anavkour

[anavkour]

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

#submissions

[anavkour]

#'you can't know if a gun is loaded or not until the trigger is pulled' #schrodinger's gun goes hard

[anavkour]

i've been thinking about Combustion in Slow Motion lately so I'll bite! I don't have a formal WIP anything up for it yet (or, at least not one that's sorely outdated), but the general premise is:

our protagonist is Mega Phang, a early 20s pyromancer in an urban fantasy setting who works at a magical supply shop. they also help the shop owner run an illegal cursebreaking business out the back but shhh it's under the radar don't worry about it.

Mega also has also nothing against trespassing/breaking and entering uninhabited places, so they do a lot of exploring abandoned property or swathes of privately owned but unoccupied land/forest/etc. sometimes they find cool magic objects, sometimes they find things for the shop, sometimes it's just cool. they're doing a lot of fucking around

they find out, however, when they break into an abandoned manor they find in the woods and accidentally release this demon trapped in a sword and become blood-bound to him. whoops!

our demon friend (kuda) doesn't really want to be here either. but he's here, and the rest of the narrative follows the shenanigans that happen when you accidentally form a blood pact with a demon in a place where demons aren't supposed to exist anymore but people definitely know what they are.

there's also a plot that i have very vague ideas about that involves a string of extremely powerful curses that Mega, Kuda, Mega's roommate (Milo), and the shop owner (Rin) investigate with the help of a PI-turned vigilante (Charlie), but i don't super have that fleshed out yet.

medium-wise, it's going to be some form of interactive media (a 2d rpg maybe?), but i started out wanting to make it a novel, so it's writeblr adjacent. i still have a lot of narrative-building to get to so i'll likely be talking a lot about that here + writing some scenes to figure out tone and certain plot points and stuff.

my favourite thing about it is that developing it has helped me learn new skills (i had a bit where i was rotating it in my head as a webcomic, so i did a lot of concept art for it then) and will continue to help me learn even more skills (rpgmaker...eventually)

it’s been AGES since i’ve done one of these so: writeblr! what are we working on?

reblog this with your elevator pitch (and aesthetics/moodboards if you feel like it), link your WIP intros or relevant excerpts you’d like boosted, and i’ll do my damnedest to reblog everybody who responds in the next few days.

(P.S. bonus points if you tell me your favourite thing about it)

#wip: cism #it feels weird to be a writeblr working on what's probably going to end up a game #but i started out in narrative and still want to write a novel someday! this is just where my interest is at right now

[anavkour]

i think it would work as a webcomic, for sure. it's a very visual thing to me, despite hypophantasia woes. but i feel like the story would be way more engaging as something that the reader/viewer/player has to engage with and put pieces together themselves.

i also don't entirely know where the plot of it is going, but shifting to a different medium (medium, not genre, i misspoke earlier) actually frees me up to make the plot a lot more ambiguous OR leave room for various endings and plotlines the player can choose. i'm really on an interactive media kick right now so that's probably why i'm feeling better about this idea right now.

what if combustion in slow motion was an rpg instead of a webcomic. what if i genre jump a third time

#wip: cism #nova.txt

[anavkour]

what if combustion in slow motion was an rpg instead of a webcomic. what if i genre jump a third time

#nova.txt #wip: cism

[anavkour]

WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS

What’s the lie your character says most often?

How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’?

How often do they show their genuine emotions to others versus just the audience knowing?

What’s a hobby they used to have that they miss?

Can they cry on command? If so, what do they think about to make it happen?

What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?

What would you (mun) yell in the middle of a crowd to find them? What would their best friend and/or romantic partner yell?

How loose is their use of the phrase ‘I love you’?

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?

What fact do they excitedly tell everyone about at every opportunity?

If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?

What’s something that makes them laugh every single time? Be specific!

When do they fake a smile? How often?

How do they put out a candle?

What’s the most obvious difference between their behavior at home, at work, at school, with friends, and when they’re alone?

What kinds of people do they have arguments with in their head?

What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them?

Who do they love truly, 100% unconditionally (if anyone)?

What would they do if stuck in a room with the person they’ve been avoiding?

Who do they like as a person but hate their work? Vice versa, whose work do they like but don’t like the person?

What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?

What simple activity that most people do / can do scares your character?

What do they feel guilty for that the other person(s) doesn’t / don’t even remember?

Did they take a cookie from the cookie jar? What kind of cookie was it?

What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot?

How would they respond to being fired by a good boss?

What’s the worst gift they ever received? How did they respond?

What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?

How do they respond when someone doesn’t believe them?

When they make a mistake and feel bad, does the guilt differ when it’s personal versus when it’s professional?

When do they feel the most guilt? How do they respond to it?

If they committed one petty crime / misdemeanor, what would it be? Why?

How do they greet someone they dislike / hate?

How do they greet someone they like / love?

What is the smallest, morally questionable choice they’ve made?

Who do they keep in their life for professional gain? Is it for malicious intent?

What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?

What hobby are they good at in private, but bad at in front of others? Why?

Would they rather be invited to an event to feel included or be excluded from an event if they were not genuinely wanted there?

How do they respond to a loose handshake? What goes through their head?

What phrases, pronunciations, or mannerisms did they pick up from someone / somewhere else?

If invited to a TED Talk, what topic would they present on? What would the title of their presentation be?

What do they commonly misinterpret because of their own upbringing / environment / biases? How do they respond when realizing the misunderstanding?

What language would be easiest for them to learn? Why?

What’s something unimportant / frivolous that they hate passionately?

Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?

Who have they forgotten about that remembers them very well?

Who would they say ‘yes’ to if invited to do something they abhorred / strongly didn’t want to do?

Would they eat something they find gross to be polite?

What belief / moral / personality trait do they stand by that you (mun) personally don’t agree with?

What’s a phrase they say a lot?

Do they act on their immediate emotions, or do they wait for the facts before acting?

Who would / do they believe without question?

What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?

What’s something they’re expected to enjoy based on their hobbies / profession that they actually dislike / hate?

If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?

What’s a simple daily activity / motion that they mess up often?

How many hobbies have they attempted to have over their lifetime? Is there a common theme?

#to categorize

[anavkour]

RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

#ch: micah #if i keep the regen thing he would definitely be like 'it's fine it won't kill me' and ignore it

[anavkour]

kind of! it depends on how long i've been working with the character, and also if i've done any direct visdev for them. so for characters like micah (he has lived and evolved in my head for six years now and i draw him whenever i can because he's my self made blorbo) or mega (the medium i'll be putting them in is gonna be something visual so i've done a fair bit of character design for them.) i pretty much know their unique visual characteristics enough to generally know what they look like.

however. hypophantasia has hands, so the images in my head are pretty fuzzy. i know micah has a lot of tattoos, but what they are and what they look, i still don't know. what he's wearing in any given scene is also pretty hazy, even if i have a general idea of what he would and wouldn't wear.

so, half and half i guess? i usually know what the unchanging parts of their visual designs look like, but what they look like Exactly + how Exactly they're posed/moving around in a scene is very hazy. I think that's part of why I tend to make the face I imagine a character is making when I write dialogue.

okay do you guys know Exactly what your characters look like while you're writing or is it a vibes thing

#not sure if this exactly answers your question but! #nova reblogs #writing meta: visualization

[anavkour]

tag that oc that everyone is BEGGING to get therapy

#ch: micah #does it matter that he's been in therapy before? no. he needs to go back

[anavkour]

writing updates:

not nothing! playing around with prompts again, even if i don't really feel like i have enough clarity to focus on a big project right now. my goal of writing 200 words a day has 100% not been met, but every day is a new day and i'm trying my best.

#nova.txt

[anavkour]

it's been a bit! turns out undergoing surgery makes you really tired all the time and you don't have any energy to have thoughts.

however, i've been slowly writing things. nothing specific or that i could call a "project." I got the game bundle for palestine and it had a solo-rpg called A Familiar Witch (it's a supplement of A Village Witch, which I've wanted to play), and it led to some really fun storycrafting! I hadn't considered solo rpgs as a way to just have fun writing something, but now I'm definitely going to use them to keep my writing muscles limber.

I'm also knee deep in rp-server plots + some of us just finished watching tbskyen's The Boss Designs of Bloodborne and we're having Thoughts about it, so again, no specific projects as of late. It feels weird to be trying to resurrect a writeblr and being like "yeah I'm not really like, working on a story or a novel or anything." Still waiting for inspiration to strike, or something. I'm having fun with what I'm doing anyway, which is the important part.

#nova.txt

[anavkour]

gonna open scrivener and try and freewrite some stuff because i'm too tired to learn twine right now

#nova.txt #having formatting thoughts but i have to figure out exactly what the story's about first

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a writeblr kinda-reintro

hey gang. are we so back? perhaps we are so back.

tl;dr, i had a really rough year and a half (probably one of the worst years i've had) and due to a variety of health things, was dealing with brain fog that made it hard to focus on anything. also i changed my writeblr name again so if you don't recognise me, it's gone anavkour -> twentythreecrows -> twentythreecrowswrites -> anavkour again.

i'm trying to get back into ofic again, trying to remember how to make stuff and write stories again, trying to like...live my life again? which feels so weird to say. but i haven't been very creative until recently and i miss it. and i'm about to have an extended break from working because of even more health stuff, so i'll have time and need a routine.

my WIPs have changed a little. i've still got combustion in slow motion going in my head, but i've been doing more worldbuilding for it than anything else. my missing homeworld guys are currently hanging out in a rp server, and i've had some very vague sci-fi thoughts about them. eventually i'll probably find a new, main project, or do some smaller stuff in the meantime, but right now i'm gently getting my very fatigued writing muscles back into gear. most of my stuff is probably going to be in a non-narrative format, at least for a little while, but i want to get back to writing The Rift at some point too, with some big worldbuilding changes re: the factions. man, now i'm thinking about the rift again.....

i'll do a better re-intro later when i have the brain for it but for now, i'm gonna try my damndest to keep up with things here and catalogue my process and stuff. i miss writing and having a creative routine, so hopefully i'll be able to get that back while i'm not working

#nova.txt

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posts that aged like milk

after a very long absence i may be active again

#dealing with life has been a lot lately but i've missed ofic #<- a constant in my life #anyway. getting into writing again but more transformative in style/format #trying my best #my posts

[anavkour]

after a very long absence i may be active again

#we shall see #dealing with life has been a lot lately but i've missed ofic #lee.txt

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Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

#inspiration

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never underestimate the power of telling yourself ‘woah calm down there edge lord’ every once in a while

#ch: micah #clay to micah actually