Writing Advice

Writing Advice

For the love of god, don't write a character being an expert (especially the BEST EXPERT) in anything you don't personally want to research.

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Possibly unpopular opinion based on a post I've seen on a blog here on tumblr: I really don't think it's that difficult to draw sky characters (spirits, elders, skykids) with their canonical skin color. It's not hard to have a POC oc. Or to color your oc with dark skin. Sure the shading may be a bit tricky to pull off (at least for me it is), but it's not difficult to learn how to do it.

I say all this as a non-POC who has a POC Sky oc.

So, I'm writing a fanfiction with OCs and well, it doesn't exactly line up with some of the canon information because it wasn't there before. I know there are AUs and stuff but it's not divergent enough and with new information.. I'm not sure what I should do or make some sort of attempt to change my writing for it

Thanks for your question!  I will say that I don’t exactly understand the question, so if my answer doesn’t apply to your situation, feel free to message me with more details.  But let me see if I understand what you’re asking.

Alternate Universe Fanfiction

AUs are tricky things to write, because you want your creative liberty but you’re never sure how much is up for change – what you need to keep consistent – what’s innovative and what’s lazy.  If I’m right here, you’re saying that you have a few small changes or inconsistencies between your fic and the source material, but not enough changes to declare it an AU?  Or maybe that your changes don’t have a reason behind them (e.g. a canon character is missing but there’s no reason why)?

Either way, I think the solution is to take a few minutes and compare your world (be it an AU or not) and the canonical world, and list out the differences.  Classify them as minor or major differences – focus on the major differences.  If a character is missing, if you’ve changed a concept, if you’ve changed the course of the plot, check these items and make sure you have reasons behind them.  Why did these things happen this way?  Why aren’t these two characters together?  Why is there a conflict in the details?  If you can come up with plausible reasons for everything, then there’s no reason to change anything.  These are your creative liberties.

If you have changed things with no real reason, though, then you might want to reconsider what you’re doing.  If you change singular events (e.g. the second Hunger Games never happened) then it’s an AU – if you change ongoing events (e.g. cutting out Katniss’s relationship with Gale) then you’re gonna need more explanation, or even a preface before the story.  In this example, if Katniss didn’t have her relationship with Gale, she would be a completely different person.  That can be hard to believe for your readers.

The thing that helps me in these situations is that, if I want to change/remove a relationship/character/event, I go back to a particular canon event and use it to change/remove them.  For instance, if I wanted to remove Gale from Katniss’s life before the events of Catching Fire, I could use the Hunger Games as a tool to separate them.  I could say that they’re no longer close because she changed after the Hunger Games, so they drifted apart.  It’s still an AU, but if I can draw it back to a singular pivoting point, then it becomes believable.

I’d like to note a difference, also, between AU and headcanon.  Headcanons are typically non-canon events/relationships/scenes that could technically fit into the canon, while AUs are built on ideas that couldn’t work with the canon.  If you’re merely adding information to a story or universe, you’re building headcanons, and that doesn’t have to be classified as an AU.  You don’t have to actually build an alternate reality just to add in your personal ideas.

So to sum up, if I’ve answered your question at all: try to make your ideas align with the canon, and if you can’t, draw your changes back to a single event.  If you’re only adding to the story, it’s headcanon and doesn’t need to be labeled AU.  If you’re subtracting/changing lore, characters, or events, it should be labeled AU in the summary with a brief explanation of the changed events in a prefacing author note.

If none of this was what you’re looking for, hit me up with another ask or a DM and I’ll do my best to help!

If you need advice on general writing or NaNoWriMo, you should maybe ask me!

Ah yes, angst and my character craving parental affection, a little bit of a Stockholm syndrome add into the mix. She kind of having a mental breakdown i guess?? Idk, i just winged it.

OMG THAT SOUNDS GOOD

Putting them in amongst my headcannons

Thinking about sky cotl's equivalent to mlp's "everypony" being "everylight". Considering skykids have a mental connection with all light creatures, I think it would be cool. Imagine a skykid walking into very dark cave and going like: "Hello? Is anylight here?"

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