Good stuff.
This. This is good fiction writing advice. I really appreciate how it was formatted as “this is a common problem, here is a solution to try in your own work” and not “oh god, don’t do that!” without any extra help. And I extra appreciated the “don’t rely on adverbs” bit, because they do have their place but they aren’t the only way actions can be emphasized.
Character Idea
They never understood why people looked at them in fear, why no one seemed to want to go near them. Was it their laugh? Was it the way their eyes were a never-ending black void? What about the claws? Was it the claws?
Raphael lol
Character Idea
Sitting in a room full of people who had, at some point, all saved the world at least once was…well, interesting was just one word for it. Intimidating was another.
THE SUPERNATURAL FAM
Pin your whumpee to the wall. With chains, with bars, with magic, with knives, with fear, with a simple command, with the whumper’s fists clenched in their clothes or wrapped around their throat, with anything - just push them back up against the wall and make them stay.
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Whump Aesthetic: Screams
- One short, hoarse yelp of pain as something jostles their worst injury
- Muffled cries of pleading panic as the gag is forced between their teeth
- Shrill, cracking wails torn out of them as the torture goes on too long for them to hold out
- A howl of agony so deep from their stomach that it rocks their whole body forward
- Trying to scream, but the pain is so immense that no sound can break free
As a podcast junkie, I second every word.