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Murrznpurrz Paladin of Cacao

🐱 American Shorthair

📸 Cacao Cattery

It’s a similar idea to a lot of writing posts I’ve seen on here, complaining about the “in-between” - “I’ve got this wonderful beginning and this heart-wrenching ending, but no idea what to put in the middle! Writing sucks!”

These people don’t seem to realize, though, that without the author figuring that out for themselves, there is no story.

Sure, you can have a basic idea for a plot; Let’s use 1984 as an example: A man lives in a hyper-surveillance society under an authoritarian dictatorship, and rebels against it by joining a secret society that turns out to have been the government all along.

That’s a great plot idea - and it’s sure to do great with both publishers and readers alike! But it’s not 1984. It’s a plot summary of 1984.

If George Orwell had plugged that prompt into ChatGPT and asked it to do the rest for him, we would probably still have Winston Smith (or someone like him), but we might not have Julia, or O’Brien, or the scene with the rats, or the melancholy ending at the café, or a whole host of other important characters and plot points.

Why? Because here’s the thing - Orwell came up with those ideas because he actually thought about the premise he had imagined. What would people act like in such a society? What kind of torture methods would their government use?

Even the ending scene where Winston sits at the café can have a million different things said about it when it comes to Orwell’s thought process when he wrote it. What would this government do with its victims once they were done torturing them? How would they make a public example of the power it had, without actively televising said torture? How would “normal” citizens treat these victims? What would their short remaining lives be like?

If you put the basic details into ChatGPT, though - “dystopian government, surveillance, torture, betrayal” - It wouldn’t give you the same result.

Every decision you see in a book, movie, or other piece of media that you love is there because the author got stumped at one point and had to think their way out of it.

Ask any famous author about their writing process. Read or watch any interview. There will always be a point where they had no idea where to take the story next, and some of the parts about those stories that are the best are the ones that came about from writer’s block.

Hii I wanted to draw this trio @irunaki @rayoflight-1850 @monokumasans cuz theres like a part of me that wants to see ppl happy suddenly activates out of nowhere🧍‍♀️ so i made this + cuz they're so cute, I like your friendship and their drawings together are adorable so I thought of drawing something for them might strength their friendships more yk, idk 🤷‍♀️

I hope you like it srry If I drew a mistake with your designs, Anddddd I hope I got your interests right! :->

And @monokumasans I know this is like your oc-you, idk how to name it and not like really you uh idk I started drawing in early November when u posted this design I liked it but then I realized you put this as ur oc cuz I wanted to like draw YOU, yourselves guys, but I ended up drawing @monokumasans oc and Aoaksjwjsii realized how dumb I am should've read the post further more but then I saw that you posted urself wearing this green clothes then I was relieved that at least you're cosplaying ur oc I mean it's u irl after all

And @irunaki I colored ur shoes beige in the green one cuz I wasn't able to see ur shoes in the vid u showed 😭😭sryyy

@rayoflight-1850 I like your vibes smm