#not me doing this to try and finally get a coherent handle on my Jashinism headcanons ahem

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Writing hack: if you're getting stuck trying to do background worldbuilding, like you're filling in backstory for a character or designing a location or attempting to flesh out a culture or something in your setting, write it up as a fake Wikipedia page. That way, the bits you're fully stuck on can just be headings with a note saying "needs expansion" for now, the bits where you can't decide whether to make x or y be the truth can be written up both ways under a "Controversy" heading, the bits you do have plenty to say about can be splurged down without needing to reference the bits you're still stuck on.

For bonus points, have fun inventing imaginary sources, because once you've done that, you've got fictional books and learned authorities to throw into your actual story later if you need some random titles to stick on a bookshelf (or a place to hide a terrible pun like you're aspiring to be Sir Terry Pratchett, of course).

For even more bonus points, get carried away and start adding links to other pages and then write those too.

#Rath thoughts #writing cheatsheet #writing advice #not me doing this to try and finally get a coherent handle on my Jashinism headcanons ahem #I just can't keep writing Hidan without ever giving him chance to infodump about his faith <3 #but if he's going to do that in fic *I* need to know wtf he's going to say first.