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Oct 2024

Schedule and time management. I have a full time job that's pretty demanding, and while I enjoy doing my work, it does prevent me from writing as much and as quickly as I need to.

My question to other writers:

Are there things that you enjoy in other people's work, but don't actually like if you have to write it yourself? Or vice-versa?

Question: Just cuz you didn't help someone who's in need, doesn't mean your friendship with them is over right?

My answer: Yeah! At least that's what I thought so until Cillian just Luxana hanging...

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Action sequences. I'm bad at them, so it's never fun, be it drawing or writing it, but i love reading them in other people's stories.

20 days later

What is the most rewarding kind of dialog to write in your opinion? Dialog that gives people butterflies? makes them laugh? or makes them emotional?

I love writing dialog in general, so all kinds are fun for me, but I think dialog that makes people emotional is my favorite, and I feel the same way about narrations as well.

I love dialogue too. My favorite is when my characters say something stupid funny that I wasn't planning on, it just pops out cause I was so in the zone of their mind space lol. I'm not great at comedy so when that does happen it always amazes me.

9 days later

T/F if you start diverging from your plot points you have to keep diverging?

I say yes, to a certain extent, because once you start shifting, you have to diverge at least a bit more to be able to get back on track with what you had originally intended to happen next.

ex: in my novel "Crystal Blue" I had intended for the story to go more or less straight from Mora coming home to having dinner with the George's to her being at school. The addition of a snake and a fainting spell required me to add an extra scene because jumping straight to her at school would have confused everyone and not made much sense.

2: What genres do you write and what works have you released in each?

I write romance, in which genre i have released "Damsel in the Red Dress" and "A Dozen Morning Glories."

I write drama and slice of life, in which genre I published a short story called "Rain Dance."

I also write spec fic, in which I've published a story called "The First Time I Grew Wings" and am releasing "Crystal Blue."

I think I would probably work as a ghost writer, but it wouldn't be ideal? Like I'd much rather write my own story, but if given the option between ghost writing and not writing at all I'd def ghost write.

Happy to give anyone's story a few chapters if you give mine a few (Just let me know if u do)

To Be Human follows Argo, a member of an assassin's guild, on a quest for vengeance against the mysterious figure who murdered his parents. He is joined by Nyx, a freshly initiated guild member, and Ryle, a Knower from the Eastern province.

As he journeys deeper into the secrets of his past, Argo is forced to grapple with the guild's teachings of isolationism, walking a fine line between solitude and friendship. Every bond he forms becomes a potential weakness, and every connection tests his resolve.

18 days later

Hmm I’m working on a fantasy novel for now before it was mystery and thriller comic. I don’t really have a favorite genre to work on,it just depends on my mood lol.

I’m a huge fan of the found family trope. It’s something about a group of strangers coming together creating a familial bond between them.

Oh forgot to ask a question,:grin: here’s one does anyone have their novels ending in mind. I have at least two so far

It really depends on the payment: Honestly at this point I realized that money is money and art is art... and if doing art will get me to pay for my house than so be it. BUT as I said... that would come at a really high prize. :slight_smile:

Oh, I answered your question and forgot to ask my own question:
How long have you been writing and what made you start?

Also: Here is my story:

Personally, I have no problem with the concept of ghostwriting as a way of assisting the credited author, but I probably wouldn't do it if it required me to contribute more than 60% of the work. At that point, I feel I should receive some credit. I would have concerns about my resume though. I may try to negotiate into being allowed to use it on a resume with contact information for those that seek verification of my claim.

I'm just gonna leave this here now...

"The Not Love Interest", "Implied Love Interest" and "Platonic Life Partners"

Never liked the prevalent idea in fiction that seems to communicate that romantic relationships are the best thing ever or is better/"more" than platonic ones, so I like stories that can show that platonic relationship can be as deep and fulfilling. #aroace

9 days later

does that mean came to you at random or seemed like a random twist? If so, it's the scene where Mora gets poisoned by the scent of bath salts in the chapter "Phantosmia"

A scene that came out of left field for me would have to be my characters Elias and Tholdir already knowing each other. I wanted them to bump into each other by accident but they already had a slight growing friendship

Yes!

Or maybe, it can also be interpreted as "What scene in your book didn't fit into the genre you were writing?"

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Ohh, I think most of my scenes fit genre-wise cuz they're usually a combination in the first place, but for Crystal Blue it would still be "Phantosmia" because that's the first psyche-thriller like scene of the novel

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My question: Would you survive and/or thrive if you ended up in your current story?

I think I would end up flailing around in the towers and ask to be moved to a desk job instead managing the hunters :smiley:

Here's my story if anyone's curious to try reading it! ^^
https://tapas.io/series/Sovereign-Hunter/info

I would thrive. My life would probably be better actually because there are a lot of companies in the shared world of "A Dozen Morning Glories" and "Damsel in the Red Dress" that focus on hiring pocs and especially female pocs writers and artists, so I'd be doing stellar

Here’s my question what can you improve on writing wise.

One thing that I can work on is dialogue. Making sure that the conversations flow smoothly,trying to find that balance of show and tell.

I can improve at pacing. Sometimes I take too long to get to relevant scenes and sometimes I put them too close together lol

As long as my work in life makes an impact, I don't care if I get credit. It would be nice - so would being paid for doing what I love - but that's not why I write! I write because I'm compelled to and so I might be able to impact and inspire people.

My question is: "How would you approach writing a character that is the polar opposite of you, i.e someone you can't relate to in any way?"

Hmm good question I could be optimistic and say that the world will get better in 100 years but I don’t think that it will. Although I don’t think it’s going to get worse either, I think it will be like a roller coaster where some years are better than others and vice versa

I think it will be different. in some ways it'll probably be changed for the better, like better prosthetics and accessibility tools for the disabled, and in other ways it will probably be worse

Everyone has something in common I think, so even if the character looks nothing like me at first glance, I would pick out what parts of their character I can relate too. This might just be what drives their mindsets and behavior. I would make a specific effort to figure out their mindset and why they like the things they like and do what they do so I can write them as realistically and consistently as possible

I would probably write said character how I would any other character. Figuring out their flaws and strengths. Getting to know the best and worst sides of them. Also if you think about it there’s still one thing that you guys can have in common.

11 days later

Which of your characters would you most want to be friends with if you could befriend one?

i have too many stories to answer this easily, but i think it would be awesome to be friends with my oc Chili Cruz because he's fun and silly, but would always push me to become the best version of myself