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As with all activities, writing fiction involves getting to grips with professional jargon. The following are some of the more common terms you may come across as you learn your craft and market your writing.
POV (Point of View): the eyes through which the events...
Hello, dear followers~ ♥︎
Recently I got a bunch of questions about the difference between Showing & Telling, so I thought that I would summarize my thoughts on the subject as a slideshow!
Of course, those of you who have been following my blog for ages can guess my thoughts about this ‘Show VS Tell’ debacle. Personally, I feel that Telling (the act of Summarizing) gets a reputation for being a lesser tool— which I disagree with greatly. Show and Tell are both important tools of the Writer’s Tool-Box, and they serve different purposes~ ♥︎
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9) Don’t forget to believe. Believe in yourself and the magic of books. That’s what all this is about! ~ Martina Boone
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
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✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐
YOU HAVE GROWN
Write a story from the point of view of a music box. The catch? This music box has been locked in an attic for decades. Double catch? Someone very dear to this music box decides to finally free it from its prison.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Weird Al - Word Crimes
SO MUCH YES.
WRITE EVERY DAY Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Th…
Home?
This house balances on its years; paint peeling, floorboards thin as cheap cotton.
Its inhabitants hang onto its walls by white knuckled hands, struggling to stay afloat
on a boat without a bottom.
This house has but one function; to exist, to remain within being never seeing a day
where it crumbles nor a day when it thrives.
This structure poses as a home, but there is no heart nestled warmly underneath the dark
grout of the kitchen floor.
The only hearts in this house are the ones squeezed under windows, crushed crimson under
thick panes of glass, too slow to escape.
The dust from the ceilings settles on our shoulders like snow, but without the sense of a
beginning, or an end.
This house has but one function; to exist.
Life of a bullet
It's dark, I can't see a thing no matter which way I look. It's hard to breathe and all I hear is the muffled sound of voices from above. They sound angry, like they might be yelling. I'd shiver if I could, but I can't move, I'm paralyzed and cold, and I can't remember how I got here, or who I am. Where am I? I want to shout, I want to ask whoever is yelling where I am but I can't speak. I'm anxious to move, anxious to leave this place, wherever it is.
I can hear the yelling getting louder now, it's so close I can even make out some of the words; "Get up, do you think I'm bluffing? Listen to me or I'll kill you right now!" The words make no sense, but I hear a small click and I shudder. I hear something else too, it sounds lighter, but like it's crying; "Please, I'm sorry, please don't…" I want to reach out to the voice, to tell whoever it is that everything will be alright, I suddenly forget my own anxieties, all I want to do is see who the voice belongs to, to comfort them any way I can. But suddenly I feel myself being thrust out from my dark space, a deafening noise hurts my ears as I take a deep breath and spiral through the open air. I hit something soft and warm, the warmth envelopes me as I yet again wonder where I am.
I don't hear any voices, just a soft, slow banging nearby; "ta-thump, ta-thump." It seems to grow fainter with every second "ta-thump…" Another sound, like an angry cry comes from the distance, it's so loud that I can hear it perfectly clear even from here. The noise is so close now that I want to scream for it to stop, and it does stop just as suddenly and abruptly as it started. It's replaced by new voices; "A neighbor called about hearing shots, I've got a pulse but it's faint." I can hear the "ta-thump" noise as only background now.
I feel movement, like lifting and then a smooth forward motion. Before I can even try to understand what's going on, a bright light blinds me and someone is lifting me up into it. I know I must be dying and yet there's only two things on my mind; what happened to the crying voice, and when did the "ta-thump" stop? I feel my body dropped haphazardly into something hard and metal. I hear more voices, "That's it, we lost her, time to call time of death 10 P.M." I still don't understand, but I feel myself slipping into the dark. The light is growing dimmer with each moment that I think, why was I only brought here to bring pain?
Heartbeats
During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat almost 2.5 billion times.
That’s 2.5 billion moments.
2.5 gasps for air coming up from the deep end.
2.5 passionate cries beneath bed covers.
2.5 giggles, chuckles, milk running from your nose fits of laughter.
2.5 body numbing howls of grief.
2.5 words written, thoughts uttered, prayers whispered, names shouted,
wishes wanted, dreams realized.
During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat almost 2.5 billion times.
I wonder which number my pulse is pounding against right now.
Sometimes need to be reminded to do this :).
Literary techniques explained by Disney - from Buzzfeed
You know you’re a writer when…
Some links I have found in various Tumblr Posts that I have saved on my computer. I do not take credit for collecting all these links. Unfortunately, I did not have the mind to save/note where these various links come from. Thank you to whoever compiled these links together.
General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice
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Genre Based
20 Tips to Writing Love Scenes
On Love And Sex All That Sex!
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