fandom magpie. backing up from tumblr if i can make it cooperate.
I’m going to post this here too bc I’ve been meditating on it a lot recently and I think it’s important.
man, people really needed to hear this huh
Going to remind myself of this every time I linger on the Orson Scott Card books I have sitting on a shelf.
A retelling of Finn and Rey’s Epic Reunion Hug™. Written for @finnreyfridays:
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Rey hears fear resonating through the Force as soon as the Millennium Falcon enters Crait’s atmo. She reaches out and follows the threads of fear, telling Chewie where to go, until they see the source of the conflict: a battle, raging in front of a giant steel door.
On one side, Rey can feel the hatred and vitriol of Kylo Ren, and on the other – just beyond that door – the fear of a group of people who are trapped.
For a panicked moment, Rey doesn’t know what to do. Then she hears Finn’s voice in her head, cutting through the static.
Rey? Is that you? Are you really here?
I’m here, Rey sends, her heart leaping at the sound of Finn’s voice.
Where are you? Rey asks him. And how can I help?
Crystal Goblets, Cutlery and Wands by Leonie Vivienne Rothman on Etsy
Beautiful….
I was going to add a whole bunch of clone troopers and make it super epic, but then my energy tanked. I picked a hard angle and all the geometry of the armor… Goodness. I probably just need to be more patient. Perhaps I will revisit this soon and turn it into what I see in my head.
I was in the mood for Asajj in Dathomir red but it turned out rather soft 😀 Watercolors have a mind of their own!
Just in case this needs to be said:
It’s the first draft. Use the word “suddenly.” Put as many dialogue tags and adverbs as you want. Say “he saw” “she remembered” “she felt” “they wondered” as many times as you need to. Put the em dash there, put in too many commas, use semi-colons with reckless abandon. Type in [whatever] instead of thinking up a title for something. Just write it. If you worry too much about the particulars, about all the advice posts you’ve seen saying whatever you’re doing is wrong or not good enough, you won’t get anything done. It will slow you down as you go back and try to reword what you just wrote to make it better, proper. The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done. And when you get to the end, you’ll find that all those “mistakes” are just clues for your future self to put together to make it all better.
Putting in adverbs and certain dialogue tags are a note for you as to who is saying something and how they’re saying it. When you’re editing, you can make sure it shows through the story instead. The word “suddenly” is a reminder to make things more abrupt. The first draft is just you mapping out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Don’t waste time trying to get it 100% right now, because then it will never get done. Don’t think too much– just write. Save the thinking for editing later.
The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done
wrennette 