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Today on “writing research”: • Regions of Italy with vineyards • Spaghetti bolognese • 🄲🄴🄽🅂🄾🅁🄴🄳

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Me: googling high-end luxury vehicles Google: Where are you, so that I can point you to the nearest luxury car dealership? Me: No

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Today on “writing research”: • Water crackers • Filet mignon • Olive tapenade • Highest-end luxury vehicles

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I’ve just had to establish that my characters live in the United States. I was so hoping to leave it out, but you can’t call attention to someone’s French background without indicating its modern-day counterpart. I’m still not naming the city, though.

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Why are people into the dystopian future genre when we’re starting to live one in real life? Because you can control how the story goes. This world is out of control.

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Another 4,000+ word chapter written. My characters do a considerable amount of talking.

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I finished typing out a chapter in my new story and it’s over 4,600 words long. That is way more than my 1,500-word chapters in “The Ringbeings”. I just have to keep this up for nineteen more chapters and I’ll have a legit novel on my hands, none of that novelette nonsense.

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I’m so frustrated because I want this one particular scene to be just right and I just can’t seem to get it.

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I have a really tense identity-reveal scene cooking, but no resolution. I need something that would make sense in the context without draining the scene of its drama. And I need the resolution to be at least somewhat pleasant, because they’re supposed to be planning for a wedding next.

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I installed Baldur’s Gate 3 on my laptop just to see how it’d go. It didn’t go well.

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My male deuteragonist has a temper “as fiery as his eyes”. I don’t address this enough in the main text, but it’s a detail I’d add later. See, I have to develop my character before I can work on character development.

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My male deuteragonist is a man of many façades and masks, yet his mate sees through them and still chooses to be with him. I wonder if this is a metaphor for something.

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We need to talk about the expiration date on that cream/those cows.

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Why don’t elves sleep in BG3, which I’m assuming carries over from D&D rules? What is the reasoning behind that?

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I’m exploring my male deuteragonist’s motives for his actions. Is he benevolent, or is there an undercurrent of something darker there? I can’t stand for my characters to be completely evil. Maybe I could settle for ‘morally compromised’.

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Trying like mad to ease into the news that my male deuteragonist is not human while he’s eating dinner with his wife and parents-in-law. How do you drop such a bombshell on two people as innocent as Chris and Sandra Bainleaf? I want there to be drama and fear, but not too much. I’m kinda stuck here.

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Today on “Writing Research”: • strongest whiskey proof • average whiskey proof • what was life like 4,000 years ago

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You ever see a name in a piece of literature and pronounce it in your head one way, only to hear it pronounced aloud later and it’s way different than you thought?

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Alexis. Cassandra. How do these names come to me?

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In the vast world of my imagination, I make the rules, and if the rules say the city has no actual name, then who am I to defy the rules?

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My female deuteragonist is named Cassandra, and she doesn’t like the name shortened. This is in line with my real-life preference to not shorten the names of my friends, unless they specify that I should do so. Also, there is one person who insists on shortening it, and she resents that person.

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Just realized that my deuteragonists are apolitical. It’s amazing how you think you can know your own character but you don’t have the full scope of their psyche until people ask the right questions.

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I have to canonize the origin of this race of beings. Space, time travel, genetic fluke? In “The Ringbeings” it was ‘an alternate plane of existence’, so I can’t use that one.

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I’m reworking the timeline on my story. Because I realized that • my deuteragonist gets married • she goes to work the following morning • it’s still morning when she quits her job • she then meets a teenager on the train What day of the week is it in this scenario?…🤔

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I’m watching a show about a 13-year-old boy and his friends (The Zack Files) and I’m relating to the dad way more than I used to. Stupid adulthood.

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I’m seeing some parallels in my writing with other pieces of media I’ve been taking in and it makes me feel… weird. Kinda good, kinda horrified. Is any creative work truly original?

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“Moonfall: Ascent Into Darkness” and it’s a story about my deuteragonists becoming corrupted by their absolute power over a situation for which they should really know better. But I can’t bring myself to inflict such disaster on my characters. I need it (in my soul) to have a happy ending.

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I ate an ice cream sandwich. It was quite tasty, but it made my teeth hurt. I wonder what it would feel like to not have super-sensitive teeth… 🤔

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Sims 3: You should only play with a few packs, even if you have all of them, to keep your computer running smoothly. Sims 4: Go ahead, play with all the packs, stuff packs, game packs, and kits. There is no light in the world. There is only chaos.

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Writing the beginning of this story over and over is incredibly similar to playing through Act 1 of Baldur’s Gate 3 over and over: I know how it goes quite well but there might be something I hadn’t thought of before, and if I never finish the beginning part I can’t get to the middle part.

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“Eternal life means an eternity of drama and chaos to clean up after.” Wow. Pessimistic much?

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I keep adding new details to my storyline and then having to rethink how to address the context with them. And of course, none of these new details are anything I’m deeply familiar with, either; so it’s kinda like blindly groping for some context for these random details I’ve added.

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Please, someone tell me why I’m still writing about a spider-human hybrid character when I have a morbid fear of spiders. It all started on a whim and now I’ve canonized it. Help 😣

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Why are so many of my story characters only children? THEY SAY WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, so I am writing about only children. There. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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To clarify: I’m not using AI to write my story. I’ve outlined how I want my story to go and then I bounce it off of AI Dungeon for fun to see what interesting story beats I can get out of it. The story is still mine. (I have a hard enough time not sounding like an AI when I write 🙄)

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My story features beings that • don’t age • don’t get sick or hurt • surpass current human standards • live forever • are essentially perfect • look fantastic It’s almost like I have a bucket list of WISH FULFILLMENT here.

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Today on “writing research”: • How long can you age whiskey? • Cucumber soup with dill

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• Wiry build • Tallish • Looks older than partner (but not a lot older) • Piercings • Tattoos? (still deciding) Here we have the deuteragonist of my current story. And also my taste in men.

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Okay, now that we’re safely past Groundhog Day, I can confess that I didn’t actually watch the movie yesterday as is necessary tradition.

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