I Firmly Believe That The Best Piece Of Writing Advice I Could Ever Give Someone Is “you Can’t Have

i firmly believe that the best piece of writing advice i could ever give someone is “you can’t have everything you want in your story.” if you implement ALL your ideas into one story, you risk losing good writing. because a lot of the time, the “lore” or whatever doesn’t match up with each idea, or it becomes too clustered. a good example of this is everything vivziepop writes. she tries to get all her cool ideas into one story, and so it comes off feeling like a bad fanfiction of a better story (pacing issues, continuity errors, too many characters, etc). this isn’t me hating on viv, it’s me trying to get you to learn from her mistakes. i believe her stories have genuinely decent qualities that get overshadowed by the bad stuff. 

tldr; you need to sacrifice some of your ideas in order to make a story good (but you can always reuse them in other stories!). 

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Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.

7 months ago

“turning the zodiacs into humans!” the people yearn for homestuck


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i wrote this back in 10th grade i’m literally sobbing

I Wrote This Back In 10th Grade I’m Literally Sobbing

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1 month ago

thinking about the owl house and how everything i hated about it was likely a direct result of 1. it being produced by disney and B. huntlow being canon (and yes i do think canon huntlow ruined a ton of stuff. i’m not exaggerating. it completely ruined hunter and willow’s characters for starters by taking their pre-existing cool personalities and changing them so the ship would fit a boring unseasoned girlboss x malewife dynamic. willow should’ve been aroace [she’d make more sense than lilith] and hunter should’ve ended up with one of the blight twins [id have preferred edric because the show didn’t have ANY decent canon mlm ships. and no, willow’s background gay dads and the implication of aladarius in the finale do NOT count. although i wouldn’t have complained if hunter had ended up with emira either] shipping is my special interest so like.. i get kinda aggressive about these things but also i think it gives me a bit of credibility on the topic. you can disagree but that’s just my opinion lol)

i remember at one point i made a list of stuff i hate about the show, and while i don’t have access to it anymore i remember that most of the stuff i listed was, in fact, very likely a result of those two factors.

like adding onto the anti huntlow thing, i think lumity also has problems for some of the same reasons huntlow does, albeit not as drastically. like it’s obvious that the creators decided on the ships BEFORE writing their character’s personalities which ended up working out in lumitys favour but NOT in huntlows. cause yeah, amity changed after getting with luz but it was sorta realistic? meanwhile after getting with willow, hunter fully stops being funny and loses his charm entirely. he was my favourite character until the Huntlow Personality Retcon happened. now i genuinely can’t stand him. if i wanted to see a boring m/f girlboss x malewife “bi4bi” (in quotations cause hunter never showed interest in the same gender at ANY point which leads me to believe that him being bi was an afterthought they threw in during season 3) fictional couple where the most interesting thing about it is the fact that it’s a gb/mw dynamic, i would simply watch a millie x moxxie compilation on youtube. and i don’t even like helluva boss. and i think that dynamic is overplayed.

like people always say “straight couples are boring” and they get hate for it but are they wrong??? when the majority of m/f couples in fiction are either “gender roles: the ship” or “reversed gender roles: the ship” it starts to get boring as hell. where’s the variety. like for example a straight ship i really enjoy is tim and sasha from the magnus archives, because they actually have personalities that compliment one another that aren’t just “he’s a simp and she’s strong!!1!” obviously we don’t get to learn a ton about them together, but that’s also a nice change. why do ships always have to be the main focus at the expense of a good story. and again: i’m saying this as someone whose SPECIAL INTEREST IS SHIPPING.

obviously there are worse ships than huntlow. i’m aware of that. but i also think i’m allowed to have and express my opinions. kay? cool.


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3 months ago
Ai Does Not Belong In Creative Spaces. Period.

ai does not belong in creative spaces. period.

2 months ago
Write It Shitty, Write It Scared, Write It Without A Clue But Don't You Be So Spineless And Have An AI

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

1 month ago

@commonsenseyouneedit hey. it’s a fictional ship. calm down. if someone not liking a ship makes you THIS upset i think you need to log off the internet for a while. also, “they’re made for each other ur just a hater grr!” is not a good argument.


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