If People Want To Do Self Inserts In Stories (OG Or Fanfic) You Can’t Just Make Them The Protagonist
If people want to do self inserts in stories (OG or fanfic) you can’t just make them the protagonist or the love interest or the villain!!! (I mean you can but that’s too easy)
What you gotta do is make the self insert a silly little guy that pops up in the narrative arc like two-three times and fucks EVERYTHING up for the protagonist and co. It doesn’t have to be malicious, it could just be like an “oopsies accidentally ruined your plan my b” thing.
Cause if you really think about it, that’s the roll of the writer (you) in relationship to the narrative. Your job is to make your character’s life difficult in one way or another so that the story is interesting
PLUS if something (god forbid) is actually PUBLISHED, characters are gonna get cut anyways so the self insert needs to be just barely relevant enough to the plot that removing them would mess up the story arc
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Sometimes in fanfic I find myself writing ships into the fic that I don’t agree with just bc it makes the plot juicier
Like I’ve never shipped Foreman and Chase but for my post series finale fic I’m working on where Foreman and Chase go find House and Wilson 5 years after the series finale— adding ForemanxChase to the plot to make them a foil to early Hilson (which House and Wilson recognize) makes the plot so much better
im about to kill myself. just say gay men rubbing crotches.
I am s o tired of trying to scroll past this stupid Hyundai advertisement because I see it every four posts and every time it tries to open a new tab in my safari so when I try to google the most efficient way to get my dog to stfu I am instead confronted with 27 tabs of the same Korean ad campaign
L EAVE ME ALONE!!!!!
Do it! Cut off that sinful hand bby grl!! Slay!
Hey Christians
What if I stuck my hand into a machine and it shreds it to pieces?
Ok ok so yes angst that builds over the course of the narrative and ends with A and B fucking absolutely NASTY is fun and all but consider:
The arc *starts* with A and B fucking nasty once or maybe even a few times (because what else would be a better inciting incident?) and it catches the reader off guard bc isn’t this supposed to be angst? What’s the plot? Is this just self indulgent smut (which is still fine but not what the reader was expecting)
Bc A is happy about it, thrilled even. Feelings have been acted on, things are looking up…even tho they went from 0 to 100 with B it feels normal.
B on the other hand, is a disaster. Repression with a side of pride and a dash of comphet for good measure. It wasn’t until they were literally in bed with A (or a closet, or the back seat of a car) that they even considered A to be an option. At least consciously.
THATS where you get the angst, babie! The angst and the new build up comes in the same way. Arguing, distance, confusion, manipulation…but instead of it being “will they, won’t they” it’s “will they ever again” which is just so DELICIOUS!!!!
Like every time their fingers brush or there’s lingering eye contact or an absentminded comment is made it is colored even worse because THEY’VE ALREADY DONE SOMETHING! SOMETHING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED! A and B both know there’s something there because they broke the bed (or the closet door, or the car seat) so of course they wouldn’t be rejected…right?
And of course after thousands upon thousands of words of angst and slow burn and self destructive behavior they fuck nasty AGAIN but they don’t pull away from each other after
Fic over! Boom! Done! Give me your wallet!
i was born in the right era, i love dying my hair and listening to will wood and being a faggot
Use tumblr like a diary, paper and ink costs money but going to your local library and using their internet is free
quit your job. you need to spend more time making posts that are a little too honest and personal & potentially embarassing yourself on tumblr
get your life together gayboy
I find your post to be kinda silly mate. Might wanna…rethink that…before I……..
You know waht? Forget it 🙅🙅🙅
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