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Niharika✩
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Mar 14, 2021 07:42PM
I've been stuck in the third chapter for I don't know how long. But it's going to change tomorrow. Schools gonna end today.
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alex how do you write so much? genuine question because I need to know
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single tab with my word doc, force myself to keep moving forwards (just write, I can edit it later if it's not perfect), I'm not allowed to open any other tabs until I've written x amount of words. I also daydream about what I'm going to write a lot, so a lot of my writing is just typing down the scenes I've already worked through, if that makes sense.
I write about 1k words in an hour, if I'm focused and actually writing the entire time.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who's learning ~things~ about their characters??
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I'm such a pantser so yeah, 90% of the time my characters jump off the page, kidnap my brain, and order my fingers to type them differently than I first anticipated.
Alex wrote: "Aja wrote: "Please tell me I'm not the only one who's learning ~things~ about their characters??"I'm such a pantser so yeah, 90% of the time my characters jump off the page, kidnap my brain, and ..."
Lol, I ploted half of this book and I'm still learning about my characters
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I'm such a pantser so yeah, 90% of the time my characters jump off the page, kidnap m..."
I always think I have a plan in mind, but noooo these children of my brain have to erase all my ideas and drag the story in their own direction.
Aja wrote: "Please tell me I'm not the only one who's learning ~things~ about their characters??"nope... me too. Ella (protagonist) just got a new dimension to her personality.
Niharika wrote: "Aja wrote: "Please tell me I'm not the only one who's learning ~things~ about their characters??"nope... me too. Ella (protagonist) just got a new dimension to her personality."
I think one of my characters killed something or someone once....someone help me
i'm so happyyyyy i just wrote two paragraphs for my short story for my schools county competition!!!!!
I just wrote 143 words in chapter nine....I'm almost done with the chapter!!! I think...To be honest, I probably have enough poems to start a poetry book...
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To be honest, I probably have enough poems to start a poetry book..."
that's awesome! one of my characters is a poet so I have poems that are supposed to be written by him before every one of his chapters.
Alex wrote: "Aja wrote: "I just wrote 143 words in chapter nine....I'm almost done with the chapter!!! I think...To be honest, I probably have enough poems to start a poetry book..."
that's awesome! one of m..."
Thanks!
That's so cool!!!
I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER NINE!!! Boy am I glad that's over
Aja wrote: "I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER NINE!!! Boy am I glad that's over"I'm stuck on three! But congrats!
Niharika wrote: "Aja wrote: "I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER NINE!!! Boy am I glad that's over"I'm stuck on three! But congrats!"
Thanks!! Keep on working :)
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“You know, you keep saying that, but I don’t really believe you.”
“Why not?”
“You’re British.”
“Wrong! I have a British accent; I’m not British. Those are two different things, you know.”
“Why, pray tell—”
“I don’t pray. I’m the Prince of Hell, Devourer—”
“Why, for hell’s sake—there, is that better—does the Prince of Hell have a British accent?”
“Everyone had an accent, depending on where you’re from. And I liked this one. It makes me sound sophisticated.”
“For heaven’s—”
“Hell’s—”
“Sake, that’s ridiculous.”
“You’re only saying that because my British accent sounds better than your American accent.”
Here's a snippet of dialogue from two of my characters because I felt like I should actually share something rather than just writing how I'm doing lol. I've still been writing a lot recently!
That is absolute perfection oh my god lollll
Alex that dialogue is literally perfect
so this is once scene i just wrote for a short story contest i’m entering:her body relaxes but not long before a voice above her says, “leaving so soon? was my mother’s breakfast that bad?”
brynn looks up slowly to see fallon on the roof. “why are you on the roof?”
“why are you practically running out of my house?”
“be glad i’m leaving, you don’t have to deal with me anymore.”
“now you make a good point-“and with surprising agility fallon jumps down from the roof and walks over in front of brynn who straightens, “but this is my house, and i would like to know why you are leaving,” he face is only inches from brynns who’s eyes avoid his. “my parents are returning,” her voice is shaky and betrays her act of calmness. fallon eyes her up and down before saying,” very well, off you go.” he leans into a mock bow with his arm extended.
nice! is there anything between Brynn and Fallon? if not, that's really creepy when he looks her up and down
not yet, but there will be. thanks for the tip, i’ll look into that! :)
PEOPLE BE PROUD OF MEI have a book I'm wanting to write, but I lost motivation a while ago. but yesterday I picked up the notebook and started writing again! I created a new character who feels so real in my head (except for her name) and im on chapter 4!!
☆ Kelsie ~ in libras, libertas ☆ wrote: "PEOPLE BE PROUD OF MEI have a book I'm wanting to write, but I lost motivation a while ago. but yesterday I picked up the notebook and started writing again! I created a new character who feels so..."
Ayyyyy congrats! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks!!! I've written 2 pages since I wrote that so big yay!!
i’m having one last person look over my short story i wrote for a contest before i submit today!!
Genna wrote: "i’m having one last person look over my short story i wrote for a contest before i submit today!!"Good luck! Your story is genuinely amazing!
So I uh realized that one of my characters most likely had PTSD....that was not planned....
unplanned characteristics are the best because then they feel more genuine!!
im on page 21 of my book and have 5861 words of the 50,000 for my first draft. i must say, writing enemies to lovers is quite fun
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That's amazing!
ahhhh i just finished making a pinterest board for my historical fic! it also features royalty, fake dating, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers and is based in pre-colonised india! (https://www.pinterest.ca/ahaanabharga...)
Genna wrote: "im on page 21 of my book and have 5861 words of the 50,000 for my first draft. i must say, writing enemies to lovers is quite fun"That's great!
ahaana ☽ wrote: "ahhhh i just finished making a pinterest board for my historical fic! it also features royalty, fake dating, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers and is based in pre-colonised india! (https://www.pinterest..."Ahh that's BEAUTIFUL, I love it!
I'm on page 4 I think, and I ended up creating 4 new characters and a military system within the 2 I wrote, and none of them were planned, but oh well.
i love how i made a whole plot and i'm *mainly* staying on track but the story is still changing drastically as i go
I had the entire beginning down and accomplished 3 chapters(my personal high) today. But I realised I have no idea what the rest is. So I spent some time brainstorming and like the idea I got. (I don’t mean to be vain or anything, but…) GO ME!
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Hey there! Just starting a project and looking for some thoughts. PM me if you're interested in the history/lead-in for the world. This is really only a blurb (pre-blurb?) since I haven't actually written the book part of the book yet."Finley is the son of a Matron. What does that mean? Basically nothing. In a completely matriarchal society, men are the menial servants of Fathrel--good for cleaning, cooking, dying in building projects, and fathering the children of the women too consumed with power and the Singed to allow such base tasks to burden their time.
Who are the Singed? They’re another story entirely. Or at least, a very obscure story that no one seems to know anything about, save that they are the last threat to women in power—a society lead by men. Men who serve as leaders with their wives and children, guiding their small culture as best they can in a shrinking world where the three Matrons are closing in on the only remaining people faithful to the Lore.
But when Finley is sent, ordered by his newly appointed Matron sister, to find the Singed with another Matron’s daughter, he has no idea the secrets he’ll uncover about the carefully crafted web of lies the Matrons have weaved since the days before there were cities… before the Hoydens. What small courage remains in the heart of this man, born into passivity and service, will be greatly tested as he deals with an embittered companion with secrets of her own, a spy from the Singed who is supposedly leading them to the Singed, and wildly aggressive desert dogs that want to rip his limbs off.
Not to mention the fact that his sister only sent him on this mission to get rid of him…"
Let me know what you think!
So.....after months of nothing I've finally started writing again! Other than the fact that I started working on a new novel, but we don't talk about that. Anyway, in the fantasy novel I'm writing I've got no more plot written down but am still keeping my ideas straight, decided to kill off a character but not really kill them, add a plot twist in one of my families, and am avoiding all the research I need to do to.
