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heartbeatbookclub · 3 months

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One of the most weirdly liberating things to me has been to realize "I'm writing for myself. The audience comes second." Which sounds obvious and a lot of other people talk about it, but seriously, this has completely reshaped how I look at things I write.

I can spend like 6 hours working on a draft that I later come back to and think "wow, I was in a very strange headspace when I wrote this, and it shows! I don't have to share this with anyone and I'm glad about that!" Or I can take like 2 hours to workshop a minific that consists of maybe 200 words, and think to myself "I don't need to extend these thoughts to post them anywhere. I have them up here. This is enough." and just leave it there!

And maybe, one day, I can come back to it, maybe work it to something postable, or just post it as is, with absolutely no pressure to do so because there are no eyes watching me but my own!

I have so, so many old drafts of different fics with different concepts and thought processes at different levels of completion and quality, and every so often I just take a long look over all of it and think, "holy shit, I did that! i've been writing that long, and that much!"

When you worry about the audience, you start to lose sight of what it really means to write, and what it should really feel like. You start to lose the joy of writing. Don't let that happen. Don't let that flame die out.

Don't kill the part of you that loves what you do. Kill the part of you that cringes.

#not ddlc #well not strictly anyway #just been thinking about this lately #might start working some of my older drafts for publishing now lol #i've had a long omori fic on my backburner for like 3 years

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elainiisms · 5 months

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female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

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hellspawnmotel · 2 months

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cementing my place as the crossovers for no reason guy

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#deltarune #ralsei #noelle holiday #susie deltarune #berdly #lancer #kris dreemurr #crossover #ddlc #chainsaw man #devilman #alien 9 #blood tw #smoking tw #drugs tw #art tag #ik alien 9 isnt nearly as well known as the others here. do not be deceived by appearances it is just as fucked up #toby please i need chapter 3 im doing odd shit

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binary-bird · 17 days

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to no one's surprise i ended up liking the character struggling with her own fictionality

#ddlc monika #ddlc #doki doki literature club #and now for something different #i havent settled on a coloring style i like yet so im experimenting again #so if this looks jank thats why lol #anyway i dont usually play horror but i do love the meta stuff and glitching #so unsettling. so good

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wargmon · 4 months

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in this world, we’re friends forever

#ddlc #ddlc monika #doki doki literature club #kinitopet

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phishcaek · 5 months

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If self aware AI characters were integrated into the real world and had day jobs

#ddlc monika #flowey #giffany #art #ddlc #undertale #gravity falls #ms paint

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azuremist · 6 months

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Doki Doki Literature Club’s twist would have worked better if Monika was a male character. Aaand post

#ddlc #doki doki literature club #monika #azure does a thing

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pupperish · 11 months

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I'm probably missing some good ones but I ran out of space. Play Aconite.

Edit: added funger and that is the only change I'll make. I do not care about what your personal definition of an indie/horror game. This post includes psychological horror cause it's horror.