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fav place to post free serial fiction?
hello kind folks of writeblr~
so, I’m searching for a home for Queensmen, my novel about war weapon elf gal, a cranky noble tied up with a death goddess, and a turncoat exile, and how they all try to pull a goddess back to earth and maybe fall in messy love in the process.
Is there somewhere that people favour to read or post free chapter-by-chapter fiction?
I know of Wattpad, AO3, & Royal Road, but that’s essentially it. (Queensmen is technically on RR, but doesn’t fit their genres and has not been getting much of an audience from that site.)
Thank you!! also sorry if this gets asked a lot i’m brand new here
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@ anyone reading this: what's the most specific thing you find yourself using over and over again? bc this is the third time i've planned a scene where the main female character has an epiphany while showering with her boyfriend
#writeblr#writeblr questions#about elle#wip: so it goes#wip: ttb#and no this has never happened to me#i think it's the vulnerability and something about how i use water as symbolism in most of my work#to represent the nature of life or as a life-giving force or as a stand-in for sex or as emotionality
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this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.
good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.
sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.
so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.
one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.
#warm up#writeblr#actually this is because again i don't go here#i don't read/write fanfic but i have nothing but respect for my troops#but i also have never played minecraft. im sorry. please ask me any question about pokemon tho i love that shit#anyway#out of some banal and thoughtless curiosity i watched the minecraft movie trailer#and again i know nothing about minecraft. i am aware im in an endangered population#but im watching this going: this is so fucking.... BAD#there is NO LOVE in it!#like if someone who has NO history in minecraft watches that and is like - ohhh this is soulless#WHO IS THE AUDIENCE????#ppl who love minecraft are gonna hate it!!!#at some point it's the ''mean girls musical movie'' problem --#some people will always hate the premise of what you're doing and some people will love it#make it for the ppl who love it#and usually that somewhat convinces the haters to like. chill enough to TRY it . bc it IS good#but when you try to make it for the haters..... nobody likes it. it doesn't have passion. energy. footwork#which is a small way of saying a big thing: if you love something. fucking make it and assume someone will love it too.#i love u . be brave . be bold. be in boston and come to my reading#where i wrote a really weird fucked up little book.#love u love u love u etc
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In With A Bloody Smile, the main villain is FEAR. People's fear of the unknown and inability to accept that their world was changing is what lead to the monsters taking over and becoming their iron-clad rulers.
Inaction, fear, and ignorance are the villains and the cause of the destruction of the world as humans knew it.
Let’s take a moment and talk about the villain in your story! Is it a person? An obstacle that needs to be overcome? A big fat CLOSING SOON sign on the front of your favorite video store?
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Eve's weird question time: which of your ocs would you make into a plushie if you had the chance?
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😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?
Hello out there!
To be perfectly honest, I probably have been playfully mean (at least that is how it can be seen) as I write the build-up to the steamy parts of the first fanfic I wrote as both main characters are in a push-and-pull until they...yeah...get to it. *wink wink nudge nudge*
Happy writing!
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how do you write a liar?
How to Write Liars Believably
Language
The motive of every goal is the make the lie seem plausible while taking blame off the speaker, so liars will often project what they say to a third party: "Katie said that..."
Referring to third parties as "they" rather than he or she
In the case of a deliberate lie prepped beforehand, there will be an overuse of specific names (rather than pronouns) as the speaker tries to get the details right.
Overuse of non-committal words like "something may have happened"
Masking or obscuring facts like "to the best of my knowledge" and “it is extremely unlikely," etc.
Avoiding answers to specific, pressing questions
Voice
There's isn't a set tone/speed/style of speaking, but your character's speech patten will differ from his normal one.
People tend to speak faster when they're nervous and are not used to lying.
Body Language
Covering their mouth
Constantly touching their nose
fidgeting, squirming or breaking eye contact
turning away, blinking faster, or clutching a comfort object like a cushion as they speak
nostril flaring, rapid shallow breathing or slow deep breaths, lip biting, contracting, sitting on your hands, or drumming your fingers.
Highly-trained liars have mastered the art of compensation by freezing their bodies and looking at you straight in the eye.
Trained liars can also be experts in the art of looking relaxed. They sit back, put their feet up on the table and hands behind their head.
For deliberate lies, the character may even carefully control his body language, as though his is actually putting on a show
The Four Types of Liars
Deceitful: those who lie to others about facts
2. Delusional: those who lie to themselves about facts
3. Duplicitious: those who lie to others about their values
Lying about values can be even more corrosive to relationships than lying about facts.
4. Demoralized: those who lie to themselves about their values
Additional Notes
Genuine smiles or laughs are hard to fake
Exaggerations of words (that would normally not be emphasized) or exaggerated body language
Many savvy detectives ask suspects to tell the story in reverse or non-linear fashion to expose a lie. They often ask unexpected, or seemingly irrelevant questions to throw suspects off track.
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Thanks for the tag! This is gonna be a long one…
How long have you had your writing Tumblr/Writeblr? A fast and loose estimate is fine!
Since around September last year.
What led you to create it?
Simple, I wanted to promote my books and meet other writers, and tumblr seemed like the best place to do that. And so far, that has very much been the case ^^
What’s your favorite thing about the Writeblr community?
How supportive everyone is here. It’s been quite easy to break in and gain a following ^^
What’s one thing you’d like your mutuals to know about you?
You are always welcome to interact with me in any way you see fit. Tag me, send me asks, comment on my stories and OCs, I live for all of it.
When someone asks the dreaded, “What do you write about,” question, what do you usually say?
I usually just tell people that I write romance and fantasy. Some of my friends ask if I’ll ever write anything with two completely straight characters, but I don’t plan on doing that anytime soon. That and every single one of my projects so far has at least one main character on the asexual/aromantic spectrum (The Tengu And The Angel has Nathaniel, who’s demiromantic, Night Of The Blue Moon has Ariel, who’s asexual, and Solana, who’s graysexual, and Blood On A Yellow Rose has two aromantic MCs, Pamela and Zinnia)
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Name any characters you created. Side characters, protagonists, antagonists, characters who’ve never been written, the first original abomination you ever pulled from your ass; whomever you’d like!
I have a lot, but just to name a few…Kunio, Nathaniel, Tama, Layla, Theo, Ariel, Solana, Raphael, Anargyros, Brooklyn, Orpheus, Eurydice, Mia, Myrna, Pamela, and Zinnia. (That’s right! The MCs for my new project, Blood On A Yellow Rose, have official names now!)
Who’s the most unhinged?
Theo, definitely Theo. He’s very mentally unstable, and he drove everyone who ever cared about him away with his toxic, abusive behavior.
Who comes the most naturally for you to write?
Kunio. I know him like the back of my hand.
Do you ever cringe at them?
Sometimes.
How much control do you feel you have over your characters? AKA, do they ever “write themselves,” refuse to cooperate, or do things you didn’t expect? To what degree? Are some less cooperative than others?
I have a fair sense of control over Ariel, but her thoughts and feelings are quite similar to my own, so that’s a given. I have significantly less control over Kunio and Nathaniel, however. They have a tendency to write themselves…And to make bad decisions that ultimately end up making things worse for them…
Kunio: Since when do I make bad decisions?
Me: Since you decided to go and meet with your mother. I knew that that wouldn’t end well, but you insisted on going
Kunio:…Touchè…
Do you enjoy people asking questions about your characters? And do you have a preferred means of receiving said questions? For example, as Asks, as replies, as reblogs, as tag notes, as comments on AO3, etc.
Oh, yes, I love getting questions and/or comments about my OCs. I don’t have a preference, any kind of interaction is fine by me, I just like seeing that people care about my OCs enough to want to know more ^^
Is there anything you’d like to see more of on your dash?
I’d honestly like to see more of my moots publishing their full works instead of just snippets. I know that your work is good, please publish it, I want to buy it and read it in full and tell everyone I know to read it too ^^
What makes you decide against following?
I won’t follow someone who’s any form of -ist or -phobic, especially ace/arophobic. I also won’t follow someone if I know that they are a minor, as I don’t want to expose kids to my writing when it’s not really appropriate for them.
Which Works-in-Progress (WIPs) or writing projects are you noodling about, lately?
Anyone who’s following me already knows this, but I’m working on Night Of The Blue Moon RN, and after that I’ll be writing Blood On A Yellow Rose ^^
How long have you been working on them?
It took me a few years to finish The Tengu And The Angel. I started it in 2021 and didn’t finish it until 2023, but that’s because there were a lot of things about it that were extremely challenging to write. As for Night Of The Blue Moon, I started drafting it in December 2023, finished the first draft in August, and I’m now finishing the second draft ^^
Do you remember what inspired them/what got you started?
The Tengu And The Angel was inspired by Nana, and I also wanted to work my obsession with Japanese mythology into it somehow, so I decided to try and weave some of that mythology into what is otherwise a story grounded in harsh reality. As for Night Of The Blue Moon, I really wanted to write a magical girl story, and I went with Greek mythology as a theme because I know Greek mythology very well (Are you noticing a theme here?), and I thought that it would be fun to make Orpheus a bad guy. Oh, and I decided to make it gay because every good magical girl story is at least a little bit sapphic, am I right?
Blood On A Yellow Rose, meanwhile, is drawn from my own experiences of being aromantic. Both MCs are tired of being treated like second class citizens because they don’t want romantic relationships, and both have been ditched by people who called themselves their friends, only to immediately abandon them when they started dating someone. There’s gonna be a lot of discussion about how platonic relationships are viewed as second-class relationships by society, and how the devaluation of platonic relationships contributes to bigotry against those on the aromantic spectrum.
How much time, in your best estimation, do you spend thinking about them?
A good 70-80% of my conscious thoughts are about my WIPs. I don’t write to live, I live to write.
Do you interact with non-mutuals often?
I try to. I will follow anyone whom I find particularly interesting, and if I like the look of their books (Assuming that they have published books), I’ll reblog them so that I don’t forget to add them to my reading list ^^
Do your mutuals’ characters occupy space in your noodle?
You bet! I LOVED Shadow’s Hidden Blade, but I can’t say much about Ursa without spoiling the entire thing (Go read it, it’s seriously good), and I must have gushed about Rei and Teru way too often by now (Go read The Stars May Rise And Fall, if a gay Phantom Of The Opera retelling set in 2000s Japan sounds like your thing, you’ll love it, and even if it isn’t, you’ll probably still love it)
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✨Writer Questionnaire Tag ✨
Thank you for the tags @wyked-ao3 here, and @thatuselesshuman here ! Y’all are great! 💛✨
How long have you had your writing Tumblr/Writeblr? A fast and loose estimate is fine!
I’ve had this blog since….end of April? Early May?
What led you to create it?
When I set up all my socials, I wanted to use this as a way to build a writing community, share my stories, and exploring and sharing the ideas of other likeminded individuals.
What’s your favorite thing about the Writeblr community?
How kind and welcoming writeblr is. The community is supportive of everyone’s stories and OCs, and everyone has some wonderfully unique and fascinating characters.
What’s one thing you’d like your mutuals to know about you?
You are always. Always. ALWAYS welcome to tag me, message me, send asks, interact with me. I absolutely endorse the engagement and excitement in this community, and even though I may miss a few tags, just know that seeing you tag me to see your stories brings the biggest, goofiest smile on my face. Thank you for being you and sharing your creative minds with us 💛✨
Is there anything you’d like to see more of on your dash?
Kindness, support, and creative stories. Keep writing, keep inspiring, keep on keeping on.
WIP it Good
Which Works-in-Progress (WIPs) or writing projects are you noodling about, lately?
Your Wish Is My Command is my current WIP at about 75% complete. I have a little bit to share from Tenshito as well, but the latter will have to get majorly cut down and restructured before it’s ready ✨
How long have you been working on them?
Planning and ideas began a couple of years ago. Writing them down? For YWIMC since early May, and Tenshito since 2020 (took a hiatus to focus on work and big life stuff, like moving twice and getting married)
Do you remember what inspired them/what got you started?
My love of storytelling, video games, and Disney. I wrote and published Peter Hart based off of a few of my favorite video games 🏴☠️💛✨
How much time, in your best estimation, do you spend thinking about them?
All the time. At least once a day, if not more. My stories help me get to sleep…when I eventually GET to sleep 😴💤
When someone asks the dreaded, “What do you write about,” question, what do you usually say?
BL romantasy novels. It encompasses every person asking, and umbrellas many subgenres.
Let’s Rotate Blorbos
Name any characters you created. Side characters, protagonists, antagonists, characters who’ve never been written, the first original abomination you ever pulled from your ass; whomever you’d like!
Oof that’s a big list. Let me just do major protagonists/antagonists from stories: Peter, Benjamin, Davey, Ali, Noah, Tenshi, Itazura, Yoji, Tyr, Gustav, Jak, Johnny, Nathan, X, Ollie, and Callum
Who’s the most unhinged?
Peter 🏴☠️💛✨
Who comes the most naturally for you to write?
Peter 🏴☠️💛✨
Do you ever cringe at them?
Sometimes….depends on what they do. I never cringe at my stories, but sometimes my characters make choices that personally make me go “😬”
How much control do you feel you have over your characters? AKA, do they ever “write themselves,” refuse to cooperate, or do things you didn’t expect? To what degree? Are some less cooperative than others?
(Slowly looks over at Peter)
Peter: …..What?
Do you enjoy people asking questions about your characters? And do you have a preferred means of receiving said questions? For example, as Asks, as replies, as reblogs, as tag notes, as comments on AO3, etc.
Oh always!! ALWAYS!! Any method is absolutely fine and encouraged by me, but I ALWAYS love when people leave AO3 comments on my stories 💖💫✨
On writeblr engagement
What makes you want to follow another Writeblr account? Do you follow ‘em as you see ‘em, or take time scoping out the blog to make sure you align with its content? Do you follow based on WIPs, or vibes?
I scope out the content before I follow for sure. Because I write adult fiction, I look through posts to make sure that our interests would align, and that the blog mentions an age that is 18+. If I am ever uncertain or have a suspicion beyond a reasonable doubt that the blog is run by a minor, I won’t follow them (and unfollow if I get suspicious of their posts)
What makes you decide against following?
I use discretion on age, politics, and religion before following. Any homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise hateful conduct gets automatically blocked. The world needs more kindness and uplifting of one another. We need to bring each other up, not tear each other down.
Do you interact with non-mutuals often?
I try to! Usually in the form of reblogs and ask games. My pile for work and tumblr keeps stacking though, so I find myself getting very busy very often (and that’s a good thing! ✨)
Do your mutuals’ characters occupy space in your noodle?
All the time, every time. To name a few mutuals: G.J, Jamie, Gioia, Casper, Tobin, Jay, Wyked, Gina, and Jev have characters that are my current hyperfixations. But there are SO, SO many that are so interesting that I want to learn more!! ✨
Thank you so much for tagging me, you two!! Going to alert the tag list on this one 💛✨
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Fantasy Guide to Building A Culture
Culture is defined by a collection of morals, ethics, traditions, customs and behaviours shared by a group of people.
Hierarchy and Social Structures
Within every culture, there is a hierarchy. Hierarchies are an important part of any culture, usually do ingrained that one within the culture wouldn't even question it. Hierarchy can be established either by age, gender or wealth and could even determine roles within their society. Sometimes hierarchy can may be oppressive and rigid whilst other times, ranks can intermingle without trouble. You should consider how these different ranks interact with one another and whether there are any special gestures or acts of deference one must pay to those higher than them. For example, the Khasi people of Meghalaya (Northern India), are strictly matrillineal. Women run the households, inheritance runs through the female line, and the men of the culture typically defer to their mothers and wives. Here are a few questions to consider:
How is a leader determined within the culture as a whole and the family unit?
Is the culture matriarchal? Patriarchal? Or does gender even matter?
How would one recognise the different ranks?
How would one act around somebody higher ranking? How would somebody he expected to act around somebody lower ranking?
Can one move socially? If not, why? If so, how?
Traditions and Customs
Traditions are a staple in any culture. These can be gestures or living life a certain way or to the way a certain person should look. Traditions are a personal detail to culture, they are what make it important. Tradition can dictate how one should keep their home, run their family, take care of their appearance, act in public and even determine relationship. Tradition can also be a double edged sword. Traditions can also be restrictive and allow a culture to push away a former member if they do not adhere to them, eg Traditional expectations of chastity led to thousands of Irish women being imprisoned at the Magdelene Laundries. Customs could be anything from how one treats another, to how they greet someone.
How important is tradition?
What are some rituals your culture undertakes?
What are some traditional values in your world? Does it effect daily life?
Are there any traditions that determine one's status?
Values and Opinions
Values and Opinions are the bread and butter of any culture. This is the way your culture sees the world and how they approach different life hurdles. These may differ with other cultures and be considered odd to outsiders, what one culture may value another may not and what opinion another holds, one may not. There will be historical and traditional reasons to why these values and opinions are held. Cultures usually have a paragon to which they hold their members to, a list of characteristics that they expect one to if not adhere to then aspire to. The Yoruba people value honesty, hard work, courage and integrity. Here are some questions to consider?
How important are these ethics and core values? Could somebody be ostracised for not living up to them?
What are some morals that clash with other cultures?
What does your culture precieved to be right? Or wrong?
What are some opinions that are considered to be taboo in your culture? Why?
Dress Code
For many cultures, the way somebody dresses can be important. History and ethics can effect how one is meant to be dressed such as an expectation of chastity, can impose strict modesty. While other cultures, put more importance on details, the different sorts of clothes worn and when or what colour one might wear. The Palestinian people (من النهر إلى البحر ، قد يكونون أحرارا) denoted different family ties, marriage status and wealth by the embroidery and detailing on their thoub.
Are there traditional clothes for your world? Are they something somebody wears on a daily basis or just on occasion?
Are there any rules around what people can wear?
What would be considered formal dress? Casual dress?
What would happen if somebody wore the wrong clothes to an event?
Language
Language can also be ingrained as part of a Culture. It can be a specific way one speaks or a an entirely different language. For example, in the Southern States of America, one can engage in a sort of double talk, saying something that sounds sweet whilst delivering something pointed. Bless their heart. I have a post on creating your own language here.
Arts, Music and Craft
Many cultures are known for different styles of dance, their artwork and crafts. Art is a great part of culture, a way for people to express themselves and their culture in art form. Dance can be an integral part of culture, such as céilí dance in Ireland or the Polka in the Czech Republic. Handicrafts could also be important in culture, such as knitting in Scottish culture and Hebron glass in Palestine. Music is also close to culture, from traditional kinds of singing such as the White Voice in Ukraine and the playing of certain instruments such as the mvet.
Food and Diet
The way a culture prepares or intakes or treats certain foods are important to a culture. In some cultures, there is a diet yo adhere to, certain foods are completely banned. With Jewish culture, pork is prohibited along with fish such as sturgeon, along with shellfish and certain fowl. Meat must also be prepared in a certain way and animal byproducts such as dairy, must never be created or even eaten around this meat. This is known as kosher. The way one consumes food is also important to culture. In some cultures, only certain people may eat together. Some cultures place important on how food is eaten. In Nigerian culture, the oldest guests are served first usually the men before the women. In Japanese culture, one must say 'itadakimasu' (I recieve) before eating. Culture may also include fasting, periods of time one doesn't intake food for a specific reason.
What are some traditional dishes in your world?
What would be a basic diet for the common man?
What's considered a delicacy?
Is there a societal difference in diet? What are the factors that effect diet between classes?
Is there any influence from other cuisines? If not, why not? If so, to what extent?
What would a typical breakfast contain?
What meals are served during the day?
What's considered a comfort food or drink?
Are there any restrictions on who can eat what or when?
Are there any banned foods?
What stance does your world take on alcohol? Is it legal? Can anybody consume it?
Are there any dining customs? Are traditions?
Is there a difference in formal meals or casual meals? If so, what's involved?
Are there any gestures or actions unacceptable at the dinner table?
How are guests treated at meals? If they are given deference, how so?
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CALLING ALL HIGH FANTASY WRITERS, I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION PLEASE! In your story, do you have elves, faeries, both, or neither?
I've been really struggling with going back and forth between having fae in my story verses having just elves, verses having fae and elves, etc. and I'm sooooo unsure what I should do! I love the idea of the fae and the 'feel' they have, which is more mystical and magical than how elves come across. I also really love the Seelie and Unseelie dichotomy and that really only applies to fae. Having Seelie and Unseelie elves doesn't really work to me...
On the other hand, I also reaaaallly love elves and they have a lot in common with fae. Elves come across as more mortal than fae do and their 'feel' is somewhat less magic and mysterious than fae but that's also a charming aspect.
I know that I can literally make fae and elves however I want them to be in my world but I'm really curious how other high fantasy writers are utilizing these fictional races and what they're doing with them.
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Angsty Question Prompts #4
Some angsty dialogue prompts for your next story!
"When did we stop trying?"
"Hold me, please?"
"Can we get through this?"
"Why did all have to end?"
"Are you going to be okay?"
"Will this change things between us?"
"Have you ever loved someone before?"
"When will it finally stop?"
"Can you even imagine the pain I felt?"
"Why did it have to be me?"
"How can you act like nothing happened?"
"When will I see you again?"
"Why don’t you just leave me alone?"
"Can you look me in the eyes and tell me?"
"When did we lose ourselves?"
"Did you ever think about telling me the truth?"
"Was she worth all of this?"
"And now what?"
"How can we change what already happened?"
"Why can’t we just stay here forever?"
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Happy STS! What does getting started on a long writing session look like for you?
Thanks for the ask, @pandoras-comment-box!
I'm a Drink Gremlin so that's my writing fuel.
Caffeinated chestnut-flavored black tea with cream Or Decaf vanilla latte with a green tea (usually lychee rose flavored) on the side for the caffeine.
If I can swing it, my writing snack is some sort of pastry like coffee cake or walnut povitica. Then I'm good to go.
Pre-covid, my ideal writing setup was a trip to my fave coffee shop and I could really crank out words, but I have chronic autoimmune pulmonary issues and I'm high risk so that's off the table for me.
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i have questions for a chapter i’m writing; and google is no help, so if anyone can answer them that would be very handy!
cw// horror, gore, cannibalism, blood,
okay so i’m in the middle of writing a scene regarding someone being cannibalised by a group of people, and i think it would really add to the horror element if they were still alive and like somewhat conscious. how, logically, does this work? how long can someone stay conscious whilst losing blood?
subsequently, i assume it matters which areas the people are eating, so which are the best places for the logic of the scene?
also, how would the person be likely to react - like would they just freeze/faint out of shock immediately? would they be wriggling (they would be restrained)?
any research or explanation anyone could give would be super helpful! the scene doesn’t have to be like, insanely realistic, but it needs to not break immersion, but i think my questions are too specific that i’m not sure what to google?
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