u/Former_Principle_306

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What motivates you to write?

isn't is necessary to have a reason to write something meaningful? Like for me I'm writing bunch of stray dogs/ cats, raccoons in a fantasy like world, I aim to write them with animal logic and not human logics,, Im genuinely not sure who I'm writing it for cause my animals can't really read or understand// not to mention I have no idea on how to write either lol,, but when I feel like it i write out small moments consistent with the writing but I genuinely don't have a end in mind either lol

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u/Former_Principle_306 — 6 days ago

I woke up and thought about a character named "Safety The Pin" I want to write the a comedic, stupid, confident, unsafe-est safety preacher, I already have a writing where introducing such characters is a regular, I would like to get some feedbacks on if the idea is funny and stupid enough?

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u/Former_Principle_306 — 9 days ago
▲ 2 r/creativewriting+1 crossposts

SCENE 2 — GRAY SKY

EXT. ROAD 6 — GRAY AFTERNOON

Rain walks like she owns the weather.
Not a single raindrop lands on her — the rain curves away, embarrassed.

Behind her, a pigeon slips on a wet plastic bag, flaps once, gives up, and lies there like it’s filing a complaint against gravity.

Rain doesn’t look back.

She turns toward Road 6, passing MEGABYTE, PROMI, and MINION on their way to the broken shed on Road 4.

PROMI waves.
Rain hisses without slowing.

Promi flinches so hard he bumps into a mailbox.
The mailbox bumps him back.
He apologizes to it.

Rain laughs under her breath — not because it’s funny, but because Promi’s fear is a flavor she enjoys.

She slips a cheap sardine can out of sight.
No one needs to know she buys off‑brand.
She has a reputation.

RAIN
Bow when you see me.

Megabyte ignores her.
Promi bows too low and headbutts Minion.

Rain’s eyes flick to Minion — tiny posture, alertness, usefulness.
She files it away.

A stray dog tries to bark at her.
Rain stares once.
The dog reconsiders its entire life and walks home.

Rain reaches the last apartment on Road 6.
Behind it, the river runs gray, slow, tired.

The apartment is locked.
Bingo prefers it that way.
Moving would mean having reasons.
Bingo hates reasons.

She finds him sitting exactly where he always sits — like a statue that learned how to breathe.

Rain tosses the sardine can toward him without looking.

RAIN
How’s your family treating you?

BINGO
With kindness.
They leave this old soul be.
I am grateful for the food, Rain.

A leaf falls on his head.
He doesn’t react.
He’s built different.

He asks how Red Ribbon’s Road is doing.
Rain says they need fresh recruits — like she’s talking about groceries.

A frog jumps out of the river, lands on Rain’s paw, realizes its mistake, and jumps back in.

Rain doesn’t blink.

The siblings drift into one of their long conversations —
the kind that start with food and end with philosophy,
the kind only siblings can have under a gray sky that refuses to clear.

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SCENE 3 — PAIN PAWS PAOW

EXT. BROKEN SHED — CONTINUOUS GRAY AFTERNOON

Promi shakes raindrops off his head.
They fall in slow arcs, disappearing into the dirt.

PROMI
Hey… we gotta make sure Minion becomes a mystic.
Or at least ends up in Fracture.
You saw how Rain looked at him, right?

Megabyte nods, half listening, half staring at the sky that refuses to clear.

MEGABYTE
Yeah. You’re right.
We should contact Sable.

A breeze moves through the shed — not dramatic, just enough to remind them the world is bigger than their conversation.

PROMI
Wait. Didn’t we rescue Sable too?

MEGABYTE
I don’t know, bro.
She’s always just been there.

A crow lands on the fence, tilts its head, listens, then decides they’re too stupid to bother with and flies off.

Promi sets up plates for the three of them.
The clinks make the shed feel like a home, even though it isn’t.

PROMI
Also… why don’t you ever work for Fracture?
You’d be a great mystic.

MEGABYTE
You already know.
I’m not chasing a purpose.

The wind shifts.
A plastic bag drifts by, gets caught on a nail, and hangs there like it’s listening too.

They munch on the chicken nuggets Megabyte saved.
Promi nearly forgets the whole conversation, stuffing a drumstick into his mouth.

Then—

MINION screams.
A sharp, tiny sound that cuts the quiet like a thread snapping.

He drops to the floor.

The air tightens.

SABLE sprints toward them — not loudly, not dramatically, just out of duty.

She kneels beside Minion.

SABLE
Water.

Megabyte doesn’t hesitate.
The blessing flows from him like a breath — calm, steady, instinctive.
The puddles ripple in response, bowing.

Minion’s nerves settle.

Sable writes rapidly on a sheet of paper — her paw moving with a rhythm older than the shed, older than the road.

She tears the page free.

SABLE
Let me write his pain.

A gust of wind lifts the paper — not violently, just enough to carry it upward, toward Fracture.

SABLE
The head needs to see this.

The world exhales.

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u/Former_Principle_306 — 9 days ago
▲ 4 r/writingcritiques+4 crossposts

Scene 1: Garlic Is Bad for Cats

“Captain NoThinGgg!” Ms. Flycle screams mid-jump as she tears down the alley, A.I.M.S. security lights flickering behind them.

She swerves hard and yells at Megabyte,
“Can that wannabe Captain ever be of use, Mr. Byte?”

Megabyte doesn’t look up. He’s busy trying to keep a box of chicken nuggets from launching into the street.

Ms. Flycle skids, nearly rattling herself apart.
“Also—the Minion. Tiny. The Minion. Where is the Minion?”

Megabyte blinks.
“What? Minion is here?”
Ms. Flycle shakes in place.

“I told you the number of passengers. I told you quickly kickly! Mr. Byte.”
Megabyte leans forward.

Megabyte closes eyes and takes a deep breath
“My love eyes on the road. We talk later.”

Megabyte notices Minion’s black ear pop out of Miss flycle’s front basket

 “Also, Minion is in your basket. I got your back, lady.”

Ms. Flycle darts into a narrow alley, loops once for no reason, then parks sharply beside a trash can.
Ms Flycle “Nothing fell in here, I didn't willingly push him there were turbulence Mr Byte!”
Ms Flycle acts defensive 

From inside the trash can:
“Benzalez. Mano a mano. You versus me,” it announces proudly.
“I am the Sun. The Start. I have to be the only—”
Megabyte kicks the bin over.
Megabyte 
“Promi, is that you?”

Narrator 
“There’s a lot of clanging. Definitely a head hit. Probably two.”

Promi tumbles back out, trips, and just before his face meets the concrete, he summons a soccer-ball-sized knot of darkness, trying to minimize the impact.

The ball of nothing avoids his face entirely.
Promi sighs, presses his cheek to the ground anyway.
“Let me eat dirt for a minute.”

He gets up, takes a big breath, and looks at Megabyte.
“So. You know that parachute you made for me? For whenever our darling Ms. Flycle kicks me off the backseat?”

Megabyte “Go on.”

Promi  “Yeah. How do you do left, right, up—not down—in a bin?”

He points back at the fallen trash can.

“Also, Benzalez, that retail npc of a human closed the lid on me! Next time we steal from this A.I.M.S grocery, remind me to take a dump in the cornerest of corners.”

He turns suddenly.
“Minioo00sss—why you only use three limbs, stupid?”

Megabyte smacks the back of Promi’s head.
“We saved him from the accident remember?.”
Promi blinks.
“Aight. Minion, you on my back.”

Minion shakes his head.
“I wanna walk. I’m glad to be doing something. Also Ms. Flycle is very gentle with me.”

Promi smiles.
“That she is.”

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u/Former_Principle_306 — 9 days ago
▲ 4 r/writingfeedback+3 crossposts

scene 1 Running for the Garlic

Lotus:
“Okay but what is the garlic?”

Kite waves his hand dramatically, like he’s explaining philosophy.

Kite:
“That’s just flavor. Onionion passion the real deal.”

Lotus squints past Kite, peeking down the road. The street is loud — scooters honking, aunties arguing, a stray cat judging everyone — but Lotus spots a familiar silhouette.

Lotus:
“Bro, Don't get too excited, I can see Ibisly. Remember what we planned?”

Kite starts vibrating like a phone on silent mode.

Kite:
“Ofcourse, bullying him with words so he stays longer, I get it.”

Lotus gives him the side‑eye.
Kite is lying.
Kite is always lying when he’s excited.

Lotus:
“Right then… let me go offer him some smoke, ask him where he been, etc etc, okay?”

Kite:
“Please please, I want this bro, I want this.”

Lotus sighs, stands up, dusts off his pants, and jogs toward Ibisly.

Lotus:
“Oi Eleven! Wait wait, my bhai!”

Ibisly freezes like someone pressed pause on him.

Ibisly:
“I just came for some cigarettes bro…”

Lotus hands him the half‑smoked cigarette he was holding.
Ibisly takes it like it’s a gift from the heavens.

Ibisly:
“Thanks man, this is the good cigarette too. Yummy.”

Lotus turns his head — and his soul leaves his body.

Kite is already mid‑air, flying toward Ibisly with the posture of someone who learned physics from cartoons.

Kite:
“I must end you!”

Lotus:
“NO, NO, NO!”

Before Lotus can reach them, a crow swoops in from above, cawing like it’s announcing a WWE entrance.

Lotus:
“Not you too!”

Kite collides with Ibisly, drops him, and immediately starts swinging.
The crow joins in, pecking and flapping like it has personal beef with Ibisly.

Lotus walks up, exhausted by life, and sighs.

Then he starts kicking Ibisly too — not hard, just the “I’m tired of you” kicks.

Lotus:
“Whatever! Fly back to me.”

The crow instantly stops attacking, flaps twice, and lands on Lotus’s shoulder like a trained pet.

Ibisly, bruised in his pride more than anything, gets furious.

Ibisly:
“Who the fuck calls a crow Whatever?!”

His throat glows, and suddenly he breathes a burst of fire that lifts him a few feet off the ground like a malfunctioning rocket.

Kite dodges, impressed.

Kite:
“Woaw, fancy them pants not gonna lie .”

Lotus and Kite weave around the flames, ducking and rolling like they’ve done this before.

Lotus:
“Very englishly smart you are, Mr Cotton Kite. Why can’t I ever get through to you?”

Kite:
“I can’t write anything but fire and water, remember what no schoolling means?”

Ibisly sputters, runs out of fire, and drops to the ground like a dying sparkler.

A fire truck screeches into the scene — except it doesn’t stop.
It starts spinning in place like someone forgot how wheels work.

A man leaps out mid‑spin, landing dramatically.

Baala:
“I, the great Baala — the man who fights the evil of fire — will stop this hazardly fire from spreading any further!”

He grabs a water pipe and sprints toward a burning tree, but the spinning truck yanks him backward like a yo‑yo.

On the sidewalk, a girl stands with both arms full of bangles, watching proudly.

Lissty:
“Babe, you forgot to pull the keys again! you're so dashing you don't even care about car keys, wow.”

She throws a bangle.
It hits Baala.
Second throw hits a beggar nearby 

Lissty looks at the begger

“Sorry Mr Zilly hehe”

Lissty looks back at Baala, whispers to herself 

“3 more bangles shots left to save my Brave Baala because my accuracy is 20%”

Third throw flies straight but somehow curves away.
Fourth throw bounces off the ground, pauses mid‑air, then redirects and hits unconscious Ibisly Eleven.

Fifth throw — perfect.
It knocks the keys out of the spinning truck.

Lissty:
“Me and my Boyfriend saved the whole day!!”

Kite walks up to the burning tree, pulls out a pen like it’s a legendary weapon.

Kite:
“Great Fendylan’s final pen.”

He writes the word water on the tree.
Water pours from the sky like the pen summoned a cloud.

Ibisly crawls toward the beggar.

Ibisly:
“Mr Zilly Bark, Earth speaking. Do you copy?”

The beggar sits up, dazed.

Mr Zilly Bark:
“Some idiot only wants to write cats and dogs. Bark bark bark.”

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u/Former_Principle_306 — 10 days ago