#writing rambles

I'm serious. Please write it. If you need a sign to start, continue, or whatever is inbetween, this is it. Go do it.

I spent the past couple weeks indulging myself in some BookTok recommendations. While some were indeed good (Kings of Sin, my beloved), some were just...I don't need to finish my sentence there.

I DNF'd some books for the first time since I read Lord of the Flies (sorry Golding, you put me to sleep with your descriptions) and I powered through others in hopes that they would eventually get better. The general consensus I ended up getting was that I could not understand for the fucking life of me how these books got published. The writing in some of them was no better than that of a 2010s teen writing Maximum Ride fic on Wattpad for the first time, with the characterization abysmal enough to match.

I don't want to knock any specific author or book here, because I will concede one thing: they finished their books. They got them published. They're successful. For that, I commend them, because I'm still on my way there myself and I can't take that away from them. Jolly good show.

But that brings me to my point: if they can do it, YOU absolutely can do it too.

If some of these Amazon and NYT bestsellers can have prose on a Wattpad level with characters that have enough poorly-written cognitive dissonance to make Deadpool or Walter White jealous, your fleshed out, deeply intuitive, and remarkably creative epic can sit right alongside them no problem. Whether you're writing the next GoT or a romantic slice-of-life, there is a not a goddamn thing on this planet stopping you from rolling up with the big dogs.

If these guys can do it, so can you.

So, stop telling yourself you can't. Stop letting other people tell you you can't. Stop comparing yourself to these authors who, respectfully and bluntly, can't write for shit (or at least need to fire their fucking editors, good lord).

WRITE YOUR DAMN BOOK. PLEASE. WE NEED IT.

Now hear me out! Genshin, Honkai Starrail, and Cookie Run Kingdom self aware au with each of them having their own ‘creator’ but they’re all siblings. Imagine the chaos!

In my headcannon, the Genshin au creator is the eldest and is the chaos gremlin. Honkai Starrail creator (I’m calling them Aeon purely because of my laziness) is the middle child and also an absolute agent of chaos with their older sibling. The two shake hands at the amount of chaos and lore they have to deal with and analyze.

The Cookie Run Kingdom creator, the baker? Now they’re the youngest and the sweetest bean 24/7 but the biggest chaos gremlin out of the three if left unchecked. They also have the biggest crash outs when they’re pissed off.

But also headcannon, they love to go into their siblings worlds to just annoy them and do sibling things and the characters aren’t sure to just let it happen or just intervene. But yeah that’s my midnight Ted talk… you can open this up as a x reader thing!

Edit: You know, I might expand on this idea! Im calling it the Sibling Creator AU

Example/ Random tidbits:

*Lore Updates in the games.*

Creator: *Nod-Krai update* When did the game change so much?!

Aeon: *Amphoreus update* Why are we here… just to suffer!

Baker: *Beast Yeast Update every two months* Heh, I’m in danger!

————

Creator: WHO STOLE MY CONDENSED RESIN!

Aeon: I don’t know! Why you asking me?! *They totally stole it.*

Baker: They took it, they paid me five bucks to lie to you.

Aeon: You snitch!

————

*Someone really pissed Baker off while they’re having a bad day.*

Baker: Violence isn’t the answer. It’s the question.

Baker: *Pulls out their army of waffle bots.* And the answer is yes!

Creator: Baker, No!

And I want to knee-jerk into anger and go off that these are a specific sort who can't read anything above a certain reading level or were left behind by their educational systems.

This would be rude.

When really they may see the words Prologue and Epilogue and assume it's like an author forward or extra information because they are illiterate no, rude. Because it's something that's gone by the wayside in popular fiction. You don't see too many huge mainstream books with Prologues, let alone Epilogues anymore let alone ones truly part of the story.

So it's our fault, as authors.

We need to write more books that are incomprehensible if you skip the Prologue.

No more history lessons, frens. No more setting up the world with past events so old they don't directly impact the story in the Prologues.

If it's not directly related to the story it doesn't need to exist. Use them for important things that happened just before the story the rest of the book will focus on, have the events of the Prologue come into play later so if you skipped it you'll be completely lost.

Hide the real ending in the Epilogue.