Tips For Writing Those Gala Scenes, From Someone Who Goes To Them Occasionally:

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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Writing Description Notes: Thoughts/Thinking/Focusing/ Distracted

Updated 10th July 2024 More description notes

Sitting up right against his pine tree just to get his thoughts in order

A thousand thoughts raced around his mind at once, more questions than answers flooding his inner thoughts like a tsunami.

John exhaled slowly, eyes shut as the world around him dissolved into his own thoughts.

Her brows softly twitched, her eyes alone holding so many ambivalent emotions.

The gears in Jane’s head warped for a moment, her face twisting adorably as she thought long and hard.

The cogs in his head could practically be seen turning.

His face twisted adorably for a moment, she could see the cogs turning in his brain.

The cogs turned and turned, eventually clicking into place in his mind.

The cogs in his clever mind began to spin at an alarming rate.

She could see the gears spinning behind his eyes.

How pragmatic he truly was. No posturing, no comebacks, just quiet concentration.

Listening and focusing, not allowing himself more movement than breathing.

Jane’s train of thought came to a screeching halt as a movement within the gazebo caught her eye.

Though he was giving the same nonchalant stare he always gave, a marathon of thoughts were running through his head.

Thoughts plagued his near sleeping mind.

The trees in the foreground suddenly became very interesting.

A slew of thoughts set off in John’s head.

Her mind ground on the troubling information.

Constantly replaying the last few days he’d spent with Jane, like his heart wanted to remind me of all the pain he was going through.

There were no thoughts, no distractions, no outside noises leaking in – all that mattered was this strange moment of an alluring instinct happening.

What was Jane doing stealing his thoughts and distracting him from his larger problems anyway?

Past scenes played through his mind at the speed of sound.

The television sat in silence in front of him and he wondered if he should turn it on to have some kind of noise to keep the dark thoughts at bay.

His mind and heart were at war within him.

Her thoughts got completely derailed.

The alcohol wasn't enough to keep the swirling doubt from seeping into John’s mind.

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And that's it! For Now!!

Thank you so much for reading and i hope it comes in handy for any of your wingies needs :3 This took me... a While, more than it should've, but is finally here! And maybe i've been slacking a little on the tagging for this blog specifically, but i recommend besides reading all of this, to go check my Guides tag, as i'm missing a few little things here and there that i couldn't for the life of me find a way to explain, and i've already re-done this Way too much for my liking o(-(

But you can also just go around this blog to get some inspiration :o I got a Lot of different wing styles here, and again i gotta go back to tagging (and fix my blog web theme, don't worry about it—) but other than that, you're free to explore this lil blog of mine

Two last things—First, i did all of this for free, i want it to reach as many people as possible (which is why soon-ish i'll translate the entirety of it to spanish and add image descriptions to both versions, i need a break....), but if you liked this enough and would like to leave a lil' tip on my kofi (@/rainbowpinyata), i would appreciate it a lot... Second, my inbox is always open if you or someone you know is in need of a more in-dept explanation on any of the parts of this, as i had to resume most of the info, or just needs a little bit of advice. I'm gonna explain wings Much more than i already have on the next part, but that... is going to take a bit, so...

Anyways, many thanks to my friends for always being there for me, i don't think i would've gone past the first draft or the many others after that without their encouragement, suggestions and general help with keeping me going. It means everything to me.

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I'm not dead! wow!! I wanted to do more of these cuz I wanna see the twins interacting with their like step-siblings but I've been busy lately and wanted to get these cute ideas out already, I did get very carried away coloring that last picture, I had fun!! X3