#writing question

[contes-de-rheio]

Does anyone have suggestions when you can’t write the viewpoint of a specific character? What do you do to get to know your characters better, to figure them out?

#i cannot write another variation of Taeyeon’s introduction scene #I need to get him #or that draft will go nowhere #writeblr #writing #am writing #writing questions #writing question #writing help needed

[tryingtimi]

Hey multiple WIP babes, I have some questions.

Do you focus on one before you start another?

If not, how do you balance them out?

Do you write to that project you got inspo for or you strictly focus on one, and just jot down the ideas when they strike for the others?

If your focus diverted from one WIP, how do you lure back to it?

Please go off, I’m curious.

#writing community #writeblr #writing question #multiple wips #writer’s talk #writint dicussion #add whatever you’d like too

[puppetmaster13u]

How do you write Clark/Superman I am struggling so much.

(Yes this is for my cryptid batfam story and his first encounter/meeting of the bats/waynes)

(EDIT) Like, how do you write from his point of view. I'm good at writing uncanny valley stuff

#question #writing question #dcu #dc #batman #superman #clark kent #batfamily #batman au #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #cryptid batfamily #what's outside au #what's out there au #eventual superbat probably but not really the focus y'know?

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I have a question for any writers out there do you guys listen to ambient sounds when writing sometimes? And I don’t me just like rain I mean like the sounds that you would hear in the scene your writing if it was like a movie or something

#writing question #sometimes I do #it gets me like more into the scene #than music does #sometimes

[dyrewrites]

Do a lot of people expect all of the "bad guys" in a story to lose or, at the very least, 'get what's coming to them'?

Because it seems common in reviews I've read, and discussions I've seen, even in those 'how to write x genre' things, that "good guy wins and bad guy loses" is the expectation for just about everything but horror.

Which tells me that either these things are terribly narrow-minded in their dissections of genre, or everything I read and write is some form of horror (and that's certainly possible).

What do you guys think?

Does it matter if the bad guys get their comeuppance?

#writeblr #writing question #my stories are all focused more on surviving and moving on from the villainous thing/people #so more often than not the villains are still around in the end #they're just less important or rendered toothless in some way #in some cases the protagonists become the villainous thing even #and it's the same in a lot of things I like to read #so this is a weird thing to encounter for me

[julieverne]

Some of these are mocked up at the link below for more information.

#julie verne #i guess #most of these are being sent to publishers now #but i'm considering self-pub too #writing question #book #books

[kiki-kit]

i have a genuine question for anyone that can answer!

how should i best depict a child (in comic form) growing up with chronic illness? with things like chronic pain, fatigue, low/compromised immune system, ect.. how does something like this effect their mood? their ability to form relationships? play? school?

the illness is fictional in nature, but its akin to a type of autoimmune disease, where the body is constantly in a state of attacking itself. are there things you would like to be shown/ better written? any taboos/stereotypes i should be aware of?

i have somewhat of an idea of what not to do, but as someone who didn’t grow up this way, i’d like to gather more concrete answers and opinions!

and finally, when it comes to creating a fictional illness, what things should i keep in mind, if any?

#what should i even tag this as #chronic illness question #writing question #im tryin to figure this out but its hard to find answers from a childhood perspective #cross posted from twitter

[unorthodoxx-page]

Question for all my AO3 writers!!

Have any of you considered posting your stories on wattpad? I'm just curious. I'm AO3 born and bred but I've had people suggest posting my stories on wattpadd. I don't know much about the site (because I'm old lol) but I just want to know how that's working for people who post on both.

#ao3 #ao3 writer #ao3 author #wattpad #writing question #just curious #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3fic #ao3 fanfictions #ao3 fanfiction #ao3 fanfic

[biscuitsandspices]

Okay, question for the character creators out there: Do you first write the backstory and then decide the character’s personality/traits based on their past, OR do you first decide how the character’s personality/traits fit into the story and then write the backstory of how the character became the person you created?

I’m sure there is a lot of overlap and intermingling of the two during character creation, but PRIMARILY which do you do more? Personally, I lean more towards the second, but I’m curious to see the process of the majority!

#writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writer blog #tumblr writers #writing tips #writing help #original character #character creation #character creators #oc #fanfic writers #backstory #story writing #writing question

[claraweems]

How do you all express when a foreign language is being spoken in your stories? I have three languages often spoken in mine right now and sometimes the characters understand, sometimes they don't, depending on who is present. Obviously when one doesn't understand that can be expressed easily, however ... For example, how do you express that these two characters are speaking English now, but when character two talks to character three they switch to French? Of course, some of this would be implied by who the characters are. Usually I will use italics and of course mention the switch of language. Is that the standard? Or is there a better way? Or what if the same two characters suddenly switch to an alternate language... Is that just mentioned in description? Italics too?

Another off-shoot question: if the scene is only in one language would you assume it's the characters native tongue? Should it be noted? I can't imagine italics should be used in this case. My current WIP section has two Japanese men speaking to each other and I'm just implying their language.

#writing question #writing tips #writing #writeblr #any advice?

[misc-obeyme]

Hey fellow Obey Me writers & readers, I have a question for you about x reader stories.

When you read or write something that is using the second person “you” point of view, what do you imagine as the “you?”

Like writers do you have a sort of generic MC type character in mind or do you think of it as a specific MC or OC? Or just yourself?

And readers do you imagine yourself or an OC?

I get that the point is to be able to self insert but is that what people do?

I’m really curious because when I’m writing that way, the “you” is in my mind as a generic MC character that isn’t me but isn’t anyone specific either. I’m just wondering if that’s how it works for other people too.

#I’m so curious about this #obey me #obey me x reader #x reader #writing question #fanfic question #misc rambles

[writingonesdreams]

Tell me about your ideal publishing company. What would you wish for in deal? What would be ideal?

#writeblr #writing community #writing question #discussion

[puppetmaster13u]

I need people's opinions and characterizations on Talia Al Ghul because I am struggling to write her.

EDIT: I am not talking about the older comics series where there was a lot of 'Men Writing Woman' worthy sh t happening with practically every female character and when Bruce was also written like sh t

#batman au #question #batman #talia al ghul #talia #dcu #dc #dc crossover #writing question #specifically trying to look at her relationship with Bruce and y e a h #For fucks sake they made Bruce abusive because they wanted to make him all a man's man when he's canonically very empathetic #Like my Dude he sat with his parents' killer in the hospital just so the man wouldn't die alone

[pearlmoney]

a question for Writeblr!!

what is the current word count on your main wip?

mine is 33,260 on The Haunting of Miss Caroline Marsden

and 24,773 on The Dead End

reblog with your answer!

#writeblr #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr #writeblr ask #writing question #writeblr question

[withgirl-sq]

How do u structure a story?

Thank you for asking!

I mostly do this chapter by chapter, but I'll do mind maps of ideas of major scenes that I want to include in a fic and plan chapters around how to get to those scenes

For each chapter, I'll write the dialogue first and then write out a draft from that by hand. I'll clean it up when I type it up and then do some edits before publishing

Here's an example of the general outline taken from a Marina fic I haven't started drafting yet! (This fic will have a happy ending I promise lol)-

#Writing question #Marina #Maya bishop #carina deluca #maya bishop x carina deluca #carina deluca x maya bishop #maya x carina #carina x maya

[unchartedperils]

My fellow longfic writers, where are your longfic WIPs at right now?

Resident Evil 4/Uncharted crossover-9 chapters in

Red Dead Redemption 2 Fix It/OC AU-14 chapters in

Tomb Raider 2013 Fix It/Darkfic-6 chapters in

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Fix It/MP Character AU-4 chapters in

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Fix It/Uncharted crossover-3 chapters in

Tomb Raider pre-TR2013 AU/crossover with Grand Theft Auto 4 (post-GTA 4)-3 chapters in

Grand Theft Auto 4: Ballad of Gay Tony story DLC Fix It/OC AU-5 chapters in

Resident Evil 7 Fix It/OC AU-3 chapters in

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Fix It/Uncharted crossover-13 chapters in

#longfic au #longfic #writing question #longfic writer