Elliot

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Femslash February Prompts

Feel free to add more details to any of these when you’re prompting!

1. Post apocalyptic AU 2. Star Wars AU 3. Photography AU 4. Music AU 5. Time travel AU 6. Mosaic AU 7. Teleportation AU 8. Horse AU 9. Deserted island AU 10. Soulmate words AU 11. Fate AU 12. Spies AU 13. Tea AU 14. Random act of kindness AU 15. Blind date gone wrong AU 16. First aid AU 17. Enemies AU 18. Found via rainbow flag AU 19. Pomegranate (Persephone or just somehow including a pomegranate) AU 20. Literal heart stealing AU 21. Makeup advice AU 22. Royalty AU 23. Magical realism AU 24. Magical flowers AU 25. Soulmate (make up a mechanism and tell me!) AU 26. “I’m trying to trick you into thinking I stole the thirteenth floor button when actually the building went from twelve to fourteen and you didn’t notice” AU 27. Cowriting a story AU 28. Museum AU 29. Telepathy AU 30. [Based off a dream you’ve had] AU 31. Dreams AU 32. Baking AU 33. Hard of hearing AU 34. Soulmate colour AU 35. Reincarnation AU 36. [Tell me a point of divergence from canon] AU 37. KissCam AU 38. Rain AU 39. Movie (writing/producing/acting in) AU 40. [Your suggestion here] AU

[paperandinkheart]

6 Ways You're Botching Your Dialogue

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Want to improve your dialogue skills? This article looks at the mistakes writers commonly make.

[alphacrone]

the 7 deadly sins of being a writer

self-doubt

procrastination

sleep deprivation

jealousy

wailing (despair)

notebook lust

horrifying comma use

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I think something we have been seeing is mindless diversity. White show runners, writers, and directors believe that having a Black character is enough to win them points and that they don’t have to actually engage with the marginalized identity given to the character. You can’t just make a white character Black without considering what that means. Certain scenes or choices that are okay for white characters become marred in racism and racist histories when the character is Black. You can’t be blind to the power dynamics that exist in our real world. You can’t turn a character Black but still give them storylines that are soaked in racism

Making your only villain a woc who is mean and cruel to your white Woman protagonist is bad! Making your Black character a savage monster is bad! You can’t just slap on new identities to characters without considering how those new identies changes how the character interacts with the storyline and the real world.

Of course you can have Black characters or characters of color that do bad things but you need to pay close attention to the narrative around that character. It’s not groundbreaking to have a bitchy mean Black girl or the sexually provactive, fiery Latina.

White writers refuse to let go of ideas of white fragility and white female victimhood when making their white woman characters and gleefully use the abuse and domination of the big bad poc to show how empowered she is.

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another tip on style.

If your style tends toward the lyrical, then you probably employ a lot of similes   Similes give your reader a fresh way of looking at everything from people to prunes—or people who look prunes—an instantly vivify your prose.  Paradoxically, however, too many similes actually deaden the prose, because you end up with a surfeit of “like a this” and “as a that”, give the prose a slack, predictable quality.

Here’s a quick trick to retaining the strong images you want without numbing the sentences:  Whenever possible, change a key word to the simile (usually a noun) into another part of speech (usually an adjective).

Examples:

Spencer petted the rottweiler’s head, which felt as round and solid as a turnip.

Spencer petted the rottweiler’s solid, turnip-shaped head.

(The noun “turnip” becomes part of a compound adjective in the second example.)

Chase’s face was shaped something like a cat’s.

Chase’s vaguely feline face came into view.

(The noun “cat” becomes the adjective “feline” in the second example.  You could also use “catlike”.  Bonus points:  you also ditched the inert “was”.)

Living with Hannah felt like a ride on a cut-rate roller coaster.

In the fall, I found myself roller-coastering another toward another year with Hannah.

(The noun “roller coaster” becomes a verb in the second example.)

When you hide some of your similes in this fashion, the traditionally constructed ones that remain pack more of a punch.  Like this:

Singing “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” Nate sounded like six geese a-laying.

Just another helpful tip.  Who knows, maybe you can try to employ it in your own writing and interesting results could come out of it.  

Good luck with your writing as always.

[wingedscarab]

As a kid, I used to marvel at the walls in my cousin’s rooms. They had a collection of carnival masks that were just amazing. As an adult, it seems like they were just another bygone thing of the nineties now….I still find them beautiful. Especially the Venetian carnival masks. They just take me to a very dreamlike world.

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[irisbleufic]

[writingprompts365]

Write a ‘small but definite happiness’ list for each of your main characters

-what simple, everyday things make them happy? 

-try to get as specific as possible (ex. ‘drinking a mug of strong green tea first thing in the morning’ instead of just ‘tea’)

-[then write a list for yourself because it’s important to remember the little things that bring you joy]

[coffeenonsense]

Normal ppl on Nov. 1st: cool, it’s Nov. 1st

Writers: SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

[simplelinesunfashiond]

All us writeblr people calling ourselves “squads” like we’re cool. Let’s be real. Like 90% of writeblrs are weird PTA parents gushing over their imaginary kids and pretending we didn’t screw them up horribly. We are one overprotective outburst away from starting a fight at a fictional tee-ball game.

[fashion-runways]

REEM ACRA Fall/Winter 2018

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[insomniac-arrest]

writing advice: work on one project at a time! Don’t over-extend yourself

me, with one foot in at least 12 different AUs and 15 different stories:

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It’s ok if your writing isn’t as good as you want it to be yet. Write more. Write even more than that. Your skill will catch up to your vision and then you will explode into a powerful forest witch and get an epic deep midnight cloak and create books that change the world.

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Drug Addiction:  A Writers’ Masterpost

A question I get a lot is how to write about common addictions, so here you all go!  More to come! 

Cocaine Addiction

Signs and symptoms

Cocaine addiction statistics

Your brain on cocaine

Your brain on crack cocaine (video)

Cocaine withdrawal symptoms

Cocaine overdose

True stories about cocaine addiction

Heroin Addiction

Signs and symptoms

Heroin addiction statistics

Your brain on heroin

Heroin withdrawal symptoms

Heroin overdose

True stories about heroin addiction

Opioid  Addiction

Signs and symptoms 

Opioid addiction statistics

Your brain on opioids

Opioid withdrawal symptoms

Opioid overdose

True stories about opioid addiction

Meth addiction

Signs and symptoms

Meth addiction statistics

Your brain on meth

Meth withdrawal symptoms 

Meth overdose

True stories about meth addiction

Alcohol Addiction

Signs and symptoms

Alcohol addiction statistics

Your brain on alcohol (video one and two)

Alcohol withdrawal symptoms

Alcohol overdose

True stories about alcohol addiction

Happy writing, and don’t do drugs!