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Clover Slayers kahonoelle <3 Kahono and the rest of the underwater sea temple are the sword-smiths, who get their village attacked by Vetto (Upper 4) + some other demons. (More about au under cut) This is also for bc femslash month (Prompt is Crossover) @bceventshub

thank you! as for writing tips, i do have some:

learn the fundamentals never skip the basics! i've seen a lot of people (even in the professional sphere) constantly make mistakes with grammar, punctuation, capitalization, homonyms, phrases, etc. etc. because they skip the basics and go straight into more complicated stuff. i sincerely believe that to write well, and to break rules well, you have to know exactly what rules you're breaking first. so i'd say: - study grammar/do a refresher on grammar maybe get a dedicated grammar guide. not to shill, but the blue book of grammar and punctuation is pretty popular in the writing spheres i'm in, especially because it also tackles common homonyms (like piqued vs. peaked) people misuse. - learn the difference between POVs and what they consist of POVs make a lot of difference in the delivery of a story. misunderstanding what they consist of can lead to constant headhopping, which can confuse or pull the reader out of the story. knowing how POVs work also means you can really do some crazy shit with it, like writing unreliable narrators effectively or hiding foreshadowing in plain sight. - learn writing types and forms, and literary devices if you've never studied writing types (prose, poetry, novels, etc), forms (short stories, drabbles, novellas, etc), and literary devices (metaphors, similes, onomatopoeias), learn them. if you have but need a refresher, go do a refresher! literary devices, especially, make the difference between a plain sentence and a sentence that punches. - learn media literacy and critical thinking insert media literacy crisis joke here or whatever. on a serious note, i used to have media lit and crit thinking classes throughout my elementary, high school, and college years. i know educational boards globally have been paring down curriculums, though, so if you've never had a media lit class, go look one up or go to the library to find a book on it. media literacy and critical thinking is crucial to writing; media illiteracy can lead to writers writing a completely different story than what they meant to because they don't know how to consider their own subtext---sometimes even their own text.

read a lot; read actively and critically read a lot. read good books. read bad books. read short stories. read longies. read non-fiction. read across a lot of genres. read, so you know what you like and what you don't; so you can see how people execute certain themes and concepts; so you can figure out what works for you and what doesn't. read so you can expand your horizons. the brain is a muscle and writing is a skill, and it is trained both through the actual writing and the reading---but you have to read actively and critically, which is why i consider media lit as a fundamental. when you read, pay attention to what literary devices are used, what the author is saying, what the story is about beyond the plot. basic media lit questions. it becomes habit to inspect those things, eventually, and when you write, it becomes second nature to be able to identify what you're actually doing beyond just slapping words on a page. and then, afterwards, throw a wider net toward other forms of media. listen to a lot of music. watch a lot of films. play a lot of games. and engage with them actively and critically too.

write, of course but don't just stick to one thing. every time you get the hang of something, push your boundaries. use another POV. use another tense. try a different genre. try a different form. every skill you pick up from one tense or form or genre can easily be applied to another. i mainly write prose, but i learned rhythm and sound from poetry.

get constructive feedback this one is a little tricky for people who don't know how to get feedback. there are different types of feedback beyond constructive and deconstructive. for example, you may want developmental feedback, which is feedback concerning the wider strokes---the plot, the themes, the progression of the scenes---of your piece. for another example, you may want feedback specifically on the characters. or, you may want feedback on the dialogue, or the line by line. it's great to get feedback from a general audience, and if you're open to it, do so! but if you want to take your writing a step further, then get people who know what they're talking about and get them to pick a specific facet of your writing and inspect it.

long post so under a readmore

preface: new media is basically anything that isn't traditional or legacy media (TV, radio, print newspapers, print magazines, print ads, etc.). media is a very rapidly-changing landscape, though, so the stuff that falls under legacy media might have evolved in the time i was in college and now. but basically

legacy media = usually big organizations/corporations, has gatekeepers in the form of those orgs

new media = independent media, independent creators, most prominent in the digital space

writing for new media was a course that taught us how to do everything legacy media did but without having to jump through hoops to learn from them, as well as adapting and optimizing all of those techniques and skills for modern tech and the modern media landscape (so like SEOs, punchy content titles, punchy scripts, etc).

one of the most important skills we were taught was how to structure words correctly, beyond basic grammar and correspondence. you know how sometimes news headlines can be either clickbait, misleading, accusatory, or absolving? it was basically that, but it wasn't just for titles, it was for scripts, ads, jingles, etc, etc.

this is a skill mochizuki applies throughout their interactions with kokushibo (and notice how i use interaction and not conversation---that completely changes the scope of where mochi applies this skill, doesn't it? that is an example of deliberately choosing words). let's break down this piece of dialogue:

i do! my research consists of two parts: references and prep media (not counting rereading canon and taking notes—the bulk of the research for kataware wasn't actually the external media, it was reading the actual canon lit and whatever spinoffs/databooks there are, and taking notes)

REFERENCES:

JSTOR - JSTOR IS YOUR FRIEND! JSTOR IS YOUR BUDDY! JSTOR HAS EVERYTHING!!! put baby head into jstor mouth. friend jstor (I got into JSTOR for college research papers/thesis and then never left lmaoooo)

My college textbooks: Philosophy of Man, Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology, General Psychology - these are really local to the uni scene here (like the professors just wrote them and theyre sold in the schools/local bookshops) so im pretty sure if you have your own textbooks/have access to them, it's pretty much the same. since i already went to school for these, i just check them when i need a refresher or if im not sure im remembering something right

My highschool textbooks: General Chemistry, Asian History, and World History - also pretty local though im pretty sure anybody not in asia and not in a school that teaches AH in their curriculum would have to deliberately look for this

Writing For New Media notes - we didn't have a textbook for this in college, but i still have my notes. new media writing involves a lot of careful verbiage, framing, intent—prosody, as Kokushibo said. it's the basis for a lot of the mochizuki and kokushibo exchanges specifically, because mochi loves being so particular, and kokushibo can keep up with them, he just 1) hates this so he doesn't want to + 2) currently famished and exhausted out of his mind rn. douma uses it to some extent in his narration in Douma, Interrupted, and he'll get to stretch this muscle more in later chapters

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - to be careful with verbiage, i have to be sure that the words im choosing are exactly what i want them to be. i usually have this sitting next to my keyboard so i can quickly confirm im not misremembering/misunderstanding anything

DSM-V

A Killer by Design

Crime Classification Manual

ik the last two seem a little ??? but i had to do research for a different project and i read them for that, and my notes from there really help with all character writing across the board. it's not very obvious, but it adds color and flavor. it's like the bay leaf of my research lmao

also, whenever there was a gap in my notes and all else failed, i went to wikipedia and scrolled down to their reference list to do some reading and note-taking

PREP MEDIA:

prep med are media i watch/read/play/etc. when i have a specific aesthetic/atmosphere in mind but can't quite work out how i want to execute it. or, i want to emulate smth this media did and want to study how they made it work. this includes but is not limited to (adding only the ones the influence is obvious to avoid spoilers)

Jacob's Ladder (1990, not the shitty remake)

Silent Hill 1, 2 (OG and remake), 3, 4, F

NBC Hannibal

Neon Genesis Evangelion (OG series + End of Evangelion)

Girl, Interrupted (book, the movie has a completely different atmosphere from the disjointed, almost dreamlike quality of the book)

Gone Girl (book and movie)

If It Bleeds

Mother Horse Eyes

Warm Bodies (book series. movie, again, is a completely different beast; movie is a romcom played straight but the book series is bleak and introspective, though still hopeful)

Edgar Allan Poe collection (Penguin Classics)

Post war obamitsu (au stuff)

She would probably use wind breathing.. also i gave ber the wind chime hat like haganezuka bc wind chimes are kind of her thing