The best feeling as a writer is when you finish writing something and you actually ENJOY reading it
A huge mark of your improvement as a writer, IMO, is when this starts happening more and more frequently.
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The best feeling as a writer is when you finish writing something and you actually ENJOY reading it
A huge mark of your improvement as a writer, IMO, is when this starts happening more and more frequently.

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Main setting city name change, yay or nay?
San Diablo (original city name)
San Redimir (new city name)
I'm thinking about changing the name of the main city in my original urban fantasy setting, and I'd like some feedback.
Ways To Show a Character Is Lying
Everyone writes: “They avoided eye contact.”
Let's do something a little different.
Here are some quick ways to show a character is lying (without saying "lie"):
• Answering the wrong part of the question
• Giving way more detail than anyone asked for
• Acting offended instead of answering
• Correcting a tiny, irrelevant detail in the conversation
• Asking you a question immediately after being asked one (deflection)
• Pausing just long enough that the response feels orchestrated
• Overexplaining something simple
• Texting an answer then deleting it
• Saying “to be honest” or “if I’m being honest”
• Avoiding eye contact (or making eye contact with someone else)
• Laughing like the conversation is suddenly very funny
• Getting oddly specific about the timing of things
• Or their story leaves out details
• Abruptly changing the subject (or quietly steering it away)
Those are some quick tips. Reblog if you want more. Idk if people like these. <3
Anyways, good lies aren't super dramatic revelations. Sometimes they sound normal, just normal enough that the reader feels something is... 'off', but they can't prove it.
Leave a breadcrumb or two of doubt. They might just connect the dots!
⤷ my printable novel planner
vividly imagining scenes instead of writing them down
and forgetting
shitballs
Grace's favorite books, movies, and video games
Books / comic books
Grace read the entire Dark Tower series (at the time there were only three books) in her first year of high school in 1993 - 1994. She quickly became a fan of the setting, writing several works of fanfiction that were, by her own admission, mediocre at best.
Grace read the first few issues of Spawn in her last year of middle school after a friend took her to a local comic book store. Though she initially only bought the comic because she liked the cover art, she ended up becoming obsessed with the setting and characters, with her sometimes (only half jokingly) referring to Lucijan, the man who murdered her adoptive father Caleb, as the "son of Malebolgia."
Grace chose to read the original 1989 comic book version of The Crow after becoming obsessed with the film adaptation. It quickly became her all time favorite comic book, in a similar manner to how the film adaptation became her all time favorite movie.
Movies
The Crow has been her favorite movie since she first watched it in theaters at the age of fifteen, with her first viewing of the film immediately making Brandon Lee one of her favorite actors (even if only posthumously). The soundtrack also greatly influenced her taste in music, with her favorite musical subgenres being alternative, industrial, and gothic rock/metal. The film also served as a partial inspiration for her "Raven" nickname.
Hard Boiled left a lasting impression on her as a teenager, with Chow Yun Fat and John Woo becoming two of her favorite actors and filmmakers respectively. She openly admits that wielding her two Colt pistols makes her feel like she's Inspector Tequila.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was Grace's favorite movie up until her first year of high school (when she saw The Crow), with Indy being her biggest fictional hero when she was little. She still occasionally watches it in her spare time, as it is another comfort movie for her due to her and Caleb watching it together countless times when she was a kid.
Games
Grace first played the Monolith developed shooter Blood when she was nineteen, during the middle of her training with her mentor Emilia. She greatly enjoys the game due to its multiple references to horror and gothic fiction.
Grace is an avid fan of Wolfenstein 3D, having spent countless nights playing the game and several fan made maps.
Her favorite game of all time is the first Metal Gear Solid from 1998, which was also the first game she played on her PlayStation. She would later admit to her peers that she felt like Solid Snake when she managed to shoot down an Annabeth Security Hind gunship.
Credit goes to my friend @aadhube for inspiring me to make this post.

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The standard camo pattern for Ustio in the Belkan War was:
Alpenflage
Wz. 93
Since there doesn't seem to be any consensus...
Emmerians in the Moloch Desert, 1994
I was looking at photos of the British Army during Operation Granby, which made me think about what the Emmerian military looked like in the 1990s (just before and during the Belkan War, even though they weren't involved in any way).
Grimm's family having a long history of service in the Osean military is one of my favorite Ace Combat headcanons (along with them being of Belkan heritage, which I think is sort of implied by their surname). The idea of a family having a generations long tradition of choosing to serve their country despite being of foreign descent (and likely also facing discrimination to at least some degree, considering how Belkans are seen by the rest of the world after the Belkan War) is a preexisting trope of sorts that I really like. I've been thinking about maybe writing a fanfic that follows the history of the Grimm family in the Osean military, each chapter focusing on a different generation, up to and including Hans and his brother.
Not me defending Belka obviously, Ustio is my favorite Strangereal nation (alongside Emmeria and Yuktobania) for a reason.
Stealing and modifying this from Bluesky:
Describe the plot of your story/WIP in five words or less, then tag five people!
Let's do the two I've published then one of my WIPs:
Friend of the Damned: women's wrongs lead to death
Lock the Last Door: gumshoe trapped in tiny house
Untitled Cthulhu Mythos Smut: Eldritch god gives wet dream
Tagging: @dyrewrites @roselinbooks @zackprincebooks @slenders1ckn3ss @gothic--vampyre and bonus @manorofshepard
Open tag as well! Go have fun!
Hehe I steal
Describe the plot of your story/WIP in five words or less
and tag some people.
Lessee.
Hart Syndrome: culture clash with extra fucking
Flight of the Canary: corrupting a Good Boy(?)
Yours with Love: dude loving his new toyboy
By Blood: brotherly love off the rails
That's Rough: mindbroken women were always Horrible™
I tag @asterrwritess @housemasterwilkes @doinglinesakawriting @writingwithoutconfidence @penningbookwurm @fee-eef @talesofsorrowandofruin
HABITAT - superpowered kids fight an apocalypse
Peacewise Lane - neighbors with too much drama
Animals - furries revolt against the regime
Seesaw - girl fights god(s) in trials
Threadbare - angsty boy finds love
tags: @rarrrrhhhhhhh @kitkatsiguess and anyone else who wants to participate
Proxy Agents is:
Magic teenagers learning to love.
@write-with-will @nagisakwrites @wbhudson @jaylex05 @jkit45
Prismatic: Traumatized kids learning kindness
(Dont mind me trying to catch up on all the mentions I got while gone)
@cervus-scribe @aadhube @n3-k0 @drezdenformerlyspark @anidoesntlikesand
Myreldrene:
Mutually attracted frenemies fight demons
@corvidmercenary @doinglinesakawriting @macaronoc @cervus-scribe @shanellet9
Apocrypha is: Immortal mercenary couple hunt witches
Can't think of anyone to tag, sadly
Some Ace Combat headcanons
- Grimm's father was an Osean Army veteran who fought in the Belkan War. The entire Grimm family has a long history of service in the Osean military, which is what inspired Hans and his brother to enlist in the OADF and Osean Army respectively. The Grimm family is of Belkan heritage, but has lived in Osea for centuries.
- While the standard tank of the Emmerian Army is the Challenger 2, the C2A1 is used by reserve units. The standard issue small arms platform is the L85 family, with special forces and reserve units being issued the C7/C8 family of weapons. The standard issue combat helmet is the Mark 7. DPM remains the standard camo pattern, with the DCU pattern seen in game being standard issue for arid regions such as parts of Western Emmeria and the Moloch Desert. The primary helicopters of the Emmerian military are the AgustaWestland Apache, Westland Lynx, and Aérospatiale Puma, with the Sikorsky S-70 series also being used by the Emmerian Navy and special forces units. The primary AFVs are the FV510 Warrior IFV, the AS90 self-propelled howitzer, and the CVR(T) and LAV families of AFVs.
- The Ustian language is a mix of Czech and Polish, with many citizens also being bilingual in Belkan due to decades of occupation prior to independence.
- The Tu-95 is a Yuktobanian design that was ultimately rejected in favor of a copy of the B-52. One of the prototypes was sold to Erusea, who proceeded to mass produce it as their standard bomber aircraft.
- The Osean Army uses both the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2, with the Leopard being used mostly by reserve and OPFOR units. Most Leopards are reverse engineered copies of examples captured during the Belkan War.
- The Kfir seen in Ace Combat 2 is a design originating from a country on the Verusan continent.
- Count and Champ were in different aggressor squadrons prior to being transferred to 444, hence why they fly the Su-33 and MiG-29.

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Osean PASGT from the Belkan War
Decided to decorate my gray cat eye helmet band until the more period accurate one I bought shows up. Inspired by irl helmet art from Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the GWOT, and by my headcanon that Grimm's father was an Osean Army veteran who served in the Belkan War. PASGT helmet and Woodland cover are authentic, as is the chinstrap (which was a bit of a pain to attach).
Yes, I'm aware that my handwriting is terrible. The fact that I was writing on elastic band didn't make it any better.
It's really sad that people see military edits and think "oh, that's fascist/right wing/imperialist propaganda." Yes, a large, visible portion of it does tend to be exactly that, especially when you see it with Nazi or Imperial Germany, Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa, Brit, American, French, other colonial Euro military edits, but not everyone making a military edit or having an AU with a militaristic focus is automatically fascist.
People make USSR and Chinese military edits as well. Even edits for more anarchist-inclined guerrillas, if you are into that. Though of course, with all of this, there IS the persistent issue of people romanticizing war that others rightfully take issue with.
But I don't think liking and making military edits is inherently glorifying of war. Much in the same way that people reading about epic, gruelling fiction battles, vast powerful fantasy empires and kingdoms and whatnot means that they actually would like to live in such a place irl. Many people have an interest in more war-oriented stuff, and of course they of all groups need to take care not to fall into fascism and war-glorification. And you can choose to personally distance yourself from them, because many people rightfully don't like seeing war or violence-related content, especially as part of their fandoms' fanfictions, but for the everloving love of god, don't knee-jerk call people fascists for liking military edits
Nobody told me how soul sucking it would be to be a new writer with no established audience. The constant struggle to motivate yourself to write, just so that maybe a few people might read it.... It's just soul-sucking, man...
The funny thing is, if I had even like a dozen dedicated readers on a site like Royal Road or Wattpad, at least, I could see myself being pushed enough to write more...
But in order to actually get any appreciable reader base, you do need to write quite a bit.
Bit of a chicken and egg problem there!
When you rewrite the antagonists in your setting because they sounded too unrealistic and also because you want your world to feel more like a conventional urban fantasy setting, so you have to partially rewrite the backstory of your protagonist as well...
Is it weird that I've made up a whole entire voice cast for my setting? As in I've given each of my OCs a different voice actor as if they were characters in an irl show or game.

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A: "This story is truly genius!" B: "Ooh, sounds intriguing! Where can I find it?" A: "Inside my head."
OC inspiration #1
Three characters who inspired Grace Ainsworth, the main protagonist of my setting.
- In addition to being what I consider to be a good example of a character that was wasted potential, Tanya Akulova from Darker Than Black was also the main visual inspiration for Grace, more specifically her hairstyle (low ponytail, bangs, side bangs) and clothing (bodysuit with boots).
- If my setting was a game or animated series, then Grace would have the same voice as Kainé from the Nier games (that is to say that Grace would sound like a very cold or very pissed off Laura Bailey), which is ironic since Grace is often a bit of a softie when she's not in combat (not to say that Kainé doesn't have a softer side, because she does).
- Rayne is yet another foul mouthed swordswoman voiced by Laura Bailey (her first credited video game role, in fact), and served as the secondary inspiration for Grace's appearance (primarily the elbow gloves). Rayne being a dhampir (half human/half vampire) also partially inspired me to make Grace a nephilim (half human/half angel).