The Hidden Door Chat Thread

[Cluckcluck1215]

when I create characters I've taken to picking a personality type for them from the 16 personalities thing. That way if I loose track at some point of what a particular character is like or how they're different I can go back to that and re-find them

That's actually a really good idea!

Trust me, I do too. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love Kevin, but Toby is a lot easier, and more fun to write. XD





Thank you, this is actually really helpful!

Of course! I'm glad I could help.

 

[Rose Quartz]

OMW I may have forgotten about Nat chasing Korim down.

Also... I'm dying here now, because it's one of my characters he's attempting to flirt with. She would totally be egging him on too. Help me, WHY?

 

[Amer]

p a i n

I very much agree.
When Kipp got all upset I was like :,( their relationship is breaking before it even started I don’t want to write anymore

The emotions are strong
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I don't know. Amer made me cry. It's her fault. I don't think your writing is laughably pathetic. I just miss Toby.

I’m sorry but I’m also kinda proud

OMW I may have forgotten about Nat chasing Korim down.

Also... I'm dying here now, because it's one of my characters he's attempting to flirt with. She would totally be egging him on too. Help me, WHY?

Because because

 

[Rose Quartz]

I very much agree.
When Kipp got all upset I was like :,( their relationship is breaking before it even started I don’t want to write anymore
yes
I’m sorry but I’m also kinda proud

Because because

WELL! I WAS MAD AT YOU! How DARE YOU! I don't know how I managed to keep him from bawling.


I didn't let him leave, cause it would have been near impossible to fix if he did. Hooray for Noah giving me an excuse for him to stick around. And also Take not being there right at that moment....

I'm not sure I'll be writing more tonight, it's pretty late and I should sleep so I can be a human tomorrow. Ni ni!

 

[HeavensHens88]

21 years.
Twenty one agonizing years, and yet she could count maybe a handful of times she had let another see her tears. Twenty one years and every single time she looked in the mirror and covered her hazy and reddened eyes with a grin that could fool just about anyone. Twenty one years and every time she had wanted to scream so hard she couldn't speak, she had muffled it and silenced herself. Twenty one years and rarely did anyone see her cry.

if river were here she'd know why it was this out of everything that broke me
but she isn't and I have to shatter alone

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

if river were here she'd know why it was this out of everything that broke me
but she isn't and I have to shatter alone

you're welcome

 

[HeavensHens88]

The emotion in all these posts.
How- how can you guys write so well?!
I’m in awe. Whenever I try to write anything that has some sort of emotion, especially sadness, it comes out either laughably pathetic, or like I’m trying too hard. XD

Honestly, I think it feels like that to all of us.
Because we're the only ones who saw the creation of it.
Kinda like looking at ourselves.
We mess around with the prewriting (start seeing the little flaws), compose a few rough drafts (watch the mirror through increasingly critical eyes), make the revisions (address the imperfections), and deliver the final draft (go face the day, but drag our insecurities with us).
We can't gauge the wonderful perception that others are going to have on it because we're so consumed in picking it apart.
And, more often than not, our readers' interpretations are going to be beautifully positive...or maybe not positive, but beautiful, regardless.

That got unnecessarily deep and low-key irrelevant.

I don't think I express enough how much I love reading all of y'all's work. Appreciating and appraising even the smallest of posts has seriously become a massive component of my day and going without it is really sad. Further, I also think I ought to throw it out there that all of our writings have gotten to the point of being this machine that only performs at its best when all parts are at work, and when one of you goes on hiatus, it's sure as heck noticeable (like Riv right now; kinda worried about her again.)
So don't you dare ever think your writing is insignificant and unappreciated, FrAnKiE DoOdLE.
Because what it all really boils down to is the simple truth that they're YOURS.

I don't know. I don't write great, but I just try and think of how the character feels. Not just sadness, but how that sadness feels. Every tiny little detail, especially Aella because she feels that. I also try and distinguish how each character feels things. When Blair's upset, she's violent and it's very much overwhelming, and it's kind of like white-red sadness, if that makes sense XD I connect a lot of it to colors.
But El's is much more calm. But she feels every aspect of it and doesn't exactly understand it but shes very good at feeling if that makes sense.
I dont think its pathetic!! Everybody as their different ways of writing. If it was all the same it'd be boring. If it feels like its just not enough or not written well enough, I promise it's great. That's how your subconscious decides that that character should feel it that way.
(lol ill shut up now im bad at speaking I know)

w o w

no Kyndra shut your snout it makes so much sense and it's so so much
deeper
than anything I've ever even comprehended of doing with characters


kk I think I'll go poof now

when I create characters I've taken to picking a personality type for them from the 16 personalities thing. That way if I loose track at some point of what a particular character is like or how they're different I can go back to that and re-find them

it's been too long since I've done that





So like
what I do?
it's really
weird
I'll put down
one
line of dialogue
(which will sit and rot for innumerable hours)
f I n a l l y stem a few others off of that
and only then start writing actions and tags
everything stays really bare until the last like
twenty minutes
and then I throw out as many adjectives as I can come up with.
It's....unconventional, and I have no idea where I picked it.

 

[HeavensHens88]

OMW I may have forgotten about Nat chasing Korim down.

Also... I'm dying here now, because it's one of my characters he's attempting to flirt with. She would totally be egging him on too. Help me, WHY?

well well wellllllll now Nat's going to take her job as Juliana's thneed quite seriously for the time being.
So, I, too, egg on these advances.
Simply for the eventual repercussions? Perhaps!

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Honestly, I think it feels like that to all of us.
Because we're the only ones who saw the creation of it.
Kinda like looking at ourselves.
We mess around with the prewriting (start seeing the little flaws), compose a few rough drafts (watch the mirror through increasingly critical eyes), make the revisions (address the imperfections), and deliver the final draft (go face the day, but drag our insecurities with us).
We can't gauge the wonderful perception that others are going to have on it because we're so consumed in picking it apart.
And, more often than not, our readers' interpretations are going to be beautifully positive...or maybe not positive, but beautiful, regardless.

That got unnecessarily deep and low-key irrelevant.

I don't think I express enough how much I love reading all of y'all's work. Appreciating and appraising even the smallest of posts has seriously become a massive component of my day and going without it is really sad. Further, I also think I ought to throw it out there that all of our writings have gotten to the point of being this machine that only performs at its best when all parts are at work, and when one of you goes on hiatus, it's sure as heck noticeable (like Riv right now; kinda worried about her again.)
So don't you dare ever think your writing is insignificant and unappreciated, FrAnKiE DoOdLE.
Because what it all really boils down to is the simple truth that they're YOURS.

w o w

no Kyndra shut your snout it makes so much sense and it's so so much
deeper
than anything I've ever even comprehended of doing with characters


kk I think I'll go poof now

it's been too long since I've done that





So like
what I do?
it's really
weird
I'll put down
one
line of dialogue
(which will sit and rot for innumerable hours)
f I n a l l y stem a few others off of that
and only then start writing actions and tags
everything stays really bare until the last like
twenty minutes
and then I throw out as many adjectives as I can come up with.
It's....unconventional, and I have no idea where I picked it.

AJDKAJRKAHD SARAH
that is quite literally the best description of writing I have ever— and probably will never witness again —I have ever seen. I'm so deeply critical of my writing— not so much on here because yall are just about the sweetest people I've ever met — but in other writings I have literally sat there for hours because I look at it and just see every flaw. It's just my condition i guess XD
But I agree with what you said so much. We started as literally kids (most of us anyway) with scraped together sentences and messy words and grammar (that's just you kyndra) and suddenly we've evolved into greater writers and people. I can even saw for myself, no matter how critical I am, I've seen a major difference in my writing because of these rps.
And whenever someone leaves its noticable because they just leave an imprint. And I am worried about River, too. The gap where she was is very noticable, and I keep waiting and hoping to hear from her so I can have at least a little hope shes okay.
Again, unnessicarily deep and ew emotions, but I do really care about y'all.

no you shut your snout it's really a terrible depiction of what I do

okay but that's how I write lol

 

[Amer]

Sarah I didn’t get a chance to say how much I agree with your description.
And Kyndra, fabulous additional thoughts.

We started as literally kids (most of us anyway) with scraped together sentences and messy words and grammar (that's just you kyndra)

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