Shipping Week Interest Post

Shipping Week Interest Post

Hey everyone! I'm currently in the middle of hosting a shipping week for one of my other fandoms and I was thinking that it could be really fun event to do with DISA.

The idea of a shipping week is that that host posts seven prompts and a date for the week to start. Ideally the fandom would be given at least a month to create fanworks (fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, ect.) of that couple(s). Then during the shipping week everyone would upload their works for the prompt.

For example, if I wanted to do a Dwetta Week, I would prepare 7 prompts (ie: kiss, forever, chain, yellow, ect.) and a week in the near future (Nov 1-7). Then we would all work for the month and on the 1st, we would all post our work for kiss.

Hopefully that makes sense.

I think it would be cool to do a general DISA Couples Week so that we can use Baldric/Hexcela (do they have a shipping name? Heldric? Bexcela, I like Bexcela?) or any crack-ship that our little hearts desire.

icebreaker / nathanstassie headers. please like or reblog if you save.

Don't be afraid to jump ahead in your story.

I was struggling with this scene, a rather gruesome, exhausting scene. I get to a point where the scene's point is made and then what's left for me to do is to write the set up for a narrative shift in the scene. This set up is what's known in filmmaking as "shoe leather": the mundane actions (sitting down, saying "goodbye" on the phone, walking inside a room) that don't provide much to the story besides them being things that the characters do to get them to the juicy stuff.

I was not looking forward to chewing on that shoe leather until I got an idea:

why not just cut that boring stuff out and jump ahead to the things people actually want to see?

And so, that scene was divided into two, and a little time jump where the shoe leather would have happened was placed in between scenes.

As everything, this tool is a case-by-case thing, but just knowing it's there can help remind ourselves of a couple of very important things that are often forgotten when we're so cycled on our writing:

Not every single thing needs to be spelled out, the audience can infer a lot of things with enough clues.

Giving screentime to a thing is giving importance to that thing; is describing the way they open a door relevant? Only you can know.

You're here to write what you want to write. Some parts (action scenes, my god) will always be a bit more of a slog, but the important thing is that they lead to your enjoyment of the whole work in the writing process, which quite likely will lead to the audience's enjoyment in the viewing.

Observation

You’d think that Knight Rider fans would be on a spectrum like this:

But, (regrettably), it actually looks a lot more like this:

i love going back to the beginning of a piece of media with the full weight of knowing how it ends. you see characters get introduced and it’s literally like

[id: the ‘they don’t know’ meme edited to say ‘they don’t know the profound and life-changing effect they will have on each other’. it shows a simple drawing of a guy with a party hat standing in the corner of a room, looking at two couples who are happy and dancing. the guy is edited to have shiny, tearful eyes. end id.]

"Are you okay" NO. THERE ARE LITTLE FICTIONAL BITCHES IN MY HEAD. AND THEY'RE KISSING.