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Send this to your favorite writers on here!!

Writing can be hard and feel really tiring trying to find inspiration and sometimes all we need is a little reassurance that we're doing okay!! ❤️❤️

Sending positivity into 2023 🥰

Aw thank you, Anon! I know it’s been a bit over a year since my last post and I have been writing when I have the time. Work and life has been in the way but I haven’t forgotten about Autonomous.

Appreciate the ask! Hope to be posting again soon!

-Cookie

#darth maul #star wars #sw: autonomous #fic #fanfic #ask

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Darth Maul sketches, a feral gremlin I hold in my hand |𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩|

#darth maul #maul

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really quick sketches because i was under the influence of the dark force

@herbalina-of-yesteryear you are to blame

painting process under the cut, as usual

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Star Wars – Hidden Empire #1 variant by Mike Mayhew

#darth maul

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“Iᴛ ʜᴀs ʙᴇᴇɴ sᴏ ʟᴏɴɢ… ᴀɴᴅ ᴍʏ ᴘᴀᴛʜ ʜᴀs ʙᴇᴇɴ sᴏ ᴅᴀʀᴋ…” “Aɴᴅ ʏᴇᴛ ʏᴏᴜ sᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇᴅ.”

“Oғ ᴄᴏᴜʀsᴇ I sᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇᴅ.”

Darth Maul, for @sith-maul

#darth maul #maul

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Darth Maul, but actually happy

This was very therapeutic.

#darth maul #maul #savage opress

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Star wars commissions - @herbalina-of-yesteryear Cute art of Darth Maul 💛

#darth maul #maul

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I am not immune to cool markings

#darth maul

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Tips for Writing a Difficult Scene

Every writer inevitably gets to that scene that just doesn't want to work. It doesn't flow, no matter how hard you try. Well, here are some things to try to get out of that rut:

1. Change the weather

I know this doesn't sound like it'll make much of a difference, but trust me when I say it does.

Every single time I've tried this, it worked and the scene flowed magically.

2. Change the POV

If your book has multiple POV characters, it might be a good idea to switch the scene to another character's perspective.

9/10 times, this will make the scene flow better.

3. Start the scene earlier/later

Oftentimes, a scene just doesn't work because you're not starting in the right place.

Perhaps you're starting too late and giving too little context. Perhaps some description or character introspection is needed before you dive in.

Alternatively, you may be taking too long to get to the actual point of the scene. Would it help to dive straight into the action without much ado?

4. Write only the dialogue

If your scene involves dialogue, it can help immensely to write only the spoken words the first time round.

It's even better if you highlight different characters' speech in different colors.

Then, later on, you can go back and fill in the dialogue tags, description etc.

5. Fuck it and use a placeholder

If nothing works, it's time to move on.

Rather than perpetually getting stuck on that one scene, use a placeholder. Something like: [they escape somehow] or [big emotional talk].

And then continue with the draft.

This'll help you keep momentum and, maybe, make the scene easier to write later on once you have a better grasp on the plot and characters.

Trust me, I do this all the time.

It can take some practice to get past your Type A brain screaming at you, but it's worth it.

So, those are some things to try when a scene is being difficult. I hope that these tips help :)

Reblog if you found this post useful. Comment with your own tips. Follow me for similar content.

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What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

#writing

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Didn’t plan on drawing him today, but what can you do.

#darth maul #maul

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Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

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#rook kast #darth maul #gar saxon

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I think Star Wars really missed some great opportunities to tell some incredible stories surrounding the Opress Brothers. Their story is incredibly tragic and they are just used and thrown aside narrative-wise. I love them though. @cobaltbeam was wonderful and totally accepted my weirdness. They did an amazing job with these!

#darth maul #feral opress #savage opress

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DARTH MAUL + stalking his prey in The Phantom Menace (1999)

#darth maul #maul

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#darth maul #maul

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Attempting in reworking how I draw Maul. As despite my love for Maul's design in tcw, there is such a softness™ in his look in tpm. So im trying to bring more of that out in my own art of him as well

( individual mauls under the cut :3 )

#darth maul #maul