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A trove of story ideas June 17, 2024 at 2:15pm I was just thinking that practice plots can be a powerful method of self therapy.
Is there something that you're afraid to do? Start a wannasoi.
That's my madlib outline that goes:
I want to...
So I,...
Hoping that...
Fearing that...
Instead...
And you just cycle through until that comes to a conclusion. Even the most boring wannas can come into a story as hopes and fears whiz by. However, what if you drew on your anxiety?
So lets say I need to set up medical ... [Read more] FOMO FTW versus stalled writing process June 13, 2024 at 12:42pm Time to write!' There are an infinity of blank pages in virtual space, and sure enough more than enough of the paper ones.
But what if the story doesn't come?
Well there are three things that can happen if I sit down to the page, be it virtual or not,
I could find nothing, no will to actually write, or no words.
And the momentum that came from building my habit.
I could fin d a load of junk that I could line edit, or just abandonm
And the momentum that came from buildin... [Read more] Battle choreography: Character over Statistics June 12, 2024 at 2:26pm One thing I've noticed about writing battle scenes, is that we don't stat the characters but we do motivate them.
I had a fight involving two magi fighting another of their school who had decided to become a "Corpsebound Spellmaster."
Because they were lovers, every move they made was more about protecting their partner than about winning the fight. As a result, while they did emerge as the victor, they suffered terrible loss. Mortally wounded, Elisha sacrificed herself t... [Read more] |