Plot Twist: My Main Character Is Actually Just Me With Better Hair And More Dramatic Life Choices

plot twist: my main character is actually just me with better hair and more dramatic life choices

Scratch that, I think I just needed to drink water. The tree was nice tho, 9/10 would recommend.

brb gonna go sit in a tree and look at the sky until the wind blows this sleepy fog from my mind.

Some small details for a character learning sword fighting for the first time:

- sore wrists

- blisters on hands

- every movement opens you up to be hit

- they will hit the tops of their arm and own sides with the sword while learning

- there is a primal sixth sense when you know you’re being toyed with

And, for your typically nonviolent characters.

You don’t aim for the swords. You aim for the person holding the sword.

It sounds so obvious but needs to be accepted. Actively. When holding a sword you have to understand you’re attacking another person. Even to block you have to aim your blocks at the other person or they won’t be strong enough to actually protect yourself.

brb gonna go sit in a tree and look at the sky until the wind blows this sleepy fog from my mind.

Hot take: Actual literary analysis requires at least as much skill as writing itself, with less obvious measures of whether or not you’re shit at it, and nobody is allowed to do any more god damn litcrit until they learn what the terms “show, don’t tell” and “pacing” mean.

Started a new job and probably gonna be MIA for a couple Storyteller Saturdays, but THANKS to the two people who sent some! I promise I'll send a few back when I have the brainspace to answer, ask and read them again :)