That Moment...

TMW when you discover that you're 100% British genes. According to Ancestry me and my twin are 72% Ireland and Scotland, and 28% England and Wales. Full white privilege points.

 

There are two of you?

The mind refuses to boggle anymore, it's going to start just bottling.

 

That moment when you're procrastinating by amending your timeline based on new research.

The timeline does need fixing, but really I'm just using it as an excuse to put off writing one of the most (or possibly actually the most) emotionally nasty scene in the book.

 

TMW when your character randomly wants strawberry cake even though you've never had strawberry cake in your life.

 

What a perfect opportunity to go to a nice restaurant, have strawberry cake, and call it research! Taste-bud pleasing tax deduction!

 

What's funny about that is that my MC loves rabbit, and I've never had rabbit in my life. So I know the feeling!

Edit: she also knows how to crack the bones just right to cause a loud and obnoxious cracking sound.

TMW.... when you see your MC being forced to team up with someone she despises, LOL!

 

I know all about this too, just also include lore, World building, character development and backstory.

 

Now I just need to get my mitts on a strawberry cake.

 

Well lore and world-building don't really apply to mine, since it's set in modern day Germany, and I've already done the other two. I just don't really feel like shooting my favourite character full of arrows right now. The fact that (on this particular occasion) it's just a nightmare and absolutely none of it is real anyway doesn't make it any easier.

I think I'm experiencing that moment when you realise writing a scene based on a nightmare you had involving someone you really care about is an extremely bad idea.

 

Sounds like an excuse for a dinner date if I ever heard one.

 

That moment when you wonder what is the world record for the number of times one character has been killed in a single story, and if dreams count as part of that record.

(I'm up to five with one of my characters, including being killed off for real at the end).

 

Can we at least introduce ourselves?

 

Doctor Strange might also be a contender.

"Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"

 

TMW... you keep a Chapter and Scene Index in your physical Journal, so that you can keep track of where you have been in your WIP. Oddly enough, even though I am terrible at summaries, I can sum up scenes with a few words (or title basically, for the Index uses that is).

Also, TMW... when you are about to cheat and change POV because the scene would be written cooler through the POV of the Character in question, and you'll cheap it by having the MC following close behind with her Troops, taking out enemies with Bows, if needed.

"He's going to leave some for us right?" asked a Veteran.

 

Roasted Rabbit followed by Strawberry Cake for Desert. I don't think I could do better than that.

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Hi, my Name is John, I am a Siberian Husky. .

 

My birthday cake is usually strawberries and cream cake, so if it's not the pink cake that comes in a box, that's my vote. It's a layer cake of white cake filled with whipped cream mixed with a bit of pastry cream and fresh strawberries, and it's frosted with whipped cream.

 

My mum likes to make it with strawberry (and sometimes raspberry) jam in the layers and arranging sliced strawberries all over the outside.

 

Yum!!!!

 

That moment when you really should have checked the pollen count before leaving your window open all night.

Oh, wait - I did. It was wrong. Go figure.

 

That moment when you make up a word for a poetry piece you wrote in a couple of minutes while trying to work a real job, then your husband asks you what that means....and you tell him (sheepishly), it means nothing as far as you know....because you made it up.

 

TMW you realize your female MC is so A-typical, that they have never actually seen
their own face. Granted vanity is not one of her virtues, despite how many men find
her visually attractive.

 

I’m Link, and I’m an orca whale.

 

I'm hirundine and I'm a technologically challenged swallow.

(Couldn't resist haha)

 

Isn't swallowing kind of a natural process? I mean, there might be things you don't want to swallow, I'm not judging, but I don't see where technology fits in.