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WRITER TRANSLATION GUIDE:
writer staring into space - they’re plotting. whether that’s plotting their book or plotting a murder only they know.
writing googling how to hide a body - totally just research for a book. don’t worry about it.
writer staring into the abyss of the blank screen - when they’re quiet is when you should be afraid
writer setting their laptop on fire - honestly this is just a normal workday, go about your business as usual.
fuck the idea that your stuff is “too weird to write”. your concept isn’t “too obscure”. your worldbuilding isn’t “too niche”. fuck this whole idea that writing success is measured in copies sold or kudos or mainstream appeal. sometimes writing success is just making whatever the heck you wanted to make.
Worldbuilding: Clothes and Beauty
Every society has a standard of beauty. Whether or not everyone meets that standard, it does normally affect fashion and clothes. While things such as climate also have a play on fashion, knowing the standards of beauty in your character’s culture can add a depth to that character and give perspective on what he or she calls “beautiful.” Also, it will give something of an image of what the character likes to wear. In this list, I have written a list of questions pertaining to fashion. It’s not an exhaustive list, however. The goal is to get you working on the fashion of your world.
Have fun, be creative and detailed, and answer questions not listed!
Because my computer crashed and lost the prepared list, the questions are not directly taken from the NaNoWriMo website. However, some of the questions are asked from memory. Others sounded like questions I had.
How does the weather affect clothing?
What kind of designs are common on clothing? Detailed embroidery? Different dyes? Logos? Beads? Sequins?
What would someone wear to a dance? Are there different kinds of dances that would require different kinds of clothes?
What would someone wear to a dinner party?
What is appropriate every day clothing?
What kind of clothes would the rich wear?
What kind of clothes would the poor wear?
What kind of clothes would those in between wear?
What clothing distinguishes someone as a noble or in a position of authority?
What is normally appropriate for children to wear?
What would one wear to a wedding or a funeral? Do the guests wear something different than the two getting married? Does the person marrying the couple wear something different from the rest of the people? Does the bride get all fancy? How is the dead body dressed?
What kind of shoes do the people wear? Do people have different shoes for different occasions?
What is the significance of tattoos? Are they taboo? Indicate a warrior? Indicate a married couple? Just another part of fashion?
What is the significance of piercings? Is it a status symbol? What places normally get pierced? What do they normally put in the piercings?
What kind of jewelry is worn? Earrings? Necklaces? Bracelets? Nose rings? Toe rings? Crowns?
What does jewelry signify?
What features are admired? Symmetrical faces? Slim bodies? Tall or short? Are certain kind of skin colors admired? Certain colors of hair? Long or short nails? Small feet?
How does it differ with gender?
What kind of hairstyles are in fashion?
Does hairstyle indicate status in society?
What kind of fabrics are worn?
What fabrics are consider luxurious? Silk? Satin? Velvet? Dragon hair?
What are some clothes that only certain people wear? Do priests have a certain uniform? The military?
What are some ways people beautify themselves?
What kind of perfumes and/or colognes are worn?
What kind of soaps do people put in their bathes?
How often do people bathe?
What kind of hair care is there?
What kind of makeup do people use?
What is makeup made of? Modern ingredients? Magic? Crushed up beetles? Powdered flower? Ink?
How has magic affected fashion?
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Community Writing Tips MEGATHREAD
When you see this post, reblog/reply with your best writing tip!
The challenge: ONE sentence only
Each time you see this on your dash, there will be new replies
Always keep writing.
Pay attention to the rules but also fuck the rules
Your weirdest ideas are your best ideas.
Take all writing advice with a grain (or a chunk, or a mine) of salt–size relative to how much you trust the source.
Make a note of everything-you can’t use what you don’t remember.
Always take a notebook.
Love your mistakes- they’ll come in handy later.
So, I managed a little over 3k words today for my SECOND draft. The only issue is, I’m now incredibly bored with where it’s at. I know I needed to add more - and you best believe I’m gonna be chugging it out no matter what - but I’m a little nonplussed with what I’ve written.
Honestly trying to figure out why Alastrina suddenly exploded lol
I mean, Ashley Moore is gorgeous but jeez. My poor phone notifications
A handy list of poisons for writing reference, provided to you by me, Bella
Poisoning is one of the oldest murder tactics in the books. It was the old equalizer, and while it’s often associated with women, historically men are no less likely to poison you. This is not a guide on how to poison people, you banana bunches, it’s a guide on writing about poisons in fiction so you don’t end up on a watch list while researching them. I’ve taken that hit for you. You’re welcome. These are just a few of the more classic ones.
Hemlock: Hemlock (conium maculatum) is one of the more famous ones, used in ancient times most notably in Socrates’ forced suicide execution. So it goes. The plant has bunches of small, white flowers, and can grow up to ten feet tall. It’s a rather panicky way to die, although it wouldn’t show: hemlock is a paralytic, so the cause of death is most often asphyxiation due to respiratory paralysis, although the mind remains unaffected and aware.
Belladonna: Atropa belladonna is also called deadly nightshade. It has pretty, trumpet-shaped purple flowers and dark, shiny berries that actually look really delicious which is ironic since it’s the most toxic part of the plant. The entire plant is poisonous, mind you, but the berries are the most. One of the most potent poisons in its hemisphere, it was used as a beauty treatment, so the story says, and rubbed into the eyes to make the eyes dilate and the cheeks flush. Hench the name beautiful lady. The death is more lethargic than hemlock, although its symptoms are worse: dilated pupils, sensitivity to light, blurred vision, tachycardia, loss of balance, staggering, headache, rash, flushing, severely dry mouth and throat, slurred speech, urinary retention, constipation, confusion, hallucinations, delirium, and convulsions. It’s toxic to animals, but cattle and rabbits can eat it just fine, for some reason.
Arsenic: Arsenic comes from a metalloid and not a plant, unlike the others here, but it’s easily the most famous and is still used today. Instead of being distilled from a plant, chunks of arsenic are dug up or mined. It was once used as a treatment for STDs, and also for pest control and blacksmithing, which was how many poisoners got access to it. It was popular in the middle ages because it looked like a cholera death, due to acute symptoms including stomach cramps, diarrhea, confusion, convulsions, vomiting, and death. Slow poisoning looked more like a heart attack. The Italians famously claimed that a little arsenic improved the taste of wine.
Strychnine: Strychnine (strick-nine) is made from the seed of strychnos nux vomica and causes poisoning which results in muscular convulsions and eventually death through asphyxia. Convulsions appear after inhalation or injection—very quickly, within minutes—and take somewhat longer to manifest after ingestion, around approximately 15 minutes. With a very high dose, brain death can occur in 15 to 30 minutes. If a lower dose is ingested, other symptoms begin to develop, including seizures, cramping, stiffness, hypervigilance, and agitation. Seizures caused by strychnine poisoning can start as early as 15 minutes after exposure and last 12 – 24 hours. They are often triggered by sights, sounds, or touch and can cause other adverse symptoms, including overheating, kidney failure, metabolic and respiratory acidosis. During seizures, abnormal dilation, protrusion of the eyes, and involuntary eye movements may occur. It is also slightly hallucinogenic and is sometimes used to cut narcotics. It also notably has no antidote. In low doses, some use it as a performance enhancer.
Curare: Chondrodendron tomentosum is lesser known than its famous cousins, but kills in a very similar way to hemlock. It is slow and terrible, as the victim is aware and the heart may beat for many minutes after the rest of the body is paralyzed. If artificial respiration is given until the poison subsides, the victim will survive.
Wolfsbane: Aconitum has several names; Monkshood, aconite, Queen of Poisons, women’s bane, devil’s helmet) and is a pretty, purple plant with gourd-shaped flowers. The root is the most potent for distillation. Marked symptoms may appear almost immediately, usually not later than one hour, and with large doses death is near instantaneous. Death usually occurs within two to six hours in fatal poisoning. The initial signs are gastrointestinal including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. This is followed by a sensation of burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth and face, and of burning in the abdomen. In severe poisonings pronounced motor weakness occurs and sensations of tingling and numbness spread to the limbs. The plant should be handled with gloves, as the poison can seep into the skin.
Foxglove: Digitalis is large with trumpet-shaped flowers that can be many colors, but usually a pinkish shade. It may have from the term foxes-glew, which translated to fairy music. Intoxication causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, as well as sometimes resulting in xanthopsia (jaundiced or yellow vision) and the appearance of blurred outlines (halos), drooling, abnormal heart rate, cardiac arrhythmias, weakness, collapse, dilated pupils, tremors, seizures, and even death. Slowed heartbeat also occurs. Because a frequent side effect of digitalis is reduction of appetite and the mortality rate is low, some individuals have used the drug as a weight-loss aid. It looks a bit like comfrey, which is an aid for inflammation. Make sure not to confuse the two.
I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!
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Another great reference for writing and world building!
Props to the creator for their work and for remembering words have nuance and including that instead of just reprinting a thesaurus.
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writer problems: trying to figure out how many chapters you’re going to stall until An Event™
more writer problems: trying to figure out how many chapters you can fit between Events™
even more writer problems: trying to figure out what Event to put in between your chapters
Ashley Moore as Alastrina
McKenna Hellman as Kane
I’m going to be doing some ‘cast-showing’ (??) for my Little WIP.
Because I have to rewrite all of it. (internal sobbing)
So! If you have no interest, feel free to blacklist: #medeisfacecast
Your OC is at an animal shelter. Who do they end up bringing home? Is it an elderly cat your OC swears just needs some love? A dog with a hard past, but a gentle personality? Or are they there just to play with some pups?
Renna would start babbling incoherently and bring Home as many cats as Alastrina would allow. Leigh and Airica would squabble over dogs- Airica would want the most expensive. Leigh just wants a GOD DAMN DOG and PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM CHARLES, AIRICA. Kane would bring Home a bird they could teach to mock Airica, relentlessly.
Writer [rahy-ter] (n.) - a person who stares at any blinking cursor, waiting for the words to magically appear.
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