"Make it worse," One of my OCs started out as an antagonist in his story who joined forces with an evil power. Then he became a character more like a protagonist. Then I remembered him joining with the evil power is something that has to happen no matter what, so he became a fallen hero of sorts who is slowly ensnared by the consequences of self-sacrificial actions he grows to deeply regret.
When you come up with a good idea in the middle of the night, WRITE IT DOWN. One night I couldn't sleep, and ended up thinking of story ideas, and I thought of a great one. I ended up writing it down because I couldn't sleep anyways and I knew I would forget it in the morning, and now I have 26 pages of that comic! WRITE DOWN YOUR IDEAAAAASSSS I'VE PROBABLY FORGOTTEN HUNDREDS BY NOT WRITING THEM DOWN IT'S OKAY IF YOU LOSE A LITTLE SLEEP-
YESSSSSS Soon I’m going to need a new notebook that I can scribble in on the side of my bed, my current one is on its last pages. I set it aside as a notebook I can do anything in no matter how cringe or messy
2:55 Ok, but hear me out: tossing your characters into Tomodachi Life to see who they could fall in love, betray and end up hating is a valid strategy. As a bonus you get to know their favorite foods.
@@flakky55 Honestly, yeah. iirc there's been efforts to mod the game, hopefully it will be done one day. Either that or Nintendo stops being cowards and make a more inclusive sequel.
That one called me out hard. I have these two characters, one who’s had more thought put into their name than half my other characters had total, Volira, and then I also have, in the same world, Gene E. Who grants wishes
I absolutely love making pun names/having a character’s name contain a tiny easter egg. For example, one of my characters in my current work in progress is named Billy because his personality is very similar to one of my favorite Bill Murray performances, and the principal of the main characters’ high school shares the same last name as the person who created the franchise. I think my favorite “pun” name I came up with was for a character of mine that dreamed of being a stuntman. His name is Robert Kenny Vale. Robert “Kenieval”!
The RPG game Dragonfable is loaded with pun names. Oaklore's Knights of the Pactogonal Table is a mine in of itself. Sir Loin (sirloin) Sir Vivor (survivor) Sir Prize (surprise) And so on.
My manuscript has a Karen named Karen and a Mary Sue named Mary Sue. Final names, not placeholders. Both are reoccurring characters. Being able to name your characters is crazy.
I have a character named Poltro off of the word Poltroon which is the old English word for Coward. He’s quite literally named Coward. Also- what genre is this if I may ask?
@@lostinafieldofflowers Amazing! You may actually enjoy my book, then! It won’t be published for at least another year, but I posted an animated trailer for it last November!
2:17 I am not english native but my head is full of stories and ideas, but to scared to even post them online. There was this fanfic I loved and when it ended I felt so empty I started fantasizing at work 8 hours a day about a sequel of this fanfic. I actually forwarded my ideas to the author and they made a sequel of the story using my prompts. They thanked me in the notes at the end of each chapter "Thanks to [username] for all their help" and wrote tons of dms about the progression of the story or asking for new ideas. The cherry on top was when I was listed as second writer in the sequel once it was finished. It has been years, but we still on the same fandom, and sometimes they message me asking for prompts/ideas for new chapters on different stories/upcoming stories.
peak writer ambiance is listening to this while not fooling yourself into believing you'll actually stop procrastinating. I am the writer that never writes stories but only writes characters because they beg to exist constantly ->-
Writing what I want to read is so accurate. There's a fandom that I'm in that is starved for fanfiction (there's also a fandom I'm in that has like 0 fandom at all) so I write what I would want to see.
There's a game I like called Sea of Stars and while a lot of people talk about the game on Reddit, there's not really any fanfics or anything so me and my friends on Scratch have ended up creating most of the fandom XD
I wanna read fluffy AkiToya royalty fanfics without blood and death and gore and I can barely find any 😭 but I’m not exactly starved for content in general I guess
I’ve seen several research memes “it was for a book! I swear!” and let’s just say I know how to take care of a knife wound, how part of the law system works, the Japanese school system and various medical conditions
me killing off one of my characters, not writing anything for 3 months, then having the next chapter end with him waking up in hell just to make the reader hate me so much they need to read the rest of the story
The neurodivergent urge to info dump about my Marvel X Ninjago X South Park X Arrowverse X Lego Friends Crossover AU that I know I'll probably never write into an actual fanfic is very high rn
Yes. Writing what i want to read. Like Tarzan but raised on another planet by various space aliens from different scifi movies. And he fights the Ro-Man from Robot Monster
7:41 Oh… oh no. I can’t write villains, I just write extremely screwed up characters all the time and give them cannon fodder of somehow even more screwed up characters, like I’m writing an episode of Law and Order.
the one at around 3:52 is SO true. it was literally beaten into me in elementary that every paragraph should have at least 5 sentences but i'm trying to get over that habit because it ends up making my writing look like my thoughts were given form via the thinly veiled disguise of an essay
I try to approach paragraphs like thought blurbs. Their central concept should be connected or lead into the next paragraph, but other than that they should only be as long as the idea needs to be and can be cut up into smaller paragraphs or sentences for effect. Experiment maybe?
My main character is so deeply traumatized that we as the readers barely get to see any of his actual personality for the majority of his early "screen time." He's constantly in survival mode and acts feral, never speaking and instead living mute due to the specifics of what happened to him. Even his facial expressions are generally very controlled, with a blank/exhausted look acting as the default when he isn't either growling at people or grieving in private. It gets better and the majority of his story is about healing, but so far I have only actually written/drawn concept art for the happier, later parts of his tale because it's genuinely hard to stomach putting his backstory on paper in any artistic medium. Did I mention that said character is a thirteen-year-old child when we first meet him? I'm out here traumatizing this boy more than Rick Riordan traumatized Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.
1:10 Hot damn this meme spoke to me.. I had a character who was only "intended" to be a one-off throwaway character.. but his thematics and thought processes was something which I found myself wanting to explore and write about so kept him around. But turned out he was ridiculously OP... and the next two years of writing was issues being caused by him or someone following him... and solved by him or someone following him.. I tried to nerf him multiple times, but nothing stuck and he went back to being a narrative problem every time. So eventually.. I made the decision for them to ascend and become a god, removing them from the plotline and "essentially" killing them off... But also making a religion around them which a bunch of other people follow, just without the narrative warping powers and problems.
The "writing what i want to read" one is SO TRUE because in addition to generally being in Rarepair Hell TM I'm also in smaller fandoms with very few fics to begin with Also sometimes I get a very specific idea of something I want but even the broadest search finds nothing even close
2:43 Me, removing half the smut scenes from my smut WIP and adding scenes to show how my protagonist easily solves the problems accurately but still doubts herself, as her reality has been totally shattered and despite how much she doesn’t want to admit it she can’t trust those closest to her at all. I swear I will be able to share it in a few more months of this process. It’s at 25000 words right now, I just need to cut a little here and there and then flesh out different portions.
7:13 PSA: "Affect" is the verb. It's the doing-things word. You can affect something, or be affected. "Effect" is the noun, the thing itself. You can be hit by a status effect, or think about the effect of something. Sometimes it can help to see if you can swap in the word "influence" for affect, and "result" for effect! Though that's not a perfect rule of course. (:
7:20 Loosey-goosey version: Affect = thing happens to other thing (thing is burned by fire = fire affects thing) Effect = the thing that happens (fire burns thing = fire's effect on thing)
9:18 I've actually had a similar experience I've held onto for a while. I wrote a fic for a fairly rare pairing in my fandom not a lot of people ship and one of the first comments I got on it was "you just made me like this ship, like I get it now." I think that is the most active impact I have ever had on a reader.
When someone calls your fic their favorite with a certain pairing... A decade ago someone said i wrote the best Merlin/Freya fics. I still think about that sweet comment every god damn day of my life! 😭
1:00 I have GOT to kill off this one character because man will NOT stop manipulating MY PLOT which fits SO WELL WITH HIS CHARACTER ITS INSANE edit: I should mention I’ve already killed him once but he wrote himself back into the story
Best way to tell the difference between affect and effect: the root of the word affection is affect. It's not effection, it's affection. Boom, now you'll never mix them up.
6:24 Is so true for me. I’ll make up the plot as I go, but I better get every minute detail about this one guy’s rifle correct! And yet I still make mistakes. Sigh.
1:19 Me realizing that I can make a character (who was, at the point of this flashback, seven years old) watch his four-year-old sister die in front of him and no one can stop me.
Ugh same! Tho I feel afraid and ashamed by wanting to write it, Is that wrong? Probably. I really wanna do a story about my two OC's Anthony (Loner) and Cottonstorm (Stormclan medicine cat). The urge is overwhelming and I end up not writing at all 😭
I've looked up if drinking was legal in Yemen in 1949 (it's restricted to hotels only in said country) for a passing line in a story. I'm a writing and publishing major so I go deep into research rabbit holes
Sometimes dreams make excellent inspiration for writing, like I'll dream up concepts I would've never consciously come to. I really hope one day we can make records of our dreams as videos because sometimes the imagery, detail, and scenarios are so wild but when I wake up I only recall bits and pieces :'(
1:18 It can’t just be that my character was the leader of a vigilante group to take down trafficking rings as a kid, but now HE WAS ALSO KIDNAPPED BY ONE OF THE CULTS ONE TIME BUT THE VIGILANTE GROUP BROKE HIM OUT😂😂 4:07 Deepest apologies to the characters that I’d put in the WIP in my head, but didn’t have time to add in so now they’re confined to The Dialogueless Flashbacks until further notice😭😭😭😭😭😭
4:50 yes!!! this is me with everything!!!!! literally, I was about to play stardew for the first time in a while and had to make ANOTHERRR save to play in bc I was too scared I’d screw up my main-, then realized “wait no- I’m fine wth” which tbh is smth I recommend (starting a new one for a bit) if you get that feeling because either-, a: you’ll realize you’re fine and do what you ACTUALLY want to do b: you werent fine- but you’ll get back into the groove and then do what you want c: not realize you’re fine and end up with a cool new bonus writing anyways sorry for rambling lol-, this is longer than I thought it was but eh.
I watch this channel to get inspiration to work on my fanfic. does it works? yes! sometimes.. ok, no. but its nice to know everyone else has the same struggles
the hard magic system one (7:48) is literally how i ended up making a hard magic system. it works totally down to vibes- but these specific vibes in these specific circumstances.
My mother's friend group in highschool got together because of Eskaflowne, and all of them wrote fics at some point. The fics evolved and became fanfiction of other group member's stories, slowly building a whole other world and plot. My mother marched across the street to yell at her friend when she found out that her love interest had been killed off 😂
I remember radomly wake up at the 3am, because I got idea how to foreshadow my characters trial to delete themselves. Since I didnt have any notebook near me, I just recorded the voice message, in which I whisper this idea. few days after I re-listen to that recording and wrote it in annotation on Google documents, to not lost it
yknow, this is giving me the motivation to write down all the detaild avout my OCs so i can hopefully flesh then out more and just not forget stuff. i have laid in bed trying to think of the perfect name for a dude in my head instead of going to sleep only to _not fucking remember it_ when i wake up and oh m god if it isnt one of the most FRUSTRATING THINGS- (edit bc i forgot to add it: it has happened more than once.)
if anyone wants to know the different stages of one of the OCs I want to info dump(?) rn so just say the word and I'll do it side note: my writing might not be the clearest cause I tend to write how I speak when im not writing anything of significance
@@itsgirlcraft5842 he started out as my main save slot in a roblox game called world of magic (now called arcane odyssey) and he used to be a she (so ig, technically speaking, he is trans by definition, but that is not canon.) and I chose the name Ares when making the slot, not knowing it was the name of a God. I just liked how it sounded. prolly wouldn't'a chose it of i had known but im too far along to change it now (it has been years). the original ares was much different from present day. the main difference is that she had a last name (auto generated) (it was Rust if ur wondering). i consider the roblox version to be an alternate universe cause there are more differences that I'd have to go on a tangent to explain. anyhow- when I finally noticed (albeit a little too late- puberty reasons) that "hey.... I dont really feel like a girl... I dont feel like anything 🤔" I gender swapped him cause fuck it why not, let's experiment. anyways it kinda stuck and I added on to his lore over time, eventually giving him a partner (that im not sure if ill just change to a best friend or not) and then I rediscovered SCPs. at first I wanted him to be an MTF but i changed my mind because it would allow me to add more depth to his character and it just made a bit more sense given his past. ANYWAYS, now he's a doctor and blah blah im embarrassed to share any more about him. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. (also the other character i mentioned did end up staying an MTF, simply because: hell yeah! tactical gear! His lore isn't as developed, as Ares has been my favourite since the start lmao)
Having semi-sentient characters is rough, but most of mine are all in one fic which is why it’s on hiatus rn One of them is an oc named Dennis who spawned in of his own volition. I needed a character to have a coworker at the café he works at I did not name him Dennis. I looked over my paragraph, realized I had for some reason called him Dennis, and then he told the character he had a sister. I DID NOT GIVE HIM A SISTER
10:12 happened to me.. i love how the comment at the current end of the draft is "hopefully i dont abandon this" -its been 3 months since i last contiuned it-
i recently had to carve out a CHUNK of one of my fics because i relised it wasn't fitting with the plot like one character is supposed to be a plot twist, the main character (his brother) thinks he's dead but he's not and he's is this other character but no one know, and i wrote a big bit form the perspective of the hidden character and i should not of cause he' suppose to be plot twist and i somehow! FORGOT that!...... so my day is going great
I have to say if you experience 2:15 you should ask! I had it happen to me years ago (probably over a decade at this point) and it's still honestly the highlight of my time writing, its kind of a cool feeling to have someone want to write about your fanfic and it just may give the person "giddy leg wiggle" feeling.
My fix to magic systems in my setting is to have some characters do whatever they want while others have to follow very specific rules that they'll explain but never describe in detail so it remains vague
7:20 every time i need to use affect/effect i have to pause and think of which one is right. as far as i know (and the rule i usually go by) is affect is verb, effect is noun. so if ur wanting to verb conjugate u use affect. affected, affecting. the effect, an effect.
9:04 I write very long chapters, each chapter is *at least* 5000 words, so for me, 10000 words is only 2 chapters, even then, writing 10000 words is a seriously big accomplishment for me
I don't really make fanfic, but I do write. I run a semi-gimmick tumblr blog, roleplaying as a Fallout 4 custom protag who's a damn DJ from the midwest. So, I relate heavily. Especially because while making him I accidentally made his face look like the Gigachad meme and now I feel like he's really cringe.
9:22 I KID YOU NOT THE SECOND COMMENT I EVER GOT ON ANY OF MY FICS WAS SOMEONE TELLING ME THAT I WAS THE GOAT OF THAT SHIP’S FANDOM!! I haven’t stopped thinking about it even though it was back in September
9:46 Actually, It was always there lol I have this little thing called maladaptive daydreaming since I was a child, it just so happened that I started to use it to imagine characters I liked before going to sleep and, one day, I decided to put that on a paper and things just derailed from there on.
2:19 MEE SO MEE. I’ve done this so many times. I love some fics that the highest honor I can give to them is writing a fanfic about them. I’ve never felt more seen in my life. 3:30 also me, I cope with my anxiety through writing. 6:07 so me 😭, I used to have the best dreams and I never remembered them when I woke up. 10:10 - ok I could annotate this entire thing. Sometimes I can’t believe I can write good at all 😭, and the post after it was also very needed. Rereading my work is so comforting.
Fun fact: on a roleplay discord I’m in we had to write a contract to legally prohibit a member from giving her character MORE trauma because she has like 25 layers of trauma already and wanted to ADD MORE?!
As someone who’s been tempted to write fanfiction for a game AU that I love on Tumblr, the post about wanting to write a fanfic about a fanfic hits wayyyy too hard 😂😔
The way I got into writing was this random girl in 3rd grade who I frankly didn't even like said to me "You could be a writer one day." and I took it and *ran*
7:40 for me it’s 4,000 words because I made the horrible mistake of blacking out for 4 hours right when I started writing on the very first day and wrote 4K words in those 4 hours and if I don’t regret it every day
2:13 - 2:28 I sorta apply to this, I'm a fan of a TH-cam channel with it's own lore thanks to their headcannons and Tomodachi Life Let's Play that I think is SO good that I have indeed came up with a fanfic about it (I even thought of it at like midnight) but I just haven't actually wrote it down anywhere because my writing is crappy and I know it, so I just fantasize the story in my head instead and use this opportunity to watch the Let's Plays they have even if I'm not truly interested in the game they're playing, I've created so many inside jokes in this little fanfiction that I can't actually share with them because I want this fanfiction to be a me only thing, I won't even post this to my channel, this is for the soul reason that I feel they're fans would see it as an insult to their lore that was basically perfect I thought of the idea a week ago, spending the whole weekend watching their Let's Plays to fantasize the whole thing in my head, and it's concept is still only known or heard of in my head, nobody knows the the story except me I think this mainly comes from the fact the lore includes OCs that one of them plans to use for some actual published books (I guess I'm just afraid of it being an insult to those OCs) I have recently decided I'll still write this in a Google Docs page because, you can write something down and still keep it to yourself
"Make it worse," One of my OCs started out as an antagonist in his story who joined forces with an evil power. Then he became a character more like a protagonist. Then I remembered him joining with the evil power is something that has to happen no matter what, so he became a fallen hero of sorts who is slowly ensnared by the consequences of self-sacrificial actions he grows to deeply regret.
0:12 Three genres: “oh sorry English isn’t my first language so please forgive the errors” *creates the best freaking fic I’ve ever read*
When you come up with a good idea in the middle of the night, WRITE IT DOWN. One night I couldn't sleep, and ended up thinking of story ideas, and I thought of a great one. I ended up writing it down because I couldn't sleep anyways and I knew I would forget it in the morning, and now I have 26 pages of that comic! WRITE DOWN YOUR IDEAAAAASSSS I'VE PROBABLY FORGOTTEN HUNDREDS BY NOT WRITING THEM DOWN IT'S OKAY IF YOU LOSE A LITTLE SLEEP-
I second this!!
i third this (also the pfp is goated)
@@HyonkTea hehe thanks-
haha stupid lamp man. Can't even take a waterfall in a fight
YESSSSSS
Soon I’m going to need a new notebook that I can scribble in on the side of my bed, my current one is on its last pages. I set it aside as a notebook I can do anything in no matter how cringe or messy
2:55 Ok, but hear me out: tossing your characters into Tomodachi Life to see who they could fall in love, betray and end up hating is a valid strategy. As a bonus you get to know their favorite foods.
Guilty as charged
I FELT THIS OMG tbh me and my brother lost our copy somewhere we don’t know where it is 😔
Too bad its so difficult to make nonstraight ships
@@flakky55 Honestly, yeah. iirc there's been efforts to mod the game, hopefully it will be done one day. Either that or Nintendo stops being cowards and make a more inclusive sequel.
I love Tomodachi life!!!!!!!
If Ace Attorney can make hilarious pun names, then so can you
Which makes reading Ace Attorney fanfics even more fun for me!
Ø(couldn't find naught symbol) IVL
Naught-ee-vil
Her name is "not evil"
That one called me out hard.
I have these two characters, one who’s had more thought put into their name than half my other characters had total, Volira, and then I also have, in the same world, Gene E. Who grants wishes
I absolutely love making pun names/having a character’s name contain a tiny easter egg. For example, one of my characters in my current work in progress is named Billy because his personality is very similar to one of my favorite Bill Murray performances, and the principal of the main characters’ high school shares the same last name as the person who created the franchise. I think my favorite “pun” name I came up with was for a character of mine that dreamed of being a stuntman. His name is Robert Kenny Vale. Robert “Kenieval”!
The RPG game Dragonfable is loaded with pun names. Oaklore's Knights of the Pactogonal Table is a mine in of itself.
Sir Loin (sirloin)
Sir Vivor (survivor)
Sir Prize (surprise)
And so on.
My manuscript has a Karen named Karen and a Mary Sue named Mary Sue. Final names, not placeholders. Both are reoccurring characters. Being able to name your characters is crazy.
I have a character named Poltro off of the word Poltroon which is the old English word for Coward. He’s quite literally named Coward.
Also- what genre is this if I may ask?
@@lostinafieldofflowers Believe it or not, it’s a sci-fi.
@@rowan404 Somehow, as a contemporary Sci-Fi lover, I have no trouble believing that.
@@lostinafieldofflowers Amazing! You may actually enjoy my book, then! It won’t be published for at least another year, but I posted an animated trailer for it last November!
@@lostinafieldofflowers Amazing! You may actually enjoy my novel, then! Too bad it won’t be ready for publication until at least a year from now…
2:17 I am not english native but my head is full of stories and ideas, but to scared to even post them online.
There was this fanfic I loved and when it ended I felt so empty I started fantasizing at work 8 hours a day about a sequel of this fanfic.
I actually forwarded my ideas to the author and they made a sequel of the story using my prompts.
They thanked me in the notes at the end of each chapter "Thanks to [username] for all their help" and wrote tons of dms about the progression of the story or asking for new ideas.
The cherry on top was when I was listed as second writer in the sequel once it was finished.
It has been years, but we still on the same fandom, and sometimes they message me asking for prompts/ideas for new chapters on different stories/upcoming stories.
That is so awesome! 😃
that's awesome!
This sounds like a dream. A beautiful wonderful dream come true!! You're lucky.
that’s SOO COOL I LOVE THAT
00:12 "You take the sad guy in, you take the sad guy out, you take the sad guy in, and you shake him all about!"
Why does this comment single handedly explain my OC lore in a nutshell 🙏🙏
peak fanfic writer ambiance is listening to this while writing your next chapter
peak fanfic writer ambiance id listening to this while pretending to write your next chapter
peak writer ambiance is listening to this while not fooling yourself into believing you'll actually stop procrastinating.
I am the writer that never writes stories but only writes characters because they beg to exist constantly ->-
I was watching this while playing Pokémon Violet and thinking of ideas. I caught a shiny Tropius!!!
Writing what I want to read is so accurate. There's a fandom that I'm in that is starved for fanfiction (there's also a fandom I'm in that has like 0 fandom at all) so I write what I would want to see.
Honey ALL the fics in my current fandom except for a short one shot written in like 2021 are by me.
There's a game I like called Sea of Stars and while a lot of people talk about the game on Reddit, there's not really any fanfics or anything so me and my friends on Scratch have ended up creating most of the fandom XD
SAME. Like half of my drafts are all from the same fandom because there isn't any content and I'm STARVING.
I wanna read fluffy AkiToya royalty fanfics without blood and death and gore and I can barely find any 😭 but I’m not exactly starved for content in general I guess
This is so real😊
I’ve seen several research memes “it was for a book! I swear!” and let’s just say I know how to take care of a knife wound, how part of the law system works, the Japanese school system and various medical conditions
Also it’s my birthday today so this is nice
@@ZhavariHappy birthday Zhavari! 🎉🎉
@Zhavari
Happy birthday! Hope you have a good day!!
Thank you!!
Happy birthday! 🎂🎈
me killing off one of my characters, not writing anything for 3 months, then having the next chapter end with him waking up in hell just to make the reader hate me so much they need to read the rest of the story
The neurodivergent urge to info dump about my Marvel X Ninjago X South Park X Arrowverse X Lego Friends Crossover AU that I know I'll probably never write into an actual fanfic is very high rn
7:22 affect is a verb, and effect is a noun, as in "this is how it affected me" vs. "it had this effect"
Effect is also a verb but affect works better so as not to confuse people
@ oh cool i didn't know that!
As a librarian I can confirm that post about the YA book covers is absolutely true.
Yes. Writing what i want to read.
Like Tarzan but raised on another planet by various space aliens from different scifi movies.
And he fights the Ro-Man from Robot Monster
Julian Etsicitty from The Deathworlders
(though it takes a heckin' long time for the story to get there)
(like a million words)
This is just my Pinterest recommended.
You should consider reading Pinterest comments, they come straight from hell.
I almost got banned from pinterest lmaoo
@@THATBrokeAroSpecWallet How?
OKAY BUT LITERALLY. I GOT CALLED A PROSHIPPER FOR NOT BELIEVING A MATPAT THEORY 😭
if yiu happen to see anyone named erm... what the frick . hello . haii
@@amaryllis5620 Please explain, that is quite the jump.
7:41 Oh… oh no. I can’t write villains, I just write extremely screwed up characters all the time and give them cannon fodder of somehow even more screwed up characters, like I’m writing an episode of Law and Order.
5:10 Pro-tip:Write the scenes you want to write and connect them all with more scenes. It's legal and no one can stop you.
BEST FUCKIN TIPE IVE HEARD TYSM
This actually might just help me. Thanks a million!
(now I just have to figure out what the heck kind of plot would make all these scenes happen)
As long as the string and glue is solid enough
Affect is what effect evolves to in order to deal more direct damage. Affect is used more as a verb, effect more as a noun.
You are my hero
Glad to see I've been using it correctly
I don’t need AI for ideas when I have trauma ✨
Alternative title: The internet calls me out for 11 minutes and 11 seconds
I’m guessing you’re not a Patreon lol
Same here
the one at around 3:52 is SO true. it was literally beaten into me in elementary that every paragraph should have at least 5 sentences but i'm trying to get over that habit because it ends up making my writing look like my thoughts were given form via the thinly veiled disguise of an essay
I try to approach paragraphs like thought blurbs. Their central concept should be connected or lead into the next paragraph, but other than that they should only be as long as the idea needs to be and can be cut up into smaller paragraphs or sentences for effect. Experiment maybe?
My main character is so deeply traumatized that we as the readers barely get to see any of his actual personality for the majority of his early "screen time."
He's constantly in survival mode and acts feral, never speaking and instead living mute due to the specifics of what happened to him.
Even his facial expressions are generally very controlled, with a blank/exhausted look acting as the default when he isn't either growling at people or grieving in private.
It gets better and the majority of his story is about healing, but so far I have only actually written/drawn concept art for the happier, later parts of his tale because it's genuinely hard to stomach putting his backstory on paper in any artistic medium.
Did I mention that said character is a thirteen-year-old child when we first meet him?
I'm out here traumatizing this boy more than Rick Riordan traumatized Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.
dam, worse than Tartarus is quite a feat
1:10 Hot damn this meme spoke to me.. I had a character who was only "intended" to be a one-off throwaway character.. but his thematics and thought processes was something which I found myself wanting to explore and write about so kept him around.
But turned out he was ridiculously OP... and the next two years of writing was issues being caused by him or someone following him... and solved by him or someone following him.. I tried to nerf him multiple times, but nothing stuck and he went back to being a narrative problem every time.
So eventually.. I made the decision for them to ascend and become a god, removing them from the plotline and "essentially" killing them off... But also making a religion around them which a bunch of other people follow, just without the narrative warping powers and problems.
The "writing what i want to read" one is SO TRUE because in addition to generally being in Rarepair Hell TM I'm also in smaller fandoms with very few fics to begin with
Also sometimes I get a very specific idea of something I want but even the broadest search finds nothing even close
2:43 Me, removing half the smut scenes from my smut WIP and adding scenes to show how my protagonist easily solves the problems accurately but still doubts herself, as her reality has been totally shattered and despite how much she doesn’t want to admit it she can’t trust those closest to her at all. I swear I will be able to share it in a few more months of this process. It’s at 25000 words right now, I just need to cut a little here and there and then flesh out different portions.
7:13 PSA: "Affect" is the verb. It's the doing-things word. You can affect something, or be affected. "Effect" is the noun, the thing itself. You can be hit by a status effect, or think about the effect of something.
Sometimes it can help to see if you can swap in the word "influence" for affect, and "result" for effect! Though that's not a perfect rule of course. (:
This channel is where I come to feel vindicated. Thank you.
I watch it to feel a little less weird about myself
Trying to figure out how to make two characters trust each other and the merging two ideas into one-
_I felt those in my soul_
7:20 Loosey-goosey version:
Affect = thing happens to other thing (thing is burned by fire = fire affects thing)
Effect = the thing that happens (fire burns thing = fire's effect on thing)
4:05 listen i haven't gotten to the point where the dude who was forced to record gore for a crime syndicate is relevant yet
This 1:18 is so true like my oc could be making toast and I will still think of the most horrifying and traumatic way that they could make that toast
9:18 I've actually had a similar experience I've held onto for a while. I wrote a fic for a fairly rare pairing in my fandom not a lot of people ship and one of the first comments I got on it was "you just made me like this ship, like I get it now."
I think that is the most active impact I have ever had on a reader.
Me sending my wip to my friend to be concerned about
When someone calls your fic their favorite with a certain pairing... A decade ago someone said i wrote the best Merlin/Freya fics. I still think about that sweet comment every god damn day of my life! 😭
1:00 I have GOT to kill off this one character because man will NOT stop manipulating MY PLOT which fits SO WELL WITH HIS CHARACTER ITS INSANE
edit: I should mention I’ve already killed him once but he wrote himself back into the story
You know you've written good characters when they start doing their own thing.
Now you have to write an alternate version of the story where he actually takes control by breaking the fourth wall Deadpool syle.
Best way to tell the difference between affect and effect: the root of the word affection is affect. It's not effection, it's affection. Boom, now you'll never mix them up.
4:05
Nah, what you should do is put all of them in one place and see what happens.
I mean, that's how Gumball was initially made/pitched.
6:24 Is so true for me. I’ll make up the plot as I go, but I better get every minute detail about this one guy’s rifle correct!
And yet I still make mistakes. Sigh.
Affect is a verb (an *action* ).
Effect is a noun (the *end* result).
I recognize that this is minimally helpful but it’s all I got.
0:30 One of my friends named a character for a writing assignment “Jules” like the energy measurement.
0:35
This was ghostwritten by Ghost and Pals. I see you and your Christopher Pierre, aka Chris. P
chris p bacon!!!
ghost fan spotted/pos
norman minecraft
1:19 Me realizing that I can make a character (who was, at the point of this flashback, seven years old) watch his four-year-old sister die in front of him and no one can stop me.
lol I accidentally paused the video at 1:39 and I thought that was just intentional silence for comedic effect
the writers URGE to explain all of my twisted Warrior Cat oc's stories like fucking USDGBWNASHYWDNASWD
Ugh same! Tho I feel afraid and ashamed by wanting to write it, Is that wrong? Probably. I really wanna do a story about my two OC's Anthony (Loner) and Cottonstorm (Stormclan medicine cat). The urge is overwhelming and I end up not writing at all 😭
@@unidentified_flying_possum fr thoo... I have WAY too many ocs and SO LITTLE TIME TO WRITE AB THEM...
examples cuz yes
@@CYB3R_T1G3R Ooo :0
@@CYB3R_T1G3RI love these names ❤
I have found my people
@@CYB3R_T1G3R love the names
1:18 the story of my 2nd last ttrpg character except the GM did the worsening
1:24 literally me
Same
2:04 I am an amaturish game dev and this is basically my current project
Love you. And specially your tumblr-videos about writing.
Thank you so much 💛 I really appreciate that! Love you too!
I feel aggressively called out by this video
1:21 is so real
I've looked up if drinking was legal in Yemen in 1949 (it's restricted to hotels only in said country) for a passing line in a story. I'm a writing and publishing major so I go deep into research rabbit holes
Affect: F around
Effect: Find out
Is what I've been told, anyways.
Sometimes dreams make excellent inspiration for writing, like I'll dream up concepts I would've never consciously come to. I really hope one day we can make records of our dreams as videos because sometimes the imagery, detail, and scenarios are so wild but when I wake up I only recall bits and pieces :'(
Sameeeeeee! I once had a dream that turned out to be literally a rehash of one of my fic's plot points lmao
1:18 It can’t just be that my character was the leader of a vigilante group to take down trafficking rings as a kid, but now HE WAS ALSO KIDNAPPED BY ONE OF THE CULTS ONE TIME BUT THE VIGILANTE GROUP BROKE HIM OUT😂😂
4:07 Deepest apologies to the characters that I’d put in the WIP in my head, but didn’t have time to add in so now they’re confined to The Dialogueless Flashbacks until further notice😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’m watching these while I procrastinate writing my fanfic
4:50 yes!!! this is me with everything!!!!!
literally, I was about to play stardew for the first time in a while and had to make ANOTHERRR save to play in bc I was too scared I’d screw up my main-, then realized “wait no- I’m fine wth”
which tbh is smth I recommend (starting a new one for a bit) if you get that feeling because either-,
a: you’ll realize you’re fine and do what you ACTUALLY want to do
b: you werent fine- but you’ll get back into the groove and then do what you want
c: not realize you’re fine and end up with a cool new bonus writing
anyways sorry for rambling lol-, this is longer than I thought it was but eh.
I watch this channel to get inspiration to work on my fanfic. does it works?
yes!
sometimes..
ok, no.
but its nice to know everyone else has the same struggles
the hard magic system one (7:48) is literally how i ended up making a hard magic system. it works totally down to vibes- but these specific vibes in these specific circumstances.
5:19 yes, absolutely 😂
me. All of this
(The difference between affect and effect is effect is like particle effect and affect is like “the punch affected him”)
Me with my writing whether fanfiction or something original: Hunger games simulator-nah
Miitopia Switch-yeah, that's my jam!
My mother's friend group in highschool got together because of Eskaflowne, and all of them wrote fics at some point. The fics evolved and became fanfiction of other group member's stories, slowly building a whole other world and plot. My mother marched across the street to yell at her friend when she found out that her love interest had been killed off 😂
I remember radomly wake up at the 3am, because I got idea how to foreshadow my characters trial to delete themselves.
Since I didnt have any notebook near me, I just recorded the voice message, in which I whisper this idea.
few days after I re-listen to that recording and wrote it in annotation on Google documents, to not lost it
the pain of using page and text color to indicate pov knowing the detail will be lost when the chapter is taken out of its .odt file
I barely write yet I still find half of this relatable. Soon I will be one of y'all.
1:25 I felt that-
Jokes aside, as a writer, lots of these are relatable. Especially the ones related to characters.
yknow, this is giving me the motivation to write down all the detaild avout my OCs so i can hopefully flesh then out more and just not forget stuff.
i have laid in bed trying to think of the perfect name for a dude in my head instead of going to sleep only to _not fucking remember it_ when i wake up and oh m god if it isnt one of the most FRUSTRATING THINGS-
(edit bc i forgot to add it: it has happened more than once.)
if anyone wants to know the different stages of one of the OCs I want to info dump(?) rn so just say the word and I'll do it
side note: my writing might not be the clearest cause I tend to write how I speak when im not writing anything of significance
@@eatinglint infodumpppp plssss
@@itsgirlcraft5842 ok
@@itsgirlcraft5842 he started out as my main save slot in a roblox game called world of magic (now called arcane odyssey) and he used to be a she (so ig, technically speaking, he is trans by definition, but that is not canon.) and I chose the name Ares when making the slot, not knowing it was the name of a God. I just liked how it sounded. prolly wouldn't'a chose it of i had known but im too far along to change it now (it has been years). the original ares was much different from present day. the main difference is that she had a last name (auto generated) (it was Rust if ur wondering). i consider the roblox version to be an alternate universe cause there are more differences that I'd have to go on a tangent to explain. anyhow- when I finally noticed (albeit a little too late- puberty reasons) that "hey.... I dont really feel like a girl... I dont feel like anything 🤔" I gender swapped him cause fuck it why not, let's experiment. anyways it kinda stuck and I added on to his lore over time, eventually giving him a partner (that im not sure if ill just change to a best friend or not) and then I rediscovered SCPs. at first I wanted him to be an MTF but i changed my mind because it would allow me to add more depth to his character and it just made a bit more sense given his past. ANYWAYS, now he's a doctor and blah blah im embarrassed to share any more about him. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
(also the other character i mentioned did end up staying an MTF, simply because: hell yeah! tactical gear! His lore isn't as developed, as Ares has been my favourite since the start lmao)
@eatinglint noiceeeee
More people should name ocs after gods ngl
That first one forgets my favorite genre: OC does his/her own separate story in the same world.
1:19 One must imagine ocs actually having a normal life rather than just a trauma-filled shitfest that would cause a normal person to off themselves.
I love it when they take that guy out of situations, they're my favorite
Having semi-sentient characters is rough, but most of mine are all in one fic which is why it’s on hiatus rn
One of them is an oc named Dennis who spawned in of his own volition. I needed a character to have a coworker at the café he works at
I did not name him Dennis. I looked over my paragraph, realized I had for some reason called him Dennis, and then he told the character he had a sister.
I DID NOT GIVE HIM A SISTER
10:12 happened to me.. i love how the comment at the current end of the draft is "hopefully i dont abandon this" -its been 3 months since i last contiuned it-
i recently had to carve out a CHUNK of one of my fics because i relised it wasn't fitting with the plot like one character is supposed to be a plot twist, the main character (his brother) thinks he's dead but he's not and he's is this other character but no one know, and i wrote a big bit form the perspective of the hidden character and i should not of cause he' suppose to be plot twist and i somehow! FORGOT that!...... so my day is going great
I have to say if you experience 2:15 you should ask! I had it happen to me years ago (probably over a decade at this point) and it's still honestly the highlight of my time writing, its kind of a cool feeling to have someone want to write about your fanfic and it just may give the person "giddy leg wiggle" feeling.
08:06
My magic systems (plural) come from shape shifting aliens and PDR
(Plot device radiation)
Yay more Joey!
My fix to magic systems in my setting is to have some characters do whatever they want while others have to follow very specific rules that they'll explain but never describe in detail so it remains vague
wanna get into writing but every time I try I just end up with a list of bugs
7:20 every time i need to use affect/effect i have to pause and think of which one is right. as far as i know (and the rule i usually go by) is affect is verb, effect is noun. so if ur wanting to verb conjugate u use affect. affected, affecting. the effect, an effect.
Me coming up with an entire world and then just leaving the fic as a one-shot.
9:04 I write very long chapters, each chapter is *at least* 5000 words, so for me, 10000 words is only 2 chapters, even then, writing 10000 words is a seriously big accomplishment for me
I don't really make fanfic, but I do write. I run a semi-gimmick tumblr blog, roleplaying as a Fallout 4 custom protag who's a damn DJ from the midwest. So, I relate heavily. Especially because while making him I accidentally made his face look like the Gigachad meme and now I feel like he's really cringe.
9:22 I KID YOU NOT THE SECOND COMMENT I EVER GOT ON ANY OF MY FICS WAS SOMEONE TELLING ME THAT I WAS THE GOAT OF THAT SHIP’S FANDOM!! I haven’t stopped thinking about it even though it was back in September
9:46 Actually, It was always there lol I have this little thing called maladaptive daydreaming since I was a child, it just so happened that I started to use it to imagine characters I liked before going to sleep and, one day, I decided to put that on a paper and things just derailed from there on.
i am mentally doing horrible but these videos make me feel a bit better thank you
omg my post is at 5:17, the way i g a s p e d
2:19 MEE SO MEE. I’ve done this so many times. I love some fics that the highest honor I can give to them is writing a fanfic about them. I’ve never felt more seen in my life. 3:30 also me, I cope with my anxiety through writing. 6:07 so me 😭, I used to have the best dreams and I never remembered them when I woke up. 10:10 - ok I could annotate this entire thing. Sometimes I can’t believe I can write good at all 😭, and the post after it was also very needed. Rereading my work is so comforting.
0:17 they literally named him "count duke" and "dark tyrant" at the same time and nobody talks about it, so this seems accurate
7:22
Think of it like cause and effect.
Cause = Affect
Effect = Effect
Effect is what Affect is what causes the effect to happen.
Fun fact: on a roleplay discord I’m in we had to write a contract to legally prohibit a member from giving her character MORE trauma because she has like 25 layers of trauma already and wanted to ADD MORE?!
I really needed that bit about reading my own work. Im a damn good writer, dammit
As someone who’s been tempted to write fanfiction for a game AU that I love on Tumblr, the post about wanting to write a fanfic about a fanfic hits wayyyy too hard 😂😔
These videos are why I subbed! I learned to like the rest of your channel but as a writer I appreciate this
7:49 Branderson Sanderson writing the cosmere.
The way I got into writing was this random girl in 3rd grade who I frankly didn't even like said to me "You could be a writer one day." and I took it and *ran*
7:40 for me it’s 4,000 words because I made the horrible mistake of blacking out for 4 hours right when I started writing on the very first day and wrote 4K words in those 4 hours and if I don’t regret it every day
2:13 - 2:28 I sorta apply to this, I'm a fan of a TH-cam channel with it's own lore thanks to their headcannons and Tomodachi Life Let's Play that I think is SO good that I have indeed came up with a fanfic about it (I even thought of it at like midnight) but I just haven't actually wrote it down anywhere because my writing is crappy and I know it, so I just fantasize the story in my head instead and use this opportunity to watch the Let's Plays they have even if I'm not truly interested in the game they're playing, I've created so many inside jokes in this little fanfiction that I can't actually share with them because I want this fanfiction to be a me only thing, I won't even post this to my channel, this is for the soul reason that I feel they're fans would see it as an insult to their lore that was basically perfect
I thought of the idea a week ago, spending the whole weekend watching their Let's Plays to fantasize the whole thing in my head, and it's concept is still only known or heard of in my head, nobody knows the the story except me
I think this mainly comes from the fact the lore includes OCs that one of them plans to use for some actual published books (I guess I'm just afraid of it being an insult to those OCs)
I have recently decided I'll still write this in a Google Docs page because, you can write something down and still keep it to yourself
Affect is to do something. Effect is the result