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Oftentimes when I used to write fanfic, I would feel like I was a kid again, making up neverending stories for my dolls and toys

If you ever think your chapters are too long: don’t.

I once read a fanfic that had a chapter totaling 60k words. A chapter.

You’re doing fine.

Something something twitter trend something something I need to watch Perfect Blue

note to self: in the future, when creating variables, give them names that won't make me go "wtf is this supposed to be" if I ever take a long break

Something something twitter trend something something I need to watch Perfect Blue

i’m researching light symbolism while editing my book and it’s so weird that the healing one is the green light when it’s so often used in movies to depict something evil

I need to stream my writing on twitch or some shit. Nobody would watch but it'd make sure that I don't get too distracted

Life imitates art -

or maybe art imitates life, but in doing that, it became much more beautiful that the original. What are the implications of that? Of course, life isn't bad. It's not always ugly - the world is beautiful, and the things that can happen when human souls meet are truly magical. But life is also raw, unstructured, unpolished. Which you can only say by comparing it to art.

Isn't that crazy? Art can only imitate life, imitate the human mind and the things we can imagine. But in doing that, it has found all the best versions of every moment, and now it can show us how things could be. Every piece of art is perfect, in the sense that it's more perfect than the world it came from - idealized, purified.

Connections between humans can be beautiful - this is only an example. Every kind interaction is pure in its own way. But do we still look at them the same after seeing how they can, literally, become art? All the hidden mechanisms between individuals have been analyzed and pondered for millennia, people have thought and felt, and then they took only the beatiful parts and put them together. Coincidental meetings turn into arcs. Awkward muttered words turn into thought-out phrases. This is how things could be. Is this how things should be?

We have admired perfection for so long that maybe, just maybe, we have forgotten that humans are clumsy, and so is fate.

Being a writer is trying to google things as inconspicuously as possible so you don’t end up on a watch list.

Anyway does anyone know how many pounds of force would be required to break a windshield with someone’s head?

*white knuckle grip on the bathroom sink, through clenched teeth* you write because you love it - because you love it

time to rewrite two whole scenes a few hours before they need to be finished just cause the pacing is weird. fuck me

a lot of times I find myself comparing my writing to people who have been doing this way longer than me. I feel like it’s not good because i’m not at the same level they are, and if i change this or change that then maybe i’ll be happier with my works!

But, everyone starts somewhere. It takes time to find your writing style and even more time to get it to where you want it to be. Just because you feel your writing isn’t as good as someone else’s doesn’t mean you’re a horrible writer.

don’t compare yourself to people who’ve finished the process that you’ve just started !

Alternatives To Using AI Art For Visualising Your Writing

General:

Pinterest boards

Paying for commissions

Finding people online who are already asking for drawing ideas (NOT requesting free commissions from people)

Using your own art

Art swaps if the problem is that you can't come up with the ideas solo

Characters:

Picrews

The Sims

Any other form of game that allows for a good level of character customisation

Interiors/Exteriors:

Minecraft

The Sims

Home design games

Landscapes/Cities:

Minecraft

IRL locations

Animal Crossing

Maps:

Minecraft

Map creation tools online

Spill something on a piece of paper and draw around the outline

In the classic ‘just read the same sentence about 100 times over while editing and now I don’t know what words are’ predicament 😭

I know this is a normal cycle of creativity slump.

I know that having a gigantic event this week is taking a lot of thought process, leaving less for creativity.

I know that this has happened before and has always resulted in creative outpouring happening again.

I know making slow progress is still progress and that's important.

I know there's life stuff going on that's taking up a lot of time and causing emotional stuff, and it's more difficult to balance work life on top of that.

I know all of this, but I'm still worried that I'll never get my creativity back, that writing will be this painstaking forever.

Always the writer, never the reader.

WORLD BUILDING CHECKLIST

If you are writing a book/story that takes place in another world, I have provided for you the complete world building checklist to ensure that you know your world inside out.

Economy A. Currency B. Poverty rate/line

Government A. Crime & Legal System B. Foreign Relations C. Politics D. War

The Land A. Physical & Historical Features B. Climate C. Geography D. Natural Resources E. Population

Society & Culture A. Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation B. Architecture C. Calendar D. Daily Life. E. Diet F. Ethics & Values G. fashion & Dress H. History I. Dining Customs J. Education K. Language L. Gestures M. Manners N. Meeting & Greeting O. Religion & Philosophy P. Social organization

Magic A. Magicians B. Magic and science C. Magic & Technology D. Rules of Magic

Technology C. Technology D. Medicine D. Transportation & Communication you're welcome <3

Fell free to reblog and fill it out if you want. I am curious to see the worlds in my fellow writers heads.

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I really do not understand the culture around authors who post online.

I've been following a lot of indie authors especially on tiktok. it gives me some good insights into how things work for these types of authors and also it helps me find some really good books. But it feels so... dead? People never talk about their characters, or their favourite scenes or make memes about their stories or answer questions about their characters or world. there's no whimsy. Like when I draw my ocs I expect to make jokes about them, and chat with people about them. But that culture seems to be severely lacking around written ocs.

and then even worse authors seem scared to review books. I saw one woman today who said she doesn't even like to say online WHAT she's reading because what if the author turns out to be problematic or she doesn't like the book and then has to admit that.

like girl you are still a normal ass woman. you're allowed to have opinions on books.

Idk it just feels so sanitized and like almost gross how people who write books just have this culture of never talking about the contents of said books and also you're now meant to be this opinionless being who has 0 opinions on other literature. I write cause I love my characters and cause I love stories. why the fuck would I not gush about my characters and review books to my hearts content?!

Billford is so… interesting 👀💛

Artists when they realize the colors look different on other screens

Billford is so… interesting 👀💛

Every piece of dogshit art makes the world a better place to live. Better to create poorly than not at all.

My self-appointed rules for drawing comics:

No pages with only talking. If all the characters are doing is talk, they should be doing something while having this conversation. If that is not possible, there should be something happening in the background - even if it's just a faceless background character spilling a glass of water and cleaning it up.

The illustrations should be clear enough that even a person who can't read the text would have some kind of a grasp of what's going on, and how the characters feel about it.

Every character who is speaking in this panel should be in this panel, unless it's explicitly funny that they are not.

Each character's design must be distinct enough from each other that they can't be confused with any other one from any angle or distance.

Make the characters' body language clear enough that a reader could tell how they are feeling even if their face isn't visible.

Fit the characters around the dialogue, never the other way around. They should be positioned in order of who speaks first, no matter how strange of an angle that must take. A character whose speech bubble is on the left should be on the left of a character who says something on the right.

In both setting and characters, quality is measured by consistency, distinction and clarity. As long as a reader can tell who the characters are, where they are and what they are doing, it's a good panel. A comic consisting of extremely well-drawn individual panels, but where locations and characters aren't recognisable on sight, or are hard to tell apart from each other, is worse than one drawn with stick figures.

In the end, it mostly boils down to consistency, clarity, motion and emotion. As long as each individual panel meets those standards, it's good enough. Anything above and beyond that is a bonus, not a requirement.

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.