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narrators-journal Ā· 2 months ago
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Hey, I'm trying to make a Yandere Persona 3 fanfic (Which is being posted on AO3). Can you give me some advice as to how to write it as I'm having a writer's block?
(Note: The Yandere ship being Yandere SEES x Fuuka Yamagishi, though, Ken and Koromaru are Platonic Yanderes, with the rest of SEES being Romantic Yanderes.)
Okay! So, Iā€™ll preface this with, this isnā€™t some step-by-step guide on how to write your story, itā€™s just some general advice I could think of. Iā€™m a good writer, but my methods might not work for you, and I do not claim to know what the fuck Iā€™m actually doing. So, keep that in mind while you read this, okay? Iā€™m sorry if none of this advice works for you, and if you have any questions after this, or want some more clarity on these points, feel free to send in another ask, comment, anything like that and Iā€™ll be happy to answer them!
Now, letā€™s get the big part of this done first. If you want to know how I personally write and manage to craft all the stories like months of tolerance, Winter is a lovely season for weddings and funerals, or any of the smut you might like to read, I...canā€™t really help. The best Iā€™ve got for that is just, I tend to write what I like to think about, and that enjoyment usually leads me to filling in the details and putting in the extra effort to try and make the writing, story, and implied world around the scenarios as good as I can get them. So, if you just want a walk through on how to gain that skill, all I can offer is to simply enjoy what you write, and write what would make you happy for the story.
Alright! With that out of the way, onto how I tackle my fics! Starting with my first step, making an outline.
OUTLINING
And, trust me, I recognize that some writers hate to outline their stories, itā€™s boring, it can seem to take all the fun and spontenaity out of writing. But, for a full fanfiction, with something that requires plot, and consistency, an outline is very good. Especially if youā€™re writing anything with a large cast of characters, like youā€™re planning to, because an outline lets you keep track of how frequently someone appears, talks, whoā€™s getting too much spotlight vs who isnā€™t getting enough, and lets you keep track of events.
Plus, it can be a good baby step to work out of a writerā€™s block because itā€™s not very taxing on the brain. Youā€™re just taking your ideas, and trying to at least vaguely organize them. So, in that sense, an outline also can work as a pre-rough draft! Because, youā€™re writing down all of your big ideas and noting down ideas to flesh those bigger points out in a format thatā€™s a lot easier to get out, edit and adjust than a full blown chapter, yā€™know? So, take advantage of that, and take the time to outline your entire fic before hand. It doesnā€™t have to be super detailed, you donā€™t need to fill an outline with polished prose, you just need to get down your ideas in a semi-organized fashion so that you can map out how your plot will go. For example, something like this is how I would outline a fic:
end
Maya and co. finally convince Tatsuya to join their group, booting Nanjo to the curb.
Katsuya and Tatsuya bond after an encounter with Katsuyaā€™s shadow
S!Katsuya: Admit it! You hate your baby brother! He ruined your life!
Katsuya: No! No, I could never hate him!
Tatsuya punches Nyarlethotep in the face
As you can see, it isnā€™t super detailed or in-depth, it just covers the big points of how they reach the desired end, with some dialogue I thought up as I was writing. And, that leads into my next point of advice for outlines specifically: Start with the ending. If you figure out the ending first, youā€™ll know what to foreshadow and build in the earlier portions, so I always suggest you start by writing down your ending point.
So, tldr: Try outlining your fic before you get stuck into writing. Itā€™ll help you catch plot holes, recall and keep track of cool dialogue you thought up, and make sure each of your cast has time to shine and some sort of impact within the plot. Especially when it comes to large groups of characters youā€™ll have to keep track of.
CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION
This next part is another big thing I keep track of when I write my fics or scenarios, and is especially noteworthy for a group of Yanderes. My personal characterization, and how that differentiates that specific character from the others.
This is the time you work in your headcanons for character personalities or backstory, and I canā€™t offer any help on that front. Your takes are your takes, the only advice I can offer is to make sure to note those personalities down if you donā€™t feel confident innately writing that character with them yet. Like some form of cheat sheet on Junpei, or Mitsuru, or whoever you donā€™t feel you can portray consistently off the cuff. That way, as you write them, you can have something to refer back to for their actions. For example, if I was to write for a yandere Junpei, Iā€™d probably write down:
Keep golden retriever energy
Possibly stand-offish to darling at first. In some circumstances
Probably doesnā€™t bother to hide stalker behavior.
Likely to gaslight to hide that shit instead
to try and keep him consistent.
Which, is another example of how characterization is very important for specifically yandere fics. After all, not every yandere should behave the same, and for a group those small differences are hard to keep track of in your mind alone. Like, Shinjiro is terrified of hurting those he cares about, so heā€™s not going to be as kidnap happy as Akihiko. Who is more likely to deem the outside world dangerous and unpredictable, so the safest place for Darling is with him at all times. Yukari has an awful track record of those important to her leaving in some fashion, so sheā€™s going to be far more aggressive when Darling escapes than, say, Minato is. Since Minatoā€™s lower energy, and is convinced heā€™s ā€˜normalā€™, and doesnā€™t care about anybody, so violence isnā€™t something heā€™s keen on. Thatā€™s a lot to keep straight if youā€™re just relying on your own memory for those good character ideas.
So, all of these things are aspects I usually note down for the yanderes I write. It lends them some variety, personality, and opens a lot more potential for Darling to have conflict and a chance. So, I suggest you think a bit about each character you want, and write down how they personally would behave as a yandere. Which, leads into what should be our second to last, major point of advice.
LET THE DARLING BE SMART
As a writer, I can tell you, favoritism is something that happens, lol. Not only in characters, but focus. Sometimes you just prefer to focus on the fun interactions, or the kidnap portion of a yandere story, and thatā€™s fine. But, for a good, filling story, you should always make sure that you are trying to make your Darling/mc at least believably dumb, lol.
Which, transcends the strict vibes of the situation. After all, no matter if itā€™s overt yandere behavior, or subtle, if your Darling is obliviously a-okay with everything around her, and goes to grab a spoon to defend themself against a psycho killer covered in the bestieā€™s blood, it can take a reader out of your story. If done wrong, at least.
Plus, a story is better with conflict, and making sure your character is believably smart, can heighten the tension, stakes, and simply provide that friction. It lets your reader have hope that a plan will work, and feel more tense and invested when shit begins to go awry. So always try to make sure your darling has some awareness fitting your plot.
And, finally!
WRITE FOR YOURSELF
Aka, donā€™t get so hung up on writing the perfect, most polished, tense, believable fic that you end up killing your own joy for it. All of this advice is stuff that I, personally, use to write my full length fics. I like to think of all of the little details and make a thoroughly thought out story, but if you just want to write a lighter, less dark yandere story thatā€™s nothing but pure self-indulgence, go for it!
Hell, Iā€™ve done it, my Ryomina fic, Winter is a lovely season for romance and funerals, is built brick by brick off of my own enjoyment of the idea of Minato being sacrificed to Ryoji. The story was grown around that, and it probably shows lol. So, make sure that you donā€™t get too caught up in the planning, the consistency of the characters, or how well put together your story is. Just enjoy yourself, and you will usually find an audience who can appreciate the simple fun of your fic. Just be aware of your motivations, and try not to take your fic too seriously.
Annnnnnd thatā€™s all Iā€™ve got for coherent advice! I hope this is helpful, I hope it is clear, and I appreciate that you thought so highly of my writing, that you asked my advice! Again, if anything here is confusing, or youā€™d like advice on a specific thing I didnā€™t cover here, feel free to comment, send another ask, whatever! That goes for everybody who decides to read this btw, not just the asker.
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haze-of-hyperfixations Ā· 4 months ago
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*meanwhile, in the Underworld* Polites: Eurylochus, back so soon? And...there's the rest of your crew. And by the gods, what happened to you? Eurylochus, who is sick of thematically-significant reprises: >:(
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skyburger Ā· 5 months ago
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do they celebrate pride month on teo
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xxplastic-cubexx Ā· 16 days ago
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finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants
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egophiliac Ā· 1 year ago
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so excited for Kalim to save the day by swiper-no-swiping this dip. you can do it! I believe in you!
god I hope this reads properly
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cowardlykrow Ā· 8 months ago
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ā€œNot my circus, not my monkeysā€ā€¦ Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus
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intotheelliwoods Ā· 1 year ago
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must not.. overthink... must NOT overthink shit. magic... must not.... logic brain... my poor poor logic brain....
Response to this aha
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mirensiart Ā· 1 month ago
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I know there's a lot of people who like the time shenanigans in regards to time+wars+wind thanks to hyrule warriors
Like wars+time are post hw meanwhile wind is pre hw in linked universe, etc
But I personally like it when wind is also post hw in linked universe cause the fucked up older brother+younger brother relationship with time is so funny
Like tfw u reunite with ur baby bro but it's only been a couple of months for u while it's been 20 years for him and now YOU'RE the baby brother shenanigans
I personally like it even more if time treats wind as his older brother still like
Random dude: hey where are u going
Time, who's like 30+ and 6'0"+: I can't answer that but u can ask my older brother
Wind, who's 13 and like 5'0" being held by the armpits by time to be at the dude's eye level: yes hello older brother here what do u want
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scamperin-shroom Ā· 1 month ago
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Classic Zelda games: "So Link doesn't talk because he's meant to resemble you the player šŸ„°"
Echoes of Wisdom: "Link doesn't talk because his ability to speak was physically taken from him by a dark force"
(edit: since I need people to understand Link can't talk at all. It was forced out of him. It's not a choice. That part of him was consumed)
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gilgamushroom Ā· 3 months ago
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Listing my favorite things about Watson's first letter to Holmes in Baskervilles cause I love this format SO SO MUCH:
"My dear Holmes" ily standard letter greeting <3
How extensive he is in setting the scene. "Hey ik you told me to be brief and you don't really care about this but the views are SO lovely and I care about them so you WILL experience them as if you were here. Deal with it"
The delightful confirmation that watson STILL won't let sherlock live down that he used to be a geocentrist. King behavior. I like to think he pulls that card every time holmes gets a lil too cocky
ALL THE GOSSIP SHARING
The genuine care watson has for literally everyone around him and how he expresses it. Ily watson <3
"You would find him an interesting study" GODD this little domesticity of how well they know each other is everything to me
RIP WATSON YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED THE CONCEPT OF SHIPPING
This man is such a romantic. Very important to the case that Sir Henry and Miss Stapleton shared some most intimate looks
I bet he reads Jane Austen
"See, Holmes, I know you told me to never leave Sir Henry but!! Have you considered!!! I CANNOT be a third wheel they're SO cute together!!! Unrelated but I already appointed myself as the wedding planner. This is helping us in the case."
"You are aware that I am not a very sound sleeper" fuck!! FUCK!!!
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rowanthegremlin Ā· 6 months ago
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Message for my fellow white people: this is about someone shining a huge spotlight on abuse and calling out an abuser, it's not just some fun drama to gossip about until you move on to something else. If you can't grasp it's something way bigger and more important than '"two guys beefing'' then you don't need to insert yourself into conversations about it
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ruporas Ā· 1 year ago
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#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#trigun#trigun maximum#tw blood#im posting this so late because october escaped me Suddenly.. hello....#i wanted to make it a photoset with this other vampire vw wip but i don't think i'm finishing it any time soon and the mood of it is#completely different anyway. also i don't think i ever shared anything about my vampire au on here !!! it's all old art by now so im shy lo#but maybe i'll do a photodump of it. long story short vash is a vampire since birth and ww is a human vampire hunter that turns during thei#travels together due to EoM experiments + getting vash to drink from him at some point.#humans turn once they get bitten but bc ww has been experimented on#& got bitten by a bunch of human turned vampires thruout his hunts he thought it wouldn't be a problem for vash to drink from him but alas.#theyre both ok though theyre traveling together definitely not hating themselves for what theyve become and feeling guilty for what theyve#done to each other. theyre completely normal about it. the biting part is really appealing to me in vampire aus so i draw it a lot but#in reality vash only drank from ww once and ww mightve done it twice under the realization he might actually die otherwise#since he wont drink from humans after being turned.... he's combatting the 5 stages of grief at all times#if this is all nonsense im sorry DMGKSDF I'M NOT good at explaining and this au came from nowhere in the depths of my mind its a mess#ruporas art
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mimikyuno Ā· 1 year ago
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love and hope and kindness being the running motifs in madoka magica and the forces that can single-handedly save and curse someone.
madokaā€™s love and kindness being what saves homura from her suicidal tendencies, but also what ultimately dooms madoka to die at the hands of the walpurgisnacht. homuraā€™s love for madoka and undying hope to save her what curses her to repeat time and traumatise herself over and over again, while also increasing madokaā€™s karma and by default, cursing her too. madokaā€™s refusal for homuraā€™s hope to be in vain being the driving force that grants hope to all, but also ends madokaā€™s existence. sayakaā€™s love for kyousuke and her altruistic, heroic ideals being what gives her confidence and hope at first, but when confronted with misogyny and unrequited love (even when you told yourself you would not expect him to love you back just because you sacrificed yourself for him) being what curses her. kyoukoā€™s love for her family being the catalyst that leads it to break apart, because in all her childlike devotion to her parents, she couldnā€™t see her father for who he was. mamiā€™s kindness forcing her to put up a brave face and resulting in her demise.
but it all does not end in despair! sayakaā€™s newfound love for kyouko being the reason kyouko is no longer lost and angry and alone. mamiā€™s kindness finding a recipient in nagisa, to whom she can finally be a parental figure. in one universe nagisa was the one to end mamiā€™s existence, but now they can both heal and not be alone anymore. madokaā€™s love for homura encompassing time and space and saving her, every time, over and over again. even when homura does not want it. even when she refuses her hand. madoka will always reach for her and find her and save her and show her kindness, even when homura thinks she does not deserves any, even when sheā€™s willing to die in her own personal hell. homuraā€™s love being yes, what commits the unforgivable sin and tears god apart, but also it is only through her ā€œselfishnessā€ and ā€œterribleā€ act that the others get a shot at a normal childhood/adolescence. kyouko and sayaka can be together at last, mami and nagisa find each other, madoka can live with her family again.
this is what i hope will be explored in the next movie. this intrinsic relationship between hope and despair, love as a lifeline and a curse. kindness and selfishness coexisting and influencing each other. i hope the girls manage to finally tip the scale between hope and despair towards the light. i hope madokaā€™s love will keep on reaching homura even when she thinks sheā€™s evil incarnate, a devil. even when she thinks her existence as antithetical to madokaā€™s true nature. even when she thinks herself beyond salvation. i hope they get a shot at happiness, together this time.
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egophiliac Ā· 1 year ago
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"IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE" As someone who's been playing TWST since march and stopped going out of my way to be spoilerfree after I got stuck at Overblott!Jamil? That's honestly been one of my favorite things about it - seeing something in fanart or a comment you think is just fans joking, only for it to be canon. "The economy!", "May I also throw a tantrum?", Malleus' gargoyle thing, and... everything about Rook being my top examples.
there's a whole bit in Trey's platinum birthday card where he goes on about how he became increasingly obsessed with mustard for like a week straight until the other students held an intervention. how are you supposed to talk about this. how can you bring up something like Trey's descent into mustard obsession to the point that the other characters are worried for him without it sounding like the most obvious lolrandom "he mentioned it once and now fandom acts like he puts mustard in everything" joke. also, how can I slip this into every Twst post from now on, because I need everyone in the world to know that this is a real canon fact about Trey "I'm just an average normal guy (who sticks my hands into people's mouths and owns 20 toothbrushes and used to eat flowers off the side of the road)" Clover.
for bonus points, 1) the punchline is that he still doesn't even like mustard that much, 2) he's saying all of this to Leona, and 3) Leona is actually kind of invested in Trey's mustard story for some reason, which is the most unbelievable part of all of this to be honest. (then Trey gets distracted by a painting of the Cheshire Cat and Leona takes the opportunity to powerwalk away to freedom before they can start talking about dijon versus spicy brown or whatever and extend this bit even longer)
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heartorbit Ā· 9 months ago
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i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you
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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses Ā· 1 year ago
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*tries to organize my thoughts*
*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*
*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*
(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next
#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment#so many innocent bystanders at stake#every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis#racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system#and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description#aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh#(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt.#but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.)#seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this.#the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later?#that is not cute. it is Alarming.#no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain#and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students#this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE#...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power#and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class#which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever#it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses...#anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you.#obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding#are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it#please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent#mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies#& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground#mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man
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