ohh if you can i would appreciate some tips!! honestly writers are so admirable we dont give yall enough credit🙏🙏🙏
well, for me to give you the absolute best tips i can to help out, i need to know what exactly you're struggling with when it comes to writing. there are about a million different tips i can give you for about a million different things and some of those tips will be completely useless to you
for now though, i'll give you the things that help me getting into a writing mood + general tips i give to new writers and if you still need further help you can explain what exactly you're struggling with and ill do my best to help out;
1) whatever you learned about formatting essays; forget it.
a common thing i see in new writers is they try to write it like an essay. which isn't a bad idea really, but it is restricting. your paragraphs don't have to be four or more sentences. they can only be one if you want. it's your story, format it however you want. you don't need to follow rules
2) listening to music
this is mostly for when you have that one specific scene in your head but have no idea what to do for the rest of the fic. listening to music and connecting the lyrics to the characters you're using is a great way to get your mind thinking. one song can give you several different ideas depending on how you interpret it
3) make sure you are in a good mood
personally, i cannot write to save my life if im upset or just generally having a bad day. i know some people can use creating as a way to cheer themselves up, but it just doesn't work out for me lol
4) if you don't need background noise, don't use it
it's pretty easy to get distracted when writing, especially when you have something new playing. if you do need background noise of some kind, i would advise playing instrumental music or that one movie/show that you've seen a thousand times and could quote in your sleep. keep your focus on your writing
5) brackets will be your best fucking friend when writing
one of the most important things about writing is keeping your flow going. if you find yourself writing sentence after sentence for a good while and then you suddenly hit a stop because you don't know how to word what happens next; throw it in brackets and write the scene after it. its the same reason why you're told to skip questions you get stuck on when taking a test. let your brain do what it knows it can and come back to the tricky stuff later.
6) you don't have to write anything in order
you don't have to write a story exactly start to finish. you can jump between any scene you'd like and find out how to connect it to a different scene another time. this kinda ties into the last tip in the sense that you gotta let your brain do what it knows. if you only know the beginning and the end then write those first and figure out the rest as you go. if you need to edit either one of the previous things then that's okay. there's no shame in changing things around, it's just how creating things go. sometimes change is needed
7) writing prompts
for new writers, i like to tell them to find a prompt online to write a story for before they start their own. using a prompt someone else made keeps your brain from getting overwhelmed, allowing you to focus more on finding a writing style that works best for you. using writing prompts also lets your brain find ways to contribute to a story without having it make everything while also figuring out how to put it on paper. it's easy to overwhelm the brain, so let it get used to writing before you start creating your own ideas. (this is also something i advise to people who experience burnout or just cant think of anything to write. your brain just needs a break from creating ideas right now, go and find a prompt for it)
8) word count
listen to me because this is so important; ignore the word count. you need to focus on learning, not how much you're writing. it doesn't matter if you only wrote 50 words when other people have fics well over 50k. ignore it. you are learning, you'll get there eventually. if you focus too much on how much you're writing you're going to stress yourself out and ultimately drive yourself away from ever writing again. treat word counts as milestones. start with 50, then 100, then 150, then 200, etc. let yourself work towards it slowly rather than push yourself too hard right out the gate. you can't expect to draw the mona lisa the first time you put a pencil to a paper, so don't expect to write thousands of words the first time you write a story. it'll take time, and that's perfectly okay.
9) analyze the shit out of your characters
this is easier when writing fanfiction, but take a few hours to learn your characters. find the content they're in and hyper-focus on what they're doing. pay attention to their speech patterns, their body language, their relationships with others, etc. if they're not in a scene, try to imagine they are and what'd they do and/or say if they were. it'll help out with keeping them in character when writing
10) if you get to a point where you can't write anymore even when using brackets; stop writing for the day
we have our limits. you will get to a point where you can't get another word down and that's okay. it doesn't matter if you've only written a handful of words, close your program and wait until you feel motivation hit you again. if you keep trying to force yourself to write when you just can't then you're going to burn yourself out. the most probable reason for this is writer's block, which means you need to focus on other things for a while. give your brain time to recollect itself. it's annoying, i know, but it's better for you if you just let your brain do what it needs to. it knows how to take care of itself, so let it.
i also have a tag i use whenever i give tips, so you can check those out as well to see if anything helps! it's just writing tips
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Hey friendly reminder to resist the urge to think in black and white
Seeing the recent science about ssri's not being as effective as people think scares me. Not because I'm particularly attached to old information, but because I KNOW people are gonna read it as 'ssri's don't work'
Your doctor will talk about the percent chances with you. They tend to bring up success rate even if you don't ask
Ssri's are still varyingly effective for some people
I am some people
They make my life not just survivable, but vibrant
Thank you
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In the 2pItaly yandere headcanons , you said he goes into states where he isn't conscious of what he's doing , can you explain what you meant because I'm a little confused ? Thank you:)
Of course! In my headcanons, 2p N. Italy is mentally ill, something I've expanded on a little here and there.
To clarify for others, a headcanon was his brothers have a sort of tracker on him to monitor him in case he goes into a state where he's not exactly conscious or aware of what he's doing.
Paranoid schizophrenia is the main thing I talk about him having and sometimes when he's hallucinating or delusional, he will just run off. He may believe people around him are unsafe, that something/someone is out to get him, that he's being watched, etc. so he will run off and not realise he's ended up somewhere he's never been before
Another one is PTSD which can cause dissociation so sometimes he'll dissociate for however long and not remember anything of that time. In these states, he can also just end up wandering off.
Because of these, his brothers thought it best to be able to keep track of him when they may both be busy. They always have the knowledge of where he is and it helps keep him safe.
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TW: eating disorders
can we talk about body image for a minute? i feel like we don’t realize the progress that people put into work on themselves until we put it side by side.
this is just an example (because i’m a swiftie and she’s famous so it’s easy to find pictures), but this:
turned into this:
people may not see your progress now. but it’s happening. jensen mcrae once said “you are worthy of love, you are worthy of all that you need.”
if you are trying your best, you are getting somewhere
remember that.
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I’ve been on a Mickey Mouse kick lately, and rewatched Runaway Brain. I, personally, love it! It’s got the right amount of comedy and horror that I can handle. Mickey is his typical comical heroic self. Where it is controversial with most fans is seeing Mickey get “possessed” by Julius, but it’s not even possession; it’s brain swapping. I think, despite the mixed reviews on it, it brings back elements of some of the old black and white cartoons that deal with mad scientists and scary things.
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So it’s time for me to go on a little rant. And I don’t know who needs to hear this but: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE EVERYTHING YOUR FRIENDS DO. (Also disclaimer we are NOT SHAMING ANYBODY in this, just my thoughts). So like a few weeks ago I was talking with my friends and we were talking about having a Halloween party. So one of my friends (the one who’s house we would have gone to) asked me how I would feel if we watched a horror movie. Now, I hate horror, like basically everything about it. I don’t like gory horror, or psychological horror, or any other kind. My friends know this (again, no shaming anybody or making anyone feel guilty) but you know they always want to check if you’ve changed your mind. And we did actually have a great talk about horror and maybe why I didn’t like it, as well as alternatives if it got too scary, but I left feeling very unsure, and said maybe I could try? But here’s the thing: I have tried. I’ve tried watching horror movies a few times, and every time, I just hate it, like, it doesn’t work for me. So basically what I’m trying to say is: you don’t need to like the same things as everybody else, nor do you need to justify these dislikes. In fact, it’s probably better that your friend group doesn’t all like the same things, like think of how boring that would be! You wouldn’t learn about anything new or exciting! And I know it’s hard to realize that you might be pushing something onto someone else that maybe makes them feel uncomfortable, hell, I’ve done it too! We probably all have. But the moral of the story is that you should try and realize when you might be doing that and accept that not everyone enjoys the things you do. So yeah. That's it I guess. Bye.
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