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Euryale was the second eldest one of the Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes. She, like her sisters, was able to turn any creature to stone with her gaze. She and her sister Stheno were immortal, but Medusa, the last of the sisters, was mortal.
We Stan a legend
If your WIP got published and made into a movie, which actors would you want to be casted in it?
Oh boy. This is something I’ve actually given a lot of thought to. For both my WIPs.
For Tea and Honey, I’d want Taron Egerton ad Carter, Antonia Thomas as Marianne, Keiynan Lonsdale as Jason, KJ Apa as Felix, Lily James as Veronica, Danai Gurira as Corvid, and Dermot Mulroney as Graves.
For A Pirate’s Love is the Sea, I’d want Donald Glover as Thane, Ezra Miller as Ronan, Chad Michael Murray as Risley, Cate Blanchett as Hada, and maybe an appearance of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Poseidon
And those are the characters I think of… I told you I thought about this too much
Dwayne as Poseidon would look so real omg! And Taron Egerton is so cute! You've given it a lot thought! It's nice though :)
when asked about their love lives, the women of greek mythology responded thus //
this is by far my most popular poem and i realized i never posted anything more than the initial run. it grew into a bit of a beast, so here’s the edited rest of it.
Song in my Head
There’s a melody in my head,
On repeat, and never stops.
It’s a tune that lasts;
A tune that echoes within me.
When light shines,
And I’m confided by kin and friendship,
I hear no music;
No melody, no tune.
Laughter drown the song,
Happiness overwhelms the melody.
But in my heart I feel something beating;
It never leaves.
Darkness then prevails,
In the stygian blackness I see nothing;
Not my own shadow—
Not a single damn thing.
But its when I hear the music once again.
The beating in my heart,
Was doubt that refuses to bequeath.
And the song is sung,
By voices I’m oh-so familiar with.
It’s the tune of my sorrows;
It’s the melody of my pain;
The lyrics are the cause of my million deaths;
And it never stops playing.
It always play louder when I’m alone—
Left alone to suffer,
Left alone get consumed by my own demons,
And left alone, praying.
Guide To Writing Enemies To Lovers
– I decided to format this article like its accompanying post, Guide to Writing Friends to Lovers, which you all seemed to really like. I hope this is as helpful as that, and thank you to everyone who responded to the poll that contributed the questions I answered in the “common struggles” section. I have a feeling I’ll be reaching our for direct topic-specific questions through polls more often, so keep an eye out. Happy writing!
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Take The Time To Make It Believable
There is a certain amount of care required in the depiction of these stories because they can be really touchy and very easily lead awry. It needs to be handled with care when you tell the reader that this character is going to forgive the other one for doing this, and why. Show the thought process, show the growth, show the reason, and give the story time to make that change reasonable in the reader’s head.
Roll In The Tension
Let the tension build, thicken, and sit in the reader’s tummy. That’s the most delicious part of reading this trope, and the most fun part to write, so enjoy it, and don’t ask yourself if it’s “too intense” or if you need to speed up the pace. Let it simmer, and let the reader stew in it. The longer you draw it out, the yummier the resolution will be.
Give Up Pride, Not Values
Your characters should not end the story by forfeiting what they feel and believe in order to win the other over. That’s not how life works, and that’s not a good way to depict love and forgiveness. Forgiveness is the main theme of enemies-to-lovers stories, after all, and if you’re writing romance, you should imprint a healthy romantic story into your reader’s memory, even if it’s bumpy, tense, and dramatic for the majority of the actual events.
Make The Relationship Improve Them Both
Romances usually hold a meaning or message about romance that the reader will take away from the story at hand. Your message should, ultimately, be that these two people, despite their differences and shortcomings, grew to forgive each other for their mutual mistakes, found common ground, and even fell in love. The end of a romance should be positive, or at least transformative to the reader in a positive way. The couple you depict, if they are meant to be a good couple in the context of the story, should improve each other, and make each others’ lives better.
Abuse vs. Rivalry
There is a poignant difference between two people who are abusing each other and two people who don’t like one another. Abuse can be heavily romanticized or forgiven when this trope is approached with inadequate care and attention. If one or both of the members of the couple actively bring each other down, truly, in an emotional, mental, or physical way, it’s abuse, not enemy-ship, and if that’s intentional, you shouldn’t call your story a romance. Abuse is not romantic, and it never should be depicted to be so.
Common Struggles
~ Where do you draw the line between hurtful and unforgivable?… That depends on your characters’s values, and you need to think long and hard about your characters’ individual boundaries before you even start writing. Your reader will get to know your character. If your character forgives something your reader knows they would never forgive, that will destroy their personal understanding of them.
~ How do you solve the difference between them without making one change for the other?… Explain their thought processes, I recommend by choosing a flexible point of view to write the story from, and show where that understanding comes from. You need to set those boundaries within your characters that make sense for them, and you need to hold to those. The point they should be at by the end of the story isn’t in total agreement, it’s at a compromise where they meet halfway. They should learn by the end to love each other wholly, not when they change for one another.
~ Going from actual dislike of each other to attraction without saying they liked each other the whole time… It’s simple; give them legitimate reasons for not liking each other in the first place. Don’t make their rivalry based on something like a third grade spelling bee misunderstanding with a little “he’s cute though” sprinkled on top. Show a real misunderstanding, or real clash in values, and explore its implications for the reader to understand.
~ How do you show the forgive part between them without including the forgetting?… Let the reader know by the end of the story that the characters have acknowledged the hurt they’ve caused each other, totally and openly through an honest conversation about everything that caused their mutual dislike of each other. Show them confronting the problem, and admitting that it will always be a prominent part of their past, but that they’re willing to try in spite of it.
~ How do you show forgiveness between two people who physically fought without making it romanticize abuse?… Give legitimate evidence that a) nobody was/is a victim of actual abuse and b) they both know that the physical fighting was wrong, painful to the other, and that it can/will never happen again. Ever. In the action or more violent sort of genres, this is way more flexible, because there are more grey-area situations, but as long as you make it very clear that there is no possibility of them hurting each other, in any abusive context, during the relationship or afterward, then you shouldn’t have a problem.
~ How do you establish the growth in trust between the two characters?… Make it occur naturally and at their own individual paces.They’ll grow toward one another at different rates, and you need to pay attention to letting it grow on its own rather than fitting that growth into whatever parameters you’ve set for your story structure. Also, show the little things that make that trust bloom, along with the big ones. Make them noticeable, but simple and ultimately built upon one another.
~ How do you make two characters with completely different morals grow to love each other?… Compromise and honesty. Communication and understanding. Those are the four foundations of any relationship, and especially these ones. Make your lovers listen to each other, and make them see the other side. That doesn’t mean agree, and that doesn’t mean conform, it just means you have to make them see where the other is coming from and empathize with their process of validation.
~ How do you write the characters’ friends growing to support the relationship?… This can be tricky, but it depends on the friends’ individual relationships with that character and their lover. With this subject, if you keep to the manner in which you’ve developed them, they should grow to understand (or not understand) their relationship in a way that makes sense to the reader and enhances the story. If there’s tension, let it lay, and if it makes sense, let it pass.
~ How do you pace the evolution of their opinions/feelings about one another correctly?… There’s a few stages to telling an enemies-to-lovers story: 1. they dislike each other 2. that dislike becomes a problem for them 3. they begin to see the other’s point of view 4. they understand the other’s perspective 5. they don’t dislike each other anymore 5. they grow feelings for each other 6. they get together. The first stage should be established and explained really well. The second should be simple but important, and very impactful to both of the characters. The third stage should be slow burning and very uncomfortable, but transformative to both of them. The fourth should happen as the result of events building on one another, not one single event. The last two should be clearly separate, and the fifth should be a slow burn on its own. This pacing strategy should allow for a lot of tension, build up, and a very satisfying ending.
Resources
Enemies Turned Lovers Prompts
Skinny Love Prompts
Angst Prompts
How To Make A Scene More Heartfelt
20 Mistakes To Avoid When Writing Young Adult Fiction/Romance
Tips On Writing Skinny Love
A Guide To Tension & Suspense In Your Writing
Writing Arguments Between Characters
Pros and Cons of Different Points Of View
Tips On Writing Intense Scenes
Resources For Romance Writers
Useful Writing Resources
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Resources For Describing Emotions
Giving Characters Bad Traits
Relationships Between Characters With No Connection
Relationships Between Polar Opposites
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“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!
To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist, to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get a past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism which, while many don’t bother to give, I would provide without hesitation.
Some say “I don’t need approval.”(which I sincerely don’t believe). Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?
And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone, face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
So, what makes you different?
“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse! To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist[s:] to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. [Replacing “to have” and “to not have” with “having” and “not having” would make this much easier to read.] “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get [remove superfluous “a”] past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism[,] which, while many don’t bother to give, [That’s one hell of an awkward construction; consider “while many don’t bother with it” instead.] I would provide without hesitation. [In fact, the best solution would be to put the subclause starting with “which” at the end of the sentence. Otherwise it’s just clunky.][space]Some say[:] “I don’t need approval.”[space]([W]hich I sincerely don’t believe.)[remove incorrectly placed full stop] Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?[space]And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone[remove superfluous comma] face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
Oh man, that’s already a magnificent takedown, but this clown just made me really mad.
English is fucking hard. Your spelling is arbitrary, your tenses don’t make sense, and what the fuck is going on with your prepositions anyway? But you still expect everyone to be perfect at it because it’s a ~global language~ or whatever. Spoiler alert, that’s stupid, you’re just entitled.
When I started out writing in English, I was shit. I can exactly map my skill level from the first time I published on FF.net to when I went to live in England to study writing for three years. Every writer sucks when they start. That’s just a fact. But non-native speakers writing in English are doing the whole thing with both hands tied behind their back, they’re struggling to come up with a way to say what they mean in a language they don’t know that well yet, they’ve got seven different dictionaries open in their browser. They’re frantically checking that they’re using the right names because they read Harry Potter in their own language when they were little and even though they’ve read the original now they’re still calling Rita Skeeter ‘Kimmkorn’ in their head. It’s a goshdarn STRUGGLE.
There’s that horrifying bit just after you start writing in another language where the words don’t work in your own anymore but your English skills haven’t really caught up yet and nothing you’re getting out on the page can do justice to what it felt like in your head. It’s a terrible, awful feeling that you’re not good enough at this and you can’t switch back somehow and you’re stuck in the middle producing stuff that you hate because it’s not right. It’s discouraging as fuck, but so many people stick with writing anyway, because they (we) can’t help it! There’s too many stories to tell, even if right now it feels like they’re kind of shit.
So who the fuck are you to go around preaching your elitist, prescriptivist bullshit at people who are pouring blood, sweat, and tears into their work and getting nothing in return except maybe the hope that someone somewhere gets a little bit of joy out of it?
When I started out, I put disclaimers on my fanfic that English wasn’t my first language, and people were super nice. They told me I was doing a good job, made suggestions on how I could improve, and corrected my idioms without being dicks about it. Because of that, I was brave enough to go to a different country to write and get a degree and keep writing stories for people to maybe enjoy on their lunch break, for free. Do you think your attitude encourages people to keep going and get better?
These people are putting hours of their work on the Internet, for free, literally asking for nothing, hoping that someone maybe has a good time reading it. Nobody is forcing you to read it, but Jeez, shut the fuck up about other people’s ability to write in a second language when you clearly barely have command of your first.
“There’s that horrifying bit just after you start writing in another language where the words don’t work in your own anymore but your English skills haven’t really caught up yet and nothing you’re getting out on the page can do justice to what it felt like in your head.”
Yes! Omg! That’s exactly what I struggle with! Thank you for putting this into words.
Writing needs practice. Style needs practice. Literally every aspect of writing needs practice, including spelling, grammar and sentence building.
And dictionnaries and grammar books are absolutely not reliable. They just tell you how people are supposed to talk, not how they actually talk.
English is my first language and I still haven’t mastered it completely lol. If English is your first language as well, think about how difficult foreign language classes are. Latin, French, Spanish, German… it’s all extremely confusing and one has to take two years of lessons in each language to get even a basic understanding of how to speak it. We’re just lucky that being able to speak perfectly in a language other than our own isn’t automatically expected of us.
Oh, look at that, grammar mistakes. No one’s English is perfect, dear friends. No one’s.
If English is your first language and you read something grammatically incorrect written by a person for whom English is not their first language, you're in no position to call them out either. However you're supposed to help them out.
Me: uuugh I have so many wips and none of them are done the last thing I need right now is another—
New wip idea:
Why am I writing a romance when I don’t know a thing about romance
@ me next time
Me, realizing that what I thought to be my third act is, in fact, the ending of my second act
here’s to all 50 of my unfinished fics
here’s to all 38 of my unwritten prompts
here’s to the 3 fics that i just started
here’s to all 4815162342 ideas that i haven’t written down
I RELATE WITH THIS SO DAMN MUCH. I COULD CRY.
Cheers!
Wherever you are
Do you ever ruefully wonder aloud
If I’m able to survive
With the memories of
Your venomous words
That brutally poisoned
my heart and mind
With the reminders of your
Loveless touch
That seared my skin
With lacerating thorns
Of lust
And the agonizing regret
Of trusting someone reverently
That still makes me loathe
My existence
With all my might
Or have you blissfully assumed
That mourning over ruined things
Is a futile exercise.?
This is a good reminder for everyone including myself! I drew this comic when I was still dealing with finals in school, and while I don’t have exams anymore, I still might be pushing myself too hard with organizing book launches and keeping up with work and my health. 😅 So take it from me! You can and should push yourself! But don’t continuously push yourself beyond, or your health and happiness might suffer.
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A reminder for when you’re writing
Thank u Jeff Goldblum
“That was the thing about secrets—you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.” - Kass Morgan, The 100 (via the-book-diaries)
white banana lilies
in morning light i see my reflection on the passing train through the window to exist as an isomer of myself the same path is perfectly depressing like norwegian wood,
i walk everywhere on footprints of giants, october smells of saptaparni flowers, the man gives the banana lilies i took out to the girl with microbiological issues i guess
i have to sleep on it; the other girl has lips like the edge of oil lamps on deepavali i peel her hooly when all the stars darken chaos increases lost with heat, to keep—
fabric unruffled, night of her unanswered messages, v. doesn’t write anything over chequered khadi shirts, v. unbuttons me once before leaving makes her wilderness.