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Writing Groups After Trauma

If your characters have recently experienced something difficult and you want to expand on the emotions that they feel afterwards, I have a couple of tips for writing realistic emotions after the fact.

During the Event

During the actual difficult event, whether a member of the group has died, been kidnapped, or people are in a stressful situation, people react in ways you wouldn’t expect.

Gallows humor is a great example of this! If people are helpless during a difficult event, the easiest way to cope with it is to make jokes about it. This separates the serious, life-threatening event from the jokes they make.

Expect a lot of praying from religious and non-religious people, quiet panic attacks, and surrealist humor. The people next to your character will become very close with them during this time (even if it doesn’t last after the fact).

Your characters might turn to random topics, like the past (ooh, convenient flashback time!), their plans if stuff hadn’t happened, or something stupid like a funny story they once heard.

Mob mentality, folks. People are fragile during events like this, so if one person has even a semblance of leadership, they’ll listen.

How Do They React?

After the fact, people try to cope with it the way that they’re most used to.

Your characters will be closer to each other. They’ll lean on each other and be personal in ways you wouldn’t normally think of.

Is your character in touch with their emotions? Expect a lot of crying, anxiety, and compassion. These people will recover quickly because they’re able to deal with it by facing it head on.

Is your character cold-hearted and reasonable? Expect a lot of irrational rationalization. They’ll try to frame the situation in a way that it doesn’t affect them. This can separate them from the rest of the group.

Is your character tough and resilient? Expect anger and action. If they have supporting friends, these people are the most likely to fight back.

Does your character already struggle with trauma, anxiety, or depression? They might not process the event until much later. They’ll look fine during and right after, but these characters might deal with severe dissociation and anxiety, even PTSD. Recovering will be a long process.

The Group Together

After a difficult event, people band together in ways you wouldn’t imagine. It’s hard to stay by yourself when you’ve gone through something hard. Your characters will be much closer, and they’ll work on healing next to each other.

Tables turned

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by malikandaltairinahaystack

In a society which began to despise alphas and got rid of nearly all of them and keeps the few remaining ones in pounds and kennels to be matched to their omega mate who can’t make do with a beta, Jimin finds his mate and alpha Jungkook in one of these kennels and takes him home.

Words: 7696, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Jeon Jungkook

Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin

Additional Tags: Alpha Jeon Jungkook, Omega Park Jimin (BTS), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Jimin is in charge, Not your typical ABO, a bit non con at one point so please be safe

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I recently participated to a Bang for the same purpose as you and I had similar fears, especially when my fic struggled in getting the attention of a beta-reader. A pinch-hitter accepted in beta-ing me, so by then I was pretty much convinced my fic was going to be a boring flop.

Then came the artist sign-ups and I got paired with the amazing @penstemon who not only had chosen my fic but also really engaged in the reading and writing process all along. That gave way to a real (and fun) collaboration on Telegram, to amazing art pieces and to boosting my confidence. 

When the BigBang finished, I skimmed through all the fics and art pieces and I can tell you the experience had been fabulous for all 20 of us!

So, do not fear anonie, this can be the opportunity not only for great encounters indeed but also for you to grow as a writer too. You learn to set common guidelines and rules of communication, express directions and tastes, appreciate suggestions you hadn’t thought of that end up being just amazing, to accept the fact that your writing can be influenced by the art and not just the other way round (and isn’t that the best feeling?)

Go for it!

I signed to a Bang on discord (fics will be posted on ao3) and now Im afraid my artist wont like my fic. I know u didnt participate in BB but maybe your followers did? Im afraid to disappoint someone after receiving beautiful art... im not that good, i just wanted to participate in my fandom & maybe meet some friends... idk what im asking, maybe for some words of encouragement? Sorry >.

I haven’t done a big bang before, but I have done exchanges. Even when a gift fic hasn’t been exactly what I wanted in one way or another, I’ve always really appreciated the effort put in and just the fact that someone was willing to put themselves out there and participate in an event. I know not everyone has the same skill levels or tastes or headcanons etc. and I’m okay with that going in. I have no idea what I’ll get back, but that’s part of the fun of it. ❤

You’re gonna be great anon, and good on you for signing up! Now let’s see what big bang participants think :)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Jeon Jungkook, Kim Taehyung | V Additional Tags: alternative universe, Orange picking AU ??, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Kinda, How Do I Tag, Smitten Jeon Jungkook, Light Angst, Happy Ending, Jimin is rich and Jeongguk is poor but they fall in love, Minor Kim Taehyung | V/Park Jimin, Like very minor, jikook - Freeform, jimin’s dad owns a bunch of orange trees and jk takes care of them n they fall in love, lil bit of smut, its barely there Summary:

Jeongguk finds warmth among orange trees.