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Mustard on apples

What's the weirdest food combination you like to eat? Mine is mashed potatoes and soy sauce

#the dark kind #light color dont hit so well

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It’s never about the bread.

One of my old fiction professors had an odd saying: “It’s never about the bread.”

The first time he said it in workshop, we sat there confused, because the story we were critiquing didn’t revolve around carbohydrates of any kind.

He then went on to tell us about a fight he once had with his partner. It was a silly, pointless fight; he’d come home from the grocery store with the wrong kind of bread, and his partner got angry.

The fight, he told us, seemed to be about him getting the wrong bread; it was, after all, all they talked about. But what he realized was that the fight had nothing to do with the bread at all. Instead, they were fighting about something else entirely — an unresolved disagreement they’d had the previous night. (A disagreement they did eventually resolve.)

Hence: “It’s never about the bread.”

Our characters are like this, too. They say and do things that have easy, surface-level motivations, but often enough, there’s a deeper reason behind their actions — emotions, desires, fears, and insecurities.

Knowing what drives your character emotionally helps you add subtext, depth, and consistency to their actions and to your work.

With that in mind, what’s the emotional motivation of your OC? If you don’t know, take a good look at their actions and continually ask “why,” or look into their past to figure out what might be influencing them in the present.

If you’re having trouble and want to spitball ideas back and forth, feel free to get in touch or submit a question to my Tumblr.

Just remember. It’s never about the bread.

Your stories are worth telling. For tips on how to craft meaning, build character-driven plots, and grow as a writer, follow my blog.

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stop comparing yourself to others. it’s doing nothing but hurting you. you are undermining yourself and your acheivements. stop wishing to be someone else. the only person to be is yourself. you’re only human.

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Rtable

checking your phone in the middle of a task

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accidentally indulged in too much ‘me time’, turns out i’ve been reported missing for over six months and presumed dead by most local and national authorities

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#awsome hiked #by moi

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#my photos #good

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#Nebraska maybe #good looking geography #by moi

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#shoelace for a snake #green bean #by mon ur

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my friend says the way i pronounce megalavania sounds like lasagna 

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I am a worm loving god. The book phase was an accident but man did it hit.

were you a "mud potion, picking up worms with your bare hands and trying to climb every tree you see" weird kid, a "sadistically playing god with your barbie dolls/action figures/plushes" weird kid, or a "devouring entire novels in a single afternoon and then writing wish fulfilment self insert fanfiction for them before you even knew what fanfiction was" weird kid?

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other girls: lie awake at night thinking about their crush

me: lies awake at night because whenever i sleep i’m tormented by horrifying prophetic visions and omens

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when people reblog my shitty post and curse my username in the tags:

when people reblog my shitty post and curse my actual first name in the tags: