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What's the worst trap you see amateur writers falling into?

Not appreciating the whole story.

Scroll around "Writing Tumblr" for a few hours and you'll see something to the effect of "I was daydreaming about this big fight/plot twist/dramatic irony, but I hate writing all the stuff leading up to it!"

Everything leading up to the big third act is treated as an obligation. The 'homework' before you get to the 'fun part.'

See this enough times, and you start to realize why you see so many stories meandering around for the first two acts until they can have their big, dramatic climax. You start to see why everything that isn't a Baysplosion is considered "filler" now.

If you're only into writing to write memorable third act reveals, then everything you write is going to be terrible.

There's a video by Noralities going over an old anime, which she admits she hated at first because she was skipping the episodes that were dubbed "filler" by some idiot, and her friend who suggested it to her had to sit her down and tell her that the filler was some of the best parts. And she was in disbelief about that.

"A character-based show feels worse when you watch only the plot episodes and none of the character episodes? Say it ain't so!"

It is a moment of spectacular brainrot in what is otherwise an S-Tier Youtuber, because it's such a basic concept that some people will weirdly fight you on.

Character moments, slow moments, things that might be considered boring to a hyperactive, plot-obsessed weirdo, these are all important. Trying to have a big grand plot without these things is like trying to build a bridge without supports. If you don't have as much of a deep and abiding love for those things as you do for the big fight scene at the end, you're going to make shit.

There are entire genres of storytelling that don't have villains, fight scenes, or dramatic plot twists. There are NO genres of storytelling that don't have characters and character relationships as a core component of them.

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It's dangerous to be a Christian fic writer sometimes. I put a Bible verse at the end of each chapter in my Whole Shards series, which leads to a lot of random verses having very particular connotations in my mind (which helps with memorization, that's for sure!).

The only problem is when you hear those verses read in church and then your mind veers off to that part of the story, and the next thing you know, you realize you have a dreamy little smile on your face in response to "Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled."

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It feels like this every time I write a fic

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Nothing beats the feeling when you start getting comments on every fic in a fandom or ship from one person, and it’s clear that they’re going on a fic-binge. 

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Fic that appears to be an AU where the characters have a little low stakes meet cute and are having a sweet little romance, only for it to be revealed that no, this is in-universe and they both have amnesia and all the other characters are trying to find them and are losing their fucking shit

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Leylacore:

Tagging @rainintheevening, @bunnyscar, @captaingondor,

@sailforvalinor, @thetreasurechest, and @authortobenamedlater if you're interested!

Thanks @indoorghost for tagging me!! So fun!

Choose one of your characters/OC's (one that has a name) and go to pinterest and search "[Name]core" and build a 6-9 picture moodboard for the character based on what shows up. Then tag the same number of people as pictures you chose.

Here's some of the results I culled from "Tristancore"...

Lol pretty on point.

Tagginnnnnggg: @theeccentricraven, @gioiaalbanoart, @transthadymacdermot, @spideronthesun, @zinabug-writes, @gaslightwestern, @avaseofpeonies, @risingshards, and @ceph-the-ghost-writer !

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Steve comes face to face with the realization that he has no idea how to be a good father to Jake.

Steve wasn't a father to him. Jake didn't even see him as a positive part of his life. Even after all this time, after everything Steve had done to show him otherwise, in Jake's eyes, he was just a threat. So maybe there wasn't anything more he could do for Jake.

TW: blood

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Pick one of my characters that sounds interesting, and whichever one has the most votes will get a full description!

Feel free to do the same ;) Characters can be from fanfiction or original, they don't necessarily have to be a character you made up--the point is to have fun describing them.

I took this in a sort of "explain a character badly" direction, which I'm not sure was the point, but it was fun XD Also, I have way too many characters, so I'll be making several of these, picking randomly across my main fics and original stories, until they've all been picked, because I can >:D

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Aiden Averrod - One of the protagonists (deuteragonists?) from my "crystalpunk" story The Arcblade. Aiden is the captain of the pirate airship Robin, and mostly he just wants to keep himself and his crew in the sky without getting caught or killed. And if they manage to make their fortunes while they're at it, all the better. Aiden is cocky, confident, and more than a little selfish, but he has a lot of street smarts as well as the understanding that if he lets a princess talk him into joining her quest to go find the mystical blade that will save the kingdom, it's going to mean a lot of trouble for him XD

Pick one of my characters that sounds interesting, and whichever one has the most votes will get a full description!

Feel free to do the same ;) Characters can be from fanfiction or original, they don't necessarily have to be a character you made up--the point is to have fun describing them.

I took this in a sort of "explain a character badly" direction, which I'm not sure was the point, but it was fun XD Also, I have way too many characters, so I'll be making several of these, picking randomly across my main fics and original stories, until they've all been picked, because I can >:D

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Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

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*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

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not to sound sappy, but i personally think that a happy ending that the characters bled, suffered and fought for is a thousand times more interesting than a bland tragic ending that the author clearly thought would be “subversive”

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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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Fanfic writers, how do you feel about people making memes about your fics?

I love them in generally

Don't mind

Dislike in general, depends on the meme

Nuance/Other

Not a fanfic writer

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'My sweet angels' I say with tears in my eyes and excitement in my veins as I construct the most hurt for my characters I can imagine.