#other writer's writing

[charbroiledchicken]

if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

[ren-is-real]

You know when

[monsoon-of-art]

[writeouswriter]

[catiandchocolate]

What people expect when I say I’m a writer: writing a whole novel

What I actually do: get into a fandom or come up with an original idea, go to sleep every night thinking of the story, make imaginary scenarios and Pinterest boards, make Spotify playlists, and finally sit down to write it out 2 months later only to get another idea and abandon the story. Repeat the cycle.

[wraetingsonthewall]

sometimes your brain really just offers you one banger of a sentence and then that's it for the entire rest of the day. creativity expired, the ability to think has clocked out for the day, context for as to how we even get to this sentence? sorry we're all out. this one sentence is all you get.

[wordyshit]

Just doing this bc I'm curious/research reasons

[oh-no-another-idea]

The art of friendship is about a trio of guys where youngest learns to be a better friend without being dumb and awkward. It's not one of my better fics but it's cute I guess.

29 days of October round one is about two friends who are learning how to use magic in a rural community (where magic is a thing) and it feels like games you play as a kid

29 days of October round two was about a chosen one type princess questing to discover a solution to the impending adjacent apocalypse

29 days of October round three is about twins trying to find the source of a poison killing agriculture and the mad magic scientist who is misguidedly the cause

Trio of guys and learning to be friends, sounds awesome!

Rural community magic with two friends sounds delightful and cozy--and a poison killing agriculture sounds absolutely intriguing.

Thanks for sharing, Owl!!

[inkedwingss]

not me writing this giant synopsis of my own wip to myself so i can understand what i am actually trying to create

[includedisco]

Importance of writing the self-indulgent story that you do want to write in exactly the way you want to write it

You won't find anything weird about being your own story's biggest fan. You wrote it in a way that's exactly what you envision the characters being. So you'll click on that thing without reservation or shame, enjoy the hell out of it and pat yourself on the back each time.

Your own story will be your absolute favorite in the world because it'll be perfect for YOU.

Why wait impatiently and frustratedly for a different author to write your fantasy for you? And no DON'T you dare say it's because that other writer is better than you.

No writer is perfect. We can all learn, improve and get better. If you have an idea in your mind, go learn how to bring it to life. Ask other authors, read other books/fanfics, watch videos on writing tips etc.

But stay away from AI. That shit is unforgivable.

Loving one's own work as a writer is tough but once you do get there, I believe that's the true meaning of self love for a writer.

[warrior-of-storms]

Okay but do you know what really gets me?

There's no one left in-universe who can or will talk about Jaybin as he really was.

Bruce is the founder of the Jaybin Slander Department;

Alfred is no better.

Dick wasn't around much, didn't know him that well.

If Barbara ever interacted with him in his original run, I haven't found it yet.

I mean, he had some interactions with the Teen Titans, but was he really close with any of them?

I suppose Gordon could, assuming he isn't in on the Jason-bashing. I haven't seen it but I could be missing something.

And, well, Jason... somehow, I don't think anyone's asking Jason what he was like as a kid, nor is he really a reliable source. Autobiographical memory is weird.

No one in-universe will ever really talk about this bright, friendly, eager kid, and it's a tragedy.

He was smart and clever and had so much compassion.

He wanted so badly to help people, and he found joy in his work as Robin.

He had a dramatic flair and he was kind of a nerd and he was really funny on occasion.

He was so deeply, fundamentally good, and the fact that somehow his legacy has been twisted into one of anger and recklessness is honestly a crime.

It makes me so desperately sad that there's not a single character who can even start to undo the lasting damage of a four-decade smear campaign against a kid who did nothing to deserve it.

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[littlefankingdom]

The thing about Bruce and Jason is that so many people today (dc writers and fans) totally ignore or don't know that Bruce was one hair away from starting WWIII over Jason. When Superman came to him, Batman was already at the UN headquarters. If Clark had been a couple of minutes late, Batman would have killed the Joker, who had diplomatic immunity, ON THE STEPS OF THE UN HEADQUARTERS. And Superman was only able to make Bruce wait for the immunity to drop. The moment it was, Bruce did tried to kill the Joker.

In the end, it doesn't matter that the Joker survived, because Bruce did show how much he loves Jason. He loves him enough to nearly start a world war over losing him.

[ghost-bxrd]

I think we as a fandom need to have more talks about ✨dramatic✨ Jason running his own AO3 blog where he posts increasingly violent and heart wrenching stories about Robin. (The second Robin. Because he’s absolutely self inserting.)

And the Batfam find out about those fic that have a startlingly detailed layout of the batcave and accurate patrol routes that they choose to investigate (by reading the fics, duh) and growing increasingly upset about how the characters are portrayed.

Especially Robin.

[deminetly]

꒰ ꪆA GUIDE TO WORLDBUILDING୧ ꒱

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˖˙ ᰋ─WHY?

its fun and pushes your creativity to new heights (you can also shift to the world tou created iykyk) you could also make it into a story

˖˙ ᰋ─WHAT?

name of the world

flag

map

creatures that live there

goverment

education systems

language(s)

norms

currency

legends

technology

history

powers

nature

jobs

traditions

problems

fashion

food

religions

races

˖˙ ᰋ─HOW?

collecting ideas for example you can make a pinterest board where you save pins that inspire you (it can be anything from food youd like in your world to creaturs or landscapes)

get inspired by other peoples creations watch movies, shows books or even games and notice the little details. this also goes for the real world