#writing rambling

[anthurak]

You know one of the main reasons we should see polycules in fantasy stories? Consider settings where the ‘Power of Love’ is a real, tangible force.

Now just imagine the POWER a fully realized polycule could have.

Like we’ve seen just how much power can be generated by the love between a hero and a love-interest.

Now imagine if we take the love between the heroine and her GF, then add onto that the love between the heroine and her rival-turned-lover, AND the love between the rival and the aforementioned GF who are estranged childhood friends who have finally admitted their long-repressed feelings for each other.

Just turning a couple into a throuple potentially TRIPLES the number of potential love-generating links.

And that’s just with three people in a polycule.

A four-person polycule? That’s SIX times the potential power.

A five-person polycule is TEN times the power.

A six-person is FIFTEEN times.

You can see how this can get nutty VERY quickly.

Heck, imagine if in such a setting, the idea of polycules is initially ridiculed out of some belief that ‘love’ is some finite resource and a polycule is merely dividing up that power.

Only for the protag-polycule to prove this notion DEVASTATINGLY wrong.

[writingwritewrite-storymaker]

ya'll feel free to message me if you want to ramble about your writing because I'm a good listener and i know yall just want to yap sometimes. Maybe I'll have advice maybe I won't that part is a gamble but I'll listen because sometimes 👏writers👏just👏want👏to👏ramble👏

Also I know it's weird to just message someone with an 'is it OK if I just tell you about my writing' but guys— I am happy to just sit and listen (or read I guess coz this is online but still)

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

I love bright villains, tbh I think they're underrated. I love villains who adore the attention and can't stand staying in the shadows, I love villains that are sun coded, I love villains who wear bright colors, I love villains who try and look sweet and friendly.

And I especially love villains associated with the light having rivalries or even friendships with villains associated with the dark, that's the shit.

[midnight--capricorn]

Another day, another opportunity to make an au that drastically changes canon. And I mean all of canon.

It just feels really weird trying to put the medieval fantasy rpg into 1800s england though

[kikis-writing-world]

I've been feeling really creative lately, despite the depression. It's been nice. I've brainstormed and plotted out an idea I like for a story (that either could come out as a slightly AU Eddie Munson x OC or just a completely original tale, haven't yet decided what I want to do with it.) I've also started thinking about the novel I've neglected for years. No physical work done on it yet, but staring at a screen thinking counts as writing, as we all know.

Despite feeling like parts of my life are spiraling out of control, that's been a nice surprise.

[salabanders]

A little doodle I did last night. I have a current obsession with crows and raven (well, that's ungoing, but swelling 😅) ... So they are characters in my writing, and I try to doodle them...

[quitealotofsodapop]

Me writing about chinese mythos/jttw characters like: "Wait... would it be appropriate for Guanyin to *just show up* on earth? Even if the event she's attending to could affect the fate of reality?"

Journey to the West: "She once legit got despressed cus her goldfish ran away, and she went to earth in her jammies to get him back."

Me: "No yeah. This is perfectly in character for her."

[xxwritemeastoryxx]

-works on WIP and getting it ready to queue;

Brain: WAIT! WHAT IF WE -tosses out a twist that will work really well;

Me: If we do that, we'll need to add another chapter. It's gonna throw things off.

Brain:

[shinakkyo]

im going on a week-long trip tomorrow so i probably won't be able to work on wiawy during this time (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠) im hoping to have this chapter ready by my birthday (aug 17) so still some time but im so slow writing this part (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

[blizzardprincess]

Rp struggles

As a writer and someone who does RP, I hate it when I have a character that I love so much but I can't use her because she's a girl and my RP partner prefers male characters...

In this new RP I have three characters, two girls and one guy. It is very obvious he favors my male character. I have so much lore for the two girl characters and yes even for the male character, I don't discriminate while crafting my characters. My main thing is I put the character first, I don't care about the gender. However he sees my male characters and automatically is drawn to them first because they have d!cks. He's literally admitted that.

I just don't know what to do. I don't want to only make male characters but in order for them to have written screen time I feel like they have to be male. I am so proud of how I write my characters and I love writing my female characters, but he prefers my male characters. Honestly this male character so far has been so BORING for me to write because of this factor. I know the only reason he's liked is because he's a male character. I'm tired.

I guess I just don't understand why someone would prefer a character because of what's in their pants, probably because I'm asexual. I like a character based on their character, but he always likes a character first up because the character is a man.

I don't know what to do, I really don't and I feel like I've said that enough. I've tried to bring this up to him but he just brushes off my feelings, I don't know why. I try to always listen to him and honestly I wasn't even going to make a male character but I forced him in there because I know what he prefers. My first two designs for the RP were the two female characters, but then I got extremely anxious that he wouldn't want to RP if I didn't add a male character, so I forced myself to. Now he's overshining my other two characters, even though I'm convinced if one of my female characters was a male he'd be all over her. But no because she's a girl she gets side lined.

[ohraicodoll]

Once TCOF is done, I have roughly 2 main stories planned out for Fragments (not counting one-shots and stuff). I didn’t think I was going to write more than a couple of stories but I’m glad I got to develop Dahlia more and take my time with that relationship. I also know that 2nd POV is the primary trend now but I’m old and 1st or 3rd POV was the way we wrote over 10 years ago lol. Maybe I’ll try and do some 2nd POV Reader requests and try it out. Just thanks in general for the support on my stories (super mad I can’t reply to people and support still hasn’t fixed it). Shout out to @cuckoo-on-a-string for being such a big cheerleader on here ❤

[vacant-atoll]

Honestly don't care for and dare I say don't like enemies to lovers, but I do like enemies to reluctant allies. Just like two characters that have done a lot of wrong to each other but now need to depend on one another. It's at its best imo if once they no longer need to be allies they either turn on each other again or agree to simply part ways without fighting.

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

I'm about to make a religion that is obsessed with angels. Wish me luck!

[finasol]

I wish more of my villain fucker friends played Baldur’s Gate 3 >:/

[insanityisdivine]

So true

[your-absent-father]

I think people misunderstand "x fell first, y fell harder " trope because it's not about like the one who fell harder loves the other person harder. It's just that the one who fell first falls in a graceful way, one step at the time, maybe gradually over a span of time. The one who fell harder smashes trough the air, there's blood everywhere, everything is fine-