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I loved it so much ❤️ Really cute with a lot of the main ships ❤️ Tendou is so cute uGh

I HAVE THREE RECS, TWO BY THE SAME AUTHOR - xXvintage_goose_incognitoXx wrote Five Nights at Satori’s (which has a bunch of pairings, BokuAka, UshiTen, IwaOi, KageHina, TsukiYama, KuroKen, DaiSuga, AsaNoya and LevYaku) and Fifty Shades Of Hey, a BokuAka fic! There’s also a fic called His Starless Sky by MerrilyAround, and it’s Tsukishima/Kuroo/Akaashi/Bokuto. I recommend these three totally!!!

Thank you so much for the recs!

Note: For tagging purposes, I'll be linking all these fics separately. Hope yall don't mind

Five Nights At Satori's by xXvintage_goose_incognitoXx

Completed | T | 84.1k

The skeleton of a plan was starting to form in Tendou’s mind, and he grinned as evilly and crazily as he could, which was borderline Satanical. He had an idea. And if he knew all these people as well as he did, which was well enough, it was going to work. They wouldn’t have a choice. They were going to confess their feelings or they were going to die. Tendou let out a maniacal laugh, making Ushijima look up. “How does Shiratorizawa feel about running a haunted house?” - - - - - - - Tendou Satori is tired. He’s tired of everybody’s pining. Tired of their complaints. Tired of their whingeing that ‘their love is unrequited’, that ‘it’ll be awkward’. Whether it’s the little shrimp from Karasuno or the setter who really should’ve gone to Shiratorizawa, almost everybody Tendou knows is in love with somebody who loves them back, and yet they do nothing about it but whine. He’s tired of it all, and he is going to do something about it. He has a plan. He’s going to gather every single one of them in one place. And then Tendou will use force.

Five Tips for Running a Circus (Handling a Large Cast of Characters)

Have you ever tried juggling? I have, and I’m terrible at it. To be honest, sometimes writing with a large number of characters can be a lot like juggling. As the author, we need to keep one character’s story moving while keeping all the others in the air, too. This can be really tricky. So how do we do this?

Make each character count. When you are creating your characters, ask yourself how important this character is to the story. If you definitely need them and they are big enough to be named, then make sure you treat him or her like any other important character. Make the character relatable, engaging to the reader, and have an emotional connection. Give them a specific job or purpose to the story.

Take your time introducing new characters. Not only will this help the reader to keep your large cast straight, but it will also help them to forge that all-important emotional connection to the person (or creature or object etc.). Try not to introduce them all at once. It’s overwhelming and doesn’t help your story. If it feels like you have no other way to introduce them, try asking for an outside opinion (Beta readers).

Focus on a few. I’ll come back to this a little in the last point. Basically, make sure that you are still focusing on your major characters and not becoming side-tracked with all the other characters. Also make sure that you are spending the most time with these characters… don’t stay away from them for too long (30-40 pages without one is too much). If you don’t have enough to say with that character, it might be an indication to downgrade them to minor.

Be careful with naming. This is true regardless of the number of characters in your story. I once named a pair of twins Garan and Gwylan (in my long ago high school days) only to realize that they were almost impossible to tell apart. And they needed to be identifiable. Another example was in my current query, I had two groups of djinn: the Candrima and Candrani. I couldn’t even keep them straight, and I wrote them! I ended up cutting the name for the Candrima. But this same principle applies especially here. If your characters’ names are too similar, they will become indistinguishable from one another and only serve to confuse the reader and slow the pace.

Be careful with how many POVs (points of view) you use. While it may seem like a good idea to let every character have their fifteen minutes, it’s not. Too many points of view can be frustrating and confusing to the audience. This is especially true in young adult and younger stories, where publishers often encourage authors to stick to two or fewer major POVs due to the age range of the intended audience. Check into how many are typically acceptable in your genre and age range. And remember, authors like George R. R. Martin can be exceptions to the rules, so learn what is expected so that you are able to decide whether to stick with it or break them with intention.

So there you have it! Five tips for juggling large casts of characters. That being said, how many of you are struggling with this? How many of you are writing many characters in your current work? I’d love to hear about it, so send me an ask or reblog with comments!