I write largely fantasy style fiction, specifically set in time periods of the past, or to resemble periods in the past. However I do write things that take place in that worlds equivalent of our modern world as well.
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If your parents don’t understand your work, if they don’t support or read it: I’m so sorry. And congratulations: you’re free. Parental indifference is a great gift for a writer. You can’t buy that kind of privacy.
- Elizabeth McCracken, A Long Game: How to Write Fiction
okay hey real question: what are good ways to describe fat characters?
I see a lot of 'have more fat characters' and I'm Here For It but as someone who is skinny and in a world where most existing literature makes characters fat only as a joke or an indication of some variety of moral badness, I'm not really sure how to describe them in a way that's not objectifying or insulting. like, I've grown up on poetic descriptions of thin characters ('long slim fingers' and 'willow figure' etc etc) but I haven't read flattering descriptions of fat characters and I don't know where to start. I've seen a lot of 'how to describe poc' or 'how to describe disabled characters' or whatever and I've seen art ref posts for drawing fat characters, but no posts about how to write them well. so. open call for advice or for examples you've found and like??
Howdy! Fat short white woman here. I've got some hopefully helpful thoughts on this which I will share a little later (I've got a few things to do first sadly).
In the meantime, OP (or anyone else) if you have specific questions about what it feels like for me to be in a fat body or what I personally do and don't worry / think about... I'm more than happy to answer.
In the meantime - I know you said you've seen ref posts for drawing fat characters...but here's one I like (in case you haven't come across it) that is nicely wordy: https://www.tumblr.com/bacchicly/677854396964634625?source=share
How do people write to such a high word count, I max out at 700-1500 before giving up. I would love to learn but every resource I find assumes I have entry-level knowledge ( I don't. )
word count tips from a guy who has over 2 million words on ao3
- first of all, you’re doing great. 700-1,500 words is a lot more than you are giving yourself credit for. i can write 1,500 in an hour and a half on a good day. that’s a lot of time!! especially for someone who has other priorities in life other than fanfic.
- writing stamina is real and is an actual “muscle” that does grow and strengthen with repetition as time. it’s something you can expand and build with practice.
- don’t get too wrapped up in perfection. get words on the page and don’t get in your head about if they’re the right ones. you can fix garbage but you can’t fix nothing.
- write what excites you. i know nonlinear writing is sacrilege to some people so this may not work for you, but for me personally if i get stuck, i just jump to something i want to write. sometimes that means writing out only dialogue that i add to later. sometimes it means several paragraphs of world building. you’ll be surprised about how much you end up writing if you don’t adhere to the structure rules and add stuff later.
- don’t feel pressured to write it all at once. most of the greatest novels were written over the course of months, even years. sure, there are authors that can crank out 10k in a day (i’ve done it - it’s killer and i was exhausted after) but having realistic goals can help.
- to add to that, setting achievable goals is also important. don’t shoot for the stars just yet or else you may find yourself feeling disappointed. give yourself small checkpoints that you can have mini rewards for.
- when it comes to brainstorming and outlining, i find making a list of plot points and character beats with no specific order that i then organize later into a sequential outline is helpful. outlines are another way to have a tangible proof of your progress
- don’t burn yourself out on one project. breaks are important and so is nourishing your mind
its 1am so thats all from me for now! hope this helped
It's scary that there is a whole sector of people who think this is literally true and not just an elaborate game of pretend-with-me that we are playing.
Saying that characters have free will of their own is more of a shorthand expression for:
"Personalities behave with a certain mathematics, especially within the gradient of a story with given themes. In order for the story to be satisfactory, certain combinations cannot exist in cohesion. Forcing a character with a given dynamic to behave in a certain way is guaranteed to come off as forced and unnatural.
Is it possible to sidestep this? Yes, but often this comes with a change to the character's "personality matrix." This, in turn, may result in previous or later planned scenes in a story coming unraveled.
For longer and emotionally complex stories, these nested contradictions can stack upon one another, making it functionally impossible to change any detail of a central character without threatening the necessity for a major rewrite.
So, if the story has gone a slightly different direction than initially planned, getting a character to "behave" for a scene related to the climax or finale can feel like fighting against an independent agent with its own free will."
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Writing romance means making yourself cringe and that's okay. let them have inside jokes. let them notice weird specific things about each other like "you always order hot chocolate even in summer." write the comfort scenes not just the drama. make a playlist of their songs and sob to it alone. know exactly how they'd argue about something dumb like whether cereal is a soup. chemistry isn't just kissing it's in the tiny moments. make it soft. make yourself feel sick with how cute it is.
Les Étoiles (“The Stars”) in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, is one of the most iconic examples of post-war experimental housing. Designed by architect Jean Renaudie in the 1970s, the complex rejects the monotony of uniform blocks — instead, it bursts into angular terraces, sharp geometries, and lush rooftop gardens.
Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general. Links below so that you can research and do a nuance. Ones that were directly mentioned are bolded.
Writing a blind character 101
What to avoid etc
Video on types of white canes
Video on types of cane tips
Some more explanation on white canes + tips + other stuff
Guide animals
Video on working with a guide dog
But why are Magical White Eyes a problem
Same as above
Going blind from an accident
Video on conformers
World's most basic "what do you call someone with albinism"
The blindfold thing. No people don't wear these.
This mostly stupid trope of covering a blind character's eyes because lord forbid someone sees a disabled body part
This just stupid trope of giving a blind character some bs superpower to "see"
The echolocation thing that every other blind oc does for some reason
Just give them a cane good lord if you want a character that can see perfectly then maybe don't make them blind
Bonus: if your character has a bunch of scars or whatever else then congrats! You made a character with a facial difference. Which is also something you should research.
never stops being existentially horrifying to realize that someone you're talking to thinks that there is any kind of biological basis for "race" like the amount of people who are like 'racism is bad, of course race is a real scientific thing it's just bad to treat people differently because of it' and it's like no there is no biological or scientific basis for race it's purely a social concept. a dark skinned black person and a very pale white person can share more dna than two black people or two white people like it's all made up you can't tell someone's genetic or biological makeup just by looking at them. it's all socially constructed and there are massive consequences for this construction but anyone who tries to say that there is any kind of scientific basis for race whether they're knowingly purposely racist or trying to be "progressive" is wrong and realizing that someone you're talking to in a completely benign situation dead seriously thinks that such a thing as a "white race" actually scientifically exists is so terrifying
This is why "fantasy racism" written by people who have never done anything in their life to deconstruct their own racial biases, because 99% of the time, Fantasy Racism *is* entirely based on biology --
Where two *completely separate biological species* are the ones who are the racism allegory, which is usually then *justified* by the narrative by giving the oppressors a genuinely good reason to *fear and discriminate* against this other *seperate biological species*, either by making the victims of "racism" be predators (Zootopia) perpetrators of a past genocide / generational atrocity (Bright), or shapeshifting super predators who specifically evolved two forms so they could better invade your village and kill you all in your sleep once they earned your trust (Raksura).
Even the rare stories that *don't* justify the bigotry by basing it in some real and present danger presented currently or in the past by the victims of the racism allegory *Still* fall prey to the fallacy of *making it based in biology by making it two completely different species*!
Elves can be racist against Dwarves, but oh, if you have two Elves of very different skin colors? They get treated equally-- unless they're two biologically distinct sub species of elves that is, like the Dark Elves and the High Elves or Wood Elves! (Elder Scrolls).
So many fantasy books, even progressive ones, fall prey to their own biases and make their racism not just about skin color or appearance, but about actual, literal, biological *race*, about two completely separate and distinct *species* vying against each other, and that shows that even when they think they're doing so much, they're still showing that they, at some level, think there is some kind of basis for prejudice, some real physical difference between the "white race" and the "Black race" that is the basis for racism, instead of it *literally* being skin-deep hatred based on physical traits all within the same species built on abusive systems of social power enforced by those very same systems and those within the system who benefit from it.
Racism is a social construct applied to the human race, and if you want to write actual allegories for oppression that ring true, it should be a social construct applied to your fantasy race too, not making a dozen biologically distinct species that hate each others guts because one guy's cousin cannibalized the other guy's brother last week.
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As a princess, you've been kidnapped by all manner of people; dragons, wizards, other kings—it's just part of the job description. But never before have you been kidnapped by... another princess?
The mansion was incredibly cheap, in excellent condition, and located in a very desirable area. The real estate agent will even throw in a free car! Just ignore the angel writing a book in the basement.
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Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.
If I may add some ideas:
The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it's shit sometimes.
The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you're running out of time.
The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don't hit the number in the sequence, you can respond "DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU"
If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you're looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.
The 221B Challenge: Write a 221B every day. (A 221B is from the Sherlock BBC fandom; it's a ficlet consisting of exactly 221 words, with the final word beginning with the letter B.) As a bonus, choose the B by randomly opening the dictionary or other book and using the first B word you see.
The Shrek Challenge: Can you stop putting off writing FOR 5 MINUTES?! (Once a day sit down and write for 5 minutes straight. No matter how shitty you think it's turning out don't stop! Just get the words down and edit later!)
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