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[thepsychoticauthor]

I'm going to throw smth out a window.

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

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“you’re a writer, right?”

me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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What about a really caring, heroic guy who just seems so epic and awesome and above-us-all but is super humble and cool and is friends with everyone getting revealed to have a backstory of poorness and a dead brother and fiance AND mom and that's why he always takes care of everyone and protects them because he's terrified of losing someone he loves again or someone else losing someone they love so he feels like he needs to protect everyone and his second deepest fear is that he is somehow romantically unlovable because he's never had another relationship since his fiance, only rejection, and he's affraid that, no matter how big of a community he has, he will die more or less alone because he hasn't let anyone in all the way, he's not really sure how close he is to any of them, and deep down, while he's taking care of everyone else and always being strong and pulling everyone together, he really just wants someone to take care of him like his big brother did, does that count?😇 Oh, and he gets really panicked and mother-hen like whenever someone gets sick because that's how his mom and fiance died.

A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

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ACOTAR Completely Fell Off After Book Two

- A popular opinion

I've said it before and I'll say it again, book five is unmitigated bullshit. Everyone's personality got fucked except Nes and Cas. Like, come on, Feyre becomes a nobody, Rhys becomes an asshole, Amren attempts to convince Rhys to take over the fucking world, and Mor in implied to be jealous of Nesta. What??? She's jealous that Nes is hooking up with Cassian??? Why? On so many levels that makes no sense, and Maas never goes anywhere with it.

Book one was strong, book one could function as a stand-alone. Book two was also strong, if and only if book three was strong too and delivered on the expectations, loose ends, and unanswered questions book two had left us with. Spoiler alert, it didn't.

The King of Hybern is a shallow, one-dimensional antagonist. I've met Disney villains with more justification, Marvel villains with more backstory. Naruto gave me better antagonists than ACOTAR. Rhys does some questionable shit in this book. Amren dying and then undying with no explanation takes all the meaning and weight out of her sacrifice (and look what she went on to do in book five, get her personality completely overlooked for five minutes of tension. Stay dead, girlie) The list could go on forever.

I think we all know what happened here. Maas had no idea what to do with her story beyond book two. Book one, solid. Book two, solid, but leaves book three with some work to do. Book three, does none of that work, bs. Book four, it's 200 pages and doesn't count, filler. Book five, unmitigated directionless bullshit. Wtf was happening with that human queen??? Nothing that happened in the “main plot” of that book made any sense (whether we're diving in and taking this as their lives that they're living or as Maas's fictional narrative) the only good part was Nesta and the girls.

Anyway, so concludes my rant. I love the Court of Dreams to death, but they deserved a better author and a better story.

OH! And wt actual f is going to happen in this alleged book six???? Like, book five's ending felt like closure. Please god tell me this is not going to be an Elaine x Azriel switching POV like book five🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 The only thing worse would be if it was a timeskip and Nyx is our MC. I would actually burn the book.

OHHH! I also hate that Nesta and Cassian are mates. I really thought Feyre and Rhys would be destined love, soulmates, an example of how beautiful it is when the bond works out, Nes and Cas would be love without the mating bond, and no less valid or beautiful, and Elaine would be finding her mate and choosing not to take him, and also choosing not to take the other suiter. I thought Elaine would end up either with Greysen or with some rando from Velaris (if rando, then off page. The series would end with her single and happy)

Anyway, yeah✌🏼

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I would choose Hiccup because that man has been with me through thick and thin. I've spent hours of my life with that man, YEARS of his life. I was there when he met his best friend, through enumerable near-death experiences, I was there when he asked out his now-wife, I was with him when his father died, I was with him when he lost his best friend, I was at his wedding!

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stop pretending namjoon could run the mafia. the guy would break his own gun before even firing it. RM, face of organized crime? dream on. if he’d be the boss of anything, that would be a marine wildlife rescue center and you know it.