look out for yourself

Ideal job at Lucasfilm is perching in the corner of the writers room eating lo mein while the writers are coming up with their new script and giving scathing criticisms like some kind of creative direction gargoyle the whole time until they fix their story. Only then are they allowed to write a blank check each for Harrison Ford and the ghost of Marcia Lucas (RIP) to review and make edits before they can receive a stamp of approval

Every time a writer makes a decision based on what the audience wants and/or says they don’t have a long term plan I pelt them with the crumpled up pages I’ve torn from the script and they have to start over

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

Best part of being in a small fandom is when you’re reading a nasty smutty fanfic on ao3 and you go to hit kudos and you see one of your mutuals’ user names in the kudos list and you’re just like 😈 hehe you were also here. Pervert.

andor setting up a protagonist who has very strange relationships w/ women in season 1 but never fully capitalizing off of it in season 2 because the guy making it is also weird about women. villain origin story.

people like to draw grown alpha-17 with child sized command clones but they’re not actually that far apart in developmental or chronological age. in my head their dynamic was more like when you start middle school and eighth graders are bossing you around and you kind of want to kill them

“why’s he always covered in blood” he needs enrichment. What’s not clicking

it’s been talked about a million times but way too many books now have a problem with telling and not showing. a character in the book i’m reading rn said “my therapist says my anorexia and drug use is my way of gaining control” girl i don’t want to hear that i want to see you starving yourself and snorting coke every time something goes wrong

the idea that a sex scene in fiction is fundamentally useless/simply for audience titillation UNLESS they’re fucking infodumping exposition while they bone or something is so funny and myopic to me. like, you really genuinely believe for real that there is NOTHING to be gained about your understanding of a story or characters simply from how they approach and engage in sex? really for real?

Do u remember when Mando actually used to take some damage. He gets squashed by a two-thousand pound HUTT in the movie and pops right back up like it’s barely an inconvenience, whereas the entire second episode of the whole series asks the question “How much crap can we put this guy through and how much mud and gak can we coat him in before he physically can’t move anymore.” The only thing that didn’t happen to him was that he wasn’t gored by the prehistoric rhino and the Sandcrawler didn’t run him over but like. Only just

*cranky old timer voice*: “well back in MY day Star Wars would stuff all their heroes into a trash compactor with a tentacle monster and cover them with schmutz aND WE LIKED IT”

There’s no canon information on him TO YOU. I know everything tho

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day