My collection of clothing references for writing.
Me before writing: Inspiration is my middle name and writing is my destiny
Me after writing: I’m a talentless hack and this garbage bin is my home now
Me before writing: Inspiration is my middle name and writing is my destiny
Me after writing: I’m a talentless hack and this garbage bin is my home now
Attacking people who write fic that isn’t the fic you want to read won’t make them suddenly stop writing the fic they want and start writing the fic you want.
They may stop writing in your fandom completely, and there won’t be more of the fic you want; just less fic overall.
Or, they may double down out of spite and write even more of the fic you don’t want, because fuck you, you entitled little goblin.
this is a truth worth being universally known lol
So… you fanfic writers out there, can we have a conversation?
There’s this fanfic writing chart flying around the internet, depicting the various stages of feels while one is writing, that probably all of you know? Well, if you do or if you don’t, I’m on the LOW right now, feeling like anything I wrote prevously has somehow turned out pretty good, but every new word is kinda rubbish and how the hell did I ever think I was good at this…
It’s a phase thing, I get it, I’m a psychologist, BUT being a psychologist, I also know talking about it helps? So, do you guys have any tips for me? How to not feel overwhelmed by 9 different plot-arcs ahead of you and wondering how the hell you can pull this off with what you’ve been doing here, even though you really really liked all your ideas when you came up with them in the first place?
I mean… some of you (looking at you, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant @idesofnovember here) have like a thousand works of pure ART online, that are all so gifted and perfect I could cry, or the incredible, amazing humor in @irritablevowel ‘s work and @angelmoongirl‘s pieces and I’m sitting here being scared of my second big story. How did you guys do it? Do you know this feeling? Am I being absolutely ridiculous here?
ahahahahahaha 1000% #problemsofasmutwriter
(that last amazing picture is by sugarmints)
So… I’ve kind of almost decided on a name for the Ikigai sequel: “Yugen” - a deep awareness of the universe around you that gives you feels.
As it looks now, I’m trying to combine S and Stars. Still only has ideas and a rough draft though, needs more plot xD. But I’m excited.
So…. Ikigai’s sequel is all finished plotting now :) I’m back to writing it!
I’m really really really adamant of not going crazy this time, so no daily updates (more like weekly), but I’ll probably start posting sooner than I anticipated (next weekish? The week after?)
Anyway, I’m excited, and really, really scared. So many people had crazy feels about Ikigai, and I hope I can keep up with that! (Especially because Yugen will have a completely different story, completely different pacing, much less monster of the day action, and about 500% more villains in it (and characters, obviously)….
So… 5 months and 150k+ words have passed since I wrote this, and I’m writing the last few scenes and chapters of Yugen in one go, and it’s crazy how all the pictures up there that inspired this story culminate right this moment in that last crazy chapter that I’m scripting here, as I write this…
It looks like it’ll be one, maybe even two chapters more than I planned… somehow the scene breaks I had planned don’t work out so well, but…
It’ll take me another week, I guess? And then I’ll let it all roll out back to back.
Wow. It’s almost over and it feels strange.
Anonymous asked:
Hellloooo love 😁😁😁
20. My best advice for writing smut scenes.
Now. I am very against the word “advice”, since anything I can give here is my own personal opinion. But, so here it is, my personal opinion on what works best for me on writing sex:
1. Big, underlined, and most important: I try to keep it realistic. Nobody is having glossy magazine porn star sex in my writing ever, cause that sort of thing doesn’t exist and it’s harmful to people who set their bars in contrast to it. Thing is… there is nothing even romantic about tons of multiple orgasms and a romp like it’s coming from a heavy-duty Bosch drill. In fact, it becomes rather mechanical like that. So, I make it realistic. I have them fumble and come too fast and get excited too quick and forget condoms and freak out over it. I’m not afraid to make kisses sloppy and have them laugh about each other’s weird antics.
And I try to make it loving, you know? I try to convey a connection and a relationship through the way they touch each other, look at each other, react physically to each other. Which brings me to point two:
2. I write my sex in a very emotive way. I have them gasp and their lips tremble as they shudder when they sink into each other. Eyes lock and teeth clench and little hisses escape as they try to watch each other’s every shake and groan. Sex is a connection. It’s most beautiful not when you’ve come twice, but when you see that twisted face on the person you are sharing it with and know it’s because your hand is doing that magic trick you only learned through watching their face and now you know how to play them like a fiddle, as they come undone under your touch. And getting the same, EQUALLY, in return.
3. is just personal idealism, but my sex is always very equal. I’m into consent and gender equality and respect. So, no objectification, no women who are oh so innocent and would never dare to think of penises in vaginas, no men who feel the need to act like sex-hungry cavemen and are instead allowed to feel insecure in my writing from time to time. So. I don’t write the girl who needs to be persuaded into sex and neither do I write the who guy always wants sex-tropes. I write people not gender stereotypes regarding sexuality.
(And I wanna point out, this of course applies to same-sex sex just the same, but I happen to write Usamamo fic, which is F/M, but obviously, the same applies to any sex with anyone.)
And, fourth is pretty clichee but,
4. I write only what I find sexy myself. Be it from experience or fantasy, I only put stuff in that makes me shudder just the same. If *I’m* not finding this utterly sexy, who would, then?
So there, my two cents on writing smut ♡
(Now go out and bring more smut into the world, we need more quality written sex scenes ALWAYS 😉😉😉 )
Me: Honestly it’s so rude that real life gets in the way of my writing time.
Also me: Honestly it’s so rude that I get in the way of my own writing time.
their writing: the dawn breaks and you are anew. the person you once were vanished. the rising sun offers a fire to burn her to ashes.
me: hey there- i just wanted to you to know your work is amazing. i love reading your writing. please continue! it is so eloquent. your wording and command of the english language are just incredible. you show such a deep emotional intelligence.
them: lol ya i do a write sometimes thnx bb [gif of the rock]
where’s that post about how seeing a fic is like seeing a writer defending their dissertation and interacting with the same writer on tumblr is like finding them eating mayonnaise in their kitchen in the middle of the night because interacting with writers in the comments of a fic is like talking to someone coming down off a three-day finals coffee binge because that’s pretty much exactly what’s happening.
Don’t apologize for writing something “self indulgent”. Fiction is supposed to be fun. It’s your chance to bring all the things you love to life, exactly the way you want them to be. This is one of the main reasons fanfiction is so popular, because fic writers allow themselves to indulge in all of their favorite tropes (which happen to be many readers’ favorites too). If your writing is “self indulgent,” that just means you’re writing something you actually enjoy–and, chances are, that other people would enjoy also.
You’ve probably heard the saying, “Walk in the direction of your fear.” Now, it’s time to write in the direction of your self indulgence.
Feeling this today, because what I’m about to post today is ENTIRELY SELF INDULGENT
I think the best piece of writing advice I ever got was from an author of locally popular novels that visited my school when I was in grade eight. He said that when you want to write a novel, or any kind of story, the typical system of “What is my story about? Who is it about? What will happen?” are pretty much the worst thing you can do.
Writing is far simpler than that.
His advice was to ask yourself three questions that I’ll never forget:
Who is the character?
What does the character want more than anything?
And how can I prevent them from getting it?
having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps
by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee
good day:
regular day:
bad day:
anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day
This is actually a really good way of explaining this