On Friday Night If Youmacon For The Charity Ball I Went As My All Time Favorite Book Heroine Suze Simon

On Friday night if youmacon for the Charity Ball I went as my all time favorite book heroine Suze Simon from The Mediator, by Meg Cabot. I imagined this was her on a ghost hunting mission when she got an unexpected visit from Paul. It was a lot of fun and dreams came true!

types of fic titles

title is a literal description of the story (”5 times x did y”, “first kiss”, etc)

perfect formatting, title is evocative of the story’s main themes

song lyrics

3 feet long all lowercase (overlaps w/ song lyrics)

one word. only one.

title seemingly has nothing to do w/ the content of the story until it gets dropped during a high-tension dramatic scene 70k words in, making you feel like the world meant for you to be born in time to read it

“I’m finally going to write! I have a great idea!”

Large Character Casts: How to Put your Characters Temporarily Elsewhere - The Character Comma

Have scenes with 6+ people and struggle to juggle them all? Here's a list of off-screen things your large character casts can do to disappear for a bit.

I’ve compiled a list of “off-screen” things your character can be doing, for any time you need them to be temporarily somewhere else. With this list comes with a few caveats:

If you find yourself always sending the same character somewhere else to a point where that character never actually gets much page time, are you sure you actually need that character in your novel? Don’t use this an excuse to keep deadweight characters that are 100% unnecessary to your plot, but your heart can’t bear to cut. Either draw them back into the plot as a necessary element, or get rid of them.

This is only for temporarily getting rid of someone—meaning for a short amount of time, and infrequently. It starts to feel weird if your character always happens to be taking their nap when something happens, and if you’re not careful, it’ll come off as lazy writing. Use this kind of thing sparingly.

Sometimes, you’ll need to have a result to their temporary absence. For example, if you say they’re off spying on the bad guy, occasionally they need to come back with a tidbit of info. Not all of their missions will be a success, but again, it’ll start to feel fake if there’s no point to the spying.

(link to the list)

fandom: omg this fandom is so dead. no one makes new content.

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fandom: sometimes i can still hear their voices…