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Started June 03, 2020 by @stolenbrocoli group

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A true godsend, Sy ! :DD

:-D I pretty much live for helping others!

I sometimes forget how excruciating it is to write slow-burn
I just wanna write these idiots snuggling already

i feel that. i just wanna get to the part where some of my characters are in relationships so i can write cute stuff :(

Wait
I can't even write fucking romance
Am I okay?
no

honestly i've never even tried writing romance. i've never gotten to the part of the story that the romance is in lol

Pretty much same. I only have to write a few though thank goodness.

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.

I'm still having problems with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i think the best advice i can give with this (and it probably won't be that good) is just write. anything that comes to mind, even if it isn't the dialogue. even just write down what you need to happen and hope it goes from there. and if you do write down any dialogue and such, don't stop yourself cos it sounds bad or something. just keep going and revisit it later. this is what i do when i hit a block and i mostly works :)

Cell, singular, as in one…. Yep, that seems about right. Lol!

Should go on the meme chat.

I have no idea what I want for my world and magic system. I like a lot of things, science, magic, mythology. A lot of my drafts make gods of the world very centric to the plot but I don't exactly want that? I'm not sure what to do, nor what I want this world of mine to be.

Welp. When you figure out what's up we can help.

something what i like doing is mixing a bunch of stuff that doesn't usually go together. so like a super modern, kinda sci-fi ish world with mythology or magic that you'd find in a more medieval based book or something like that. so really you could mix all three if you wanted !

Thank you for the advice Broci!

of course ! i hope it was helpful :)

Mixing different elements from different generes can be fun!

does anyone else kind hate having to write scenes with 3+ characters? 'cause i do :/

does anyone else kind hate having to write scenes with 3+ characters? 'cause i do :/

Me at first: No
Me, upon realizing that I've only been writing 2-character oneshots for the past month:
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Ugh, that'd be my dream. i hatehatehate having to constantly write the characters' names over and over and over cos it's impossible to differentiate between all the he's and she's

Ugh, that'd be my dream. i hatehatehate having to constantly write the characters' names over and over and over cos it's impossible to differentiate between all the he's and she's

Give your characters very different speech patterns, maybe it can help

i've tried but every time i read over it again, they just look so similar still :/

so i'm planning on ending my book at kind of a high point (and by that i mean super dramatic and maybe kind of sad) and then starting the second book in the POV of another character. but my problem with this is i dont know where to end and where to start.

so what should i do?

I really like that recap by switched pov. Sounds super cool.

thank you for the input ! i'll probably go with that one. but there's lots of time between now and the end so we'll see how it goes

I changed my entire plot based on a drawing I made and because I wasn't very good at drawing unique facial features 2 characters looked almost exactly alike so I decided they were related and that's what the whole story is about.

ooh i feel that. sometimes i'll change the plot or add to it just so i can have a certain chapter name.

so i'm planning on ending my book at kind of a high point (and by that i mean super dramatic and maybe kind of sad) and then starting the second book in the POV of another character. but my problem with this is i dont know where to end and where to start.

Spoiler - click to show.

so my current MC's goal is to find his mom, who was kidnapped several months before.
my first option: along the way him and the people he's traveling with get in a bit of an altercation with some people (i honestly haven't figured out who it'll be yet) and the brother of MC's love interest (presumably) dies. and this is where i kind of want to end it because it's kinda the MC's fault that the brother died. and when i pick it up in the next book, it's gonna pick up in the love interest's POV. but this doesn't really work because at the point they get in the altercation, they still haven't found MC's mom, and it doesn't sit right with me that his character arc won't be finished in his POV.
second option: everything mentioned above happens, but it stays in MC's POV. the thing with this is that love interest's brother "dying" is part of her arc (but they find him later on). and she also has to deal with the betrayal of one of her best friends being the reason her brother died. so i have the same problem as before; part of her arc won't be shown in her POV. i was planning on ending book 1 when they eventually do find the mom.
third option(and looking like the best one right now): i kind of do both…like the first book ends when MC find's him mom and the second book starts when love interest watches her brother die (kind of like a recap). my issue with this is that the whole purpose of backtracking so much is to get love interest's emotions in full, and it's backtracking a lot. there's lots of time between bro's death and finding mom.. the only way this might be able to work well is if i were to have them separate at some point shortly after bro's death.

so what should i do?

I'm team third option, that sounds interesting

I just finished my first draft! _{now to start on a nightmarish amount of edits.}