hey moon

Emily. 25. Writing sideblog. Nanowrimo 2011 winner. Camp Nano 2013 half-nano winner. Participating in Nanowrimo 2017.

[silvaris]

Walk by Iryna Reshetnyak

[lady-feste-pendragon]

ozark gothic

-the mountains are everywhere. they surround like a cage. there is no horizon line. sky sinks into the tops of the mountains. they are endless, even underfoot, yet somehow you always seem to be in a valley.

-there is a book, an old book, that has captured all the stories of the pioneers and settlers who live here. their stories sound familiar, as if you have heard them all before, and the drawings of faces seem to follow you as you turn the page. you could have sworn you saw that old woman in town the other day, but that’s impossible; she’s ninety in this drawing. 

-you remember then that no one dies of old age here. they just wither and sink into the ground. 

-the rocks are all hollow, but so so heavy. the hills are riddled with caves. you do not want to go in, but something soft and as hollow as the space before you calls you deeper. your grandfather walked this way after all, and you must too.

-the colors are brilliant. unnaturally vivid. crystal perfect greens in summer shades of green that don’t have names. the woods exploded with pink and white blooms in spring. the mountains in the distance are variegated always in fall with turning leaves. even in winter the snow is broken with brown wood and grey stone. you have heard there are places where everything looks the same. you do not wish to leave this place to find out. 

- you saw a plain once. it was unsettling. you will not return to that place. 

-”when i was your age,” the old folks say from their rocking chairs, “we had to walk uphill to get anywhere. both ways.” you roll your eyes, but you believe them. you had to walk uphill to get to their home. you must walk uphill to get back. there is only one direction and that is up. 

-your whole family is here. your family has been here for generations. all the generations are here. you visit the graveyard and speak to their ghosts once a month. graveyards are all happy places, and all the ghosts know you by name. there is one cousin who escaped the mountains. you do not speak of him except in hushed tones, as if of the recent dead. 

-there are many farmers. there are few fields. the dirt is not dirt, but finely ground rock. nothing should grow here, and yet somehow everything does. 

-you call spring storm season, and any other twisters are “unusual for this time of year.” this is just for show. storm season never ends. 

-when you speak to outsiders your speech betrays you. there are no y’alls of the south or fixin’s of the west. you speak in the voice of the thousand rivers that run through the mountains. mark twain almost captured it, but his river speech is the wrong river. 

-sometimes you walk into appalachia, but when you turn around again you are home in the ozarks. you make sure to turn quickly before your sister mountains recognize you as lost. 

-there was magic here, running through rivers and bubbling up through springs and echoing in caves and rolling downhills, when your great grandparents were small. tourists speak of it and ask questions. you shrug and laugh and say “not anymore.” this is a lie; it is still there, but you cannot speak of it today. it must hide from outside eyes. 

-if you stand still in the woods you can hear the sound of ancient fiddles floating down on the wind. someday you must add to this song, or your bones will not take to soil. 

-”these are not mountains,” people say and laugh in your face. “these are hills. they are too small to be mountains.” oh how little they know. oh how little they know. 

[elishaalexzander]

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[starryeyedspell]

witch aesthetics » fawnsgrimoire

one hand c l a p p i n g , where’s the wind i stand spanning at your distant wings i believe the w o r l d  it spins for you we will never be, I am the moon.

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[gravithy]

[a-joyfuljourney]

Teru M.

[frankdelflno]

Surnames Master Post.

Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.

English Surnames

Dutch Surnames

Spanish Surnames

Scottish Surnames

German Surnames

Italian Surnames

Irish Surnames

French Surnames

Scandinavian Surnames

Welsh Surnames

Jewish Surnames

Surnames By Ethnicity

Most Common Surnames in the USA

Most Common Surnames in Great Britan

Most Common Surnames in Asia

[fae-sidhe]

Every twig is a wand, every puddle is a scrying glass, every star is a candle.

No special tools are needed for witchcraft. Witchery is what you make it, nature and the great spirit listens to your intent and observes the purity of your actions, it does not judge on the accuracy of your tools. 

Hedge witch.

[traitspourtraits]

[phunockery]

Ask a spider: a witchy treat for not killing a spider

This is a simple spell. All you need is a glass jar and a spider who you have just found invading your house space.

Most people run to their shoe closet, but saving these critters isn’t just good for conscious and the environment.

It gives you a free question.

As with anything that gives you a free wish or question: choose yours with care.

This question HAS to involve one of these things. Magic, creativity or intuition. This is not a wish so you can’t ask for more magic powers, but you can ask how to get said powers. You can also ask what project to do next or how to make am intuitive decision that has been plaguing you recently.

Now mind you, this spider MUST be an invader in your home. You can’t just snag a spider from outside, toss it in your house and expect a question of them. That terribly rude and honestly hope there is bad juju for that kind of nonesense.

When you find said uninvited guest carefully slip her into a save container (Mason jars are perfect for this). While you get your shoes on think of the question.

Then, as you are taking the spider outside to a safe place (foliage is best) mentally or audibly explain to the spider that she was an invader of your personal space and you had all rights to kill her (she would understand because that’s how she lives her life). But instead you are doing her a favor by rescuing her from your space.

While you’re in the act of releasing her ask your question, mentally or audibly.

Your answer will appear within 1 to 6 days so keep your eyes open.

I got this spell ‘Magical Housekeeping’ by Tess Whitehurst, an awesome book for those who need a little spark in cleaning up thier house.

[oldmotherredcap]

Old Mother Redcap's "Stupid Cupid" Spell

This is an easy spell is designed to banish an unwanted admirer, to help diminish a friends unwanted advances, or to help get over one’s own experiences of unrequited love.  Items needed: - Small heart shaped ice or chocolate moulds (available in most craft or discount stores) - Water - Rose petals  - Vervain - Large fire proof dish/bowl or cauldron - Paper and pen Method: Carefully pour the water into the moulds, only filling ¾ of each heart. 2 or 3 is satisfactory, but you can fill more up if you wish. Chop up the rose petals, and sprinkle them into the water filled moulds. Visualise you intent whilst you do this. Place the moulds in the freezer. Once the moulds have properly set, get your fire proof dish or cauldron. You may wish to perform this part of the spell outside. On your paper, write the name of the person whose feelings you wish to banish, backwards. Repeat all of the page. Tear up into smaller pieces and place inside the cauldron. Create a fire with the torn pieces of paper. Please be careful. It needs to be big enough to properly melt the ice. Once you have a good sized fire, throw your vervain into it, then your iced hearts. Watch as the fire melts and sizzle the hearts, visualising the target’s (or yourself) own romantic feelings melt and fade away.  Scatter the ashes as you wish or as close to the targets property as possible.

[bookriot]

Religious curses are so interesting because they reflect world-building more accurately that the other types of swears do. So when Patrick Rothfuss’s character says “Shit in God’s beard,” you know beards are important to the culture of the guy who is swearing, and when N.K. Jemisin has one of her characters, a god, say “gods,” in a moment of frustration, a reader learns something about this world: there is more than one god, for example, and this particular god probably prays to a god higher than herself. Swearing is about taking the name of something important in vain. You can learn a lot about a culture’s values by looking at the things it considers to be obscene. That’s the best kind of (expletive deleted) world-building there is.

from Frak It All: The 5 Types of Swears You Find in Speculative Fiction (via totorolas)

[forloveanlemons]

For Love and Lemons Luna midi dress

[bookandslugclub]

Resource Dump: Creating Characters!

Primary Characters

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

10 Traits of a Great Protagonist

4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist

20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists

How to Center your Story

How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists

25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists

Creating Memorable Characters

Creating Strong Female Protagonists

Creating Dynamic Protagonists

How to Create Characters

Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts

25 Things a Great Character Needs

5 Ways to Create 3D Characters

Secondary Characters

10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters

How to Write Effective Supporting Characters

Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters

5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters

Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters

5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters

3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters

Creating Memorable Secondary Characters

5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters

Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters

Names

Top Ten Tips

8 Tips for Naming Characters

7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters

Name that Character!

6 Creative Ways to Name your Character

Naming your Characters

A Guide to Naming Characters

Female: 1 | 2 | 3

Male: 1 | 2 | 3

Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Surname: 1 | 2 | 3 

Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Traits

List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Developing Character Traits

How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters

Develop Memorable Personalities

Give your Character Personality

How to Create a Character’s Personality

How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines

5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality

Appearance

Appearance Generator

Your Character’s Physical Appearance

How to Describe a Character’s Looks

Describing a Character’s Appearance

Character Description Resource

Examples of Physical Characteristics

Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters

How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance

Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance

Describing Clothing and Appearance

Character Appearance Help

Character Description Resource

Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance

Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters

Speech

Talking About your Character: Speech

Variety in Character Voices

All your Characters Talk the Same

How to Create Distinctive Character Voices

How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You

The Art of Voice in Fiction

Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns

The Art and Craft of Dialogue

Writing Character Voice

Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters

Style: Person and Speech

Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Backstory

Building Better Backstories

Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories

How to Write a Backstory

Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory

Backstory Description Generator

Questions to Create Character Backstory

How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character

Nail your Character’s Backstory

How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep

How to Write a Killer Backstory

Diversity

How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse

Writing People of Color

A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour

Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully

Writing With Colour

7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make

Writing Characters of Colour

Describing Characters of Colour

Gender

Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sexuality

Main Character Sexuality

On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Gay Characters

Guide to LGBT YA

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes

Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2

Pansexual & Demisexual Characters

How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters

Introduction

Introducing a Character

Introducing your Main Character

Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist

First Impressions

How to Introduce a Character

How Not to Introduce a Main Character

Introducing the Protagonist

Development

Character Development

9 Ingredients of Character Development

Characterisation 1 - Character Development

How to Develop a Character for a Story

Character Development

Character Development Drives Conflict

Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting

Relationships

How to Write Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships

3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships

The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships

3 Tips for Character Relationships

Building Believable Relationships

Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3

Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Strengths

Identifying your Character’s Strengths

Character Strengths and Weaknesses

Introducing the 24 Character Strengths

Character Strengths and Virtues List

Strengths and Weaknesses

A Balance of Strengths

Flaws

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

DarkWorld RPG Flaws List

Character Flaws

Ten Ugliest Character Flaws

The Four Types of Character Flaws

On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses

Character Flaw Index

Goal

Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things

Goals Define the Plot

Goal Setting for You and your Character

How to Explore you Character’s Motivation

4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot

Motivation

By Genre

Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3

Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Thrillers: 1 | 2 

Horror: 1 | 2 | 3

Heroes

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

How to Write your Own Hero Story

What Makes a Great Hero?

Creating Heroes and Heroines

Write a Story about a Hero

How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love

Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

Create a Super Hero

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

What Makes a Hero

Villains

How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction

How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting

9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype

How Not to Create a Villain

Creating Villains People Love to Hate

3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain

Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains

Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain

How to Create a Great Villain

Do’s & Don’ts

Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character

How to Create a Character

Characterisation Dos and Dont’s

Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s

Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect

Helpful Writing Blogs

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*

writeworld

referenceforwriters

thewritingcafe

aquestionofcharacter *

writingwithcolor

fuckyeah-char-dev

dailycharacterdevelopment

Clichés

Characters and Cliches

Top 10 Character Cliches

7 Lazy Character Cliches 

10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi

Four Worst Character Cliches

Female Character Cliches

Character Cliches to Avoid

The Cliche Character Test

How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters

Templates

How to Create a Character Profile

Writing Character Bios

Character Sheets and Character Creation

Gender/Sexuality Generator

Extremely Detailed Character Template

Writer’s Resource: Character Template

Character Description

[troublet0wn]

[mbtinerding]

the very basics of each mbti type

ENTP- eccentric, charming, undisciplined ENFP- thoughtful, upbeat, scattered ENFJ- passionate, charismatic, manipulative ENTJ- strong, authoritative, intense ESTJ- responsible, hard-working, anal ESFJ- respectful, friendly, shallow ESFP- theatrical, daring, reckless ESTP- confident, fearless, crude ISTJ- realistic, perfectionistic, conventional ISFJ- kind, traditional, obsessive ISFP- considerate, artistic, self-pitying ISTP- technical, honest, unemotional INTP- calm, intellectual, oblivious INTJ- analytical, straightforward, skeptical INFJ- patient, understanding, complicated INFP- sweet, idealistic, emotional

[maxkirin]

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Natalie Goldberg (via maxkirin)