#writer's laments

[borealtwilight]

me: *has ideas to write fic* me: *actually gets around to sitting down at her laptop to begin writing* my brain: no actually i dont want to do that me: WHY

#natty rambles #OK to RB #writer's laments #SUFFERING. AGONY. MISERY EVEN #i have been uncreative for sO FUCKING LONG #and the first thing my brain does after giving me ideas is #to NOT want to work on any of them????

[friendlyengie]

Sometimes I’ll make a joke about haha yea no comic update since 2017. then i reread the comics and go oh god no coming update since 2017. Because I remember that this comic had like a. Plot and a story that only makes about 50% sense thru the first six issues and still has a whole bunch of loose ends that i go “man i wonder what’s going on here” and then i go “oguughhghh man i wonder if they wouldve expanded on that in issue 7” and then i put my head down on the table in defeat.

#i want to know more about what the fuck is going on with Engie in the comics #i feel it in my bones that he wouldve gotten more spotlight in the final issue or at least finally get to join the rest of the team #tf2 #this isn’t an invitation to start mindlessly bashing on the ppl who made the comics btw. #ive seen a bit too much of that in my time of watchingg ppl lament over the missing final issue. #yearn! Crave! Cry and scream over not having a final issue! But also dont. Be an ass to the artists and writers. Ok. #anyways im going to go stand in a corner and think about engineer tf2comics #The Clown Speaks

[mittensmorgul]

There’s another post going around about this, but tumblr won’t let me reblog it but...

When I read a story written by a human being, I’m not just reading it because I want to read a coffee shop AU with a specific plot description. I’m reading it because it’s making a connection to another human storyteller and seeing a piece of them carved into the words. Storytelling is a human act of sharing joy, angst, tension, resolution, satisfaction. It’s an act of love.

Writing and reading a story isn’t just an act of creation and consumption. I hate that commercialism and AI are reducing it to that sort of transaction. Like oh, you need words on this subject and that’s the end of it. Like what we really needed was just a vending machine we can push buttons on to get a fix, as if the human creating the story wasn’t a factor. That the author’s life experience and views and feelings haven’t infused the words with their own unique touches.

I’ve read hundreds of coffee shop AU’s over the years (and thousands of fics in general). I’ve seen many similar tropes reused across stories, and just like an AI would, I’ve learned things about writing them that I will always carry with me. But unlike an AI, a human author is not just the sum total of coffee shop AU’s we’ve consumed. Even if we used the same prompt, the same sets of tropes, the same characters. I will always choose the human-crafted story over the computer generated one.

Because again, I’m not just looking for a very specific fix via a series of words. I’m looking for a human connection through story.

Unlike an AI, I have BEEN to a coffee shop. I’ve had experiences in coffee shops. I’ve had funny little meet-cutes with people. I’ve accidentally spilled coffee on myself and knocked heads with someone as we both rushed to wipe it up. I know what it FEELS like. The machine doesn’t.

I’ve also read millions of things that aren’t fanfic, or coffee shop AU’s. I’ve experienced things OTHER than going to coffee shops and having meet-cutes. And I know what all those things feel like when processed through my personal human lens of experience, which is different from every other personal human lens of experience.

All the machine can do is spit out what it THINKS a human experience is, and I honestly don’t care about that at all. Fic is not a “product” to be “generated.” It’s an art form that connects us to other people who share the same love of a thing that we do.

People who, even when all writing the same characters in the same setting to the exact same prompt, will all add something or have a viewpoint about something or bring a completely different personality and life experience to the story that no one else on the planet could. That’s what I’m actually reading.

#ai shit #adventures in fanfic #i detest this commodification of art being accelerated by ai tech #as if art was nothing more than a consumer product #i want to engage with art made by people who were driven by a passion to make something and share it with us #not working to an algorithm to generate specific 'content' (and can we agree that reducing art to 'content' is part of the problem here) #and this whole concept of 'death of the author' that has been warped so far beyond what it actually means >.> #it just... makes me incredibly sad to see so many people arguing FOR the use of ai in the arts #like way to miss the whole entire point of what the arts even are #but this reminds me of the fic writer challenge i did one summer... #same prompt same set of tropes and every week a dozen completely different stories from a dozen different authors #because we all took our own unique spin on the subject because that's what PEOPLE do... #i just lament what will happen to that vast well of creativity and humanity that will be lost if everything just gets replaced #by a machine that just keeps spitting out the 'content' it believes the 'consumer' wants... it's just... depressing af

[lamentsburlesquewriter]

Scattered sentiments float about the universe growing within her

Lurking in her veins, swimming down her spine

Chill-bumps roll in, flooding every fraction of flesh

Bruising, scratching, numbing her core

An abundance of the heart and a teeming inexhaustible spirit

#original writing #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled words #writers on tumblr #laments & burlesque #poets corner #new poets society #poets on tumblr #verse #alt lit

[idk-tbh-idk]

K, idk how long Noel has been dreaming of being Monique, I’m assuming since he was a kid, but didn’t give her a personality, nor a name or certain details that’d keep constant. she was just his comfort zone and someone to project into on his day dreaming, and he added up to her background as he grew up

But, think about this a little, it’s something I’ve recently noticed: both Noel’s and Monique’s last names start with a G, wouldn’t it make sense for his alt persona to have the same initials???(ik it’s not obligatory, and perhaps he didn’t like his name so he chose something far away from it)

but bututbutbut what if he started writing his name along with Mischa’s, like M+G, or started to fantasize them actually being together, or whatever and he wrote stuff like “Mischa Gruber” and panicked one time a teacher grabbed his notebook and from then he would only write initials lol

Sosososo, what if Noel came up with Monique’s name because of the constant MG, M+G writing???? I mean, he’s a poet, ofc he’d do something like that

Am i making sense?

Idk

#I know Noel’s personality doesn’t have to revolve around Mischa but sometimes these kinda stuff happen ask any writer or artist you know… #ride the cyclone #mischa bachinski #rtc #mischa rtc #rtc mischa #noel gruber #noels lament #noel gruber rtc #mischa x noel #rtc nischa #nischa #monique gibeau #haven’t slept properly in a month bare with me

[navybrat817]

I dont have an emoji, you just get my randomness.

What is a fic you wish you could rewrite all over again, not to change it, but to get the feels that writing it the first time gave you?

I love this question, Amber! I'm going to cheat and give two.

General feels - Howling Commandos Tattoo AU

I will forever love these fucking tattooed bastards and it was such a whirlwind to write for them. 🥰

Angsty feels - A Lover's Lament

I cried while writing this. It was a different style that I tried and I loved the depth and emotions in this fic. It was also the ending I believe Chris deserved.

Same question to you. ❤️

Love and thanks! ❤️

#navybrat answers #writer ask #fic ask #howling commandos tattoo au #a lover's lament #bucky barnes #steve rogers #tattoo artist!bucky barnes #tattoo artist!steve rogers #destroyer!chris #sweater-daddiesdumbdork #sending love ❤️ #asks are always appreciated

[expressingexperience]

parts of myself

seeing you in that splattered,

crushed and bloodied rabbit.

its mother is wrapped in the dress

she wore when we knew you

were gone. she will hear the news,

fall to her knees and be left to

cry alone for her living daughter

cannot bear to comfort her.

seeing you in the hospital mirror

while the lights burn too harshly and

my reflection isn’t mine. The parts

you left inside me reconstruct

my being, though your absence

leaves an unsealable gap within.

#mine #writing #writblr #writeblr #writers on tumblr #poetry #poets on tumblr #elegy #lament #rabbit #orginal poem

[cringefaildiaz]

i do not yearn for buddie canon season 6. i yearn for buddie roommates season 6 and the emotional chaos that would ensue thereafter

#im talking eddie dating (and failing) and buck lamenting his couch problem (whatever that means) for the rest of s6 #all while buck keeps coming to crash on the diaz sofa #and at the end of it all buck just LOSES it about how fucking horrible his couch is and is like 'eddie i want YOUR couch' #and eddie goes 'bet' #and then s7 is just Increasingly Domestic Buddie #and then other things happen i guess idk im not a fucking television writer #911 fox #911 spec #(this is not spec but it sure reads like spec) #buddie

[mystique84]

I'm begging fanfic authors to NEVER DELETE YOUR WORK!

Please!

I recently tried to find something from a fandom (Doctor Who) and it was gone!!!! I can't tell you how often this happens and the reason I don't save stuff is because I have over 1 thousands booksmarks on ao3 alone! My computer can't handle that shit!

I recently went to read some of my old work which was on fanfiction.net and yeah…it was really really bad because it was written when I was in highschool. I'm going to do an update and upload to ao3. I won't delete though because that history! Please please don't delete.

Orphan if necessary.

If your work is offensive then go back and add an update but omg. I'm just devastated about a one-shot going missing.

#doctor who #fan fiction #fanfiction.net #ao3 fanfic #orphan work #save #lament #ao3 writer #ao3

[insertlovelyperson]

I know we all talk a lot about missed opportunities in The Quarry. If you could make three specific changes (new paths, relationship tweaks, game mechanics, whatever, added or adjusted dialogue, whatever) to make it a better game and narrative, what would they be?

There’s soooo much other than what I said in my last post,  (I know you said top three 😩 but I hold all these equal):

1- Nick’s infection status being determinant.  Dude really drew the short stick in terms of screen time (maybe not the shortest but pretty close) because he’s taken out of the story so soon. I would really have liked to have the infection in chapter 3 alternate  between Abi and Nick depending on your choices. Like maybe when they’re talking in the woods and they hear the werewolf, you are given the option as Abi to either ‘run’ or ‘don’t move’ (with maybe a bit of dialogue before to muddy the choices “Is it a bear? Does that mean we should play dead?”), and if you ‘run,’ Abi gets infected instead of Nick. I would also just like… more of the counselors to turn in general?? The only ones that don’t are Abi, Ryan, and Kaitlyn… but I really wished we’d gotten that.

2- Have all the counselors act ‘negatively’ while they’re turning. We obviously get this with Nick (+Emma and Jacob to an extent), but I wish the game fully capitalized on the opportunity to make the other counselors a little more ‘wolfy’ when they’re turning. Particularly Dylan, Laura, and Kaitlyn. First of all: it would’ve been cool if Laura’s infection status was determinate so the game could provide some contrast to how she acts when she’s turning verses when she isn’t. Maybe when she’s not infected, she doesn’t get the opportunity to choke out Jedidiah, and she has noticeably less hostile dialogue options (compared to the ones she could potentially get while not infected). With Dylan—if infected at the radio hut—he gets ‘bitter’ and ‘aggressive’ dialogue options on his way to the scrapyard with Kaitlyn. As is already in the game: the two of them are talking about Ryan. He’s literally conversing with the other leg of the game’s love triangle (who the player may have chosen to kiss instead of him), and he’s lamenting about the fact Ryan ran off with another girl around an hour ago. I don’t know—it just feels like a missed opportunity to not have the dialogue between the two change depending on infection status (while still keeping everything in his ‘exploding’ scene in the crane the same). With Kaitlyn… it’s a little harder because she can literally only get infected in the last rung of the game. Maybe make her dialogue a little more snappish toward Dylan, and give her more reckless choices when fighting Caleb (more opportunities to initiate combat without the silver shell).

3- The final confrontation with Silas should’ve been in the lodge. They should’ve had a way to get Laura, Ryan, and possibly Travis (they should’ve also provided an opportunity to kill him in Hackett House without killing Ryan or Laura) back to the lodge. And depending on the infection status of the surviving counselors, the fight with Silas is either helped or hindered. Were Dylan and Kaitlyn infected? Cool, now you’ve got Silas plus two other werewolves to deal with—and you might not want to kill these ones. Did they lock Caleb in the fridge instead of killing him? Awesome, now a werewolf Nick (and possibly Jacob) are also trying to kill you! I think they could also provide an opportunity to make the time of infection matter. For example: I think Dylan canonically takes the longest to turn after he’s bit (it’s like… 4 hours?). If you have him infected in the crane rather than the radio hut, maybe that makes the fight a little easier because you can use him as a ‘human shield’ (that sounds awful lol). Or maybe the game provides an opportunity for Kaitlyn and Dylan to get infected by Caleb before locking him in the freezer, and now you’ve got two human shields. And of course, the rest of the uninfected counselors get an opportunity to reconvene at the lodge before the fight starts, perhaps paying homage to the final scene in Until Dawn? Perhaps?? 

Honorable mentions:

Have Max able to survive his swim to shore

Kaitlyn going with Laura to Hackett house

All of the counselors are able to turn by the end of the game

Laura and Max reunion (without killing Ryan)

Actual payoff to the Kaitlyn/Ryan/Dylan love triangle

More Abi and Emma (just… in general. They kinda become a side characters in the second half of the game—wish they had more to do while Kaitlyn and Dylan are in the scrapyard—would be cool to see a route that has the both of them taking on Caleb assuming the game then provides the ability to kill off both Kaitlyn and Dylan in the scrapyard)

Have a way to have Kaitlyn choose between taking Dylan or Emma to the scrapyard with her

Let Kaitlyn choose whether or not she takes Abi to the scrapyard if Dylan is killed by a werewolf Emma

More angst from Ryan after killing Chris. It’s kinda built up to be this big emotional thing and then he’s completely fine after.

Let Jacob tag along through the Hackett house with Ryan and Laura

Chase scene out of the scrapyard playing as Kaitlyn if Dylan turns inside the crane 

An actual ending. Fuck that podcast. Should've gone the Until Dawn route but instead of the police interviews, it's a trial. And at the end, you find out if they were found guilty or not (or if everyone's dead, then you get the podcast. As punishment.)

#the quarry #i wish they'd just taken a few more months to release this game ngl #i don't blame the writers #i think if given more time they absolutely would've polished this game more #but i will always lament what could've been

[borealtwilight]

when will my ability to write fic return from war

#writer's laments #natty rambles #le sigh

[hailmaryfullofmaggots]

𝖎 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖔𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖗𝖚𝖎𝖓

i know i found this quote somewhere on tumblr years ago and drew a tat design inspired by it. is anyone able to direct me to the original writer or source?

#lamentations #creation of adam #flies #art #tattoos #tattoo ideas #poetry #tattoo artist #bible book club #heirophilia #reverend mother visceria #dead dove #proship #fanfic writer #sacreligious #dark prose #prose #writing #not anti religion #pro kink #creepy #weird art #macabre #dark art #not my quote #dead dove do not eat #fandom #queer artwork #queer artist #recovery

[fleetways]

people have been nothing but kind about my fanfic and I really appreciate it. but to be totally honest it gives me a lot of anxiety knowing there’s so many more eyes on it now

#I’ve been pretty melancholic about my work lately #it’s just reading the most recent chapters versus the first few #back when there were no expectations #even though I’m a more competent writer now there was something so carefree about my work back then #sorry don’t mind me I’m just having a moment bc a job won’t call me back and I’m lamenting my unemployment

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

WIP Meme Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

The names of my Newsies WIPs:

-Kill the competition

-College Essay in False Starts

-5 lies about the leg

Tagging @just-pot-over-here @jack-kellys @a-natural-satellite-of-the-earth

And anyone else who wants to do this!

#my wips #fanfic writer's lament #fanfic meme #newsies fandom #newsies fanfic #newsies #livesies #uksies

[alistisius]

Do you ever imagine your stories being in manhwa/Webtoon format? Which story would you like to see drawn out like that the most? Heh >.<

Yesssssss I most definitely do! 😭

Actually, before I settled on wanting to publish my projects in the form of a novel, I really wanted them to be webcomics… but then I realised the sheer amount of work that be… handling both the art and the writing 🤒

But, in my head, I have specific artstyles that each of these series would have had lol

To answer your question though, probably The Call of the Void? It honestly could work really really well as one

Oh and also Echoes of Lament! It would’ve been so amazing to see that story as a webcomic \(//∇//)\

[Sometimes I do just want to f*ck it and draw it all out…. But it’s just not feasible for me lol…]

#Story #writing #writer #webtoon #webcomic #novel #the call of the void #echoes of lament #Project #artist

[savvyminnow]

Savvy’s Writing Intro Post!

Hi! I’m Savvy (she/her). I am an autistic aroace author. My other blog is @elritze, which you may have seen lurking in writeblr before.

I’m currently writing The Glass Lament, the first book in a high fantasy series. The main characters are autistic and queer with themes of identity and self-acceptance.

More about me: I love reading and video games! I’m a big fan of Hollow Knight, Hermitcraft, The Locked Tomb… lots of things. I just finished reading Piranesi and The Spear Cuts Through Water, which both changed my brain chemistry. Right now I’m reading The Murderbot Diaries and playing Hades.

In the future, you can find more about my WIP under the tag #The Glass Lament. Here's a blurb for it:

Zara never wanted to fight. Not until the Nemesi, whose fanatic regime tried to conquer Lopenya a century ago, return without warning and burn her village. Her oath of vengeance drives her away from her people to join the Guards of Lopenya, but before she can reach the front lines, her patrol receives a mysterious new order.

Now, against her wishes, Zara finds herself escorting a Dracai'seng – one of the last of a legendary race – across the kingdom on a fateful mission. Along the way, she will face hungry spirits and winged bandits, and discover secrets about Lopenya, the Dracai’seng, the war with the Nemesi… and perhaps even herself.

Anyway, I've been around on Tumblr for a while but haven't interacted much with the writing community. Time to change that!

#writeblr #writing #writers on tumblr #The Glass Lament #writeblr intro