Okay so a production of Hamlet that ends with “Goodnight, sweet prince,” etc. and then Horatio looks up and sees the audience for the first time and is both shocked and furious, because his world is falling apart and you sat there and watched.
me dividing my personality between my ocs
"he said you were so beautiful it made him shudder"
Saoirse Ronan as Jo March in “Little Women” (USA, 2019)
a quick little doodle I did for my fic while procrastinating. It's about Grimm Reaper!Haru (writing omnipresent characters is my new fav thing)
give it a read if you're interested: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15660843
I’ve said it a bajillion times and I’ll say it a bajillion more: motive.
It fixes 99% of writing problems.
Scene is boring? Give the characters a motive. Character doesn’t feel real? Find their driving motives behind their worldview and actions. Tension missing? Find a motive and prevent the anyone from getting what they want.
Dig into those passions, however big or small. Prevent characters from reaching it, make it glaringly, blindingly obvious what they, in their deepest parts of their soul, crave.
Motive motive motive.
My brain: New story idea!! Must write now!
Me: okay… what’s the plot..?
My brain: Hmm, plot? No, no, no, none of that here, my good friend, my good sir, my good ma’am, but may I offer you an overall general Vibe, an aesthetic if you will, a vague feeling to convey, a-
Hi! I'm Kit I write and occasionally do other stuff
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