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Currently have 2456 words in the first scene of Chapter 4.

I have 5 other scenes planned. Uh. This chapter is gonna be a long one </33

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ppl are always writing characters doing dumb shit like roasting a fresh-caught rabbit over an open flame instead of making a stew with that thing. great now you’re letting all the fat drip down into the fire as it cooks, wasting calories and flavor as well as causing the flame to flare up = inconsistent heat source,… when you could be maximizing the nutritional value of small game by making a soup or stew. Come on

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fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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call me a creativity vampire the way I feed off of other people's excitement over the stuff they're making

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It's done! Finally, Finality has now been completely revised. I'm extremely proud of the changes I've made (especially to Chapter 1, which got an extra 500 words added :3).

(as always, if youre unfamiliar with the fandom PLEASE talk to me b4 you read it because I need to make sure you dont get the wrong idea LMAOO)

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CHAPTER 1 IS FULLY REVISED!!!! Still unsure if I want to release the revisions independantly or if I want to publish them all at once- I'll probably ask my qpp for advice lmaoo. BUT ITS DONE!!

Ch. 1 has now gone from ~1.5k words to ~2k :)

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Not an update yet, but I've finally started working on Chapter 4 of Finally, Finality again. Re-edited versions of the published chapters are coming soon too :)

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#p-writing misc #I dont do deadlines lmao #prolly why I never write anything </3

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writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.

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Tim Drake is a Fanboy

Fic:

Tim was a fanboy. The biggest one Dick knew. But there was one thing that Tim was especially crazy about. More specifically, one person whom Tim was especially crazy about.

Gifted to @sardonic-sprite

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#THATS MY FRIEND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#EXACTLY!!!!!

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if you ever wonder whether your ao3 comments make a difference know that i frequently go back and read old comments on my fics to get a dose of happy rainbow sunshine