A Creative Writing Major?? What?!

If you're thinking about majoring in English or Creative Writing, take a peek at my blog. Just like to write? A+ for you and all the gold stars! I approve. I'm Chara, a recent Creative Writing major/Professional Writing minor graduate from Widener University. Yes, we do exist! I blog about: what it was like to be a creative writing major, my journey in post-college career/grad school-hunting, as well as what it was like becoming a creative writer. Also writing in general. Currently, I reside in Pittsburgh while attending Chatham University's MFA program, focusing on Children's Literature! Feel free to ask me ANYTHING you want about writing, the creative writing department, English, Widener, Chatham, grad school, on and on and on...anything! :)

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[pervyking]

I will always reblog this!

[unoutan]

YESSSSSS. GOOD SHIT. GOOD SHIT FOR CREATIVES <3

[akhunty-deactivated20240130]

IF YOURE EGYPTIAN AND LGBTQ+ GET OFF ANY QUEER DATING SITES, THE POLICE ARE TRACKING AND HUNTING PEOPLE DOWN AGAIN. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS.

[salty-red-mage]

This is very real.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/amp/human-rights-groups-urge-egypt-halt-crackdown-gays-n806641

[sparkhelpful-deactivated2024022]

I DON’T CARE IF YOU HAVE ONLY ONE FOLLOWER PLEASE EVERYONE REBLOG THIS!!!

[sparkhelpful-deactivated2024022]

THIS POST IS SCEDULED TO GO UP ONCE AN HOUR ON THIS BLOG UNTIL 24 HOURS SINCE THE FIRST POST BECAUSE IT’S THAT IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE SEES IT!

[milo-does-a-discourse-deactivat]

!!!!!!¡!!!

@eleanor-hates-pedos @anti-pedo-patrol @anti-cgl-moana @anti-ddlg-inc

[anti-pedo-patrol]

FOR MY FOLLOWERS!!!!

[the-cottonball-system-blog]

Stay safe everyone!!

-A

[writing-prompt-s]

This is one of the reasons why I always reblog this post on VPNs

[ughleni]

my roommate and i are looking for some fre$h apartment decor the reviews seem pretty good

[ughleni]

so uhhhh we did this. it’s up , on a wall . in our apartment her name is doris

[zelldas]

hey folks just wanted to let you know that on this the evening of our lord tuesday august 16th this wall decal arrived in the mail and turned out to be fucking enormous and was placed upon our wall in our home. where we live

[charawrites]

Pics or it didn’t happen

[charawrites]

House: People don't change

House: *fakes his death, gives up his entire life, and any chance at practicing medicine ever again (plus years of jail time if he's ever found out), all so that his bestie Wilson doesn't have to spend his last 5 months alone*

[winchester-with-a-wormstache]

In love with this video

[charawrites]

House: People don't change

House: *fakes his death, gives up his entire life, and any chance at practicing medicine ever again (plus years of jail time if he's ever found out), all so that his bestie Wilson doesn't have to spend his last 5 months alone*

[marauders4evr]

What Satire Is: The peasants from Monty Python ridiculing King Arthur by pointing out every single flaw in medieval politics and legends.

What Satire Is Not: Rape/trigger jokes.

What Depressing Satire Is: Bojack Horseman, a famous celebrity who lives in a mansion in Hollywood, going through life legitimately depressed.

What Depressing Satire Is Not: Rape/trigger jokes.

REMEMBER: SATIRE IS SUPPOSED TO RIDICULE THE POWERFUL BY SHOWING THAT THEIR VICES OFFSET THE POWER.

TL;DR: SATIRE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE POWERFUL, NOT THE POWERLESS.

[hellborg]

It’s not satire if the ones in power are mocking the powerless. My English teacher taught us how to correctly write satire

[daggers-drawn]

When the ones in power are mocking the powerless it’s called “non-fiction”.

[charawrites]

I don’t like Shadowhunters, and I think Clary is mad annoying. But I am ALL ABOUT DAT MALEC.

[nexweshi]

six fuckhead ass british people in croydon (south london) beat a rojhelatî teen (17yo) unconscious after he told them he was an ‘asylum seeker’. he was hanging out with two friends late friday night when a group of 8 people approached him and demanded to know where he was from. after telling them he was a refugee, they chased him and attacked him – leaving him unconscious with a fractured skull and a blood clot in the brain. he is in a serious but stable condition as of right now. four men and two women in their 20s were arrested on charges of attempted murder and violent disorder late on saturday.

[tahmtu-deactivated20200204]

rojhelatî = kurd from the eastern part of kurdistan (for anyone who doesn’t know)

[dasfinanzamt-deactivated2026030]

Please donate to the Kurdish 17-year-old boy who was attacked recently leaving him a fractured skull and blood clot.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/17yr-old-asylum-seeker-subject-to-brutal-attack

[childofwestwind]

Concentration camps are opening in Russia.

Do not let us die again, we where left once before because of a part of ourselves we can’t control.

Don’t let is die, don’t ignore our cries.

[not-so-secret-nerd]

LGBT concentration camps are Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov solution to the “gay problem”. This is real. This is happening right now

Here

[charawrites]

I can’t believe I’m reading this shit in 2017. WAKE THE HELL UP, PEOPLE. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS.

[the-real-eye-to-see]

Please, bring more attention to this and all the missing girls! Every girl could get this kind of message, this is really dangerous! The media doesn’t want to talk about it, so we are forced to act independently!

I can name about 5 white girls that got international attention when they went missing… everyday teenage girls whose names will forever be in my head from seeing their images everywhere over the years! But black girls can go missing and the worldwide media can look the other way!

The media can give 24 hours coverage of riots but when it comes to these missing black and latino girls they don’t want to cover it.

Smh.. I’m tired…

BOOST THIS!

[the-real-eye-to-see]

Black kids are everything, I swear!

[charawrites]

Say what you will about DC. But Wonder Woman’s movie is coming out in June, and I’ve seen shit from Marvel on a female-centered movie front. 

(although HELL YES Black Panther)

[charawrites]

House: People don't change

House: *fakes his death, gives up his entire life, and any chance at practicing medicine ever again (plus years of jail time if he's ever found out), all so that his bestie Wilson doesn't have to spend his last 5 months alone*

[charawrites]

House: People don't change

House: *fakes his death, gives up his entire life, and any chance at practicing medicine ever again (plus years of jail time if he's ever found out), all so that his bestie Wilson doesn't have to spend his last 5 months alone*

[charawrites]

Part of me wants new and improved Percy Jackson movies. 

But the other part of me knows that Logan Lerman is now too old to play Percy, and he’s the only human who can play the demigod 

[charawrites]

Even though the Who’s in Whoville are afraid of the Grinch, when he wins Holiday Cheermeister, they treat him exactly as if he was anyone else. The chair of cheer, the parade, the sweater, the food, the gifts (besides the stupid mayor). Like, that’s pretty rad.