My Brain: So You Are Writing A Fantasy Novel?

[on date] *winks flirtily* and btw i am soooo haunted by the ghosts of my past mistakes and how preventable their consequences were. do you want me carnally

I fucking love repetitive lines that change meaning over a piece of writing yes slay

if ever you find symbolism in my writing please tell me i’d like to know about it too

making a collection

"But let me give you the dark side of writing groups. One really dark side of writing groups is, particularly newer writers, don't know how to workshop.

"And one of the things they'll try to do is they'll try to make your story into the story they would write, instead of a better version of the story you want to write.

"And that is the single worst thing that can happen in feedback, is someone who is not appreciating the story you want to make, and they want to turn it into something else.

"New workshoppers are really bad at doing this. In other words, they're really good at doing a bad thing, and they're doing it from the goodness of their heart. They want you to be a better writer. They want to help you. The only way they know is to tell you how they would do it, which can be completely wrong for your story."

—Brandon Sanderson, Lecture #1 Introduction, Writing Science Fiction And Fantasy

yep a boyfriend sounds nice but a supreme enemy you make out with in secret sounds a lot more hardcore

she's evil manipulative two sided and cold to YOU. to ME she's my wife

i know it's a little bit toxic but nothing is more satisfying to me than when a fictional character who is generally very dignified, polite, and calm even under pressure is finally persuaded to unleash their anger and it fucking explodes out of them with enough molten volcanic rage to level entire cities

Okay but is there a premise better than "protagonist starts out alone and gradually gathers more and more and more friends as the story progresses, including former enemies they beat, because protagonist has the powers of kick-ass AND friendship on their side"? No. No, there is none better, this is peak story telling.