Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
im living in the brainrot of the sandman and none of my friends have watched it, so i cant scream about it with them
i have no one to talk to about heartstopper season 2 so dm me and lets talk!!
3 hours until the new episode of acofaf. if i suddenly start screaming you now know why. im literally vibrating with excitement. i cant wait to hear the rumors this time :)))).
I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.
See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.
But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.
I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.
The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.
Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.
when i listened to tmagp 21 last week it was in front of my mom and i had to act like everything was completely normal and i wasn't faced with the horrors.
grab ur ticket for being here since ranboo watched the walten files and decided to make a horror project 🎟
If someone doesn't write it I'll have to do it myself. This is a legal requirement for me, I cant just hyperfixate on them to not write this if no one else does.
If i dont get a sick ass post canon fanfic of Binx and Andhera exploring the wonders of mortal realm, finding the missing members of Binx’s court, and talking about their relationship and what it means for Andhera to be a part of two courts I’ll lose my mind. I need MOREEEEEE
the urge to draw andhera and/or binx is overwhelming. must resist...
I CANT THE URGE IS TOO STRONG
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