unfocused-overwriter
We should all be writing but here we are
I'm a good creator. Not so much a writer. But I can say I try▫️About my novel projects and other writer problems.
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okay do you guys know Exactly what your characters look like while you're writing or is it a vibes thing
#depends#faceclaims help a lot#but say Elysa. I know exactly what her features are but I've yet to find a proper faceclaim#the closest I've come is Alyssa Sutherland with a zest of Sienna Guillory and even there something is missing#similar for Darren. I'm generally using Sam Heughan but it's just because he's a tall redhead - it's not his face at all#as a result I've never managed to draw them just right#but these two explicitely look weird#I have an easier time picturing more common faces#sometimes I imagine them all more easily as animated drawings. style varies.
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My average writing experience:
"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"
*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*
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it is so jarring and weird when a fantasy book is like “ok let’s go around the circle and have each character talk about which lgbt umbrella category they identify with” like ok your fantasy world doesn’t have to be feudal europe but can it not be 2023 twitter please
#is it relevant? beyond marketing purposes I mean#cause I swear. If it's relevant to the character and/or story you don't need to make a disclaimer out of it. it'll come up.
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#please I beg you just say they speak with an accent I'll do the rest in my head#describe the accent too! That's fun#or maybe just for me and my linguistics degree
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Please do let me know in the tags and replies
#I personally don't but I found out one time that Darren comes from the Irish word for ''oak'' which???#I've literally always linked him to the resilience of the oak and he comes from a civilization of celtic inspiration??#gotta love with the stars align#the name Lith has no correlation with the Greek for ''stone'' however. or does it?#poll#writeblr
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And while we're talking about ai theft: turn. off. grammarly. Disable it. Delete it. Get that shit off of your computer ASAP.
I never realized how much of my shit is scanned by grammarly until today. It scans my emails, my text posts on this bewitched platform, my wips on google docs, my youtube comments--literally everything ive ever typed on my laptop is scanned by grammarly. And I've been allowing this to happen for years.
Turn. Off. Grammarly.
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I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
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writing historical fiction will make you google things like “when we’re towels invented?” “how much did a towel cost in American in 1885?” “historical average number of towels owned per household”
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happy international mother language day
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, it goes to his heart.” - Nelson Mandela
what's the first language of your OCs? what does it mean to them if someone speaks it to them?
#all of the Allastra six mains' first language is Allastran#a politically spread artificial lingua franca with a stronger grasp on some areas of the world than on others#that said Adalyce probably learned to talk in Kenayan and then Allastran for writing as Kenayan doesn't have a written form#and Darren and Elysa's family doesn't like Allastran hegemony too much so they're expected to speak their three official native languages#Selenian Urwyll and Kenayan#but the fact is that between them they speak Allastran#no one in Mesany speaks Mesanian anymore except scholars and priestesses
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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on
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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.
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I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip
Using a random fic of mine as example..
The left example: ✅✅✅
The right example: ❌❌❌
Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!
If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…
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"We'll fix it in post" is a phrase from the film industry, but it is inherently funnier when it's spoken by a writer because--tragic--you are also the post-production team.
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