#because i feel like im just writing filler scenes

[orcelito]

aw fuck okay i just remembered the additional scene idea i had for discacc this chapter

in figuring out what scenes i want for this chapter i have decided to initiate the next step of the Goro Makes Friends agenda. i am looking forward to it

#speculation nation #discacc shit #from what i have in mind rn #scene 1 is lowkey. scene 2 is Something. scene 3 will be Lots of fun from both lmao but also a genuinely good thing for them to talk about #scene 4 is the scene idea that was birthed earlier today & initiates the next step of my agenda #and scene 5 aka last scene is smth ive been looking forward to for a while. so that's fun #honestly none of these r things im dreading to write. so Hooopefully that means it wont take me 2.5months to update again? #i need to actually figure out what i want to do for scene 2 more. that's probably the one im looking forward to the least. #just bc like. idk it needs to actually be interesting. but im not sure how to make it interesting. #i also probably need to make it so it's not too heavy. or else the chapter will feel unbalanced. #it's largely a chapter on relationship development. pretty heavily skewed towards goro ngl lol #though with more akira pov. somehow. #it goes. goro akira aklira goro akira. shaking up the alternating pov a bit this time #just bc. idk that's the way it's shaken out. #i dont want to try to find smth to insert between 2 and 3 because it doesnt ALWAYS have to be perfectly alternating #and idk. it just doesnt Really need to be? #but..hmmmmmmmmmmmm #i Could insert something. it'd possibly feed into scene 3 even so it's not a total filler scene. #and it would Further advance my goro relationships agenda. he'd get four separate Social Interaction Advancements here #hmm. i need to think on this more. #i guess this is just a very Goro Relationship heavy chapter #but hey i went sooooo fucking long having my Goro Makes Friends agenda go undeveloped. #he is finally in the prime position to be forced into friendships. and So It Will Go. #gotta get the development out of the way so that we can go on to the Drama lmfao

[taihua]

tgcf=bad writing (based on that reblog THIS ISNT HATE IM JUST GENUINELY CURIOUS I REALLY LOVE U)

Allow me to elaborate! It's my favorite book so I say this with all the love in my heart for the story and characters, but--

She needed an editor: there are large sections of the book that could have been cut without changing the plot. Like Hua Cheng trying on different outfits during the Brocade Immortal arc... I know fans like this scene, but it's obvious word-padding that doesn't contribute to the story or even contribute anything significant to Hualian's relationship development. See also the endless chapters leading up to Mount Tonglu. Bloated cast and characters not contributing anything significant (why were Banyue and Pei Xiu there except to address the fact that MXTX forgot about them after book 1???) and honestly, there's a lot of boring filler around this point in the novel. Reduce and cut.

Another thing that needed editing: loose ends not being tied up. The Brocade Immortal arc is a disaster, difficult to follow, and has no lasting impact besides Ling Wen being in jail for maybe two pages. It's never explained who created Cuocuo and why and Mu Qing's involvement is handwaved even though his explanation doesn't make sense. Xie Lian puts Banyue in a jar and forgets about her for an entire arc.

The descriptions are severely lacking compared to other danmei novels. I'm not a fan of 2ha but I'm reading it anyway because I love the way the author describes the scenery, the food, the clothes, the architecture... Thousand Autumns also has some of the most beautiful passages describing the cultivation techniques. I'm sure some of this has to do with the translation teams, but TGCF also doesn't really give much to work with? The descriptions of the Ghost City are good, but the rest of the book is just kind of like. "Xie Lian was in a room. He looked around and there was a table." versus other writers who are giving us sentences like "The celadon tea set gave an aroma of jasmine where it sat on top of the mahogany table and when he picked up the teacup, it was cool against his palm." Good descriptive writing engages five senses and I don't feel that TGCF does that successfully. What do we know about heaven except that the palaces are golden?

Anyway, what she does do successfully is making an interesting world with memorable characters, even if most of them don't get the attention they deserve, and she's great with dialogue and humor. Plus the romance is good; it's not rushed and it's believable that Hualian like each other (which you'd think would be a given in romance novels, but some of the ones I've been reading lately don't bother to establish that lmao).

tldr version: too many words that aren't giving us the right info :,I

#anonymous #i love tgcf i really really do but it is a flawed child #my criticisms would decrease by 50% if she gave fx a backstory #jk but like. it's symptomatic of bigger problems yknow?

[bropunzeling]

as someone who also hates (!!!) the editing process do you perhaps have any tips to share? 😿

you 🤝 me

im not sure how helpful these tips will be to you, but here's my two cents:

so you finished your first draft. yay you have a draft! a messy, incomplete one? aren't they all! feel free to coast on finishing for at least twenty-four hours. you want to vibe in the still writing, not editing phase. otherwise i (at least) start feeling discouraged and overwhelmed, instead of pleased that at least i have a starting point.

try to think about the goals of the editing process before you even open the doc. for some fic, it can just be a general spelling & grammar & removing repetition & fixing weird errors check (what's a weird error? one time in a first draft a character finished her beer three times in six paragraphs. that's a weird error). for others, you may need to check that the vibes feel right, or the pacing seems appropriate, or the world building is internally consistent. write down your goals in a notes app note or a comment! that way when you go in, you aren't overwhelmed; you know what you're trying to do

as you do a first pass, don't be afraid to leave shit for later. i constantly highlight sentences or paragraphs or half a scene and leave a comment like, "fix somehow" and then move on. often the way to make it better will strike me ten or twenty or fifty pages later. it's better to have momentum than get stuck on one frustrating sentence.

at some point, you have to stop word smithing. not because every sentence is perfect, but because you're going to annoy yourself if you keep trying to figure out why something doesn't flow right. done is better than good, and if you are planning on using a beta, they might be able to pinpoint the issue

don't be afraid to cut things. put them in a comment and keep it to the side if you don't want to lose the words. half the time you don't need them!

you've finished a first pass! this is generally when i call in a beta for anything over 5k. tell them what you're looking for when they read it over! this time, im probably going to ask things about pacing, relationship development, world building, if there are any moments where something comes across weird and not in a way i intended. sometimes, it's just line editing. you'll know what you need.

you've addressed their edits! my last and final process is something my pal ohtemporas suggested: use ctrl f and look for "filler words" - words that make your sentences less direct and immediate. things like "just," "a little," "still," "feels like". it's going to be mortifying. you don't have to cut them all, either!!!! but you'll be amazed what it does to make you really think about what you're trying to convey

at some point, you just gotta be done. this is fic. it will never be perfect. it doesn't have to be! go forth and hit publish

i hope this is at all helpful!!!! and you don't have to do all of it!!!!! at the heart of it, this is fic, and community, and stuff we do for love (and comments). it's nice to check for spelling and grammar errors (or at least i think so!), but anything else is gravy.

#ask #editing is the worst so i hope this makes you feel better about the process!!

[hearts4juzi]

Why do you think Helluva Boss is better, in terms of writing?

OOOH i have a LOT to say about this.

I think it's a lot less rushed. it FEELS a lot less rushed. And thats not saying its all perfect, it went pretty fast too, but not as fast as hazbin.

For example, hazbin had this big deadline and they had to fit in angels arc, the carmilla/vaggie situation, the heaven stuff, AND charlies shit with her dad. So despite it being a comedy, they had to stuff a LOT of things together, which means theres less chance for filler which means it gets rushed. (bc honestly, it feels less like a comedy and more like an edgy teen humor show BECAUSE they're stuffing the comedy in while rushing to get all the important lore bits in)

so helluva boss feels more like a comedy. they have serious moments, but it leaves space for jokes and humor that dont feel out of place (for example, in the hh finale they kept making jokes that rlly didnt fit? like charlie profusely apologizing to angels who are slaughtering her people? or when pentious died and it was a joke but we were supposed to take it seriously???)

helluva boss has episodes with less emotional baggage in them, like the pilot, murder family, spring broken, and CHERUB, and the harvest moon festival, all in season one. and while they do HAVE emotional moments, theyre not super heavy. then you have episodes that feel like a mix, like truth seekers and loo loo land. and then you have heavy episodes like ozzie's and queen bee. its much more balanced (and im focusing on s1 of hb bc its unfair to pit a two season show against a one season show.)

also also also, and this is smth i complain about a lot, Hazbin Hotel is OBSESSED with making their characters as likeable as possible. unfortunately this falls on characters who DONT DESERVE IT. Like angel dust. When he harassed husk, it was supposed to be humor and funny and whatever, but when husk snapped at him, he was the bad guy suddenly. and angel still never apologized. and im not saying hb doesnt have that issue (ESPECIALLY with stolas) but i think its handled better.

blitzo is a good example. i have complaints about the circus situation, but in the end hes still not a good guy, excuse or not. he's rude, he's nosy, he's dismissive. he hunts his sister down despite her making it very clear she doesnt wanna see him. and he brushes off stolas and even uses him under the guise of a sweet date. in general, blitzo is just waaay better handled than angel dust is.

i also like the villains more? theyre not made out to be a joke as much as the villians in hazbin (per my earlier statement about all the humor being stuffed in) crimson is made to be genuinely intimidating, striker, while mocked a lot, is still a very serious villain, mammon is a big joke on purpose, and it makes sense! and then other antagonists (verosika, one and two, ect) are made out to be funny because theyre NOT big villains, they're just bitches who have beef with imp. the worst villain in hb is, of course, the one woman, stella. but thats a conversation for another ask.

meanwhile the hazbin villains are sooo dumbed down. our most serious villain was lute. adam was a huge joke and relatively annoying at times? like most of what he did was watered down by bad jokes (like killing pentious??? ppl seem to forget adam beat alastor without even tearing his clothes and its because everytime hes on screen theres a terrible joke about to be made) and the vees are just??? eh??? i dont have a TON of complaints about velvette aside from how little she actually did to the point where she hardly feels like a villain? shes moreso just annoying. and then vox hypnotizes people and hes like. evil ceo type shit but thats overshadowed by his crazy ass beef with alastor because again, he didnt do much else. and then val had that stupid scene with vox that i hate so so so so much. hes made out to be funny when he SHOULDNT BE!!! They dont take val's character seriously its weird. ick. and also we didnt have many villains to even go off of? helluva boss gave us lots of characters to work with in season one, and all of them are unique in some way, and had time to shine and will have more time to shine later because the story isnt rushing. hazbin INSISTED on concluding this arc in one season when it really shouldn't have. they didnt have the time to do it, and they tried anyway. helluva boss is better because they gave it TIME. striker is introduced in season one and we KNOW he'll come back because he got away! and he does! and hes great because they gave him TIME to be there and be gone and be there and be gone.

and now he's our most recurring villain. and i think hes awesome. crimson didnt actually have a lot of time to vanish and come back, but hes also new so its a bit different. and he had two episodes in between showing up and disappearing, and the second one had more focus on striker anyways.

i think that while hazbin is a 4/10 for me (5 if im being generous), helluva boss is a 6 or 7/10. the worst part about the helluva boss writing is stolas's family and how the women are written tbh.

tldr: helluva boss is better paced and the characters are better, and hazbin hotel is too rushed and forces these characters onto you

#tzu rambles #tzu asks #tzu rants #hazbin hotel criticism

[pastriibunz]

hheehegegyeye time to get silly about TKWDLM review form

I DO LOOK AT IT!!!! i look at it whenever i want writing inspiration!!! knowing people see my work and that they like it is what FUELS my writing

AND THANK YOU!!!! I didnt realize like so many people would love Kai and her story and km just so very happy people love her :] and the characterization thing makes me just so happy mostly cause im so afraid of making characters ooc HAHDGE

true, true

while writing tkwdlm, I knew that I couldn’t keep every moment from tgwdlm, along with all these new Kai scenes. it’d probably get pretty clunky and and slow, along with some moments not hitting as hard, both from the original show and new scenes. plus, I knew I’d probably only/mostly get people who’ve already seen TGWDLM, so I was sort of relying on that, lmao

as much as I wish I could’ve showcased more Kai and Emma bonding moments, along with all the paulkins bits I lost, I had already slowed down the pacing a lot and didn’t want it to feel like I was just adding in filler moments. but, even with the certain things lost, I think the final product was pretty damn good

EYAGHEGRHE TY :3c

that scene in the original outline was just the infection taunting paul and emma

rereading it, I had realized that that scene was there just to hurt, and i didn’t want that. I wanted the pain to come naturally, not because the moment was designed to hurt

but I still wanted Kai to speak to the audience before curses

and then I remembered: curses was the song Kai was supposed to preform when she got back to Unington!

so, I used that moment to set up the proper implication that that was the case

I love the way that scene turned out! it’s definitely one of my favorite parts of the ending :]

You and me both

HWHEG

thank YOU!!! the reason IM able to make these fanfics is because people like YOU “comment” on them!

im so glad people are able to feel as happy as I did while writing <333

#kai drew #oc #tkwdlm #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #the kai who didn’t like musicals #hatchetfield #kai in hatchetfield #emma perkins #paul matthews #paulkins #< mentioned

[spacedlexi]

hey same anon from yesterday!

first off, good luck with your assignments, Killin myself out here too.

And thanks for the advice! I’m trying to make it canonical while in a modern au, so since this was a mainly S1 part of the series, Clem’s parents + Lee’s wife nonsense still happens, just navigated differently. Different dates obviously happen, some characters are less prominent and others are more (i.e St. John’s useless, or Larry + Lee’s family roles/created)

For the personalities, some characters are just easier to write I think. I’ll never understand the Violet southerner thing, a telltale sight for me is if someone messes that up. (Also basically every story has Minerva as a total asshole so that’s funny)

I tried to implement game lines too, while putting it in modern context! And the end of the day you’re right, it is MY choice, just want to have it look nice. Again, thanks and good luck!

using lines ripped from the game can definitely be helpful, especially if it feels natural in the scene, i would just be careful in not leaning on it too much. adding a twist to it definitely helps. but really try to pay attention to the cadence with which characters speak. theres a rhythm to Everything. do they stutter when theyre nervous? do they use a lot of filler words? do they hesitate at all or do they speak confidently? do they enunciate? stuff like that. if you can figure that out it makes it easier to write dialogue that really feels like its coming from that character. think about the different ways multiple characters may express the same idea. how does it get filtered through their heads and mouths. its less about What the character is saying and more How theyre saying it. believability and all that. to me it feels like pulling off a magic trick

it really is just a delicate balance of behavior and vocabulary. its why i try to cut a lot of slack to writers when it comes to fic. i know its a hard line to walk, and i'll give points for getting Enough right. especially for characters we dont see much of. thats why even tho it annoys me a bit i understand why so many people write minnie as being a possessive asshole and not much else. its why i end up going down the rabbit hole trying to figure out who she was before the delta. like we Know she was a different person, we just dont know much about that person, and the experience/thought process that she had that turned her from the "didnt even like killing walkers" never mind the darkness minnie into the minnie that killed her sister. i find her to be a really interesting character because its obvious she still cares about the ericson group in some fucked up way (sans clem she just sees her as an obstacle to getting them back) and i Do wish that depth was examined more in fics. but maybe im just not reading the right ones

ANYWAY i hope this has all been helpful and good luck with your writing 💕

#when it comes to southern vi i just kinda 🙄 my eyes now and look past it #ive seen it so much at this point im becoming numb to it lol (still dont understand why it happens tho) #i had to stop reading clemvi fic for a while because the way people were writing them #i felt like i was teleported back to 2014 reading johndave fic 💀 i wish i was kidding it was giving me psychic damage. like where am i #incognito #replies with lexi #twdg

[literaila]

hi v! first just wanted to say that i’m absolutely obsessed with your fics. i especially love the way you write banter and dialogue between characters. it all feels very natural and unforced. that being said, i’m trying my own hand as writing but seeing as i’m not great at conversing irl, im having trouble with dialogue. i was wondering if you had any tips? especially for scenes when two people meet for the first time?? anything you have to offer would be so appreciated! love love love you and hope your week has been going well so far!!

- 🎾 (if this emoji isn’t taken yet :D)

ah, welcome to my talk-show where i give advice that probably won’t help!

okay, so, for my dialogue i spend lots of time just talking to myself, and (specifically for peter) i usually put in the stupidest option i can think of. when i can’t figure something out i joke about it, and find an idea in that. sometimes i even put in the jokes cause they’re funny to me. it helps when it’s less serious—i struggle writing serious things, even though i used to write primarily angst.

(if you go back and read my old fics—don’t, i’m warning you—you’ll notice that all the dialogue is pretty stiff. you honestly do just learn by doing, but no one wants to hear that)

i, luckily, think only in words so i just run through what sounds most natural to me—sometimes when i’m reading other things, very well written things from wonderful authors, i’ll catch a line that doesn’t seem very natural to me, but for someone else it might. so take everything i say with a grain of salt.

for introduction scenes your characters are typically going to be more awkward, even if one or both is usually fairly charismatic. because it’s awkward to meet new people. so i add in more filler words (um, uh, well, and, etc.) than necessary because people also talk like that. if i’ve got one charismatic character then i usually make them tell a terrible joke.

also writing about what your characters are doing while they’re talking is helpful, because it helps give the reader an idea of how they’re saying things. also breaking up the dialogue too. body language is its own form is speaking.

and the classic tip of not writing all of your dialogue in the same structure. boring, i know.

but! don’t fret, because you’re your own toughest critic, and while i don’t like some of the things i write, there’s usually someone who does. so someone will like yours too (probably me)

-v

#ask #thank you!! #so sweet!! #i used to struggle so much with dialogue cause i don’t speak very much #(used to as in i still do)

[sunfish999]

The nitty gritty is watering down katara's character so she's just a meek girl ? Your lying If you really think that's the same character. The producers said they would take an axe to the main characters and that's where the show really suffers...also nothing is perfect people like you is why we get stuck with mediocrity

?? I finished episode 5 but what😭 how is katara just a meek girl, i feel like yes she has a little less rage but other than that she shows that shes smart and powerful and her own person? Explain what is watered down i feel like animation usually over-exaggerates facial expressions and voices for the most part, so i’m not surprised that katara has more subtle strength so far, and also the actress has a very kind face, but i think shes still able to show some of that anger. (I havent watched the water master fight yet so maybe thats where you’re talking about, so i cant speak on that)

Idk what taking an axe to the main characters means (like really cutting them apart? Cuz i doubt they would promote a show by saying its gonna be bad but who knows). But i feel like the characters are all pretty accurate with how they carry themselves, of course they’re younger so acting wont be perfect but i think the imperfections are what brings them to life. I know a lot of people hate the writing, i feel like it’s quite similar to the show? (Though its been maybe 3-4 years since i last rewatched it) and some lines especially from something previously animated are gonna sound awkward in real life, which is why generally i believe live actions arent necessary for any animation, though in this case i’m really enjoying just rewatching atla and my childhood be brought to life.

Nothing is perfect: ok i was using perfect mostly because i was very excited about it, of course i know theres things that could be changed to improve it but a lot of those things are impossible (like you cant get an actress thats EXACTLY katara and will make everyone happy, because shes a drawing) but overall, i think the landscapes come close to perfect (i’m just really into fantasy scenes and i think it’s so beautiful and impressive to see things like the omashu supply rail and the air temple come to life. And zuko’s boat looks so awesome and so accurate too.) And i thought the cgi looked slightly silly at first (especially air) but then i realized that we were always seeing drawings of aangs air in the animation which would look even stupider irl so i made my peace pretty quickly.

People like me is why we get stuck with mediocrity… hm. I feel like my opinion probably has nothing to do with what comes out on tv, especially because in this society haters have the real power, and you guys tearing it down are more likely to get it cancelled. I don’t think any production team takes an animated film or show and thinks ‘yea im gonna make this absolutely awful,�� (though i’m really not sure what they were thinking when making the pjo movie, its good as a standalone but they went so off course from the plot…) of course they’re all just trying to fit what they think into the show and express their own opinions, which are ultimately going to be a lot different than some people watching it.

Overall, ok i haven’t watched the og in years, so my memory on comparing each episode of the show to the live action is not going to be at the level of others (which i think boosts the enjoyability 100x over). But as i watch it, i remember tons of parts of the animation, and it makes me super happy that it has the same air as the show, albeit slightly more serious because they can’t fit all the funny filler episodes (if they ever created a live action lost appa episode i would lose it that cannot happen).

Maybe i sounded rude in my original post (i changed it quickly bc it was very angry at first lol) so sorry i know you’re all entitled to your opinion, it’s just i was SO EXCITED and then checked the tag on tumblr only to see that everyone hated it… i always feel inferior to people who really like films etc because i tend to enjoy things that other people hate, (like i really enjoyed the avatar way of water movie even if it was super long, and i know people DESPISED it). So maybe i seem like someone who is satisfied with mediocrity, and maybe i am, i focus mostly on the backgrounds and beauty of movies because im really into art and much less on acting and script (though i can appreciate beautiful characters, i was Blown Away by live action suki and hair down sokka my jaw dropped fr) i agree i am fairly simple to please in terms of this type of thing.

SORRY THIS IS GETTING QUITE LONG IM SURE U WONT READ IT ALL but i hope ur finding joy in life since live action atla is obviously not doing it for u

#avatar the last airbender #atla #JUST MY OPINION #take it all with a grain of salt #im quite bad at wording things sometimes

[wrongcaitlyn]

OKAY SO OW.

will got a little too real in this chapter 😍

THE ANGST THE ANGST AND THE WILL AND APOLLO FLUFF AND NICO BEING ANGRY/WORRIED AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

literally such a good chapter no i didn’t cry haha what are you speaking of????

so besides all of the sadness i have a very strange question but i overthink everything 😭 so sorry abt that, but i was just wondering cause i know nico has changed lyrics in his songs vrs the ones that are the actual irl songs (haunted having the “cause in your ghost right now your house is haunted” lyric instead of the regular ones) (plz tell me i’m remembering right) and this is actually such a nieche thing to think about but my question is because so many songs use the pet name “baby” in them and nico doesn’t seem like the type to use that (do they even have any nicknames for each other in tyt?) so. would he. a somehow just avoid it. b. use a different pet name c. i need to stop overthinking things because the original lyrics don’t all adhere to his songs. d. a secret fourth thing???

hopefully that makes at least some sense!

ty for another great chapter can’t wait until next week :D

HSJSJ im so glad you liked it bc it was an absolute horror to write!! yk sometimes you’ve got those scenes that you know have to happen, and they have to be written *perfectly* and so then you just stare at the doc for hours trying to figure out how the characters work

but on to the question! oh god. this is hard. see the thing is: i think it WOULD be in character for nico to say baby. i think he also says tesoro like in canon, and definitely sunshine, and maybe darling?

the thing is. i, personally, as a person, have a visceral HATRED of the word. and of pet names/nicknames in general. i don’t mind it in music, but whenever i try and write it into the fic, i just cringe and automatically backspace (this has absolutely nothing to do with people who actually use it as a term of endearment i just don’t know how to write it in without it sounding incredibly awkward or out of character)

so honestly, though, i think that nico is chill abt using it in a song, bc i feel like music honestly uses it more as filler? like, if you need to add a persons name, you’re obviously not gonna say their name (unless the song is hey stephen) so they just add in a pet name - most commonly baby

and i don’t think nico would have anything against that - id probably have to look through the playlists to see just how many times songs use the word, but i don’t think it’s that often

anyway my answer is that yes nico uses the word, i think that will started calling him babe at some point and nico just started using baby too but it’s much more rare and likely when he’s very tired/trying to convince will to do something (such as not work)

i think he prefers using something like darling in his songs (or maybe i’ve just been listening to too much hozier but that’s neither here nor there) but he doesn’t stray away from using the word if it fits well

and he probably uses more terms of endearment in real life than i’ve included (though will def uses them more often, and nico probably refrains from using pet names in front of other ppl) but i just hate writing them so much im sorry😭😭😭😭 i CANT i swear i tried to include a babe at some point in talk your talk and a sunshine but like the only thing slightly close to that that i ever left in a final draft was neeks. i can’t write pet names unless they’re said in a sarcastic or insulting mannerHSJDJ

thank you for the ask!!

#wrongcaitlyn #talk ur talk asks

[dutyworn]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN !!!

NAME: Havu

PRONOUNS: they/them

BEST EXPERIENCE: I couldn’t name only one. Generally, whenever muses end up connecting in a meaningful enough way to have full storylines built around them, whatever sort of dynamic it happens to be.

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: Discord, although I will use tumblr IMs if the other person prefers, it’s just not as easy for executive functioning.

MOST ACTIVE MUSE: Wren, hands down, so we’re on the correct blog for me saying this lol.

EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS: On tumblr, 10+. Several years before that on other platforms.

RP PET PEEVE: Not a pet peeve but an actual "I don’t feel safe around you if you do this"; people trying to control what other people "shouldn’t" write. To be clear, setting boundaries and politely asking people who write x content to not follow you is fine. Including fictional content in callout posts or behaving as if you have the moral high ground for not writing x content will get you blocked because that rhetoric is conservative puritanism digested into supposedly leftist friendly form, and I don’t feel safe with that nor do I want that around me. Depictions of bad shit is not the same as acts of bad shit. Also, people not reading rules before following, and on my multi, people not filling out my interest tracker despite it being in my rules, especially people I’m mutuals with on other blogs and then have to unfollow on the multi.

PLOTS OR MEMES: I love both, but it’s easier for me to keep threads going with some plotting, whether that happens before we write or during writing.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: Both. I’d love to get rid of the idea of needing to keep a thread the same length for each response. If your muses are dialoguing rapid fire, it makes no sense to try to write filler for several paragraphs when you need the other muse to respond before moving the story forward; when you’re setting scene it equally makes no sense to try to force yourself to write shorter than what you have to say.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSES: Shepard, not at all. We’re very opposite on most things, and we are different as fuck on all of our core personality traits. I wrote a whole post about our similarities and differences for a munday ask before, here.

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[cryptidclaw]

ik this is relatively irrelevant but i am really curious on how youre going to write stumpytail! in canon, he was abused by brokenstar during his apprenticeship (of which broken was the mentor) and i always thought he stayed in shadowclan after brokenstar's exile and was loyal to them, dying from the sickness or maybe other thing like that? but that seemed to be retconned in tigerclaw's fury (or maybe it just was always like that n i just didnt notice but. i just rlly Do Not Remember him being mentioned as one tigerstar's or even brokenstar's followers in tpb at all. im even almost sure the Only scene he had in it was actually him taking part on the shadow/wind raid in thunderclan camp when they were keeping brokentail as a prisoner so?? huh???) and then he was sent to cat hell alongside his. actual. murderer. dad, clawface, and the cat who abused him when he was a teenager with no real explation as to why

sorry for sending such a long ask abt a background/filler character !! i just love him so so much n wanted to know how youre going to write him as the erins didnt rlly.. do it very well, to say the least (and not only him but the broken n tiger followers in general tbh, they were a super important part of tpb yet we got very little info on most of them. so if u want to use this ask as an opportunity to talk abt them in general too feel free to lol!)

Ough yes,,, I feel like in a lot of ways the Broken and Tiger followers are kinda like the Dark Forest trainees from later arcs...

Like they are manipulated and traumatized and I feel like a lot of them could be redeemable??

Idk how in depth im gonna get in characterizing the background characters like Stump but, I dont think Im going to send many to the DF , they are just victims of Broken, Tiger and the fucked up society that the Orders have :(

I feel like a lot of them probably just followed these guys because that's what they thought they were supposed to do and also they feared the consequences of rebelling.

Then ofc there would be the cats like Vulturemask (Blackstar) who did some really fucked up things because they were fully bought into Broken and Tiger's bs ... I like Vulture bec he did some terrible things, bit i like the idea that he is plagued with guilt for it...

The whole of Shadow and RIver are made up of traumatized and guilt ridden cats tbh (reason #1 that i am mad they didnt get more pov in arc 2)

Though I do think that River and Shadow have a pretty high amount of conservative, xenophobic cats just from their history of leaning more that way politically. Which is also why they are the most vulnerable to being taken over be evil leaders heh... But thats also why so many cats are just forced to blindly follow these evil dudes, they have no choice, bec the majority already agree with these terrible ideals

hmmm Now im just rambling about the Order's political climate :P

#this is very rambly im sorry lol #cryptid answers #cryptidclaw's warriors au #rise of change

[spilledbeans116]

Hii it's me again, here to tell you about how i stayed up all night reading the Princess Saga. I normally don't read long fics (due to never having free time) but, boy, yours got me glued to the screen for HOURS. Everything in it is so balanced, you have fluff, you have angst, nsfw, combat, funny moments, you name it. Absolutely well written! If i wasn't already a fan of your writings, i'd say you gained one❣️❣️ (i don't even feel tired at all tf)

AGDHAGDHAGW IM SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT BUT YOU NEED SLEEP!!!!!!!

But seriously that means so much to me. I know longer fics can be a bit daunting, but I truly tried to make it feel as balanced as possible. I know it’s pretty long but it’s because for over a year it was just something that was for ME. It’s funny because I work backwards; the first scene ever come to me was the ending, and I had to figure out HOW to get there. The characters needed to be developed and it needed to be believable. Sure, maybe I could cut out some filler chapters, but that’s not what I wanted. I wanted everything to feel natural.

I made this account when I was over halfway done with it, and didn’t start posting anything, one-shots or chapters for it, until it was already completed. I read through every chapter before I post to go back, double check, and edit things. If someone does read all the chapters, I want it to mean something. I’m glad that you did think it was worthwhile and that you’re enjoying it because there truly is nothing more I could ask for.

It makes me sad a lot of people might not read it because of how long it is, but for those that stick through, I’m hoping it’s one of the best fics you’ve ever read. That’s a pretty large label though, I’d be happy with tenth best LOL

So, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU SO MUCH! ALL OF YOU!!!!! I hope in the future I continue to do this fandom justice and make you all proud!!!!

#DBZ #DBZ fanfic #beanbag talkie time #beanbag silly time #Vegeta #DBZ: The Princess Saga

[blurbry]

Rambles

Rambling Day 1:    AO3 WARNING!!!! LONG POST AHEAD!            FIRST BULLET POINT!: I have a Pseud now. For when I have the feeling or need to write *EHEM* fics. However I Most likely won’t go into too much detail as said things actually make me flushed sometimes.(While I’m Not repulsed or uncomfortable talking about it or writing about it, I just thought I’d touch on the fact that I’m still experimenting with sexuality and am not too sure if I’m actually asexual or not.) A small warning, It may contain oc x character shippings, not just head-cannoned shippings.  I will most likely not post them Publicly as most of them would be physically for me to reread and improve my writing skills, rather than to cause discourse with one who may be Uncomfortably settled with such a subject.  Even if I do Post them Publicly on tumblr, They’ll be tagged Respectively and placed on a Main blog and art blog separate blog. still so the tag can be blocked and ignored. Tumblr added nsfw Content filters for the reasons sole for you to be able to browse your content without being hit in the face with a discomforting subject.   SECOND BULLET POINT!: I’m rewriting all my old fics.  Those of you who followed my AO3, whether you ended up there through lost in dysphoria, or perhaps you were there from my very first fic Broken Glass Shattered Spirits, You’ll notice they’ve all been deleted (except for the ones I’m particularly proud of.) This is because I’m freshly applying a new coat of paint!!  Rather than a baby tiny 1000 word fic, There will be more words, more filler text to make it more interesting. More Development in situations rather than a Rushed feeling of Needing to get this out. While doin so will take me a few months, due to having the most ADHD brain in my family, I assure you when a project has been begun it hasn’t been forgotten, it’s just been pressed aside for a later date. All I ask is Im not rushed or demanded to write faster, because that’s what leads to my sloppy 1000 word writing. Schedule for writings:    Begin Lost Family Au Writing and Master Explanation. Lost Family: An Au I Made which is a Link Separate Au. All the links have tragic Life stories about Siblings or parents or how their lifestyles effect them, Leading up to the events of the Four swords being pulled, and the four meeting each other. IN this AU, the swords are four elemental blades locked deep within Temple systems, that each of the four are called to pull when the time is right.  Begin Raptured Hyrule: Raptured Hyrule is another AU I began working on in 2021 with my friends, and finally decided to publicize in 2022. This AU is if darkness was never fended, and in a way, if Zelda was corrupted by dark cloud rather than killed. It’s very angsty........     Rewrite dancing in the starlight(bluexErune) so its less short and develops more to the relationships. Dancing Scene will still apply.     Rewrite Bluebird(Blue x Vio) Blue at war, Vio is a damsel in distress waiting for him to come home, only having letters and little embroideries and crochet projects to litter the house with.     Rewrite Broken Glass Shattered spirit.(Vidow) Vio is ignoring Shadow for deep studies, Shadow goes off to find something interesting to do and has a run in with a few threatening old friends. Rewrite Angels Flying High, Originally this fic was a RedxShadow Pure angst where Red Died, and Shadow destroyed the mirror a second time just so he could get that final ounce of happiness with him. However, I’m going to change its full aspect and Make it Angel!Red Au. It will still be Shadow x Red. Rewrite Sunsets and Lavender tea (Blue x Shadow) Poor Blue is suffering nightmarish trauma from being frozen alive and Shadow is there to help *cool~* his spirits (I’ll go back in the bad berry corner again) Rewrite Darkness Within: Green/Red Corruptive AU. At a last ditch effort to save the dying light that Red brought to the world, Green performs a dangerous and irrational ritual which results in Red becoming a creature of darkness. At first Red is weary, and its oh so torturous trying to tango with such a creature when He can only come out during the hours that one needs to sleep, but its so worth it when people suddenly become less afraid of Shadow because of Red’s doings. (Look lorulians can be nice people too, don’t fight me ) Rewrite: Everything is okay (Vidow Angst) Vio sustains injuries on the battle field by a mob of Moblins, Blue took his eyes of his back for only a second, only to turn and watch him be run through with a lizzal spear. Blue has a panic attack, He promised Shadow he’d make sure vio came home unharmed.. Vio almost dies, but miraculously was saved by a fairy and a very, Very upset travelling shadow.  These will not be redone in the exact ordering of this post.    

#blurbry rambles #Blurbry Writes #four swords #four swords mentioned #Shipping mentions #vidow mentions #fs link shipping mentioned #blurune mentioned

[bropunzeling]

4, 7, 15 for the fanfic asks!

Do you prefer writing multi-chapter or oneshot fanfictions?

i always publish everything all at once, even if split into chapters, because it would be a lot harder for me to figure out if the pacing worked, if i tied up subplots, etc etc if i published as i went. ive used chapters more frequently this year, but i am one of those weirdos who reads EVERYTHING as an entire work and that's honestly my preference for posting too. for the current wip im still debating if i need chapters even though it's a bit long haha. so i guess at my heart i am a one-shot gal. i just write really long one-shots 😂

What’s a trope you love to write?

hmmmmm i love when they fuck a lot before they fall in love. love PINING it's so important for people to pine horribly. so important to long! love a sex pollen or dubcon situation - it's a fun fantasy to play with, especially for people who are wound up or have big emotional blocks that would prevent them from letting loose. and i just love a protagonist who can't see the love that's in front of their nose.

Are there words, phrases, mannerisms or scenes you tend to use a lot?

i definitely have some filler or weasel words i stay on the look out for - just, a little, feels like, still - things that modulate impact and make my sentences weaker. the best advice ive ever gotten is to go through a doc with ctrl+f for words i overuse and delete half of them if i can. i love "felt something like [emotion]" some of which i cut and some of which i justify as my protag being stupid (im getting a lot better at cutting those though!). also love a "hit him like a punch to the gut". i LOVE a big scene in a kitchen while making breakfast, which is very aspirational because the most involved breakfast i ever make is like, toast. i also love someone being at a party or club and out on the dance floor and feeling ~alone~ haha. but what is fic for if not being lightly self-indulgent so long as im not boringly self-repetitive!

#ask meme

[otrtbs]

what was the easiest scene to write in ahb! or like the one that flowed best or was most fun to write? :D (does that make sense help im not sure also sorry if you’ve answered something like this before)

the scene that was the most fun to write was probably the practise heist!!! (the actual heist there was a lot of pressure i put on myself to get it juuuust right) but the practise heist was so much fun and i felt the adrenaline and excitement of the characters like it was my own askjfhkasj (pretty sure i wrote the whole thing with a smile on my face haha)

i don't know if there are any scenes that are or feel particularly easy,,,, hmmm just because big scenes™️ i put a lot of pressure to get them the way i want and then "filler scenes or bridging scenes" take me forever to write akjhfkshal but I do really enjoy the mealtime scenes like the last supper or when they're all eating breakfast or dinner in paris because i love having everyone all together like that just enjoying each other' company so much!!! :,))) it's so wholesome and sweet !!!!

<3333

#art heist baby! #asks

[wolveria]

writing advice anon here! as it happens, I'd thought to save the question in case tumblr ate it, so here it is!

hi! i was hoping u could offer some writing advice for me. so im writing something where character A and character B don't trust each other quite yet, and im struggling to write the "filler" scenes that establish their bond, right before we get to actual plot progression, if that makes sense. everything i come up with feels like it contains too many time skips, or the scenes are too short or repetitive, and frankly, it just ends up sounding boring. what can i do to make this part of my story more interesting? sorry if this is a mess, thank u ❤️

I’m laugh/crying because as soon as you sent this, your original ask showed up, and someone else’s ask disappeared. What a disaster LOL But good thinking, saving your ask!!

That’s a great question, and I’ll try to explain it as best I can. I used to dread filler scenes until I realized they serve a purpose, generally with character development and interpersonal relationships. So you’re on the right track realizing that your “connective filler” should show the building of trust between these two characters as well as move them toward the next plot point.

I always turn to Alexa Donne’s videos for advice, and this is a good video about filler scenes and is only six minutes long. Her advice would do well for you I think, especially since it sounds like you are underwriting and the pace is too fast.

I feel that this video will also help you. Alexa talks about the “middle act” of a story, which sounds a lot like what you’re dealing with in terms of pacing, plot progression, and character relationships.

All in all, there’s no easy straightforward answer, just a couple of resources I can provide you to help with pacing and filler. If the pace is too fast for me, I slow it down by having the characters reflect on their situation, on their history, and how they feel about the other character, which can often lead to some interesting back-and-forth between them. Character dialogue is one of my favorite things to explore, and filler scenes are the prefect time to go wild with them.

I hope that helped! Thank you for sending in another ask, and feel free to send more if you want!

#anon #writing #writing advice #filler scenes