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when the story is just not working, but you keep writing anyway

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RP memes from Reddit’S “What is the worst insult you’ve ever heard?” thread

"Unpaid intern at the idiot factory." “You would be the sole innocent person imprisoned if intelligence was a crime.” “You’re not the dumbest person I’ve ever met, but you better hope he doesn’t die.” “I wish we were better strangers.” “You make it really difficult to underestimate you.” “I’m going to go find the tree responsible for the air you breathe and apologise to it.” “Your momma’s so slow it took her nine months to make a joke.” “Pumpkinface dummyhead” “Vagina boob” “You have a face for radio and a voice for silent films” “Somebody called me a cum-guzzling road whore once.” “You should eat makeup so you are pretty on the inside for a change.” “You're not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” “Everyone who ever loved you was wrong.” "If bullshit were turf, you could be a golf course." "I hope you have the day you deserve" "Your mother had to think of other babies to get through breast feeding you." “It’s not worth insulting you as nature has already done enough damage.” “I'm not saying that you are dumb. It's you make bad decisions thinking.” “You're as helpful as a fart in an elevator.” “You’re difficult to be around.” "You don't look like the 3000 likes on Instagram." “Damn, you are as bad as your reputation.” "I hope you outlive your children." "You smell like an anchovie's cunt." “You’re a syphilis painted cum bubble on a gutter fucked whore” "If you were woodscraps, you'd be the only timber unfit for the wood chipper." “Your mother should have had a bowel movement instead of having you.” “You’re a disappointment.” "Your intellect could be bottled and sold as diet water. Zero content, absolutely tasteless, and oddly enough, quite popular in certain circles." “I hope your asshole grows tastebuds.” “No one likes you here. We just barely tolerate you.” "Every breath you take is a sin against the hopes you had as a child" "You're a waste of a birth certificate." "Why do you hang out with us? Nobody here likes you" “You suck the joy out of the room.” “You’re like the weather man…. You’re nothing but wrong, and you STILL get paid.” “You look like you drop common loot when defeated.” "I'm jealous of people who don't know you." “You're an anal wart on the universe's asshole.”

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You know what fantasy stories don't use enough? Different measuring scales, and confusion caused by them. Because before the metric system, practically every place and culture had their own measures for weights, lengths and distances. It would be fun to add that into a story for added realistic cultural confusion.

The average dwarf is four or five feet tall, but not in human measures. Yeah they're still shorter than humans but the dwarf foot (and the namesake measure of length) is bigger in proportion to their body. "Is that in dwarf feet or human feet?" is a common question to hear on construction sites, wherever human carpenters and dwarf masons are working together.

A dedicated local Common Misconception Historian has a pet peeve about the whole "princess Featherblade was only 12 years old when she led the attack on Marshland Halls" -myth, because the historical recordings on the human side are off. While she was remarkably young, that myth came about back in the day when humans were still trying to apply "dog years" to elves, and in an elven life span, 120 years is not a direct equivalent to a 12-year-old human.

A whole culture whose smallest unit of weight loosely translates to "about as much as an apple", and varies from region to region depending on the size of local apples. These people are famed for their alchemists, whose uncanny ability to simply measure their ingredients by heart, making their recipes essentially impossible to replicate. This famed skill is a matter of survivor bias - the ones that don't have that knack ten to explode into fine mist.

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“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED

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I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

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Seeing other writers on tumblr talk about writing is so validating because all of them are basically:

“I hate writing but I love it more than anything but it’s agony but I have a million stories to put to paper but I barely ever write a word”

And like I’ve always felt this way and I worried it meant I wasn’t supposed to be a writer, which tore me to shreds. But no. That’s just the curse of being one, I guess.

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Top-Tier Villain Motivations

They will be safe. It doesn't matter who else or what else burns as long as They will be safe.

I will be safe. The hunger and the cold will never touch me again.

Fuck any bitch who's prettier(/cooler/better-liked/better at making dumplings) than me.

Yes, Master

Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. LOVE ME!

I know the terrible things these so-called "heroes" will do if I don't stop them (<- is absolutely wrong)

I don't want a better future, I want a better past!

No other way to get performance art funded these days

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''Useless'' Writing Reminders

Save your documents. Strive to be safe, not sorry.

Back-up your documents. Strive to be safe, not sorry.

Placeholder names can quickly turn into forever names. Picking name(s) on a whim can lead to great things, or it can become your worst nightmare (😁).

Your writing has value. Yes, even the most inadequate of writing. You don't have to boast or even like everything you've ever written, but even the most questionable of writing will have contributed to your growth as a storyteller. Cherish it for what it is.

You can take a break. It is absolutely okay.

First drafts are scary. But you know what's more scary? Not having a draft at all.

Using clichés or ''overdone'' tropes will not kill your story. Firstly, tropes are building blocks. Secondly, humans actively search to consume stories revolving around these tropes.

Write your heart out. Boast about your writing. Boast about your friends' and fellow writers' writing. Everyone deserves recognition, even you, from within your own heart. (Sorry. That's really cheesy. But it's true).

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“Start with action! You need a big action scene at the get-go or readers will think you have no story!”

…respectfully, no.

What makes a good opening isn’t “convince the reader there’s a story here.” They picked up the book. They know there’s a story in it, that’s what books are for. What makes a good opening is “convince the reader to listen to your story.” Why should they keep reading? Why should they buy your book, or check it out from their local library?

Don’t start a fight, plant a bomb.

Starting with decontextualized action, like an unprompted fight scene, doesn’t grab attention the way it might in film or television. If you have to rewind and explain how you got here, then you just have a jumbled opening with minimal payoff. Good openings set up a thread to follow, one you’d better pay off soon. You plant a bomb, show it to the reader, and let them watch it tick down until it explodes. Setup > payoff, enough to get them interested in what’s next.

Example:

“The wolf lay dead, black blood oozing from its mouth.”

Setup: dead wolf. what killed it? what’s wrong with its blood?

The reader is asking questions. Good. Because now you can answer them. That’s your payoff. Now you’ve got an inciting incident and the beginning of your plot. You’ve established the story and the reader is interested. Mission accomplished 😎

Now, different openings will work better for different stories. A slow-build spec fic might have a subtle first line that gets you interested enough to go on. An action-heavy novel might start with an infiltration, building up tension and dropping lines about the protagonist’s purpose until the plan fails and they have to fight their way out. Whatever it is, it should introduce the world and story they’re getting into and do so well enough to get them invested. Set up a thread, follow it through, and pay it off.

Plant a bomb.

Then blow it up.

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This is a friendly reminder to never, ever publish your book with a publishing company that charges you to publish with them. That is a vanity press, which makes money by preying on authors. They charge you for editing, formatting, cover art, and more. With most of these companies, you will never seen a cent of any royalties made from sale of your book. A legitimate publishing company only makes money when you make money, they will never charge you to publish with them. If a company approaches you and says "Hey, we'll publish your book, just pay us X amount of money," tell them to go fuck themself and block them.

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"But why would you want to imagine, read or write about a relationship that wasn't healthy, good or desirable to you personally?"

I genuinely don't know how to explain the concept of fiction to you.

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i want to coin a phrase that's the opposite of writer's block. call it the muse's fire hydrant. thirty thousand story ideas are being beamed directly into your brain and if you don't write them all at once you will die.

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fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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if you reblog something and add a ton of tags to boost it, that doesn't do anything. your heart is in the right place, but tags on a reblog are for organization or commentary. they don't bump it up in the tag feed or count towards "trending."

it doesn't harm anyone to do this! it's just not something you need to spend time on.

i know I've said this before, and i wanted to recycle my old post(s) about it but can't find it.