Me, a writer: This wip is the best thing I’ve ever written.Every scene is so interesting and the pacing is perfect and it’s emotional and engaging and brilliant and so many awesome things happen. I can’t wait to share it with everyone, it’s absolutely fantastic.
Also me, exactly three seconds later: Wow this wip is just a boring repetitive mess. I think there was one halfway decent scene like seven chapters ago? Why am I even writing this no one will ever want to read it.
Moral of the story
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All writers worth their salt struggle with doubt.
(I released a book a lot of people are really enjoying and I still catch myself cycling through self doubt constantly. I am attempting a simplistic way to deal with brain goblins and become a better writer by thinking about my writing realistically, instead of negatively. Try it with me?)
Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.
Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.
Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.
The horse now has a name.
Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.
Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.
Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.
Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.
Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.
All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.
Something I found that makes a scene easier and longer:
Writing the dialogue first.
I never used to do this, but one night it was really late and I was half asleep but I wanted to get some work done. So I decided to just fill in the dialogue I wanted for the scene.
I found myself with close to 1000 words of dialogue. (I obviously tagged who said what, how it was said, etc.)
When I came back to the document, I just filled in the action, the background, descriptions and plot.
I ended up with between 3000-4000 words in one sitting.
Maybe this won’t work for everyone, hell maybe someone else has already pointed this out, but I just wanted to share this writing tip.
I’ve done this! It totally works.
A lot of times, my scenes come to me in fully formed dialogue first. I’ve started getting into the habit of furiously writing it all down, whether it’s in a word doc, a notebook, or the notes section on my phone. Honestly, it’s seriously saved my life doing it and I think it’s also helped me create some of my better work as well
feedback culture has rly died on here for content creators tbh
Gradually, it’s been declining, but i feel that right around the 1st few months of this year is when it rly took a huge plunge
Not only have i noticed this w my own art and stuff, but a lot of friends who create stuff have noted similar things. even popular artists and writers who used to get 5k+ notes per post are only getting a couple hundred. I used to get abt 800 per post and now im lucky if i break 50. 90% likes to 10% rbs.
Ppl say u shouldnt create just for the attention but damn spending HOURS on smth and getting little to no feedback when u used to get a decent amount is shit
This goes for fic authors too. We don’t get reviews much anymore, people just hit the kudos button and call it good.
Please leave feedback on creative content guys. Its super important.
Even if you just say nice things in the tags, anything would be nice.
it’s easy to reblog!!!
Even though I haven’t given y’all an update in forever… 😂😭😩 I have noticed the lack of interaction with fics. Reblog and talk to these authors!!!! Yes they are doing this for free and because it is therapy for some (myself included), but that doesn’t mean that they don’t enjoy validation of their work!!!!! If you’re going to leave a comment just reblog and comment, spread their work and support each other!!!
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
do you ever read a piece of fanfic that is just so fucking spectacular that makes you actually feel things?
boy, i swear to god, i’m so goddamn grateful for every single one of you writers, yall literally giving us entertainment for free almost every goddamn week; and this is not only for those gracious magnificent bastards that are practically gods because they’ve perfected (and keep developing) their craft, this is also to that little (and equally amazing) writer that is just starting and might not be the best at it, you my friend keep writing because practice makes perfect, don’t stop writing if that’s what makes you happy. i just want all of yall to know that i appreciate you so goddamn much and yall the fucking best
to every fanfic writer out there: i love you, u crazy motherfucker
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