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my characters are my best friendsYou know you're a writer when you daydream about living in your fictional world.I'm writing a dystopian novel so…no. XD But I really wish I could actually talk to my characters and get to meet them.
correction: only eric and ada and evlon and maybe kayor
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I'd like to write some fanfiction that people actually like rather that ones that just satisfy me. I know that goes against a writer's purpose but if I can get people to like it and please me then that's bonus points.
What's your favorite type of fanfiction?
Crossovers, shipping, extra adventures in a completely canon context, etc?
What's your favorite type of fanfiction?
Crossovers, shipping, extra adventures in a completely canon context, etc?
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A huge interplanetary fantasy world where humanity had gone extinct??my characters are my best friendsYou know you're a writer when you daydream about living in your fictional world.I'm writing a dystopian novel so…no. XD But I really wish I could actually talk to my characters and get to meet them.
correction: only eric and ada and evlon and maybe kayor
…maybe
Net Neutrality is done and over with and we still have free speech so yay
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I'd like to write some fanfiction that people actually like rather that ones that just satisfy me. I know that goes against a writer's purpose but if I can get people to like it and please me then that's bonus points.I'm not exactly much of a fanfic reader but if you want to appeal to more people than yourself I'd suggest starting by setting yourself a ‘small’ target audience (e.g: people who like a certain ship, people who interpret character x as y, people who enjoy x genre, etc) and then figuring out what they generally enjoy from a story. Just setting a broad target or people who read fanfiction is going to make it very hard to appeal to any of them- different people want different things from stories and you won't be able to appeal to them all.
What's your favorite type of fanfiction?
Crossovers, shipping, extra adventures in a completely canon context, etc?
*Drinks ketchup*
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How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?
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How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Ask others? (idk)
Sincerely, The Person Who Has Never Broken A Bone But Writes About Characters Breaking Bones All The Time
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How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Just find descriptions of pain and work from those. Alternatively, go on reddit and search something like “painful activities” and that'll probably help you. Or horrify you. *shrugs*
“Where a goat can go, a man can go. And where a man can go, he can drag a gun.” –William Philips, British Artillery Officer {|} “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”–George Carlin {|} “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and clobber you with experience”–George Carlin {|} “Never correct your enemy when he is making a mistake” –Napoleon Bonaparte {|} “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,”–British admiral David Beatty, after the British Battlecruisers Indefatigable and Queen Mary explode less than half an hour into The Battle of Jutland, 1916. {|} “The point of war isn't to die for your country. It's to make the other * die for his.”–George S. Patton {|} (Warhammer) 40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things… are the good guys.—A forum signature. {|} And now for the best quote: “All right. They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us… They can't get away this time.”-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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I get too many story ideas. One of my latest is about Sumer (the mesopotamian region) due to the fact I don't think stories ever really cover it.
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I'd like to write some fanfiction that people actually like rather that ones that just satisfy me. I know that goes against a writer's purpose but if I can get people to like it and please me then that's bonus points.Bad ones
What's your favorite type of fanfiction?
Crossovers, shipping, extra adventures in a completely canon context, etc?
I'm not much help
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Does anyone think it's weird that I like dark stories?
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How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
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Does anyone think it's weird that I like dark stories?Well Shadow
Nah they are popular now.
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- Generalstarwars333
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I will point out that the pain of a papercut and the pain of a piece of shrapnel going between your ribs and feeling yourself bleeding inside are two very different things.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
“Where a goat can go, a man can go. And where a man can go, he can drag a gun.” –William Philips, British Artillery Officer {|} “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”–George Carlin {|} “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and clobber you with experience”–George Carlin {|} “Never correct your enemy when he is making a mistake” –Napoleon Bonaparte {|} “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,”–British admiral David Beatty, after the British Battlecruisers Indefatigable and Queen Mary explode less than half an hour into The Battle of Jutland, 1916. {|} “The point of war isn't to die for your country. It's to make the other * die for his.”–George S. Patton {|} (Warhammer) 40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things… are the good guys.—A forum signature. {|} And now for the best quote: “All right. They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us… They can't get away this time.”-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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I'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
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Research research research research researchI'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Research research research research researchI'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
“Where a goat can go, a man can go. And where a man can go, he can drag a gun.” –William Philips, British Artillery Officer {|} “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”–George Carlin {|} “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and clobber you with experience”–George Carlin {|} “Never correct your enemy when he is making a mistake” –Napoleon Bonaparte {|} “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,”–British admiral David Beatty, after the British Battlecruisers Indefatigable and Queen Mary explode less than half an hour into The Battle of Jutland, 1916. {|} “The point of war isn't to die for your country. It's to make the other * die for his.”–George S. Patton {|} (Warhammer) 40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things… are the good guys.—A forum signature. {|} And now for the best quote: “All right. They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us… They can't get away this time.”-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
- TheRealNetherBefore
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How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Research, my dude. there are whole explanations of how many painful experiences feel and what fully happens during them. You can get a surprisingly accurate description for pretty much anything via researching and personal accounts.
Does anyone think it's weird that I like dark stories?Nah- I like them too, but only if they're well executed.
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But everyone has experienced some kind of sadness and disappoint- wait you meant physicalI'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
Yeah psychological pain is more interesting to write.
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Also some people haven't had anything psychological happen to them yet.But everyone has experienced some kind of sadness and disappoint- wait you meant physicalI'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
Yeah psychological pain is more interesting to write.
“Where a goat can go, a man can go. And where a man can go, he can drag a gun.” –William Philips, British Artillery Officer {|} “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”–George Carlin {|} “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and clobber you with experience”–George Carlin {|} “Never correct your enemy when he is making a mistake” –Napoleon Bonaparte {|} “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,”–British admiral David Beatty, after the British Battlecruisers Indefatigable and Queen Mary explode less than half an hour into The Battle of Jutland, 1916. {|} “The point of war isn't to die for your country. It's to make the other * die for his.”–George S. Patton {|} (Warhammer) 40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things… are the good guys.—A forum signature. {|} And now for the best quote: “All right. They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us… They can't get away this time.”-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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Sometimes I think that I've suffered through psychological pain and then I think about what other people have gone through and go “Welp I'm a real schmoofus softflesh sympathyless snoodlearm doofus.”Also some people haven't had anything psychological happen to them yet.But everyone has experienced some kind of sadness and disappoint- wait you meant physicalI'm not talking about pain like a stubbed toe or a paper clip.How can one write about pain when one has never truly experienced it?Everyone has expirenced pain of some sort. It is part of life
I'm talking about pain like the stuff that some North Korean prisoners go through, for example.
(LOL, when I first posted that it was meant to be a rhetorical question… XD)
Yeah psychological pain is more interesting to write.