KassX
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The ability to enter fictional worlds and never return please
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHccClTAdzc Yessss CAZZETTE
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How did you know libel is my favorite genre of lawsuit?
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Can you say DESPERATE MARKETING PLOY? The writer in me is like, I don’t even write romance but I kinda want to now for the express purpose of stirring the pot. The marketer in me is like, weirdly impressed. Hey, it’s hard out here for a bitch
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E-Coli in the romaine? HAHAHAHA pass the salad please
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You guys are on an escarole!
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Well now, this is getting radicchio-lous
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Oh absolutely, I wrote like 5 books of a series that was originally a fanfiction. It basically stopped being one about a few chapters in because there were SOOOO many OCs and new plotlines. And honestly? I was cool with that. It was all very organic; it felt like a graduation. I went back later and changed whatever fandom vestiges remained to make it truly original. An original series that I could potentially sell one day? Hell to the YES!
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Fair enough. My YA characters also tend to be mythological beings which aren’t quite in the mainstream yet (certain types of yokai, fenrirs, huldra etc) so I really can’t get around doing at least a few lines of description. I think of it like scene setting: when you’ve set such a lush stage, why would your characters be fuzzy blobs moving around it? Alsoooo when you leave it up to the imagination, those imaginations tend to be whiiiiite…
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Yeah, this is really more wrt my YA stuff. With the smut, I do physical description in more detail than the YA stuff; and I think that does come with the territory. I prefer to sprinkle in details as the story goes along too, but I’ve literally heard people say not to do that either. I personally have never had a reader ask for less, but as a reader, I have sometimes wanted less, only if it starts to go on for too long. It is definitely up to the writer to find balance. I totally feel you on the narcissist characters; I have one who will go on and on about his GREAT hair
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Pet PEEEEVES, omg you guys do not want to get me to start bitching because I will literally never stop, lol. I agree with so, so many of these. But here’s one that doesn’t happen too often but when it does, it pisses me off SO MUCH: writers who tell you not to describe your character’s physical appearance because it ‘ruins the reader’s mental image’. Fuck your image, my dude I mean look, I’m not the kind of girl to go off on three-page character descriptions from hair and eye color all the way to the single, curly hair on their left big toe, but firstly, I’ve had readers say they wish they had more physical description to picture the story better in their head and secondly, I tend to write stories set in metropolitan cities with lots of ethnic diversity. That diversity happens to be important to the story and to me! Now unless I give every POC character a ridiculous caricature of an ethnic name, that is just not going to get across without a physical description so PLEASE LET ME HELP YOU
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IT REALLY WORKS! Hi, I’m Kass and I like taking long walks on the beach I get most of my ideas while I’m out walking. I’ll actually go for a walk if I have a case of writer’s block or if I need to hammer out some story stuff. And of course, more cardio is good advice in general! I recently was able to attend a lecture by a writer studying the creative process, and he said that our best writing and creative work comes from our subconscious brain, not our conscious brain. I’m willing to bet it has something to do with that!
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Aww, well no one can help getting distracted by plot bunnies: they are so gosh darn cute after all Of course @CL Mustafic we expect you to finish all 37 of them!!! As an update, I was inspired by this thread and all of you to up my WIP list to three! THREE WHOLE STORIES As another, unrelated update, I now hate this thread and all of you
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90 degree weather is a surprisingly good incentive to stay in and write!
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Garden-themed furries? Make it a thing!
I can’t believe it was in the 50-60s last week and now we’re clocking 80s on the daily, lmao. I just don’t want to sweat through my makeup, is that TOO MUCH TO ASK GODDAMMIT
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- BronxWench and CloverReef
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My face is meeeeelting
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You mean like groping as opposed to penetrative sex? I do believe the law classifies rape under sexual assault, but not all SA is defined as rape. However, we don’t have an SA tag so I would still tag ‘up’. I mean, we have SH but I don’t think it carries the same weight as assault. I have that problem sometimes, I was asking about Scat earlier and I once tagged Tent even though the tentacles didn’t actually have sex with anyone, lol. I think it’s just important to be very careful about the one tag which must not be named
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Guys, guys, clearly you mean to say HAPPY APRIL FOOLS’ DAY!
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You should just do what I do, cut the wifi and hunker down under my desk wearing a colander until it’s all over. My boss always gets a kick out of it
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Hiding under a pug sounds tricky. And ineffective. Btw, don’t forget to accept all cookies and give Google your personal information so they can… ahem, serve you better.
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@InvidiaRed True! I’ve since adopted a policy of ‘write it if it feels right’ which I think is working well. I’ll write it with the momentum of the story and just let it go as long or as short as it needs to be. Mal, OF COURSE THAT HELPS! My chapters are a bit shorter, trying to keep them around 5k, and I think I have a similar approach. Along with what I mention just above, I do try to make sure there are two scenes in each chapter so one longer ‘main’ scene and then a shorter one. I think I’m still working really hard on the ‘making sure the smut advances the plot’, but also learning at the same time. And if it doesn’t directly advance the plot, I want it to tell us something new about the characters at the very least. I’ve been doing better since I started the rewrite. I had this one chapter which didn’t have a speck of sex in it – which I somehow only realized a week after posting it because it was so ingrained in the plot and I literally freaked out lol. Luckily it was kind of short so it didn’t kill the story or anything.
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Ooh I learned something new today! I agree on pessimism; I’ve written pretty dark circumstances, but hope and humor have always been central themes in my writing. @Mal That’s actually a really compelling setup so good on you! I would posit something maybe controversial: if she and Alex are happy together in the end, maybeeee… It doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks? Maybe in the story, that’s just between them and they don’t need outsiders passing judgement on what transpired. Obviously, the relationship can never be completely morally clean and conscionable and I’m pretty sure Alex would burst into flames if he walked into a church, BUT I don't think anyone would complain if you went the romance route. I mean, I haven't even read your story and I'm kind of shipping Alex and the crazy chick I’ll have people on my own (very rapey) fic commenting on the two lines of snuggling I wrote after an entire chapter of rape and wondering which of his victims the MC is going to hook up with in the end and I’m just here like, wow, that wouldn’t be healthy at all. But we’re writing dark fantasies which are completely fictitious anyway; so that’s just part of the territory. And I’m sure you’ve already tagged out the wazoo so it is what it is, eh?
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The writer, but now that you mention it, maybe they should have boned or something, lol.
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Dude, I read this one blurb which went along the lines of “character X meets character Y, what happens next?” And BAM there were the tags telling us just that Oral and some fingering I believe… I felt so bad for the poor guy
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I think Mal mentioned that Alex has errr… Reasons, lol. I’d be interested to know what those are. My guy’s reasons were that he was under duress as well, and if he refused, he’d simply be made part of the harem and they’d get a newer, probably worse master (better the devil you know, eh?) so he was trying to keep everyone alive up until they had an opportunity to escape. I did intend to transition him to more of a romantic role; ie, he marries one of his old victims and stays friends with the rest, who understand why he did it. I am realizing that might be too idealistic now… I dunno if that reason’s good enough but that’s the one I got lol.
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FF.net gave me chronic commitment issues long before I got here T_T
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Literally the most perfect analogy, btw Anyyywayy, that’s not really your fault; writing gripping story blurbs is something even professionals struggle with. It’s an imprecise science and I’m the same way. Bad blurbs kill good stories fr.
