#writing styles

[writerpolls]

*In writing terms, an architect is someone who plots out, plans, and outlines things before drafting. A gardener is someone who takes an initial idea and then just writes, seeing how the idea grows without specific plans.

Some people use the terms “plotter” and “pantser” (as in, going by the seat of their pants) for these writing styles, but I prefer architect and gardener.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Nico's Powers and Rick way of writing them.

Honestly,I've been wainting to write this.

We all know Nico powers:

Can manipulate the shadows and travel in them (Umbra-kinesis);

Can sense someone's death and soul;

Can summon ghosts and talk to them;

Can summon skeletons that obey to his orders and fight for him;

Can use dreams to send messages;

Can unconsciously split the ground and create cracks or Underworld's openings;

Can turn someone into a ghost and make them forgot their life and ability to speak;

Can turn someone into a skeleton;

Has influence on the dead and can evade them when he has to;

Can create earthquakes (not major ones like Percy);

Technically has Geo-kinesis powers too (like Hazel);

Can summon zombies to serve him;

Can conditionate the CJ's lares speaking ability by forcing them to shut up;

Can influence the dead ones with his mood;

Death-touch;

(If I missed some feel free to add)

Other than this,you need to remember that his title as Ghost King give him some more leverage,and his sword is an uniqueness in the world that give him the ability to suck someone's soul in it.

By only this list you can tell that Nico is extremely powerful,and he is still younger than Percy,with a weak physical body (depression and ED do some wonders to you-) and wasn't never "officially trained" like him since he wasn't around camp much. But he still pulled insane acts even without being 100% ok most of the time.

Nico powers,differently from Percy and Thalia,are extremely versatile. While those two can use whatever source or form of water/lightning to fight,they can't do much outside of their fathers's domains. And then you have Nico. Nico that can use his powers to travel around the world and sending messages with a mental link,other than use them to fight. People always talks about Percy controll over all types of liquid (even poison or the Underworld's rivers),but there is still water in them,so it's normal for him to do so. Thalia can use lightnings because it's normal for her to do so since those are Zeus's main sources of power. But Nico's powers are more than just controlling the dead,he can manipulate dreams (something that only the Hypnos cabin can do if I remember correctly) and can use geo-kinesis too,even tho not as much good or frequent as Hazel (before she started to work with her mist affinity). He can do it all.

I'm not trying to pull the "Nico is more powerful than Percy" argument here,but more focusing on Nico's versatility usage of his powers. And Rick made a mistake here with him,that he realized later and tried to minimize.

You see,when you have a powerscaling system,you usually take the main character as the "default": it's from them that you start to build it so other people can understand where others characters stand,compared to the MC,on the scale. Most of the time,people want their MC to grow stronger after every fight,starting from the bottom,untill they are the most powerful character in the story. It's a format done everywhere (anime,movie,comics,fanfic,books,ecc...) and Rick Riordan also used it with Percy. And when you have as MC the "most powerful character ever" (in this case the most powerful demigod since Heracles times),you need to be careful with your side characters,especially when the author doesn't want them to outshine the MC. For this reason,most of the time,they are either weaker than them or have extremely excessive drowbacks. A good example of this is Jason: Rick introduced him to us as the roman counterpart for Percy,but made us understand that he wasn't never at Percy level of power. And when you have a "side" character as Nico,adding to the fact that he's most of the time the wild card for their victories and always know everything,you have a big problem.

Riordan made it clear that no one (for now) can surpass Percy in term of abilities. But he still went out of his way making Nico's powers more versatile than the others. Logically,he should have been stronger than Percy,especially because death cannot be stoped and it's part of everyone life,but canonically it wasn't going to happen since the MC is Percy. Riordan realized in a second moment that his powers were too much and decided to make sure Nico was always held back by something from going full out (like Jason).

Nico is the only child of the big 3 that,if he use so much of his powers,has extremely horrible drowbacks even when he shouldn't. I could understand during MoA-BoO events in HoO,he was either dying or disappearing into the shadows because of his kidnapping and Tartarus,and still had an extremely draining task to finish. But from HoO to ToA there is a big timeskip (I think 6 months or more but I'm not so sure) where he should had all the time in the world to heal and having back full controll over his powers. But he doesn't. Nico still faint after shadow-travelling,even tho after his trip with the statue he should have been stronger and not having problems for a normal trip. Which sucks,especially when Rick most of the time make him pull some jaw-dropping power-play that give you the full picture on how strong he really is.

I don't think Percy had so many downgrades with his powers,I never saw him almost fainting from controlling the waters. He get tired,yes,but that's it. Thalia has more restrictions because of her fear,but I also never saw her having so many problems after using her powers (after she went with the Hunters we never see her in general anymore). Neither did Hazel with her geo-kinesis powers (before Rick decided to make her learn mist manipulation). Jason is a whole mess because he faint every day when he gets hit by a brick,even when he isn't fighting or using his powers (Rick didn't do him justice either). It's only Nico that has so many negative effects.

And the fandom can explain it,in a canon logic,with: "He's s still young,he will have time to grow stronger." (I agree) ;"He wasn't never in a good physical condition so it's normal that he has this many negative effects." (Even dying he was still able to curse someone to literally becoming a ghost) ; "He was malnourished and depressed,since he didn't take care of himself before he still have problems,wait for him to be healthy." (Again,even in those conditions he still pulled insane stunts). But,outside of the narrative,Riordan totally nerfed him because he realized that he wrote his powers too powerful and useful compared to Percy's,and since he couldn't have his MC outshined,he made sure to slow Nico in any way possible.

In BotL and TLO there are 2 scenes that,for a long time,I thought I was the only one to ever have read them since no one talked about them.

In the end of BotL when Percy get out of the Labyrinth and went with Rachel to see the coffin,Nico created an earth barrier (or something closer to it) to help them escape form Kronos's attack. He never did that after it,and I never saw people acknowledge that scene so I legitimately thought that I was imaginating it. Which was strange since it came right after the famous "Did you just throw a blue brush in the eye of the Titan Lord?" scene,but no. It really happened and Nico did use the earth at his liking. After that Riordan decided to never bought it up and Nico never manipulated the earth in that way (he still split the ground a couple of times) again.

In TLO after Nico went to free Percy from the dungeons,they escaped the palace and went to the Styx. During their escaping Nico glared at the guards,while growing weaker and weaker with each one,and they ignored them. Again,since I never saw someone talk about it I genuinely thought I was remembering things wrong. Especially because it was part of the whole "Betrayal" plot that everyone know. But again,it wasn't the case,Rick just decided to never bring it up again. It was the only time Nico did something like that. Someone can say "Well,those are the royal guards and their boss is his dad they would never go against him." but the guards were against Nico,if he didn't do whatever the fuck he did,they were going to tell Hades about their escape. So,again,Rick realized he gave him a powerful trick and then hoped that one one would remember it after he used it one time.

All of this shows that,even if he is good at writing certain things,when it comes to others topics (like power-scaling,Tartarus's trauma and many more) he just can't write well and try to put patches on the holes,without having success. But that's for another post that I will do.

Rick lack of continuation in his work,and he needs to decide what the hell he is going to do with Nico,because the guy himself is a contradiction that needs to be solved. And if I see someone else say that he is weak because he continue to faint,I'm gonna crash out very very very bad since it's Rick's fault. Nico has grown enough in his power to stand tall and use them without having majors problems (if he abuse them,then of course he is in big troubles). He isn't anymore the 13 years old kid that was dying during a world-ending trip after days of being captive by the enemy,and Riordan needs to acknowledge it and move on from that.

[azus-reyan]

Direct or poetic prose?

As you’ll see, I wrote this post with the second style (poetic prose) in mind. I did this to show you that though one style can suffice, there are other ways of reaching the track’s end.

I also did it because I enjoy it, an important component when deciding which to settle with.

Yesterday, we explored the pros and cons of these writing styles, but a question remained unanswered. Which style should you choose: direct, brief, available? Or poetic, flowery, and decorative? 

This is a subjective decision. Maybe you chose one or the other. Or something in between. 

But here’s an idea: why not choose both? Yes, you can choose both. 

Imagine a manual or stick-shift car scraping alongside a long hill. As it travels the distance, the driver must put the car in a lower gear, like one or two. Put the same car and driver on an open road, who’s to say he can’t use a higher gear? Four, Five, or Six—if he feels like it. For speed.

And just the same, who can say you can’t both?

Direct prose, perhaps when you want to build suspense. poetic style, to create mood and drama?

Yes, you can use both. You can alternate between the two and find your natural pitch. In fact, prolific authors of one style or another, like Hemingway and Faulkner, are known to change gears from time to time.

So, how do you change gears? The answer isn’t that simple. 

The driver going up the hill didn’t know which gear to use because someone shouted from afar as he passed. Nor did he flit through a brief manual to get the gist. 

No, he did it again, and again, and again, until it became natural. Until it came to him, the same as his breath and gait. Until his hand moved to the gear all on its own, shifting it to its appropriate position.

Just as the driver knows when to go fast or slow. When to take the winding course or the straight path, so you must change between the two, opposite styles.

The most important thing: be flexible. 

Until then, bonjour. 

[adinelleggreeo]

I realise now why I don't like reading first person POV fanfics.

Nobody ever writes them correctly. Instead of writing with the personality of the character, the character ends up sounding so detached from the events. It's like they're the faceless narrator recording the events and then jump in to interact when it's their turn to talk.

Just saw someone try to write Danny in the first person POV. The writing was fine, but the POV wasn't POVing.

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is an excellent example of a successful first person POV.

I remember reading the book for the first time at 13. I've never read a book with a first person POV until then and for a while I wrote a lot of my stories with that POV.

I suck at writing first person POV these days. Unfortunately knowing why I suck doesn't help me suck any less 🥲

[moltenwrites]

Hi! I read the bit of Paintings that’s out and I’m a fan. I really like how relaxingly told it is, it’s very flow-y and easy. When my attention span is more cooperative I’m interested to see what else you’ve got up as well, but that day is evidently not today haha.

On a lark, asking your thoughts on a technical question, just me nerding out, I’m curious if you have thoughts on writing serialized versus… is it just non-serialized? Less serialized? Fiction.

I’m of the opinion that a lot of, for my experience, manga suffer a lot from the lack of ability to edit their structure and continuity, however it gets me out of my head and onto the page. Even on ao3 I don’t like going back and editing continuity mistakes as I think it’s unfair to anyone who’s read the old chapters to suddenly say “hey, that name I forgot to add in chapter one?(this happened ~w~) Yeah, you know that now!”

Instead it forced me to get creative and add an element that didn’t clash with established world building and future plans, which was fun and challenging. So like, it’s better for me psychologically? Especially in terms of motivating me by having people actually see it while I’m moving forward.

Idk, it’s an art, not a science, just newish to the site and wanted to reach out and talk writing.

Happy New Year!

Heya, firstly I wanted to say this 100% made my day thank you SO SO much.

As for the question, I’m still honestly figuring that out! I’ve never really posted publicly, so I’m not sure if my stance on serilazation of this stuff will change, but here’s what I currently think for my writing. I personally don’t plan on changing anything ( except for maybe like a grammar/spelling error I didn’t catch ) after stuff is posted! Unless I feel like I made a mistake so great that it needs to be fixed, I’ll just try to work it into the story.

As for other people, I can 100% see both arguments. Even outside of the more niche communities here, some series would KILL for the ability to be able to change some old stuff.

I personally wouldn’t mind if a series in following were to change something, as long as it’s communicated to the reader in some way. Like in the unlikely event I WOULD make a major change, I’d make a blog post and put an addendum on whatever chapter would be posted next.

On the other hand, I always commend it when people find ways to write themselves out of corners. I think the ability to work around your continuity, especially in fantasy settings, is an important skill so that there aren’t constant retcons.

I hope I answered the question well enough haha, thanks again for reading, I’ll try to put up the next part soon ™️

Oh, and happy new year :)

[pandorasopenedbox3]

I once had a girl tell me I write with a fanfiction style and idk if that was supposed to be a compliment or not? What is fanfiction style??? I thought we just each had our own??? Like thank you??? Maybe??? Anyway I think I’ll think about that forever.

[writer-of-various]

okay wait, i have another question

how are you able to write so many fics? what is your process for writing? do you outline, do you edit, or do you just rawdog it (as the kids say)? do you have moodboards, or do you look up pictures as you write? do you listen to music or podcasts when you're writing, or do are you more productive with silence?

My process for writing is...a mess, to put it simply. I do rawdog (is that what they're really calling it? It paints a completely different picture–) my stories, usually because I can just be listening to a song or about to go to sleep or even eating, and an idea pops in my head. I try writing it out, completely in one go because I'm crazy and love torturing myself, and I have been successful in writing fics within two hours at most. There have been a few times I have written something, tried ignoring it, and went back to it and began re-editing the whole damn thing because I get angry that I start something and just abandon it. I'm not a quitter, and while I am quite hard on myself and try being a perfectionist at times, y'all will find some fics of mine that just look I copy and pasted three different stories together and called it a day. (I did that like...once. Maybe three times.) Honestly whatever comes to my head I just write it down and pray that I actually finish it one day.

Listening to music helps me a lot when writing, especially when I am struggling with a bad case of writer's block. And as we mentioned before when talking about my OCs, it helps to pick out certain songs or using a certain playlist to really get me going.

Depending on what I'm writing about, and if I need a little visual, I do look up some pictures, either of landscapes, cities, buildings, or just looking through different shades of colors to really put together an idea of how I'm describing my characters.

Being a bit open here, the job I have right now is...demanding, for better words. I know I went dead for around three months, and an additional three months of me just barely popping in. The last month in a half I have managed to start focusing on writing again and since this job is a career and a bit (why am I lying, it's a lot) stressful, I am making time in my schedule to continue writing because it has always been a coping mechanism, hobby, and passion of mine. I am actually impressed at the amount of fics I've written or started in like two months.

So hopefully that answers you're question, and also gives you another insight in my lovely (chaotic) life. I love these questions, they're like little interviews, never hesitate to send more.

Love you all, you wonderful writers and readers!

[deathsmallcaps]

Weird question: how do you write your letter X’s?

I encountered the first method drawn a couple days ago and I’ve never seen it before, so I’m curious. Please feel free to explain where you’re from/why you write it this way in the tags! I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing.

Black is first stroke, red is the second.if you do one of these, but ‘backwards’, doing what I call , please still choose the ‘frontwards’

1. Is what I call the parentheses method, which I’ve never seen before last week. Basically, you draw one parenthesis, open left, then another parenthesis open right, and their backs touch.

2. The cursive method, which I basically never do, where you do a squiggly first line, going from top left to bottom right, and then another diagonal going the other way

3. The print method, which I usually do, where you draw two diagonal lines perpendicular to each other. Should look like a plus sign on its side.

I’m hiding the poll under the cut so there’s less accidental voting before reading this whole thing.

@amaros-system I feel like this would interest you

[kingsonne-zedecks]

I think its so interesting how differently people approach worldbuilding and prompts. Sometimes you get incredibly specific and rational prompts like

"Think about a city in your world. Name two different merchant factions, what they deal in, who their founders are, and how they rival each other. "

And sometimes you get prompts that are nothing more than.

"There is an alley. People don't like it. Why?"

And different writers thrive under each style dramatically differently.

Like, I can't do the first one at all, my brain just doesn't work like that. But give me a name for a superhero and I can come up with their powers and life story. Give me a vaguely bad alley and I can write about the unsettling magical phenomena that plague people who pass to closely by.

[apathmakerstale]

I’m curious since I use a nonstandard way to name my fic chapters and I see a fair amount of other styles.

Personally I do something like this for multi-chapter works.

"K.S/ The Old Roads Below III"

The initials 'K' and 'S' to signify POV order and a switch, in this case Kars is first and then it switches to Sherry. 'K' by itself signifies its only Kars's POV.

Then ‘ / ' to show that they are the ones involved with that arc.

Then 'The Old Roads Below' which is the arc name, and a Roman numeral, in this case the 3rd chapter of it.

[ahb-writes]

Misleading modifiers...

(from Disenchantment S1E18: "In Her Own Write")

[princessofghosts-posts]

I think having multipovs chapters in HoO narrative was one of the main catalyst for the quality's downgrade of Riordan writing.

Riordan isn't an horrible writer,there are ups and downs in his books and he really really needs to acknowledge that maybe it's time to step ups his writing style,let the books grow with his audience (let's address all of the trauma),and put back the quality over quantity principle (which is something that totally flew out of the fucking window in the last years). Especially if he still want to write books in the future,since we understand that he won't let his characters rest anytime soon,either with the books or with the TV serie.

His stongest serie is probably PJO,I haven't read MC or KC so I don't know how good they are,but from what I understood they are all pretty good (I also love Egyptian Mythology ever since I was a child,so I'll probably read KC after I'm done with the Nico's serie). All of them are wrote in first person,with the protagonists narrating everything that happens. I think it was KC that introduced more than one narrator,since in MC and PJO there is only one (Magnus and Percy),while KC has Sadie and Carter.

The thing is,that when it came to having only one narrator,Riordan is pretty good at what he writes. Because he needs to focus on only one character,while he can expand and development the others. It's a bit difficult when there are a lot of side characters,but the main focus is always the main protagonist (Percy) and every other characters they interact with most of the time (Annabeth,Grover,Thalia,Nico,ecc...).

You also need to remember that the characters get shaped with their PoVs. We don't know them,and this isn't a movie/serie that let us see what it's going on. So,it's important that in books the PoVs reflect the characters. Take Percy for example,he is humble,sarcastic and very down to heart,othen than having a low self-esteem and being an unreliable narrator. His PoVs is extremely different from a Piper that just entered this world and don't have the same experience,is still founding her ground and trying to accept her nature.

And it's ok because it help to shape not only the main character,but also the others. But it also need to be different for each character,otherwise is like writing the same one all over again with only different struggles. All of them have low self-esteem and don't believe in themselves enough for a reason or another,so it's a bit difficult to organize them and make sure that they are unique one from the other.

Anyway. Rick also didn't had a problem with 2 narrators,since I read a couple of positive review on KC. But I'll see for myself when I'll read it. (These days I'm going to start ToA,but since I have a lot to do for school and my final exam I don't think I'll be able to read all of it). He also didn't had a problem with 3 narrators since TLH was pretty ok,especially with balancing for the first time 3 PoVs of 3 new different characters and dynamics; and SoN is probably one of his strongest book from a writing prospective,and one of the backbone of HoO. I also think that 3 narrators are good enough for a book,because otherwise it can get really messy. And I say this as a fanfic writer that has a fanfic with more than 7 narrators in a multichapter povs. It's hell to write all of them down and I need to establish an order where I write 3-4 for each chapter (there are 7 main characters,yes-),and then add the eventual others PoVs from the side characters. I'm extremely regretting my choice,but I unfortunately can't change it since I'm already writing it. Fortunately is in third person,otherwise I was going to cry. Never again in my life. Thanks to this I can kinda understand a bit of Riordan's problems for HoO,because it's a stuggle trying to fit a lot of PoVs in a books.

I firmly believe he should have stopped at 3 (maybe a fourth if he can) and rotated them for all the other books. Because the real problem started with MoA,where we got 5 narrators,and the quality started to go down the drain,both for the story and for the characters themselves. Some of them (read: Jason because Riordan could care less about him,and Piper because he never tried to do something with her) are really underdeveloped,others turned out straight up toxic (looking at you Annabeth for even thinking that your boyfriend was stupid when you know how smart he is,and Leo for your horrible coping mechanism) and some where completely pushed in the back (Frank,Hazel and Percy himself). And having to add 2 other PoVs at the end of the serie really took from the Seven,but it was unfortunately something Riordan couldn't avoid since Reyna and Nico both entered the main character stage in HoH,and were important to their mission (their PoVs kinda saved BoO ngl-). There is also an inconsistentincy with the PoVs because there were more greeks than romans,and during HoH the order,and how many chapters they had,went down the drain too.

If he struggles to do more than 3/4 PoVs,which is completely valid,he shouldn't add more. Focus on them based on the importance they have in the current book. MoA is literally Annabeth's book,then add Jason PoVs since it's where the whole Romans Vs Greeks conflict started,put Hazel PoVs too since she was Jason's friend and doesn't know what's going on with him,and either choose between Piper (for the same reason in the book) or Percy (same reason as Jason).

HoH? Percy PoVs needs to stay. Add Frank (for the same reason in the book) and Leo so he can have a bit of development and find his place in the Seven instead of making him fly to Calypso,and then choose between Piper (give her that development) or Annabeth (she was in the same situation as Percy so hers doesn't really matter since we saw her in Percy's)

BoO? Nico PoVs needs to stay because it carried 50% of it. Put Piper (for the same reason in the book),Hazel so she can finally grow in her powers (not talking about the mist-) and then choose between Reyna (for the same reason as Annabeth in HoH,we see her all of the book in Nico's) or Jason (same reason in the book),and give the last chapter to Percy so we don't actually know if Leo is dead or not for having a better plot twist later on.

This is only my opinion of which PoVs should be better of course,you could have a different opinion. Not a problem at all. Riordan in the end of the day it's the author and this was what he wanted,completely fair too,but I think it would have been better if he balanced 3 or 4,instead of going for 5 or more.

Probably would have been better if the whole HoO had more than 5 books,maybe one for each main character and then have a final one where they rotated PoVs for each chapters (not 3 each) and add Nico's or Reyna's. The last one would be a little more than the usual 300+ pages (probably closer or a bit more than 500),and should be splitted between the Seven in Athens and Nico and Reyna at CHB,the conflict between the camps and the final clash with Gaia should be more than 10 pages.

It should probably go like TLO: put a couple of chapaters as introduction of the final plans for the war,then have the Seven battling the Giants in Athens while Nico and Reyna take care of the conflict between the camps, rotate PoVs between them (so we feel the hype and anxiety) for the rest of the book,and spend like 50-60 pages only about the final shout down with Gaia before going on with the aftermath. This way it doesn't feel rushed like BoO felt and,again,the last chapter should be Percy's,or if not him then Jason since it's like we end his story.

It already sound better like this,and all of the characters should already have all of their development,so that the last book can be centred only on the final conflicts,instead of traveling for more than 300 pages and doing everything in the last 80. That's not how you do a war arc,and TLO is a good example of Riordan's writing of it. He can put a lot of quality in his works (manifesting this for his recent books) but he needs to lock in already knowing what he needs to focus on,and what he need to do for having that type of climax. If he did it in PJO he could have done it in HoO too,specially because we had HoH,a literally masterpiece,before the last book in the same serie. It's not like he lost his sparks after PJO since there are some good books in HoO too.

Of course there are a lot of other issues too,the characters themselves are a mess and some of them stay a mess without having time to grow (*cough cough* Piper,Jason,Reyna,Leo *cough cough*),but that's mainly Riordan's fault since he doesn't know what to do with most of them. And then in ToA he literally throw them under the bus,some more than others (read: Jason,Piper with whatever he thought he was doing right and Reyna being in the Hunt after she fought so hard for CJ). But I think the various PoVs from different characters,most of which new,really did a number on his writing.

[fan-dweeb]

I am making my rapid rounds through different fandom’s fanfics to have a semblance of purpose in life, and isn’t it interesting that there’s a subtle difference in the general writing style of particular fandoms?

Like:

PJO fandom has a certain air of a teen recounting some story/ trying to sound professional

spiderman (mcu) feels like watching a movie as in focusing a lot on dialogue and the movements between

haikyuu is surprisingly literature (?? sorta like, long prose about small moments???)

hp has a lot of introspection

Idk these r just the ones I’ve been binging recently, lmk if u find anymore interesting ones

(PS *sighs in broken self-induced fanfic abstinence*)

[weshallflyaway]

What's your favorite piece you've written to date, and is there a link to read it?

What would you describe your writing style as?

If someone happened upon your writing, and knew nothing about you or the piece, what things do you think they would infer/imagine about you as a person?

Happy Writing Saturday

I'm sorry this has taken me so long to reply to, I recently returned from a long visit to my family and have been getting over jetlag and catching up on work!

My favourite piece that I've written to date is my novel, Border Crossings. I love writing fanfic, but there was always a desire to see if I could develop my own characters and write my own original work. I'm incredibly proud of it, and Lise and Michael still hold very special places in my heart. You can find it on amazon here and there is a kindle version.

For my favourite fanfic I've written it's difficult to choose just one, but I think it might be Higher Than Words.

If I had to describe my writing style I would say it's both to the point, and introspective. I don't tend to use a lot of descriptive paragraphs when it comes to the surroundings, clothes, weather etc and that can be something that readers either like or don't. For the introspective part, I enjoy focusing on feelings, change and growth when it comes to my characters. While they might go on physical journeys in some of my works, it's usually the personal journey of growth that is more important.

That last question is an interesting one and it's one that I would love to know from someone who has read my writing, just how do I come across as a person when you read my stories? Would people assume I'm older or younger than I am? I think I could possibly come across as a quiet person, but I'm not certain of more than that and I would love to hear what people do assume about me one day!

Thank you for these asks, it was fun to respond!

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.