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The universe must have wanted me to feel sad today. I woke up with a weight on my chest that I have not felt in such a long time. And with it being a while, I forgot how I usually handle this so I just went about my own way. I was checking for a folded receipt for my apartment’s downpayment in my wallet. Instead of finding that, I found our photos – forgetting in a moment of weakness years back,…
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Writing Advice Posts: A Handy Reference Guide
(Updated 02/01/21) Hey all, I’ve got quite a few writing advice posts & answered Asks on my blog at this point, so I’m making this reference guide to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. Hope it helps!
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Books
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General
8 Ways to Improve Your Writing
10 Best Books About Writing Fiction
How to Spot Bad Writing Advice: 6 Red Flags to Look For
“Show Don’t Tell”? Not Always. Here’s When to Use Summary
How to start a story
More about starting stories
The first sentence
Weak words
Why Just About Every Published Book in the World Does 57 Things That Just About Every Book About Writing Tells You Not to Do
Creative Nonfiction Cliches to Avoid
How to Read Like a Writer
How to Write During a Pandemic
The Writing Process, Writer’s Block, & Inspiration
To all the Writers Suffering from Depression
How to Train Yourself to Write Faster
Just a friendly reminder that creativity is difficult to quantify.
Quick Writing Tip: Make a Note to Your Future Self in Your WIP
Quick Writing Tip: Take Notes!
Just a friendly reminder that writing is not always a linear process.
Quick Cure for Writer’s Block: Lower Your Expectations
Set Realistic Goals
Your Skills May Need Time to Catch Up to Your Vision
It’s Okay to Experiment and Be Weird As Fuck
Surround Yourself With Supporters
It’s okay to take a break.
Your First Draft is Raw Material
Getting into “The Zone”
Vomit Brain
Writing from Your Imagination vs. Reality
Dealing with Criticism
Getting Bored with Your Own Writing
Getting past a block
Doing research on topics you don’t have first-hand experience with
Journalling about your writing
How to Keep Yourself From Editing As You Write
Advice for Getting Over a Writing Slump
Dealing with Procrastination
How to Write Like You Used to, Before You Learned Stuff that Fucked Up Your Natural Creative Flow and Turned Your Writing into Boring, Stilted Garbage
Concept: Maybe Your First Draft DOESN’T Suck
How to Deal with Post-Writing Depression
Being Flexible With Your Writing Routine
Character Development
Creating Character Arcs with the DCAST Method
What Does Your Main Character Want?
How to Activate Your Passive Characters, One Verb at a Time
How to Use Description to Show Character Development
How to Create a Non-Cliched First-Meeting Scene
The “It Depends” Post
Shifting internal goals
When to identify your character’s goal
Writing about normal people with normal problems
If you’re worried about your character being too similar to someone else’s character
Describing your characters without messing up your pacing
Story, Plot, & Pacing
Quick Plotting Tip: Write Your Story Backwards
Pause at the Threshold
How to Spot an “Info-dump”
Slowing Down the Pace of Your Story Without Boring Your Reader
Time Transitions
How to Create a Non-Cliched First-Meeting Scene
Creating Conflict
When & how to cut a scene
If you’re good at creating characters but awful at creating plot
When you’ve plotted your story but can’t get started
En Media Res
Writing to Your Ideal Reader
Deus Ex Machina
Foreshadowing
Finding an Ending
What to write between moments of conflict
Starting a story with waking-up scene
How to Know When You’re Done Outlining
Doing a Structural Overhaul on Your Story
How to Find an Ending from a Beginning
Editing Tip: How to Speed Up or Slow Down Your Pacing
Adding Stakes to Your Story
Description, Setting, & Worldbuilding
How to Make Your Descriptions Less Boring
How to Spot an “Info-dump”
Adding Descriptions to Intense Scenes Without Messing Up Your Story’s Flow
How to Use Description to Show Character Development
Worldbuilding: How much is too much?
Modeling your fantasy world from stuff in the real world
Internal Consistency
Utilizing Sound
How to Do World-Building Research
5 Tips for Writing Great Descriptions
Point of View
How to Choose the Right Point of View for Your Story
A Beginner’s Guide to Multiple Point of View
6 Questions to Ask About Your Point of View
How to decide if you should use first person or third person
More point of view basics
Head hopping
How to Head Hop without Head Hopping
What to Do When You’re Halfway Through Your Story and Realize Your POV Isn’t Working
3 Tips to Avoid Overusing “I” in a First Person Story
Dialogue
How to Improve Your Dialogue
3 Ways to Make Your Dialogue More Interesting
Starting a story with dialogue
Are You Using Too Much Stage Direction?
Which is Better: Exposition or Expository Dialogue?
Publishing & Sharing Your Work
7 Tips to Build an Audience for Your Writing
Pros and Cons of Self Publishing
Quick Publishing Tip: Don’t Bury Your Gold
How to Properly Format Your Manuscript for Publication
A warning about posting writing online that you intend to publish later
Advice for writers who are worried about people stealing their work or ideas
Getting feedback on your writing
How to Create a Cover Letter for a Literary Magazine or Journal
How to Make a 3D Mockup of Your Book for Free
Editing
10 Questions to Ask an Editor Before Hiring Them
Quick Revision Tip: Read Your Writing Out Loud
How to Keep Yourself From Editing As You Write
Cut the fidgeting
Are you suffering from -ing disease?
Are you Using Too Much Stage Direction?
What “Editing” Really Means
Quick Editing Tip: “That”
Quick Revision Tip: Read Faster
Editing Tip: Dialogue
Tips for Editing a Story
Should You Use a Contract When Hiring an Editor?
Quick Tip: Up & Down
Pre-Editing Checklist
Miscellaneous
The Difference Between a Semi-Colon and an Em-Dash
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Seventeen’s Birth Charts
S.Coups - 08/08/95 Sun - Leo Moon - Capricorn Mercury - Leo Venus - Leo Mars - Libra Jupiter - Sagittarius Saturn - Pisces Uranus - Capricorn Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Scorpio Lilith - Cancer
Jeonghan - 04/10/95 Sun - Libra Moon - Aquarius Mercury - Libra Venus - Libra Mars - Scorpio Jupiter - Sagittarius Saturn - Pisces Uranus - Capricorn Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Scorpio Lilith - Gemini
Joshua - 30/12/95 Sun - Capricorn Moon - Taurus Mercury - Capricorn Venus - Aquarius Mars - Capricorn Jupiter - Sagittarius Saturn - Pisces Uranus - Capricorn Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Gemini
Jun - 10/06/96 Sun - Gemini Moon - Aries Mercury - Taurus Venus - Gemini Mars - Taurus Jupiter - Capricorn Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Cancer
Hoshi - 15/06/96 Sun - Gemini Moon - Gemini Mercury - Gemini Venus - Gemini Mars - Gemini Jupiter - Capricorn Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Cancer
Wonwoo - 17/07/96 Sun - Cancer Moon - Leo Mercury - Leo Venus - Gemini Mars - Gemini Jupiter - Capricorn Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Leo
Woozi - 22/11/96 Sun - Sagittarius Moon - Aries Mercury - Sagittarius Venus - Libra Mars - Virgo Jupiter - Capricorn Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Leo
Seokmin - 18/02/97 Sun - Aquarius Moon - Cancer Mercury - Aquarius Venus - Aquarius Mars - Libra Jupiter - Aquarius Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Leo
Mingyu - 06/04/97 Sun - Aries Moon - Pisces Mercury - Taurus Venus - Aries Mars - Virgo Jupiter - Aquarius Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Virgo
Minghao - 07/11/97 Sun - Scorpio Moon - Aquarius Mercury - Scorpio Venus - Capricorn Mars - Sagittarius Jupiter - Aquarius Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Libra
Seungkwan - 16/01/98 Sun - Capricorn Moon - Virgo Mercury - Capricorn Venus - Capricorn Mars - Aquarius Jupiter - Aquarius Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Capricorn Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Libra
Vernon - 18/02/98 Sun - Aquarius Moon - Scorpio Mercury - Aquarius Venus - Capricorn Mars - Pisces Jupiter - Pisces Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Aquarius Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Libra
Chan - 11/02/99 Sun - Aquarius Moon - Leo Mercury - Aquarius Venus - Capricorn Mars - Pisces Jupiter - Pisces Saturn - Aries Uranus - Aquarius Neptune - Aquarius Pluto - Sagittarius Lilith - Libra
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Full Moon
February 10, 2020.
I was in bed, thinking it was nearing morning and I would need to get ready for gym, but it was only 10 minutes past midnight.
9 more days until my birthday.
9 more days of my 26th year and may all the signs I’ve asked for are never going to happen. One sign would have been enough for a normal person, right? But I guess I’m not for I asked for five. Two of those are due this…
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Step 1
They say that the journey to self-love is a tedious one, but not difficult. One way to go about it and ingress is to go back to doing the things that you love.. so here I am, writing again and firing up this blog where the last activity was some time during the first half of 2018.
When I read through blogs and posts about self-love and how writing about how you feel is one medium that helps…
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Choices
January 17, 2018
Disclaimer: I tend to go into detail when I recount occurrences on this blog to the point that it feels like I’m just rambling and I salvage the whole thing by getting my point across and therefore losing the impact it should have. But I’ll try my best to cut the story short.
It’s only been 17 days into the new year and a very significant thing happened that I believe will define…
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The next chapter
May 2018, 2016
Yesterday was such a big day for me. 7 years in college added up to that special moment when your thesis adviser said three words you worked so damn hard to hear :
” (Félicitations!) Vous avez réussi. ” ” Congratulations! You passed. “
My heart was literally jumping and I found it so hard to control the smile on my face because the panel still had comments after, concerning the…
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Almost
Written June 2016
I nearly broke up with you the other night. I’ve finally come clean about how I felt about us. How all the things that I feel don’t seem like a priority to you.. and that you’d find an explanation as to why I was hurting and the logical part of me agreed with you. How every time I told you I was upset, you’d apologize because you weren’t enough and that made me feel bad. Because…
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Lower Silesia, Poland, 1 IX 2017
Classic Soul
There was a thing that circulated on Facebook on how you would introduce someone in a story. This is my take on it.. and this is about Kevin. (Play My Girl by The Temptations as soon as you start reading) The sound of a jacket ruffling made me turn my head – and then our eyes met. It was like a typical scene in a movie wherein the leading lady finally meets her leading man – in slow motion. Hair…
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After-hours
Without lifting her gaze from the leather folders she was carrying, Hermione hurried into the elevator and distractedly slammed her palm against the button of the ground floor.
“Staying after-hours again, Granger?”
Hermione flinched at the voice that had spoken over the metallic rattling noise of the golden grilles sliding shut and cast a glance over her shoulder at the man leaning against the far wall. She bowed her head in reluctant greeting.
“I’ve got… paperwork,” she muttered, turning away and trying to ignore the heat creeping up her neck.
“Sure. Paperwork…” hummed Malfoy, drawing out the last word in an almost indecent purr. “What about taking this paperwork somewhere else?”
Hermione’s gaze flickered to the golden grilles; they were nearing the Atrium. Malfoy’s office was the closest but they would still have to go back down a few levels.
“I was actually going to suggest my place,” sounded his voice again as though he had guessed her thoughts.
Hermione turned around, a crease appearing between her eyebrows.
“Malfoy…” she started.
“Yes, Granger, I know…” sighed Malfoy, rolling his eyes. “As soon as we take it home it becomes personal. After six months of your repeating it every other night, I get it. What I don’t get is what would be so terrible about it?”
Hermione stood still, taken aback, as the elevator screeched to a halt.
“I don’t- I don’t know…”
“Right,” cut her off Malfoy, his face suddenly shutting, although she glimpsed a flicker of bitterness in his gaze. “After you…” he said coolly, waiting for her to exit the elevator.
Hermione didn’t move.
“I was going to say I don’t know your address,” she said quietly, stepping out into the half-deserted Atrium.
Next moment, she felt a hand settle in the small of her back, firmly steering her to the row of fireplaces.
“Well, that can be easily fixed,” whispered Malfoy’s voice into her ear.
In your eyes I see a darkness that torments you
(And in your head where it dwells)
I’d give you my hand if you’d reach out and grab it
(Let’s walk away from this hell)
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