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

At least you won’t run out of material any time soon-a lot of long running series loose steam after a while, and they don’t even make it to 27 books.

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Ozzy!

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Even though he’s basically the Snoop Dogg of the metal scene?

Actually that does sound cooler than being a disco twink.

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At least he’s the prince of darkness. What’s Edward, bar an extremely old high schooler?

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He’s pale and handsome and played by Robert Pattison.

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Ewww

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I am gonna strangle my brain

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Well, they can always have a story of their own-it doesn’t even have to be that long.

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That’s when you do a very tiny summary of a story for each, and only flesh out those that call you. Their backstory should fit on a page, like an obit.

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Welcome to the word of trying to differentiate between helpful growth and crowd-pleasing Karens.

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I like that too.

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Self-secure me?

I’d not even notice they are comparing me.

Trying to hide what I am and letting it be behind fictional characters, so that everyone believes I’m just a delusional goth and not a vampire?

I’d amp up the comparisons.

Antisocial grump?

Be ranting GET OFF MY LAWN style.

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Who wants to punch Carlos for me?

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looks at nails, sees no falsies, bippies the boppy

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Also tell him that being an anarchist is just gonna get him into trouble. He will not listen to me or his dad

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Redirect him: be an architect in the small things, see if anyone notices.

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Carlos is chaotic but again so is Donny and Sad Bai.

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yes

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Yep. Just has to be enough for you to judge how interesting each is.

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Why do people thinkt hat “whitewash” has a negative connotation that’s JUST related to ethnicity, and the character’s skin color of looking at the piece as a whole? Whitewashing means that (according to the Oxford Dictionary) it’s to:

deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something).

“most sources prefer to ignore or whitewash the most disturbing aspect of such reports”

Twitter and social media has just changed the meaning to relate it to skin color alone. Some stories just white wash the story itself because they want to attract the highest audience and have the story reach its highest potential marketability.

They don’t wanna challenge the norm, nor the reader.

It gets annoying after a while.

Tell the story you wanna tell, and the one you wanna read. If it gets popular, cool and if not, so what? You’re still gonna make money from it if you’re selling it.

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