that halfway stage of oc creation when you're closing in on the design or the personality or both but the other half of the character's still a nebulous concept and they don't even have a name but now they're alive and they demand to be heard. agonizing
“they tried to kill each other” yes and? do you have a problem with true love
"But let me give you the dark side of writing groups. One really dark side of writing groups is, particularly newer writers, don't know how to workshop.
"And one of the things they'll try to do is they'll try to make your story into the story they would write, instead of a better version of the story you want to write.
"And that is the single worst thing that can happen in feedback, is someone who is not appreciating the story you want to make, and they want to turn it into something else.
"New workshoppers are really bad at doing this. In other words, they're really good at doing a bad thing, and they're doing it from the goodness of their heart. They want you to be a better writer. They want to help you. The only way they know is to tell you how they would do it, which can be completely wrong for your story."
—Brandon Sanderson, Lecture #1 Introduction, Writing Science Fiction And Fantasy
brain: we’re gonna write a scene while sleeping :)
me: we’re going to remember it in the morning, right?
brain: :)
me: right?
divinity kink in less of a "fuck me in a nun habit" way and more of a "put me on my knees and rewrite my understanding of faith and show me what a loving god's hand feels like and give me mercy and wrath and splendor and leave your communion dripping from my lips and teach me how every part of my body was meant to worship you"
did it hurt? when the little people inside your head refused to follow your carefully-plotted novel outline?
nah man i cant come over tomorrow im gonna listen to songs and think about characters. yeah no its gonna be all day
R. - They/Them - Queer SF/F/Romance writer - Carrd with social media links.Avid fan of anything gay. This is my writing journal.
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