Tag: writer problems

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What I love about writers is how they know their characters at their fingertips??

What’s the character’s favorite word? They know

Do they start with the left or right foot when they lace their shoes? They know

What happened to them at 5:37 am on a sunday morning when they were 8? They know 

Writers are amazing

No we fucking don’t, we’re making this shit up as we go. Sometimes rereading previous chapter in a nervous sweat looking for something to expand because we’ve run out of new ideas and our muses are all standing around shrugging. I know what my characters will do when they do it, but up until it happens, no clue. I’m as surprised as you. For instance, I had no idea August was going to slam Brent’s hand down on the hot stove element. Then I shrieked out loud at the screen, “HOW COULD YOU?!”

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#SOME writers know this#I can assure you I do not

This. Characters can always surprise you. I have been known to hiss ‘you little shit!’ at the screen while typing.

I know probably 25% of facts about my characters ahead of time. The rest of it I pull out of my ass as I write. Writing is probably at least 75% bullshitting.

“No wait stop don’t do that.  No, I don’t want you to do that.  Please don’t do that.  Please I don’t want to have to rewrite that much plot….  Damnit….”

I have said that to my computer screen more than once.

Ok like when I write its either “oh ho ho I can’t wait to get to this little idea in my head” or “FUCKINGFUCKEDYFUCK” there is no in between. Sometimes I know something like that, such as their favorite colors but most of the time I dont even know if they like chocolate

I regularly discover things about my characters the moment before I type the words. Sometimes I sit down and figure things out through random thoughts or outside inspiration, but the rest of the time? As I’m typing. I particularly loved when one asked, “Even though I said no?” and I had NO FREAKING CLUE WHAT IT WAS HE’D SAID NO TO.

My original tags on this were:

“#john: velociraptor tamer pose and quiet distracting speech, #eric: launches himself out of the car screaming, #i: slam my head against the desk”

Eliza, dragging multiple people out of a flaming dumpster: I’m gonna befriend them

Me: Eliza…Eliza why…

Eliza: Some of them are my family now

Me: Who made you like this Eliza

(It’s me. I made her like this somehow.)

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Things I have said to myself while writing smut:

  • listen bub, i may not know what the hell I’m doin here but I cannot believe you haven’t grabbed her boobs yet
  • Wait. Wait, are your pants still on?? How in the ever-loving FUCK–
  • …I’m not sure that mean what I think it means.
  • All right, we got hands on hands on hands. Where all my hands at? Hand check, everybody!
  • someday im either going to have to make shit up or try something new, and I am not known for that second one.
  • But if I use this line here I can never use it again………
  • this is completely unrealistic. Someone says that to me and I will laugh in their face.
  • …I wonder if I can still salvage this if I make her laugh in his face
  • nope that totally killed the mood, the mood is cold and dead and decidedly un-sexy, go bACK
  • Is that … plot?? In MY PORN ?!??
  • I’m pretty sure people don’t bend that way. Or maybe it’s just me? Maybe I’m weird and everyone else bends that way.
  • *takes a six-hour-long crash course in anatomy to confirm that they do not, in fact, bend that way*
  • Oh hell, let’s just leave it at a blowjob and go get a snack.

In addition:

  • god i hope the ending writes itself because if i’m being honest with myself, i got nothin.
  • does my face look nonchalant enough to do this in public?
  • THINK ABOUT POLITICS
  • can anyone see my screen? what if I angle the screen this way, is that weird? ugh yes it’s totally weird everyone knows omg i can’t do this i have to go home
  • On the one hand, she deserves some good cunnilingus OK? but on the other hand I do not want to write it
  • *giggles* i can’t type that!
  • i HAVE to type that.
  • Let’s see, how many times have I used the word “cock”? …And how many times is acceptable?
  • I can’t even tell if this is hot anymore…
  • This is probably unrealistic but damn it, it’s my fantasy smut
  • What sort of warnings do I need to put on this?
  • Fuck I forgot she only has one arm!
  • Should I watch some porn for ideas? Yeah, I probably should.
  • Holy crap, people DO bend that way.
  • *blushing furiously*
  • Aw heck. Now I need to go take a cold shower.
  • alright just a quick sexy drabble
  • … well i didn’t expect 5,000 words of angst but, look at that