#add it

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If you're struggling over deciding whether or not to put in any domestic scenes into your video or fic or book, i recommend, firstly asking someone else, a second pair of eyes always helps, but if you don't have that, read your work, or look at your work as a reader, a consumer. I was a consumer or media long before I produced it, and I think we as creators sometimes forget that. "We write the book for the people. What do the people want to see so this book gets fans?" But you forget, you're a part of the people too.

I'm going to share a little snippet of wisdom my friend offered me when I was struggling over whether or not to add a small bedroom scene into my book wip. It was a scene set at two in the morning, and one friend is visiting the others college dorm room. It was just meant to show some friendship, have that classic, they stayed up talking late at night, sipping beer, singing songs, curled up on the same cramped bed together sharing dreams, and I was uncertain whether or not to add it, because it gave no furthering of the plot. I brought this up to a friend of mine, and she said "add it." Her reasoning?

Me, as a fan, would eat that shit up. And she's right. The shwarma scene at the end of avengers? Two minutes long tops, with not a single word spoken, and the fans exploded. You're not stealing something from the fanfic writers, you're not robbing them of plot. You're providing more insight into their characters, showing how they would act in domestic scenes. Don't force your fans to have to guess on how your characters would treat each other outside of war or professional settings, give it to them.

I know its hard, I know that most all writing/creating advice is "don't add anything that doesn't help to further the plot" but sometimes that's just what readers want. I would sell my left arm for a movie dedicated solely to seeing a day in the life of the Avengers together, acting like siblings, squabbling over the TV remote, cooking together.