Alright folks! My blogs are often scattered and I tend to meander, so I figured that today, we'd just do some rapid-fire writing advice. So, in no particular order, here are a few of Brazzel's Rules for Writing:

Set Time Goals, Not Word Count Goals
When you first start writing, it's tempting to sit down and say "I am going to write 1,000 today". And maybe you do. And maybe it's easy. And maybe it takes thirty minutes and you're so happy because those are some good words, but then you sit down the next day and your headspace is different. The words don't come as easy. You're distracted. It's a difficult scene that needs plotting out. Suddenly, you lose motivation.

What I suggest for beginner writers is setting a time goal. An hour....
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If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!

Shel Silverstein, Invitation

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Hello, all! Originally, this post was meant to be The Business of Vore Writing, but, though I started on Wednesday and have been chipping away ever since, the damn thing is so large that I keep having to reformat it. I'm not sure when it will get done, so I think I'll try something lighter for next Monday's post.

Anyhow, instead of that, today I thought it would be fun to do a little meet and greet! Writing is such an isolated task that we...
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Dialogue

I swear to the gods, I read some of the stories on Eka's and I wonder if y'all have ever talked to another human being in your life. Let's talk about dialogue.

Dialogue is one of the three corners of the trifecta when writing a story, the trifecta being Dialogue, Description, and Narration. Dialogue defines your characters. It sets the pace of the plot. If it reads smoothly, it helps sell the idea that the world you've created is living and breathing, and if it reads poorly, it drives the reader out of the story. So what makes good dialogue?

Have you ever been watching a movie when a character says something so baffling that your immersion breaks and you feel like you can actually see the idiot that wrote the lines on the script...
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I realize that last Friday all I said was "I am drunk and might make a blog post" instead of "I am on vacation right now", so this is the official end of vacation notice! It was very fun and very relaxing and we'll get back to our regular blog posts soon.

Today's advice: I can't speak for others, but I've never had any success writing under the influence. Like, it's supposed to lower your inhibitions so that you don't self critique, but I feel like it's just a great way to get distracted midway through a sentence and wander off. Creative thoughts come from creative connections and I guess drugs help with that, but at the cost of structure. Besides, a lot of the connections made with writing come from how relatable the writing is. If I write about the...
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Use stronger verbs.

No blog tonight unless I get uber drunk, in which case, imma Hemingway this bitch.

Brazzel

So You Want To Write A Vore Story

Contents: Tips on Conceptualizing Your Story and Creating Characters

I thought long and hard about where to begin the actual writing advice section of the writing advice blogs. Do we start with words, sentences, and paragraphs; the building blocks of writing? Do we start with grammar, which is the glue that sticks it together? Do we start with the basics of craft, or do we delve right into the minutia of storytelling itself? That's when I had an idea.

Let's start with a vore story. That's probably where most of us are starting, anyhow. Let's go through the process of building a vore story together and see where that takes us. Where does a vore story start? It starts with:

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I have written 5,000 words today and if I write another, my head will explo-

BOOM!

Anyway, Brazzel's ghost here to say that the next blog post will be out tomorrow. Love you, be good, and the book recommendation of the day is "The Untethered Soul" by Michael Alan Singer.

Hello, Y'all!

Sorry for the late post today. I had some appointments to keep early in the day and my dumbass ADHD brain is terrible at juggling work and prior engagements, so this will be a light post. Here are a few resources that I have found helpful in advancing my craft. Many are applicable to all creative fields, but I have included a few centered squarely on writing.

Get Inspired

Motivation is a bullshit, fickle thing that comes and goes. If you are serious about learning, some days you will have to work without motivation, and it will suck, and you'll feel like your brain is being slowly melted into goo. HOWEVER! If you need that extra kick in the pants to get started, these are some videos that have helped me.

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Scenario:

You have a vivid imagination. Since you were a child, you were able to conjure up these ultra detailed scenarios complete with world building and cool characters and settings that would make a seasoned fantasy author jealous. "Wow," you think to yourself. "I should do something with this!" So you sit down in front of a blank word document and you put your fingers on the keys and you describe...what? Maybe the setting? You've read a book before. You know how this works. The deadly heat of the desert sun beats down on the protagonist as they survey a barren landscape. A...lizard pokes its head out of the sand of which there is a lot because it's a desert, but there are buildings in the distance. They're...like the ones from Aladdin. You're...
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