#magicmoon65

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Happy Halloween!! 🍭🎃🍭 Have a treat--a sketch of my OC Velia! She's a little grumpy, but she's doin' her best ;)

✏️ If you had to write a spin-off starring any character but your current protagonist, who would you choose?

EASY, clark, no question!!! i've actually already considered what it might look like to write a novella (or a full novel idk) about what happens to him before/during burned, which i think could be really interesting and heartbreaking and give readers huge insight into his character (which will be somewhat present in the main books of course but this feels like a case where more might be better?). anyway he's been through a lot of shit and it definitely alters his perception of the world and damages his morals and i think it would be fun to explore that in more detail!

YESSS that story is actually my lifeblood I read it to my mom once

I was very recently discussing this with some folks over on vent so here’s the result of that! (the discussion was centred on demigenders and agender-ness but we did talk on nb and aligned genders.)

The simplest way of describing how they feel: 

Demigirl is when you kind of feel like you’re a girl but not really, or not concretely enough. 

Female-aligned nb is similar but different, it’s kind of the opposite actually, it’s where you feel/identify strongly as nb but you also feel female in one way or another.

Note: Demi girls are not tom boys or feminine boys, gender expression and gender identity are different, which is important to keep in mind when writing nb and trans characters.

As for figuring it out? Everyone involved in this discussion said they figured it out by first, figuring what gender feels like and then figuring what a lack of gender feels like. Then, separating the “what gender feels likes” into, what it’s feels like to be a man, a women, and what gender feels like when you’re not a man or a women but still feel gender. This was done by both self examination, asking others, and reading other peoples experiences with gender and those specific identities. And finally, sorting through all of that and seeing where their experiences and feelings best fit and where they found most comfortable. 

I hope this helped a bit!

So in [THIS] post I linked a lot of posts I have about writing multiple plots, etc. I think that [THIS] post might be the most relevant for your purposes.

I think that there are probably two main ways that you can approach this, you could write the two scenes side-by-side, or interlinked, say plot A has one scene, then plot B has a scene, then plot A, then plot B, etc, so that the reader gets the sense of these two events being linked and occurring simultaneously in a meta-sense.

Or you could separate them, and have one occur earlier in the story and serve as a kind of foreshadowing/ a repetition that will increase the drama of the second iteration of the event by giving us the information we need to understand the importance of this event and the fact that it is repeating, and the significance of that repetition.

I think the key is to ensure that there are enough significant, meaningful differences between the repeated events to ensure that they aren’t exactly the same, and that the two events remain interesting even though we’ve seen what is going to happen already.