Anonymous 2021-08-01 (Sun) 08:34:14 No. 18641
>>18640 It's possible (some people have trouble picturing objects or concepts in their heads) but I think the best is to just
A) read a lot of wordy literature, expand your vocabulary
B) whenever you see a situation, a conversation, or whatever, try to step back and place yourself as one of the people and empathize with them, just let the words that come to mind go on paper, and then reorganize and clean it up afterwards.
Anonymous 2021-08-04 (Wed) 01:07:36 No. 18750
>>18641 >It's possible (some people have trouble picturing objects or concepts in their heads) but I think the best is to just Thing is, I never used to have trouble picturing things, but it seems as though my imagination has become tired and using it for extended periods of time, say, long enough to write a decent scene, feels laborious. I used to have a better flow of ideas and emotions, but now I struggle to even come up with a conventional metaphor, let alone a novel one.
B) whenever you see a situation, a conversation, or whatever, try to step back and place yourself as one of the people and empathize with them, just let the words that come to mind go on paper, and then reorganize and clean it up afterwards.
That's good advice, thanks anon. Any book recommendations?
Anonymous 2021-08-04 (Wed) 01:18:58 No. 18751
>>18750 >now I struggle It's because of social media and the internet, no joke, this shit fucks your head until your attention span is short as fuck and you stop being creative in lieu of just copying and imitating what you already know.
>thanks No problem, I used this to get through writers block (I'm still writing out my story(s) tho)
>Any book recommendations? For metaphors and a wider grasp of synonyms I suggest Gerald Durrell's books on his childhood on the island of Corfu (My Family and Other Animals is the first book), his adventures as a zoologist in Africa and his fiction books The Mockery Bird, Rosie is my Relative and The Talking Parcel, all of which are very funny and descriptive with vast vocabularies.
For conveying emotional feelings in a situation I suggest Hemingway's Old Man and The Sea and The Great Brain series by J.D. Fitzgerald. Mark Twain, Sid Fleischman, Jack London (particularly White Fang, Sea Wolf, and Call of the Wild) and Roald Dahl all have very varied and creative ways of describing emotions, feelings and expressions.
Anonymous 2021-08-04 (Wed) 09:54:50 No. 18762
>>18751 >It's because of social media and the internet, no joke, this shit fucks your head until your attention span is short as fuck and you stop being creative in lieu of just copying and imitating what you already know. Yeah, I've had a feeling it might be that. I hope it's something that can be repaired, otherwise I may as well off myself, lol. Being conscious of the beauty of reality but unable to fully capture it, even just a small measure, would kill me.
Thanks, mate. Those all sound interesting. Might have to train myself to read recreationally again, however. I'll see if I can grab a copy of a Durrell and a Hemingway on amazon or some shit.
Hell, might even try cracking open the copy of The Idiot I've had lying around for half a decade.
Anonymous 2021-08-04 (Wed) 19:01:18 No. 18779
>>18762 >something that can be repaired Stay off the internet as much as possible, turn off social media and read books and watch good movies. In terms of health work out a bit (even just morning exersizes already helps) eat healthy and drink a teaspoon of apple vinegar cider in a glass of water daily (flouridated water causes calcification of the pituitary gland in the brain which is responsible for creativity and the ability to think outside the box) and eat peppers (they have chemicals that essentially kill frayed and worn out Neuron endings and force the brain to 'update' itself, keeping your mind fresh and memories secure).
This takes time to have an impact. Also if you do porn, minimize it, porn has a direct impact on Grey Matter, dopamine release and attention span.
>conscious of the beauty of reality but unable to fully capture it, even just a small measure, would kill me. That's how I felt a while back.
>I'll see if I can grab a copy > train myself to read recreationally Yes,
"One should never stop learning… After all, if you're not learning, you're not growing, and if you're not growing, you might as well be dead…" WW3 Scenarios. PCTE dude 2021-10-05 (Tue) 02:13:23 No. 20212
So, might as well put this fanfiction I made on how could ww3 go:>Ukraine launches an offensive into the popular republics and Crimea, they advance a little. Ukraine declares war on Russia. >The Donbass and Luhansk republics welcome the Russian army. >The Ukrainian army advances into Crimea, but gets stopped. They conquer some, but get boggled down. >Russia's military is organizing itself hard on this, and mobilizing itself. >A month happens with people getting killed but no advances aside from light ukrainian advances. >The west won't participate yet, but will help Ukraine through military support and it will tell through incredible mental gymnastics that Russia attacked first. >People are not supportive of the war going on, but they won't care because they see it as just a regional war, no one cares. >There will be some outrage at the west supporting Ukraine but it won't escalate. >Then Turkey and Azerbaijan, using some shit excuse, attack Armenia to conquer it. >Russia intervenes and starts invading Azerbaijan. >Syria and Iran, maybe even Iraq, start attacking Turkey and Azerbaijan, since Turkey occupies parts of Iraq and Syria right now and Iran is fucking tired of it's bullshit. >Erdogan says: Assad must go! >Pakistan is big on being a turkey fanboy, and invades Iran. >India then goes and invades Pakistan because Kashmir and so on. >Pakistan starts getting beaten by both India and Iran, no nukes used yet, until Pakistan gets between the sword and the wall. Then it launches it's nukes to both Iran and India, although mostly to India. Maybe a nuke makes it to Russia. >India in response drops all of it's nukes on Pakistan >IT_ALL,_RETURNS,_TO_NOTHING.mp3 >Iran is mostly unaffected by this. I mean, its capital has been nuked, but hey, AT LEAST IT'S NOT INDIA. >India and Pakistan are the first to completely collapse, with warlords coming out of the woods like flies, kinda like post-heydrich germany on TNO. <"India and pakistan are the first to completely collapse" oh boy just you wait it's gonna be epicly based and posadist-pilled. >People are fucking horrified as they wake up from the "end of history" dream as the first nuclear apocalypse just happened right now. >Big ass riots in order to make the war stop right now. >People get ignored and the media starts making excuses. >Azerbaijan collapses from both southern and northern pressure as the russian and iranian military enter it's capital. A ton of warcrimes will then be discovered, and this event will be known as the second armenian genocide. >The turkish front gets bogged down, the advances the turkish made get retaken, but the other armies can't advance as well, getting into a stalemate at the mountains of Anatolia. People die daily on that front but not that much movement is made aside from Turkey attacking again and again and the KPG getting big money from Russia and Iran. >Turkey, also, after the indian fiasco, starts getting anti-war riots. These riots will be put down by a newly installed nationalist military goverment with Endorgan as it's president. Thousands of people will be incarcerated or killed. >Turkey starts funding yihadists groups inside of Russia. These groups, aside from making some big incidents inside russia, will spill into other countries such as MENA countries or european ones. >Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, knowing Iran had been nuked, gets it's opportunity, and tries to invade Iran. >Of course, Saudi Arabia fucking embarrases itself and collapses as iranian missiles fuck up it's water and petroleum trade. <And another one bites the dust. >Aside from this movement from Saudi Arabia, at Ukraine, Russia organizes a counter-attack. Operation Uranus 2.0 La Verganza. From north the russian army advances and cuts off the ukrainian front at donetsk and luhansk. They conquer pretty much everything east of the Dnieper. >Tons of ukrainian warcrimes are discovered. >Aside from that, the Ukrainian army at Crimea safely retreats, but Crimea is on shambles. Sevastopol is now a ghost town. >The russian army still goes on and cross the Dnieper, and in 3 months or so they're at Kiev. >This scares the shit off NATO, Ukraine gets into NATO at the last moment, and the whole of NATO declares war on Russia. >China then invades Taiwan to help it's ally Russia. China enters the world war. >The NATO army is an unorganized mess. The European front has lots of nationalities put into one big army, Spaniards with Greeks, Germans with Italians, France it's not in NATO so it shouldn't intervene, but it's from the EU so it will intervene. The only people who understand each other are americans and bri'ish people. >Aside from that, they need to get organized in a moment. >Bielorrusia joins the battle at the side of Russia (or might not, I don't know). >Polish troops and baltic troops are the first to arrive. >Eastern European militaries are plagued by corruption, it's army is pretty much useless aside from european support. >The front gets into almost WW1 borders, Russia conquers till they reach the border with Germany, The Check Republic, Slovakia and Romania. >Not that it matters, as North Korea conquers South Korea and nukes Japan for thy Lulz. >This makes the separation inside Japan really fucking big between the anti-war movement and the war movement. The anti-war movement will be financed by China, and it's more radical part will take the leadership, although the Chinese will fund the most moderate part that is still anti-war, meanwhile, the pro-war goverment inside Japan will become a lot more repressive. An unspeaken civil war occurs inside Japan >The US, alongside Japanese recruits, try to conquer Korea. They get bogged down not by korean troops but by the People's Liberation Army, also known as the chinese army. <Japan might have a communist revolution. >Firstly, about India and Pakistan. <India and Pakistan become into warlord territory, and millions upon millions of refugees start getting out of the irradiated mess that is the Indian peninsula. <The "-stan" countries, like Turkmenistan and so on, COLLAPSE HARD, their goverments can't handle the refugee crisis, and other goverments inside their borders start taking power. The Taliban take hold of all of the region and start their caliphate and reign of terror on their jihad. They won't conquer more than those territories, as they have a lot of other problems to tackle. <The only country to survive this apocalypse is kazhakstan, as it's choke full of chinese and russian military to stop jihadism. <A similar story, the indian refugees come into those countries and are so much people that their goverments collapse as there is not enough food. Anarchy takes hold of the region, with warlords coming out of the woods like flies. <The US make it's operational base in Asia the Philippines, Australia, and Japan. Most of the war with China is fought on sea, so there's nothing really important happening there. Aside from that, they try to land on Vietnam to try to make it governable again and conquer China with them, this doesn't go as planned, South China is mountainous, so the fight boggles down. <The indian nuclear apocalypse has made a layer of dust through the world, making it get less sunlight. <At the same time, war is literally the most contaminant activity we humans have deviced, the US army makes more CO2 than 192 countries combined. <Climate change really kicks in, and the poles don't exist anymore, Cuba is now 3 islands, Florida doesn't exist anymore, the Netherlands is underwater, all of the pacific islands have ceased to exist. Crimea, the land they were fighting for, now literally doesn't exist, but the war, ironically, goes on. <The layer of dust made by the Indian Nuclear Apocalypse (INA) has made it so crops don't grow because of not having the sufficient light to actually grow, as it has happened times before when a massive volcano literally exploded. <OH BOY HERE'S THE GOOD PART, THE GOOD SHIT. <ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE OR AT THE EQUATOR COLLAPSE UNTO FAMINES <IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING <THE ONLY COUNTRIES WHICH WILL HOPE TO SAVE ITSELFSARE THE ONES THAT HAVE STORED FOOD FOR THIS HAPPENING AND HAVE THE POLITICAL POWER TO RATION IT <HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA <Also this will make a refugee crisis so hard not till now seen, more extreme than the barbarian migrations during the end of the Roman Empire, shit's about to go down. <The US probably has made some plans to conquer Venezuela and Cuba <They enact them. <People are pissed about it. <Guerrilla Warfare against US occupation. <Most of the countries in Europe don't fucking want to be at war with Russia aside from the Eastern ones, the most anti-war countries would be Spain and Greece IMO. <On the case of Spain, as a Spaniard myself, this anti-war movement would be fucking gigantous. We already had an anti-war movement during the Irak war in which we participated in, and our army, compared to the rest of the european armies, although well equipped, is it because of it's adherence to NATO. During late Francoism the spanish military made drills with ww2 junkers and using gasoline caskets with grenades attached to them as bombs. The military in Spain is the most corrupt organization in this country, and getting it purged against Russia would be incredibly funny if it wasn't because they would implement a draft (as in the majority of Europe tbh) to combat Russia. That, alongside the anger against the politicians, the capitalists and the king itself, which is also the commander of troops, kinda like Nicholas the second… I don't have to tell anything more tbh. Spain, being also an enter way into Europe would have problems with refugees and an incredible instability on itself, aside that the country is run by actual monkeys, there would probably be no rationing at all, making the food prices skyrocket till infinity. Everything of that would mix on a revolutionary cocktel from which a communist revolution could arise. A liberal revolution might happen first, with a republic, and then another one, kinda like the russian revolution. Hell, even Felipe VII looks kinda like King Nicholas from Russia. <Spain might have a communist revolution which would then spread through Europe, maybe Portugal and Greece would have it's own revolutions, and would get out of the war. France is another one which might have a revolution, Italy I don't know, Britain could have one since Britain is already going to shit the bed, even without the whole WW3 happening. >The US will conquer part of Andalucia through Gibraltar to ensure that it bases there remain loyal. <On other countries, I don't know how it would go like, please answer this post with your conclusions. <Either way, the war would boggle down hard, and we would get into a WW1 era of trenches, only now with drones. <The EU will have to make a separate peace treaty with Russia, which will stand "victorious" (saying much tbh) at the war. The EU will be dismantled and Russia will make client states at Poland and the Baltic states, taking everything else for themselves. The EU is in shambles, but at least it hasn't been nuked to death. The peace treaty was to try to avoid a communist revolution, it will happen either way, or there might be a civil war inside of the EU between communists and the other groups, comprised of "liberals" and literal nazies, from this war, the most likely winner would be the communists, since technically they would have come from the south which had it's factories kinda untouched because of being so far away from Russia. <Either way, the EU doesn't exist anymore, it's a shell of it's former self, and there's people starving to death on the streets meanwhile a civil war turns really sour. <The last front, this front has done nothing at all, and with Russia out of the european front, and coming to help the chinese, the US will resort to the last tactic possible. <Red Telephone Incident (RTI) of 05/12/2024 <Russia, China and the US enter a mad max radiation periode, alongside japan, Australia and the Philippines. <The only places that continues to kinda exist is some countries of South America and communist Europe, but they will enter a long, looooooooooong dark age of maybe two centuries or so.
Anonymous 2021-10-28 (Thu) 14:56:31 No. 20824
>>20818 In the case of a villain/antagonist, pull a Nagato: The character of Pain is stated in series to have slaughtered Hanzo and his entire family and all associates down to every last babe. In-story he also kills Jiraiya, making it personal… and then in the final battle he reveals that he too suffered like this, and that his actions are just as justified as any other revenge, that he decided that peace cannot be achieved if you cannot bring pain to others. Naruto, having beaten Pain narrowly finally finds the things he needs to say and turns Nagato around, and the man redeems himself in death (a common theme in Naruto for that matter - Zabuza, Obito etc.).
So yeah, give your characters a compelling and sympathetic backstory (don't just exposition dump though).
Also to make them likeable assholes I also suggest quirky behaviors and them doing good things, even if grudgingly. Another example could be Darth Vader or Assaj Ventress.
For a more normal story setting I really suggest observing th Character of Berlin from Casa De Papel, see
>>6635 Anonymous 2021-11-19 (Fri) 21:13:20 No. 21341
Popping in to say I've been reading fanfic for over a decade. Can't write worth a damn myself, but hugely appreciate that shit. Never for a moment think your writing isn't appreciated. As long as you are sincere, the explicit quality of your writing is secondary.