#thanks for the ask pia <3 wuv you

[moonssugar]

🌼 🌿

🌿 describe your narrative style, multiple POVs? Present or past tense? 1st person or 3rd? Why did you choose that for your WIP?

for me its multiple povs, present and past tense (i'm a mess) and 3rd person. when i first started reading novels i really couldn't stand 1st person pov for some reason? it annoyed the hell out of me so i refused to write it ever since but i can't say it still annoys me in the present day unless its done right (lots of character inner monologue, i love it and stories feels incomplete without it to me). this is probably also due to my favorite books all being in 3rd person. my reason for using multiple povs is that i need to know what's going on inside everyone's head and my brain keeps supplying me with ideas for what they're thinking/feeling when i'm writing anyways. it doesn't matter if they're the main character or not for me. for the present and past tense…don't ask i don't know what the hell i'm doing.

🌼 pick an OC and put them on blast. Call out their flaws, complain about what makes them difficult to write, etc.

lmaoooo okay Sam goes first 

he literally doesn't talk often enough. Sir, fucking Kaid talks more than you. where the fuck is your dialogue. also you should get into the habit of talking shit more often too, especially when these dumbass kids are bullying you. when i say 70% to 80% of his dialogue is internal. sam knows two whole languages and won't say shit in either of them 💀he's just not a shit talker and his mom is definitely a shit talker and i wish he inherited that trait instead of quietly judging people and being conflict avoidant like his dad. this isn't necessarily a bad thing its just that i have to tickle him to get him to say something and he's the main character??? boy say something?? i think i need to accept having a introvert main character once and for all and acknowledge that its okay. but also, sam needs to get mad more often. stop being so nice all damn the time go apeshit. please. at least he says the fuck word. lastly, i need a way to profoundly change you by the end of this story and i haven't fucking found it yet because he keeps getting away from me the rascal. everything else is fine about him just please talk kid.

aubry: you are mentally ill no but seriously her journey from point A to point B is what makes her difficult to write but also fun as hell to write because i love when a character completely changes? getting all her mannerisms right is actually like trying to solve a rubix cube and play chess at the same time though. how do i keep track of all that. i say characters changing is a good thing but her base character and basic personally has changed i don't know how many goddamn times since inception in very small ways and sometimes in huge ways. but i feel like im finally getting somewhere. after 2 years. she is very (ironically) set in her ways i swear she's like a small boomer sometimes. she needs to come out of her shell and live a little. also how do we forgive her for being an asshole sometimes and also make her lovable and make that realistic? how do i figure out how to write that? damn aubry, you make things difficult. 

Chelsie: she's insane and perfect, she is the second coming, she is a girlboss, she is never going to die, nothing bad to say about her. sike, actually you know how Sam never talks but has terabytes worth of inner dialogue? well Chelsie talks a lot. she thinks as she talks and talks as she thinks (i love this about her). the issue is she's so guarded that all her inner dialogue has mysteriously gone missing! what's going on in that wonderful noggin of yours, Chells? her inner dialogue is mostly what she feels and does as a result of it unless its particularly about solving a problem. i guess she is one of those people that don't talk to themselves inwardly a lot? but that makes it hard for me to understand her and her journey inwardly. not surprisingly…she has problems opening up to other people in the text/story and doesn't understand her own emotions. so yeah 💀that tracks. she is wonderfully contradictory too but i can make that make sense if i try hard enough. and sometimes she'll shove sam into oncoming traffic and declare that she is the main character. i am sending her directly to therapy after this is over.

#ask game #roadtrip! by me #thanks for the ask pia <3 wuv you #writing