the writing side of Tumblr (part 4)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- And I'm back! Hope you guys had a wonderful holiday season, and I hope you'll enjoy more of these tumblr posts and memes about writing!
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My writing process:
10% writing
50% stressed out bc it’s confusing
40% “should I make them a spy or should I make them a thief”
Both. Both is good.
They can be both. Spying when your hired and thieving on the side. Can't have too much money.
10% writing
50% stressed and confused
40% “I’m gonna redesign them again and make slight changes to their aesthetic and character”
Me currently lmaoo
10% Writing
50% Stressed and confused
40% Getting distracted while doing research
Remember. When all else fails, world-build.
Yessss
yes yes yes YES YES YES YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
Yup. *draws intricate plans of house fifty kilometers away from the setting*
and that is exactly what I can’t do :D
@@tingal i would design an entire world if i was given infinite energy even if the vast majority of it would never be seen by anyone but me
At this point, we just need a video of all the weird things people looked up for the sake of writing. Would be fun for the audience to contribute as well, I know I have a few strange ones.
Yo, maybe people can start a thread about that right here~
I'll contribute a few of my concerning ones
1) looking up illegal weapons like ballistic knives (both for reference images and to understand how they work for certain scenes)
2) "how much cyanide does it take to kill someone"
3) "is ricin detectable by tests" (#2 and #3 are from the same universe)
and 4) early pregnancy symptoms (that one might scare my parents if they check my browser history)
A character in one of my barely started stories was pregnant, but had a miscarriage, so I had to figure out how a miscarriage can happen at four months. I determined it was due to a small, irregularly shaped womb that caused the baby to suffocate (I hope that's accurate), but now I'm not sure if she can go into labor or if they would have to give her a c-section.
It's worth noting that this part of the part of the plot was made so I could justify why a couple, who officially gets together in the earlyish middle of the story, has a child that is 5 years old without having a 5 year time skip. It is also because I wanted some angst.
Here’s some of mine.
1. Weight of an average feather duster.
2. How many knives could you hide underneath an ankle length skirt.
3. How much force does it take to crack the skull of a 60 year old man.
4. Slang for drugs.
Seriously- Earlier today I looked up, "if poison was forcibly injected to a human Bloodstream would it kill them?"
And also "What is the difference between a serial killer and a murderer?"
I have learned that, yes, you would get sepsis, and a serial killer usually has three or more victims. Hooray
My fics are “abandoned” in the same way a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle sitting on a table with only the border and a couple chunks put together is abandoned, just spread out more.
Bruh
Yup
Same though. I have a habit of writing approx 24 pages before quitting.
Seeing as your pfp is Link, I think we can both relate haha
For shower thoughts, I saw someone say that they use those bathtub crayons to jot down stuff. I think someone else said they have a handheld whiteboard in the bathroom.
Or, you could have your phone record audio and speak your shower thoughts out loud.
@@monkewithinternetaccess6107 This is what I do too through out my whole day if I'm too busy to sit down and write
I just carry my phone in with something waterproof over it like a ziplock bag or an actual waterproof case. only problem is when the hot water clouds the inside of the plastic and you can’t wipe it away or it sticks to the screen and taps things for you. definitely not the best soloution tbh which is why I havent done it in forever
@@monkewithinternetaccess6107 but why would I bring my phone into the bathroom if I am going to take a shower
@@Sickcrazyneet you don't listen to music or UA-cam videos??? Strange...
Me: *Writes* *5* *character* *traits* *for* *a* *singular* *character* *in* *2* *hours*
My brain: But what about their backstory? And what about their parents backstories?
Me: The ones that die 3 chapters in?
My brain: Yeah, those ones! The protagonist needs to be insecure about his abilities because his parents are both legendary heroes who saved kingdoms and fought demons. Their parents should to have a cool past of adventuring and saving fully fleshed out and developed side characters.
*4* *family* *trees* *later*
Me: Okay, so I’m finally “done” with side characters. ...I kinda like this one more than the protagonist.
My brain: Then they should be the main character.
Me: But... They’re dead by the time the story starts.
My brain: Then retcon 9 hours of work and 40 years of plot.
the true pain
also if your writing this- uh- link-?
Prequel material. Just write the first story. Then go backwards in time. Not forwards. You could probably make that the surprise twist of the first book. The story ending too neatly, and you can only wonder how there could be any sequels. But no, it's prequels all the way down.
@@SybilantSquid Holy- are you the writing god???
I do not want to write the backstory of the parents of the mc and her love interest but I can't just make them mean to drive the story without justification BUT...
@@deviouscrackers9464 common sense
These are all so relatable, the writing side of Tumblr never disappoints
i love being a writer.
My mom sees me writing and says “dont delete this i wanna read it”
then she read a chapter and said “oh so its a warrior cats fanfic?”
then she remembers something she needs to buy and asks me. So i end up accidentally typing “ingredients for moroccan noodles”
note: i dont do paragraph shit until editing so im cool.
04:47 Totally not me crying over that one fic I will never write because it would require me to educate myself on, like, the whole history of Japan, which would be hell because I have a SEVERE case of historical-knowledge-doesn't-stick-in-my-head-itis, and it's not worth putting myself through that just to write a very self-indulgent fic about a rarepair that probably only I ship and that is ultimately just based on that fucking "Sia in Beyoncé's basement" meme.
best I can do is recommend history of japan by bill wurtz for a 7 minute introduction at least
edit: ah ok 9 minutes nvm
@@renoirrr tbh thank you for reminding me that video existed, i forgot about it and it fuckin slaps
If so I recommend you watch *Linfamy* and *The Shogunate* they present Japanese history in a very enjoyable manner.
@@paxshmitz2665 thank you! this could come in handy
@@sand__witch Hope that helps on your writing journey.
9:07 Fanfics actually did something for me.
Getting my English grade from 4 to 1.
Fanfiction has been eating my brain. I don't know where I start and (Y/N) starts... Help me please-
Edit: I forgot to mention that another thing about writing is that I literally tell myself "Stop feeling so bad you are kilometers away from your cat while (Y/N) is LIGHT YEARS away from her cat which you based on yours."... I'm having a blast anyway :>
“If you throw a watermelon at someone can it kill them”
I want to know the context for that
I am assuming a watermelon is being thrown at some unfortunate soul. I want to know what the writer wants the outcome to be... Death or merely maiming via watermelon... The world may never know
The young girl runs, and losing her balance, allows her cart of fruit to tip over the balcony. Before she could do anything, the fruit drop to the ground. One, however, drops on the poor man's head, his skull break from the 20-pound fruit. Then he died.
@@KanadaJin it depends on the temperature of the watermelon i think
I mean, if Celestia isn't an alcoholic by now I'd be very surprised.
XD
the alicorn or the bosses of the archons?
Which Celestia??
Oh nvm I watched the video lol
Both tbh@@avidreader4140
Me, trying to add romance to my story: So, should they end up together? I mean I kind of like the other pair better but-
My brain: KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!
Me: I can’t just kill them. The entire story will collapse.
My brain: BUT IT WILL MAKE THE READERS CRY!
In my creative writing class, I wanted to write a story that took place in Japan's Edo period, but my teacher knew absolutely nothing about any of that. And because I wanted to be accurate, I took three whole days of writing in order to research and put together a guide so she wouldn't be lost. Down to the units of measurement they used in the Edo period (Suns, Buns, etc). *WHy*
I'd do the same thing, honestly.
same here I researched best ways to make coffee better scientifically for a fic that I didn't even write. obviously it was a coffee shop au but I couldn't decide who was to be the employee of my self inserts coffee shop. as to why I had to be scientific about it's because of the characters themselves are scientists of the highest caliber so much so that the anime where there from they are studying the possiblities of love.
Okay okay, y’all ever write a scene that’s supposed to be a cute one-off or memorable introduction (in my case, characters dancing together in chapter 1) and now its manage to become like, symbolic??? And I’ve accidentally made dancing represent their love an connection in the story
omg that sounds so sweet. i have a couple in my main story that has a recurring sort of symbol that just always shows up for them, the white camellia. it’s really sweet, and incorporating motifs / memorable things about your characters really fleshes them out and is so heartwarming : )
I’ve never written one, but I have come up with one. Basically a character writes letters to another character, and he usually ends it off with “thank you for being you” but I came up with a backstory for the character and he narrates over the backstory and at the end he says “thank you for being you” implying that the backstory was a letter to his friend.
@@apocalypseofplush that’s literally genius omg..so good, you have to use that. that’s genius i’m never going to get over that
@@stuartblittley3531 I’m definitely using that in the future, you can count on that!
@@apocalypseofplush that’s amazing : )
The Shakespeare argument is actually solid. No one can say that a word doesn't exist if you write it down and it makes sense. And if you get popular, it might just flow over into language. We have a bunch of semi to really obscure words from that.
yeah, just like frindle!
And yeet.
And slungey
Like droid!
Fun fact: That’s literally what happened with the word “superhero”
All the tabs of the fanfics I’m all reading at once be like: 0:45
3:35 I spent like an hour yesterday trying to figure out what would happen if someone discovered a missing child after a freak storm on a small island off the coast of Germany, in particular what the visiting hours in the hospital (also which fucking hospital) would be. This is so fucking relatable it hurts.
I'm dreading my research for other residencies other than Netherfield that my somewhat self insert is going to lease in Meryton or if I'm just going to hitch a ride with my self inserts cousin. though I know the later option won't work because I want to prevent will a potential ankle injury even though it wasn't in the original book and just a slim possiblity because of a fanfic I read from said original book.
ah... masterful procrastinating
My ✨Comic writing/drawing✨ process:
10% dreading learning how to draw backgrounds
20% drawing the characters
30% writing out the plot
40% thinking about the future fan content people could someday make about it if I ever actually MADE THE DANG THING
*SCREAMS*
Steps to writing the comic!
•have a comic idea
•start drawing your sketch for scenes, backgrounds, speech ect
•start rendering it
•start rendering it..
•s-start..,, rendering it,,
•get bored and never actually finish the comic
"It feels so...empty. I'll add more towers. All the best settings have a stupid amount of towers. ... how the hell do you draw towers"
"He has long hair, right? Yeah, totes. Wait...wait no that sucks. Shit, how do you draw eyes?"
_"I'M DOING IT! I'M DOING IT! AND A LITTLE OF THESE! YEAH, NOW ITS COMING TOGETHER! ALMOST THERE, AND, DONE!_ Alright lets see what we have here: _*'The.'*"_
"HA they're going to hate this...oh this poor man, he is going to be the puppy for every fan...he he he they'll never see this crap coming...and they better learn from this because I'm not going to tell them again!...oh boy, they are going to get so attached...better now than ever to tell them that lesson again...are they going to make this weird? Ah hell they're going to make this weird...I wonder if any of them know how to Throckmorton's eyes"
@@DeletedUser_0000 I've done the same thing but then I realized that even if my pages aren't complete, as long as I have enough scenes to portray the timeline of events I could just do snapshots of the story in consecutive order. Like the first post could be the introduction to the story, and the second post could be used to introduce the setting, the third used to show compelling action, the fourth jumps forward like a day or two as we're settling into the coming of events, so on and so fourth. Who says you need a fully fleshed out story? With the medium of social media that can be used to upload your story, all you need is *enough to let the audience in on whats happening, and enough to make them care.
Of course, I haven't done this yet myself. But I find that if theres going to be any shortcuts taken on the path to presenting your story, its this one. As far as illustrating it goes, practice hard. Thats all I can say. That and don't force the images onto the page. Figure out how to contrive your style, and let the image of those characters come to you. Or get someone else to do it if you can. Cheers.
The 40% is definitely me.
4:59
Alright, is it just me that LIKES giving my characters tail feathers if they have wings? I enjoy using them for expression, making them have pretty patterns, and stuff like that. In fact I just make my characters birb-like in general if they have wings. I'm talking chirping and squawking when they're surprised, preening their feathers, and singing and/or whistling when happy! ...Is that weird..????...
No, we need more tail feathers in the wingfics world. And chirping. Chirping is adorable. Keep the good job.
Absolutely not, I adore adding tail feathers to winged characters too
It’s fine. It’s just hard to design clothes with accommodations for that kind of body part.
If I can make all my characters half wolves you can make yours half birbs. Have fun.
if they are bird i am going all in with it, full bird!! this is my character, he has wings, tail feathers, feathers on his face, bird feet, and he chirps! also he builds nests!
Me: I'm never gonna get this one shot done.
*writes 200-300 words in 5 minutes*
And then nothing for a month
Haha me
Here's my writing process since everybody else is doing it:
10% writing
70% thinking about what I'm gonna write but never writing it
20% completely ignoring the fanfic and never finishing it despite being excited to write it at first
my teacher cured my writers block a few days ago and proceeded to tell the class it would be bad if we killed the characters in our writing. MISS GERMAN TEACHER YOU DID THIS AND NOW YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
there are only two writing moods: taking ages to finish one thing and writing nonstop for 2 hours with nothing in your way whatsoever
thank you, knuckles
I'm over here going surprisingly deep on Tree Dweller lore:
Since their wings are leafs, they get damaged easily, but they always re-grow. Their leaves also change for fall. Tree Dwellers tend to more glide, but they are good at flying. And they can jump really high because their wings are leafs and they can't lift themselves off the ground alone and henceforth have to jump into flight.
Brain shut up about the physics of how humans who have tails and leaf wings fly
Do some have their leaves fall off? Like bees?
It's nice to see other people's outlooks to writing. For me I'm never stuck for what to write or get stuck on a paragraph. I either figure it out in my head first before I set down to write or if I do intend on writing something that's not that planned, I usually figure something out pretty quickly. However editing, I hate editing. Most of my editing is either word changes I think about months later or I write down what I need to edit but am never bothered trying to edit them. For me if I learn something new that could improve my writing I incorporate that into my next story. Like my first story was just a bit of fun to see if I could write a story but there was loads of non-plot relevant stuff in there I thought would be fun to write. The second was way more planned with each scene being plot relevant but it wasn't nearly as fun and I got paranoid my character was OP author's stand in (she was) so I tried humbling her by throwing all this angst at her. Third book is structured, non-fantasy (to give myself a challenge) so not half as fun but with a super intriguing plot (I hope) and I'm trying to make sure everyone is a well rounded character, even the really mean ones. Plus side, I'm very productive. Down side, I've never really written a second draft.
Oooo, if you ever publish any of your books, I'd be happy to read them!!!
The more I read about writing, the more I'm happy that I have very little interest in doing it. I stick to poetry. Easily done, and no pressure.
HA! "Easily done."
I’m a playwright, and I can wholeheartedly say that poetry is way harder than most forms of writing.
Me putting poetry in my writing: .......
I mean generally poetry comes to me like my mother praises me, completely out of the blue. Writing is at least more feasible than poetry on an average day
Writing poetry is hard too. Sure theres little words and all you have to do is make it look fancy but theres more to it.
Idk much about it and i only wrote a few out of emotional distress but you can easily derail from your original meaning, make the poerty longer than you wanted, too many unnecessary lines which are there for style, losing sight of what you wanted it to mean and now you're stuck with a work you'll never be able to finish without slapping on some cheesy ending lines.
Maintaining the structure of it to make it look pretty is hard too, the consistent rhyming is a thing
When I don't know where to go with a scene, I do a time skip. How long? However long it would take for these imaginary people to pull their shit together without my assistance. Why? Because I can always go back and write more to the scene if I come up with something. Just like in an exam: when you don't know the answer, move on to the next question and come back later.
i was so tired that i thought the thumbnail said 'tigers can kill, take a break'
Okay,but imagine if that sign was near a zone filled with tigers,in which adventurers have been known for passing throught there while on their journey,with some of them losing their life to them because of the fatigue that piled up over their travels
I loved pretty much all of these!
ive spent literal weeks trying to get my short story right and yesterday i managed to get it. i just needed to make mc's death far more tragic and i won't elaborate
He better not be a virgin.
Remember to have a single tear roll down the serious characters cheek.
my writing process:
30% thinking of possible scenes to incorporate in my dreams or when i’m washing dishes, really desperately wanting them in the story and having a panic attack trying to include them
40% writing summaries to delete them, changing the entire magic system after making a character have one dialogue that i really like but contradicted everything
10% writing, then getting a good idea, then spending 40 minutes word building
20% giving myself a headache and giving up
Reasons I really like this video:
1. Relatable memes that Shane me into writing more
2. You read it with your own voice and not a robot
3. You read it without the bad words. I don't like hearing swear words because of who I am as a person, and this makes me happy.
Nothing can shame me into writing when I don't have any ideas.
If you wouldn't mind saying, what's about swearing?
@@LunarMoth some people just don't like it
@@TeamGalactic-Cyrus I'm aware. I wanna know the reason
@@LunarMoth idk. some people just don't like it, like me
4:46 oof, I felt that. After a few years of living together, my roommate installed a white board on the wall outside so I could poke a hand out and frantic scrawl before continuing to get clean. She's my best friend for a reason. 🙂
My Writing Process:
10% opening and closing random apps every 5 minutes out of boredom
5% playing 1 level of a random app game, then being like “oh yeah, I’m supposed to be writing”
10% staring at a wall doing absolutely nothing
15% questioning why I decided to start writing in the first place
10% looking at the time and thinking that I should definitely be sleeping
15% yelling at myself to keep writing
5% reading a few sentences of something else for inspiration
5% using Google to find synonyms for words
25% actually writing (yay!)
That moment when you finished a piece, but you have a funny feeling that if you post it at _this exact moment,_ you're not gonna reach the upvote goal you have.
So you wait, until something compels you to post.
Then you do, and then the hits roll like you've never seen them do before.
It would be really weird if everyone knew me by the first writing I posted.
"Oh, Artsy_Judoka? Then one who rewrote the 'I am the one who knocks' scene from Breaking Bad to be about Lucius Malfoy? Yeah, I've heard of them."
One of the strangest things I do when I write is pretend my work has a page on TV Tropes and trying to imagine all the tropes that would make up that page. (BTW, I believe the Tudor equivalent of finger guns is a telling a few bawdy jokes while dancing at a masque.)
I relate way too much with 99% of these
I’m not even a writer but those are really fun
7:05 _Shudders from the accuracy..._ Get off of me you *four year old UNTITLED CRINGE!!*
As a writer, every single one of these is painfully accurate.
Anyways yesterday I had the tiniest bit of inspiration for one of my works and then accidentally ended up writing for almost 5 hours and if that doesn't sum up just about the only way I ever actually get things done I don't know what will.
4:54 is me with orbital mechanics specifically
winged humans? totally fine!
fucking up the trajectory of a moon so that it wouldn't end up exactly where it does, when it does? time to do three hours of research just to fix it!
Do you play Kerbal Space Program?
6:52
**sweats nervously as i look over my shoulder to my punching bag characters**
(update on the book, i only have about three chapters left on my first draft!)
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who daydreams all the time but struggles to actually write them down
Me: *struggling to write 1K words*
Also me: *writes 20K in one sitting*
Tips for writhg ig?
Get inspiration trust me it hurts when you dont have any inspiration
Think of a plot.
Snaks
Character development!
*snaks*
i sometimes think we as writers are all just a bunch of goblins... like, my brain doesn't work without the snaks and the knik-knaks...
Y e s
WHY THIS ENTIRE VID SO ACCURATE MORE THAN USUAL, IM DED- (so many of these relate to me)
2:10 I have never felt more called out holy shit
I handed in fanfic for a school assignment-
It’s the only fanfic I’ve ever actually finished.
I did that once too lol
those are so relatable and I don’t even write because I don’t have the patience
0:27 oh GOD I know this pain too well
2:05
I KNEW Celestia was an alcoholic. It certainly would explain some things.
If you're using this video to procrastinate on your WIP clap your hands 👏👏
[Claps sullenly and with great reluctance.]
👏 👏
You know what I'm making a meme and my book dammit
Gwen: Hey Fran there's-
Aunt Franny: Shhhhh the baby's sleeping
Gwen: (Whispers) There's a giant monster seige outside
I know evxaclty where I want my fic to go, what is going to happen in some scenes, but getting from A to H requires a whole lot more of the alphabet.
Plz excuse the typos it is freezinf here
1:05 Huh, the title and summary are the first things I do when writing...
Given that I don't even know what's going to happen, this is impossible for me. Coming up with the final title though is like my reward for finishing my rough draft
My writing procedure:
1. Open the document
2. Open another document, because why not?
3. Leave them both open all day while I watch YT, TV, play games, read other stories or fics, go out for many walks, do housework etc. etc.
4. With four hours left in the day, I spontaneously gain the will to write the most bomb lines I've ever seen for one of the fics, albeit only on a limit of 500-1732 words within the remaining time span
5. Get bored and spend any remaining time editing the other fic
6. Go to bed all wrapped up warm and snug
My original love story is getting written at snail speed and my fan fics have have zero words on them, but I’m having fun anyway 😃 👍🏼
"A good plot twist isn't one you couldn't have seen coming. It's one you SHOULD'VE seen coming"
I love screaming being described as “violent ambience”
Is anyone else bothered by the editing? How the video would randomly cut off sections, then put them back, etc.? No hate, but it drives me crazy.
Dude I was beginning to think it was just me lol. I've been scrolling forever trying to find someone who noticed. This video is edited so poorly.
this reminds me of the Abraham Lincoln gay fanfic I came up with
Gaybraham Lincoln
@@crackofdawn805 💀
5:35 *I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream*
Me: *Comes up with an original idea that I'm very proud of*
Future me: *watches a tv show with a concept close enough to my own that if I used it as is I could be sued for copyright even though the show didn't even exist when I came up with it*
Me: *crying* this is fine
Yes, throwing a watermelon at someone's head can absolutely kill them. There was a case in Poland where a husband murdered a wife with a watermelon during a marital argument - in case anyone needs this.
5:13 Ok this, but the opposite, I'm writing an analysis about how Stampy's Lovely World has been affected by urbanization.
Y'ever daydreaming about your characters so hard you feel their emotions?
Because I can be sitting there, chuckling maniacally because one of my OCs is losing their marbles in real time, or shivering in my seat from primal fear as Grape's walking down a dark alley, knowing that at any moment, he can be begging for his life, filled with bullets, or made a monster's lunch.
I've 100% triggered my own paranoia writing about a character being afraid... and the crying. I have one scene I can't even *think* about without crying.
6:42-8 me, an extremely frustrated nightclub worker writing a gruesome slasher comedy set in a nightclub: YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT IN A COURT OF LAW
The post at 4:07 reads like an isekai manga title ngl
Me: Man! This book is banging banging! Wonder when the author will update with a new chapter?
Also me: Wait...im the author.
Update your fanfic...
im a new writer who started up a WoF fanfiction series of 5 books completely out of impulse and im in pain because filler is impossible for me and ive gotta power through 27 CHAPTERS PER BOOK and thats STILL easier than the standards of the canon books
drop the link OP, ya gotta drop the link
One of the hard things in writing is trying to explain the expressions or sounds the character says or makes. You just wished that you can explain it in a gibberish way and magically people would understand it, not making it in a very nice and professional way. Just a wish that may not come true •́ ‿ ,•̀
I wasn't focusing on the video, i was focusing on how someone's username was "remuslupinisthevoiceofgod" because I couldnt agree more.
The writing side of tumblr is the best!
The title of the novel and the final line are one in the same
Gotta write that one down and not forget about it the moment I need it
Huh, I do wonder if I’ll ever reach that level of writing. I’m sitting in what I assume is the honeymoon stage of writing development
I have three search history entries.
*ms paint
how much buttercups does it take to kill someone
symptoms of buttercup poisoning*
OK LISTEN I CAN EXPLAIN
Undertale?
@@characookie241 HOW
Me writing an entire 1900 word oneshot at once because I was motivated, bored, and hyperfixated: *what have I done*
To solve the shower tought problem:
Take you phone and start a dictaion app before you enter the hower.
Put the phone near the shower so it can hear you.
then speak out loud what you are thinking.
Then after the shower just listen to the recording and and use inference to figure you what you were thinking.
Mood. Playlists. Music playlists in the background that match the mood of the stuff you’re writing. Perfection.
My weird search history, as a writer that dumps WAY too much trauma on my poor little children. Gotta be some spice to develop their character, yeah?
Ranging from normal to weird to "you're now on a government watchlist" material.
- synonym of [insert word]
- [insert word] meaning
- E.g. Each other or eachother
- E.g. Well-meaning or well meaning
(I'm not a native English speaker, though I do speak basically about as fluent as one would, but I still check occasionally lol. I'm Finnish, by the way.)
- Self-made stitches
- What is in a first aid kit?
- Symptoms of [insert mental illness]
- How to pick handcuffs
(+normal locks as an accidental rabbit hole)
- Stab wound scar
- Types of knives
- Types of blades
- Small hand guns
- Where to stab someone to kill them quickly?
- Where to stab someone to make them bleed out quickly?
(Also researched the placement of major arteries and major organs)
- Where to stab someone to not cause too much damage?
- Torture methods
- Torture victim medical report
(I wanted to know how the examination process would go if a victim of torture was brought to a hospital. I found a very good, helpful article. Titled "Clinical Examination and Reporting of a Victim of Torture".)
Not to worry, nearly all of my 100+ characters get a happy ending.
Jesus Christ...
@@IApologiseForQuitting.213
Thing is, a lot of my stories, while they do involve some violence, are never *just* violence. There's a lot of doing good things for people, vigilantes saving civilians from criminals (and possibly getting injured, can't have good luck forever and often e.g. muggers have some kind of weapon), there's a lot of exploring of things. Exploring characters, exploring the way things affect people's behavior and mental health (trauma, kindness, found family, recovery, etc), how avsolutely wild the coping mechanisms and protective methods the brain has and uses (blocking traumatic memories, hypervigilance, false memories, mental disorders such as DID)...
Sorry for the rant, felt like explaining some of the uhh... questionable ones. I swear my characters receive often better treatment from their friends and family than I do lmao
I remember when I was really young, before I had ever experienced the Oxford comma, I looked at “___, ___ and ___” and said, “that’s wrong. Where’s the other comma? Where is it? WHERE!?” When I found my first example of the Oxford comma, I was so happy.
Yes I am a programmer. Yes I am 11000 words into writing a FNAF: security breach fanfic set before the events of said game about Luis, one of the the characters from FNAF AR (and mentioned in the tapes in SB) trying and failing at saving Vanny, just because I headcannon five of the messages that you find (PQ1 maint log, PQ2 maint log, Out of Order, Red Flag, and Arcade Conspiracy) to be a result of the same person and for that person to be Luis.
Yes it is hurt 3rd party comfort & investigation angst.
i always want to write but can't. partially because i come up with shit in school, so i can't write it or anything and will forget it, or because i. can't describe good. so i just resort to running it in my head until i figure out a way to execute it without having to write full fanfiction shit.
I just casually forgot one of my characters most important character traits a while ago after her friend got traumatized and she just became a whole new character for one chapter
Edit: NO GIVE PEOPLE FEATHERED TAILS
i'm currently writing a script for a tv show and i always know exactly how a character is going to say something, but i can never pinpoint how to actually describe it, so it always ends up either whispering, sarcastically, jokingly if that's a word, or frustratedly. i feel sorry for the future actors 🥲
Maybe I'm weird for this, but my tablet is regularly running out storage because when I write I feel the need to have reference image for everything idk why I started doing that but everytime I write I'm like
*finishes describing a room*
"I need a reference image for every possible thing that could be in this room including the room itself for absolutely no reason"
*Google images of empty rooms and various pieces of furniture*
"Once-vegetables."
My autocorrect after me writing anything it doesn't recognize, or the word once.
One time I was writing (or was trying to) write a story on Wattpad and I got distracted looking at pictures of amber (The gemstone(?))
And now I have the strong wild urge to write a fanfic about the Horror Slashers doing very stupid things and being very chaotic- Everytime I actually try to write it I just space out and loose all the motivation
100% of the time, if I delete my search history it’s so it doesn’t fudge my youtube recommendations (and so people don’t think I’m insane, I guess)
As someone who has their WIP's whole world built and most of the characters figured out but hasn't written anything but one liner conversations between eachother. I feel called out and I don't like it...
I really wish I had put more effort into drawing at a young age, I have an idea in my head that I've been expanding upon for a few years but I have no way of turning it into a sort of real story, I cannot draw and I can't write fictional things either, I'm also terrible at summarizing it because I've kept the entire story in my head all these years, changing every so often. The only thing that's stayed the same is the characters and main story line.
if you put your phone in a ziplock bag you can still write down your ideas in your notes but it won't get wet from the shower water.
What’s wrong with tail feathers? C’mon dude I wanna see people with tail feathers!
have you ever been trying to write a bit and something come's the fu@k outta nowhere and you just stop and stare at it
like i was writing a charater feeling sacred a wishing she was braver
"tho the many times she tried, she wasn't Blue she didn't have his bravery, she wasn't Beam she didn't have his straght "
i just stop and asked out loud "who the fu@k are those two where did you find friends? i didn't plan this"
4:35 ziplock bag, put phone in it, boom! Notes app in the shower.
2:19 "Walter scorlped Paul in the neck, Paul retaliated ghulpping Walter's knees schwambling him to the floor"
1:36
why the heck is the image giving me inspiration
3:57 see I'm the opposite. In my head my writing skills are essentially that 2nd one, but eventually my word vomit results in a beautiful, poetic sentence.
I'm actually convinced that I'm using black magic sometimes 😅
Personally, I bet on the opposite side of the coin. I think of crude and nondescript thoughts, but as I write, those water-damaged, yellowing drawings become beautiful portraits so grand I must question the divinity of my own skills.