I’ve been giving this writing advice to a lot of my friends lately so I’ll do a mumbling post about it here.
You gotta play dolls with your characters.
Slap them in AUs, make silly fanfiction, make “what if?” senarios. You gotta recreate the feeling of taking your toys out as a kid and improv-ing a story on the spot. You’ll get a sense of what makes them who they are outside of their main storyline.
Take a piece of yourself, expand and explore upon it. Create characters and storylines that are love letters to those you’ve cared most about. Take that little ball of hate and/or despair and give yourself a little therapy lesson.
Be bored! Be frustrated! Be unsatisfied! “Someone should make a story about ___” YOU should make that story! If you aren’t satisfied with the media you see, make for yourself the story you DO want to see! Don’t worry about how others will view it. For right now, for right at the beginning, the only way you’re gonna make progress is if you’re having a bit of fun.
they need to invent clubbing for boring sober people who don’t like loud music or crowded group dancing. what’s the “she should be at the club” for this hypothetical not-me demographic.
roundup of various common suggestions in the notes:
“the library”: a nice space to hang, granted, but not really the same fun social vibes.
“the night-library that serves pink drinks and tea”: okay okay, now we’re cooking.
“coffee shop”: a bit more social and rambunctious than the average library, but still too plain imo.
“the museum”: still a tad too formal I feel like but definitely not opposed.
“the book club”: again, not opposed, but book clubs do have the catch of requiring you to plan ahead and do some homework to really enjoy it, not a very “I’m bored on a friday and want to go do something fun” activity.
“wine tasting”:
ALT
“dnd/ttrpg nights”: unfortunately I’m stupid and am bad at these games. I mean unfortunately these hypothetical people are stupid and bad at these games.
“arcades with cover fees at the door and then free games”: won’t even lie this sounds killer, gonna see if they have any of those in my area.
“babe the club is wherever you feel confident in yourself, life is a club and I’m just chilling at a bus stop”: beautiful. poetic. heart warming. she should be at the bus stop.
ALT
first good suggestion on this post in years, FINALLY true equality
high as fuck watching the neverending story and I think we need to give it more appreciation for being the only film I am aware of that takes the concept of The Narrative to its furthest conclusions and directly implies that you, the “real person” watching this movie, are also fictional and being watched from outside another story
remember when we were like ok surely the only sound narrative choice is resolving this love confession that they CHOSE to set up and then see to fruition. theyre gonna have to address that for there to be any real conclusion right?? And instead they gave dean a dog and he killed himself.
ALT
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