I need someone new to yell about robot things with.

[yvannairie]

Who wants to hear about some dumb gay robots doing dumb gay robot stuff?

Comments

[shadaras]

Aw, that's great!

Ooh, yeah. :/ That's a challenging POV to write from. I don't know if I have any advice? Other than just kinda being like... well, there's always editing? After you get the bones of the story down? And, like, is it so much that he's oblivious, or just that he can't accept that this is true? 'cause self-defeating stubbornness sticking to an old truth is different from genuinely not noticing that his life has become this, y'know?

[yvannairie]

Yeah, that's the problem I'm having (aside from his voice being. Hard to nail down, in general), he... sort of knows he's being ridiculous about it -- he's getting exactly what he wants, he's been stressing out about the "state" of their relationships much more than the other character, so he doesn't know how to feel about getting almost exactly what he wanted. It's like the potential that the other person never actually moved on scares him more than the idea that there's just nothing between them anymore.

I really just need to sit down and get all of this out.

[shadaras]

Yeah, it sounds like you have a fairly good concept of what's going on, and then it just turns into needing to make words happen, which is... harder...

[yvannairie]

You know, I was thinking I might write something shorter in his perspective, but I also don't really know what and... how.

[shadaras]

You'd said you had some ideas for little vignettes from the past -- maybe write one of those in full or something?

[yvannairie]

hmmm yesss. I also have one semi-abandoned thing that is just.................. like, massively indulgent and cute, but he's so exhausted and out of it in it I'm not sure how representative it is x'D

(I might write it anyway just because it's cute and indulgent and I want to fucking slap myself for how sugary and gross it is)

[shadaras]

do ittttt :D

self-indulgence is fun to write! especially if you aren't solid on any other ideas right now.