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I am really intrigued by how your writing process sounds. Do you like write summaries in an outline and then replace each scene summary with the actual scene?
DJFLADJLAD paging @foggieststars and @userkritaaay for this one (they are both equally horrified by how i write). basically... it is not that simple. im afraid.
i actually have been doing some funky stuff w storing my current wip specifically so i can explain my writing process better (i feel like having examples is helpful bc uh. my process is genuinely a little incomprehensible.)
i rambled a lot here w lots of spoiler free examples (equally, if anyone is looking for any little snippets from this wip, there's some below lol). and im not actually sure this explanation makes any sense. tldr the answer is ehhh kind of? but with more steps in between?
everything starts in my notes app, cuz it's easily cross-accessible on my phone and my laptop. sometimes it's like, a sentence or two of what i call Real Prose (final product type stuff), sometimes it's like, a rambling paragraph describing a concept like i would if i was texting a friend (sometimes this is literal in that i copy paste text convos in if i think i'll do something w it). i'll call this stage 0.
current wip (sci fi fantasy au aka the light between lines, which started in the notes app as just the words "xmen meets shadow and bone. or something" (and stayed that way for ages)) technically began as voice messages to @mecachrome while heating up leftovers. back in. i wanna say may.
anyways. it starts small, and the next stage (stage 1, i guess?) is this weird mix of rambling and Real Prose. an example:
this one is especially funky bc its part Very Vague timeline (i cut off earlier bits that spoil things but it stretches back several years more), part sketchy rambling, part Real Prose.
so now i have this like, rambling outline. kind of. it's like if i was on the phone w a friend explaining the idea, and every so often i'd be like WAIT THIS IS SUCH A GOOD LINE. and then there's a real line. [i use brackets as signals of things switching back and forth between modes. easy to search up, not really used in regular prose, etc]
for this wip, i then copied everything into my word processor of choice, so i wouldn't lose the evidence of the rambling outline. lol. although i did it slightly late, so there's already some transition to the next stage.
then i go through in order, and fill it in. here's a bit from my notes app, it's very "telling a story to a friend" (this is stage 1 still):
here's that same bit at the bottom of my word doc (aka stage 2 except normally i replace it/write over it in place in the doc. i've been saving it all instead of replacing it for this exact reason). i've elaborated now. they're in a locker room, now. lando's kitting up. need to hit on this emotional beat, need to have this reference to oscar in the scene prior being sleepy, need to have this lore explained, and then there's action. but there's still a Lot to fill in, obviously. oscar has to kit up. are they talking the whole time? what's lando doing in the gaps of silence if they aren't. and then the entire training mission. lol. [some bits of my notes are already at this stage or beyond so i dont have to do anything i just scroll past, and some bits are literally like "lando is mad. oscar is mad. they shout" and i have to do the heavy lifting here]
this ^ then becomes 1069 words. 305 of which come from the words between "lando's" to "babies," and 764 of which come from "they go out on a training mission and it doesn't go tits up." here's the beginning of that (this is more like stage 4, if im honest.):
NORMALLY. there are brackets all over the place still, at this stage. this scene just came easier than normal lmao. but this is what it would normally look like in uhhh stage 3:
it's very... in conversation with myself. does nerve make more sense for lando to use than audacity? does dirtier than he started sound better than dirty again? idk i'll figure that out later. the moment i feel stuck i move on. immediately. otherwise i would go MAD like, 60 words into a wip trying to come up a perfect word. that is a sticky problem for AFTER i've done the majority of the work, so that way i don't just give up completely early in the process.
i didn't know how to phrase jenson's attempt at making oscar not mad so i just put down the gist and kept it pushing. i know i want lando to have some kind of snarky thought about it being hard on oscar but i couldn't figure out how to phrase it right. so i got down the core elements and kept moving. etc etc etc.
the transition from stage 2 to stage 3 is where i really use brackets and lowercase to differentiate. for some reason, my brain gets less... fussy. when i write in all lowercase. cuz it knows it's not going out like that, so it can be less perfect. so sometimes there's a stage 2.5 that's like a full scene but it's all lowercase to ease the pressure. and then i'll go back thru and capitalize.
the doc rn has. 7.7k of words. 4.1k of those words are at like, stage 3 and beyond. there might be a couple transition bits in there that are entirely in brackets and therefore are really like. stage 2.5. if that. there's a couple scenes with no brackets whatsoever aka stage 4. there's 1k straight of action where the only brackets are around my vocab choices for the vehicle they drive. the remaining 3.6k is somewhere between stage 1 and stage 2 (mostly stage 2 tho. probably averaging at stage 1.9)
i don't go from stage 1 to stage 2 to stage 3 for the whole document in order. to be clear. im not on draft 3 rn! it's not, oh everything is stage 2, and then slowly everything becomes stage 3, and then slowly everything becomes stage 4. i dont write in order!! and also the stages aren't rigid lmfao it's all slow evolution
to go from stage 2 to 3 isn't like, i sit and look at a scene summary and work on that same scene until it is mostly prose w a couple clarifying brackets. it's like, i come across a scene summary/stage 2 chunk. i start writing. i get a little stuck, i leave the line of scene summary for the bit im stuck on and move to the next line. sometimes i cant get it into prose at all but i can elaborate more on the scene summary, so it's a little more detailed than it was before. sometimes i get a lot stuck, and i can't visualize anything at all. ok. it's all gonna be scene summary, or script-y dialogue that sounds wooden but gets the meaning out, whatever works. that's fine lemme leave it alone.
and then i scroll down until i find a bit i DO have the visuals for, i DO know what's going on for. maybe it's a single bracket in an otherwise perfectly prose section that i've finally figured out the wording for. maybe it's a scene summary that's suddenly playing out in technicolor in my head. maybe it's a completely stage 4 section that i've decided actually these two lines should be one. and then i repeat! eventually i hit the bottom of the doc and head back up to the top to repeat again, and again, and again. until all of it's in stage 4 with maybe a couple brackets, which means it's set to go to the google docs for beloved darling betas to read over and tell me what's what <3
this probably did not . make a ton of sense. i wish i had the equivalent of those like painting process videos bc i think it WOULD make sense if i could be like SEE. but kfjdsajfjfdlsa
#sorry anon this was like. probably way more than you were looking for. i know nobody gaf dksjfa#this is also why i dont really . edit. after a fic is done.#beyond the post-beta stuff and maybe one readover before i send it to anyone betaing#bc i was editing the Whole Time.#writing process#<- so i can find this later. hopefully#mine.snip#ask
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Olive Branch
Wrong Move
#bad touch... 2! anyway to save everyone from a novella in the tags i will be replying to this post afterward with some directors commentary#EDIT: go look in the replies for a link to my director's commentary with bonus thumbnails#this has been sat around for like 2-3 months unfinished for reasons i will expand upon there. lol#isat spoilers#isat#isat fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#isat isabeau#isafrin#isiloop#sifloop#sloops#sloopis#in stars and time#in stars and time fanart#lucabyteart#emplore u to not look at the anatomy too hard here because i basically took the executive decision to IGNORE THAT SHIT to get this finished#so its absolutely scuffed as is the spacial reasoning of the whole thing. theyre just laid next to each other in a bed/on a bedroll#just bc i have no fucking clue how clear any of that is. like at all#also i do promise that most of the time when im bashing the dolls together in my head it is like 90% yay what if they healed and were happy#but like. im not drawing that. lol. everyone else can go do that. im here to articulate concepts rather than make nice emotions#so . priorities. anyway sorry isabeau being tied up in this unfinished larger comic meant i didnt draw u for ages elsewhere#theres enough isafrin out there i dont need to contribute
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Love, Dhes
Parker,
It's unfair how time with you feels so short. How the last 10 years have felt like no time at all. I like to think there are other versions of us out there, somewhere. Maybe in another timeline, another universe. I like to think we find each other no matter where we are or what we're doing. That we're together and happy and I get to love you in a dozen different lifetimes. That's what I hope, anyway. And I hope when this lifetime ends, we get to start over and do it all again. Because once just isn't enough. Not for me. Not with you.
I hope the next 10 years pass slower.
Love, Dhes
#ts4#simblr#ts4 edit#ts4 render#sims 4#myedits#sue#dhestyn#kelly#bow#stella#duder the cat#marky#jax#i'm not fucking recovering from this#critical damage has been dealt to me#GODDDDDD this edit took me so LONG.#the GOOD news is there ARE other versions of them & they DO in fact find each other in every universe !!#whether or not they are happy though. well. that's a different story#cough monster boyz. cough slaughter house.#:-)#ngl a lot of the time i was working on this edit all i could think about was how much dhes has grown as a character#like baby dhes genuinely was such a punk. wouldn't be caught DEAD writing a love letter#let alone to kelly of all people#idk i'm just proud of him. seeing him so comfortable with himself... how he's able to show that to others & not feel afraid or ashamed...#it's really sweet!!!#like ik y'all don't know a whole lot about the boys as kids (bc i'm v protective of them so i don't share a lot lol) but trust me.#dhes has come a long way.#genuinely feel like i have watched him grow & learn & change & it does. give me feelings.#n e way. that's it.
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phinktober day 11: ur fav AU
i dont rlly do AUs so i just drew them how i wish they would dress xo
(dan’s tats r carnations and snowdrops and phil’s r roses and honeysuckle. for no reason ��)
ALSO bonus version w makeup bc i couldn’t pick <3
#soz copied caption from twt i have been drawing for 7 hours straight i need to drink water eat something take a piss and a shower and sleep#no braincell rn#goodbye it is wine time#hope yall like this idfk what people what these days other than ship art but im not doing that so sorry no knights fucking for you#just me making them look like me bc i’m a narcissist etc#god i am way too tired to be yapping rn i have no filter whatever ABYWAY HASHTAG DANIPHIW#art2 and craft2#dnp#phanart#dan and phil#daniel howell#amazingphil#dan howell#phil lester#phinktober#punk edits irl come back to me please#i’m missing a fkn hashtag i just know it whatever i don’t CARE im TIRED i have eaten nothing but half a jar of picked today i feel so goblin#idk why i tunnelvisioned w this piece it’s not even that good or detailed LMFAO#actually the tattoos were a BITCH and also made me sad bc of my whole failed tattooing career etc#OH MY GOD WHY AM I YAPPING SO MUCH SOMEONE EUTHANISE ME#good NIGHT !!!!!!#pickles not picked btw but i’m not retyping all of that#now i’m sad bc i’m out of pickles and it’s 10pm and everything is shut:( hate my stupid gay life
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#i'm going to explode. tumblr give me an edit poll button NOW#my partner says this is an old person feature but i just like to feel it when i Press Button#bc that's how physical keyboards work right? you get tactile feedback#like i don't have the whole phone set the vibrate when i tap it just the keyboard#idk. vote on my poll boy#third time's the charm. apologies to the dash#why is the default time limit on these a day instead of a week. a day is no time at all#YOUR. YOUR phone keyboard. AUGH
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I've been very normal about these guys lately
#mayuri kurotsuchi#bleach#kenpachi zaraki#kenmayu#my art#tfw u don't know what to put for a bg#so you put smth that takes you like. SO much extra time like holy shit What Happen#this whole thing was me being very uh. normal about detail. again:p#edit: i fixed his lip (and added some more scars bc fuckit why not)
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welcome gen 3: Violet Kim-Jeong 💜
#ts4#ts4 gameplay#the sims 4#gp1#gp 1#gameplay1#game play 1#the sims 4 edit#ts4 edit#current household#they settled on violet bc it's a v like venessa and it's her fav color#it's actually violet louise butttt when they have their second baby i might want her to be named louise#anyways i aged her up like immediately#so she's an infant rn and she is sooooooo cute ;-;#i chnaged her nursery to be purple instead of pink so act like you've seen it purple this whole time
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I havent finished anything in a bit so please enjoy my favorite Grima doodles lmao 💗🥰
#grima wormtongue#grima#lotr#lord of the rings#csp#pixel art#doodle#my art#.... posting this again bc its not showing up in the tags.. 2nd time this has happened to me and both are for grima posts..#🤔😒 tumblr whats your beef?? why do you hate him?? hes just a silly guy!!#works out ig? bc i forgot to do alt text on the first go but like annoying. im going to have to check everytime now ig ugh :T#i have painstakingly rewritten my og tags bc itll bother me otherwise lmao rip ->#I missed playing w shapes lmao its fun!!#hes a wiggly man#also long pointy nose is my favorite shape actually. such a fun silhouette#the mcdonalds order is my fav one btw i live for that kind of anachronism lmao 🤣#also i think grima was always whispering weird stuff to theoden since almost no one was actually suspicious of him doing it lol#<- i have a whole drawing planned for that thought! Youll see it. One day >_<”#also technically from movie refs his cloak is one big piece w slits for the arms but i like the shape of separating it better!!#we’re in my mixed bag of canon and personal thoughts now lmao XD#<- i was a brighter happier man 2 hours ago lol#sorry if anyone sees these repost attempts and is annoyed 07 im just a bit confused why it keeps happening ToT#edit: its still not showing up? literally wtf tumblr pls.. my silly drawings... have mercy 🥺 🙏 😭#Edit again: WOAH IT MADE IT??? WERE IN THE TAGS NOW BABYYY SORRY FOR BADMOUTHING YOU TUMBLR SUPPORT IG??#in that case sorry for the double post lmao 😅
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⭐ farrah nouvel, recent college graduate and aspiring children's book illustrator is NEW IN TOWN
starting the new in town scenario for some casual rotational gameplay‼️ i remember starting it when it was first released but i never finished it :c i gave her a makeover back when it first played it, which you can see here <3 fun to look at bc you can see how much my style has changed 💥🫶🏽
#ts4#ts4 gameplay#sims 4 gameplay#scenario: new in town#hehhe new gameplay#like i said it's casual so if i drop it and pick it back up again 🫵🏽 mind ur business#still playing plc i’m just posting it once instead of twice a day#quirky artistic farrah my beloved#sims team she belongs to be now she's my oc#her studio might look a little different next time you see her bc i’m gonna move her into a different apartment#edit: just kidding i lied i’m not furnishing a whole new apartment 🧍🏽#sim: farrah nouvel#queue
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birthday boy with his birthday toy
#river dipping#theodore doe#matthias evanoff#echthroi#ts4#ts4 edit#ts4 cas#simblr#took a minute to share these bc i decided to edit them but do you see what i mean about how pretty this preset is#the color isn't edited at all like i just added noise highlights and shadows... i'm frothing at the mouth#these exact colors look sooo good on theo......... dw abt whatever's going on with matthias ❤#i’m constantly changing theo’s hair bc i haven’t found an alpha hair that’s The One yet#but this one is cute even if it’s too flat for theo#and this shirt on matthias has been driving me crazy lately btw.#if i took matthias's top off you'd see the literal line of hickeys from his neck down to his tit where that bite mark is#guy who leaves marks everywhere to stake his claim#vs. guy who intentionally dresses slutty so everyone can see the marks and he can watch his boyfriend preen#……..anyway. i have a walk to take☝️#will be thinking about mattodore the whole time
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Headshot 💥💐💦
This was one of those "draw your fav like this" trends on twitter! I'll add the link in the replies. My gurl is made of flowers and tears so this was perfect for her...
It's also her birthday today, Sept 16th!! 🥳🎂🎉 Happy birthday, Audrey Grace!!
Artist of the ref img: itwasleo on twit and insta!
#miru art#artists on tumblr#audtree#audrey grace#trypophobia tw#tw trypophobia#the lorax#forget me nots#itwasleo#i can't put twitter links in the description of a tumblr post anymore#bc last time i did it my post didnt show up on the dashboard for a whole 10 min. And another 10 min for any time i wanted to make an edit
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landing
#i'd recommend zooming in bc the changes between panels are pretty subtle. they'll be easier to see on the cropped versions but i wanted to#include the whole thing too because i think it looks nice like that :)#opening up to yukina as the final hopeful yet unresolved part of hiei's arc of learning to trust and love and be loved by others is like.#aughh. fascinating choice anyway here's a take on how it'd go. from me. a sap#smth smth hiei letting his vulnerability show via the thing that unites them (bloodline via the hiruseki stone) which is inherently tied#to emotion and letting his feelings about her and his past show to someone. grahh#yyh#yu yu hakusho#yukina#hiei#skrunkart#also due to the title and the organization of this comic one could call this a landing strip#anyway um. posting more yyh but this time it's not funny at all oops. glad y'all liked the other one though jksdjfkjs#anyway yukina's important you should talk about her more#would also like to point out how in the final panel hiei doesn't actually touch her with his other arm. it's just resting on his hand#enclosing her but still kinda distant. he's still got some healing to do#edit argh i uploaded a slightly wrong version. fixed now. it just didn't have yukina's crying onomotopoeia#but i wanted them back in bc sound is so important to this one#WAIT PANELS SWAPPED. FIXED FR NOW#ANYWAY HIEI MY BELOVED MY EVERYTHING. LOVE THAT LITTLE GUY#also shoutout to devoted sibling characters. they really get it
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niche content but tier list of ghouls as clinicians (any patient-facing healthcare role)
sorry yuri but you'd fail viva
#tokyo debunker#lin yapping#honestly subaru would get bullied by patient families if he were in a big hospital#pls put him in priv or a small nursing home#jiro would thrive in acute honestly u go jiro#zenji would be SO FUN in an eipic setting im begging for a zenji#haru is the community paeds slp who never goes home on time / stays until 8pm prepping session plans#honestly luca would also be great with adults but also i feel like . parents would trust him#maybe as an audiologist??? or an ot tbh#im 20% sure sho's hair doesn't pass hospital regulations but he'd be great w rehab patients... maybe as a pt??#edit: nat said sho would be a resident and i SEE it#haku as a locum ot who happens to locum at the same places rui does (rui by default is an slp...)#lyca is on his way there but he needs a bit more cleaning up before he can pass viva!!!! maybe as an rt!!!#also towa would eat the flowers ur family brought for u#btw tohma is ok only bc he's head of department and doesn't directly deal with patients anymore#if he does it's vvvvvvip patients who request him by name or like . rly rare aphasia cases#he probs lectures part-time#doing this to put off intervention plans hurkghgkjgkhd#alas!#born to hotarubi forced to mortkranken#i should use this tag whenever i procrastinate huh#alan is a pt btw if it wasnt obvious#ed part times at dementia day cares for fun bc he 1) would not last the whole day 2) is not allowed near surgery patients
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y'all go from being feminists to tearing these women down within seconds oh my god it's 2024 can we please stop viciously tearing one woman down to bring another up i don't care what side you take but saying vile shit about either woman and their music is disgusting, please grow up
#seperate the art from the artist please oh my god#for the record i like both billie and taylor#the variants being a major thing but i know thats not to hurt billie like yall say its it's to get more money (which she doesn't need????)#like let people have opinions oh my god its not that deep#and some of yall (not naming names yk who you are) went from loving billies new album to saying the most vile shit within a second which is#+shallow as fuck please learn to separate the art from the artist#you're allowed to dislike someones music but dragging them down as a person is shameful and not something to be proud of#and some of the shit ive seen said recently is disgusting please think before you speak#and ill be honest the swifties are saying most of the horrible stuff#i love taylor as much as you guys but it is not an excuse to say disgusting shit about other women please find something better to do+#+with your time#most of my mutuals are swifties but tbh if youre offended by me saying not to drag women down then i don't want you following me anyways#luc posts#billie eilish#taylor swift#i will not rant about my hatred for the variants and consumerism thats a post for another day#also have yall considered that this whole argument thing is pr so they can both get more streams. bc uh that was my first thought ngl#edit like 10 minutes later: i read an article and yall are blowing shit out of proportion it is literally not that deep omg
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"...What is it?" "The drums...they mean trouble. I shouldn't be here—" "I want to see you again—" "I can't—" "Please don' t leave—" "—I'm sorry." "..." "...I have to go now."
—Pocahontas (1995)
#tfw ur really connecting with a guy and the fucking air raid sirens go off#pocahontas (1995)#disneyedit#pocahontasedit#pocahontas x john smith#pocahontas#john smith#they were all feeling a kind of way at the studio huh?#but fr like her look of panic when she hears the drums always stuck with me as a kid#and only now am i realizing the reason those drums are probably a Big Deal is bc her tribe JUST got done fighting a war with another tribe#she's been hanging out with smith all day. she doesn't /know/ that a scouting party had been sent out and one of her own got shot#she was just tailing the one guy on her own and then having a whole musical number and flirting n having a good time#and all of a sudden the red alert is blaring and now she's having war flashbacks#literally those drums could be for anything as far as she knows. i'd be on edge too.#also this lil animation sequence is so interesting#it strikes me as very 'old hollywood' in the blocking and the body language#it's the 'oh but we mustn't!' of it all#ahhh i'm a sucker for it every time#queso*edit#queso*gif
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heard it's open season on yachts down here
#haven#taran#oc#dragon#painting#traditional media#underwater#idk im just throwing tags at the wall at this point#i love painting water#boats#sharks#haven acts like sharks are dogs. he feeds them his table scraps and finds it very annoying when they try to eat off his meals#but he finds it endearing#taran thinks it's annoying that sharks will hang around him. he prefers mammals#but he also swallows his food whole a good half the time so it's not really equivalent. haven tosses his bones aside#should i tag the species of snake taran is meant to look like... i think that would be a little crass but i see it a lot w people's fursona#b/c i subscribe to the black-backed jackal tag#ok fine why not#sunbeam snake#tiktok tts voice: surgically modifying my non-amphibious pet boyfriend so he can hang out underwater and kill boaters with me !#anyway this was another palette test bc i forgot to put any green on jazz the other day#EDIT. NO ONE MENTIONED THE TYPO 😭😭😭😭
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