Cishet women and gays: Men are sexy!
Cishet men and lesbians: Women are sexy!
Bisexuals: Oh, come on, both are sexy!
Pansexuals: Sure, everyone's sexy!
Asexuals in general: Nobody is sexy...
Aegosexual asexuals: ...but sex is sexy!
HELP my 6 yr old brother was walking around calling everyone he loves his nemesis and my grandma was like “what do you think nemesis means??!” and he goes “best friend!!!😊” CAUSE THATS WHAT HE LEARNED FROM DOOF N PERRY
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Another thing we need to remember is that, unlike professional authors, fan fic writers are a completely different and more diverse demographic of writers. You have the twelve-year-olds who’re are getting into writing for the first time and are so excited to share their ideas that they don’t think about the technical aspects. You have the sixteen-year-olds struggling with life and need an outlet to vent. You have writers who write original work but use fan fics as a way to experiment and practice. You have middle-aged moms who want something fun and inconsequential to do between working and taking care of their kids. You have closeted queer people who can’t express themselves in real life. You have disabled and mentally I’ll people who relate to the characters and want to keep the story going. Fanfic writers are students, workers, parents all balancing their own lives and on top of that, still volunteer hours of their time to do something they love in exchange for a few likes and comments. I’d say, as someone who has been writing both fan fics and original works for over 13 years now, fanfics writers embody the concept of “writing for the love of the craft” in its purest form.
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This is the #1 tip I will always give to writers, so you've probably heard me say this a few times. Don't write for others, but write for yourself.
People have different tastes. There will always be some who dislike your book, and some who consider it their favorite. Lots of people hate famous books like Percy Jackson or Six Of Crows, and I'm sure you've disliked a popular book before. So instead of writing a book that others would read, start writing a book that you would read. If you end up liking your book, I can assure you that many others will too.
When you're excited to write a new WIP, you might delay your character building process and decide to start writing while trying to figure out the characterization on the way. I've done this a couple of times, thinking that it would speed up my writing process, but trust me, it did not. It actually slowed down my writing instead.
If you start writing your wip without at least finishing 80% of your character building process, you'll find yourself getting stuck in scenes, not knowing what your character would say or do, which is very inconvenient.
If you ever get bored of character building and really want to start writing instead, I suggest writing one-shots unrelated to your WIP. By doing this, you don't have to worry about writing your characters out of character, and its actually useful to their characterization process.
If you feel like there's something off with your writing, or you're beginning to feel that writing is a chore for you, experiment with different writing techniques. Switch up your genre, time period, plotting method, etc.
For reference, I used to be a pantser who writes plot-driven mystery stories. But now, I'm more comfortable with being a plantser who writes character-driven low fantasy stories! Basically, don't be afraid of change, because it might help you later.
In my opinion, the most important thing to consider while writing a story is your ending - not your beginning or middle. You can rewrite your beginning chapters anytime, and you can always figure out your middle chapters later, noone knows how to write the middle of a story anyway.
But if you don't know the ending of your story, you're screwed, buddy. Without knowing how your story ends, you can't write the events that build up to that ending.
You're unsure about your novel's ending at first and decided to throw in a last minute plot twist? That means you've been foreshadowing the wrong ending the whole book, and you gotta rewrite. You don't know how your characters will develop throughout the book? You won't be able to write the journey of their arc throughout the story. Hassling, right? That's why, try not to start writing your WIP without having a possible ending in mind.
Nowadays, the standards of being a writer is that you have to write a full-length novel and be traditionally published. This isn't true, not even the slightest.
You write poetry? You're a writer and valid. You're a screenwriter? Bro, look at the word. ScreenWRITER. valid. You write fanfictions? Valid, and you're not cringey. You have NO idea how much I worship fanfiction writers for writing what canon won't give us. You're writing but don't want to be published? You're still valid. As long as you write, you're valid, because that's the whole point of being a writer.
There's a reason why they're called writing tips, not rules. You're not meant to follow every single one of them, they're only meant to guide you on the way. Some will be useful, some won't, depending on yourself. So please, don't be pressured to follow every writing tip you see.
Writing is weird.
One minute you’re writing character interactions and the next you’re researching the social habits of ravens, which is shortly followed by planning out a new subplot you just came up with in the spur of the moment.
I love it.
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