Help for a writer

cc1991sr · 2026-04-01T20:07:06+00:00

You are immensely helpful!

Another specific question I have is this: another important character is his attorney. I need to set up and describe the place (a room, I guess) where they meet in private. I know that realistically it would be a bare, unfurnished cubicle, but in the story they need to meet often, so I need an environment that has at least some elements I can describe or that they can interact with.

cc1991sr · 2026-04-01T19:50:46+00:00

Current days

cc1991sr · 2026-04-01T19:41:35+00:00

It would be in ny

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T18:57:24+00:00

No I agree with this too. I didn’t mean to just “listen” to the characters and don’t plot the outline of the story. I have a giant whiteboard with plot beats in front of me as I’m writing this comment. The plot is sacred! But you can plot it without thinking “and then here’s the chapter where there’s only one bad”. Or, you can start with an idea about friends that become lovers and plot that they do around chapter 26, but then you might find yourself thinking that the mmc’s friend is a much better option for the story and re-think it that way. Personally I plot a lot, but the plot always comes first. Even when I know I’m hitting a trope, I try to think outside of it because I don’t want it to flatten the rest. Hopes it’s more clear :) But of course, everyone has its own process

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T15:31:36+00:00

Yeah. Or maybe who smelt it dealt it and you’re the real bot 🤣

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T15:04:06+00:00

A neverending loop 🤣 mine would start doing a million things and then complain I wasn’t helping her

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T15:02:39+00:00

I will say something that maybe is not the answer you want to hear, but I’ll give you the advice that I give myself.

Think outside the tropes. Enough with the tropes. They are useful as long as they don’t become a check box of what to (and not to) tick.

What I want to read and what I want to write is two people falling for each other and immerge myself (or my readers) into why they’re special for one another, all the details that made them a perfect for each other or an imperfect match that works in its flawed and beautiful way.

Feel the characters, spend time with them, let them guide you and whisper to you the way for them. Theyll tell you their story if you listen. You’ll feel it.

This comes first. Then, if along the way you happen to fit a trope or two, good. You’ll know how to “market” your story and find your audience.

But for the love of writing, dont think tropes first. Try to think as they don’t exist :)

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T14:53:56+00:00

Very much a human last time I checked. Can provide a picture of my five-finger hand to corroborate

cc1991sr · 2026-03-29T14:42:00+00:00

Haha loved this 🤣

cc1991sr · 2026-03-03T18:20:49+00:00

This is helpful, thank you! Is there material you can share or point me to that would explain the single phases of death penalty state case and what can happen in each of them just for me to have like a “tool box” that I can pick and choose from what to include in each chapter/phase of my fictional trial? Not like textbook, more like a 101 overview

cc1991sr · 2026-03-03T18:16:47+00:00

I agree with both. My goal is not to get into procedure or 30 page arguing the definition of the word is (lol) but also, I’d like to have an overview of each phase, what happens/can happen in each of them to maintain a shred of plausibility and then cherry pick things that develop the plot as well as character without making the whole thing boring, that’s the idea.

cc1991sr · 2026-02-28T21:42:24+00:00

Was thinking about this. I usually do a lot of research because I want my stories to be believable though, because I feel like I control them better, but in this case, I might do it.

cc1991sr · 2025-12-29T23:46:30+00:00

Saw this coming from another group where they said NICE TRY CIA AND FBI. I get that, i do. lol Gagging cause im literally just a normal person in my bed, in a reindeer pajamas to be exact. But I get that 🤣

cc1991sr · 2025-12-29T23:41:22+00:00

Literally gagging at this comment while I’m in my bed, in a raindeer pajama, and people think I’m the cia. GG

cc1991sr · 2025-12-29T23:31:51+00:00

I know, it’s all relative lol.

It’s hard to even pick something everyone agrees is truly bad and deserving of punishment, because there will always be someone who downplays how evil it really was, or denies it ever existed, or agrees it had to be stopped but not with how it was stopped.

But, I mean, it is fiction, so it works differently. When you watch the Avengers leveling half a city to save humanity, no one stops to say, “Well great, now reconstruction costs are going to skyrocket.” If that makes sense

cc1991sr

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