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⌈ Secret Post #2824 ⌋
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You can't HANDLE the Writing Thread!
Hi! I wasn't planning on doing this but I'm in desperate need of motivation myself so...
Here is a classy fellow who wants to talk to you about the benefits of lying in bed.
Here is Oblique Strategies.
What's up with protagonists?!
A photo prompt and a secondary photo prompt, for those of us who like to have two ideas.
So what's everybody working on? I have to write a story that employs dialogue to propel the plot, reflect character, and provide subtext. I had an absolutely crackerjack idea on Monday night, but do you think I wrote it down? No. I decided sleep was more important. Will I ever learn?!
By the way, here is a list of 1950's slang terms. All USA, probably. Crackerjack isn't on there. I think that's more 20s or 30s but I think it's nuggets and I'm going to use it from now on. Really the word from the bird. Do you want your writing to sound hip and also hep? Use more 50s slang. Just go through all your drafts and throw it in wherever. You thought good writing was about character depth and plot? Nope. It's all about 50s slang. I need to stop.
Character Shipping Thread
(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 01:56 am (UTC)(link)Tell me about them!
Why not ship your characters, after all, if shipping others' are fun.
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My stories always focus on relationships, romantic or not.
AYRT
(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:07 am (UTC)(link)Any personal favorite ships?
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:13 am (UTC)(link)My favourite ship is one I'm really uncertain about whether I'm going to make it canon or not. To the point I've written so far it's a unrequited crush and possibly some fucking, but I'm unsure about everything but the crush. The crusher is a hopelessly romantic 19 year old girl and the crushee is a late 20s to early 30s man with a stick up his ass who really does not have romance on his mind, though I can see him trying to fuck away some stress. No matter what I choose it won't be fluffy for anyone.
In my mind however I like to imagine them really fluffy, which is so out of character for the guy. But I love it, even if it will never happen in story.
Another ship I love from this story (which is canon) is of this guy's brother and his lover, a former courtesan/current spy. They are both just really devoted to each other, though they stand on different sides of my conflict (he doesn't know that however). I don't know how it will end for them either, but as they are now, I love them.
AYRT
(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:46 am (UTC)(link)It is fun to explore ships and relationships outside the story. Sometimes for me they end up working their way in somehow, at least a mention.
Ohh that latter sounds really intriguing and different.
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In one story I have a couple who end up in different dimensions, with the woman trying to get to her husband or to get him back. It's cute, I think they work as a couple, but they aren't the soulmate sort of ship; they're best friends first and foremost, and if they weren't together they would probably have a very similar relationship, just without certain things. If I looked at this story from another perspective where I wasn't the writer, I'd be shipping her with a few other people.
I have another story where there's a fuckbuddies-turned-friends-with-benefits deal going on. They don't romantically love each other, and when they first start hooking up it's only for the sex with no personal attachments. Gradually they grow on each other just by merit of spending time together. I don't think they ever ~fall in love~, although I haven't decided if I want to include unrealized feelings for each other. Things do go horribly wrong due to a series of unforgivable actions combined with little to no remorse on the part of the half that does them, so if there are to be any feelings, they will never, ever be realized.
I got rambling; I love shipping my own characters, regardless of whether or not they work. One of my favorite things to develop is interpersonal relations between characters, romantic or otherwise. I can differentiate between shipping things as if I were seeing it and not creating it, but that's all for shits and giggles rather than serious shipping because I know my characters too well, and if it were to work than it'd happen in canon. (Although AUs exist and I do fudge around with those, sometimes.)
AYRT
(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)Oh yeah definitely. You can't sell a ship you wouldn't ship
Things do go horribly wrong due to a series of unforgivable actions combined with little to no remorse on the part of the half that does them, so if there are to be any feelings, they will never, ever be realized.
Eeek sounds like a sticky situation.
I can differentiate between shipping things as if I were seeing it and not creating it, but that's all for shits and giggles rather than serious shipping because I know my characters too well, and if it were to work than it'd happen in canon. (Although AUs exist and I do fudge around with those, sometimes.)
I get that. AU's are fun for messing around and trying things.
Re: You can't HANDLE the Writing Thread!
I'm so impressed by how many writing resources you always seem to have. <3
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:21 am (UTC)(link)no subject
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:55 am (UTC)(link)Feel free to ignore the following list though as I'm just forcing it upon you :P (A lot, if not all, of these blogs also help if anyone needs help with research and stuff)
http://referenceforwriters.tumblr.com/
http://thewritingcafe.tumblr.com/
http://simplyoriginalcharacters.tumblr.com/ (I started following this just today, so I'm not too into this one yet, but it seem pretty nice)
http://www.thewritershelpers.com/
http://writing-questions-answered.tumblr.com/
http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/ (I've heard this one is good, though I haven't looked much at this one either)
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I am already aware of writing questions answered,but I do need to go through and add those others.
Thank you so much!
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)I just finished writing down short summaries for all the chapters I've finished so far for a story I'm picking up again, just to give myself an overview of the main things that have happened so far and to get back into the plot again.
I'm also scouring Tumblr for fashion inspiration for the same story as that is something I feel I need to figure out.
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What kinda fashion? This kind? Or perhaps this kind?
If you're writing about teen detectives I'm interested.Re: You can't HANDLE the Writing Thread!
Also -- Oblique Strategies <33333
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 02:29 am (UTC)(link)Gosh! Thank you for those links! Both of them are great! For this story it's more of the first one than the second, though I draw some inspiration from historical fashion as well. I have used a book I have on underwear from medieval Britain to sometime in the 20th century a lot for example.
I'm not writing about teen detectives though, but rather teen magic people/try-hard revolutionaries.
Is your story about teen detectives? In the 1950s?
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(Anonymous) 2014-09-27 03:44 am (UTC)(link)Re: You can't HANDLE the Writing Thread!
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The three things I found that helped were first, to write it anyway. The more I wrote, the more ideas came to me, and the more exciting I became and the more the idea developed.
The second thing was to make lists. All the ideas I had were written down. What do I know about each character? What do I know about THIS ONE SCENE? Every detail was listed out. Whether or not this was necessary is up for debate, but it was fun, and it did help to make me care about both the plot (what little I had), and the characters.
Finally, talking to people can help. Personally, I find it very difficult to talk about my ideas in any detail, but I'm lucky enough to have a friend who's also a writer and was happy to hear me out, and to then suggest things I wouldn't have thought of. Some things I've been told just wouldn't work, or wouldn't work just as they were, and he helped me come up with solutions, and other things I was told were pretty good. It was nice to have reassurance that a concept is solid, and help in the places where it wasn't.
Whatever you do, good luck, and hopefully you'll get out of your rut because it sucks ass.
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