Azure Platter @azure-platter-writes - Tumblr Blog

hey honest question, did anybody have GOOD stuff happen to them in 2024? cause it was really bad for me and for most people i know, so it would be nice to hear about anything that's been going WELL for any of you. even if it's small stuff. just to know there's light out there.

#my roommate said: my brother got married #personally I started working in a field i love

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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

NotionByRach - FREEBIES (workbook, notion template, games, challenges, etc.);

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

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#referance

When I die bury me with all my braces on

Someday soon my joints will function bad enough

I’ll have to quit – walking; writing; working;

playing with my cat;

and dates with pretty girls.

So I bind and bind and bind

So the pain wears a little less

So I can walk just a little more.

I wrap my wrists so I can write

and write and write.

So I can pet my cat

and tell him that I love him.

Until I’m stuck sitting and waiting;

With all these thoughts in my head

sitting and waiting.

Stuck watching the world go by.

I swallow my pills with water

and take gummy vitamins

so my throat doesn’t close up.

I set timers to remember to eat

to get out of bed and brush my teeth:

the day goes by; watching and waiting

to do something – anything.

#poem #disability #disabled #joint pain #joint hypermobility #my work #i wrote this for class and the next day i couldnt walk from the pain #pots #potsie

zorlok-if

Putting this here in case other writers (and people in general) don't know about emotion wheels. This shit is helpful on so many levels.

#referance

There's not enough "I'm sorry"s

Or "I love you"s

To fix what is broken

Torn

When you didn't care

When you left me alone

In my own self hatred

Turned a blind eye to my pain

My cry's for help

Still you don't listen

When I speak

Words swallowed by hollow empathy

By fear

By anxiety

You can't hear me

And you can't fix what you broke

#they speak #poetry #freewrite poetry #trauma poetry #therapy poetry #personal #my works #my poetry #therapy #trauma #freeform poetry

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway

But God you'd think someone working on a writing degree would write better than a 2012 Wattpad fanfic. People please.

#they speak

dragonhoardingwips-deactivated2

Asking for a friend,

But what circle of hell am I in if I think one of my own characters is hot?

azure-platter-writes

Earth.

There's a lot of psycho babble I could go into but basically you're making these characters to be you're ideal. They are your fantasy.

So yeah it's pretty normal for you to find them hot.

#they speak #reblog

caitlin-elias

Hey y'all I could use some help with a setting!

I'm writing a fairytale retelling of the frog prince. I originally thought of it as a stand alone, with a cute cottagecore setting, but the more I was writing, I realized I wanted it to be a series, with unique worlds for each individual retelling. Ex-an ice kingdom, a floating city...

My problem is, I'm too attached to the original setting, but it no longer fits the overarching uniqueness of the series.

Any suggestions for a new setting? I need it to allow travel, as our heroes go on an epic quest across the kingdom to break the frog curse.

Anything helps! Thank you!

azure-platter-writes

Alternate reality?

Like part of the frog curse is living in this picturesque environment and being unable to escape. Almost like The Dome or The Truman Show

Check out Melanie Cellier's Beyond the Four Kingdoms series of you wanna see how she connected the world's for her retelling universe.

#they speak #reblog #not my wip #world building

ghostsofmemories

so turns out i despise making wip updates and all that jazz, but i popped in to say i finished insect poison!!! for real!!! it's significantly shorter than i thought it would be (around 34k) because i guess it decided it wants to be a novella, and i actually got an idea for a new wip so i wasn't going to argue and try to make it 60-80k like i had originally planned.

objectively speaking, the book is not good. it starts strong, but around halfway-3/4 of the way through, you can clearly see where i stopped having so much momentum and started struggling with a Writing Identity Crisis because i realized that every project i've gotten over 15,000 words into in the past four-five years is something recycled from when i was younger, insect poison included, and i was really concerned i'd never generate an idea of my own again.

then... i started reading again.

who would've thought that consuming content can help you remember what kind of content you like?? and help you realize what kind of content you want to make???

anyway, i'm starting a new novel! i have no clue what i'm doing. i'm going to structure as i go, name characters as i go, figure everything out while it's happening instead of ruining my excitement for something new while i'm still planning it. i don't want to keep drudging up old ideas right now. i have things i want to come back to someday, but i think i need to reassure myself that i can write a book that's entirely new to me. and i don't think i'm going to do traditional updates for it, either. i might do ask games, excerpts, and maybe a wip intro once i figure it out, but wip updates make me... not want to write, because the more i write, the closer i get to an update and... yeah. no.

so here's to insect poison, which taught me how to write prose again, and to my new wip, which will hopefully teach me how to write on my own again.

insect poison taglist:

@coffeeandcalligraphy @alicewestwater @wolf-oak @shaelinwrites @hellnar @oceancold @aetherwrites @keira-is-writing @bookpacking @feverdreamwritings-deactivated2 @isherwoodj @oasis-of-you @rubbahpunk @azure-platter-writes @bookphobe @avakrahn

azure-platter-writes

Congratulations on finishing your story! And congratulations on finding your passion again!

I wish you the best of luck and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

#they speak #reblog #others wip

eldritch-bf

Hey please comment/reblog and put in the tags if you’re an autistic writer! I’m trying to find y’all but I’m having a hard time. Allistics, please reblog too just put in the notes that you’re allistic.

#reblog #im adhd with suspectied autism

Hey guys! Sorry I've been so dead lately. School is finishing and I was working a lot.

But now school is almost over and I quit my job so I will be more active lately.

#they speak

dragonhoardingwips-deactivated2

Who wrote the first "Its a dark and stormy night?" I'm hearing a few people say it and my mind is saying Shakespeare

azure-platter-writes

English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

He's also the same guy responsible for "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword"

#they speak #reblog