Writing-shit-ig - Who Fucking Knows

Me, writing something at 1 am: Omg I'm literally a genius this words sound amazing I ate totally whith this one omfg

The writing:

"Some days, writing feels like unlocking the universe's secrets; other days, it's more like forgetting how to spell 'the.'"

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

Tiny Tip #1

While writing your project for these writing events, if you find a mistake or want to re-word something, instead of the backspace button, consider using Strikethrough to remove scenes, lines of dialogue, etc, followed up with the corrected or shortened line.

Say for instance you're writing a description of something, and your main character remembers a previous encounter they had with x object, but on getting a bit further into your document, you glance up and reread that paragraph, and decide to remove the line where the character thought in too-much-detail about what the previous x looked like.

Instead of deleting the line entirely, use Strikethrough to mark the line off, and keep on writing; once your first draft is done, when you start re-reading your novel through from start to finish, you'll be able to see what you originally wrote, what you replaced it with, and be able to make a clearer decision when you decide to edit.