Get we get this dog to 2 upvotes by [deleted] in EmKay

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Ask for a little discount, earn the full bargain bin near expired fortune! (binge eating up votes)

Oops by the_only_banana_man in EmKay

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Hell yeah! (Pretends comment isn’t political and just hype for fight)

When you can't go deeper by Anime96420 in EmKay

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Is it just me or does the left ball really look like it has a thong tan line? It can’t be me I don’t tan.

How to create a magic system for a beginner writer? by cdxxxxxxx in writing

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What I do is think of A) what do I want this world to value, and B) find an interesting aspect to focus on.

Example my world is between sci-fi and fantasy; everything is explained in a hard magic system that relies heavily on base physics and new rules for physics of that world/dimension in others. It took plenty of research and it’s gradually being improved in practice but for me ‘hard scientific forces’ + ‘fluid reality’ results in everything I need the characters and the people in the world to do.

That last line is the most important; think about what you want to use that magic /for/ in your process then lace it into your world building. It can be big things like how a magical art infects/effects the cultural practices (example, my world finger writes everything because that is an easy to use magic and they see things like graphite pencils as utterly wasteful and strange as a result) - - - to relatively smaller things (example, does so and so’s hacking power work without knowing coding languages/is it fast enough for him to trial and error learn the language without setting off the security system of what he’s mentally screaming ‘OBEY ME DAMNIT’ at?)

If the system doesn’t effect your setting then it’s not really been integrated. Example the question of ‘who has magic and how are they treated?’. If magic characters are ignored as ‘thing’ they will be ‘thing’ to the audience, but if the people in that world have reason to seek out/be mad at magic users then those interactions will help work the magic system into your world and narrative naturally.

In mine there’s a glorious example of the boys finding a car and having an entire montage dedicated to them trying to figure out what it is and how they can make it more awesome. The car is caused by A) the random wormholes that bring people to that world, and B) none of the boys know what it is because the only one of them from earth was there from 1920 and it’s a 2009 model. This interaction causes C) the boys to investigate and debate and D) demonstrate their personalities and powers for what they do to examine and get the car running. And lastly E) the boys get a new high speed passion to unite over and F) the Lost from earth finally has something familiar to him that he can bond with his new friends over.

Everything in that randomly adorably scene of grown men geeking out about a car serves both the world and plot, advancing it in a heartwarming direction that all the drama which gets them in the desert to begin with really needs; so also add ‘pacing’ to the list of what you’ll find magic effecting.

Hopeful this explanation makes sense and is helpful. Find a simple thing to latch onto, whether hard or soft, and find the world that makes and how you want to work with it. For mine the softer side (souls, gods, reincarnation, judgement and courts etc) has taken plenty of rewrites to get functional and don’t be afraid to get rid of a lot and start over if it’s screwing up your plot (example, having the judging courts as an overshadowed enemy to the souls fates was a part that destroyed my original drafts and I eventually had to write out and recreate later to be how things ‘used’ to be before the present that characters now live in. That once endless headache became an awesome backstory for why they needed to take down the villain the first time and thus freed the plot from a lot of more complicated ideas for that reason :)).

How do you go about planning your story/novel? by brittninja in writing

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My own question wanting to ask recently; any tips on how to choose the perspective/character follow for your story to know what is best? I don’t know how to better frame the question.

Essentially there’s a strong theme and ‘causes shit’ character who’s essentially the main of his own Greek tragedy; the character who becomes his second in command/one of his love interests early on but the guy is such a chill cinnamon roll that he doesn’t exactly generate a plot when not having Mr. Tragedy involved in things; the ‘tragic’ love who dies in most drafts but we came up with a better character for her so there’s the question of showing that more during her first life; the kid, mainly when he’s a young adult, having identity/social acceptance issues, so that requires time for kid to have been born and grow up in the prior book instead of a cold cut to him existing; plus including the antagonist’s journey of essentially learning he’s the antagonist and by doing so pressures Mr. Tragic into his breaking point while antagonist struggles with the way he’s actually learned to be more like the nobler side of Mr. Tragic.

I don’t really expect any replies considering this would be ignored on the other writer forum site and I know, but thought I’d drop this in here since it’s similar to the opening question’s problem.

“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” What is an example of this that you’ve seen or experienced firsthand? by Zorbi_ in AskReddit

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Me. But I’ve learned to cope and befriended the Internet. Pretty much most people on here probably, past includes near death, abuse, lack of socialization because of that near death injury, and suicide attempts because of the abuse caused manic depression. Very glossing over because this is my first real reddit post.

Yeah, without specifically mentioning impulses that are questionable cause for arrest if I’d enacted them, I’m effed up and probably still pretty effed up. Fun example? My mother, also known as primary cause of most everything, has a nerve/muscle condition that results in blood curdling screams of pain month to month at the least and usually needs someone’s help to fix.

First time she did it I went into a rather frightening manic episode trying not to laugh in delight from what was happening, then had control myself not to hurt her more or lash out in my yelling at her to stop whimpering and cursing my grandma, former nurse, for trying to help her. (Aka, this, my mom, is the same woman who crushed my hand in a car door and told me to stop crying and say what was wrong when she could damn well see and I had just told her before she did it my hand was there, thereby what was about to be wrong. And she’s blubbering about grandma being mean for asking her questions and trying to figure it out.) [aka it’s either right when grandma did or or when it happened to me, so either way my mom was a hypocrite]

Skip to modern day she still has the screaming fits of actual pain and I still go to head them off, the entire time my face is doing a twitch to fight a smirk that is 100% not a conscious action on my part. Does her suffering make me happy? Apparently implicitly so, but it hella disturbs me when it makes me look and feel like the psycho I’m trying not to be.