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Serious answer - less perfectionisim

Real answer - because my characters are taking revenge via any sort of sleep schedule I may attempt

why is writing easier at 2 a.m. when my brain is 90% shut down?

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reblog this if you're okay with booping spams please !!

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Shout out to the people not doing Inktober, Flufftober, NaNoWriMo, etc. this year (or any year) for whatever reason.

Because they have prior work commitments (retail/service can be hell this time of year).

Because they’re too busy with school work or exam prep.

Because they’re dealing with chronic conditions and illnesses.

Because they have poor mental health and want to prioritise that.

Have other personal priorities and commitments.

Because they have no ideas or are between projects.

Because they don’t have energy.

Because they just don’t bloody well want to thank you very much.

You aren’t any less valid as an artist/writer/creator, and can’t/shouldn’t be pressured into doing anything you don’t want to do or made to feel bad about it.

This list is not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive, additions are welcomed.

P.S Not intended to be hate on anyone who does actually participate or enjoy these monthly challenges.

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reblog if you need a hug

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if you ever feel bad about your writing, just remember that my characters have more romantic chemistry than i’ve had in my entire life.

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Exactly.

I'm sure she'll find brilliant ways to keep us on the edge of our seat and seeing these known events/facts in a new light. But I can also how see the dread of knowing how it ends, knowing their fates, will really hammer home the tragedy of it all.

I know I'll want it to somehow turn out better. I'll root for Haymitch and those around him to miraculously find a softer ending, one less painful. Possibly one like the miracle of Katniss and Peeta being allowed to win together - something that I had a hard time trusting but desperately wanted to put hope in during my first read through. Only this time we know for certain there are no miracles.

There will be no mercy.

Only a hard punch to the gut dressed up in smiles, show-business, and shots (of the camera, alcoholic, and possibly others I'm missing, variety).

We might know how it ends, but personally I think that's going to make me cling tighter to any moments of peace or joy or humanity. These are just kids. And the adults who could help are either orchestrating the whole thing or powerless. Whatever happens that we don't yet know - which might be more than you'd think - it's going to be difficult to ignore the huge impact these games have on/through Haymitch. There are plenty of hints that he was involved in a lost of secrets as an adult, who's to say how those might work in amongst the plot beats we know and dread? Anything could happen - but in the end Snow still wins.

History is written by the victors. I'm curious to see the victims side of this one.

The 50th games were always supposed to be a year of showing who's boss, and everyone knew that. Whatever rebel attempts to deny Snow his power were clearly squashed. But I get the feeling there could still be a lot to unpack there. Unfortunately power of knowing how it ends means the truth has time to sink in and hurt. Their possible ways to fight back changed nothing and cost everything. They failed. And that hurts. But the story still has value, and their efforts still deserve recognition, so I'm glad we get to see it.

I’m really curious what story elements Collins is going to introduce into Sunrise on the Reaping to make it feel unexpected. Because we already have arguably the most critical plot-points (Maysilee’s death, how Haymitch won, and the fact that his whole family and girlfriend were murdered by the Capitol). Obviously it’ll be interesting to see how those events unfold (especially the family situation), and to get Haymitch’s perspective of it. But it’ll be a very different experience from the other books because we do already know those very major events. So I’m curious what other major events will be introduced in the book to keep us on our toes.

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there is no shortage of love in my heart. if i knwo you irl and you are reading this, i love you. if you are mutuals with me, i love you. if you just follow me, i love you. i love you all

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now i don’t wanna hear ab anyone complaining that it’s confirmed haymitch is the narrator for sunrise on the reaping as if it’s not his games and the tragedy that befalls his family and his life to begin with.

also who else is it gonna be? a dead tribute who’s not going to be alive to witness the consequences of haymitch’s wee act of rebellion against snow? an adult, in a series that’s always been centred around its young people? let haymitch have his moment.

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probably the best advice I've ever got was from my grandpa when I moved from my town and started a university, he told me to leave the house everytime when I start to feel down, just to go to the park, a supermarket, a bookstore, to even drive in a bus or tram, just be around other people because staying at home all the time kills you; and you know he was right

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Im a broken record at this point but please please please. Do not let this world make you so hard and hopeless and negative. Please let yourself experience joy when the opportunity comes to you

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Absolutely devastating...but yeah same

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

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It's possible to write a story about propaganda and media control using Haymitch's perspective though. Despite some parallels Haymitch isn't like Katniss or Peeta, he wasn't a Capitol darling, his victory and subsequent public presence led to constant misery and sorrow and tragedy, and he was alone. Thus the campaign will be all about him. The Capitol can and will spin fantasies about him that paint him as someone he isn't. Haymitch was the one to fell victim to it all, so who else would be more fitting to tell this kind of story than him? Let the audiences (read: capitol citizen) mock and berate him while also making room for you to sympathize with him. Let all his words be twisted and turned back against him. Let the reader question what they already know, possibly to a point where his own self hatred blinded and closed his heart as he too fell into this facade, this role he had to play, only for us to realize that this had been a tragedy all along. To say his voice adds nothing to the story means we don't understand him yet and making it even more important to let him talk

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wow babe you’re really good at staying up incredibly late and barely sleeping every night

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my kingdom of under blanket is a peaceful place

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no idea what yore talking about but you seem pretty tortured by it. smashin that like button ♥️

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Started a new job and probably gonna be MIA for a couple Storyteller Saturdays, but THANKS to the two people who sent some! I promise I'll send a few back when I have the brainspace to answer, ask and read them again :)

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Some small details for a character learning sword fighting for the first time:

- sore wrists

- blisters on hands

- every movement opens you up to be hit

- they will hit the tops of their arm and own sides with the sword while learning

- there is a primal sixth sense when you know you’re being toyed with

And, for your typically nonviolent characters.

You don’t aim for the swords. You aim for the person holding the sword.

It sounds so obvious but needs to be accepted. Actively. When holding a sword you have to understand you’re attacking another person. Even to block you have to aim your blocks at the other person or they won’t be strong enough to actually protect yourself.