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Honestly? I have no idea. But this is what is happening in my head right now. Rumple is just sick and tired of all these fools. All of them. Snow, Charming, Regina, Random Guy on the Streeth #21346. Doesn’t matter. He wants out of the nut house that is SB because who the frack wouldnt?
Also I would say…The rest of the world is probably a MUCH safer place to live in then Storybrooke. I mean come on every week a new crisis or Villain, or something happens.
[adrotate group="5"]Wow thank you for all those helpful tips! I have this giant fic in my head about Ruby and Whale during the missing year but I can’t even finish writing the first chapter. I have all the scenes in my head but I just can’t put them into words… Maybe it’s because this is the first time I’m trying to write something serious. I think I’ll try what PriceofMagic said and write only what they say first and then add all the rest of the things.
When I have that problem of having a Big Fan Fic, I normally just start writing stuff and see where the journey takes me.
I’m curious, when writing a chapter and there’s dialogue between characters, anyone actually see the scene as its played like a movie in their head? I tend to visualize more how I want my characters to respond to each other when I actually see them together. And it’s in wide screen format, not sure why but it is.
Well what I tend to do is a bit both, visually the movie in my head (And hopefully I have the Movie on DVD because I have to re-watch the scene a bunch of times just to get the lines correct) but also when I write dialogue myself I tend to add my own mannerism to the character’s speech patterns, like they’ll respond to a question or something the way I do. While also keeping to their original characters as well.
A few tips I’ve learned over the years.
First, Re-Read your stuff…That’s a given. Not only for spelling but sometimes I find reading a chapter (OR chapters) you tend to find yourself adding additional scenes or lines of dialogue which isn’t necessarily a bad thing and can even help with your narrative especially if you want to go in a specific direction.
Not only as PoM said let the characters take a life on their own but if you’re like me and you’re doing a crossover set in a specific time (Example a Crossover set during Season 1 of ONCE) never be afraid to deviate a bit from the original story even to the point in deviating a lot, if you can’t find a way to add one set of characters with the other then don’t, just say (A.B.and C happened in the background while one set of characters/ The One’s you focus on in the story did this thing.)
I tend to find (At least for me) writing Dialogue is the easiest, I myself tend to tell a story through dialogue. Never be afraid to do that especially if you are a character driven person.
I don’t know why but I’ve actually heard that title used for a couple other shows I think…I just don’t remember which ones.
