific format that tends to follow the 'slow descent into madness' storyline.

The Set-Up. The set-up is dependent on the themes being portrayed. Rosemary's Baby used the plot of a woman incorrectly thinking she is going crazy to discuss themes of bodily autonomy and women's rights. The victimed character could be a wealthy heiress, a stepford wife, a child, an elderly man, or whomever. However, typically their starting environment is already filled with sore spots, weaknesses. There may have been a traumatic backstory that gives the protagonist mental weaknesses, they may have a tendency towards fantasy like Edna in The Awakening by Kate Chopin, they may have mental illness, they may be oppressed or stressed, either way, there are things brewing in the background

2. Either: The Desire and/or The Trigger. The "Desire" is the goal. For Hamlet, it was avenging his father. For the Joker (2019), it was a love interest. Either way, they want something and often times, this something is either their escape from the bad stuff in their life or it's their sword in the stone, their last stake in the heart of life. The "Trigger" is either the Desire itself, as in the case with Edna's Robert in The Awakening prompting her start to fantasy, or a huge change. It can be moving to a new town, it can be a traumatic abuse, it can be losing money as in cases of rich becoming poor, it can be war, it can be anything as long as it's a shaking change.

3. Subtle Signs. This depends on how the madness impacts them, themes, the cause, and whole host of factors. It can be an enlightening thing that causes them to start doing outwardly happy things like getting into art and other passions, it can be working hard at their job, or it can be a certain enjoyable impulsiveness like asking out that barista. However, it can also start off a bit bag. Like Harry Osborn's irritability causing a short fuse. It can be Hamlet's paranoia and anxiety. In general, expect small signs of anxiousness, impulsiveness, mania, a return to an almost childish state, tiredness, and flights of fancy

4. The Desire. Or More. If the desire hasn't come up, this is where it will. If it has, this is where is expedites. The character will wish to engage in their desire more. They may obsess over the long lost love of their dreams that they always thought as gone but with this new confidence, they think they can steal them away from their husband. They may be fired from their job and think they can get their dream job. They may steal something to pay for somethings. OBSESSION STARTS HERE!

5. The Reveal. They may never get it completely revealed, if you want it to be ambigious but you tend to have the big "this person ain't well moment" in stories that throw into question past scenes. Joker (2019) had the reveal that a character wasn't even there half the time so that threw into question everything else. The character may meet their desire and be thrown into direct conflict with the real world's discrepancies. They may be re-traumatized. They may remember a grand secret. They may do a horrid crime.

6. The End. Typically, a death at their own hands, a death at another's hand, jail, death in general, disappearance, an almost spiritual enlightenment, epiphanies about the world, or a fantastical 'too good to be true so it's probably made up by an unreliable narrator' ending for this character.

C) Examples

Here's a story example I'm making up at the top of my head.

A corporate office man is nearing the peak of it's life, about to ripen and fall away to let the younger work force near it's peak, and how does he do it? Balancing those snot-nosed kids meddling in his jobs, annoying coworkers, with his wife's underwhelming cooking. A boring life for a not-so boring guy, hoping to be rescued from the life he was forced onto. He wanted to be an artist but love doesn't pay the bills. One day, feeling the call of God, he goes to a cafe and seredipitously meets his old highschool sweetheart, recently engaged to the knob of the week with a weak chin and nice face, who practically owned the art club. She invites him to an new photography class she's doing but he declines and takes his black coffee. A promotion later and barely any money to get buy with the only thing to show is his wife's dry meatloaf, a kid's new braces that he gets gum caught in everyday, and his daughter's 'coming of age'.

Feeling stressed, life got nothing ahead. He goes to a clas, maybe two, maybe three. "At least I ain't spending it on alcohol, unlike your 'friend', dearie". How does he do it? A wife's divorce. Death on the mind but the Sweetheart's in his heart! Spending the days, grinding them into nothing like the barista he gave his number to, how could he do that, now she thinks he doesn't like him? He spends the day away and when he sees bruises on his sweetheart's arm, he charges up to the mansion fortress and makes a fight. His sweetheart cries and runs away and the husband is defeated, the boring white corporate office man saved the day!

But suddenly they are moving, leaving away. The husband is taking his sweetheart away, his true love, his promised forever, they promised to marry, they kissed, she gave herself to him and he won't let his apple ripen without her by his side. So he defeats the dragon, the princess in his arms, sleeping forever. He needs a true love's kiss to wake the princess sweetheart but when tries to, it doesn't work. He can't believe it until he sees the mirror, a fat white guy in his 40s, how could she love him? So he paints a new portrait, of him as a beauty, of him in highschool when he peaked, quarterback, art club, no wife, no kids, no fat, all brains, no sweat, no spreadsheets, no boss, no job. It doesn't work. So he tries again to capture it, capture him before he falls, before he ripes. He's an apple, ripe, about to fall, capture him in a picture. Another picture to save the princess. Another, and another, and another, and another, saving time, preventing the apple from getting ripe.

The princess is asleep and the office man is trapped in a cave with guards around, handcuffs on like a dragon, and he's fallen, he's riped past his prime, no one would capture him.

(sorry for the bad story at the end but for some actually good examples of characters going mad. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Hamlet, The Joker (2019), A Streetcar Named Desire, Gone Girl, Lolita, Fight Club)

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Got A Random Signal From The Universe

I suddenly got sing-songy and I wrote a "song" (it's barely anything, it just has a melody) for my character Colander/Collie

I've never been afraid of death or dying.

I've been never afraid of being left alive.

I've never wondered if I'm a bad person.

Never really cared to be a good one either.

Who cares about right and wrong?

Never really cared about going to school, or reading a book, or spending time trying to blossom and bloom.

But I do have one fear, the one we all have.

I'm scared of being useless, the trash left on a side, the dog you left to die, the neglected wife

The book never read

The preacher of a church no one visits,

The human never human, the boy never a boy, the future left unwritten, the potential never used, the dream forgotten, the dream left to die.

I'm scared of being useless.

I'm scared of I've already been ruined.

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I Need Some Name Ideas!!! (help)

I'm basically making a world were everyone and everything is named based off of objects and symbols

It's basically a collection of modern American made fantastical For country names, I decided to have the general theme of symbols of the country.

In this world, the United States of America is The Figure of Violet Columbia. I liked the violet mention because it kind of has a double meaning. Violet is a combination of red and blue, and it also sounds like "violent" which relates the history of the nation being one born out a violent from the killing of indians, to the American revolution, to the Civil War, to all the world wars, and just a list that can go on forever.

I'm trying to figure out a name for Canada and Mexico. However, I just want to get some advice since I don't accidentally want to offend.

In this world, a border country of Violet Columbia is going to take advantage of internal conflict(specifically, insurgency) in order try and take control of this specific area. Eventually, Violet Columbia is able to control the insurgency and the undeclared war between Violet Columbia and "unnamed" is put on hold.

I'm not going to demonize any of these groups. They are going to be main characters. I just want to see if any of you have any good name suggestions for Canada and Mexico that utilize their national symbols as demonstrated with the Figure of Violet Columbia

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Potential Fantasy Jobs!

If you don't want to use the same stereotypical Generic Fantasy Land jobs to center your stories around, stay here! I'm going to be adding to this as ideas come to me!

A) Ritual Salter-And-Burner

The country that this character lives in is highly rituatlistic about how to pay proper ceremony to the dead as it is believed that if these steps aren't performed then the dead will be forced to stay on Earth and won't be able to complete the cycle.

However, what if a person dies in rather hard-to-reach place such as the tallest mountains that are almost entirely uninhabitable? Or in a different country? Or isn't strictly dead but "missing"? Or is stuck in something a bit more private than a military/boarding school?

That's were Salt-Burners come in! While there are different types of Salters, the entire occupation is about finding and performing the proper rites and rituals that, for some reason, the typical workers can't.

There are Salt-Burners who specialize in specific, hard-to-traverse places such as the mountains or caves.

There are Salt-Burners who specialize in fighting the legal battles where family members may not be able to.

There are Salt-Burners who specialize in finding not-comfirmed dead bodies such as in cases of missing people or people whose bodies weren't found. This can be through investigation, spying, and/or surveillance

B) Species Conservationist

This occupation is designed to protect the land for the purposes of being used by fantasy creatures where they be dragons, fairies, mermaids, or werewolves. This means their expertise is often found in specific plots of lands with their duty being to protect the land in the arena of law. This is due to the common problem of these species being unable to speak the common language, being an actual animal, or being generally unwilling to engage in the outside world. When government attempts to "lovingly use" the land for their own purposes, it's the Species Conservationist to protect these vulnerable groups.

C) Prosthetic Technician

Depending on their specialization, P.T can make prosthetic tails for mermaids who have either damaged, lost, or were born without a tail where there should have been one. P.Ts can work on all variety of fantasy creatures from fairy wings to devil horns and all manners of prosthetics for creatures that can't be helped with the typical human-based technicians.

D) Exotic Species Sellers

Where are my people trying to sell Wolpentigers to the rich? Where are my con-artists trying to steal human canines from coffins in order to pass them off as vampire teeth? Where are my exotic bird species that is absolutely "so ugly it's cute" that has become the symbol of revolution meaning that everyone now has to buy one of these cute suckers from their local exotic animal salesperson?

They can either be perfectly legal, con-artists, or illegal but honorable in that "what you see is what you get" kinda way.

I'm not talking about antiques. I'm talking about actual animals and species souvenirs.

E) Vampire Dentist

Need I say more?

F) Inquisitor

An Inquisitor is a supreme and one of the most respected members of the church who conducts interviews for canidates of acceptance and promotion. An Inquisitor is someone who has the remarkable ability to see if someone is telling a truth or a lie, and they have decided to employ this skill to serve your world or country's religion.

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Ask Me About My Original Characters!!

Velvet is being renamed Colander. Yes, like the strainer. This character era for this one and only story has the naming theme of "what can be found in a home?". We have Colander, Hall, Pen(cil), Stranger, Ash, and a whole host of other characters that are basically Crack Treated Seriously.

I honestly hate the name Velvet. I don't know why my brain keeps trying to suggest it. It was suggested for Verne Lawless, the blind fashionista who is highly privileged from being the richest guy in the city. Verne was just impossible to name until I found this baby name reddit page. Found the name Verne and it stuck!

Here is a list of ALL of my (very recent) OCs (in order):

Nirali Khatri, the schizophrenic teacher, and Surryn Zi Llovidá, the otherworldly spoiled royal turned spoiled revolutionary

Myroslava Kyrylenko, the control freak, Gabriel RM. Lumeran, the crazy CEO who does everything once, and Théo Hémery, your local alcoholic disaster who is somehow the most emotionally stable of the group

Monday Vũ, girl who dated the minimum of 50 people in 1 year but it could have been more, and Uo Yal'ir, the literal scientist who is also an alien

[UNKNOWN], secretly named Claude who is known for keeping everything secret, and Gabriel, a love-focused, sex-highly accepting angel who is God's most favored worshipper

Nonkosi Tyali, the literal most compassionate person across all the universes who is secretly insane, and Yituing, the insane summoner of Nonkosi who is trying to end their world

Nariman Nahornyj , an apathetic manipulatrix trying to find who ratted out his brother, and Hetrunmeass, an android with cat ears trying to kill all politicians

Verne Lawless, you know him, and Stansevain, an alien who is infiltrating humanity in serve of the Hive Mind who eventually leaves the cluster.

Yuuma Mochizuki, emotional manwoman who has been thrusted into heroics, and Jukka Virtanen, the worshipper of all media

Haun Anatemori, Faux-Chosen One who is the personification of resentment, and Niko Preyr, the actual Chosen One who runs away from responsibility at the drop of a hat

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Haun Anatemori would be a fanatic about what I call "violent" classical music. Basically, classical music that sounds like the composer is actively trying to murder someone by playing the music. I can just imagine Haun listening to classical music while writing.

Niko Preyr is definitely a fan of cute-sounding vocaloid music where the lyrics are horrifically tragic. I feel like that just sums up his entire character.

(One of) my newest character, who is still in the works, is Velvet who has music taste that oscillates between mainstream pop music whenever he needs a pick-me up and lyric-less string instrumental for focusing activities and recentering.

Another one of my newest characters is Hall. Basically, this newest batch of characters has the theme of "what can you find in a house?" in terms of their names. I feel like Hall listens to exclusively pop music. Something that you could dance to.

Challenge#5

Wow, I am on a role guys.

Just spitting out challenges cause I'm bored.

And I am curious about my mutuals stories and worlds.

What artists or genres or both would your OC(s) listen to if they were real? And give examples or the sportify tracks.

Nate is a kid in the first part of my book around 2011 and in the latter around 2014 and 2015 when he's around diciassette e diciotto(seventeen and eighteen ) years old into a young adult man.

I can judge he would like Eminem but as an almost adult, he loves Rhinana, Lana Del Ray and even Tom Odell.

Another love, Diamonds,Summer time Sadness and etc.

His overall mood :

Sad boy.

Your turn.

Ps:This has been sitting in my drafts since September

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Giving Your Characters A Unique, Distinct Voice (With Examples)

What does "unique voice" mean? Basically, every single person has their own manner of speaking. This difference can be from politeness, the volume or "loudness", confidence, emotional quality, maturity, accents, cultural slang, and other variables that can be shown in a character's voice.

This can also be shown through "prioritization". Prioritization is what a character or narrator decides is worth focusing on for any given scene.

For example, Tree of Heaven is a cynical cinematographer whose inner life is primarily eclipsed by beautiful landscapes and settings. However, Jukka is a highly dedicated actor who neglects the trees for the people, whether they be strangers or loved ones. While Jukka and Tree of Heaven could be walking through the same park, they would be focused on entirely different things. Heaven would be focused on the way the sunlight scatters through the autumn-coated, gold-platted leaves while Jukka is people-watching!

Sometimes, I use other stories and their tones as inspiration for my characters!

For Haun, their inspiration for tone came from "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". Specfically, AM's monologues like the "and I began to hate" or the bee monologue describing AM's thoughts on bees radio play! The reasoning behind this was the fact that Haun Anatemori, my character, is someone with deep-seated resentment. Rage and hatred born out of a feeling of injustice, self-loathing, and a feeling of deep-seated betrayal. However, Haun confines their emotions to logical actions and long-term planning meaning there is no outward way to express these emotions. Leading to his entire inner voice being coated in hatred.

Education and social standing often has the most outward influence on a character's external voice. That's the unique thing about protagonists and narrators. Because narrators don't have to worry about social standing and protagonists can have visible inner life, protagonists often have "two" voices. Their "outside" voice, aka the voice they use to speak to others, and their inner voices they use for their own feelings.

Haun's inner voice is resentful with metaphors and analogies of disgusting things such as bodily fluid used to provide an artful crassness to his voice that shows Haun's education and anger but his outer voice is far more innocent and self-contained with less verbosity as Haun is attempting to portray an innocent, less literate farmer type in order to trick others as he rises the social ladder.

Another highly influencial factor is maturity! If a character is emotionally mature, then they often have a more composed tone of voice with simple, yet profound metaphors that often express clear motivation and clear emotion. They often have accurate ideas about others and themselves. This is different from how emotional a character is! A mature character can be emotional but they have a clearer understanding of their emotions. Not the mood swing type!

Nonkosi Tyali is the most compassionate yet mature character I have with their inner voice and outward voice both having a sense of "refinement". Nonkosi understands what they want, why they want it, and how to get it. Despite their cheerful tone, it's obvious they aren't naive or out of control. Nonkosi also has remarkable observational skills as they are deeply intune to the thoughts and emotions of others which allows them to have accurate and insightful observations about other characters.

Verne Lawless, in contrast, is highly immature with a tendency for rapid mood swings, ranting, and catastrophizing. They rarely compose their emotions with them having to spend far more time detailing and failing to "accurate" translate their emotions for the audience. They rarely focus on the emotional lives of others. While Verne can use flowering, verbose words and nostalgia, this fails to counteract the obvious desperation and run-around Verne has in their thoughts.

Finally, just think about what their emotions are. This doesn't have to be something as simple as "happy" or "sad".

Verne is a nostalgic person who constantly references old classics like Jules Verne with long, verbose poetry. This is influenced by Verne's obvious intellect and his emotional center of love. However, whenever they are emotionally in a tailspin, they often resort to manic, modern slang with firey self-hatred and self-deprecation. This is due to the fact that Verne adores love but he believes that he will never find love. This desperation often leads him to be more psychologically "fragile" with his ability to contain his emotions constantly threatened.

Emotions: Mania, nostalgia, desperation, and love

Nonkosi is an optimistic person which can sometimes veer into surpressing negative emotions and experiences. They maintain the belief that they can be eternally strong and compassionate as they act more like a force of nature then the human they actually are.

Emotions: Awkward optimism, gentle melancholic, and confidence

Jukka is mostly possessed with a quiet melancholy for most of life with pretentious verbosity surrounding the nature of society in a similar vein of "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai. However, whenever Jukka is bound up in the passion of acting, Jukka can often dance with mania, emotional highs, and life coated in fandom and acting. Jukka's language is primarily references to media such as Main Character Syndrome, tropes, rivalry, found family, and some not really 4th Wall Breaks because Jukka believes he lives in a series but he doesn't know he is actually a written character.

Emotions: melancholy, sentimentality, and minor resentment.

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Saw your post asking for writing advice, and I thought I'd bite. I've been writing a lot of combat-focused action in my fics lately, and have been itching to add some more realistic flavor to my dialogue. Seeing as you seem like the type of person to enjoy a good infodump / ramble (I say this as one myself if the right topic is brought up), I thought this would be a fun opportunity to get some outside perspective!

TL;DR: advice for writing combat and improving dialogue authenticity?

I just finished! The post is called "How To Write Authentic Dialogue"

I was a bit confused on the "advice for writing combat" since I didn't know if you were only asking for advice on dialogue or if you also wanted advice on actual physical fighting!

If you want me to write a seperate post for physical combat, just send me an ask!

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Writing Advice: Writing Authentic Dialogue

For @radiantmocha TL;DR: advice for writing combat and improving dialogue authenticity?

I'm sorry that this post is going to be so short but it's a really simple topic for me :D

A) Authenticity: Actually Talk To These People Or Read Their Books

When it comes to looking for authentic dialogue, especially in relation to combat, just trying to start up a connection with a professional can be the gateway into actual realism.

If you can, try talking to a veteran or someone actively serving in the military!

If you are interested in a specific time in history that no one is currently alive from, try talking to either a historian or a history buff.

If neither of those options work for you, try reading books and other stories that were written by veterans. My favorite book of this genre is "All Quiet On The Western Front" which is a semi-autobiographical book exploring what life was like for german soldiers in WW1 which was written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of WW1.

I emplore you to explore stories, even fictional stories, that were written by soldiers!

B) Authenticity: Accounting For The Environment

What's the time period that the story is set?

Where is the story set?

What is the socio-economic status of the protagonist?

What is the personality of the protagonist?

Answer these questions (and more) to understand what a character will and wont say. Characters fighting in WW1 won't reference tanks pre-Battle of Somme.

This advice is true for everything. An innocent, rich kid will certainly speak differently, using different verbage, in comparison to a kid living in the slums. They will also prioritize different things.

What I hate most in stories is when characters, poor for their entire life, poverty-striken, starts wildly proclaiming ideas of justice, fairness, and equality while fighting bullies left and right. Most people in that situation need to keep their head down. They can't afford to go to the police station for "contributing to the a fight" Independent women can't get into the middle of a fight! Do you know how much medical bills cost? If they manage to survive, it's not going to be pretty. No matter how much self-defense classes like to tell women, most women understand that they can't overpower a determined man.

That isn't evil, that's survival, that's practicality! Ideals have always been prioritized by people privileged enough to have the time to think while the poor and always working need to be always working!

Sorry, that was a rant

In Conclusion:

Read stories that real people have written that are either semi-autobiographical or autobiographical! Keep in mind the time and place!

And so sorry for that rant!

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How do you go about making good plot? I have a lot of characters, but I struggle with making plot for them. I know to use character motivations and etc, but I was wondering what else I could add in order to make it interesting

I just finished this and you should find the title as "Writing Advice: How To Craft The Perfect Plot!"

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Writing Advice: How To Craft The Perfect Plot!

For @seekerknight557: How do you go about making good plot? I have a lot of characters, but I struggle with making plot for them. I know to use character motivations and etc, but I was wondering what else I could add in order to make it interesting.

Obviously, due to the multi-faceted nature of plots, this post can't cover everything and won't be applicable to every type of plot. :3

In reality, plots are a sum of writing structure so this post will be going over different structures that you gotta have for plots!

A) Writing Structure: Character Roles

First things first, you have to decide what roles your characters are in!

Characters in literary works are divided into roles that communicate what function they serve in the overall plot. While these roles can change overtime as characters develop, having your initial starting point allows you to understand whose story you are investigating and who is just a side character!

If you are a visual person, you can make a diagram that labels characters! Obviously, not all stories have love interests so these roles aren't always used in every individual story. Bear with me as I give you a good list of different characters roles!

Protagonist (the stories' perspective/main character)

Antagonist (the character that opposes the main character)

Hero(the morally good character)

Villain(the morally bad character)

Love Interest (involved romantically with the protagonist)

Deuteragonist (side characters)

Confidants(your best friend characters and other allies)

Tertiary Characters (characters with little to no screen time)

Oftentimes these character roles overlap. Which is a good thing! It saves you pages by not having so many focused-on characters, potentially subverts expectations, and can lead to more 3-dimensional characters!

The point of learning about this non-exhaustive list of characters roles is so you can start understandin the "functionality" of your world. You now know what characters will be focused on in terms of screen time/page appearance, basic attributes about a character, and who the main star-runners are!

B) Writing Structure: What Is Format Of Your Plot?

Authors across the ages and cultures have worked to find different ways of classifying their plot from the infamous Three-Act Structure or the Hero's Journey!

source: https://kindlepreneur.com/story-structure/

But how do you decide what structure you should follow?

Well, look at the genre of your work! While genre is multi-faceted, understanding the genre can help you understand what plotlines you are prioritizing.

Romance tends to focus on, well, romance! Sci-Fi focuses on technology whether showing how amazing it is or how it's robbing people of their humanity! Horror focuses on horrific things!

While Romance can be set in a fantasy land, the focus of the story is the romance. Fantasy can include a romantic subplot but the main focus of the story is the fantastical nature of the world!

You can read stories that share your genre and overall aesthetic, preferably the short stories, to understand what structure they have!

Or you can read an analysis of that book.

If you don't like the structure, you now have some preference and some dislikes!

C) Wrapping Up - Themes And Genre

So, let's say that you have perfectly mastered everything before right now! What happens at the end of your characters journey?

While I can't tell you the exact specifics of their ending since endings depend on other character's goal and motivations, the main character's goals and motivation, and a host of other factors, I can give you a light at the end of the tunnel.

Overally, whether your story ends badly or has a happy ending depends on the genre, tone, and theme! Let's start dissecting that!

Genres like Horror tend to have bad endings for their protagonists! From the casual killings to the fates-worst-than-death endings, protagonists are put through the ringer and even their "happy" endings tend to either set up a sequel baddie, leave them traumatized, or ambiguous. Meanwhile, Romance tends to have a happy ending where the love interest and the protagonist kiss and all problems are solved!

Is this always universal? No, obviously not. Sometimes horror protagonists do unequivocally win at the end. Sometimes Romance leaves a sour-tasting ending, especially in the Dark Romance sub-genre!

The point of genre isn't to tell you what you need to do but just gives you a sense of what readers are expecting and conventions that sometimes need to be followed and sometimes need to be twisted.

For tone, this one is pretty simple. If your story is hopeful, bittersweet endings where not everything is perfect but hope is present tend to be on the rise. If your story is cynical, sad endings are your endings. If your story is cheerful, happily ever afters are always there!

Of course, these can be twisted. Sometimes stories are happily ever afters for one character while everyone is suffering a fate worse than death. Sometimes you don't really know if you should be cheering or not.

But still tone and genre are the major deciding factor in whether or not the ending is happy, sad, justified, bittersweet, or a "he had it coming" type of ending.

What also assists is the theme aka the message. If this story is a cautionary tale against greed, then the story could have the greed-filled people suffering while the heroic, not-greed-filled people rise.

The story could also be about how greed is always rewarded to the detriment of actual virtue and good by showing the good protagonist being crushed by people whose desire carries them off into the faux-heaven or by having the evil protagonist crush everyone to rise to the top.

Tales where wicked is punished and good rises can give you heavy insight into who gets the hammer of the bad ending and who scraps by!

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Ask Me For Writing Advice

I'm bored and I want to answer any of your burning questions about writing!

These questions can either be for writing advice, writing rants, or questions about my own characters which I am extremely eager to oblige!

I have done asks for several people with many repeat customers. You are sure to not be disappointed as I do questions about all types of topics. However if you try to ask about my personal information, I'll quickly block you :D