Interesting, and IDK why I haven’t heard of this movie before now. 
It sounds kinda like something that I would write, or watch. I saw the trailer you posted, and it honestly looks good. I guess I will have to watch it now. Thanks for showing me it.
That’s very interesting. I was thinking of something that involved fighting, which I guess could link to your idea in a way. Female gang violence is interesting to me because I know it exists, but I don’t hear a lot about it.
Yes! Definitely is helpful!
Yesterday, I got a little too over excited and wrote 23 pages, 12k words of my main character’s backstory. I had previous drafts (one that’s over 100 pages) and I was summarizing, organizing, and including important details throughout this. My plan is to partially do a major character re-write.
Great progress, yeah? Honestly don’t know how long I stayed up for, I was so focused. Definitely over twenty-four hours, because by the time I was finally tired I was literally falling asleep over my keyboard.
Looked back over the progress today and realized I forgot to include crucial details and kind of fucked up on some of the information. I think what happened was I got so hyper-fixated on summarizing the different backstories that I totally forgot why I was doing that and didn’t make most of the intrugal changes I wanted to make.
I’m so upset. I don’t even want to look at that draft, but I know I’ll have to go back in and re-organize and re-write a lot of it. I’m happy to have gotten progress done, so now I have a mistake to actually fix instead of nothing, but it’s still a huge step back and I’m so annoyed at myself.
Just needed to vent a little, sorry for the word vomit! Hope your guys’s projects are going well <3. Now, I’m off to re-writing… again…
Pray 4 me.
You’re welcome 
it’s not my fave Pablo Larrain film but it’s still very good.
Cool cool. Fighting seems to be a common theme with you.
Yeah I don’t see many media around it. I know like only two works — Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates (female delinquency in the 1950s, which apparently has a film starring Angelina Jolie).
And one of my fave films Girlhood (2015) dir. Celine Sciamma. It’s about a girl who grows up in the Paris slums (Banlieues) who joins a girl gang. No connection to reggaeton but it’s got one my favourite scenes ever in a film where the girls dance to ‘Diamonds’ by Rihanna.
It’s okay to take a break. Don’t beat yourself up for it. Let the time off give you inspiration for the great scenes of tomorrow. We must live to write about life, right?
A gringo owned canteen on a Mexican beach; the Expatriate is a scruffy 60, the wife is about 35, and their son is trying too hard to make up for being half foreigner by making music for the shop. Dad likes it. Mom rolls her eyes. His peers won’t be caught dead in the tourist trap to hear his music.
I took a day off writing today, trying to catch up on reading. Still too much reading left for my liking for the weekend. I need to drop a club, but I am not sure which. All are fairly good atm
The edits I made yesterday introduced an interesting loop of an irony/unirony, not even sure what to call it.
My story is about Merlin and it’s inspired by the myth that Merlin was a son of a demon.
But anytime I mention Merlin to anyone, they immediately think that my story is just another adaptation of the Arthurian myth. It isn’t. I find Merlin mythology more interesting and have no use for kings or whatnot.
But since people kept drawing that conclusion, I got pissed off at certain point and to spite all those people, I renamed Merlin’s pet rat, whose name was previously Ralph (Ralph, the rat) to Arthur. That was my middle finger to whoever was looking for Arthur in my story. The only Arthur you’ll find in this story is a rat. And I left it at that. I got used to the rat being called Arthur and he has been for a long time.
Now an interesting development happened in yesterday’s revision.
My main character has amnesia. He doesn’t know his name. He wakes up in Merlin’s lab and meets Merlin’s pet rat who sits in a rat condo that’s named “Arthur’s Castle” (continuation of my middle finger). Then he runs into Merlin’s assistant. She keeps asking him for a name and he’s not sure if he should trust her so he tells her his name is Arthur. He doesn’t continue using this name because he doesn’t want to compare himself to a rat, but she goes through the story thinking that’s his name.
This creates a fun little skit for me to play with.
But then I realized that I sort of twisted my middle finger attempt by doing this because now even more so readers might assume that there’s going to be an Arthur in this story because what if that is really his name, right? Because we don’t know what his name is. So what if he’s THE Arthur and by the end of the story he finds out he’s a king?
That is not what I wanted… There is truly no other Arthur in this story than a rat…
I don’t know, maybe it’s okay and this works to my advantage because then when the readers find out who he really is, they’ll be more surprised. I just hope I won’t be disappointing those who want to see Arthur or scaring off those who don’t want to see Arthur.
Yeah, I don’t know why, but it is. I have a kinda half baked story idea about a fight club and anarchy.
I will check those both out as well. Thanks. And I love that song.
That also sounds like a Churroverse comedy. It’s funny when you imagine an old German hippie and his beautiful, local wife with common sense and the son being like What have I done to deserve this?
Mixed ethnicity kids catch some hell, sometimes.
Yeah, true. I am (sorta) writing about Carlos (alright, it’s a semi-idea in progress), and his Dad is Venezuelan and he talks to him about communism and he goes on about how bad it is, and his Mam’s Irish and she’s like let him catch a break, he hasn’t done anything ‘communist’ yet, look he even worked as a chef in Belfast. And then his Dad brings up about him being an anarchist.
And no one really cares about Bryan, the older brother, so he just does his own thing. He just dresses up in flamboyant clothes and has mood lighting in his bedroom and chills, unproblematically.
What do you guys think about drastic mood changes?
Here’s where my story’s at.
Since the beginning of the story, things have been progressively getting cuter and sweeter and all sorts of good vibes and then in chapter 19, bam, plot twist comes along and in a single chapter we go from sweet and cuddly to violence, humiliation and despair.
And I sit here and wonder, is this too fast of a change?
Unless the problem is not the fast change but that there were too many cute chapters in a row and there should have been a tension break in between?
I guess I have the opposite of an action story problem.
An action story needs a calm break every now and then to get a breather and care about what happens next.
Mine has lots of breathing in the first half of the story, very little external tension, maybe just internal tension.
So now when it all crashes down, it feels like a huge change.
I don’t know, I guess I won’t have a definite answer until the whole thing is done.
It’s dependent on subject. I would hate a book that slowly sinks into that hell when hell happens. Oh, let’s be soft happy and amazing with the cheater! No! Nick his nuts! So, the gradual change needs a completely different set-up… suspicion, spying, trying to gather evidence, fights, accusations, then finally the drama.
What needs to be gradual after the great bandaid ripoff, is building back to that happiness.
I mean, if it’s a midpoint or if it doesn’t overshadow the midpoint, I don’t mind sudden turns
My book has multiple moments where things clearly “get worse” with a sudden turn, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We can’t say if it’s too fast a change or not without reading your book and understanding the context. Writing isn’t something easily diagnosable from afar, or with partial information.
Seeing this after a writing session creating pirate squirrels XD
Go forth, writer soldier, with that grand idea! 
Haha it’s insane eh?
Yep.
There’s a red squirrel wielding a kitchen knife. She’s also fluffy and deceivingly cute.
Sounds like my kinda pet