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Ways I develop character relationships in my writing
This is just a small list of things I do to add a little bit of coziness into my writing through my characters! Relationships (both platonic and romantic) are notoriously hard to write, so here are some of my tips!
Characters picking up on each other’s mannerisms
Characters finishing each other’s sentences
When one character trips/falls/slips and their friend(s) make fun of them before helping them up
Inside jokes
When a group is laughing together, characters who immediately look at each other to see if they found it funny also
Friends who can’t keep it together in serious situations when they’re together
Platonic touching (hugging, hand holding, high fives, etc.)
Characters discussing future plans
Intentionally making fun of each other in front of their crush/partner
One day, I will have to explain to google that I don't have kids, I am a writer.
How I imagine the conversation would go-
Google: You don't have kids?
Me: Nope, none
Google: Why did you search things like "best baby names" "unique baby names" "baby names meaning leader"???
Me: I aM a wRiTeR
The eternal writer dilemma, revise old project or work on new thing...
The struggle
Do you ever ship your characters in a non-canon triad? My characters are storywise married to each other and are monogamous, but I keep shipping their shared bestfriend with them. I know this would be impossible in the canon story but still.
I, the CREATOR, has to separate my own ships from the canonical story line>
Moash should be a shybreaker. (And not cause of justice is blind thing. His blindness should just be blindness. An injury not a punishment)
Teft was although a friend. Was an enemy combatant.
Yes he is vindictive. His greatest flaw is that he is gullible. He is loyal until he isn't.
And he seems to get betrayed by every ideal he swear.
But in the end. He didn't, as much got betrayed by people, as much as he got betrayed by the institution.
There was simply nothing he could do once the law was thrown out the window. And vengeance is just another face of justice.
So having him as a skybreaker who is devoted to an ideal and at the end becoming law itself seems a better arc. And having been on side of the vengeance he can judge better. And unlike nale, Moah isn't a machine. He wants to be but he isn't. He understands compassion and forgiveness.
He is one of my favorite characters. It would be interesting to see whom he chooses as his third ideal.
Alternatively.
He can be an awakened radiant (corrupted) As he is shunned by both human and singer. Seems like he would fit within the awakened truthwatchers. And purely cause it be funny. He hated renarin. Or hated the idea of him.
But renarin is such a sunshine boy if anyone can make moash see past his hateded its renarin.
He should not be dead. He should live and learn and grow and grow old.
Not as a cautionary tale but as a reminder that we can make better choices.
I wanna get into writeblr (writblr? idfk) so here's an introduction
Hi my name is Mew I'm an aspiring author working to get my story kingdoms published in April 2024.
Kingdoms is planned to be a trilogy with possible spinoffs as well depending on my interest and if I can make stories about other characters.
Book 1 of Kingdoms is basically about how this demon, who was once living a peaceful life for a couple thousand years on the fictional planet of Ayuzuma suddenly gets attacked at his family reunion, and he goes off trying to figure out what sparked the attack. His search for answers mostly has to be forgotten in the wake of a war waged by Takahiro and Katherina, two well-known criminals in the land of Ayuzuma. Satan has to scramble to prevent Ayuzuma from being taken over before anything gets worse.
On the side I'm also working on a story in the vein of Percy Jackson, it's a five book series called Keiko Kuromiya, book 1 being The Cut-Faced Woman. The mc, Keiko Kuromiya is a irish-japanese girl who while learned the language and the alphabet wasn't that connected to her Japanese side. She's always known that her parents would move to Japan one day so her father could appease his parents but she didn't expect it'd be during spring break in the middle of her sophomore year. She meets a new friend but also a woman with a cut-faced, Kuchisake-Onna. While the better thing to do is to not tell her she's pretty or ugly and just avoid her, Keiko is curious and wants to investigate, but she'll learn there's more to her friend and Kuchisake-Onna.
Feel free to ask any questions about either of these!
My experience with Word so far
Me: Ah cool there’s a thesaurus. Me: wait…….THERES A THESAURUS???!!!!!
as a reader, I LOVE a slow burn
as a writer, I hate them <3
So I have a question for any writers out there...
How do you write a workable story without the dimension of ‘place’? What I mean more fully is. How can you write story from the point of view of omniscient beings, who exist and life in a place so devoid from any reality that it is effectively everywhere and nowhere at the same time. How to you tell / write a story about the actions and lives of these individuals from their perspective when they effectively are existing without the foundational concept of ‘place’? I know this is a hard / weird question but I really need to know so any answers would be deeply appreciated.
Yeah...
Usually it’s video games instead of music but this is pretty much accurate hehe
@davidhasselhoff demonstrates swag in California. One for the west coast !!!
A weak week!
I buried my head in a pillow to bawl
Knees to my chest like a ball
I guess it was the Domino effect
Of being vulnerable, easy to affect
Sometimes my heart twists and wrings
Most often my head hurts and rings
I assure you it's not just a phase
I've tried but the feeling doesn't faze.
No one really saw the signs
Even if it's simple science
At last I cried out aloud
Louder than I was allowed.
(there's something so comforting about homophones. <3)
"the despair of an idealism that you can't attain" aaaaaaaah, i am so dead
"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean sugary' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain."
- Catherine Breillat
Are you an accident prone writer? I know I am. 📝
Okay, so maybe we don't technically put pumpkin in coffee, but pumpkin smoothies are pretty sweet! 🎃🍁☕️
Claim courage and you will find a way to improve your life. 💕
Run with the Stars
I’m a writer, a published author. This reality humbles me. But lately I feel like I’m running a million miles an hour and making as much progress as someone trying to cross a finish line on a treadmill.
Getting this third manuscript pulled together has taken much longer than I ever anticipated. And that’s just to get it ready for submission (for consideration). Most of the reasons for this slow down are varied and valid. Shifting gears from creative nonfiction to fiction is an adjustment; one I underestimated. Life also happens and sometimes won’t take a backseat to anything. But there are other aspects I can control, instead of letting them run the schedule.
One thing my Aspergirl pointed out to me in the middle of all this was how this MS read more like naked retelling of events rather than allowing the reader a true glimpse into a new world. Her advice woke me up. It made me realize as much as I love writing, I had become stale. It explained why the last handful of articles I wrote feels flat. I’m grateful for her and her insight. I know what I needed to fix this; I needed to reacquaint myself with nature.
Can you relate?
Sometimes writing means we spend too much time ignoring our senses. We become dull and lack sheen. Our minds become hungry for stimulation a keyboard and laptop screen will never be able to provide. We need to step away and step outside, or at least peer out the window. We need to feel the breeze tousle our hair, to watch the leaves swirl about when a storm is heading our way. To sense the electricity in the air before the sky opens and drenches the dry grass. To hear the rapping of the rains against our windows, hoping we remembered to close everything up tight. To feel ourselves tense up when thunder makes our home feel like it will expand and contract with each burst.
In other words, our bodies as well as our minds need to know we are, indeed, alive. This life will be reflected in our writing, as well as any deadness that lingers inside.
~Julie
The Stranger and the "A" Word
Recently, someone introduced herself to me and then immediately asked what I do. When I mentioned living life immersed in the Autism Spectrum (Asperger's), this stranger gave me quite the blank stare. She left me wondering if she thought Asperger's was a myth. Or that she felt living life as a Neurotypical is "better than". And that my career as a writer and advocate was "less than". But she didn't utter anything other than a few barely audible words. Somehow mentioning the "A" word left her speechless. I wanted to tell her she'll catch flies with a mouth open wide like that. But, I didn't. I was in church. And so was she. And I'm striving to be better than that. Maybe she merely didn't know how to respond? Still, there are far too many who will never "get it" and that...gets me.
Tum thoda samjhte, toh baat sayad kuch aur hoti. Hamse jitna hua woh hamari had thi tumhe jatane ki.
Teri har yaad sambhal ke rakhna hai mujhe. Tum jao koi baat nahi!! Sach, tera intezaar Karna hai mujhe.
Kitna thoda chahiye khus rahne ko!! Bas, tumse roz mulakaat ho Jaye.
Anjaane se tum, hash ke gujar jao!! Bas, itna ho jaye, toh gujara ho jaye.