BitzerK - Twitch
Writing an Instant story for y’all. Come and kibbitz
NEW WRITERS BEWARE
If you see a message like this in your twitter, don’t fall for it. They’re essentially farming content from you and will treat you worse than shit. I didn’t even bother asking them which piece of LGBTIAQ propaganda they liked because a modicum of research showed that they’re based in China and I know they don’t like that.
Like… I could speedrun getting banned from there, but… nah. Not worth it.
So I figured out a PSA would be the better bet. Don’t go to these people.
When in doubt - google the company and add the word “reputation”. You may save your own soul.
OTOH, I guess I’m famous enough to get spammed about random BS now?
Words I Just Wrote That I’m Proud Of
When this day came at last, I thought I would be older, Kosh mused. And wearing my own pants.
What words have caused unexpected glee in your writing, dear readers?
MRINYRATOK
I may have invented a new acronym, but one thing is certain.
I am thinking about naming some random character M’riny Ratok in the near future.
Tropes I Despise: Generic Blonde Wife
Powers help me, I am back on my bullshit.
More feminism! More critiques of how women are written! More bitching about how this could change! And so on!
Huzzah!
Call for Betas!
I’ve recently finished a short [>2K] story for All Hallows’ Read and it involves domestic abuse, murder most justified, and minor cannibalism.
I have it ready in DocX, Epub, Mobi, and MarkDown formats. Get back to me with your best contact details and I’ll send you a copy.
Around and Around I Go
Thoughts on the processes I go through and the things I use to write stuff.
My Traitor Brain
This episode of how I’m building Murder Dollhouse is already loaded with salt, so you don’t have to add any of your own grains.
I honestly tried not to get salty. This is ocean levels of salt versus my wanted dead-sea levels of salt. I was aiming for ‘freshwater’ and missed.
The Antagonistic Protagonist
Musings on the type of hero who needs to change. And why I’m planning what I’m planning for Murder Dollhouse.
Writing Problems
- *types a word and then sees that it has the notorious red squiggly line* you wanna fight Google Docs I know I spelled that shit right"
- *types a word and it turns out it is not an actual word* WELL THAT SHOULD BE A WORD"
- “I wrote the word ‘said’ in my work 124 times FUCK”
- *makes inhumane screeching noise when someone interrupts my typing midsentence*
- The blinking cursor of a blank word document
- *spills beverage on notes*
- *cat sits on laptop*
- ‘I’m in the middle of writing a good chapter and my laptop is about to die and the charger is on the other side of the room, why is my suffering so real’
- *stares off into space for upwards of five minutes*
- ‘Am I characterizing a character so well because I know the character or am I writing them as I would write myself’
- A WILD WRITER’S BLOCK APPEARED
- “lol who needs sustenance when I’m IN THE Z O N E
- Feeling like you will never be able to write well again
- Feeling relief when you get inspired and write like crazy
- That feeling of inspiration that makes you shiver and makes your nerves buzz
- oneshot? more like ‘oh-shit-this-morphed-into-a-thirty-chapter-novel'shot
- *more staring into space*
- lol what’s dialogue
- having to pee but can’t because I’m IN THE Z O N E
- being IN THE Z O N E
- Being OUT OF THE Z O N E and crying about it
- comparing myself to other writers (never do OK)
- switching POV accidentally
- BLANK WORD DOCUMENT
- Tenses
- *stares more intensely into space*
- *computer starts whirring like crazy* babe I know this writing’s fire but you need to calm down
- *looks into empty beverage mug* why
- *sees a cliché* *cringes*
- will the reader understand what I’m saying here lol I hope so
- sleep? what’s that lol
- *thinks about writing while at social events*
- *gets inspired to write at the most inconvenient of times, such as at the dentist’s or in the shower*
- *gets zero inspiration when actually has time to write*
- WRITER’S BLOCK
- B L A N K W O R D D O C U M E N T
- *stares into space forevermore*
*looks at “lol who needs sustenance when I’m IN THE Z O N E” and realizes breakfast… kind of didn’t really happen and it’s sliding down the cold edge of the afternoon*
* the growing horde of completely rabid plotbunnies
* fuck the Hump. Sideways. With the roughest of pineapples
* spellchecker versus dialect
* autocorrect versus dialect
* having autocorrect on when you’re in The Zone and not realising until you write like 15 pages and then go back to edit
* those sentences that are worse to get through than Xeno’s Paradox
* having a computer that only speaks American English when you use a different variety
* those days when you can’t fucking type, can’t fucking spell, and can’t make all those ideas go away
* carpal tunnel syndrome
* cramps right when you’re on fire
* serious research that turns into a day-long wiki walk
(via demonicae)