#I HAVE AN OUTLINE OF THE WHOLE STORY

[elbdot]

How long will it take till El and Guzma start showing *CANON* feelings towards eachother?

*looks at planned story arcs* Ok so we have regular bonding shenanigans, then we have a vital Guzma arc in here, an El arc planned as well, plans for Season 3, scheduling time for comics between commission work and other projects, calculating... ...ah shit we'll be here for another 7 years again, won't we

#I HAVE NO CLUE HOW LONG THIS WILL TAKE TO MAKE TBH #I HAVE AN OUTLINE OF THE WHOLE STORY #and I mean the W H O L E STORY #It has changed over the years but the most vital arcs REMAIN #I'm working on a new comic RIGHT NOW and I hope I'll continue to improve on my working efficiency #so panels get done quicker with more simplified shading and backgrounds #I AM getting faster at drawing humans I noticed so that's great! #I hope you'll enjoy the ride because there's a lotta good stuff in there along the way! #mod #reply

[leupagus]

Me before writing this GOT fic: this will mostly be about Sansa, my main squeeze, my best girl and beloved

Me while writing this GOT fic: so instead of the whole dumb shit that happens to Daenerys in seasons 5 & 6 what if instead she’s presiding over Meereen while it invents democracy so it can vote her out of the city. Along the way Meereen invents journalism and soccer.

#they will vote her out with love #but like… Daenerys’s whole relationship with ‘consent of the governed’ is SO WEIRD #and I would love for a story to actually have her walking her talk in re: ‘Meereen (and Yunkai and Astapor) should choose their own leaders #also lbr we all deserve some Game Of Thrones 1776 nonsense in our lives #starring Daenerys as BOTH John Hancock and King George #maybe a little of G Washington too #anyway this outline is already 130 pages #pray 4 me #game of thrones motherfuckers

[androgynousblackbox]

Currently I have three appleradio ideas for fics I want to make. 1. Lucifer heals Alastor after a drunken dance competition and Alastor starts seeking him out, but only with a few conditions that the king will impose on him. 2. My Hellsing AU in which Alastor is a demon that made a deal to serve and protect the family Van Morningstar in exchange for a bit of their blood, dealing with supernatural bullshit and other threats.

3. Inspired by Dead Plate, kinda. Lucifer works as a chef on this restaurant that his homophobic piece of shit father runs and Alastor is hired there. Alastor becomes instantly smitten with Lucifer while "strange" disapearences happen in town. The restaurant becomes more popular than ever with the new chef and the cut of meats he brings.

#andro is talking #radioapple #appleradio #duckiedeer #i have the outline for the first one and now making the third #the hellsing one i don't know if i should just do short stories instead of a whole story??

[sporesgalaxy]

ok now its slightly more legible.

#I distinctly remember when i invented fluggo in high school. thinking 'how does anyone make up their own fantasy world? theres So Much'' #turns out for me personally the answer was to learn a whole lot more about the real world and how real people thought stuff worked lol #i have the worlds vaguest plot and character outlines. because i like designing a story around a setting bc Im unwell #taking all my favorite things from antiquated physics and also my own magical thinking is just so fun now?? #fantasyworld

[cream-and-tea]

pallas in book one is definitely at it-cannot-possibly-get-worse-than-this ABSOLUTE rock bottom but god. there is such a specific flavour to their despair in book two that only happens because of the realization they have at the end of lay me down. like. how do you move on after admitting that everything you believed in was a lie. how do you live with what you’ve done (with what has been done to you). is it possible to pull yourself up out of the pit you’ve dug. what do you do if it isn’t. what do you do if it IS. and once you look at the damage how do you stop looking. past the first layer of hurt there’s just more and more hurt and you were used by the one person who was supposed to keep you safe to cause even MORE pain and no matter how deep you go none of it means anything! it never meant anything at all!! motherfucker your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#pallas’s whole arc in the first book is getting to the point where they go ‘maybe i? feel bad about all this?? actually???’ #i cannot overstate enough that it takes an entire book to get them to that point lmao #and then it’s like. newsflash buddy now you’ve gotta DEAL with that #it really is the mental equivalent of getting into a hot bath of after being out in the cold for a whole day #and the interesting thing about pallas in the first book and their status as a villian and like. their eventual ‘oh SHIT’ moment #is that pallas doesn’t need to realize that they’re a bad person doing bad things #pallas is VERY aware that they are a bad person doing bad things #it’s actually more about realizing the harm that’s been done to them? like as a human being?? #bc they very much have the attitude of ‘well of course i’m doing bad things i was born as an inherently evil person there’s nothing else #i’m capable of doing the most i can hope for is that someone points me in the right direction and i’ll be able to do the hard things #that other people cannot (and SHOULD NOT) do’ #so THATS the mindset that needs to be unlearned before they can start moving forward? if that makes sense? #less ‘shit are we the baddies?’ and more ‘shit have i been horrifically abused?’ #but then after that realization all the blood they’ve spilled is still there. and they should never have had to do that. no one should ever #have to do that. but they did and now they’re starting to see the full extent of what that means #and they have to find a way to live with it. #and it’s absolutely DEVASTATING. #wip: ghost story #pallas #i’ve been working on the book two outline. if you couldn’t tell. head in absolute hands rn.

[insomnya777]

Hey! I found you though your superhero AU, which i love, by the way! I really enjoy your writing style, so I was wondering what your writing process is, in particular, do you have a plan/outline you follow, or do you have a list of little snippets of writing you want to include, etc. Just really curious!

oh my god the question i've been dreading. so funny thing, for the longest time, i actually didn't have an outline or like. a plan. at all

this wasn't even originally going to be a series, it was just supposed to be the first part 😭 but then people started liking it so much (and i live off of attention and comments) so i decided to make a part two and it kind of skyrocketed from there. did not expect we'd be getting past 20k words this is my longest series ever LMAO

but it's not like i have nothing planned out — like i know what's going to be happen with etho and the agency (to an extent) and i've pretty much got the whole ranchers and gempearl storyline down. but desertduo and boat boys..... i've kinda been taking it part by part.

that however does lead to things being repetitive and getting a little stale. so i've been planning things out more lately, and i'm very pleased to say that now i do have (kind of) an idea on the ending. which i have no idea when is going to happen

#yeah i'm very unorganized #i was honestly not expecting this series to go on for so long #almost two whole months!!!!!! a lot for me #but yes i have no intention of leaving this unfinished 🙏 #i have no idea how i'm going to fix boat boys tho i'm gonna be very honest rn #slightly terrified it's getting a little repetitive. #bfop au #my asks #about around the fourth part of the series i made a notes app page for all the things i want to have in this series #like titles (you like your girls insane is one of my favs) and lines (which i will not spoil cuz i've got some BANGERS) and other details #(like ages #i do have certain parts outlined however #there was going to be a part titled “interlude — xelqua” and it was going to be about grians story #i have so much written for that. idk if it'll be published ever but #yeah it had acts (act i: destruction act ii: salvation act iii: war act iv: peace) #and i had pages upon pages of notes #but for the general story i have very very little

[knightzp]

omg can I hear about your ocs im curious

!!!!! yes of course!!

(im warning you this is gonna be Long bc i cant summarize things aldksk)

okay so first theres zayu. shes actually my dnd character and basically her whole story can be summarized in: shes a demon too good and pure for this world. she is such a lovely person an absolute sweetheart who is always very kind and whose mission in life is just having a humble life trying to help others in need as much as she can. but yeah you read it right. she Is a demon so the people from her homeplace didnt like her personality at all and they ended up kicking her out from hell. however some people thought that was a weak punishment and are now after her to make her pay for her "crimes" (the crime in question being a too good person yeah) so zayu is now travelling around around the world enjoying her life as she had never been able to do before and always moving from place to place to avoid the other demons that are chasing her. also this isnt really relevant to her story but i have to say she is very ourple (light purple skin and dark purple hair 💜)

the other characters i mentioned on that post are from an original story i began writing quite a few years ago and that i never finished..... i havent touched it in soooo long but its the only one og story ive started that i really want to finish some day. it takes place in a medieval royalty fantasy setting where theres a continent with many kingdoms. the main characters are from two of these kingdoms which have quite a close relationship

one of the kingdoms has 3 princes: auron (oldest), crysta (middle) and davel (youngest). given their birth order, auron is the heir of the kingdom so was taught mainly politics and necessary knowledge to rule the kingdom as the next king. crysta was raised to be a leader in the army forces so she is now the captain of the royal knights. and davel being the third child and since his siblings already learnt the main disciplines he was taught how to use magic, which is an ancient power that is quickly disappearing nowadays so there arent many people who can cast magic in this universe

on the other kingdom we have a pair of twins: alrick and lavianna (also shortened as lav or lavi) as the prince and princess. alrick was born first so he has always spent most of his time studying and preparing to be the next king while lavianna has had an easier and less busy life in this aspect

as i said both kingdoms have a very close relationship so both families meet up a lot. davel and lav have been best friends since their early childhood and being both the youngest from their families they had a lot of time to play and spend together. both are easygoing and they have the same age and kinda similar personalities (davel is charismatic and adventurous but also lazy when it comes to his studies and lavi is cheerful active and innovative) so they get along very very well. so well that their parents got the wrong idea and used their good relationship to engage them together in an arranged marriage against their will wanting to strengthen even more the alliance between their kingdoms. none of them like each other romantically but even if theyre shocked at first they let things be bc they arrive to the conclusion they prefer to be married to their best friend than have their parents arrange another marriage with an stranger instead

however! there is someone who isnt quite happy with this announcement and thats alrick. he hasnt had as much time to spend with davel in his life as his sister and he is also much more reserved as a person than her but truth is he is jealous. jealous of davel for all the freedom he has (contrary to him who has many responsibilities) and jealous of lavi for being able to spend so much time with davel and for being now engaged with him. bc alrick has a huge crush in davel but no one knows, not davel (who is very dense to these things (actually arospec coded)) nor lavianna (she is a bit suspicious but doesnt know anything for sure)

as for crysta she has a really close relationship with her brother davel and loves to tease him a lot but she isnt that much close with the others. she is a really cool butch lesbian knight who really worries a lot abt her people and has a soft spot for davel and will do anything to help him in any situation

auron isnt very relevant to the story but well. he is already married and just had a child too and is like the perfect prince son soon to be king

and now to end im gonna just to tell you a bit abt the plot. the thing is that one night alrick wakes up and discovers that everyone in his castle has been petrified. the castle workers his parents even lavianna. all of them except for him. so he does the only thing he can think of and rushes to the neightbour kingdom to ask for help. there, davel crysta and their family talk abt what happened and thought abt a way to reverse what seems to be a magical spell that has petrified the people in the castle and the three of them part on a journey to find more answers and a way to reverse the spell

and well thats more or less it!!!

#ask #mutuals 💜 #i also have some long notes for the lore of this universe and a general outline of how the whole story would develop until the end aldksk #but yeah.... i have to come back to writing it some day i really like this idea and these ocs......

[wiihtigo]

Would casey b a cowboy

YEA ^_^ I have a whole little role for her in a Justice riders au (plus nell of course) but I haven’t drawn much of any of it yet! This is basically as much as I’ve touched it with drawings

Putting her in the 1800s makes her a bit more pitiable because circumstances are less in her control. Ahh she can be a bit sympathetic just once I guess.

#asks #basically she’s an outlaw and nell chases her down to bring her in for that 2 cents and a shoelace bounty #I should sit down and draw some actual concepts for what he might look like though. I do want it to be cowboy-ish though #I considered having him be one of those beautiful women in the saloon that kisses on napkins. idk why he’d be there though. he’s not popular #I go crazy for western stories I think I get so overwhelmed with excitement I get scared and run away from this concept #hmm I also outlined a whole little comic for how her and booster would meet in this au. but it’s a bit long I don’t thjnk I’ll ever draw it

[artnerd1123]

YEEHAW back into the arena we go (ง’̀-‘́)ง

#this chapter kept having to be cut down so much I rearranged my outline HDNDKLD #like of the whole story #anyway. dice be upon ye #dicey dungeons #dicey dungeons oc #beast dd #arty writes

[rawliverandgoronspice]

oh no I stopped working for five minutes and remembered I love he...................... ;;

#thoughts #ganondorf #I allowed myself a tiny “working on thralls outline” session #and I do love he a lot..... #trying to salute all the classics #the “will harm a child and will not even question whether that's a look” #the “absolutely unbearable cocky bastard with a dash of absolute pettiness omg shut uppppp” #the “actually scary and sadistic and morally bankrupt for real” #the “I love my people and resent my people but I won't explore neither emotion otherwise I will fall apart and there's no one to catch me” #the “the gods hate me???? fuck the gods then!!!! but like... the gods hate me or no? ;;” #the “I hate hylian monarchs so fucking much it's unreal I am going to shoot myself in the foot just because I hate them so goddamn much” #the “awww twinrova and he... they love each other <333 VS maams will you please stop injecting mental illnesses into your Big Son” #the “mutually destructive relationship with anyone who ever gets even a little close to him which 10000% includes his own people” #the “wouldn't it be fucked up and important to take gerudo objectification as an actual problem with complex psychological consequences” #the “Me A Problem with Masculinity or Men or gender? hahahahaha.... yea” #the “Impa buddy-hate trainwreck + Nabooru buddy-hate planecrash” #the “hmmmm no why is the hylian princess and I having a brief flicker of mutual recognition but we both know it's too late for amends” #and the “mystic crisis that will slowly but surely unravel a whole man if given enough time and grievances and Ls” #ANYWAY I like this story #it's wayy too ambitious for my own good #but

[clanborn]

ok i have started outlining the untitled horizonshine/alaska clans comic

#i am still nowhere near done fleshing out the lore. but i have enough that i can outline the basic plot details #since the story is less oriented around the clans as a whole and more about horizonshine’s arc and personal struggle #and i already have a very clear idea of the first two chapters #working title is event horizon but that is subject to change #cal posts

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Nothing better than when you brainstorm a whole new angle on a story that opens up a wide vista of possibilities and turns a blocked idea into something that could become a complete and satisfying narrative.

Nothing worse than when you write those new ideas down and discover it's still nowhere near enough to write a whole story.

#adventures in writing #twice this week already #once with the maid maleen #which was a wonderful daydream but turned out to be mostly an opening scene or two #and some painful yearning in the second half of the story #and now today i came up with a whole new angle on an old cinderella idea #figured out who these characters actually are as people instead of just slotting them into their fairy tale roles #and trying to make them match the characters that inspired them #figured out a writing style that could overcome all my structural difficulties and make it possible to write this story #i have all sorts of meta about the central couple and their backstories #and then when i go to outline it's like #where's the plot that holds this together? #i did find workarounds for my flimsiest spots i think #it would probably still be much more complicated than i want to write at the moment #but oh the daydream was so beautiful #it pains me that i can't share it just as it was #before the polish rubbed off

[theflyingfeeling]

fictalkfictalkfictalk

#like the clown i am i spent half the night awake trying to come up with a way to make the olli/allu modern-day royalty AU work out #my first idea was to try and make it similar to my college AU with POV chapters and shit #but i quickly realised it wouldn't work out for the same reason i'm still struggling with the gran hotel AU: #unlike with the college AU i don't have a clear character arch for everyone #e.g. i can't for the life of me think of a way to link the joel/niko side plot to the main plot to make it make sense #and idk what joonas' role would be other than to occasionally hook up with olli and fangirl about aleksi and pine for joel #soooooo it thought i could instead make it a series of shorter stories? if anyone out there is seriosly interested in reading this AU? 👉👈 #like. the first one would obviously have to be a little longer since it's the establishment for the whole AU #so far i have an outline for a 6-chapter story from olli's and allu's povs. basically just them getting together #and the rest of what i have planned for the AU would be standalones or shorter establishments? #because if i were to include EVERYTHING in one fic it would most likely end up being +20 chapters lol #and no way in hell would i have the patience for that 💀 #that way i could just time-jump to the scenes i want to write the most lol #instead of having to try and weave them together to form a longer coherent plot #i mean i looooooooove slow burn and all that but i don't want to overwhelm myself by starting to write something #only to realise 32k words later that i have no idea where i'm going with it D: #(my ski jumping rpf fic says hi 🙃) #but by writing individual shorter stories it would be much easier for me to handle the plot while also advancing it #because the storyline in my head is so extensive that i feel like i can't fit it all in just one fic #at least in a way that i would be satisfied with 😭 #i can make them get together in 6 chapters with no trouble #but for them to actually form a secure relationship and get messed up in all that tabloid drama and face the prejudice of the royal family #until eventually getting their happy ending? yeah nope. gonna need at least 20 chapters for that lmao #and if i wanted to advance all the sideplots on top of all that? yeah nope 😵 #with individual stories i could just write all the joonas/tommi and niko/joel (and unrequited j/j) as spin-offs! yay problem solved! 😇 #pls don't get your hopes up though lol i may love planning fics but writing is another story entirely 😂 #but yeah. watch this space? #or maybe i'll just continue writing random pointless olli/allu standalones whenever i get a burst of inspiration. we'll see 👀

[hideyseek]

9.09.2023

its so interesting as im writing narrative!fic the way that each subsequent draft / outline gets me closer and closer to a version of the fic that is ... true to the original conception? like i started gathering notes and ideas for this fic in earnest in ... 2021, like spring/summer 2021 and only today have finally put together an outline that FEELS like i am really, really close.

actually it's not even an outline it is a bunch of bulletpoint freewriting in a google doc that is roughly in the order of the series of events in the fic. i made a note to clean it into an outline later. but ohhh my god i finally!

like its been literally 4 drafts, i am slightly frightened to count how many words of draft material (probably about 60k give or take 15-20k), but THIS outline! i finally have the throughline of haiji's character arc through the fic, i've finally like .... idk. pared it down to the core parts and they magically (throug the power of thinking about this fic near-constantly since 2021) fit together now. THANK FUCK!

i told my old roommate i would send them a completed draft to beta like. two years ago.

i still don't know how this fucking fic ends but i have OPTIONS that probably will all require drafting out and revising before i pick sigh. but ohhhhhhhh my god this has NOT BEEN FUN but it is SO REWARDING to finally fucking hit (for like the third time) the feeling of "oh okay. i figured another thing out about how this story is going to work. it's going to come together now."

admittedly i said that to myself the last several times but THIS TIME I FIGURED OUT THE JOURNALING AND HAIJI'S WHOLE CHARACTER ARC and there is CAUSATION AND EVERYTHING which there sure was not before ahahaha. god this time i figured out the journaling!!!

and yes this is uhhhhhhhhhh an incredibly personal reading of haiji, i truly feel that my irl friends will kind of squint knowingly. but ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh A MILESTONE!

a milestone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#the absolute relief i felt this afternoon #also this is fully because i have been casually writing bcsdp and thinking about heist!au and having heist!au come together #which has been WAY EASIER than narrative!fic bc figuring out the story logic of heist!au doesn't require uh. #me to process the first few years of my early twenties and distill it into a story about a whole guy who is not actually me #but AAAAAAAAAAAAAA. A WORKABLE OUTLINE. WITH LOGIC. THAT IS THEMATICALLY CONSISTENT. THAT I CAN SIMPLIFY DOWN TO A SENTENCE. OR FIVE #THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IN MY KNOWLEDGE OF MY FICS THIS WHOLE TIME #wow the beauty and joy of NOT WRITING FOR A DEADLINE AND JUST WAITING UNTIL THE FIC IS GOOD ENOUGH TO ME #omg its kakehai day tomorrow i think #AN AUSPICIOUS DAY! #hidey speaks #also tbh this is thanks to bcsdp bc i have been so used to chewing on that prompt over the weekend that not having one this weekend made me #go: omg what ELSE can i write?? and do this

[miafeystits]

oh also i think i finally figured out how to write a story with a plot. no guarantees that this goes anywhere but in theory i now have serious plans for a multichapter fic that i will likely finish within the decade. major themes will include (in order of importance):

a) lesbianism

b) daddy issues

c) marriage as a tool of patriarchal violence and coercion

d) increasingly long lists of historical sources in the author's notes

e) lesbianism, again

#its susarei if it was not immediately obvious #i actually do have close to full rough drafts for quite a few scenes at this point #and a pretty robust outline for everything else #but im not going to start posting anything until the whole story is pretty close to done i think #ill probably end up posting quite a few other things before this one gets published tho

[daisywords]

ok I think the gameplan is to write out a very detailed synopsis of just everything that happens (on or off screen) and then divide all events into on- and off-screen categories. And then obviously everything in the on-screen category gets divided into scenes. And then everything in the off-screen category gets a corresponding clue (or several) and then I have to assign each clue to a scene. Then I'll flesh out each scene zero-draft style. And then maybe someday I'll be able to write the thing for real

#starlightwip #writing process #''but daisy that's just outlinin—'' hush #listen I have never had a solid handle on the whole detailed outline thing #so idc if I am reinventing the wheel I'm still toiling and sweating away at inventing #but I have come to the conclusion that this story very badly needs a full detailed outline #there are too many pieces that need to come together