#dont match length its all exposition

[rowarn]

sorry i wasn't specific with my ask! if you could just give me some ideas on how you get your inspo and word usage, that's mostly what i'm looking for! anything is appreciated though, thank youu. :))

RIGHT ON! its okay, i would have given random tips but i wasnt sure if there was something specific you were looking for!

my inspo largely comes from other media. tv shows, movies, edits, fucking character ai bots, other fics; literally anything that i enjoy i typically wind up using in my fics. its not for me personally but plenty of people get inspired by music! songs and music videos

other fics are excellent inspo bc u can see how readers respond to tropes that they've done. age gap, dilf, aus, and stuff like that. its also rlly great to see characterization. as long as you're not plagiarizing then emulating and learning from other writers who are doing the same thing you do or want to do is excellent. i love reading fics hehe

ik that sounds like super basic and boring but having a repertoire of existing tropes and stuff is super great!

as for word usage, it's all super subjective bc my tastes and stuff will not match up for everyone. but if u like how i write and want to emulate it then there are a few things i can say! i focus mostly on smut and dialogue.

first, it's important to have a good vocabulary. knowing synonyms to words you want to say is important. u don't want to have a paragraph that uses the same word over and over again, you want to break it up and make it mentally appealing to read. it won't be interesting to readers if you don't expand your vocab!

i am primarily a smut writer so that's where most of my focus is on intentional word usage. all my narration and plot is pretty basic i'd say. nothing incredibly special except for my dialogue which i put a lot of thought into.

i don't use metaphors that much. so, say, for smut u won't catch me using "globes" in reference to tits. i much prefer to just come out and say breasts, tits, chest.

i also don't use like Correct anatomy language. so i don't use penis, testicles, vagina or clitoris. i use.......porn language bc that's what im writing; cock, pussy, cunt, clit. just to keep it......erotic bc i personally (again, subjective) find correct anatomy language to be more off-putting than erotic.

smut is where it becomes difficult to use broad language. there's only so many words you can use for a dick. so don't be afraid to bust out some wattpad words u know? length, member, etc. ik they can sometimes be cringey and u don't like them but use them at the right time and using it sparingly and most ppl won't rlly notice. it breaks up reading the word cock and dick over and over and over again for 2k words.

for some examples,

for dicks u can use; dick, cock, member, shaft, length

for the puth u can do; pussy, cunt, folds, core, sex isn't bad

clit i use clit, bud, and nub mostly...but ppl use pearl or button, i don't but it doesn't bother me when i see it

i also don't use flowery language. i know in creative writing or whatever it's common to use poetic word usage but i find it to be more confusing than anything. i can't read rlly flowery fics bc the meaning of what im reading just genuinely gets lost. it's all lost on me. i'd say im a much more direct writer with my words and scenes? i utilize a fair bit of narration and exposition in my writing.

i find dialogue style to be quite important. if you read my stuff (like the fics, we dont look at my word vomit LMAOOO) you'll usually see i make the characters talk in specific ways.

simon cuts off his words "goin'" instead of "going", "somethin'" instead of "something", like that. i dont use a ton of language to depict his accent other than that, i leave the leg work mostly up to the readers bc they know what he sounds like. but some writers do like british slang, "wanker", "mate", "innit" LMAO i just don't and thats my choice. i choose to just cut his words off and call it a day. he has a more casual way of speaking in Taking What You Need as compared to konig in Experience.

konig, in Experience, has a specific way of talking as well that is opposite to simon. he doesn't use contractions. i did that intentionally bc i wanted him to have a more intimidating, professional, cold kind of way of talking. "do not do it" comes across different than "don't do it"!

i personally would say that a large part of my characterization comes across in dialogue and the style of dialogue i choose. i think that makes it more enjoyable for readers!

all in all, i basically just emulate what i personally like to see in writing. that's how i keep finding it enjoyable. i love giving fics for ppl to read but if i didn't write straight up what I wanted to see then the actual physical task of writing would be a lot worse.

idk how helpful this was since i basically just told u.....what i like to do LMAOOOO but i hope it gives u some kind of idea of what i focus on and how i get my writing to be the way it is?

EDIT: important that i also use inclusive language to the best of my abilities!

instead of saying like "your cheeks turned red" i use "you feel your cheeks heat up" or something along those lines since people with darker skin tones won't have their cheeks turn red when they blush!! but feeling your cheeks BURN is smthn we've all experienced.

i also try not to use any "running your hands through your hair" bc not everyone can do that! i can't even do that i have curly hair hehe. an alternative would be pushing a stray strand out of your face or tucking some behind your ear or something like that.

also, i don't mention nipple color or vagina color or anything !

[roryjackson-archived]

who: opeennnnn what: babe is losing her gd mind & thats very valid of her tbh where: the beach bc why not

The way the weekend at the Hargrove lakehouse soured felt like a personal betrayal. Like being taunted, you can’t even have this, as flames and terror corroded memories of summers past. Spoiling them in hindsight. She felt like a glass that’s been dropped, in the split second when you can see the cracks spiderwebbing across the surface, but it’s still being held together by centrifugal force. Because they might be back home, but Rory was the only one who remembered it all. Everyone else remembered something a little hazy, a little different, but Rory the time warp. She remembered being hunted by a monster, and then watching her friends hunt it back; their eyes sliding right over her despite her standing right in front of them; and the searing heat of the lakehouse burning as she threw her box of matches into the mouth of the beast. And she couldn’t even try to tell them, if Jaspar was to be believed, because they’d forget it all. Not to mention, they’d probably think she was losing her mind, even if she was telling the truth. Jesus, was this how Kamilla Yang felt all the time?

Talking to any of them felt like navigating a minefield, so it was easier... well, not to. There was at least one upside to their traumatic weekend getaway; after facing the horrors of the monster and the monster-but-with-her-dad’s-face, her beach-related-fears seemed majorly inconsequential! For the first time in months, Rory was standing alone on the sand, staring out at the waves crashing down on the beach. It was sort of hypnotizing. Enough that she didn’t notice anyone approaching until they touched her shoulder. She jolted and gave an audible yelp when the motion jarred the wound across her chest. “Oh my god, you scared me,” she exhaled harshly, trying to calm her rabbit-like pulse. “Don’t do that! What if I’d like, sucker punched you or something?!” 

[m0kuba]

Starter for @outofegypt |  ♕

       His brother had never made any attempt to stop Mokuba from learning of the dimensional travel project. He’d never made the lab inaccessible to him, never locked him out of any documents on the matter. All the information on it was right at his fingertips if he had just deigned to look. 

              He’d only noticed when he was digging for an old file on his laptop. Found a shared document on the matter- Notes about other versions of his big brother and the different dimensions some of them had traveled to- that led him down a rabbit hole to where he was now. A facility much further away from all the other labs and testing facilities KaibaCorp ran. Hidden behind several different doors a select number of keycards and IDs could get through, and designed in a way that reminded Mokuba of a warehouse, but... well, underground. Area 51 like.

       The vice president took a deep breath, stepping inside and watching the automatic lights in the warehouse-like structure flick on one by one, slowly illuminating the dark- And then stops dead in his tracks as he notices something a little odd around the high tech equipment and scattered documents.

       It’s Yugi. But... not Yugi- The other Yugi, as Seto liked to put it. He had just been standing there, looking at what Mokuba assumed was the dimension traveling device.               All in all, it was something IMPOSSIBLE. Something out of BAD MEMORIES. Wasn’t that other Yugi GONE? Or maybe this was a different ‘other’ Yugi.

      ❝ You- How did you get here?! ❞