café au lait~

“Aléjate de mi, Satanas!”

[thereadmind]

[sexy-gummi]

💯💯💯❤️

[thememedaddy]

[american-auror-story]

[yardsards]

everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

[jack-of-blades]

Oh to go back a dozen years ago and tell myself I’ll still be obsessed with Dragon Age

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[disgustinggf]

[son-of-drogo]

-Bilbo Baggins at his 111th birthday party.

[depsidase]

[aromancy]

Top priority when choosing which name to keep is ALWAYS whether it's an aptronym.

[animentality]

[daily-prompts]

prompt 2375

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose."

--Stephen King

[omgaverse]

in my ideal universe henriksen wouldn’t have died in s3 and would instead be a series long recurring character with a holt/wuntch rapport with dean. henriksen walking into whatever small town station sam and dean are being held at and going “winchesters” and dean responding “henriksen. i wondered why all the birds had suddenly stopped singing.” i think this would’ve been fun but no. no supernatural isn’t allowed joy or whimsy.

[drachenmagier]

DEAR ARTISTS, NIGHTSHADE IS OUT!

Get the best means and only acceptable way to be toxic online. :D The download might take a bit of time right now, a LOT of people want the online-arsenic~.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

Have a fantastic day~! <3

[drachenmagier]

Small reminder. :)

You're sharing pictures? Nightshade them. All of them.

Memes? Photos of your dinner? Cat pictures? Something you found with google? A selfie to celebrate the new shirt? Your holiday decoration? Nightshade it.

You're not required to be an artist to protect yourself.

Stay safe.

It IS dangerous to go alone. Use Protection~. <3

[cassandracalin]

No one can resist.

Cassandra Calin x Ohh Deer, for 4 days only!

[whateveranimex]

Lucy: Ugh, crushes are so dumb.

Natsu: I know. Whenever I’m near the person I like I just start acting stupid.

Lucy: But you’re always acting stupid?

Natsu: …

Natsu: Yeah, don’t think about that too hard.

[writingquestionsanswered]

I am blocked. I know the entire story line for each pov and medium and big events and how I will mix them. But I have problem in what order to put the small events that fill a chapter. I am good at plotting the big stuff, but not the small one, like those little scenes that creat an entire chapter. Can you give some advise on this? Like I have this random scene in my mind, and than I am like, 'so, what next, where does it fits even? And what event should follow after?'

Guide: Filling in the Story Between Known Events

It’s actually good that you know the entire story, including the medium and big events. That’s going to make figuring everything else out a little bit easier.

What usually helps me in a situation like this is to get a bird’s eye view of my story. You can do that a few different ways, but ultimately you’re looking to create a visual representation of your story timeline on a piece of paper, or a digital version if you prefer. You may want to do a mind map or other schematic, for example, or you can just do a basic visual timeline, which is what I generally do. 

For a basic visual timeline, just draw out a horizontal line in the middle of your page to represent your story’s timeline from beginning to end. Now, plot all of the known events in order, from beginning to end. You don’t have to make this an actual timeline, as in putting in the dates and all of that. This is just a visual aid to help you see what your story looks like. Use a short label for each scene so that you’ll read it and immediately know what happens in that scene.

 At this point, you need to figure out what else has to happen in your story. What I like to do here is to draw a peaked line between every two known events, then consider what needs to happen to get from the one event to the next event. So, let’s say the event on the left is your protagonist practicing the big finale song with their choir, and the event on the right (later in the story) is the scene where they arrive at the dance competition in Washington D.C. What needs to happen between those two events? Do they need to do a fundraiser to get money for the trip? Do they need to win a regional competition before they make it to the national finals? Does there need to be a dramatic moment where it looks like their star soloist might not be able to go? Should there be a scene that takes place during flight or road trip to actually get to D.C.? These are all potential scenes that could go between those two events. Now, do the same thing for the next two events, which would be the arrival at the dance competition and making it through the quarter-finals. 

By the time you get to the end of your last known scene/event, you should have a pretty good list of potential scenes to fill in the space between the bigger known scenes. :)

Good luck!

[writingquestionsanswered]

Do you have any advice on how to write non-boring filler chapters so that the storyline doesn’t move to fast?

Please have a look at the following posts! ♥

Avoid Filler at All Cost Guide: Filling in the Story Between Known Events How to Move a Story Forward How to Increase Word Count (Meaningfully!)

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[boxofrandomstuff]

Wanna write believable character in love (and make the readers want to ship them)?

Make them behave slightly different around their crush (but not too different because we don't want to completely change their personality). For example, if they're very extrovert make them act shyer around their crush (and the complete opposite). Or if they're not really in touch with their feelings, make them be more open about them with their crush. If they usually are big brain proud people, make them act kinda stupid with their crush. If they're super tidy people, make them be more chaotic around their crush.

Make them slowly fall in love. Love at first sight is bullsh*t (just look how Romeo and Juliet ended). Readers are going to hook on relationships that take their time to be constructed. How long does it take to fall in love (and not just being physically attracted to someone)? If you want to write a healthy relationship give them scenes (or time) to know each other. I know it sounds weird, but make them live around their crush. Make them be vulnerable together, be real together, be sad, happy, stressed together. Make them talk about their feelings, about their past, about their worries. HOWEVER, this is NOT an excuse to make your characters be the "psychologist" and the "patient". If one of the characters has mental health issues, do not make their love interest to be "in charge" of it. If one of your characters has mental health issues and you want them to get better, make them go to therapy/psychologist/any mental healthcare professional.

Make those two (A and B) interact with other characters. As Passenger once said "Only miss the sun when it starts to snow". This is really simple and helpful because it makes you think "Why does A like B and not C or D?".

This may sound contradictory, but DON'T make them need each other, make them want each other. If they need each other, there's gonna be an attachment red flag. Tbh, I don't know how to explain this, but want > need.

Make them be honest with each other. Please, another red flag is lying, so don't make them lie. A relationship is built on honesty.

Make them have (at least) one thing in common. Could be based on personality, on politics, on taste, on goals... You decide! Maybe make both of your characters be interested in science, or the pursue of happiness, their music taste, an experience they shared...

This is a very personal choice, but try to avoid the enemies to lovers trope (unless you're Jane Austen). I just don't quite like when character A and B hate each other to the core (plus they insult or hit each other) and then it's expected from me to believe that they actually love each other. Maybe this would work with kids that at first hate each other then grow up, become friends and eventually lovers, but not with mature adults.

Feel free to add more tips in the comments :)

[catchymemes]

[alex51324]

I wish benevolent giants would collect me and put me in a safe place when I eat too much fermented fruit.  

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