# Rotting With Ambivalence

Writing, at its core, is about stepping into someone else’s shoes. It’s not just about creating characters who are like you, it’s about understanding characters who are nothing like you. Writing forces you to ask, “Why does this person act this way?” “What are they afraid of?” “What do they want?” You have to feel what your characters are feeling, even if you don’t agree with them. That’s how you create characters who are complex, layered, and real.

writing tip #3781:

"i use ai to proofread!" shut the fuck up how about you use A EYE to look at it YOURSELF

magic lucky word count please save me

This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.

consider also

step one of creating a vampire story: make up a little freak who wants to bite people. step two: add guilt. step three: make up a little freak who wants to be bitten. step four: add guilt.

as someone with club foot, PLEASE WRITE MORE CHARACTERS WITH IT☹️ also it can be disabling, and it can affect the knees, hips, and ankles if comorbig with another condition; commonly knock-kneed. another thing though is to avoid "curled", it just sounds weird; curved is a good alternative with the same effect

How To Write Club Foot Characters

A guide to writing club foot.

To understand what club foot is, you need to understand it's causes. You can't develop club foot in your life, you develop it in the womb. It can be from how you're positioned, how you develop, etc.

Club foot is the twisting of a foot in the womb. It is a birth defect.

History (Earlier "Cures")

Note: the only reason why I put "cures" in quotes is because of continued nerve damage that'll continue for the rest of your life. However, people who undergo successful treatments can live a normal life.

400 BC: Hippocrates described manipulating the foot and placing them with bandages, much like modern day treatments.

1834: The Thomas Wrench was discovered. It was used to forcibly change the position of the foot.

70s-80s-90s: This is when surgical treatments became popular. There are a lot of methods for correcting club foot, but the most popular are postero-medial release (PMR) which entails the extensive release of the contractive soft tissues of the clubbed foot/feet. Surgical treatment can give the foot a more "normal" look and ensure that the patient can walk on the foot. This does not erase any nerve pain, though, as overtime the foot can become stiff, weak, and show early arthritic changes. This is why this practice kinda fell out of practice.

The Conservative Technique:

Casting and wrapping to stretch the foot/feet and molding the bones so that it's less painful and the patient can walk on the feet/foot.

LANGUAGE:

What language do you use to describe club foot and what to avoid.

Words to Avoid:

Gross

Disgusting

Anything related to how "gross" the characters foot looks, or how the mc wants to "throw up" at the sight.

Words to Use:

Curled

Clubbed/club

AIDE:

Mobility aide is something many need as they get older, some even use it when they're younger. The list includes:

Crutches

Canes

Wheelchairs

Braces

Walker

Please let me know if you have any questions (I'll add to this post)

As a whole, we should stop telling people who make art to "just do it for yourself even if no one sees it. You should only be doing it for fun because you like it". I say this because it always comes from those who don't have a passion for an art form. While yes, that should be your reason for creating, feedback is so crucial for things meant to be reacted to, specifically writing pieces. Stories are made to be read, to make people feel something. It can also feel incredibly discouraging to spend so much time on a project just for it to get lost somewhere, only responded to with silence.

For me, my writing is not complete until its been perceived by another person. i don't write to the void, i write to be heard.

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

Hello !! I haven't been active here in quite while. I had surgery mid october, so due to the pain & healing process, I haven't been writing. I'm nearly fully healed now, and I plan on posting again since I'm finally getting back to writing. I've missed it so much.

I keep wondering if making headcanons of my own ocs just makes them canon or not since I'm the writer. Or is it only canon if demonstrated in the story?

More Than Royalty (wip intro)

I havent been called lia in 10 years. only she did that.  "You said i'd never go through that again so what the fuck happened," she snapped, stopping to catch her breath, "And are you okay."

General:

Genres; romance, YA

setting; a currently unnamed kingdom

themes of; royalty, lgbt relationships, forbidden love, classism, religeous trauma

POV; 1st person

status; character development

target length; novel duology

tag; #wip: more than royalty

CW's; religious trauma, homophobia, kidnapping,

Masterlist

Not great with summaries, be nice.

Summary:

a princess in line to a monarchy that feels outlandish escapes her palace the week before her crowning, going to look for her childhood best friend, whom she was forbidden to see for many years. In leaving, has to leave her little brother behind to be the next king, hoping she can find her girl and be free. She knows that if she doesnt go back, her people will be ruled by cruel leaders; but if she does, she'll never get the life or people she wants.

Characters:

Alia Vallence

Willow Marwah

Marian Vallence

Desmond Vallence

Wade Vallence

Navya Marwah