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@PaperHats business

Hm? I can openly express my irritation for worldbuilding to very talented writers instead of bugging my family about it randomly for weeks on end? Sounds nice!

As a comedy writer, I’m trying my hand at writing a psychological thriller.
Characters: serious. Setting: serious. Storyline: serious. Every single other thing: serious.
That’s how it’s supposed to be.
Four chapters in and I can’t stop making jokes. It’s not scary. It’s not biting. The embodiment doesn’t grab you by the throat and demand your pleas like I intended it to. Instead, the embodiment is like a punt-sized sarcastic hamster. Let’s just say I’m not having a good time. :) I’ve done a ton of research on how to write it, but it’s just not going the right way.

@Althalosian-is-the-father book

Maybe you should surrender to it. The characters are human. They're gonna do what they do. And levity is good for a story. A GRIMDARK story is stuck at the bottom of a well and can't go up or down. Add some sarcasm and casual joking, and you have more room to move around in.

@PaperHats business

That’s what I was thinking, thank you for the suggestion. However, the characters I’m working with know the bleakness of the situation and the setting is way too serious for me to fit in these comedic breaks. Yes, there are some leverage points where the balance is pure and actually fitting, but in moments that are supposed to be actually deadly serious, I find myself messing it up regardless. It’s a tricky game, I tell you

@stolenbrocoli group

Well you say that it's a serious and bleak situation, but there are some people out there that cope with bad situations BY being sarcastic and joking and such. So maybe having a character that's ever so slightly for comic relief could help you out a bit. I'd love to take a look at it if you'd be willing ! Maybe i would be able to offer a bit more help since my preferred genre is more on the serious side.

@SpookyScarySnoteleks group

One of my favorite odd human behaviors is how some people sing-talk to cope in terrifying situations. Lots of YouTubers who play horror games do this, and I think having a character who does that makes the story more realistic.

@PaperHats business

Thanks so much for the offer @stolenbrocoli! Although unfortunately I scrapped those couple chapters and started from scratch at the prologue. I’d send it over if I still had it! (and perhaps if I wasn’t really writing-self-conscious)
And yep, that was gonna be my sort of outlet/comic relief port, (to have a sarcastic-coping character) but I decided to make it a little harder on myself because I tend to have many of those kinds of tropes, and it didn’t fit my storyline as well as some of the other tropes.
And totally, @Ash-has-a-One-Piece-problem! I do that way too much too (and quite often, seeing as I’m scared of a whole lot). I have a character that totally fits that :)

@stolenbrocoli group

Lol does anyone else insert themselves into their characters in little ways. Like my MC is super into conspiracy theories and i am too (no joke i can probably make up a theory about anything) and one of my side characters is into tarot cards and such and so am i. they all kinda feel like little extensions of myself and the different sides of me, which i don't know if that's a good thing? but whatever. it's done :/

@SupernaturalSyGuyIsTIred group

Lol does anyone else insert themselves into their characters in little ways.

All. The. Time! Whether I mean to or not, I notice aspects of their personalities that I myself have. Like how some of them are ambiverts, or how William is a a-hole (I don't say such things that he does, but I certainly do think them).

@SpookyScarySnoteleks group

Lol does anyone else insert themselves into their characters in little ways.

Bold of you to assume that all of my One Piece OCs aren't basically me but with different aspects of my personality projected more

@stolenbrocoli group

I'm so glad i'm not the only one ! I feel like most of my characters either represent different little parts of my personality or they're the parts of me that i wish i was or that i suppress a bit. I guess its just a way for me to express my real personality lol

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I used to have a group of characters that were literally all me except each one exaggerates something about me.

@stolenbrocoli group

I was going through my tabs and closing them and stuff and i realized…a lot of my searches make me seem like an arsonist. I've looked up different ways and places to start fires, the different degrees of arson, and juvenile punishment for the different degrees of arson. hopefully no buildings in my city burn down… : /

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A lot of my searches are about psychopaths. WhAt I NeEd A VilLaIn!

@stolenbrocoli group

Me too ! It gets hard :/
Also, i've hit a slight writer's block. i can't get more than a couple lines in before i start giving up. i just want to get to the climax of the story, not the boring beginning :(

@stolenbrocoli group

UGHHH I'm so stuck
I though i patched up a small plot hole but by doing so i created another one. and its so small that i kind of just want to ignore it because who's ACTUALLY gonna notice. but still. its frustrating >:(

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I've already written the climax, but all the characters scattered to distract the villain and now I have to write about them regrouping in order to get to the resolution, and I'm super mad at myself for making this part so hard. I could have let them stick together but nooooo.

@SupernaturalSyGuyIsTIred group

Looking over a story that I haven't worked on in a long time and finding that I got a block at an interrogation sequence. I've watched a lot of crime investigation shows, done the research, etcetera, yet I'm still stuck. I know exactly what I want to happen. The problem is getting it to happen.