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Are you still active?

Ah, not really. Life has really kicked my ass and I find that I don’t have enough spare time to get back into writing. But maybe someday I’ll become active again, but that day is not today.

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What would be cooler, a buffalo farm, or a reindeer farm?

Reindeers are pretty and all that, but in my opinion; the bigger the animal, the better- a Buffalo farm would be way cooler!

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Reblog and put in the tags whether your primary response is fight, flight, or freeze.

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I-

Found this while looking for something earlier and I feel called out lmao

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I'm a beginner fan fic writer, any tips?

Yo. I got you fam!

1.) So, first of all, Summaries. Are. Important. It’s going to be what catches the interest of the Reader, it’s going to tell them whether or not your story is something they’d like to check out.

Whatever you do, and no matter how tempted you might be, NEVER. EVER leave it blank or put something like ‘Not good at summaries, please just read the story, I promise it’s good!’ Or ‘Will write summary later, too lazy right now lol’

I know it might sound mean, but I hardly ever read a story that doesn’t have a summary to it, and I have skipped over many stories in my time in favor of ones with summaries because seeing stories without a summary is just disengaging to me, and I assume, many others.

2.) Please, I beg you, paragraph your writing. It’s an absolute eyesore whenever I click on a story and find everything cram-packed into one large lump of words.

Example of BAD paragraphing:

As I stared up at the moon, a giddy feeling building in my chest that I hadn’t felt in years, I couldn’t help but think; ‘They can’t reach me here… No one can.’ I took in a shaky breath, my feelings seeming to choke me as I try to breathe. I’m free. “Are… are you ok?” A voice broke the silence, causing my blood to run cold. I whip around to find the voice, only to see a young woman standing off to the side, dressed in a thin white gown, her dark skin gleaming in the moonlight. I quickly stood, sniffling and wiping the tears that had trickled down my cheeks. “I can leave if you want,” The woman offered, throwing her thumb back in the direction she must have came. “Just wanted to make sure you weren’t hurt or somethin’… it wouldn’t look good on my record if they found someone injured on my property.” She laughed at her own joke, shifting to lean more on her left foot… odd is the first thing that came to mind the longer I stared.

Example of GOOD paragraphing:

As I stared up at the moon, a giddy feeling building in my chest that I hadn’t felt in years, I couldn’t help but think; ‘They can’t reach me here… No one can.’

I took in a shaky breath, my feelings seeming to choke me as I try to breathe. I’m free.

“Are… are you ok?” A voice broke the silence, causing my blood to run cold.

I whip around to find the voice, only to see a young woman standing off to the side, dressed in a thin white gown, her dark skin gleaming in the moonlight. I quickly stood, sniffling and wiping the tears that had trickled down my cheeks.

“I can leave if you want,” The woman offered, throwing her thumb back in the direction she must have came. “Just wanted to make sure you weren’t hurt or somethin’… it wouldn’t look good on my record if they found someone injured on my property.” She laughed at her own joke, shifting to lean more on her left foot…

Odd is the first thing that came to mind the longer I stared.

I know many would agree that bad paragraphing deters Readers. It’s definitely deterred me anytime I click on a story and see that kind of mess-

3.) Having a few chapters pre-written before publishing your story is also a good habit to get into when writing a story. I myself like to have a few chapters written before I even consider publishing any story, because it helps you not to stress for a bit when you do publish your work, and helps keep you on top of a schedule if you have one.

It can also help with coming to a conclusion on whether or not you are genuinely interested in what you’re writing, or if it is just one of those things that you put a few chapters into before running out of ideas or motivation… because I may or may not have quite a few of those laying around in my Google docs collecting dust-

4.) Make sure you have at least some plot fleshed out before publishing the first chapter of your story. This goes along with my advice to have a few chapter written up. Trust me, it’ll make your life easier in the long run, because you’ll have the direction you want to go already in mind.

5.) When it comes to actually writing a character, whether it be an OC or a Reader-Insert, make sure to give them personality and flaws. Whatever you do, don’t fall into that hole where the OC/Reader is perfect at anything and everything they do, it can ruin the story or make the character seem hallow.

Whenever I write a character, I usually make them a hardass/badass with a couple cups of anger issues and a drizzle of soft spots added into the mix. That’s my writing style for the most part.

Flaws/habits are also important to writing a character, for example; I usually give my characters flaws like drug abuse, substance abuse, and anger issues. BUT! You don’t have to go that heavy on the flaws like I like to do, you can keep it light or simple or anything you want, like a nervous habit of someone clicking their jaw bone, chewing on their nails, cracking fingers bones, drumming fingertips on surfaces.

6.) If you’re writing in Character A’s perspective, but hit a spot where you can’t think of anything to write, just change the perspective to Character B and see how things are looking from there. This little snippet of info has saved me more times then I’m willing to admit.

Don’t be afraid of switching perspectives, it can help cure writer’s block and also give your Readers insight into another character’s mind that they might have missed or didn’t know. You don’t have to stick to one perspective per chapter!

7.) Write down your ideas the moment you have them! It never fails that you’ll be daydreaming or suddenly have a way to further the plot, and you say you’ll write it down later and that you’ll remember- but whatever you do, don’t trust yourself with something as precious as story ideas! Your brain will fail you in your time of need!

8.) Don’t be afraid to have multiple stories going at once, sometimes it helps get the creative juices flowing, but make sure you can keep up with the demand/stress of it before doing so. Sometimes it’s best to only have one main story and maybe a side story to mess with so you don’t end up getting tired of just writing the main story.

You can write as many damn stories as you want! Just make sure you know your limits and don’t stress yourself out!

Hmmmm, uh… I can’t think of anything else at the moment… if you have anymore specific questions about something, don’t be afraid to ask!

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#GodHasLeftTheChat

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Happy halloween!!!

mygoddamnnotificationsdon’tworkforshit-

bUT HAPPY LATE HALLOWEEN! 🎉 🎃

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Me, trying to explain that himbo doesn't mean stupid hot guy with muscles for brains:

"So, imagine Kronk, you like him yes? He is really smart, have a lot of skills, does that scout thing, talks to squirrels, and even works with Yzma, the (former) adviser to the emperor, and is actually a true nice guy, just he has some bad luck with, well, everything!"

My husband, who hates the term himbo with a burning passion:

"So you mean that Kronk is a dude who has rolled really high stats on his character sheet (we got derailed a bit with that Kronk managing to roll a 21 with a d20 due to it chipping and it lands on 20 with the 1 next to, but I digress), with a lot amazing skills... but almost everytime he rolls a natural 1?

Me, who gets super happy that he finally got it:

"Yes!! That's exactly what I mean!!"

Me proceeding to vibe with all the rolls he failed in all the movies, having a grand time on the drive home.

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(I meant a trans man, masc is just a term I use for myself) Ouch, as a trans guy myself gotta say that's a whole new level of pain having your idenity ignored and questioned sucks. Thought heather would at least respect Someones pronouns, idk why but damn. Skelebros being okay with Heather's 'accidental' misgendering like damn that's your ex friend 👁👄👁

Yeah, there is no limits for Heather. If she hates you, she��s gonna hurt you in any way she can! Even if she isn’t transphobic, if she sees it at as a way to hurt you, she’s going to hit you where she knows it hurts.

And as for the skelebros, they tried to correct her in the beginning whenever she misgendered Justice, but it became one of those things that happened enough times that they kinda just gave up on correcting her. Which was not the right thing to do, but they believed that Heather was just that fucking forgetful and let it be.

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Chapter 5!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33862123/chapters/85747918

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What are masc justice, and schrodinger like/ what do they go through compared to their og counterparts?

(Sorry if I got this wrong, but I’ve never actually heard the term Masc before, and I was getting mixed results when I looked it up- like, some were saying it meant ‘someone who is male’ and some said it meant ‘someone who acted masculine’… so I took it as it meaning Trans Male. 👀💦💦)

Masc Schrödinger no different from Og Schrödinger in most aspects. They both used to be like (Y/n), they were both forced to make a choice that would be key to their survival, and they both have to fight for their life in the Underground. Age, gender, sexuality, species, it all means nothing in their Universes. It’s Eat or Be Eaten after all- but, the main difference is that Masc Schrödinger would have a small, tinny tiny sliver of ease in (Y/n)’s presence, because she accepts his pronouns and who he is- and maybe, depending on the Universe, (Y/n) might go by he/him pronouns as well.

Masc Justice… his life is made 10x harder then Og Justice… Heather has fucked up his life to a whole new degree. She’d deliberately go find every anti-LGBTQ person/monster out there and spread Justice’s name like the plague, forcing him to have to be careful anywhere he went because he’s now a known target for those groups, but he can’t get any charges to stick, because he doesn’t have any real evidence that it’s her sparking all this shit. On a smaller scale, when Masc Justice still lived with everyone, Heather would purposely ‘accidentally’ use the wrong pronouns and call him everything but the ones he used, degrading him, and making him wish he had never came out as trans… all of this going on without Classic or his brother noticing… and even after he moved out and into a different area, he still feels so nervous and uncomfortable sharing the fact that he prefers to go by he/him pronouns to anyone, because of what Heather had done, and the fact that no one but Mutt defended him…

… but at least he has Mutt…

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Do the lil lad dance

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Ur boi is lit-

pass the boof ralsei

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I keep on trying to draw heather but I end making her too pretty =_= but I guess you gotta be pretty to be a master manipulator huh

That do be true- and Heather is by no means unattractive. After all, it is her main weapon asides from her body in getting what she wants, because she knows she’s pretty-

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deltarune chapter 2 is free

iT IS?! WELL SHIT-

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Have you played deltarune chapter 2?

I haven’t, actually! I haven’t found the time yet to sit down and watch a play-through or to buy it! But hopefully I will soon! I’m really excited for it!