THE LOWER DEPTHS (1957):

In decaying shack

Residents cope with the slumps

Search for any hope

THE LOWER DEPTHS (1936):

A charming poor thief

Falls for landlord’s abused niece

Baron out of luck

They said I'm stuck with my brain forever.

Do I have to be stuck with my heart, too?

Doors

I am rooms within rooms

Doors lined with iron 

Be careful to not get lost,

Compasses do not work here...

what if i made fursonas for each of the dead poets... would anyone want to see that or would i get stoned to death

the big four | soldier, poet, king

Writing Advice: Give Your Characters Agency

Have you ever read a story where it felt like the protagonist was being personally guided by the author?

When a character has to always rely on their love interest, friends, allies, and even enemies in order to get from point A to point B

When the only reason a character is even on their journey is because they're the "Chosen One" or God themselves is literally dragging this random along.

Well, you probably hated this character because they lacked Agency.

Agency is defined as when a person makes a specific action, hoping to garner a certain result.

Agency is goal, motive, and plan. A person wants(motive) something(goal) so they try to get it(action).

Based on this definition, it's incredibly hard to write a compelling protagonist and story without agency.

Agency is what makes an interesting plot as plot is based on "what is a character willing to do in order to get their goal".

If your protagonist never tries to do anything and whenever they do try to do something, it never impacts the surrounding world either negatively or positively, you've managed to written a story that has squandered all it's potential.

You might be saying "What about characters who are trapped in these circumstances, trapped in general, or Fate?"

Well let me tell you, I don't know where you got the assumption that all abused/kidnapped individuals just stopped thinking and desiring when the abuse happened but it's wrong!

Also, for the Fate thing. You could have your characters actively fighting Fate? Nevermind if they succed or fail!

You could have the existence of Fate be a plot twist?

There is just no proper excuse to not write a character that doesn't make decisions to get what they want!

If you didn't want to write a Point Of View character that interacts with the world you could've written an omniscient character who is travelling around. Or a narrator who is reading the journals of the actual main character(like in Book Thief).

If you didn't want to make this character have an impact on the world, you could have chosen a different character to be the protagonist!

Meu ser se enche de pesar

Com o que pode ser o nosso último encontro.

Um adeus inconsolável se espalha no meu olhar,

Mas a quem culpar além do meu próprio ser?

Não me preparei para sentir,

E minha reação a isso é fugir.

Pois não consigo controlar

O medo e o caos que cercam meu olhar.

Estou sem respostas para suas perguntas,

E não posso ser a força que você precisa.

Perdido em minha própria confusão,

Resta-me apenas o silêncio

E a sombra de uma decisão.

Fábrica de Emoções.

Writers Block Part 3

"Snowbound Memory"

Can’t waste your own time.

Use your hours as capital.

Improve! Level up!

I wonder if there is any relation in TIWYCF “lightning strikes every time she moves” and The Prophecy “thought I caught lightning in a bottle”

they're planning vacations like they're counting their knuckles

your hearing skips out on you and your plants need repotting

complex character motivation that has taken hits on the chin

fiction isn't fun when you're the one living it

-Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa

Je voudrais être non validée.

Sans droit de péage,

suivant

mon gabarit,

Ou mon acabit.

Aller et être

D'ici (de)

Là,

Sans soucis,

Avec ou sans oublis.

Mon sang d'humaine

Comme seul alibi.

So as of recently I read a passage by one of my favorite author's/writer's Edgar Allen Poe. I was rather intrigued by the narrator's chilling account in "The Tell Tale Heart, "How he committed murder and tried to hide it from the police. The way Poe captures the narrator's obsessive fixation on the old man's eye, and his attempt to prove his sanity even as he descends into madness, is both fascinating and unsettling. I found myself deeply engaged in writing a summary of the passage for my English class, as it highlights the narrator's meticulous planning and the ultimate unraveling of his mind under the weight of his guilt. Poe's ability to create such an intense psychological tension in just a few pages is absolutely, utterly remarkable. So have a listen:

“The Tell-Tale Heart; A Study of Guilt and Madness”

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator, who adamantly insists on his sanity reveals a heightened sensitivity to sound and an obsessive fixation on the old man’s “vulture eye.” This irrational obsession drives him to meticulously plan and execute the murder, convinced that his careful deliberation is proof of his mental clarity rather than madness and taking pride in his cunning and moving as cautiously as a watch’s minute hand. He carefully opens a small crevice in his lantern to focus a dim ray of light on the eye, growing increasingly agitated by the sound of the old man’s heartbeat. The narrator, consumed by fear and anxiety, ultimately leaps into the room and kills the old man, silencing the heartbeat that tormented him. After the deed is done, he feels a sense of relief, confident that the old man’s eye will trouble him no more. The narrator painstakingly dismembers the old man’s body, hides the remains beneath the floorboards, fully convinced that his actions will go undetected. When the police arrive to investigate a reported shriek, the narrator initially remains profoundly confident and calmly leads them through the house. However, as they sit and chat, he becomes increasingly paranoid, imagining the sound of the old man’s heartbeat growing louder. Unable to endure the noise any longer, the narrator’s guilt overwhelms him, and he confesses the crime and reveals the hidden body to the officers.

I loved this Disney channel show called Austin and ally. It was all about these two singers becoming friends to lovers. I remember I wrote a story (about six years ago) about these two students who met on a guest show, how they fell in love (I can't remember most details but at one point there was a cheating scandal and a noisy well meaning best friend), and what their future holds. I always loved music, and I look back and I guess there was always an Invisible string towards Can I be Him.

Can I Be Him is my Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson as Taylor Swift and 5 Seconds of Summer