lupin5th | Entries tagged with writing

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mumblingsage:

goldhornsandblackwool:

burnyoufirst:

siderealscribblings:

rbergara:

we need more books that are written like YA novels but have characters in their 20s… like I can’t keep reading books about teenagers but I’m also not ready for the weird adult romance section of the book store

I feel like there’s a market for books with tight groups of friends going on magical adventures but they can legally say fuck every few pages

i would 100% read any fantasy book with characters in their mid to late twenties and early 30s. hell yes to john dropping his career as an accountant to go explore whats in the closet

please
books go immediately from YA fantasy/drama to

POLITICAL INTRIGUE and TRADITIONAL ROMANCE

In romance this (20-something characters and YA style) is known as “New Adult.” I don’t know what we have to do to get NA into other genres but maybe it’s a place to start.

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christinaroseandrews:

nudityandnerdery:

This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time:
1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story.
2. Always tie up loose ends.
3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things.
4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant.

Seriously this guy knows how to write.

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mumblingsage:

kyraneko:

mikkeneko:

glumshoe:

Another thing I love in fiction is when dialogue immediately echoes the same phrasing used in the narration. It can be startling and funny.

Ex.:

As they made their way back to the car, Farad felt the prickle of eyes upon him. He looked around and spotted the culprits—perched on the roof of a van, a gaggle of dour-faced teenagers was watching them judgmentally.

“Don’t look now,” he whispered to his companion, “But a gaggle of dour-faced teenagers is watching us judgementally.”

This can be used as a great character establishing trick too, eg.

What the fuck, she thought, and then because she was never the sort of person to sit on her feelings, said aloud “What the fuck?”

It works great the other direction, too.

“Fuck yourself dead, you half-blazed, fully-degenerate asshole!”

The half-blazed, fully-degenerate asshole in question declined to do so, and instead threw herself bodily at the other woman with the full intention to claw her to shreds.

I love it when the narration and dialogue are at odds:

From the roof of the van, a gaggle of dour-faced teenagers watched them judgementally.

“Let’s not interrupt those busy-looking gentlepersons,” Farad remarked to his companion.

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copperbadge:

kweh-not-wark:

etraytin:

copperbadge:

kweh-not-wark replied to your post “AUs where the author writes from a source of deep knowledge are…”

My grandpa told me once that the only historical fiction he would ever read would be a book in which the Jewish people win WW2. Historically speaking, this doesn’t make much sense and the amount of research to sort of tackle a concept like that is boggling. Other times, I think about just throwing away all the depressing facts and just writing that fantastical story just for him.

Please tell your grandpa that I love this idea and I haven’t stopped thinking about it for like, days. I think actually it wouldn’t be too terribly hard to write – there were Jewish resistances and ghetto uprisings before and during the war, and if they had managed to get a stronger foothold (perhaps if they’d had better support) there’s a really interesting story to be told about Jewish resistance becoming an organized movement that then overtakes Germany and, per your grandpa’s stipulation that they win, installs a Jewish-led postwar government.

You’d have to be super careful about it. Especially about not implying that if Jewish people had just “done more” they could have prevented what was done to them. And suuuuuper careful not to trigger any weird conspiracy theory bullshit in general with the denoument. But I think it could be done, and with the right attitude it could be a brilliant flip-the-script on the generally creepy What If The Nazis Had Won subgenre that’s so popular with a very specific segment of the literary population. What If The Nazis Had Profoundly Lost.

And WWII is one of the most-documented wars with the least amount of censorship in basically the history of war, so there’s at least a lot of resources.

Or just write it for your grandpa and let it be fantastical and only make a small amount of sense, so long as it is COOL, and he will probably love it. A story doesn’t have to fit perfectly into history or even appeal to a large group of people to make it be exactly what one person wants. I wrote a fic once where a thinly veiled expy of my dad became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because he wanted me to. He then wanted me to make the same character president (this was a small part of a large ongoing multi-chapter fic). Though it wouldn’t work at all in the storyline or in, like, reality, I wrote an alternate, not-widely-shared chapter just for him where by a ridiculous confluence of circumstances, everyone decided that the Chief Justice ought to become the President. And he loved it! Never discount the power of a story made for just one person.

This is a good point and one I’m glad I saw when I looked through the comments on this post. Thank you.

It’s an excellent point! Like you say in your other post, I like the challenge of doing it “to spec” as it were in terms of research and plotting, but you could even just write the ending – write the winners reflecting on how they won and don’t make it too specific. It’s kinda what I did with the It’s A Wonderful Life sequel – I didn’t go into the details, I just wrote the aftermath.

this is super fucking awesome and I would definitely want to read this AND pay good money for it! And I mean both, the researched and the hand-waved what-then! If I have to suffer through ONE (1) more “but what if the Nazis had won?!” arent-I-special-for-asking-this shit-fest excuse for some asshole’s personal fetishization of well-dressed genocide I will go fucking spare. Speaking as a german: they won enough - and STILL win - with every fucking instance of legitimizing their fucking bullshit catastrophy of a “reign” as havin the barest chance of winning, and also FUCK YOU PROJECT PAPERCLIP!

AS IF YOU LOT HADN’T HAD ENOUGH OF THAT WHITE SUPREMACY GARBAGE IN YOUR OWN SYSTEM ALREADY YOU DIDN’T NEED TO IMPORT MORE! NOW CAN WE PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THIS FASHIST RUBBISH IS ANYTHING BUT THE WORST CODE FOR GETTING A DECENT WORKING SYSTEM OF A SOCIETY ARGH!

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copperbadge:

prokopetz:

agni-kai13:

prokopetz:

resplendentgoldenwings:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

The Great Gatsby enters the public domain in 2021. If at least one of us doesn’t have an unauthorised sequel ready to publish on January 1st at 12:01 sharp, I will be very disappointed.

I’m guessing the folks in the notes going “oh no, there’s not enough time!” fall into one of two groups:

1. People who misread the year and don’t realise I’m talking about a deadline fourteen months from now.

2. People who have an uncommonly realistic notion of the pace of their writing.

I’m #2

Plus I would imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s estate will probably renew the copyright.

That’s not how it works. There hasn’t been any such thing as copyright renewal for a long time, and even when copyright renewal was a thing, the effect of renewing was to prevent the relevant rights from expiring early, not to extend them beyond the usual statutory limit. With the exception of audio recordings, works published between 1923 and 1976 cap out at the date of publication plus 95 years – and that span is up for The Great Gatsby on January 1st, 2021.

so i could totally put gatsby into my sherlock and dracula story?

Yes, though you might have to wait a bit longer if you’re inclined to be picky about your timelines; while the bulk of the Sherlock Holmes canon is unencumbered by copyright, the last few short stories that cover the period of Holmes’ retirement – which is where his lifetime lines up with the events of The Great Gatsby – don’t enter the public domain until 2023.

(Holmes would canonically be 68 years old when the summer of 1922 chronicled in The Great Gatsby goes down, for the curious. How precisely he’d be induced to set aside his beekeeping and take a trip to Long Island at that age, I leave as an exercise for the inventive writer!)

Shit, I still have time to write Nobody’s Little Fool, my Great Gatsby sequel where the publishing of The Great Gatsby leads to Tom Buchanan murdering Daisy, and twenty years later their daughter sets out to write a scathing tell-all that will ruin Nick Carraway for his part in her mother’s murder, set against a backdrop of late-Depression-era Chicago.

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allthingsschwab:

Victoria Schwab Tweets:

“This just in: you can love writing and also find it hard.

“I was once on a panel and another author essentially said, ‘if you don’t enjoy every moment, then why are you here?’ and I was…exasperated. Creativity is a complicated beast. You don’t have to love every second to be a valid participant.

“I love the ideas. I love brainstorming, and problem-solving, and I love making this better, fine-tuning language.

“I also hate drafting, claw my way through self-doubt, crawl on my hands and knees through the frustration of the unrealized.

“I’m not here because I love every second.

“I’m here because the parts I love are worth the rest.”

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hellenhighwater:

reeseweston:

No author is entitled to comments, to interaction, to reblogs or likes or reviews or anything, but in a community where you’re essentially a bunch of indie writers, that’s the lifeblood that keeps people *posting*. Writing doesn’t necessarily stop, but when someone feels like no one gives a shit whether you’re sharing or not, you quit sharing.

In the simplest possible terms: creators aren’t entitled to your support, but you’re also not at all entitled to their creations.

If you want content, support content creators.

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hellenhighwater:

reeseweston:

No author is entitled to comments, to interaction, to reblogs or likes or reviews or anything, but in a community where you’re essentially a bunch of indie writers, that’s the lifeblood that keeps people *posting*. Writing doesn’t necessarily stop, but when someone feels like no one gives a shit whether you’re sharing or not, you quit sharing.

In the simplest possible terms: creators aren’t entitled to your support, but you’re also not at all entitled to their creations.

If you want content, support content creators.

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headspace-hotel:

What some person says: You need to do research for fantasy and think critically about how your world functions. How did they domesticate those creatures, and how are they feeding them? How are your cities fed, and what happens to their waste? How are all those soldiers trained and paid? Have you googled feudalism?

What y’all think they mean: fill your book with unnecessary factual details about your fantasy world that no one cares about

What they actually mean: You need to know the way your world functions for your own benefit, to be able to create a story that makes sense and holds up under scrutiny. If you don’t research, you’ll end up repeating dumb stereotypes about Medieval England that are more based on modern biases than real history and making grotesque factual errors that will make your story unreadable for anyone that paid more attention in class than you did. Not to mention that your pool of inspiration will be entirely based in other, already written fantasies, instead of the vast, colorful and woefully untapped well of actual human history.

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naamahdarling:

jackpotgirl:

sventhecrusader:

rowdyravens:

those posts criticizing common writing patterns in fanfiction are so fucking harmful and they ruined me

so like yknow what??? People tell you to avoid “smirk” and “chuckle” as descriptors because no one does those things (???) but then when I need to use those words I have a ten minute crisis about how I’m a shitty writer. So heres my unwarranted writing advice: If you want your characters to smirk and chuckle fucking let them and don’t let anyone tell you that no one smirks or chuckles because I do both on a daily basis whenever I tell a shitty pun, bye

Edgy fanfiction critics can eat my entire ass.

i smirk and chuckle frequently…so I guess I don’t exist…

Have these people literally never said anything while sort of laughing, because that’s a fucking chuckle. I do it ALL THE TIME.