Edema Rue

Okay guys, I’ve got a writing exercise for you.

i do this a lot when I can’t get into a flow, on days where I’ve written a couple hundred words and deleted them and done it again about five times. So today, for example.

you take a line of ambiguous dialogue and start a scene with it (on PAPER) and write one page in a notebook of that scene. (In a notebook, so pages are smaller than if you type). If a page is too much, set a timer for 5-10 minutes. Then do it again. Start with the same line, but take the scene in a whole different direction. A really fun one for this is

“get up.”

”no.”

but today’s official dialogue line is as follows:

”Catch me. I dare you.”

you can also end a scene with it or put it in if you’ve got an idea. Do like three baby scenes, and then you can continue anything you want to, but you don’t have to. If you make anything cool, show me!

Tropes I love #2:

guy best friends

like not gays

but guys who are best friends

young, rich (or very good at stealing), powerful, famous

the ones who look at the world and know it’s theirs for the taking, who can walk into a room and make conversation stop, whose names turn brick walls into open doors, who move through life with a smile and a wink because nothing can stop them

the ones who know each other better than anyone else, because they’re too apart from the world for there to be another person

like…if Viktor and Jayce from Arcane were hotter

or what’s his nose and what’s his bucket from jujutsu kaisen (sorry I’m really bad at names in anime, I’m too focused on…other things)

Kaz and Jesper in Six of Crows

Gansey, Ronan, and Adam in the Raven Boys (that was a weeeeird book but the motivation to write from it was so worth it)

you guys know them

dancing through life, perfect clothes, perfect hair, every motion graceful and fluid and easy. always smiling, they never miss a step. Opposites, paired. Not in love, but so in tune that the world bends to them. Best friends. Brothers. 

So the place I work just opened a new escape room

guys it’s so fun

It’s the easiest to run by far and all the technical things are so fun because it’s like…a disaster in Tesla’s lab? So it’s got lots of super cool science things. And magnets. Which worked for my room earlier, but aren’t working now. Which is sad, but also fun because I get to go in and casually rub my hand against the wall and things just fall. I’m a MAGICIAN

um anyway

idk, I fear I may have gotten boring

someone give me a dark writing prompt

My friends, writing is a joy

preview of the current scene, I’ll put it on my thread tomorrow

Or or or

this world is so messed up I’m obsessed with it

@Spark of Hope, this scene finally connects Caretaker and Knights, the other ones I’ve posted here.

new career path: quit everything and frolic through the woods all day every day

not because I hate everything I’m doing, but because…

look

on a related note, the hoco dress is GORGEOUSSSSS 

I actually hate dances, but I’ve gotta do them once in a while so that I choose not to do them because I don’t like them and not because I’m scared of them

besides, how can I be stressed about stuff like that after nearly falling off several cliffs roughly 8500 feet above sea level? People should spend more time being legitimately afraid for their lives. Puts things in perspective.