#writing SHIT

[vvixes]

It must be so frustrating to name your kids when you're a writer. All the cool names are already taken by your fictional characters, and I can't name my kid after my fictional punching bag. They don't need to start out with all that trauma.

[ashyblondwaves]

New Synchronicity Link

Hello!

I just re-posted the first chapter of Synchronicity. The link is here.

Bear with me as I get all 24 chapters reposted!

[bloodinwine]

Overthinking writing sucks. Sometimes you can just feel that something is off or isn’t working but you can’t pinpoint what. It can be hard to move on and accept that it’s fine. Come back to it later or just say fuckit who cares. It’s fine. Fuckit who cares. We’re here to have fun.

[fuckyeahdindjarin]

How not to ask a writer for updates

Do not use phrases like ‘will you ever update XXX’, not even if you use heart emojis with it. The tone implies that it’s been a long time since the last update, and there’s no such thing as ‘a long time’ when it comes to fic updates because we write for free in our spare time. Writers don’t owe anyone updates.

Do not ask for an update when a writer just announced that they have burnout.

Do not go into writer’s DMs asking for an update when you haven’t even reblogged or at the very least left a comment on the fic.

I can guarantee you, any of the above will lead to even ‘slower’ updates.

Instead, consider liberally using phrases like ‘I love your fic’, ‘not rushing you at all’, ‘no pressure to answer’, ‘thank you for your stories’.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[sutherlins]

@mon-chef made this post earlier with the tag #fic writers can we start writing him this wayy? and 1) valid and 2) it made me want to clarify the 'versions' of them i was imagining for each of my fics lol

down in the heart: (first one is them every day and second is the last chapter 😭)

how will i know:

faucet: (my fave little shits who would bully the other versions of my sydcarmys)

brigade:

(i think the faucet carmy pic is the hottest jaw has or will ever look)

[calswildflcwer]

hi!

soooo… i maybe might’ve written a whole new carlos madrigal fic, that is completed! it isn’t posted anywhere yet and only @tigreost has known about it until now… buuuuut i am contemplating finally posting it cause i just love it so much. it is a carlos x reader fic too!! uhm… but yah, it’ll probs be posted on ao3 first but if anyone wants to see it posted here then let me know and i shall maybe post it to here too 🤭

[homosexual-wizardry-13]

Do people besides me ever have those times when you’re writing and it’s like 12:30 AM and you hit a wall in your story so then you just go on Google and start looking up murder cases and then three hours later you know how much skin sells for by the square inch (it’s between 10 and 20 dollars per square inch if you really needed to know that) and you know all the details of Elisa Lam’s murder/“suicide”/“accidental drowning” but have written two sentences to add to your story?

[unkindhands]

The thing about Keicho is that I genuinely believe that his head is lodged so far up his own ass that he doesn't think about other people enough to hold grudges. Like 99% of the time he's either thinking about his dad, Okuyasu, or the current stand user candidate that he's stalking. There is almost zero spare bandwidth in his head available for other people. Josuke Higashikata is the single exception to that.

I've seen AU fic where Keicho has been some kind of traumatized after surviving Akira's attack, and to be fully honest I don't think he'd really be affected like that? The guy has a list of traumatic experiences the length of his arm already, and I think 'getting ambushed and losing a stand battle' is kind of mundane and not that remarkable by his standards. And similarly, I don't even think he'd really be that angry at Akira afterwards. Like, he knew a lot about Akira's stand and how it worked and the guy still managed to 1. track Keicho back to the house he was hiding in, 2. get the drop on him and 3. get a good hit in. If anything Keicho would be somewhat impressed at the moxie.

Meanwhile Josuke, even with every aspect of the fight stacked against him and in Keicho's favor, still managed to outsmart Bad Company and trick him into shooting himself in the face. Dunked on him on his own home turf.

And then became Okuyasu's best friend so he HAS to put up with him.

Yeah, Keicho fucking hates that guy

[gigi-journaling]

“What style of journaling do you do?”

Uhhhh, style? Dude, this is a completely lawless land and I’m the heathen making it my playground.

.

[vvixes]

Me: Gives my oc both mommy and daddy issues by killing them both off.

Hmmm... not enough...

Also Me: Gives her an adoptive father figure who she grows attached to and sees him as the perfect role model. I then proceed to have her uncle kill him and spread horrible rumors all around the kingdom that he was a horrible and manipulative man.

This... this is good... Now time to make her commit war crimes and treason.

[ashyblondwaves]

me, staring at my keyboard: why won't you write yourself?

also me: oh right, I need prompts.

That’s where you all come in! Please send me your best Everlark or Haymitch centric (or both) prompts!

I want to laugh. I want to cry. I want to write things that make me question my grip on canon.

Drop them in my inbox like you're tossing bread to geese.

[lostfirefly]

Buggy sleeps with his hair down all night.

You spend the whole night wrapping his hair around your finger.

(sorry, i can't stop thinking about his hair this morning)

[300iqprower]

Saw that you’re removing the Deinos from your rewrite of Lostbelt 7. I feel like you’re missing out on keeping them. Part of why they are written the way that they are is that they’re meant to be juxtaposed against the fae of Britain, as well as offering an answer to Wodime’s plan about an evolved humanity. I guess that the relationship to the other Lostbelts isn’t required because it’s a fan work meant to stand alone, but I can’t help that you’re losing something by not having them in the story at all.

I'm gonna give an actual answer instead of slagging off on Nasu again because this is like the only good faith ask I've gotten about this. There's two components, the problematic aspect and the "frankly i agree with your idea of paralleling the other lostbelt populations through the idea of evolution, but I dont think they even did that idea well with lb7."

Even removing the "black people = apes with guns" thing, it's still an issue when this is the only lostbelt to have a distinctly non-human population. Even the fae and yaga are still humanoids, but for South America they literally said "animals with guns" its just a matter of whether its as on the nose as making them primates.

Then there's the obvious issue of tone. Even discounting the problematic stuff, this is obviously presented as a joke. It's literally a punchline in itself of being a childish fantasy of "dinosaurs with guns". Not even dino people, just straight up literal dinosaurs with guns. It's at BEST lazy in how its not anything unique, compared to something like the Yaga which are distinctly their own thing as opposed to just "werewolves with guns".

So even if we swallow our morals about the racism, I think we can do better than this. It's shameful that the racist "monkeys with guns to represent POCs" designs are actually much better and more interesting than the dinos. Hence why I'm specifically reusing a couple of those designs (without the guns and racist context of course) but throwing out the dinos entirely.

Which brings us to my rewrite and how it actually does the idea you mentioned of focusing on an "evolution" of humanity.

Without going into too much detail before I ever do a proper write up of things, the equivant to the dinofolk in my rewrite is instead the Zonbi. As in the original meaning of the term from Hatian Vodou (and using the Creole spelling to match) of a being that has died but has yet to be granted release from life - a being whose proper time has come and gone but it has not been allowed to leave the mortal coil. The world of this Lostbelt 7 has been reset countless times in a way certainly inspired by Lostbelt 4 but with some crucial differences that result in humanity being reset along with everything else. Up above in the surface of Xibalba humanity is constantly evolving at extreme pace and being reset just as often for "deviating". These deviations are wiped away and whatever remnants are left get cast into Mictlan below, creating a colony of "imperfect" humanities.

In other words its a microcosm of the pruning phenomenon and an explicit showcase of how it correlates to Darwinian evolution.

[fuckyeahdindjarin]

A little update

Ngl, I've enjoyed my break away... maybe a bit too much? 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm finding it hard to go anywhere near writing right now. I don't even think it's because of everything that happened, I think I'm just burned out.

I did some quick math, I wrote 65k words this year, across two series and a couple of one/two-shots, not even counting the drabbles I wrote for my milestone celebrations. And somehow, I still feel like I can't keep up? That it's not enough?

Even though you guys are the absolute best and have never, ever rushed me for updates, I got to be honest - I feel the constant pressure to create because I think people will lose interest if I don't. There are so many writers in the fandom who write so much faster than me, I can't fight the sinking feeling that I won't be missed if I took too long, or if I stopped.

At the same time, I've been discovering new outlets for my creativity, and I've been having a lot of fun. I'm not saying that writing isn't fun for me anymore - but there is a lot of expectation, stress and hair-pulling involved, and it's felt good stepping away from that.

At the beginning of the break, I thought I'd come back with an announcement of my upcoming fics. But right now, I'm not so sure. I mean, I still want to write that Hallow'seams idea, and I want to finally write Butter, but I can say for sure I'm in no state to start a series, so Summer House is shelved. I don't have a timeline, I haven't even touched a Google doc since I finished Palomino, so... yeah, I don't know.

For now, I'm going to take it easy and see where inspiration takes me. In the meantime, I'm just planning on replying to your wonderful reblogs and comments. I will be tagging Palomino spoilers as such when answering asks if you haven't read it.

I am so eternally grateful for your love and support, I hope you'll stick with me while I figure things out ❤️

[sutherlins]

i have too many sydcarmy ideas and my brain wont stop