Give advice for new writers

[dummycake]

I don't know If that is the actual name, but it is a style of writing like you described. You become the character, so they are easier to write about. This is a type of writing style not everyone can do, but I also do it.

Like when Jared Leto mailed a decapitated pig's head to his producers?

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

I really like to write the habits of my characters. My MC has anxiety so she often does those things, you know? I don't know the word.
It's something we do but don't really pay attention, like tapping our feet, tapping on the table, etc.

Nervous tics, you mean? But yeah! I totally understand what you mean. It adds a bit of realism and heightens whatever emotion is currently going through the air.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Like when Jared Leto mailed a decapitated pig's head to his producers?

No

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

I don't know If that is the actual name, but it is a style of writing like you described. You become the character, so they are easier to write about. This is a type of writing style not everyone can do, but I also do it.

Ohhhhh!! Yup! Hi-five or method acting (?) buddies. I wonder why not everyone can do it...

 

[J_Chemist]

I don't know If that is the actual name, but it is a style of writing like you described. You become the character, so they are easier to write about. This is a type of writing style not everyone can do, but I also do it.

This is the style I utilize. Putting myself in the POV of my character, using their knowledgebase, and then solving the problem presented helps quite a bit. Especially when I'm stuck on figuring out what they may do next.

 

[dummycake]

Nervous tics, you mean? But yeah! I totally understand what you mean. It adds a bit of realism and heightens whatever emotion is currently going through the air.

Yes! I do that a lot, even when there's nothing happening. Like my character, I have the habit of biting my fingers when I'm writing or deciding something. Like I'm doing when I'm typing this.

 

[Succubiome]

LOL! It'd be really funny if I was, in fact, younger than you.
Anyway, random bit of general advice is to don your character's skin. Imagine yourself entering the world you wrote as your character, feeling the restrictions of the body you gave your MC, moving around with genuine wonder. Note down everything, every emotion you feel at every scene, and experience it with more vividness and realism than the real world itself. This will truly help write a world that will bring the reader with you. You need to cover how hands move around by moving yours within the world, how things feel to your touch, and how you react to touch. Are you pressing your fingers into your tender arm with stiff, frenetic scratches, or are you lightly squishing your skin with a comforting grip because you are embarrassed as all get out by a crush? Don't forget to cover how the world actually looks and make it impact the world. Buildings and how the MC describes them (negatively, positively, curiously, etc.) can influence how the reader sees their personality, flesh out the world, and increase culture. This stuff applies to the other three senses, but I think you got the gist.

Ooh!

I tend to inhabit personalities more than worlds by default... I could probably actually do with a little more practice on this.

Like when Jared Leto mailed a decapitated pig's head to his producers?

Not only writing advice, but general life advice: Don't be like Jared Leto.

 

[dummycake]

Don't be like Jared Leto.

I like the concept of his Joker but the execution is horrible

 

[whitewoman]

I started off as a DM, so I am quite used to writing.

Thats funny. I started off as a DM and all I'm used to is winging it.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Write.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Write.

based procrastinator's advice

 

[Rhaps]

Thats funny. I started off as a DM and all I'm used to is winging it.

Thats why my advice is "Fuck it we ball"

 

[C_A_D_M_U_S]

You can't satisfy everyone, some will like your story while other will don't like it that how the world work. You can't know before you try it.

Exactly

 

[RepresentingCaution]

For trending, you need to give my story a one-star review!

 

[dummycake]

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For trending, you need to give my story a one-star review!

I don't conform. I will start the five-stars revolution! You will not tell us what to do!!

Thanks for the quote btw it's really eye opening
A lot of people expect to just be good at something from the start.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

revolution

War is more like it . . . just wait a few more years until this kid stops sucking my nipples.

 

[dummycake]

War is more like it . . . just wait a few more years until this kid stops sucking my nipples.

War doesn't wait for nipples to stopped being sucked

 

[RepresentingCaution]

War doesn't wait for nipples to stopped being sucked

Where to you think the warriors come from in the first place?

 

[dummycake]

Where to you think the warriors come from in the first place?

They open the vagina with their bare hairy hands

 

[RepresentingCaution]

They open the vagina with their bare hairy hands