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Fight the future, behind the scenes pictures

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#they were just goofing around #just two good work pals having a lil fun

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Hello...

It's me.

#i was wondering if #after all these years #tumblrs still a thing

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just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list

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I'm thoroughly flattered by this, truly. I haven't tapped out word of original writing in a good, long while and the idea that anyone is still reading, let alone creating audio content, with anything that came out of my brain is amazing and humbling. Thank you.

Season 8 Drabbles by @lyndsaybones

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Please leave the author a comment if you enjoyed their story 😘

#audiofanficpod #my writing #xf fanfic #audio fanfic

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PSA: Yellowjackets is 1) excellent and 2) shot in Vancouver. So far, I've seen the beach from Home Again, the Unremarkable House, the hotel from Wetwired and I don't know how many of our XF minor character frequent fliers.

I'm driving my husband nuts because I whisper the XF episode name every time I recognize a location or actor.

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#gillian anderson #david duchovny #chris carter #season 11 #tiktok shit

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How I turned an idea into an outline

With NaNoWriMo around the corner, I thought I might show you how I plotted my novel.

This is the story structure I used:

0% inciting incident

0%-20% introduction in the world, ends with a point of no return

20% first plot point: the hero receives his marching orders

20%-50% response to the first plot point

35% first pinch point: reminder of the nature of the antagonistic force

50% midpoint: big fat plot twist that changes the hero’s AND reader’s experience

50%-80% attack: the stakes are higher now

65% second pinch point: again reminding the reader of the antagonistic forces at hand

80% second plot point: the final injection of new information into the story to give the hero everything she needs to become the primary catalyst in the story’s conclusion (no new information past this point)

80%-100% resolution + final conflict + return home

I didn’t make this up. I think it’s by Larry Brooks, if The Internet informs me correctly. Fun Fact: once you pay attention to it, you’ll see this structure everywhere. Just take a look at any Harry Potter book, for example.

These points are the “bones” of my story. Next, I decided what “flesh” to put on them.

I simply made a list of things I like to read about:

Books about books and libraries

Magic

Quirky characters

Intelligent, fast-paced and sometimes silly

So, I combined this list and the structure points into a story that makes sense. Because I don’t want to spoil my plot / I am still to shy about my wip, I will make up a new plot for this post, so I can show you.

0%: The hero does something magical without knowing how she did it. She discards it, because everybody knows it can’t have been real.

0%-20%: We see the daily life of the hero: she is unhappy because all she wants to do is read, but she is not allowed to. She reads in the dead of night and is punished for it by her evil stepcousin. She finds a book on magic.

20% It all clicks together: she can do magic!

20%-50% The daily life for the hero changes. Instead of reading all night, she practices magic. She now loves books even more. She has little victories over her evil stepcousin, but hasn’t won yet.

35% The evil stepcousin finds out that she can do magic and takes away the magic book.

50% She discovers she can do magic without the book.

50%-80% The hero is not the only one who is bullied by the evil stepcousin. Her younger cousin is a victim as well, and he doesn’t have magic to defend himself. The stakes are raised, this is bigger than herself now. The younger cousin also wants to read, so they have several bonding moments over reading.

65% The evil stepcousin hurts the younger cousin, he’s in a coma now.

80% The hero discovers the evil stepcousin could do all these evil things because he knows magic too.

80%-100% The hero confronts the evil stepcousin, fights him off, nearly loses but wins in the end. He gives up and releases his power over the younger cousin who wakes up from the coma.

It’s not the most genius plot ever, but I literally made this up in minutes. So can you! And imagine the genius plot you can come up with if you spend more than a few minutes on it.

Then I calculated how many scenes I need in which part of the story. My wip is a YA or 12+ book, so I want it to contain about 75,000 words in total. I want my scenes to be around 1,000 words long to keep it snappy, so I need 75 scenes.

Scene number 1 (0%) is the inciting incident, scene number 15 (20%) is the first plot point, scene number 26 (35%) is the first pinch point, scene number 37 (50%) is the midpoint, scene number 49 (65%) is the second pinch point, scene number 60 (80%) is the second plot point and scene 75 (100%) is the last scene.

Some sidenotes on the 1,000-word scenes:

That’s more of a vague rule of thumb than a strict rule. If your scene needs to be longer or shorter, make it longer or shorter of course. My wip has some 2,300-word scenes as well.

Having 1,000-word scenes does not mean I have 1,000-word chapters, that would be really short. I will divide my novel into chapters after I’m finished writing my first draft.

For NaNoWriMo, maybe you could write scenes of 1,667 words, so you do one scene per day. A 50,000-word novel has 30 scenes of 1,667 words. Inciting incident is at scene 1, first plot point at scene 6, first pinch point at scene 11, midpoint at scene 15, second pinch point at scene 20, second plot point at scene 24 and scene 30 is your last scene. That’s just an idea, you got to see what works for you.

Then I made up in one sentence what will happen in every scene. For example: “They meet the dragon and he sends them on a sidequest.” Now my outline consists of 75 one-sentence scenes. This way, I prevent the problem of the sagging middle and other pacing problems and I still get to surprise myself when writing.

From those one-sentence scenes, I flesh out every scene into a first draft, using the process I described in my post How I never have to face an empty page when I write.

And that’s my first draft! I hope everything is clear. Feel free to ask me questions if it isn’t.

I’m gonna tag a few people I admire, who I hope are interested. If you aren’t, feel free to ignore me, or message me to take you off my tag list. If you would like to be added to my writing advice tag list, let me know.

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You Only Love Me When You’re Losing Me 3/3

Part 1, Part 2

Post Milagro

She’s dead. Of this, he is absolutely certain. Without forethought, he quickly flashes through the ways that he might join her.

He made this stupid promise years ago, back when she was returned alive, but not quite alive. Under tubes and wires and machines that breathed for her, hydrated her, made her otherwise dead body live, he promised.

Promised, promised, promised that he would never let anything happen to her again if she just came back to him. It was a hopeless promise. He could not keep her safe. And more and more, the thing happening to her, was him.  

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#for the anon looking for these #my writing

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I came across this post One Son fic you wrote in 2018. I know you are stupidly busy (and I hope that you and your family are surviving) but would you ever consider writing a follow up, even if it is next year?

https://lyndsaybones.tumblr.com/post/170849194709/lyndsaybones-post-one-son-she-looks-at-him

Hey there! I actually wrote two more parts to this and named it You Only Love Me When You're Losing Me. It's up on AO3 and I'll reblog both parts for ya. 😘

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I did the thing. Follow me on tiktok for more shenanigans. 👽🖤

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I'm going to be doing an XF series rewatch and posting the recaps to TikTok. Between Covid depression and work and homeschooling, I don't have the creative energy to write fic, but I still really love and want to be able to contribute to the fandom in some way. So, if you wanna see my goofy face and hear what I have to say about every single episode, feel free to follow along!

I did it.

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I did it.

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If I made a tiktok with nothing but xf content, would you'll follow that shit or no?