Writing Memes from Tumblr (part 7) 

Fair enough

two types of people: the "sorry omg i got run over by a car last week and couldn't update my fic, here's a short 7k chapter, apologies!" and the ones considering faking their deaths.

@@mash9415 True. Thankfully I didn't go to the dark side and I updated my fic

Why fake the death when you can make it as real as possible? :P

@@xfirefeather the ao3 writer curse is already trying as hard as possible to kill you off lmao

I researched psychosis, like, last week, but not for writing. I found an old note from June that was completely incoherent, remembered that my psychiatrist mentioned that I may be bipolar, and panicked. I ended up categorizing it as flight of thought, which, unfortunately, is most often seen in those who are bipolar. Edit: My mom came in with my lithium pill (I was prescribed lithium over a year ago) right after I finished this comment. Also, I just remembered that bipolar is more frequently found in writers than in the general population. HELP.

If your writing research google search results doesn't at least ONCE link you to the suicide hotline, then, son, you ain't writing right.

Hey hey at least it wasn't : Cannibalism, home made weapons, how to topple a gov , warlord life and nuclear power plant systems ...it was all to make an in universe video game

I’ve looked up torture methods, and how hot a soldering iron gets-if it’s possible to get fourth-degree burns, and various mental disorders for an intense whump fic… I’m sure I’m on a list too…😅

Not a writing thing but I remember looking up actual victims of shit like electrocution and acid burning so my character designs could be more accurate Yes, I regret it.

I've never felt so seen 🙏

Try chartreuse, always works if you want an evil/magic/chaos colour. Not green enough to be natural, not yellow enough to be vibrant. Just… Adventure Time Lich.

Yes

FOR. REAL. I always imagine animations and fics for my characters before remembering that I can’t make them myself or I’ll spoil the story and then proceed to give up writing the book because I want to make animations too

i use wattpad for fics (not like id ever publish anything 💀) and i just imagine the fucking things they would say for the inline comments and memes they would bring up even tho the fic would never see the light of day

I'm writing an animated series and i'm so tempted to kill off the main character at the end, but i will CRY if i do that because every character in the series is just me projecting onto them. This is a character that i really relate to, and while I know that sacrificing him will be the best for his story arc, i just don't think i'm ready to let him go. And I want to be able to have both- kill him off and bring him back again, but then the sacrifice would fall flat. AGHH I HATE THIS

I had the same problem. I had a character who's dad was supposed to die as part of their backstory. But after I gave him a personality change I got so incredibly attatched that I ended up sparing him. He still dies in the 4th installment, but is brought back to life in the end. I can't end this dorky loving father. He needs to live.

imo the best character deaths are ones that feel like they matter. With a few exceptions, I find myself heavily disappointed when an author decides to bring a character back to life after the death was fully established. You could pour your love into them by trying to show why you love them so much. That way, the audience could cry with you

@@Local_custard I see your point but the problem with that is if he wasn't brought back, the plot wouldn't work out like it should. Plus he wasn't really "dead" per say, he's a wizard and because his magic was stolen from an evil wizard he was turned to stone and the entire point of the book was for the main character to save him and defeat the evil wizard. it's a whole thing and i could go on hours explaining it

@@user-LoomaMoth226 that's understandable! I think I wasn't being clear when I was speaking more generally and for that I apologize. I'm glad it worked out!

Fucking same Whenever I write a super sociable popular with lots of friends character I always got myself thinking: "How the fuck do I start a conversation"

@@ghastlygavin my main character dont have friends- (no its not emo) they just have a group of people attempting to murder him as he travels from one country to another :)

@@ghastlygavin one of my side characters is a popular girl idk where to start with this because Idk how popular kids work💀

Lol same. It’s actually a good strategy for creating realistic thought processes and motivations for villains.

Writers are my favorite type of people because instead of saying simple things like, “I just start typing and the words come to me.” They look at their plate of alphabet spaghetti-oes and decides comparing them writing and ratatouille is a good idea

For me, it's not so much that I don't have control it's that I'm wrestling with another person for control. I'll try to direct them and they'll push back like "I wasn't done talking" or "I wouldn't do that." I once wanted my MC, a touch-starved, literally tortured kid, take an entire book before he could hug someone when I had wanted him to hug in the first 50 pages and throughout the story. I kept trying and he kept refusing. It ended up being so much better and impactful because of it but I had to rewrite so many other scenes because he either couldn't process things like a normal kid and he couldn't regulate his emotions as well. He still is a hot-tempered kid who doesn't always make the right decisions but he's not afraid or constantly angry like he was.

I am in love with this comparison and these replies Man i love writers they brain built different

I have a vague idea, my fingers make contact with the keyboard. I am now possessed and I will come out of my trance in 2 days and my eyes will open and there will be a chapter written but I will have no memory of writing it.

Do you also mentally flip the channel only to end up on a fictional documentary about the previous daydream?

​@@BonaparteBardithion OMG YES "How good the romance plot is in X fanfic"

thanks to this very comment, im EXTREMELY convinced i have a bad case of MD and even looked it up and everything checks out even while im working, i come up with some random stuff about my ocs and even short storylines with them and connect them all together into this much larger, overarching story i get so into it too that i start questioning myself if this is really ok

my life in a nutshell

Me....people tell me I never pay attention because I'm always daydreamimg. And my parents tell me to wake up from this fantasy, but that's the thing:I can't. Because I don't want to. That's why I also got into shifting.

You get to 100 words? Props to you mate I’m a blob of gelatinous goop by word four

I always regret it after

I’m on Chapter 3 and have no idea what the main protag is gonna do next 😭😭

100% agree! I was sooo tempted to just trash everything I wrote from ages 10 to 16, especially the later stuff because I actually shared it on social media and had people read my awful cringy WIPs, but I saved it. Now 10 years later, I actually really enjoy reading it from time to time. I even plan to re-write some of the stories where 14 year old me was on to something but didn't have the skill to pull it off quite right. Yet. Now I do.

@@Lewisiaisoutofcontext I hope I can get to that point some day. I recently reread some writing from when I was like 13 and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it was so bad lmao.

Hey, you didn’t actually lose all your talent. It’s incredibly tempting to think that you did, but just try writing again. You'll find that even if it takes months or even years to get back into the swing of things, you’ll realize that the old dog still remembers its tricks.

This. This a million times. I have literally never gotten rid of a single doc. I don't even know what half of them are supposed to be, but I've never gotten rid of them. Occasionally I scroll through and look at different old docs when I feel in a writing mood but can't come u with something to write. Sometimes I discover golden documents I have no memory of creating. It's quite entertaining at times.

Although I agree with you, I have also deleted old works that I now regret deleting, but you shouldn't give up on writing. If you love doing it, do it! It doesn't have to be good, and you can improve over time. I believe in you (:

what are the answers? lol

@cryingchild4209 I would assume the answer to the first is 'rotting meat' but I haven't actually spent any time around unpreserved human corpses. As for the second, that depends entirely on how quickly blood is exiting the body, and where exactly the injury is located. For instance, if we're talking a slashed carotid artery it could take as little as a couple minutes or so if nothing's done to slow the bleeding down. This is because it's a major artery so the blood is under a lot of pressure and thus will exit the wound very quickly (specifically it will be squirting out in pulses in time with the heartbeat,) additionally the carotid arteries are the main supplier of blood to the brain, so if it's cut that blood isn't getting there, the brain will quickly run out of oxygen and die. Really, any artery cut is going to be bad because they're ALL pressurized (and they all splurt) but ones that aren't directly supplying blood to a major organ won't kill you as fast, as in those cases death is due to the drop in blood volume making it impossible to keep the blood going where it needs to, causing various tissues to slowly succumb to hypoxia. The same thing occurs with veins, though since they aren't pressurized they bleed much more slowly. This process is referred to as hypovolemic shock and begins to occur when you lose 15% of your blood, though at that stage its still pretty mild and you wouldn't be looking at organ damage yet. At around 40% you'll be looking at serious organ damage or death. Interestingly, it can usually be treated with just IV fluid to get the blood volume back to a normal level, as you can still function pretty well with a lot fewer red blood cells than normal, though obviously if too many of them or gone you'll need a transfusion. This long explanation was brought to you by a combination of my anatomy class and my extensive research to depict blood loss accurately in my rather violent fantasy writing (the reason I know so much about the carotid artery in particular is due to needing to know if a character could feasibly stab someone before dying from having their throat slit.)

@@Amy_the_Lizard thanks for answering my question and also geez how long did that take for you to type 😭

"well, theres no ACTUAL pages or anything yet. But i did write the full story and also multiple au's of said story inside my brain, so i think that counts"

Omg I'm not the only one

I wish you luck

Yikes good luck

Me too. In my story the love interest will die (it's based on a poem and I don't want to say too much in case it will be spoilery) but now I don't want him to. :(

I had the main character die, she was a kid, too.

I had to kill off Aunt May in one of my Spiderman fanfic and it hurt my heart like hell

Right?? If I have a moral in mind, my writing comes out stilted and my story flat. If I release my characters to do what they want and we get to see real, impactful consequences of their beliefs, motivations, and actions, a moral kind of forms itself that I can build on in later drafts.

This is honestly what really stifled my creative juices during high school, among other external factors. I consumed a lot of analysis from paintings, books, movies and all kinds of medias. That distant feeling of someone could have a completely different reading than what i intended from my work is not unwelcomed; but I'm terrified of making the wrong move and didn't have enough hindsight to cover all of the necessities. Nowadays I'm trying to just throw everything on paper and let the stuff simmer in a few days. If I don't see anything fundamentally needed to be changed, then I just keep it as it is, even if I may edit stuff later on

meanwhile me just (nick)naming my characters after a trait in their clothing / what they were originally based on / just kind of… whatever??? (example: i nicknamed a character “Other” brcause i didnt have a name for her, i ended up with her being named Aether)

One of the writers in Baldur's Gate 3 actually interviewed their character (j think it was Astarion?) And it actually added depth on the said character! Also I think Arcane writers did this too?

It took me reading Jane Austen to realize colons weren't used solely for the purpose of listing things. Now I have to hold myself back using them lol

Or ‘Sir, this is a Wendy’s ‘

Ikr! Me FR

*Sighs before pitifully raising a hand*

Me....

very random things somehow push me to continuing that wip but this honestly wasn’t that random like ive watched all of the videos in this series and each time i ended up getting motivation to write with new ideas

The son turned to a life of crime with added plants

I feel this on a spiritual level, my dialogue literally looks like it's ai-generated

Ditto :,)

Omg please don’t kill him off. 🥺

@@soup_sarah8590 It's a bit too late

@@unaesteticfrog11 :’(

@@soup_sarah8590 I'll write an au in which Na survives :)

@@unaesteticfrog11 thank you fam :>

BREAD

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the bread cult?