Struggling Writers’ Daily Den: rant, share, complain, ask, daily progress thing (Part 1)

[J.L.O]

@rachelsfloetry

1. the MC is supposed to be a likable/hero and 2) if bad stuff happens in the book, then that means author supports bad stuff.

3. Hell a writer can be personally wrong and write a character that is right.
4. And then some things are surface wrong, but in-depth right and is going to be wholly misrepresented.
5. And some things aren’t even a matter of right and wrong and you just have a reader on a crusade on the level of Fabio getting worked up about the bird that smacked his face on a roller-coaster ride.

But if you want to make a disclaimer in your opening thingy, to cut down on this:

“Characters bring more of their actual mythology with them than Lore Olympus.”

Forewarned means “that’s all the effs I give”, quite often.

[NotARussianBot]

I want to be a writer par excellence, so I’m going to be sharing a rough draft of my current project here soon. Do not let me forget.

[J.L.O]

Set an alarm for yourself on the site.

[DomiSotto]

@rachelsfloetry

If it disturbed/freaked you out, then that means the author did her job. I just… (sigh) Is this what readers are nowadays?

You can’t really change something about other people’s thinking or behaviour, only your own. Thing is, we can now all express our opinions and it is okay not to like char or a book. It’s just as writers we can only hope that there are more readers who like what we wrote and they are as vocal as the haters. Alas, usually the haters are louder.

Overall, the advice I heard is that doing unlikable things is not the problem. The problem is when don’t understand, don’t connect with character.

[FranklinBarnes]

@rachelsfloetry

Regardless of whether I have valid reasons for what I wrote, and even expressed that just because an author writes about XYZ doesn’t mean they condone what said characters do, but we’re in an age now where people read, and they assume 1) the MC is supposed to be a likable/hero and 2) if bad stuff happens in the book, then that means author supports bad stuff.

This sort of perspective is sadly eternal; look at all the flak that Nabokov received in his life for his books. I’m fortunate that aside from a few comments that have said I hate children, nobody’s levied these criticisms at me, though I think my critics who would be most likely to say these things simply did not read far enough to learn what to be mad about.

[Churro]

I think it’s a good concept but you have too many hours in it, from 5am to 10pm?

[Churro]

What time do you usually get up at?

[Churro]

If you tried to get a routine going, you could go from, say 8am/9am-6pm and not need so many spaces.

[Churro]

@anon39043209

Yeah, that makes sense.

I don’t know it works in some cases because there is a place I have to attend to on certain days where it requires me to wake up at 5 am in the morning.

I won’t get into the details, but that is why I made it like that.

Ah, I see. Another idea is also Google Calendars/Apple Calendars/Reminders. To do lists. You can make those there and time them.

[Churro]

@anon39043209

Another thing is that I wanted to make this simple and something I can write on.
With a digital one I might be prone to forgetting a bit.

Yeah, I get that it’s easier to just scribble things down, but least the phone has reminders.

[Churro]

@anon39043209

True, very true.

When I get use to jotting it down, I can only hope that I will go the digital route as well.

Yep, you need to get into the swing of things. My Dad started making notes on his phone and it helps him when he goes shopping.

[MiniMoxx]

One of my 2 WIPs has recently just been giving my brain trouble. I haven’t hated the book but I was uninspired and just like meh about it.
Today my son’s been a bit under the weather, so he and I have been lying on the sofa together, so I’ve been able to write all day.
All of a sudden the book randomly takes an unexpected turn and I’m like THIS IS NOT HOW I PLANNED BUT LETS GO

Now I feel all sort of inspired. No idea how my characters are going to get out of it but eh, thats the fun in Pantsing the plot XD

[DomiSotto]

Just because it’s in first person it doesn’t mean that every sentence should start with ‘I’. So just describe whatever you need for your world-building as normally. 1st person doesn’t impact it.

[J.L.O]

Yay, unblocked mental artery!

[J.L.O]

As it, I is impiled so many times.
“That paper that is due tomorrow? Did it already.”

[NotARussianBot]

It has been posted

[J.L.O]

If I can be implied, you don’t have to write it.

[copyedit]

oof, not getting as much done on this, my only true day off, as i wanted :,)

i did book another piercing that i definitely don’t need though, maybe this new time deadline will get me to focus.

[J.L.O]

It’s alright. It’s got some very specific times it properly used in English. Outside that it’s more colloquially used. The way you know you’ve “got it right” is when you read a fragmented sentence and your brain automatically gives you the missing information.

[J.L.O]

You see it most often in recipes where “you” is dropped.

“Turn the oven to 400°.”