Writing Tips (narrative, fiction)
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This is very, VERY different from the typical writing tips you see online and at school, probably, and I wanted to share this slop with yall if ever it'll help in your stories. I initially made this as a self reference because youtube tutorials and reddit is a fricking cesspool of echo chambers and like yall have helped me more than those stuff. heck, even that one lecture i downloaded didnt have these valuable information.
I just realized plots are like big ahh building blocks of several chapters and types of mini-stories-ish stuff that you would put together, and they all serve a purpose regardless of whatever slop people push into their video channels.
LIKEEEE I noticed in fanfics that oneshots are generally a quarter, if not a half of a chapter for a paid story? Which is like, cool? Because people would think most cases character dynamics are mere "filler" or whatever obnoxious slop they say they are, but fillers generally help develop characters and their dynamics, and they treat characters as actual people than just assets for a plot.
This compilation is heavily inspired by melo/kat, croissant, many AO3/fanfiction.net writers and kiwu, I owe them so much of the skills i have today in writing. I've never read any other book as high quality as theirs, like seriously, more than half of the books I paid for cant even get to their level.
Parts of a Story
- Exposition
- Comfort
- Hurt
- Climax
- Comedy
Story Pacing
- Slow (generally for developing characters)
- Fast (action-centric)
Exposition - learning background information. Shows the personalities and daily lives of a character. Either seen at intro or climaxes (for that telenovela monologue effect)
Purpose: It answers the "who", "what", "where", "when" questions
Comfort - Initial state of normalcy or peace. It takes place before the problem arises or after. The characters are portrayed in a stable respite, and this type of scene generally shows the bonding and dynamic between characters.
Hurt - The conflict, either internal (character vs self) or external (character vs character, nature, society, fate, technology)
Purpose: to create tension, demonstrate the stakes, develop characters through their struggles and make the audience care about the outcome
Climax - This is the peak of the story's tension and conflict. The character makes a decisionmusing their developed skills to resolve conflict and provide the emotional payoff for the buildup tension. Think of this as a drop for an EDM song.
Comedy - the filler that showcases a character's beliefs subtly, relationship dynamics in a humorous situation. It consists of witty one-liners, clever dialogue, and could be satire, irony or sarcasm.
Purpose: It provides social commentary or criticizes societal norms through humor.
I just realized plots are like big ahh building blocks of several chapters and types of mini-stories-ish stuff that you would put together, and they all serve a purpose regardless of whatever slop people push into their video channels.
LIKEEEE I noticed in fanfics that oneshots are generally a quarter, if not a half of a chapter for a paid story? Which is like, cool? Because people would think most cases character dynamics are mere "filler" or whatever obnoxious slop they say they are, but fillers generally help develop characters and their dynamics, and they treat characters as actual people than just assets for a plot.
This compilation is heavily inspired by melo/kat, croissant, many AO3/fanfiction.net writers and kiwu, I owe them so much of the skills i have today in writing. I've never read any other book as high quality as theirs, like seriously, more than half of the books I paid for cant even get to their level.
Parts of a Story
- Exposition
- Comfort
- Hurt
- Climax
- Comedy
Story Pacing
- Slow (generally for developing characters)
- Fast (action-centric)
Exposition - learning background information. Shows the personalities and daily lives of a character. Either seen at intro or climaxes (for that telenovela monologue effect)
Purpose: It answers the "who", "what", "where", "when" questions
Comfort - Initial state of normalcy or peace. It takes place before the problem arises or after. The characters are portrayed in a stable respite, and this type of scene generally shows the bonding and dynamic between characters.
Hurt - The conflict, either internal (character vs self) or external (character vs character, nature, society, fate, technology)
Purpose: to create tension, demonstrate the stakes, develop characters through their struggles and make the audience care about the outcome
Climax - This is the peak of the story's tension and conflict. The character makes a decisionmusing their developed skills to resolve conflict and provide the emotional payoff for the buildup tension. Think of this as a drop for an EDM song.
Comedy - the filler that showcases a character's beliefs subtly, relationship dynamics in a humorous situation. It consists of witty one-liners, clever dialogue, and could be satire, irony or sarcasm.
Purpose: It provides social commentary or criticizes societal norms through humor.