Thanks For The Tag, @louwhose !

Thanks for the tag, @louwhose !

here's a sentence (well really 2) from chpt 18 of my fic I'm working on atm.

The two women looked over at the two teenagers brushing hands as they walked. They shared a knowing smile, reminiscing about young love when they spotted the knight and princess taking each other’s hand, interlacing their fingers together. 

I'm just gonna tag some other disa loving peeps but no pressure! @precariousrelic @xqueenybee, @psychicbluebirdmiracle

Last sentence tag

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

thanks for the tag, @bahbahhh!

here's some shink I've been working on I guess

They decided that they really couldn’t justify paying for yet another game on their poor stretched college student budgets, so they just headed back to their apartments afterwards.

oh dang it I don't even wanna count how many words that is let's just go with no pressure tags for @linktheacehero @aheavenscorner @whogirl2011 @pikayay213 @pastelsandpining and. um. whoever else wants to I can't think of anyone else off the top of my head.

so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

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BREAKING NEWS: Writer discovers for the millionth time that they can write whatever they want. Join us now to see if the lesson will stick.

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.

Oh my gawd if that isn't a feel... can't tell you how many times that's happened to me.

What I hate about writing is when I have to write so much before I finally get to the part I actually wanted to write.