The advice I've given before is to write every scene you think of, no matter if it gets used or not. Its always a great idea to go back every once and a while and edit these scenes, or revise them.
Never force inspiration or a scene. If it isn't coming naturally, take a break and come back later or the next day. it's important to give yourself time to think. use your break to day dream about your story and what could come next. if your brain is happy, this should be relatively simple. If your brain isn't happy, then you need to take a longer break, stop writing for the day all together, or write something else.
if you're a pantser, like me, and it's hard to plot. You can practice reverse plotting, and plot your story as you go. make notes of things that happen in your story, changes in a character, changes in the plot, changes in the setting, dates for events, timelines, important information that's been revealed, anything you deem important to your story.
always reread what you've already written. don't try to edit it. turn off your editor brain and reread your story so far before you resume writing, so you can get into the voice and tone that you've already established.
if you're finding it difficult to start writing or keep writing. try turning off your internal editor and free write. it's good practice to be able to write down your unfiltered thoughts or daydreams without having to stop and edit while you're writing. it helps with your writing flow, getting the scene down onto the page, and increases your writing intuition.
before you write, always take time to daydream or think about your story beforehand. it helps things go much smoother in the long run.
if you've been working on something for a long time, don't pressure yourself into confinement. if you want to work on something new but you're worried about what you've been working on, don't. stop worrying and write what you want. forcing yourself to keep writing something when you don't want to is just going to make you burn out faster.
don't be afraid to create visuals or playlists that help you with what you're writing. It's an enviable talent to be able to write something off a photo you saw on pinterest, or a song you really like.
if you find yourself in a mood where you want to write really badly, but you have no idea what you want to write, and none of the prompts you find are appealing enough. find an activity you use to destress, whether its listening to music, listening to asmr, doom scrolling on social media, or browsing pinterest. go do that. chances are, you'll find something that will inspire you what to write when you're not looking for it.
There are two types of writers:
1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'
2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'
Happy 38th Birthday to Dazai Osamu's Seiyuu (Voice Actor) Mamoru Miyano ๐๐๐
that feeling when youve written down 2k+ words and havent even got CLOSE to the main part of the fic yet </3
In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.
Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun
How I imagine Chuuya feels every time he says Osamu instead of Dazai (bc there's no way he doesn't from time to time)
โ Emery Allen, โSoft Humanโ (via lunamonchtuna)
Just a small bit of my up coming BSD soukoku one shot, "Restocking & Recharging," that makes me giggle๐ค๐ค
Starting today Iโm going to be a man with courage in his heart. When a person falls to the very depths of suffering - where he can find no escape - he is somehow able to find new courage.
Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet
So I'm writing a Soukoku fanfic and-
Good job, Google Docs, Good job. Because Chuuya's first flying by Dazai's face makes so much more sense than his fist. Yeah, totally. I understand.
โขMature Audiences 18+ - TW listed on Wattpad & Ao3 summary (links below)โข
[WIP]
Bungo Stray Dogs Fanfic with skk & sskk + RanPoe set after season 2 with various spoilers
~summary~
"What is love, and how do you get rid of it?"
Dazai doesn't typically feel any emotions, at all- or at least he can't understand them. He hates that Chuuya makes him feel emotions, specifically the emotion of love, so he in turn despises Chuuya for it instead.
And it's driving him crazy.
"I won't let you get away this time."
Chuuya is doing his best to get over Dazai, but as usual, nothing goes according to plan for him. No matter how much Chuuya tries to deny it or change them, he can't get rid of his feelings.
So he finally does something different about it.
Or:
Dazai struggles with the concept of love, and his past catches up with him from how he chooses to deal with experiencing feelings and things he thinks he doesn't deserve as someone outside of humanity; and he makes it everyone's problem.
Links:
Original:
Prologue: complete
Part 1: complete
Part 2: updating
Rewrite:
Prologue: Complete
Part 1: Unreleased
Part 2: Unreleased
โWhen I describe Dazai to the staff, there is a phrase that I always use, โan unworldlyย being with a mental age of two thousand years.โ Dazai has far surpassed the mental dimension that human can reach, thus no-oneย can even tell if the emotions he shows are the real things or not.
There are rare moments when that Dazai shows his very โhumanโ side. That is when he talks to another superhuman who is on the same level with him. The other is when he talks about his old friend who has passed.
This is the scene when Kyouka wondered โMaybe Iโm, after all, just a murderer at heart.โ and refused to be saved. And Dazaiโs reaction to that. When he said โDonโt give me any of that!โ here, he really meant it. That was an outburst from Dazai, as a 22-year-old boy, in this scene.โ
(Bungou Stray Dogs Chapter 35 - Easygoingscanโs version)
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TN: I went to the BSD exhibition in Ikebukuro today and they have Asagiriโs comments on each character and their important scene, that I find very nice so Iโm gonna find time to translate them little by little.
โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.โฐ๏ธ โ ๏ธ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ : ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญโ ๏ธ โงผแดแด แดสแดโงฝ โณ โ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข ๐ ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ซ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ช ๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ช๐๐ฃ: "๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช, ๐๐ค๐ซ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช" [๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ โ ๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ ๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ] โโ ใ๐ด๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.ใ - ๐ณ๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐
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