#i work best with outlines i think

[cicadasides]

wrote a synopsis for a novel last night and today i’m gonna work on expanding that into an outline :3

[momentsofamber]

Julia deserves some cringe core color pallet love too! 🧡

( ft. a matching-toned green Andrew. )

This was made with @little-miss-orange-eyes in mind, I hope that's okay!!

[quaranmine]

i think planes are magic because there's something about being trapped in a metal tube in the sky with no wifi that consistently forces me to make progress in writing

[rahabs]

This Horror Which Bleeds [ read on A03 ]

He'd known, realistically, that Lilith was gone, and that she'd no intention of coming back. The knowledge didn't make Lucifer anymore prepared to find her mark engraved on the Radio Demon's soul.

Charlie asks her father to check in with Alastor after the hotel's reconstruction. In the process, Lucifer makes a discovery, and things get worse before they get better.

[shannonsketches]

Every time I talk to a DB fan who doesn't know or doesn't agree that the whole franchise is an adventure comedy first and an action series second I feel insane but then I find an old Toriyama interview,

You made some comedic scenes where you have minor villains Pilaf & co. appear; how did you come up with a balance between laughs and fierce battles? Do you pay attention to the difference between comedy and battle in making a work “entertaining”?

I believe that, when you combine comedy and serious battles, both of them might come alive even more. As for me personally, though, I much prefer drawing dumb jokes to battle scenes.

as a bonus, every time I'm like 'idk I didn't really like most of the DBZ movies prior to Yo Son Goku and Friends Return and BotG,' and get the 'whAAaaT they're so gOOD' (from my brother, tbh askdjs) but they all seemed really Action-Drama and About the Fight Scenes and I'm like 'meh kinda boring tbh' I get to gaze upon,

In the latest movie, Toriyama-san, you participated in the production from the scriptwriting stage for the first time. What is the reason for that? Was there anything you noticed in coming face-to-face with the work after so long?

I was told about a project for Dragon Ball in its first animated film in a long while, and I read the story outline; while the beings “Beerus, God of Destruction” and “Super Saiyan God” (which goes above Super Saiyan) were interesting, the themes were heavy, and I felt that the world was a bit different from Dragon Ball. Rather than telling them about this or that problematic spot, I thought it would be faster if I just wrote it out concretely, and while I had intended just to give them a model―”for example”―my hand wouldn’t stop, and ultimately, I ended up writing almost everything, including the dialogue. I am reflecting on the fact that I did something terribly rude to the scriptwriter.

Akira "It was bad so I fixed it, oops" Toriyama, Absolute Legend

[helielune]

powder keg (full under the cut)

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[naareblogs]

Sometimes being a writer means re outlining your novel [internal screaming]

[crowleys-bentley-and-plants]

gonna treat this site more like a blog and give updates on my writings because i noticed that if i get so much as one 'this sounds interesting' or 'cant wait to read' my brain short-circuits and spits out words in an hour that wouldve taken me a week to write otherwise

and with that, welcome to my wip rants :)

because i havent come up with better titles they are called The Ring (second coming fic) and Only Human (Crowley has lost his memories fic) lol and the former is mostly done, it only needs some editing but im saving that till after my exams because i know it's gonna be time-consuming. The latter however is still in full plotting mode and today i outlined all of chapter 8 (except for the flashbacks lol im ignoring the flashbacks) which i think is very nice :)

[orionauriga]

Hi! If you’re still doing the Send Me A Fic prompt I was wondering about Just Pretend

Have a great day!

hiiii!

My favorite scene: the last scene of chapter 3, when shit starts to hit the fan

My favorite chapter: chapter 4! andrew's perspective tends to be the hardest but most rewarding for me to write, and while the majority of the chapter was a struggle (see below), i ended up being proud of the final product

Hardest scene to write: andrew and kevin's discussion in the snow that takes up like half of chapter 4. i had to approach it in chunks: outline the conversation points/turns, then write the actual dialogue in bullets, and then go back in to add the actions and scene blocking. it was a process. that scene alone took me longer to write than all of chapter 1 did lmao

Favorite character to write in the fic: ANDREW. his brain is so intriguing to me. him having to balance atonement vs his refusal to let kevin forgive him was such fun to parse out

Favorite dynamic to write in the fic: all of the major platonic dynamics -- kevin and katelyn and aaron; andrew and renee; neil and matt and dan (steph orionauriga enjoying writing platonic relationships the most??? fork found in kitchen)

Why I chose that title: i'd been listening to a lot of bad omens while brainstorming/outlining and thought the song was very fitting of the fic's themes :)

A fun fact about the fic: a big reason for the perspective symmetry (kev ch 1 - andrew ch 2 - neil 3 - andrew 4 - kev 5) was so i wouldn't have to write more neil pov than necessary because his is SO hard for me

i hope you have a great day too! <3

fic ask game

[killerandhealerqueen]

The first draft is done and it's fucking...19K. And now I have to rewrite...all of it. Yay...

[datastate]

i have a proposed revision for the pc port

[darkandstormydolls]

I’ve kind of lost my writing mojo over the summer (I have still been thinking about my characters and considering things of course but I couldn’t seem to get anything written down), but this evening I was feeling like “eh I could write” and then say down for over an hour and wrote a good half (probably more honestly) pf a scene that has been languishing as a five word idea in my extremely rough outline for literally months

Thank you, writing fairies, for smiling upon me today

[solivagantingrebel]

Writing got easier when I just embraced the fact that I'm a true pantser tbh. An outline just wastes my time because I end up deviating from them anyway (the 'outline' I have in my head seems to work better, just like - a vague beginning, middle and end, with details filled out when I'm actually drafting).

[dallonwrites]

reblogs off bc i dont want to start Conversations based on other peoples posts but re the whole "who is in control you or the character" question, i find it SO interesting because it's by letting myself discovery write that I (for me personally disclaimer) found the perfect balance between intuition and intention. which to preface "intution" is the easiest way to describe how the inside of my writers brain feels bc often i just get vivid characters/stories/images/scenes with little control at first and i have to figure out what they mean. anyway discovery writing is what works for my brain to make intentional decisions because i need to be amidst a draft to get the Story Cogs working, whenever i try to outline before a draft it's always been just throwing things at a wall bc it feels too far away, but because im also using the discovery element to do that it's like. that's where i think the whole i feel like my characters reveal themselves to me comes from. because im always discovering small bits about them even if i've written them for years just but because discovery writing is also what prompts me to be intentional about writing as i write something it's like both are happening at the same time. so the whole "who's in control" it's like...i don't think control is the right word for me at all because its not Me or the Character it's me trying to understand the character to understand + then write my intentions. like neither me or the character are in the drivers seat because there's no car we are in the middle of the story forest and at first i won't know what it means at all except that it is a Story. and my character will start going one way and sometimes i'll follow and pay attention to where they're taking me to figure out if this is the right path/where to go next. and sometimes i'll figure out how to read the compass first and realise i need to drag their ass in another direction

[bearpillowmonster]

Really, I think the best way to have gone with the 2000s X-Men series was to continue what that first one did and focus the first trilogy on Rogue, let Wolverine have his trilogy and then Mystique the prequel trilogy.

Rogue in the comics has Mystique as an adoptive mother and in the movie, Logan plays a sort of first friend, almost father type figure so it'd essentially be a family story. Maybe even sprinkle in Nightcrawler as Mystique's real child.

Let's make Rogue lose her early memories before her human family before she realizes she has her powers and continues the movie off like normal but now having Wolverine to play off of in the amnesia department. The second movie can even stay similar since Nightcrawler is already introduced and we get to see a team up with Mystique which leads her curious to Rogue and Nightcrawler sort of trying to stay away because he lived with her as a mother. Third movie can really play on the reveal and deal more in the relationship stuff, deciding once and for all whether Mystique is hero or villain. I like end of it all, Wolverine leaves and this is where his trilogy is.

Leave the 2000s trilogy Magneto as the villain, Wolverine really just got popular to that degree because of Hugh Jackman so I don't really know what villains you want to set up other than Stryker, it kind of makes sense to have Origins just so you can set that up as well as the amnesia. The second movie can continue where the third X-Men ended and show him trying to find new purpose (idk I didn't really care for The Wolverine) then Logan can be that redemption with X-23 and him really becoming her dad.

The prequel trilogy would be cool to make it opposed to the 2000s one, where we saw big bad Magneto but this one, we see the humans be the bad guys and sort of justifies Magneto's reasoning in the originals. One of my main qualms with those prequels was his character and their constant drive to make him the lead. We already got a little origin in The Last Stand, just leave that and start the first movie off where Mystique and Magneto part ways. Then Mystique can be her own bad guy and maybe reunite with him in the final one after abandoning Rogue, showing the dawn of the X-Men that they wanted so badly to do.