#o muse!: on writing

[miniminimermaid]

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[miniminimermaid]

5 editor’s secrets to help you write like a pro

1. Sentences can only do one thing at a time.

Have you ever heard a four-year-old run out of breath before she can finish her thought? I edit a lot of sentences that work the same way. You need a noun, you need a verb, you might need an object. Give some serious thought to stopping right there.

Sentences are building blocks, not bungee cords; they’re not meant to be stretched to the limit. I’m not saying you necessarily want a Hemingway-esque series of clipped short sentences, but most writers benefit from dividing their longest sentences into shorter, more muscular ones.

2. Paragraphs can only do one thing at a time.

A paragraph supports a single idea. Construct complex arguments by combining simple ideas that follow logically. Every time you address a new idea, add a line break. Short paragraphs are the most readable; few should be more than three or four sentences long. This is more important if you’re writing for the Web.

3. Look closely at -ing

Nouns ending in -ing are fine. (Strong writing, IT consulting, great fishing.) But constructions like “I am running,” “a forum for building consensus,” or “The new team will be managing” are inherently weak. Rewrite them to “I run,” “a forum to build consensus,” and “the team will manage.” You’re on the right track when the rewrite has fewer words (see below).

(If for some insane reason you want to get all geeky about this, you can read the Wikipedia article on gerunds and present participles. But you don’t have to know the underlying grammatical rules to make this work. Rewrite -ing when you can, and your writing will grow muscles you didn’t know it had.)

4. Omit unnecessary words.

I know we all heard this in high school, but we weren’t listening. (Mostly because it’s hard.) It’s doubly hard when you’re editing your own writing—we put all that work into getting words onto the page, and by god we need a damned good reason to get rid of them.

Here’s your damned good reason: extra words drain life from your work. The fewer words used to express an idea, the more punch it has. Therefore:

Summer months Regional level The entire country On a daily basis (usually best rewritten to “every day”) She knew that it was good. Very (I just caught one above: four-year-old little girl)

You can nearly always improve sentences by rewriting them in fewer words.

5. Reframe 90% of the passive voice.

French speakers consider an elegantly managed passive voice to be the height of refinement. But here in the good old U.S. (or Australia, Great Britain, etc.), we value action. We do things is inherently more interesting than Things are done by us. Passive voicemuddies your writing; when the actor is hidden, the action makes less sense.

Bonus: Use spell-check

There’s no excuse for teh in anything more formal than a Twitter tweet.

Also, “a lot” and “all right” are always spelled as two words. You can trust me, I’m an editor.

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

[godblooded]

so like… controversial opinion but… if you agree there should be more female muses or lesbians… uhh… write them?

[snazzles]

In your bio it says you made au what is the au about and or how is it structured???/nf

I'm working on making an au for camp here and there! its called The Muse and its about Elijah Volkov being a god that isn't worshipped anymore (so he doesn't have any power). He worships Sydney in a desperate attempt of projecting his need to be loved onto Sydney (which works). I need to post more about it here so thank you for asking!!

[truethes]

writing blood drinking / neck biting feels me with a similar joy to what smut does and i just think thats neat.

[miniminimermaid]

As a new fanfic writer, this is so important to know. I’ve never had anything plagiarized or copied, but I can only imagine how crushing it is to find something you worked so hard on be disrespected like that.

If you’re a new writer like me, please please PLEASE take these things into consideration whenever you write fics. Writing is not easy. Writing is hard. But that means that each of us who does it will create something different. THAT is where the beauty of writing comes from: no one can tell a story like YOU can. 

And if you’re not sure about the line between inspiration and plagiarism? ASK.

Talk to the creators. Use this wonderful thing called technology and the internet to your advantage; that’s what it’s for. You can’t assume the right course of action when each author is different.

And to readers—please let creators know if someone is copying their work. We can’t keep enabling things like this to happen.

I am going to say something that has really been bothering me that not everyone may agree with, which is totally okay, everyone is entirely valid to disagree with me: There is a fast fashion problem in fandom, specifically fanfiction.

Disclaimer: This conversation is not about broadly writing the same tropes, genres, and ideas. I am not talking about people writing fics with similar themes or the same name. I am specifically talking about people writing fics that are very obviously heavily influenced by other fics. This is not me talking about: I wrote __ character as enemies to lovers vampires and so did this person so they stole. Please do not trivialize this conversation with instances that are very obviously not what I'm talking about.

As someone who exists in the fanfiction space, I want to express what I have seen specifically in this space in my own experience, my mutuals experiences, and random experiences I have seen on my dash.

Recently, it seems like there is a reoccurring theme of writers (often new writers) taking "inspiration" from fanfics that they love and value and essentially creating their own version of that story to the point it is bordering on plagiarism. I say bordering on plagiarism because while people may not be copying line for line or entire scenes in order, you can tell that it is a re-arranged duplicate of another story.

I am not talking about writing similar tropes and dynamics. No one owns a trope or a dynamic. I am specifically talking about people taking the plots, scenes, concept and core of fanfics and recreating it and changing some plot elements or placing it in a different alternate universe and calling it their own, when at the heart of that fanfic, it is taken from someone else's creation.

This to me, reads like people who read a work, fall in love with it, but think 'this is easy to do, I can do this myself' and they end up making a replica of a fic that you can tell is a replica of another fic, despite adding some changes. Nine times out of ten, these inspired fics lack the obvious thought and heart the original writer put into it.

Which, begs the question: How is this different than fanfic writers taking inspiration from media (i.e. published books, movies, music, shows)? Because fanfiction is meant to replicate a specific something from published media. It is not meant to duplicate an already established fanfiction contribution.

I know that the nuance between that line is very ambiguous and it brings up the discourse on 'should there be fanfiction of fanfiction' - to which my response is it is, generally, pretty obvious what the difference between being inspired by a fic and copying a fic are.

In the last few months, I have lost count of how many times I or mutuals have a) discovered someone has been writing a story based off of their fic 2) have been asked to use an already written work to make their own or 3) already have started writing works modeled after an already written work and in hindsight asked the author if they could keep doing so (this third instance almost always happens after someone accuses them of stealing another work).

This feels like the fast fashion industry. Someone finds a story that is popular (whatever that means to the individual), takes all of the elements they think makes the story works, rearranges it, posts it as their own and and says they were 'inspired' (if they credit the original story at all).

This is why so many works that readers are coming across feel like they are the same thing. It is the same A + B + C = D over and over and over again, because people are outright just taking what they think works from other stories and using it.

Again - I am not talking about people who come across a trope, AU, genre or dynamic they like and add something similar to their story. I am talking about the people who are very intentionally and obviously writing the same exact fic with their own 'twist' (whatever that means).

Why is this a problem (beyond the fact that it's essentially roundabout plagiarism)? You're taking the heart, soul, and creativity someone poured into something and posting it on your own and robbing it of the originality, the essence, and the intention behind it. You cannot replicate a writer's feelings and obvious emotions that they have poured into the original work, and it shows. And it is gutting to the original authors who are finding remixes of their work across the fanfiction space.

Please consider whether or not you are inspired by a story or if you are redoing it in your own image. If you find yourself worried enough about your story that you feel like you have to publicly credit someone to avoid scrutiny, perhaps the question needs to be asked of whether you're just redoing what someone else already wrote.

Please do not confuse inspiration and recreation. 9 out of 10 authors will love that they inspired you to write, but would not love to find that you wrote a fic inspired by them that is a rearranged or hollowed-out version of the fic they wrote.

The fanfic space wants and needs more writers, but it does not need people unwilling to create their own art, instead taking bits and pieces from others and calling it a success.

Also adding: This problem also directly contributes to 'smaller' writers or more niche (often queer and bipoc) stories not getting the hype, readership, or recognition they deserve. On more than one occasion I've seen stories that had explicitly queer or bipoc characters taken and turned into heteronormative or white-presenting stories.

Note: This 1000% goes for actual visual art as well, including gifs etc. in fandom but I'm not well-versed there and thus, did not include it.

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Still working away on the Mer!Au! It's probably going to be a longer piece anywhere between 30k-70k just based on how far I've gotten in the planned plot so far.

Now I can either disappear for a week or two and drop it all as one fic or I can make it another multi-chapter fic and add it to the rotation of updating ones! Let me know if you have strong opinions either way

[twistedappletree]

[blizzardfluffykpop]

The Boyz Masterlist

Everything unmarked is plain fluff

Updated: 3/1/25 

Main Masterlist

Most To Least:

MTL Nosiest in Bed [nsfw]

One-shots/Series:

Poly TBZ:

The Grims [Mafia au (Younghoon X Reader X Juyeon)]

Skatepark (Hyunjae X Reader X Eric)

Blackout (Younghoon X Reader X Changmin (Q)) [Smut]

Leather Couch (Juyeon X Reader X Changmin (Q)) [Smut]

Blizzarding (Chanhee (New) X Reader X Changmin (Q))

Sangyeon:

Christmas Decorations

Matching Pajamas

Jacob:

Scaredy-Cats

Younghoon:

Partners [Mafia au]

Broken Belts [Mechanic au]

Puzzle Pieces [Slights Angst w/Happy Ending]

Little Surprises

First Snowman Together

Dancing & Laughter

Jaehyun (Hyunjae):

Snow Flurries on the Racetrack [Suggestive]

A Christmas Delight

Denial [Smut]

Juyeon:

Love Letter

Start Anew [Exes to lovers?]

Under the Glow of Candlelight [Smut]

Wished For

Part-time Cat [Cat shifter! Reader]

Kevin:

My Darling [Smut]

Missing You

Chanhee (New):

So Much More

Confession

Changmin (Q):

Just a Bad Dream [Drabble] [Hurt/Comfort]

Scared? [Smut]

Playing Strangers [Smut]

Wish You Were Here [Drabble]

Xmas Movies

Blizzards

Christmassy?→

A Creepmas Party [Vampire au] [Suggestive]

Focus On Me [Smut]

Haknyeon (JuHaknyeon):

Safety

Sunwoo:

Run Away [Angst w/a happy ending]

Saturday Night [Smut]

Duty Calls [Android au] [Smut]

Warm

Baking Cookies

Youngjae (Eric):

Forgotten Train

Santa Baby

A Good Difference

[skyfcx]

     Stares at his thread with Noise.

     Stares at his thread with Fleetway.

     ...      ......

     "Yeah, no. Amy? Mari? You're up, you two."

[miniminimermaid]

dilf yoongi age gap this dilf yoongi age gap that—what about milf reader age gap au huh?? what about that?? 🤨🤨

[biitchcakes]

Hello hello !! I know it's been over a month since my last post on here anyway, but I figure it's time to officially make a HIATUS post. Even though I've not been on the computer in the last few weeks ( lurking here and there on mobile ), I know I'll definitely be without access to it from 14 July ⸺ 14 September !! ( and perhaps even into October, will update if so ! )

I'll still be popping in on the app from time to time, I'm not completely getting off the site, but writing here will definitely have to take a backseat ⸺ even more so than it already has, unfortunately. My goal once I'm back from this hiatus is to get back to writing, I do miss you guys and writing Jess so much 😭 I've just not had the time for tumblr lately.

To keep the blog active, over the next couple of days, I'm gonna try to queue up some posts for the next few weeks. See what else I can manage too while I'm at it, but I'm taking a trip ! (🥳) So I know the next few days are gonna be pretty busy with preparations and what not.

Hope to see you on the other side 🫡🖖💖

[flovverworks]

i shouldve made solo blogs for charas ppl know (person whos eyeing farmsim muses again)

[godblooded]

idk if this is somehow a discussion or why it is, but i write ladies/femme muses halfway almost exclusively, i much prefer writing with ladies/femme muses, and if all you write with is men i eternally side eye your ass.

[arsene-fixates]

Hello!!!

I’m Arsene!! I go by they/them pronouns, I’m 18+ and I’m chinese ^_^

I interact from @/milkmallow28 but it’s only for reblogs

Currently I’m awfully fixated on The Informant (as you can tell from my blog) so you’ll see many many drawings, analysis and me simply talking about our relationship :3

I’m canonically affiliated with him!!!

By the way, you should go follow My best friend in the WWW (Whole Wide World) | my stimboard blog <3

F/Os, DNI and Notes under the cut!

Main Romantic F/Os

♡ The Mysterious Informant (Seekers Notes)

♡ Matsuno Karamatsu (Osomatsu-San)

♡ Wilhelm Adler (OC)

(Wilhelm belongs to @/raininmytea)

Secondary F/Os

♡ #sitting by the rain 🌧️

♡ Silver Mask (Chef & Friends)

♡ #🌑✨ -> Oobja (roblox)

Couple things to note!!

I’m not comfortable sharing my f/os because i selfship to cope!! so if you do have them on your list or if you are close with mutuals who have them, I most likely won’t follow you back

I also talk about Seekers Notes on this blog :3

Tags

#art tag!! <- my art ^_^

#my writing 💌 <- writing that I rarely do

#arsene-blogging <- I speak here

#「Love Note Unfolded in Secret」 <- my relationship with Informant

#Informant Under A Microscope <- Informant analysis!!

#S/I: Mellilla <- for my Seekers Notes self insert

Do Not Interact If:

you fit the basic dni

if you share my F/Os & follow people who share my F/Os as well

Proshipper

Comshipper

Age up characters or age down self insert

fully NSFW blogs

[aranea-princeps]

Hey siri, how do I get past the mental block of being scared to write shit for my oc w/ friends????