"What do you mean none of your transformations hurt?" The other magical girls stare back at her in horror.

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"What do you mean none of your transformations hurt?" The other magical girls stare back at her in horror.

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How to Fix Underwriting
1. Slow down at emotionally important moments.
Big emotions need space to land. If a scene feels rushed, pause the plot briefly to show how the moment affects the character.
2. Add reactions, not explanations.
Instead of explaining what a character feels, show it through physical responses, hesitation, or small actions that reveal emotion naturally.
3. Ground every scene in the senses.
If a scene feels thin, add one or two sensory detailsâsound, texture, smell, or temperatureâto make the moment feel lived-in.
4. Let thoughts interrupt action.
A line of internal thought can deepen a scene without slowing it too much. Thoughts show stakes, fear, longing, or conflict beneath the action.
5. Expand consequences, not events.
You donât need more things to happenâyou need to show what matters. Focus on how events change relationships, decisions, or self-perception.
6. Strengthen setting where emotion peaks.
The environment should echo or contrast the emotion of the scene. Setting is not decorationâitâs emotional reinforcement.
7. Add specific details instead of general ones.
Underwriting often relies on vague language. Swap âthey arguedâ for one sharp line of dialogue or a specific breaking point.
8. Let dialogue breathe.
Short dialogue exchanges without pauses can feel flat. Add beatsâsilence, gestures, interruptionsâto give the conversation weight.
9. Show transitions between scenes.
If scenes jump too quickly, readers feel disoriented. A brief transition helps establish time, mood, and emotional continuity.
10. Clarify stakes early in the scene.
If readers donât know what can be lost, scenes feel empty. Make sure the character wants something specific and fears losing it.
11. Use the âwhat are they feeling right now?â check.
After each major beat, ask what emotion is dominant in that moment. If itâs missing on the page, the scene is likely underwritten.
12. Expand scenes that feel âtoo clean.â
If a scene resolves too neatly or quickly, it probably needs more tension. Messy emotions and unresolved feelings add depth.
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Dear fanfic authors: Lightsabers may be your character's life. They may be the inanimate representation and resonance of their very soul. They may be ALL KINDS of colors! But grasping something with your hands that emits a beam of plasma hot enough to cut through solid rock requires a rather hefty handle. Especially if it's meant to be a two-handed weapon. Please, for the love of the Force, do not say that someone can hide this gigantic honkin' two-fister of a weapon down inside your character's boot.

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Half-read a post the other day (and then got distracted) about what vegetables the poster would plant in a garden tailored to surviving food scarcity--which, to be clear, I think is an important and not at all crazy subject. Food scarcity is a possible outcome of several converging trends in the US and elsewhere--authoritarianism has led to some of the worst famines in recent history, for example, as has a rich and powerful "aristocracy" deciding that profit matters more than feeding people (ask the Irish). And then there's climate disasters, obviously. I'm not trying to be scary. I'm trying to nudge past the kneejerk reaction a lot of leftists understandably have to anything that smacks of "survivalism" and its associated hyper-individualism. The point isn't "oh god we're fucked", the point is that concerns about food scarcity are not unreasonable, and choosing to work on your (and your community's) food independence is a really good goal for those who have the resources.
That post is long gone from my dash, but I do remember it mentioning lettuce and tomatoes and corn, and me thinking that honestly those would NOT be my picks for a survival garden. Like, I want to be clear, I grow those things, and those are good things to grow! But lettuce produces almost no calories and relatively few nutrients. Corn...corn has caveats. First, it has to be planted in large blocks in order to be pollinated, because it's wind pollinated. You can't just plant a row or two. Also, if it's sweet corn, it's very highly perishable, and if it's a dry corn, like a dent corn meant for flour, it requires processing. More on that later. And tomatoes kinda combine the above problems--large, not a ton of calories, and highly perishable, PLUS they take a bit of skill to get good yields (source: me. My tomato plants always suck ass.)
I think everyone's veggie picks are going to vary wildly based on their eating habits and growing conditions. But when I think about survival gardening, I think about calories per area. That is, in a given area, with a realistic yield, how many calories you can expect to get out of a crop. Because in a survival situation, what you need more than anything is calories. Nutrients matter, but I'll be honest, if you're really suddenly eating mostly unprocessed plant foods, along with what weeds you can forage (which is quite a lot where I am), you might be doing better nutritionally than pizza and tacos. And when it comes to calories per acre, potatoes and sweet potatoes (which are not actually related botanically) are basically the undisputed kings in temperate climates.
There are a bunch of other things along those lines that I would choose to grow--beets, turnips, carrots, onions, and things less known now like skirret and salsify are the calorie-dense vegetables that my European ancestors ate before the Columbian Exchange. Everyone once again say thank you to Precolombian agronomists and farmers for potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash... Or there's sunchokes, which take a little getting used to in the kitchen, but in most places they absolutely cannot be beaten for plant it and forget about it perennial food.
If you do have more space, the dry corn really is a good idea, but you need some means to grind it or nixtamalize it, and that and getting it off the cob, etc., are going to take time and energy. Another crop that takes a lot of space but has a great yield of calories and easy processing is winter squash, like pumpkins. The big advantage of those is that if you pick the right varieties, these will store for months, in their original form, if you just put them someplace cool but not freezing. You can have a hubbard squash in the garage until March and then cut it up and have food in half an hour. Also, as we all know from all the adorable zoo videos, a whole lot of animals will eat squash, including chickens.
Anyhow. There's a million things you could grow, including more nutrient dense greens like mustard or collards, herbs to make staple foods more palatable, etc. But when I think gardening for food security, I think calories.
Star Trek fic: Maybe He's Born With It (Maybe It's GlaxosEpsilonYor), by Punk
Maybe He's Born With It (Maybe It's GlaxosEpsilonYor)
Author: Punk Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series Pairing: Kirk & Spock friendship Rating: Teen Content notes: No standard notes apply.
Size: 1,600 words
Tags: Bonding in the Bathroom Over Childhood Trauma, Spock Wears Eye Shadow, Jim's in Briefs, The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, To Boldly Go (Obligatory Toilet Joke)
Summary: It's maybe the first real conversation they've had where one of them isn't accusing the other of academic misconduct or not loving his mom.
Me at 13: âgod I canât wait to go home and read fanficâ
Me at 17: âgod I canât wait to go home and read fanficâ
Me at 21: âgod I canât wait to go home and read fanficâ
Me at 35: âgod I canât wait to go home and read fanficâ
Me at 51: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"
I liked this one.
As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:
I donât care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you
I donât care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you
I donât care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isnât IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you
I donât care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. Itâs actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase
I donât mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all
I love you

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I hope I find someone doing this one day. We could tag team it!
i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say âsorryâ in response to their bad news. âwhy are you apologizing you didnât do anything :/â like okay well a) you donât know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)âs accomplishments. and b) weâre both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that âsorryâ isnât always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general
If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?
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This is honestly every single time I scroll through manuscripts I'm editing. "Fix it later" is a nice phrase, but editing honestly take SO MUCH brain energy to do.

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Consider. A human wakes up in a strange medical bay, with an alien doctor standing over them. Turns out their shuttle crashed, and the alien ship only just managed to teleport the, on board in time.
By some miracle, the doctor explains, they escaped with only minor injuries. Some burns, a few scratches and âseveral small wounds. Weâre not sure what caused them.â
âWounds?â
âSmall holes in your ear lobes. Possibly they were old wounds and unrelated to the accident, but either way, our doctors were able to heal them for you. Thereâs not even any scarring.â
The human pauses. Thinks for a minute. âWait⌠you unpierced my ears?!â
âI⌠Suppose we did? Is that a problem?â
âEr, not exactly. It can be redone. though itâs not gonna be fun. But my people do that to ourselves on purpose. Itâs self-ornamentalâŚÂ I donât know the word. We decorate ourselves with small stones and bits of shaped metal or plastic.â
âOh!! Iâm sorry, thatâs a fairly rare behavior among sapients. Why, if I may ask?â
âuh. ItâŚÂ Looks cool? I guess?â
ââŚMy experience with humans is limited, but I gather thatâs the reason for many of your behaviors.â
*from the next bay over comes the anguished scream of your co-pilot*
âWHERE THE FUCKING FUCK ARE MY TATTOOS?!â
So.
As you might imagine, my inboxes have been flooded over the last few days. My fic represents, for a lot of people, either their start in Avengers fandom, or the safe place they retreat to when the angst and infighting and shipwars got too intense. Which I get, and I appreciate, and Iâm so glad if my old fics can give people a little happiness, even after all this time.
But thereâs a thread I keep picking up in comments, that kind of worries me.
That things that happened in the MCU have taken the fandom away from them. That the way things happened in Endgame have left people distraught, or angry, or just grieving. And a lot of people have worried that theyâve âlostâ these characters.
And look.
Look.
I say this as a fandom old. I say this as someone who reads comics. Who came from the Trek fandom. Whoâs lived through bad movie adaptations and subpar ghostwriters and writing staff changes that have destroyed tv shows before they had a chance to really fly.
Donât let canon take anything away from you.
You can be disappointed in a thing. You can have your heart broken by a writer. You can hope against hope that something that means the world to you will be âtrue,â but donât let a corporation take your heroes away from you.
Every one of us has to pick and choose what we keep and what we leave behind. But every single version of Captain America has been fanfiction since Jack Kirby and Joe Simon put their pens down. Heâs owned by a corporation, and they can decide whatâs on screen, who gets paid to write him, who gets the big platform. They get to decide canon.
But canon is meaningless.
Canon is a way to win an argument in a bar or in a schoolyard. Itâs knowing publication dates and issue numbers and who wrote what arc and when the reboots happened. It exists.
But when I think of Hawkeye, canon is only part of the picture. I do think of Matt Fractionâs run on the comics. I do think of those early years, sneaking my brotherâs issues of West Coast Avengers. I think of the weird, wild, off beat run of Secret Avengers. But I also think of @dr-karaâs art of him. I think of fanfic long since deleted, that introduced me to the fandom tropes of Clint living in the vents. I think of the Tumblr posts, diving deep into the psychology of trauma, into his place as the most human and the most pointless of the original six, into a thousand stupid memes. Caw-caw, motherfucker. I think of the comments I got, telling me he was OOC. I think of the Hawkeye cosplayers Iâve met, including the one guy who was in full gear at Star Wars Celebration in Florida. I asked him why, and he shrugged and said, âClint wouldâve.â I agree with him. Â
I think of the first time a friend put a bow in my hands, and showed me how to shoot, wobbly and uneven, at a straw target all the way across the yard.
I think of the bruises that dotted my arms afterwards.
So canon can add new things. Take bits away. Make me think. Make me hurt.
But nothing canon does will ever cause him to be different, not on any fundamental level. Clint Barton started forming in my head when I was eight years old. He belongs to Marvel, but the version I carry with me has a lot more sources than that.
Guys, this is a long way of saying: find your own version of the character. Find what you need in a fandom. And think of canon like that one fic that has a million kudos on AO3 and you just. Donât. Know. Why. That one fic, that everyone talks about, that you just canât stand.
If canon doesnât work for you, then discard it. And move on.
But donât let a corporation take a character you love away from you.
Donât ever let that happen.