Writing tip: If you’re stuck, have a character drink wine and make a terrible decision. Works for fantasy, romance, and honestly, history #writingcomminity #writersky #booksky - ThreadSky

darylmarez.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Writing tip: If you’re stuck, have a character drink wine and make a terrible decision. Works for fantasy, romance, and honestly, history

#writingcomminity #writersky #booksky

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absolutelynotpc.bsky.social•27 days ago

All that anti-wine propaganda is something I find very distressing!

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

*brought to you by big apple juice

absolutelynotpc.bsky.social•27 days ago

Drink Calvados! Full of nourishment and vitamins!

trqshcan.bsky.social•27 days ago

haven't written it yet but my wip is supposed to have a scene like this. only difference really is that the second mc stops the first mc from making that terrible decision

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

At least let them have a little fun first

trqshcan.bsky.social•27 days ago

they do, dw

awadewjamandbread.bsky.social•27 days ago

This my approach to memoir

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

Sounds like an editor's dream

kaypritchett.bsky.social•25 days ago

A big change in the weather worked for me once. A storm blew up and washed an old tombstone right out of the ground. 🤭

darylmarez.bsky.social•25 days ago

That's one way to do it!

dreverettmann.bsky.social•27 days ago

Also, readers are much more forgiving of random bullshit that gets a character /into/ trouble than random bullshit that gets a character /out/ of trouble.

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

drunk antics>sober apologies

drakenescio.bsky.social•27 days ago

Think I'll invert that.

Character does something rash because they can't have a drink right damned now.

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

drakenescio.bsky.social•27 days ago

Technically, she already did in the first chapter.

I need to finish some prep work and put her through the wringers of plot & consequences.

zjwestbrook.bsky.social•27 days ago

My next full novel has the president of a shipping company drinking wine and deciding she needs to talk to some prostitutes because her brother got in her head about an unpublished news article.

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

Is she hiring?

zjwestbrook.bsky.social•27 days ago

She does threaten a doorman with hiring him as her personal footstool.

capnraye.bsky.social•27 days ago

Wanna add even more chaos to this idea?
Give yourself a list of things your character could do, and roll some dice to decide what drunken shenanigans happen!

It may be so silly you *have* to write it.

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

That sounds dangerously irresponsible--I like it!

capnraye.bsky.social•27 days ago

If I learned anything from playing D&D is the dice know how to tell a story! It may not be the one you are planning on telling but it's a story!

celiaroan.bsky.social•27 days ago

What about ~I~ drink wine and then write? XD Although that could be the bad drcision o_o

darylmarez.bsky.social•27 days ago

Be sure to report back with your findings

celiaroan.bsky.social•27 days ago

Hahaha! It would be like that episode of Black books when they try to write a children's story.
While I write it'll be flawless and fantastic, but the day after it may possibly be completely illegible and written in tongues =D