#things i learnt

Interesting thought. I had never heard of the Forer Effect before.

Found this definition when I looked it up. So I learnt something new today.

These are a few of the weird and wonderful things I learnt writing my first fic, The Real Great Perfumers.

Please feel free to add your own revelations …

#1. You can change your mind

Just like any other run of the mill consulting criminal, you can decide to change your mind about killing a character. Yes. No. Yes. In fact, it's much more important (if you are going to kill them) to do so when it makes sense as the story progresses rather than when/where you originally thought you would.

#2. There are consequences to incapacitation

If you are planning on incapacitating one of your characters, seriously consider how this will affect their subsequent physical activities before you do it. A large amount of alcohol (or in my case, a catheter to the penis) is not particularly conducive to vigorous sexual activity ... or any activity really ...

#3. Inconvenient lube can provide a very convenient plot twist

Unless your characters are superheroes and can conjure the snip of a lube cap opening out of thin air, they are going to face the same logistical challenges as regular people. Rather than magically solve their problems for them, see if they can find a way through the sticky situation themselves (yes, pun intended 🤗).

#4. Reader input is awesome

Your readers trying to guess what happens next or telling you what they thought was going to happen can lead to some truly wonderful plot inclusions (cue entrance of a warm, cuddly Detective Inspector on vacation).

#5. Remember to have fun

Finally, the more fun you have, the more fun everyone will have. Write when you feel like writing, be that 5K words without editing at 3am in the morning, or a single hastily scribbled line of dialogue in a notebook. Allow yourself to daydream about your characters just as you did BEFORE you self-inflicted the paralyzing pressure of writing a multi-chapter fic. And always remember why you are doing it - coz you fucking love these characters, their story, and this awesome fandom!

I remember the first days of college in a different city: I didn't know anyone there and it felt kinda uncomfortable; not to mention travelling for a few hours and the continuous rain weren't making it better mentally. I wasn't really open back then, but I trusted that things would have changed. In fact, I started speaking with a girl I had been seeing for a couple of days on the bus and then in my class, and we became friends. And then other two girls came in, so after a couple of weeks we had our group made.

In high school I used to play with my classmates in the hallway, in between lessons. We used to dance or sing or just do some fun nice things together. So it felt normal to me to do the same with a guy in college (ofc we were in the same course and we had been speaking for a while by then). We were dancing while waiting for the lesson but one girl of my group came in and totally looked at me judging me hard (she didn't like him much, dunno why), and then the other 2 followed. I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong, we were just having a little fun like friends? She probably had been used to something different Idk, maybe in her mind this even meant being "easy". Probably if I had been dancing with a girl it would have been better or okay. Idk. We'll never know and that's okay: it's useless to think about the whys now. She didn't tell me anything and I didn't ask (I should have though, but again I wasn't that open back then). I just stopped doing that. The guy ofc didn't tell me anything. But she acted as if it was wrong to talk with this guy or deal with him, while I found him okay? Nonetheless, I didn't speak much with him anymore (still he once offered me a ride to the station after an exam we took together, so that I could take an early train to go back home). And as for the girl, we have stopped talking, I don't even know why. She did it all. Sure I had to let her down once (and I'm still sorry about it) after the college ended, but... yeah I think it just happened cause of a bunch of situations we both were mentally in.

Never believe you've learnt all the lessons. Life will fuck you up with some next level misery, but at the end you understand the shit

If you think it can't get worse, it will. God thinks he's funny

Be grateful for everything. Literally. For being able to breathe and eat on your own and shit. Else life will make you value these things. Speaking from experience. Almost choked in sleep.

God doesn't have a name. God isn't George neither Joyce

26 everybody!

# There is a big Difference ...

Respect is earned; Popularity is gained....

While you can gain all the popularity in the world; If you are not respected enough you haven’t earned or learnt a single thing in your life...

Respect takes time to build such as an empire ; but only one wrong battle can shatter it to pieces.

And it might never be the same way again ...

While

Popularity is a one day’s work(A Facade) ...

It can be for the wrong and the right reasons ...But whatever you do, it cannot be destroyed so easily ...and seems to spread like fire no matter what ...

20 non-degree things I learnt at university

Last year I finished up my three year Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Microbiology and Immunology. This year I’ve taken a year off and had a sit back and really had to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve been applying for degrees recently and it’s got me thinking back on my time at uni a fair bit. There have been a lot of thoughts in my head, so I thought I’d write them…