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Started June 03, 2020 by @stolenbrocoli group

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Bro that's awesome!

so i have a big problem with planning ahead while i'm writing (like so far ahead that i'm barely planning on what's about to happen). and i'm trying to work on the protag's arc(s) in my second book (i'm 4 chapters into the first lol), but it just doesn't feel right to me. all i have so far for her arc is that she's going on more of an emotional/survival journey, but i'm not sure if that's enough?

I have a great idea to torture a character but I have no idea how to write it and now I angy

Like just general writing skills or what?

I have no inspiration, I have a loose idea in my head, but I can't write lmao

geez this thread is deaddddd. but anyone else just HATE their main character for some reason??

I forgot about this thread….

geez this thread is deaddddd. but anyone else just HATE their main character for some reason??

I have love/hate relationships with some of them. I love them at times, but hate them at others. Lol

geez this thread is deaddddd. but anyone else just HATE their main character for some reason??

No, I love my sweet boy. He's so cute, but at the same time so eager to punch bullies in the face.

yea i guess i don't necessarily hate my MC, but i gotta say i strongly dislike him. my emotions toward this boy border hate and rage.

also i think i'm gonna move this thread to General Writing, it just feels a lot more relevant there.

Literally the entire point of my novel is that the main characters kinda suck. I hate and love them equally.
Also LETS BRING THIS THREAD BACK I've been banned from ranting to my friends and sister about book ideas

I've been banned from ranting to my friends and sister about book ideas

RANT AWAY!

YIS 🙏 🙏

SO. I'm doing this story, right. It revolves around a few of the royal families of this fantasy world I came up with. As the story goes on, you find out more and more that each of the main characters are actually horrible, terrible people with serious mental complexes and very few redeeming qualities. The entire point of the story is SUPPOSED to be a look at how power, luxury, and wealth affects people, and the dangers of living life completely for yourself (as well as kind of calling out toxic and unhealthy tropes in YA stories, but that's more just a personal vendetta I wrote into it.) It's not the most profound thing I've written ever, but that is supposed to be kind of the moral to the story- as well as it just feeding my desire to write toxic people who are absurdly rich and powerful. Idk man.
ALL THAT SAID. I've gone and gotten attached to two of the characters and I kind of don't want to end their story badly, even if they are also frankly pretty awful people. Do y'all think it would mess up the moral of the story if two of the characters didn't have tragic endings? To be fair, they're also the only two characters who kind of represent the working-class type citizen who had to fight their way to the top, so I COULD possibly justify giving them a happy ending as opposed to the people who just have everything handed to them in the story. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Thoughts?

Me: Writes an angsty LawLu oneshot
Me:
Me, a month later after not writing any other oneshots: Let's do it again

SO. I'm doing this story, right. It revolves around a few of the royal families of this fantasy world I came up with. As the story goes on, you find out more and more that each of the main characters are actually horrible, terrible people with serious mental complexes and very few redeeming qualities. The entire point of the story is SUPPOSED to be a look at how power, luxury, and wealth affects people, and the dangers of living life completely for yourself (as well as kind of calling out toxic and unhealthy tropes in YA stories, but that's more just a personal vendetta I wrote into it.) It's not the most profound thing I've written ever, but that is supposed to be kind of the moral to the story- as well as it just feeding my desire to write toxic people who are absurdly rich and powerful. Idk man.
ALL THAT SAID. I've gone and gotten attached to two of the characters and I kind of don't want to end their story badly, even if they are also frankly pretty awful people. Do y'all think it would mess up the moral of the story if two of the characters didn't have tragic endings? To be fair, they're also the only two characters who kind of represent the working-class type citizen who had to fight their way to the top, so I COULD possibly justify giving them a happy ending as opposed to the people who just have everything handed to them in the story. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Thoughts?

Okay, first off, that sounds like a great story! Now, in regards to the characters that you like…. I know that it's a trope, but could you fit in some sort of a redemption arc for them or something? Perhaps they can come to realize that even though they're part of the working-class that their lives aren't actually all that bad? Have them take pride in their work.

Me: Writes an angsty LawLu oneshot
Me:
Me, a month later after not writing any other oneshots: Let's do it again

I can relate to this since I have a bunch of incomplete fanfics! I start one, work on it for a while, get an idea for another one, and repeat.

Okay, first off, that sounds like a great story! Now, in regards to the characters that you like…. I know that it's a trope, but could you fit in some sort of a redemption arc for them or something? Perhaps they can come to realize that even though they're part of the working-class that their lives aren't actually all that bad? Have them take pride in their work.

Thanks!
And as for the 'pride in their work thing' they DO take pride in it, the issue with the characters (and all of my characters tbh) is that they're just too darn power hungry. These two just happen to like power AND other people sometimes, so I guess that makes them kinda redeemable??
…It doesn't, does it. Oh well.

The first ghost facers episode was what got me into it- not usually one for horror, But I’ve been hooked ever since XD

I can't believe that those fools are still canonically alive! 🤣

IKR

ahHAHa I've… Actually been to nervous to RP yet. But thanks! And I'll work up the courage one of these years >.<

Well, you can enjoy reading it! 🙂

I will! I love stalking
…That would sound so wrong in any other setting XD

You know when you start writing a fanfic, and ao3 asks if you want your work to have multiple chapters, and you tick the box that says 'yes', and it asks how many chapters you're going to make the work?

I leave that section blank, because my only definite answer is 'at least two, hopefully'

You know when you start writing a fanfic, and ao3 asks if you want your work to have multiple chapters, and you tick the box that says 'yes', and it asks how many chapters you're going to make the work?

Me: Uh, I don't know. I never know how long anything I work on is going to be.