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howtobecomeadragon · 1 year

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7, 9, 19, 29, 35 for the writing ask thing :)

hello!!! sorry for getting to this so late, yikes haha. and thank you so much for asking!!!

7. what is your deepest joy about writing?

i like putting words together in ways that give me a little shiver. i like having a little plot and characterization puzzle to entertain myself with even when away from writing, trying to get everythingto fit just so. i like feeling pride at having finished a fic, a project. i like to imagine readers giggling and getting lost in my fics like i myself have done so many times as a reader before i was writing much. there's a lot of joy to writing 🙂

9. do you believe in ghosts?

i do not!! i haven't really experienced anything that's made me question that, but hey, if something happens that makes me wonder, i'm open to it.

19. tell me a story about your writing journey. when did you start? why did you start? were there bumps along the way? where are you now and where are you going?

my childhood dream career was always becoming an author. i read a lot and that translated to wanting to write stories too. i wrote a lot as a kid, and then stopped entirely until after i graduated college. i tried writing a story a couple years after that, and never got more than 10k words in. i stopped writing again until last september when i finally decided to hop on the fanfic train and i've been writing regularly since then. i think fanfic was just an easier method of writing, with characters i already love and less pressure of wondering whether i could ever truly publish the story i'd been working on. fanfic is just fun. maaaaybe someday i'll try to revisit writing a novel, but i'm having a ton of fun doing what i'm doing now 😊

29. where do you draw your inspiration? what do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

i draw inspiration from fics i'd want to read myself, thoughts about my own life, other stories i've read. when the inspiration well runs dry, i tend to just stop and walk away for a few days. i never outline or do much planning so i'm often just coming up with ideas as i go along and sometimes need some time to let the ideas marinade as i figure out how the story works together and what should happen next! i often just need time and space.

35. what's your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

well, as mentioned above, i do not plan or outline. i don't plan character arcs or what happens one chapter down the line or what conflicts pop up. i just go with the flow and somehow everything usually just lines up, whether it takes massive rewrites of earlier chapters or sitting for a week with no progress as i figure out what tf happens next. sometimes i'll just write a throwaway line of what a character is thinking and that ends up changing the direction the fic quite a bit. it is chaotic and frustrating at times but works for me!

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len-the-neverending · 8 months

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I feel like rambling about my WIPs today, possibly because I'm overflowing with creativity but cannot fucking write, so here goes.

So there's 2. The first one is called I Didn't Sign Up for This, and it's currently in the editing phases-- hopefully soon I can start a second draft of it. It's a realistic YA-type thing about Sasha, my main protagonist, accidentally replacing a boy at her new school who died three weeks before she got there and leading the sustainability club that he started. It's definitely still got a lot of kinks to work out, but I'm getting there. There's a lesbian love triangle at the center of it, featuring Sasha, Julia the eccentric and angsty sister of the dead boy, and Zoe, who is an outwardly confident and carefree outcast with a ton of secrets who is to this date my favorite character I have ever written. I'm not totally in love with it right now because it's a first draft that I've been working on for three years and there's a lot wrong with it, but I definitely could be someday.

The second is called The First, which I'd define as magical realism, centered around five high school seniors, once best friends, who are stuck in a time-loop-limbo sort of thing until they can find out how the sixth member of their group died. I'm only six chapters in and I'm still figuring out what the plot's going to look like, but the characters are everything to me already. There's my main narrator Arlo, who's a burned-out gifted kid with unresolved trauma surrounding the other members of the group and unresolved bisexuality that she definitely has not figured out yet, her ex-best friend Kimber, who's kind of the leader of the group and also the one who Arlo has a totally-not-sapphic-at-all-really-why-would-you-ever-call-it-that dynamic with, and who may or may not have committed some class B felonies, Kimber's new best friend Lev, my anxious gay disaster boy who I absolutely do not project on at all, Phoenix the nice-enough hippie kid with dark secrets and a mysterious feud with Arlo, and his girlfriend Thea, who I've spent countless nights trying to psychoanalyze because there is *a lot* wrong with her. I want to finish it so badly so I can write about these five some more, but alas, I can't.

There's also a few other ideas that I desperately want to write but probably shouldn't because I have too many projects, but that's a post for another day.

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grumpy-triceratops · 2 years

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2, 5, 7, 14, 23, and 50.

This was super fun and really got me thinking about my characters, thanks, I appreciate the ask!! 2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?: I don't have a favorite OC, but my brain often fluctuates and there are some I tend to think about more than others. 5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?: OOF this is such a hard question... after much deliberation I think I'd go with a character from a big project of mine I hope to get done someday. I don't want to give a ton away about him (since like I said I hope to make him into a character people will want to learn about). But his name is Georgi, he's a deaf black man and a pastel goth. He runs a tattoo parlor with his childhood friend and he does a lot of the concept artwork. He's a cute sweet boy that I hope people will like! 7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories?: Yes, honestly I don't know if I have many, if any, OCs that aren't part of one story or another. Sometimes story/character ideas just flow naturally for me since I daydream a lot, especially at work, so even if I'm just thinking of a character idea it usually tends to evolve into a story. Also, I considered whether this question meant preestablished stories or not (so like insert type characters) but then I realized I do have a few OCs like that too, so my answer is just a resounding yes. I have dozens of notes of ideas so I can't really go into it all but the stories I come up with are usually fantastical and/or whimsical and some of my favorite subject matters involve superpowers, royalty, supernatural stuff and so on. 14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory: I have an OC she's the daughter of a superhero and she herself was also a prominent young superhero. She had a lot of pressures put on her trying to live up to her mom's reputation. Her mom also unintentionally put a lot of pressures on her especially when trying to figure out what her powers were. She was with her mother when she died in battle, she was so traumatized by her mother's death that she gave up hero-ing entirely and worked hard to present herself as much of an "average girl" as possible. 23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?: I have a lot of OCs so I was going through trying to think of one that would be a fitting example and it reminded me of a character I haven't thought about in awhile. I don't know if I have notes or if I do if I've updated them so I can't be as matter of fact with this character as much as I usually am with my OCs. But so this one character has had a name, gender and slight personality and backstory change. He's a prince and he's trans, I can't remember what I changed his name to. But initially he was just kind of goofy, and air headed, and he still kind of retains that but I wanted to give him a bit more agency and presence. I also made it so that as a kid he was kind of sickly so his jovial nature comes from a place of deliberate optimism. 50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want: I'm going to use this one as a platform for something I've thought for awhile, I really seem to be an outlier compared to how most people talk about/create their OCs in that I don't like to hurt my OCs. Like I have plenty of OCs with pain and trauma and tragedy but like, I more often hold my punches with my OCs. I just tend to get attached to them and want them to be happy.

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captainkurosolaire · 3 years

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~ Mass Update ~

Mainly going into future plans and intents alongside ideas below cut.

Ton's of things I've in store this will prove difficult to vent it all out. But here we go... First off rehashing and appropriately learning to tag and organize things better on my blog. Each category will have their own corresponding content, I seek to bring or share. [Tales of Goldbrand] -- I intend this to carry a Compendium of all my writes soon that'll have everything neatly in-order including a glossary, so it'll have highlights of stories that even matter or the best stuff. I've written here for a very, long time, there's been many shifts. I want to make it more accessible. While coloring what matters for people who want to learn Captain or his Crew with less chapters. While also giving choice to find it all easily. This is essentially a step-above master-lists. I'll be doing that after the Saga I have going on, right now is done. [Captain] -- Will provide you strictly with Captain screenshots, gifs, photo-sets. This is still his blog despite the Crew thing's will sort of make this a scuffed Multi-Muse blog. I've few more things to edit and tag fix to get all his stuff though. [The Wild Crew] -- Afterwards this story is done Immortal Age Saga, It's something that I mainly wrote as a passion project within three days to get my warm-up process fixed. It's to allow me to get a feel for all his Crewmates and casts, in combat, in-general, to feel their presences. While also giving a bit of their backstories. At any point, I can go back and polish or tweak things in. They're NPC's but... not entirely. All will have their own 'Dreams' and their own 'Disapproval's' they have their own missions even. These things will factor eventually, they might set seeds, to betray or disagree with something, but that's all angst and more stories to be created, but overall, they'll probably always be Crew, eventually. -- I plan on making character-profile sheets of them and putting them in this Tab, it'll have their screenshots, their likes/dislikes. Some RP partners or people can also be shipped with them, but they'll all be monogamous and originally start off probably Pan. This allows them to figure out what they like on their own stories. I've always been someone who likes organic-flow. Although this one story contain all 16 characters or more, the rest will probably be shortened to a Squad of 4 and dispersed when on adventuring missions. Until I do a War Arc, that's my main goal to build too. [Roster] -- Will contain this Crew in just screen-sets dedicated to them, I'll probably randomly produce those. I've PC players among this Crew too. I may not be done either adding more, but this Crew is mainly built around Quality. Most pirate crew's mainly, have hundreds, thousands. Even Fleets. This Crew has personalities, monsters, people who are living life's that exist with piracy. He's an particular leader that had PC players the same way, he's had split-personality serial killers aboard, tribal chieftains, succubus, all sorts of various people once on a Crew. It's often an outcast style, pirates default are chaotic in nature, so this really isn't any different, it's a Fantasy version of it. There's humanization characters aboard too though, so this cast is really decked, everything and person is vital, they matter because they remind or covet something that others can draw upon. If ever played (Three Houses or Mass Effect / Dragon Age Origins) A lot of things like that are relatable too this structure and format. Which, Is something I want to be able to give when RPing. I want a genuine feel of this new world someone else's muse will be the main-character too. Depending on what's interacting everything they'll be scale appropriately to follow the genre they're in and environment even. [Aesthetics] -- Already explainable what you'll find here. [Asks] -- Same thing. [Prompts] -- Trivial things I was tagged too, I plan on compiling later. [Writing] -- Another alternatively to randomly go-down and it works right now. [Logs] -- Will have more individualistic master-lists and posts there, my poems from Sheik Sphere the Bard, etc.

Things of that nature, I'll probably add still. It's where a lot of my creative writing is summed. [Gems of Hydaelyn] -- My main #tag for other characters and artists, creationist. Lot of amazing people easily to find their zones or follow them optionally if you like. Ton's I intend to support and bolster, be a lot less unspoken. I'm never the type who's been strictly inclusive. But I'll do that when I've time to even explore the dash, I'm always still planning ahead with things and projects. [CKS] My original character-sheet it's outdated on something's but not too terrible. I'll give him polishing someday, I swear? [21+F-List] -- Just purely degenerate stuff of Captain. I'm a pirate blog. I will represent that with openness and furthermore. I'm never projecting you some false-image. I started off a smut-writer by stripping that, I no-longer represent the same aura and identity. But those are strictly his stuff and kinks, I'm effective in executing them but they're not all relatable to me OOC. This blog will always be 18+ containing crude or dark material sometimes, romantic things, this Captain is blunt, will literally put his cock on the table in conversations. Swearing and being censored would be too uncommon and displace most of him, but there's more about him then all this. [Other] -- I pay homage to a lot of characters, I originally am a Concept Designer. Which mean's I make characters and ideas like my addiction. Bad characters / villains or other little things I like to share in designs, I'll put there. Some villains might get little photo-sets, even if they died. Just cause I like their design, or maybe I'll give them an AU, where they won. When I've wrapped up things. [Collabs + Ships] -- Is a new project idea. This isn't going to be something limited too romantic only ships. It'll contain, platonic, romantic, friendships, rivals, frenemies, family, PC Crew, all ships. I am desperately working on improving my gif, screenshot, posing game so I can supply 'Screen Stories' this is not only a way to RP that's accessible with even people who are upon time-crunches from work, It gives visual-representation. To impactful stories shared with others and establish bonds. That are all-valid and impactful matter. Lot of people take a lot of their characters attributes into them and are them dialed up, I work with that and bit more, differently. I'm disconnected from my characters and they'll get hurt and injured and killed by me, that's my duty as their Author to give them conflicts and struggles. I'm their major antagonist, but that doesn't mean at-all, it's always SET that way. The characters I like to make have their own life, they live in this setting and are abide by it, they're often nothing, nobodies, and by the interacting with others, they slowly gradually building, more... Through emotional impacts, they alter, these are REAL people by all their beliefs. Each person they come in-contact with are legitimate and treated like that too. They've always impacted or given them insights to grow, or represent more. Otherwise it'd be criminally disrespectful if I allowed any emotional I felt OOC be the grudge to something IC. Captain in-particular is set on defying me. I cannot have that. ...But I can't stop him. He's met and encountered so many people and lived so many scenarios based on the actions of others, he's giving a chance right now to actually do things a lot further than impossible. The more people he meets and encounters, experiences, the more I lose. These stories are emotionally interactive where everything is a factor and adds to the dice, where the other people are the one who get to roll the dice for him, not me. That's something I want to color in. People range in emotions, they have their down's, ups, their own wholesome-grounding people, spending time with your favorite people, there's nothing more cherishing than that, being in your own comfort-zone or 'safe-space' these are all treasures that we live under, today. Contrary if what people assume of me, I'm not another 'blogger' that's came

before, who's wanting to force a harem, then constantly is bewildered when that falls to pieces cause of selfishness or a lack of communication, or the skeletons they have in their closets and beliefs they hid behind and swindled fooled everyone. I'm not looking to be popular or anything really, I just create stories and want to share in those, and I want to also boost others included, upward with me, especially those who make me. There's no ego in anything I do, this is purely love. I've never cared about being replicated or duplicated, I've had stalkers, I've gone through more then anyone would imagine, I've been used OOC and abused, just for my writing and cold-harshly told, i'd never amount to anything other then that or vice-versa. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Passion. That's all I got and am anymore. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Passion is the hardest thing to keep. It's something that can be stolen, quite effortlessly. Few words of discouragement, a bad negative representation, a lack of confidence, or small amount of time, there's many thing's that can put that flame out. Once you lose it. The difficulty to reattain is hundred-times harder than climbing any mountain for real. I've watched the greatest creators crumble from under the pressure, from beaten down by others. I watched many of them do it to themselves because they put a grand vision of needing validation of another and once lost, felt uncompelling to press onward. But passion also can be given BACK and drawn. It can be shown and encourage others, with a soft-triggering, that pushes them. That motivates, that constantly sticks to it. There are many that fuel me. If I ever quit, I let them down, I spit in the faces of people who're better than me in every-way. Or people who've came and given me their precious Time. That have given their character's or dedication to the abundant stories and community-driven things I've done. There's ONLY things you can do, create, give and provide. It cannot ever come to life without YOU. This is a fact. ...I swear, If you let your creativity soar, you'll be amazed by the heights you get. Constantly polish and learn and hone the best you, challenge yourself day after painstaking day, to draw better improvement on something, no matter how trivial or unfamiliar you are. You'll find a confidence only you can give yourself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Future Plans --------------------------------------------------------------------- For me, I've got so much more stories to give and also explore, I might be taking up soon some other artists and more skilled people from community and hire them for some of my future writes, to up my game or cause something thing's can't be done in-game cause no background carries it. I also got a lot of-set up things and more angst stuff I want to practice, plus I'm adamantly on that grind to produce screen-sets with the intent's to some sort of improving daily. Additionally more people I'll be reaching out too soon for these collab's ideas and things. I look forward to shaking your hands, giving some hugs, show you my respect and admiration, then creating some enchanting stories and giving plots light. Feel free to reach out to me, I get scattered-brain but I'm working on getting better about it. Eventually will get to you though, my goals, if uninterested just say so when I poke, no bites, unless you kinky. Anyways, cheers hearties.

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writingquestionsanswered · 5 years

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not sure if you have any advice for me here as it's less to do about writing than it is about being a writer... I was doing real well, finished a draft, had thoughts on what to revise, told myself I'd walk away for a while, it's been 2 months. since then, I've started on a new antidepressant and I feel like I've lost my creativity edge. I know some people say antidepressants can dull your mind a bit but I'm worried--I don't even FEEL like writing, and it's all I've done for the last two years...

Writing and Depression

First, I think it’s important to consider the fact that there are two types of writers. Some of us write for our own personal entertainment or therapeutic benefit, do not derive satisfaction from sharing our writing, and have no intention of pursuing publication of any kind. Others of us may start writing for personal reasons, but that evolves to wanting to share our writing and eventually become published authors. It’s important to know which group you fall into before worrying too much.

If you’re in the first group–the writing solely for self group–it’s very possible that the change in prescription has simply alleviated whatever need writing had been fulfilling for you. In other words, it’s possible you no longer want to write because you no longer need to write. That can feel very strange if writing is something you relied on and that gave you relief for a lengthy period. However, in that case it’s okay if you don’t want to do it anymore. There may even be other fulfilling things that you’re more in the mood for now when you weren’t before.

If you’re in the second group–writing with the intention of sharing and potentially being a published author someday–you’ll definitely want to see if there’s some way you can get your writing mojo back. Different things may work for different people, though, so you may have to try a variety of things before you find something that works for you. Here are some things you can try:

1) Re-Fill Your Creative Well

Sometimes when our lives, mentality, outlook, or body chemistry changes, our creativity takes a hit. When that happens, there are things you do to try to replenish that creativity. Getting outside, trying new things, going on adventures, reading new books, watching new TV shows and movies, arts and crafts, etc., are all things that can work. You can read my guide to filling your creative well here.

2) Start a New Project

Our projects can be very personal to us, and often we’re led to certain projects because of how we’re feeling, what we’re interested in, or what our life is like at the time. When those things change, so can our interest in that particular project. In that case, it’s always good to try to re-kindle your interest in the project, but if it can’t be done it’s okay to stick it on the shelf for a while. Remember, there’s no such thing as a wasted project. Even if you spent a year on a project and only made it a third of the way through the first draft, you still got a ton of great and important writing, plotting, world building, and character development practice in during that time. Setting aside a project that isn’t working allows you to start on something that’s more in line with your current situation and interests, and sometimes that’s all you need to win back that creative edge.

3) Try to Re-Kindle Your Interest in Your Current Project

If you’re not ready to set aside your current project just yet, there are some things you can try to re-kindle your interest. Spending time on world building, gathering inspiration pictures, casting your characters, creating aesthetics, drawing maps and layouts, and creating playlists are all things that might help renew your interest in your current story.

4) Give Yourself a Push Start

If you’ve ever driven a manual transmission car (aka a “stick shift”), or have known anyone who has, you may be familiar with the concept of a “push start.” Basically, when a manual transmission car fails to start, you can push the car into a roll which forces the engine to rotate and fire. Sometimes when we don’t feel like writing, despite the underlying cause of our disinterest, the best thing we can do is give ourselves a push start. No need to grab a friend and roll yourself downhill, however. All you need to push start yourself is the will to say, “I’m going to write for X amount of minutes today,” and then actually sit down and do it. You may not feel like it, you may not enjoy it, and what you write during that time may be awful, but what’s important is you’re doing it. You’re creating a habit that will become easier and easier the more you do it. Once you start getting yourself into the habit again, you may find yourself enjoying it more. This enjoyment is akin to the engine rotating and firing in a push started car. If you start enjoying writing again, you’ll start feeling creative again. You just have to get yourself into that habit, and at the end of the day, whether you feel like doing something or not, you have the power to make yourself do it.

Good luck! I hope one of these works for you!!!

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