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You know you are a writer …

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still-searching47:

… when you are halfway through getting a meal (or doing anything really) and have to stop because this scene just popped into your head and it has to be written right the hell now. At least in rough form because the dialogue is good and you can see the faces, feel the emotions and while the picture is clear and not fuzzy, it needs to be recorded.

… when you have a picture in your mind and you aren’t sure whether it’s an actual scene you saw on the TV, or just something you imagined yourself.

… when watching TV often has no appeal anymore, because there is nothing that compares to the TV in your mind, of your own stories and ideas.

… when you can’t sleep at night because you want to be writing, but when you go to write, you just want to sleep.

I’ll stop for now. Anyone got any others?

… when you know little details about fics for stuff that wouldn’t happen until a long way into the fic, and it’s not even a fic you are writing a the moment. It’s sort of like knowing a little detail about book five of a book series when you are only starting on book one.

Example: My fic ‘Her Happy Ending’ I have about 8k written so it’ll probably become a thing eventually but it’s not on the horizon anytime soon. However, I happen to know that when the Charming’s have their baby son, they are going to call him Nicholas (Nicky) based on someone’s suggestion. Only afterwards are they going to realize to their mild horror that they inadvertently named their son after Rumple because that was his cursed name.

The certain someone who suggested it was very self-satisfied with themselves. Especially when Nicky starts calling Rumple Grandpa because Henry does it and he wants a Grandpa too (and of course both David and Snow’s parents are dead).

… when you have fanfic for your fanfic.

Example: I have this incredible urge for some reason to cross over show canon with the ‘Her Happy Ending’ universe, just for a oneshot because it would be very funny, possibly for no-one but me. However, I just want the Charming’s to be so horrified at what they see because Rumple is so evil etc. and the alternate Charming’s to be like “well Rumplestiltskin is family through Henry” and just shrugging because he’s brilliant with Nicky and isn’t it better to have him with them than against them?

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emospritelet:

rowofstars:

emospritelet:

The never-ending dilemma of the Rumbelle writer:

A first name for Mr Gold

A title for this bloody fic

Is this for your RCIJ fic? Because I am in the same boat.

Yep 🙁

I’ll get one eventually, but in the meantime it’s agonising. It has to be a) one I haven’t used before b) one that has some sort of meaning and c) one that I don’t hate or that I can’t use due to weird family connotations (I can never use Robert, as that’s my brother’s name)

Same on A and B. There aren’t that many names that have been ruined for me, but I try not to reuse names. Unfortunately, the one name that would work really well for this fic, is one I went and used on a one-shot. Ugh.

Why can’t you re-use a name for Gold? I mean he’s always Gold, so why can’t he always be ‘something’ Gold. I’m sorry if that is a stupid question.

Perhaps this is my laziness talking. I can all but guarantee in all my fics if Gold’s first name is mentioned then it will be Nicholas/Nick because I love Rush and that just works for me.

Unless of course I was writing a crossover in which Rush and Gold both appear, in which case I suppose I would have to pick something else like Alexander or Julian or Alastor. Why am I using all my spy names for Gold? He isn’t a shadowy secret agent, he’s just incredibly brilliant at operating in the shadows, pulling strings, manipulating people, playing the subtle long game and … yeah he would make a good secret agent. Sorry that was random.

For fic titles I’m rather fond of using episode titles myself.

I learnt a tumblr thing :)

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I wanted to put that Loki “I’m listening” gif on my last reblog. Despite finding it in tumblr search, I could not make it come up on the gif search. I was putting in the exact tag and all that came up was the first gif in the set (the one I wanted was third).

So I clicked the first gif from the set, swapped tumblr to HTML view. Went to the original post and got the URL image link for the third gif, and changed it out and boom, I had the right gif and it was all properly credited.

I wonder why tumblr gif search doesn’t show all the gifs. That was really frustrating. I wanted to include the gif properly, with all proper credit and everything. My only other option was to not add anything, add something else or just not reblog. Glad I found a way to do it 🙂

Just a couple more thoughts on SGU, because I’m still not over the feels it gave me

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sarashouldbestudying:

– I just love how 2×15 is structured. I love how it constantly goes from Young/TJ/Eli worrying about Rush, getting pissed at him and wondering how to get him off the chair, to Rush happily not caring about the ship and being a lovesick puppy with Mandy. 

– There’s a scene, I believe it was in 2×16, when Rush tells Volker that every person has a predestined role, and Volker is destined to always be the “good friend”. Every bit of that speech makes me feel that was Rush was thinking was “and my role is that of the widowed, the one who keeps losing everyone he cares about”. 

Also the misunderstood brilliant scientist, who everyone loves to hate, right up to the moment they need him to save their lives – again. He really is the one everyone likes to blame for everything wrong on Destiny, so not fair.

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Rushbelle WIP

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I should name this if I’m going to talk about it.

Anyway, I wrote more today because it was late and I felt like it but … I’m 1,500 words in, there’s several missing scenes around what I’ve written and … I haven’t reached Destiny yet.

Ooops!

Yeah there’s going to be at least a chapter pre-Destiny, maybe two at this rate heh.

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worryinglyinnocent:

emospritelet:

sarashouldbestudying:

wizzygold:

beneathamoonlessnight:

Reblog with a lyric that reminds you of Rumbelle

Cos you don’t taste like you should
And you don’t fit in my arms like she would
Lying in the dark, it’s understood:
We are both lost
And we won’t be found

The last unicorn by Passenger

More like Golden Lace, but it applies xD

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who’d outdrew ya
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not someone who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah (I love the Alexandra Burke version)

This songs just gives me all the Rumbelle angst feels.

Oh poor me
She fell beneath the wheels to help me up
Black sea
The monster killed the melody he loved
Now I’m going places on my own…

Ben Howard, Esmerelda (yeah, it’s angsty, big surprise.  Gives me town line feels, and also was what I was thinking of when I wrote the cemetery scene is chapter 15 of Penance)

I have a ton more!

For one split second
She almost turned around
But that would be like pouring rain drops
Back into a cloud
So she took another step and said
I see the way out and I’m gonna’ take it

I hear this and I hear the town line scene. In fact, I can’t listen to this song without crying because of that. 

(I’m just crying continually tonight so it’s no matter.)

Carried Underwood, Wasted

Well I don’t know, the rose I hold won’t seem to grow.
So what have you done, what are you hiding? What are you holding on to?
The sanity’s gone, it’s killing me inside
To watch you go, but it’s keeping me alive

All the sirens are warning, screaming our sins. I’ve been hiding the feeling of touching your skin.
Why did I put out the fires in your eyes?
How can I erase the living in me?

What Have You Done – Plan Three

reblog and add your favorite names{girl} for rumbaby to the list..

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bekatrina:

panchibust:

Lucy is an English and French feminine given name derived from Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning as of light (born at dawn or daylight, maybe also shiny, or of light complexion)

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Cosette: in modern name dictionaries give the meaning as “victorious,”
but it doesn’t appear to have been in use as a first name until after
Hugo published Les Miserables, although “Cozette” sometimes appeared as a
surname. Victor Hugo said he created Cosette from “chosette”, meaning
“little thing”[2] in French.

Rose is a given female name. It is a late Latin name derived from rosa, meaning “rose”

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Valerie:
The name Valerie is an English
                       baby name. In English the meaning of the name Valerie is:
                   Strong; valiant. Feminine of the Roman family clan name Valerius.

Abigail is a female given name. The name comes from the Hebrew name אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל Avigail, meaning “my father’s joy” (alternatively “my father is exultation”, or “my father is joy”

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Millaray is a feminine given name of Mapuche origin.[1][2] It means “golden flower” (from milla “gold” and rayen “flower”)

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Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a female name derived from σοφία, the Greek word for “Wisdom”. The name was used to represent the personification of wisdom .

Charlotte (Charlie) – for obvious reasons

Heather – Plant name symbolising independence. Grows in the highlands of Scotland and in the West of Ireland, where things have a hard time growing, so heather is pretty stubborn. Also has great magical/medicinal properties

Colette

Hazel – Hazel tree is important in witchcraft

Rose

Molly – It’s just so British 😛

I’m glad I re-read the post title. I was about to ask why all the names were girls /facepalm. Is there a thread for boys names as well? Anyway ..

Nadia – it means hope. It’s unusual enough that it fits in with the FTL names but it’s from our world and so works here too. It’s what I called their daughter in my fanfic.

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thescholarlystrumpet:

Does anyone else find it easier to write when you really *should* be doing something else?

Of course it’s one of the rules of writing.

Another rule is that when you absolutely can’t write for some reason, then writing is all you want to do and all you can think about.

Which is tied symbiotically to the next rule. The rule that states when you have nothing to do but write. The entire day free and clear for nothing but writing, suddenly you want to do anything but writing. “I got laundry right? I should hoover the house … ooooh I have a sudden need to reorganise something.”