#wrteblr

This Tumblr is about becoming real — as a person and as a writer.

I’m the author of Scamdalist, a book about manipulation, survival, identity and the strange ways people rebuild themselves after being broken.

I’m not here to spam links. I’m here to meet readers, writers and people who understand that stories can save us before they sell anything.

(posting this kinda late, yet technically on time so lol)

Hello all!

My name is Kyu. I'm a creative writer that has mainly written fanfics up til now, but am starting to focus on scriptwriting my original stories for Black (girl) joy-centered animated series and/or comics! I have a history of doubting my writing ability when it comes to original stories since I have to build the universe & characters from the ground up, so I've never put a great amount of effort into writing them at all.

That will change this month as I join CalmWrimo - a November writing challenge created by @winterandwords that counters the wellknown NaNoWriMo. Instead of writing to meet a goal of 50k words by the end of the month, those who join will set their own self-care, word count, and/or any other goals in relation to writing!

Tagged by the lovely: @aquadestinyswriting tysm!

I'm tagging:

@dogmomwrites

@scmalarky

@did-i-do-this-write

@isabellebissonrouthier

@janetm74

@my-cursed-prince

@imbrisvastatio

Snippet from Cardinal Sins:

The hollowed out river was absent of water, instead what grew from deep within its basin were enormous ferns. Their lush tendrils curled in acknowledgement in the bright sun, their stems thick as tree branches and disappearing to the depths beneath. Roman stares up at them in awe, utterly absent of words. "What do you seek, little fish?" They ask him in chorus. "Help," he whispers. Their laughter is gentle, amused but in an almost motherly sort of way. "And how may we help you?"

· Thesauruses are crucial for writing, as they give you different words that have the same meaning, it stops you from repeating the same word (like said) too many times. Here’s my favourite online thesaurus that I use

· I see a lot of people saying “No, you shouldn’t write for yourself! That’s self-entitled and incompetent!” but that’s exactly where you should start. Write something for yourself, give it a week, vomit at your cringe and write a new, better story, or drabble, and repeat until you get good. That’s what I did. My writing before The Story of a Toy was SO BAD. Back then I just wrote drabbles and ideas on things I liked, and I guess I just got better the more I wrote, of course, I still have a long way to go.

So practice makes perfect! Also, if you start out worrying about what you’re writing, you’re going so self-conscious you’ll lose your writing spark.

· Characters. I see a lot of fics with other people’s characters (or OC’s) where the OC either 1) It’s ALL about them, they’re the main character now bub-bye everyone else, everybody loves them.

2) eDgY tRaGiC bAcKsToRy everyone hates them and everyone loves them they hate life and everything in it. (This can be done right if you research depression and make the story more believable, as well as interesting)

3) They don’t do anything at all, they just blend into the background because the author doesn’t want to disrupt the canon more than they already have by adding their characters.

My advice is to try and avoid these tropes if you can.

Let your original character exist in your writing, in the story you’re writing, let them have different opinions on things to the other characters and have someone not exactly like them, give them realistic flaws that actually make them weaker instead of making them cute, and if you have to ship them with someone let it take time to develop their relationship through a few stories, and let the canon character fall in love realistically instead of on-sight.

And write for other characters, not just your OC if you have one.

· If you don’t have an OC and you’re just writing about the canon characters, keep them as in character as possible, but don’t stress out about it. you know what helps me with characterization without stressing me out? Alignment memes. They help me figure out what the character would do in this situation without making me feel scared, because they’re funny. Also, watching the movies/shows/reading the books about the characters helps too, just make sure to have fun otherwise you’re not learning anything.

Also, if you’re writing about a character that doesn’t have much of a character arc, say I minor character, feel free to give them a personality. Keep it canon, of course, but (and this goes for any character you write about) let them change through your stories. Give them lessons, let them get scolded by their mistakes, let them be more than what they are through others eyes and let them see a whole new side of this character that opens up your eyes.

Like what Liz Brasswell did with Wendy in Straight on till Morning I guess.

· Read blogs and YouTube websites about writing tips if you can, (I’ll link my favourites at the end) and of course, to be a writer you must be a reader first, gather all your favourite books and read them, what do you like about them? Is there a specific flaw in a character you like, or the style of the writing?

I love Liz Brasswell’s and Danielle Paige’s styles of writing, and Matt Haig, too. Find writers that inspire your own style.

Or movie directors, or movies in general. But of course, don’t let your own stories be straight-up copies of those movies, even if you’re writing fanfiction no-one wants to read something they know by heart unless you’ve added something interesting to it, a what-if scenario or something.

Reblogging fics.

Bakit po ako yung habol ng habol? Marupok lang ba talaga ako? Bakit kailangang ako yung laging nagpapansin? Kasi hindi ako pansinin?

Why am i always chasing something that in the end will not be mine? Pagod na pagod na po ako humabol Lord, pahingi naman ng konti importansya, pahingi naman ng konti pabor mo.

Who thought we could escape the dark

If we burnt only a bit brighter

But all that burning never made us shine like stars,