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Just wanting to know what yall are thinking about them because I haven’t heard much feedback and I’m a nervous bean 🙊

Health and Hybrids (Masterpost) 👽👻💚

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[Mashup of cryptid!Danny, presumed-alien!Danny, dp x dc, and the prompt made @tachvintlogic's body horror meat grinder fic.]

art by @neurotraum🖤🖤

Adrift in an unknown space, his transportation lost, his body a wreck, and only half-conscious, Danny has to find himself somewhere safe to recover.

Now, if only he can convince the locals to leave him alone while he does...

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Trigger warnings for this story:  body horror | gore | post-dissection fic | dehumanization (probably) | medical/recovery themes | my nonexistent attempts at following DC canon.

👽Chapter list:

PART ONE 🟢 PART TWO 🟢 PART THREE 🟢 PART FOUR 🟢 PART FIVE 🟢 PART SIX 🟢 PART SEVEN 🟢 PART EIGHT 🟢PART NINE 🟢 PART TEN 🟢 PART ELEVEN 🟢 PART TWELVE 🟢 PART THIRTEEN 🟢 PART FOURTEEN 🟢 PART FIFTEEN 🟢 PART SIXTEEN 🟢 PART SEVENTEEN 🟢 PART EIGHTEEN 🟢 PART NINETEEN 🟢 PART TWENTY 🟢 PART TWENTY ONE 🟢 PART TWENTY TWO 🟢 PART TWENTY THREE 🟢 PART TWENTY FOUR 🟢

💚 For "full" character and tag list, Ao3 Is here for all parts: now featuring mediocre mouse-over translations only available on a computer.

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Fun facts about Fran Bow #1

Itward is there/mentioned/a part or a cause of the situation in every chapter.

A Few Tips On Writing Chapters

Give each chapter a descriptive title. 

Especially if you find yourself at sea when deciding how exactly to chop your story into pieces. Even if you don’t want to use chapter titles in your final draft, they’re of enormous use when you’re still figuring out exactly what the shape of your story is. By giving your chapter a descriptive title, you’re giving your chapter a focus and a particular story for your chapter to tell. 

Make sure each chapter has its own self contained narrative arc. 

This is not to say that every novel must be episodic, but that each section should have its own beginning, middle, and end. It should have set up, build up, and resolution. It should ask a question an implicit question at the beginning and provide a slightly more explicit answer at the end. 

Example: one chapter in my book is just 500 words. Two new characters drive into town, get out of a car, knock on a door, and they say their names. The beginning is the introduction of the mystery of these characters. It’s the question “who are these people?” As they drive, you see them and where they are going, which builds towards the answer. As a resolution, you get their names. 

You wouldn’t call this a “short story” by any means, but it does have a firm beginning, middle, end. It is a contained unit. 

A chapter break can–and sometimes should–come in the middle of a scene. 

Twists and cliffhangers can appear at the end of novels, so it would be silly to say you couldn’t end a chapter that way, too. Cliffhangers and twists are usually both a result of other plot points, and the cause of a new problem. Narratively, they function both as the ending of one thing and the beginning of another, so they make for great chapter breaks. Separating the scene at a cliffhanger is often better/cleaner than lumping the entire scene into one chapter. 

Example: Alex is warned to stay away from a dangerous cliff. Alex gets adventurous and wanders toward cliff. Alex falls off of cliff. Beginning. Middle. End. 

Alex is actually hanging from cliff! Alex figures out a way to get back to solid ground, struggles. Alex makes it back to solid ground. Beginning. Middle. End.

You want your readers to “just one more chapter!” their way through your book. Stuffing moments of high tension into the middle of chapters that resolve neatly won’t keep them turning pages.

Always end your chapters on a point of intrigue. 

Using points of tension to bookend chapters is important because chapter endings are usually where readers put a book down during a reading session. They’re very naturally places to close the cover and walk away. 

As a writer, you don’t want this. You absolutely don’t want to give your reader great places to put the book down, because you need them to pick the book up again as soon as possible. Not the next day, or the next week, (or never), but while they have a spare minute during their commute, or during their lunch break, or under their desk in class. 

You want to encourage this by taking that perfectly natural endpoint, that place they expect to be able to put the book down, and forcing them to take even a tiny peak at the next chapter. 

This doesn’t mean ending every chapter on a verifiable cliffhanger, but there has to be something. A character can solve a mystery. A new character can appear. There can be a moment of irony. A new idea. Just so long as it’s something that will make the reader think “I need to know what happens next.” 

TW! SELF HARM, DEPRESSION, BULLYING

So, I have to write that. Y'all know Wattpad, right? And maybe yall know these books 'Types of people I hate'. And then there are a few types of people. So, I read one of these and I wanna punch the person who wrote that in the face. Really. Please hear me out.

1. That one chapter was like 'People who make a club against bullying online'. Okay, some people like it and find it helpful, you don't like it. Okay. But then that person wrote something like 'If someone bullys you, they have a reason. Just like they bully you because they don't like your hairstyle. And then you go home, say to your mom that you want a new hairstyle and you get it. Then you go to school and they don't bully you'. Okay, dude. First of all, No bully don't have a reason to bully you. And to bully someone for a new hairstyle isn't a reason. Second of all, why do you have to get a new hairstyle? It's your hair, why would you only get a new one bc of these idiots? And they won't stop bully you maybe? No. Just no.

2. Another chapter, called 'People who only cut the self because they ""just"" themself' Then that dude wrote 'There I think, do you really have nothing to do? I mean, there are people (not me *cough cough*) who have ten times more worse problems and don't cut them. Who cuts themself is just a coward and too scared to murder themself. So. (I'm a little bit sociopath now...) Sorry to the people who cut themself. But. Think about it. What is false with your life? Think about it' After I read that, I really wanted to punch that person. Really. Like, just because they ""just"" (why the fuck would you write it like that dude?) they hate them, their problems aren't valid? Okay, you have it worser, but every problem is valid. Every. Problem. If you cut yourself, you need help. And not because youre weird, but because you have a problem or problems. If anyone who reads that has a problem, may it be small, my dms are open. You are valid. And the sentence with the coward and too scared to murder themself... Dude, they are not a coward and too scared. They are fucking strong to life on earth with fucking people like you. I'm so angry now.

3. It's worse, but definitely not so worse like 2 and 1. It was a long text so I won't write it all, but basically that person wrote a chapter called 'Bitches'. Yeah, I also don't like bitches who think they are better than everyone and are Karen's. But. The examples that dude wrote are.... Yeah... 'They have Instagram but not Wattpad', 'They have beautiful eyes', 'washing every day their hair', 'Are scared of balls', 'They are perfect', 'Wear make-up', 'They don't read books'. Buddy, no. Just no. If they don't like reading (I personally love reading, but I know enough people who just don't like it), why would they have Wattpad? If someone has beautiful eyes they're also not a bitch, but yeah. I wash my hair every day because I simply forget to don't wash them, and I don't really see a problem to wash yourself. Wear make up.... Guess what, your favourite movie character also wears make up in the movie, and half of your favourite female actors (and male actors) also. I understand what the person wants to say, that some people are bitchig and just act better then everyone. But the examples are... Kinda stupid. How I said before, this isn't as bad as 1 or 2, which are completely dumb chapters.

But, the person has also good chapters in that book. The person spoke about how homophobic people and racists are assholes, which is good. These chapters are problematic and I really wanna hear your opinion about it. I didn't read the whole book, but maybe I'll do it later.

I wanna say, that you are important. Your problems are valid. A bully is stupid and they often don't have a reason to bully you. And if, you are enough and shouldn't change for these idiots. You are beautiful. Wear make up, a boy, a girl, a Non-binary, every humans looks with and without make up beautiful. Read books if you want, don't if you don't. You are enough. You are loved. Don't forget it. Please. Even if some idiots like that person above says something different. I love you all.

End note: The book was German and my English is not the best, so some things are roughly translated. Sorry for that.