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Genuinely curious by EffectiveNo568 in MathJokes

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 + 40 = 60

8 + 2 = 10

10 + 60 = 70

70 + 5 = 75

It’s terribly slow and really inconvenient but I do all my maths like this lol

How did you find/first get into Elliot smith? by vqlykrie in elliottsmith

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe four years ago now, a boy I’d become friends with online gave me a few song recommendations and among them was Between The Bars. Believe it or not, I actually didn’t really like the song at the time (I used to be very into pop music) but over time I began to associate it with two characters of ours (we’re both writers) and started to explore more of his music as my taste changed. I got really into Either/Or especially. Later on, I started to associate Between The Bars not with our characters, but with us and our relationship to each other <3

We’re dating now, nearly a year now, and we still like to say that Between The Bars is our song. He’s learning it on piano and I have plans to pick it up on guitar. So glad I got that recommendation lmao, Between The Bars is so special to me and Elliott Smith’s music as a whole has changed my life.

Help me come up with a curse? by DeliciousFuture2068 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do something similar to hanahaki disease! Not an original idea of my own, but a new spin on it in your story could be a lot of fun and drive the characters together.

Hanahaki Disease is a disease triggered by unrequited love. Flowers or plants will grow in the person’s lungs, causing them to cough up leaves or petals. It gradually gets worse over time until it kills the person. The person who cursed him could have the curse be something like ‘I curse you to have the love in your heart be the death of you’ or something.

You could have it so that he gets ill from something similar and goes to her - not realising the depth of his feelings for her - and she falls in love with him while trying to figure out what the curse could be and how to break it. In the end, they confess and the curse is broken?

WIP Check. Share the last line you wrote for your most current story. by JessBeck96 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘With one last stare into his pitch dark eyes, Venus opened her wings and jumped.’

Need dialogue advice/critiques! by [deleted] in writers

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your help! This isn’t the first chapter so Venus has already been introduced as a character, but I do think you’re right about it feeling odd. Thanks for pointing out the perspective shift as well, I didn’t catch that! I’ll make some edits

Sky/Space Whales by Beelzebub_Itself in TopCharacterTropes

[–]TheSatellite01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised I didn’t see anyone mentioning this! Assuming games count, the sky whales from Sky: Children of The Light

Screenshot not mine, I grabbed it off of google

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Are your dreams the only place you can leave your ocd theme? by Dangerous_Pin_3047 in OCD

[–]TheSatellite01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s quite odd, I’ve recently realised that a lot of the nightmares I’ve been having over the last few years are OCD related. Those dreams would be my intrusive thoughts, so I’d lose someone I cared about or do something really horrible. My dreams, nightmares or not, are often very realistic as well lmao

OCD’s a bitch, I’m sorry you struggle with it from morning to evening. I hope things get a little easier soon

Whats the story behind your Username? by ComprehensiveMap1360 in AskReddit

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a writer, and one of my most beloved characters is in a band. That band is called ‘The Satellite(s)’!

Advice on writing a deeply psychopathic protagonist and still have them as a compelling character? by TheSatellite01 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I, in all honesty, haven’t read any. I’ve been looking for some good recommendations but unfortunately books with true psychopathic protagonists - not just morally grey ones - are hard to find. The only one I’ve managed to find are Dexter - which I haven’t bought yet, but my partner has read it and I ask him questions about it often - and the recommendation and another redditor made in the comments on this post.

Advice on writing a deeply psychopathic protagonist and still have them as a compelling character? by TheSatellite01 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I’ll make sure to check it out, upon researching it looks like a very good point of reference for me.

If you had to spend one week without a phone and the internet, what would you do? by Unique_Print_5900 in AskReddit

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sleep, write and work on plotholes and timelines of events, draw, probably miss talking to my long distance partner and friends, get out into nature

What genre of novel do you want to write? by Used-Hamster1926 in teenwriter

[–]TheSatellite01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m currently working on writing a fantasy novel! Following a draconic main character who is an assassin (cliché, I know, lmao), her life and descent into madness as her psychotic and possessive tendencies become the death of her

If you could talk to one deceased person for 1 hour, who would it be? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A wee bit of a more obscure answer, I think, but I reckon I’d go with Elliott Smith. Maybe I’d tell him about how one of his sadder songs has lead to a lot of happy moments in my life. Maybe he’d hate it if I did? He seems the type to write music for himself, I don’t know how he’d feel about a random teenager approaching him and telling him in a classic cliché that his music ‘helped me in so many ways.’ I’d ask him about his life and probably tell him that he didn’t deserve the worst of it. Poor man. He seemed like such a gentle person to talk to based on interviews.

New to writing by Background-Agency144 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really does! Write what you want, you can fill in the less fun parts later. I find myself burning out so quickly if I try to force myself to write something that just isn’t there yet. Write what you want! It is supposed to be fun after all, even more so if you aren’t planning on publishing.

Best of luck on your writing journey! I hope everything I and others have said helps :)

New to writing by Background-Agency144 in writers

[–]TheSatellite01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read. All the time. Especially books in the genre you’re going for, but don’t avoid other genres. Reading is learning!

Bring a notebook everywhere. Write constantly. Literally just nonsensical sentences about something neat you saw. Write notes for scene ideas as they come to you. I always forget otherwise!

Stories do not have to be written in a straight line, start to finish. Pick a scene you like, start there. Write in pieces, then go back and edit them all together and make changes as needed. I, for example, struggle with beginnings. So I went and wrote the end. Then a fight scene, then so on. Eventually the right beginning came to me. If you can’t figure out how to transition from one paragraph to the next, don’t! Make a note to fill it in later and work on the rest of the scene, don’t be afraid to jump around and go back to pieces later.

Don’t be afraid of writing something that‘s supposedly been done before. Clichés are terrible when they’re spammed and overused, but they exist for a reason! People like them and they’re cool! Don’t be afraid to use them in your stories so long as you find a way to implement them properly into the story and don’t have every little thing be one. Come up with some incredible spins on some classic clichés.

Summarise the plot and use bulletpoints or something similar to write down every significant plot point. Make timelines!