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Relationship status:
( ) single
( ) dating
( ) married
(x) still waiting/hoping/wishing for AO3 comments
Now waking up early feels disheartened ;
Cause sunrise still carries your essence a little.
It used to be you and the sun ;
Now, it's just me and that half moon.
yeah. post it!
There are a lot of folks who don't understand what kind of slog it really is. They think all the work is done once you write the sucker.
Should I make a post about the process of getting a book published? I was at a writers society meeting the other day and I found out nearly no one in the room knew even where to begin with publishing
So, I don't want to insinuate anything nor create problems, it is a genuine confusion but it's like the fifth time I've searched for incest in some AO3 fandom just out of curiosity and most of the results are in Mandarin Chinese.
Is it some kind of challenge?
Julian Durchdenwald
Pen name: J.D. Greenoak
Nickname(s): Jul/Ian
𓆙: Coffee☕.
𓃠: Capricorn♑.
𓆙: INFJ-T [Advocate].
𓃠: Germany🇩🇪.
𓆙: Guitar🎸.
𓃠: Winter❄️.
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Hi, good day to you all. My name is Julian, but you can call me Jul/Ian as captioned above. Fun fact, I am currently working on 14 novels already and another fun fact is I have only started two out of those fourteen novels for this year.
Anyway, with that aside I hope you are all here to see my growth as a young student writer into an author. Haters can fuck themselves, ahem; pardon my french @juliuscorbin.
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Collaboration with:
Meet Jove, he is like a family to me and is quite the emotionless, cold, stoic yet respectable and the most gentlemanly man I know. And hey, not only that he writes great poems and is one great poet who plays the piano too.
beauty. the bit of dirt on my window seal. the leaves on the ground and the wind that blows them about. the random beads scattered on my floor. the plushness of my blanket against my skin. my eyes as I look at the world around me, taking in every detail.
the sun that everyone claims they cannot see into it. they only look at it when it arrives and leaves, but they forget its beauty throughout. as if its brightness is too much to bear, so its warmth is what we take in and appreciate. strange.
beauty is appreciated when it is convenient.
Giving Your Character the Introduction They Deserve
The simple directness of Neil Gaiman
Shadow’s Introduction from American Gods
I think the way Gaiman introduces Shadow is just near perfect.
“He was big enough and looked don’t-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time. So he kept himself in shape, taught himself coin tricks, and though a lot about how much he loved his wife.
The best thing — in Shadow’s opinion, perhaps the only good thing — about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he plunged as low as he could plunge and he’d hit bottom. He didn’t worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
In the opening page, Gaiman describes:
Shadows appearance.
Shadow’s passion.
Shadow’s Mentality.
I think the way Gaiman introduces Shadow is just near perfect. It’s nothing too flashy and Gaiman just comes out and states “Shadow loved his wife.”
Now you try! Emulate shadows intro. What does your character look like? What is his passion, how do they think? Write two sentences about each and mold them into a paragraph. See how it turns out. What? You already have an agent?? Good job.
Bod’s Introduction from The Graveyard Book
“Bod was a quiet child with sober eyes and a mop of tousled, mouse colored hair. He was, for the most part, obedient. He learned how to talk, and, once he had learned, he would pester the graveyard folks with questions”
From this we have.
Bod’s appearance. (Sober eyes/ mouse-colored hair)
Bod’s actions. (Obedient)
Bod’s mentality. (He loves to ask questions and learn about the world around him)
Again, three characteristics all rolled up into a direct introduction.
It’s ok to be direct with appearance, but show how your character thinks when you are introducing them. It can be as simple as, “so and so loved to ask questions.“
Richard Mayhew’s Introduction form Neverwhere
“The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.”
If you don’t see that pattern yet, then I’ll tell you. Neil Gaiman is simple and direct. This is really all we need to know about Richard: “He was not enjoying himself,” because once Neil contrasts Richard’s mood with the scene (they are in a bar celebrating), then we get an idea of what type of person Richard is. So the advice from Neverwhere is:
Be direct
Contrast how your person is feeling and thinking about to what is going on around him.
Final Thoughts:
It’s ok to be simple. It’s ok to tell.
“Bod was a quiet child.”
“Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.”
“[Shadow] kept himself in shape, taught himself coin tricks, and though a lot about how much he loved his wife.”
Here are some examples I wrote just now:
The thing Susan thought about the most, was how she was going to die.
Elliot liked to punch people in the gut. Elliot was an asshole.
Woah, slow down there Neil
More!
How to tackle the middle of the book - 4 tips from Neil Gaiman Novels
I just love my ocs relationship
I mean, I'm always down for enemies to lovers but whatever profound hatred and honest disdain they have for each other's very being that will eventually turn to the sweetest, most kind type of love Amalie and Khaos have going on?
That shit is making me go FERAL
REAL
Like, bro, we’re not all furries, we’re just trying to make you have a better reading experience than
‘Yells’ and ‘says’
ALSO these terms are EXCELLENT characterization opportunities for showing the reader the relationship between characters
So, no, it’s not furry speak
I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.
have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.
Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.
Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.
Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.
It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.