The Only Kind Of Sexual Tension I Have, Is With My Google Doc As My So Called This-is-going-to-be-such-a-hit

The only kind of sexual tension I have, is with my google doc as my so called this-is-going-to-be-such-a-hit wip lays on the screen with 217 word count.

Other people: Oh how I want this! I'm gonna make it happen for myself.

Me, a writer: Oh how I want this! But since this is not gonna happen to me lemme just write a book about it where I've imprinted my personality and appearance traits onto the main character as it is.

WRITING EXERCISE 101

Do you want to write visually? Do you want to write your scenes descriptively AND not get your readers bored? Do you envy the authors whose work are so indulging even if it doesn't have a fun storyline or too much dialogues? If yes, me too.

While surfing through the internet about it, I couldn't find much help. So I had no option but to devise my own practice method. And I swear on Aaron Blackford and my other fictional boyfriends, IT WORKS MAGIC.

So..... one article I found was going on and on about, think like a screenwriter, see like a poet, paint with words etc etc, and I remember thinking-- only if it was this easy.

In this method all you need is, still picture from any of your favorite movie or show (better if it is in the same genre as your WIP) and a blank document open. You don't need to think so hard like a scriptwriter or see things from a poet's perspective if you're not one yourself.

You open the picture on one side of your device and open your document on the other, and you describe exactly word by word about what YOU see. You can even refer to the context of the movie in that scene or maybe make up a new one by yourself.

Don't try to force in poetic devices if you can't think of any at that moment.

Instead, when you'll later read that piece of text again, i promise, you will get a rush of new and better ideas.

Practice this a few more times and the next time when you'll start to work on your WIP, you'll have a much better and clearer idea of what you AND your reader want to have there.

Make sure to let me know how this worked out for y'all!

Thank me later<3

Amber leaves in a gentle dance, as autumn whispers its fleeting romance.

underused tropes in writing (or ones I would like to see more):

hero and villain to lovers

*actually* unwilling hero

side character or villain as mc instead of hero

mc is evil but slowly turns good

mc is good but slowly turns evil

lovers to enemies

enemies to I-will-kill-for-you-friends

the understanding what they're saying without saying a word

street smart / brain smart

enemies who are actually very similar from the reader's pov

wants to be a hero but the journey makes them more, not less, scared

this should not be underused but: faerie/human relationships where the age difference is not of literal millennia. I get they're attractive, but if they did not have their looks—are they still attractive? why is that the going factor?

people who have tension and almost become romantically inclined but don't

slice of life

mc is the villain

symbolic magic

a human mc who is sent to live in a fantasy world

the good guys win, but at a terrible cost

the mc dies

the villain wins

people who have a happy, healthy family relationship

antagonists who truly believe they're doing something for the greater good—and would sacrifice themselves for this great cause

female characters who are strong but act feminine

gentle giant

whatever the opposite of the above is (evil minion?)

neutral magic instead of "light" or "dark"

characters who stay friends

well-written traitors

a villain who is working to redeem themselves

Writing culture is getting the motivation to go ahead with your story but not getting the motivation to ACTUALLY WRITE based on the former said motivation.