every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person
even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday
exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them
if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love
make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you
if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders
don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts
i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less
sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer
a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks
Nightberry
Sorry for the lack of art of late. Ive been working solidly on Fransweek.
But then i remembered this stupid sansest drawing and thought i would post it here.
Do i ship this? no not really….i just felt a compulsion to draw it.
sorry not sorry
XBerry by @thebluescreenofdespair
i feel like such shipper trash right now
I wanted to draw a humanized version of Ccino by @yuriyuruandyuraart
I decided to make a quick and small sketch of one situation with a humanized Rem from my headcanon.
(P.s. Yes, Rem doesn't want to comb his hair again, xd)
Delta99 by @help-im-a-gay-fish @thebluescreen
Hum!Ccino by @yuriyuruandyuraart
Rem by @thebluescreen
OG Ccino by @black-nyanko
Art (sketch) by me
This was a commission for @evaundertale and I was soooo happy to draw it! 🌺
I emidiately recognized GayFish’s Luna Light and MAN I fall in love with her design as soon as I saw her back then when GayFish just showed her Darkcream version! Also we aren’t sure who is that firegirl creator tho… If you know, please write me, I’ll tag them. Anyway I was dying from cuteness drawing this! 🌸🌺🌸
Luna Light (Cream shipchild) by @help-im-a-gay-fish
Firegirl by ??
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Edvard Munch quote
Torvus having a post study snooze in his room. This started as a doodle and that was all I had planned it to be but then I kept adding to it and adding to it… pfft I clowned on myself.
Lux exists in delta99? How? If both her parents are human men, how did they have a baby?
Dream is trans, which plays a part in it. Theres serveral ..”Incidents” that lead to Lux’s birth. She was a bit of an oopsie baby.
Really happy to see this at my local library
The long night.
Dream opened his eyes again. He hadn't really been sleeping, he'd just been resting for while. The room was dark, not pitch black but dark enough. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Cross' his chest rising and falling as he breathed. At least he was still breathing he thought for a second.
His eyes moved to the ring in his hand. He twisted it in his fingers. Over the past few hours, he'd been sliping it on and off, indecisive on about whether or not he wanted to commit to wearing it.
He slipped it on again. A perfect fit, it had always been meant for him anyway. He watched as the stone glistened brightly against the dark gloves.
Things had definitely taken a turn today, there's no doubt in his mind that he wanted to put this whole situation behind him. Unfortunately, he knew it was only going to get worse in the coming days.
His soul gave a lurch. He felt exhausted and drained. It was strange for him, he didn't usually feel sleepy. He was weakning.
Cross shifted in his sleep. With a sigh, Shattered pushed himself up into his elbow. Cross didn't respond to this movement.
He trased his thumb across one of the marks and cross' ribs. It was better than it had been an hour ago. Soon there wouldn't even be scars left. Atleast he could always rely on this code to heal him. Hopefully he'd wake up soon.
Shattered lay down again, wrapping his arms carefully around Cross' body to pull him closer. It felt so long since they've been able to be this close so easily. Even if it hadn't been very long ago at all.
Dream nuzzled into Cross' shoulder and neck bones for a moment. Cross had always used to get so embarrassed when he did that. A smile crept onto his face for a moment. But it was soon wiped away.
For all he knew, Cross hated him now. He wouldn't be surprised if he did. If that was true, he'd probably hate him more of he knew how close he was to him.
He sat up again carefully, this time fully and leant his back against the wall. He kept his hand on Cross' arm, almost feeling that him he let go of him, he'd disappear.
He wasn't sure what the morning would bring, but he knew it was going to be a long night.
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Ah, this took so long so so so so long. This is an idea I had and I needed to bring it to life. This takes place between 'nothing will ever be the same' and 'the price of happiness'
This is NOTcannon to the dark cream story unless Zu says other wise.
Credits!
Art is by me, story was written by me.
Dark cream comic and story by @zu-is-here
Original shattered dream belongs to @galacii
Original cross and dream belong to jakei95 and jokublog
Tumblr has allowed filtered tags for a while, but now they offer filtered post content too.
So you can filter out posts with certain words or phrases in the text even if no one tagged it, which is fantastic. I started using it yesterday and it’s already helped me avoid 5 different posts that wouldn’t have been caught by the filtered tags.
Go to “Account,” then “Settings,” and it will be in the Filtering section right under “Filtered Tags”
Hey since you are a fun of delta99 ccino, I wanted to ask if you had any headcannons about him? Or about nightmare? It's OK if not I was just wondering. Have a nice day <3
headcanons!
well, since in your canon version you said coffee creamer hated night, I would assume ccino’s kid wouldn’t like nightmare at ALL at first, because of how many abusive relationships he had been into, his kid wouldn’t let anyone hurt his father again- but he will eventually learn to love nightmare in the future when he realizes that he and his father were actually happy together in the end;
ccino is clumsy, but not very often when it comes to serving coffee to customers. he has this elegant and fast way of doing so- ((i always thought that carrying that plate filled with food with one hand is just impressive)) but whenever it comes to nightmare, he turns to this blushing, clumsy mess again- (but whenever ccino isn’t looking, nightmare does notice how dexterous and skilful he is with his job
ccino talks to his cats like they are humans most of the time, and whenever he’s sad, they would all come and cuddle with him (this is from experience, i have cats that do that sometimes <3)
hope you like these headcanons! there are more, but i don’t have anything in my mind right now
thank u ♥