#how not to write

[thecoffeelorian]

So, instead of the one character who's clearly been unwell since the beginning receiving the medical care they need from the people who have the knowledge of what to do...

We're expected instead to just slap a shiny metal suit on him, give him a dog, and make him call himself a monster for the rest of the season so the perfect heroes can go on feeling perfect.

Well.

Sure hope they never find out the whole story.

#the bad batch #tbb crosshair #all this talk of tech... #...and not ONCE do they mention the scanner. #one more thing for the whole fandom to forget. #this was basically slapping a band-aid on an artery #but carry on lucasfilm 🤷 #how not to write

[penstricken]

8 Useful Blog Posts About Writing

Want to improve your #writing skills? Check out these 8 useful blog posts from other bloggers 👇 #writingtip #blog

I always try to bring the best writing advice I can to my blog, but sometimes, I just can’t say it as well as my fellow bloggers. I have therefore decided that it is time, once again, for me to share a list of blog posts about writing that I have found particularly useful in recent weeks so that you, too, can benefit from their wisdom. If you want to up your writing game, you could do a lot…

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[davekatzdefensesquad]

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking, I hear mixed stuff about Ryan Murphy e.g. whilst he's quite progressive in terms of queer media, in some instances not so much? Like he doesn't like bi people ?

He despises bisexual people, unfortunately. That was pretty evident from his writing of bi characters on glee and there’s evidence (in naya riveras book I believe) that when he had issues with people or certain things, he’d add it to the script in some way where a character was mean to another character based on who he was mad at bts, like how he completely wrote Quinn out of the final season bc Diana Agron wouldn’t take his shit anymore when he mistreated her and her character.

The reason why I think he’s biphobic is bc of how he wrote characters to disregard bisexuality as someone who will cheat or having a character straight up dismiss it by saying that person is trying to tiptoe out of the closet instead of just being full on gay.

He had Brittany cheat on her bf with Santana and then when Santana had moved to New York, she was happy to date a lesbian who she “won’t have to worry about straying for penis.” I just know that anything RM writes, that there’s bleed through from his own personal beliefs and I don’t trust him to be good to bi characters.

Hopefully others will take over on writing Buck or Oliver puts his foot down to make sure RM doesn’t mishandle this story.

(Unrelated: I just started rewatching schitts creek today lol)

#anti Ryan Murphy #glee critical #Ryan Murphy critical #nothing wrong with writer bleed through but he takes it too far #writing #how not to write #mine #answers #answered #ask box #anniemurphy #rant #opinions #911 lonestar #911 #TW biphobia #biphobia

[rjalker]

KA Applegate, who got paid real actual money to write the Animorphs books: Sharks can't jump. This fact is a crucial part of the story and the only reason the protagonist survive.

Meanwhile, sharks,,,

[ID: Three photographs of a spinner shark jumping out of the water. It has a dark grey back and a solid white belly. In the first it is horizontal over the water while a seagull flies between it and the camera. In the second it is in the middle of jumping out of the water, with just its tail still below the surface. In the third it is facing towards the camera with its belly angled up and only its closed mouth the only visible part of its face. End ID.]

iNaturalist observation.

Literally. Imagine getting paid real actual money to write books for kids and then just fucking not giving a single shit about whether or not you have even the slightest idea what you're talking about.

I do more fucking intense research for a single line for any given fanfiction than KA Applegate did for the entirety of this 60+ book series that was claiming to be education.

It's fucking disgraceful. I'm serious. I hope she's ashamed of herself. The sheer fucking laziness. She got paid money to write this shit and she didn't even give enough shits to look up even the most basic fucking details of anything.

Here's a fucking writing tip: do your fucking research. Especially if you're actually getting paid to write.

#Rjalker reads The Animorphs #Animorphs #Sharks #described images #iNaturalist #how not to write #writing tips

[transcendragon]

How to (Not) Write a Character Arc: the Case of Eddie Munson

How to (Not) Write a Character Arc: the Case of Eddie Munson

(Spoilers for Season 2 and Season 4 of Stranger Things. These are all my own opinions.) You know Eddie wasn’t my favorite character (just not my type), but he was a surprisingly good character for one who only got a single season. I really get why a disproportionate amount of people have been up in arms about him: he was an interesting character who got a terrible death. The worst kind of death:…

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[dreamerking27]

So tired of mentally ill villains. Why do you have to do that. Just make them evil. Don’t try to explain why with “they’re hiding psychosis” whatever whatever I don’t want it. Mentally ill people are generally victims of violence not perpetrators. Stop it. I don’t want it.

Better Reasons Your YA Villain is Villain-ing than that They are Marginalized

-they’re busy. That’s it they’re just too busy to do what your protagonist wants.

-they have been raised in a system that prioritizes individual accomplishment so they don’t want to make others’ lives easier cause it’ll make theirs harder.

-don’t give a reason. Fairy tale it.

-they think it’s fun

-they think it’s funny

-literally anything but mental illness!!!

#ya fiction #tropes i hate #how not to write

[sweetysamaa]

How not to post on AO3:

Get a new fic idea.

Write the end before the beginning.

Drag the doc in the "To finish later" folder.

#the story of my life #me rn #fanfiction #ao3 #how not to write #how not to post on ao3 #writer life

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

#🌿 misc #idk how to tag this #i just love making lists #and sorting things into categories #pinterest #?? #this is part of what motivates me to write i just love making lists of scenes and then sorting them into categories #bangers

[words-and-coffee]

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you're expected to understand the rest of the text, it's fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.

Next image is the futurama meme: to shreds you say...]

(Image ID by @bisexualshakespeare)

#powerful right off the bat #Alice Te Punga Somerville #Always Italicise #Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised #new zealand poem #Always Italicise How to Write While Colonised #Kupu rere kē #aotearoa #quote #quotes #poem #poetry #Māori poetry #Māori #colonization #colonisation #Decolonisation #Te reo māori #Decolonization #new zealand #new zealand poetry

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #sometimes i can't even believe how much i myself have written. like i think i am not a writer. i am not doing enough. i do not write enough #and i look back and i have 34 (34!!) works on ao3 and reams of unpublished work on my computer and so long left to live. so i think #we will be okay. #writing

[unchartedthelostlegacy]

i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.

did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss

#graffiti #it's like how they claim touching a paper that had drugs on it can kill a police officer #manufactured fear of art itself because of who made it #you won't invest in addiction recovery or keeping libraries open or extracurricular programs but you'll sure as hell give cops overtime #so they can beat a kid writing on a shutter #writers have such big dick energy

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

#i've been listening to icarus by bastille #and for some reason my brain fills in 'this is how it feels to take a fall' as 'this is how it feels to take off all your skin' #and like fuck man #and I KNOW that’s technically not a misheard lyric but my post my rules cope #anyway my line now #also probably phrased this poorly but its ok #im allowed to be incomprehensible #as a treat #and then fuckin #from we sink by of monsters and men #the original line was 'please look away dont look at me' #and i kept hearing it as 'please learn a way to look at me' #anyway #shoving this post in the queue but please be aware that i am writing it very late at night #q

[rjalker]

Martha Wells with The Murderbot Diaries is just like she's taking things she knows are Scifi™ and sticking them in the story but she has no understanding of why those things are common in scifi and also has no desire to learn or I guess even understand why they were included in the first place, so instead she just presents them as fact that do not need to be questioned or even noticed.

A lot of science fiction asks the question, "How much technology can you add to your body before you stop being human?"

And Martha Wells was like "oh that sounds neat. Anyways disabled people aren't fully human anymore. This is just a fact. It's fine. No no one's going to question or deconstruct this. No I'm not making this statement to make a statement about the way disabled people are dehumanized. No I'm not even doing it to show that this is a dystopia. This is not a distopian fact. It's just a fact. It will never be explored or expanded upon. 99% of readers will not even notice it because of how little importance it has and the fact that I don't treat it as a big deal at all."

Like.

Lady.

This is not how this works.

And this whole problem definitely stems from her issue of not planning ahead. She originally intended The Murderbot Diaries to just be that first short story, and it was going to have a tragic ending. Then she decided to keep writing for it.

Some things work if it's just a single short story that's all you see of the world.

But that stops working once you decide that actually, you're going to expand it. Except you're gonna just keep refusing to expand upon this thing you created that you don't even see as a problem.

Consistently separating Real Humans from Disabled Humans is only a good writing choice if the whole fucking point of the separation is to criticize ableism and the dehumanization of disabled people.

Martha Wells isn't questioning anything. She's not deconstructiong anything. She just thought calling disabled people augmented humans and then making sure no one can forget that they're not Really Human Anymore was a cool scifi sounding idea, without realizing that you do in fact need to address this shit if you're going to include it in your worldbuilding.

This is just bad writing. And it very clearly stems from Martha Wells' inability to plan ahead. But this is her responsibility and yes, disabled people are going to continue to be upset by and offended by this stupid lazy decision she chose to make. She decided to make systemic ableism a set dressing for her story, without ever actually doing anything to question it or utilize it in any way.

That's just bad writing.

pro fucking tip: do not just pick out elements of dystopic settings to put into your story unless you're actually planning to use them. There's a fucking reason a lot of science fiction deals with dsiability and whether or not disbled people should be considered human or not. If you are unwilling or unable to fucking actually reckon with this question then don't fucking ask it. It's not just a quirky little decoration you can throw into your story for fun. That's not how this works.

#Martha Wells #Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries #The Murderbot Diaries #disabled #disability #cyberpunk #ableism #how not to write #writing tips #writing advice #mainly. what not to fucking do. #don't fucking do this #augmented human #augmented humans #cyborgs #transhumanism #tagging for general purposes. it's not what Martha Wells is intending #she's not intending anything she's just legitimately being lazy. #and I mean that with full sincerity. #Martha Wells is in fact capable of world building. She's just decided not to do any of it for this series

[mebssann]

imagine you're living in the post apocalypse and your adopted dad still makes you do homework

#I just think it's cute that Marcy canonically learned how to read and write from Simon #adventure time #marceline abadeer #simon petrikov #fanart #digital art #my art

[live-from-flaturn]

"But you already wrote that trope."

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfics #fanfic culture #tropes #fanfic tropes #its my blorbo and he'll suffer how I want him to #blorbo disc horse #fanfic meme #fanfic author shitpost #writing meme