Yandere! Gonta Gokuhara HCs

Yandere! Gonta Gokuhara HCs

for anon 💕💕 i hope u like these

💚 Gonta doesn’t entirely understand why he loves you, but like hell is he going to let anyone else have you.

💚 He is more of a “please be mine” yandere, since he still wants to be a gentleman.

💚 Always tries to give you a gift once a day, whether it’s a butterfly, or a flower crown he made himself.

💚 He is very conflicted, since his instincts tell him just to mark you as his, but he doesn’t want you to hate him so he just .. acts like his normal self. Except he gives you special treatment.

💚 However though, sometimes he snaps and will absolutely ravage you, marking you as his and linking your souls together.

💚 the man probably has a breeding kink.

💚 also when he ‘snaps’ or whatever hes a HELL a lot more possessive. like not letting you outside possessive.

Brainstorming

Ok, so one of the best tools in your back pocket to fight writers block (or as @starting-today-you-are-a-writer more accurately calls it, story block) is the power of BRAINSTORMING. That’s right, when you beg your brain for ideas and all it does is play the same three lines from whatever song you briefly heard in a store two weeks ago, there is a way to get through it. 

Mind mapping: Grab a paper and a pen and one (1) idea. Put it in the middle. It can be a character, a theme, the tone, conflict, or your trouble spot. Putting “Break out of Jail????” in the center is 100% valid. Now, around it, draw a line and write any words or phrases that pop into your head when you look at your center word. And if you get ideas from that word, draw lines away from that, and so on and so forth, until you may get something like this: 

You don’t have to use all of it, or even most of it. Usually, I end up connecting with one little corner and going from there, but it’s a great way to let your mind move fast over lots of ideas without judgement or our own thoughts getting in the way. 

Automatic/Free writing: This was a concept I learned about in art history, but when i went to research automatic writing, apparently it’s more connected with magic/witchy/psychic people now. My advice is not to ask help from ghosts (unless that works for you), but to let your own subconscious take over. Automatic writing is just writing whatever words come into your head in the order they come in, without letting yourself stop. That could be NONSENSE but it’s also very freeing. More helpful? Keep yourself a topic. So maybe you want to try to write your problem scene without stopping, or writing about your problem scene without stopping. It forces your brain to come up with all sorts of things because you have to be writing something the whole time. Will all those things be useful? No, but I’ve learned a lot about my characters, themes, and overarching plot from exercises like this. 

Others:

Taking a long shower

Taking a walk

Talking over your problem with someone willing to listen

Reading

Art/Dance/Craft/some other creative outlet separate from writing

Making and listening to a playlist for how you want your scene to feel

Watching writertube videos that talk about tropes and subplots to give yourself insperation. 

I’m sure there are a ton more, but these are all my favorites. Remember, writers block, or story block, is temporary and beatable. It all boils down to thoughts we have about our writing, not some magical force that crashes against us whenever our life gets too easy. Gather tools for when it hits, and you’ll always be able to find your footing again. 

Three things you must know for any fight scene

I’m back with more advice! On today’s episode: fights. How to write them? How to plan them?

I’m here to help! Wether your a plotter, a pantser or somewhere in between, here are three things you should establish before writing a fight scene.

1) Who wins?

It seems like fairly obvious advice, but when I was a much younger writer, time after time, I’d go into a fight scene with no plan regarding the outcome. Whenever I felt like the fight was over, I’d end it, and whoever came out on top was the winner, regardless of how it made sense in the narrative. 

Establishing a winner from the beginning allows you to build the fight up in a trajectory that makes sense. Once you know who wins, you can better choreograph the scene to keep readers guessing.

2) What are the stakes?

Once you know who wins, you must then decide what the stakes of the fight are. What happens if they lose? If they win? What is gained or lost? This can vary wildly, depending on what genre you’re in. Sci-fi and fantasy will commonly have world-ending stakes a la Avengers: Infinity War. Romance or contemporary stories are more on the ‘suspended from school’ end of the spectrum. 

Either way, you must know what the fight accomplishes for the characters — good or bad. Not only must you know, but you must make sure it’s known for the reader too. If we don’t understand why the characters are fighting, the fight will be confusing and there will be little to no emotional tie.

3) What are the characters’ fighting styles?

This is more secondary information, but I think it’s important for at least the author to know. Ask yourself: Do my characters have previous fighting experience? Do they prefer one style to the other?

A boxer will fight differently from a wrestler. MMA and Karate do not look the same. If your characters have experience in any discipline, put some time towards researching it so you accurately portray it. Even non-combat sports can impact how someone fights. 

If your characters have no fighting experience, they’re much more likely to be ‘scrappy.’ And no — someone with no combat background will not win against someone who does, unless they have untapped magic punching powers. Keep it realistic. 

Once you’ve established these three things, you’re well on your way to writing a powerful fight that hooks readers in!

As an artist, do you ever get pain in your hands? If so, do you have any tips on managing it?