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2:48 I use this EXACT trope! And then he kidnaps the other protagonists, enslaves her family, forces her to marry him, and takes her back to his alien palace 😃
2:20 I'm sorry, I have to disagree. I actually don't like the sympathetic villain epidemic. Characters are allowed to have no light, just darkness, simply because that can be very fun to read. In fact, in the project I'm working on now, I've made the deliberate choice to reject the easy "oh their parents died and now they're evil" shtick and just write a woman who is utterly psychotic. I think a villain can be both irredeemably evil and three dimensional at the same time. My go-to example is always Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame; we see the nuances of how his mind works, so he's by no means two dimensional, but good luck trying to tell me there is any light to him.
6:13 Hah! Screw that. I wrote a childhood friends but character A loses their memories so now they're basically strangers. They meet again and they're enemies while character B quietly pining and character A is slowly starting to fall in love with them. Oh, and it's a mafia AU, so they're forced to be partners and learn to trust each other. >:) So, technically its: Childhood friends -> strangers -> enemies -> partners but still enemies -> lovers
Y'all, I hate to admit this, given how much I love writing and aspire to be an author, but I'm writing my second novel, and I feel like I'm not getting the same angsty thrill as before. I love nothing more than to keep talking about how much I love the plot and all of the plot twists, however, actually writing it feels like a chore at times. I can't tell if it's because I've been so busy with school and sports, but even when I'm free, I'm never in the headspace to write. Am I losing my spark? Has this happened to y'all? What's going on?
This happens to me a lot too and I’m the same but I’m beginning to realise even if you love this idea. Maybe now’s not the time to write it, maybe there will be someday when it gives you that spark but not today. Maybe you have a different story in you that’s there waiting to be told and will give you that spark. When this happens to me, I try a different story idea I have or it may also help to set yourself a simple goal, even fifty words a day may help get back that spark. I believe in you!
I was always a book girlie. I was reading since I can remember and I’ve been writing since 7 but those were like 5 page books that I never published. Now I’m in the process of writing a fantasy book, kudos to those of you that have already wrote one and to the ones trying to write a book, you have my full support and best wishes <3
Lolz, I’m writing a fantasy book currently of a seamstress that has a job as a vet for magical creatures in the rival kingdom, does anyone have any title ideas? The MC’s name is Aurielle, idk I just loved the name and wanted to tell someone :)
6:34 It's 40! That's how many it takes of od on caffeine! I tried to look up how many that is in energy drinks and got the suicide hotline! Literally just curious, I don't even drink caffeine regularly
Authors! What's one moment in your book that you think will get the readers to be sad? Here's mine: (context: Blake is Annabelle's younger brother. In the previous chapter everyone thought he had been kidnapped by the killer but he just got lost looking for his best friend named brian who did get kidnapped by the killer and Blake found his body) “Are you sure you want to go to school?” His eyes glanced at her for just a second and Annabelle could tell he was dying inside. The bags under his eyes were huge and he just didn’t have the energy he had before. It killed Annabelle to see him like this. “I have too.” Blake said, his voice barely louder than a whisper, “You know how my brain works. I can’t stop seeing him. Looking in his cold dead eyes. They didn’t even look like his anymore. Just a shell of him. I need to go to school. I need to be able to put my brain somewhere else. I need to be able to not see him.” Blake closed his eyes a squeezed them tight, he opened them back up and blinked away tears, “I tried drawing last night, like I do sometimes to relax, and I blanked out, I remember picking up my pencil then next think I knew I had drawn Brian’s body. The person that did this to Brian took drawing from me. I don’t have anything now. Especially if I don’t go to school. I need to go. You can’t stop me.” “Okay.” Annabelle softly spoke, “I just want to make sure you’re okay. I don’t want you pushing yourself to hard. It’s okay not to be okay.” “I know that. That’s not why I’m doing this Annie. I know I’m allowed to be upset over my bestfriend dying. I’m going to school to distract myself not to make everyone think I’m some brave macho person. I want to stay home so bad, to just stay in bed all day and cry. But I can’t. Because I have nothing left to cry. There’s no tears left. I’ve cried them all. I need something to do.”
I just wanted to come and say that you saved my writing journey. Without you, i would not have been able to self publish my debut novel, Sea Monster. You are a life saver ❤
I’m SOOO close to finishing my book, 228 pages down, about fifty to go! Ready to get this one out for the world hopefully before January 2025! It’s called “Pirate Kings Maiden.”
you ever jsut experience something like a breakdown and immediately go to the computer to right that shit down... only to forget like half of those 20 minutes? ✨writertok !!! ✨
I NEED BRUTE HONESTY: (I'm thirteen years old and writing my first book okay so we're abt 55 A4 pages in and I'm about to really start the plot. Have I left it too late? It's been relatively happy and I'm scared people are going to get bored. For the last couple pages I've been focusing on developing characters, getting ready to make the plot emerge and making cute/funny scenes. PLEASE HELP IM SO SCARED OF BOREDOM.
I NEED BRUTE HONESTY: (I'm thirteen years old and writing my first book okay so we're abt 55 A4 pages in and I'm about to really start the plot. Have I left it too late? It's been relatively happy and I'm scared people are going to get bored. For the last couple pages I've been focusing on developing characters, getting ready to make the plot emerge and making cute/funny scenes. PLEASE HELP IM SO SCARED OF BOREDOM.
I NEED BRUTE HONESTY: (I'm thirteen years old and writing my first book okay so we're abt 55 A4 pages in and I'm about to really start the plot. Have I left it too late? It's been relatively happy and I'm scared people are going to get bored. For the last couple pages I've been focusing on developing characters, getting ready to make the plot emerge and making cute/funny scenes. PLEASE HELP IM SO SCARED OF BOREDOM.
I rewrite my stories that are only a few chapters in because they’re not good enough. My favorite author is Richelle Mead, and I get so inspired and then fail to get motivated and actually write an actual story. (I mainly write fan fictions) and I’m worried that they’ll never get published.
The 'ugly guy' woman's clip made no attempt to connect the dots of her assertion whatsoever. In fact it undermined whatever point she was trying to make. If the woman had to learn to love the man, doesn't that mean the man already loved the woman?
What if there is a clear villain, who has hurt the hero greatly, so much so that the hero would do anything to kill them. Then, have the hero take advantage of their friends in order to kill this villain. Then, you’ve got the balance of “pure evil fool that I hate” and “tragic villain/antihero”
I’m writing a third installment to a story and I want to better develop the side characters without making them the main characters… right now, some of them are quite basic, nothing more than “stoic tactician” and “brave militant general”
Okay, so I’m an artist, I create these characters and I draw them… however I’ve created these little worlds and backgrounds for each character that I drew and I’m trying to but them into words ( like a book or little short stories) but this is my first time and I don’t know were to start…
Okay, so I’m an artist, I create these characters and I draw them… however I’ve created these little worlds and backgrounds for each character that I drew and I’m trying to but them into words ( like a book or little short stories) but this is my first time and I don’t know were to start…
