grey with silver linings

the writing blog of fane evans.

[charlie---writes]

Goodreads WIP Page Theme | preview | code

This is so detailed that I’m pretty sure it’s over the top… Have fun!

page features…

quick guide to html / css for personalisation (guides in the code for more specific stuff)

book cover, description, genres

progress bar

links to other relevant pages & social media links

activity timeline (book started, draft started, draft finished…)

about the author

characters (with icons and descriptions)

worldbuilding &faq

other wips (sliding menu of book covers with links to wip pages)

quotes & trivia

guide to adding more sections!

[nightskywriter]

I love it!! Perhaps I’ll use this for a TATT WIP page? Thank you for sharing this, it looks amazing!

[evans-write]

Definitely using this when I decide to set up my WIP page.

[shanamichelewrites-blog]

[evilkillerpoptarts]

YES OMG

[petermorwood]

Absolutely.

[terrypratchettappreciation]

“I certainly don’t sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There’s a phrase I use called “The Valley Full of Clouds.” Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.”

— Terry Pratchett (via rissagomes)

[cuendenan]

This is one of the best metaphors I’ve ever seen for what writing is like. It’s half exploration, half divination, and half hard work. Yes, that’s three halfs. No, I don’t care about the maths, it’s all halfs.

[jlaarne]

Where did all the conflict go?

I say this as someone for whom books are very important, as someone who loves books more than people 90% of the time, as someone who feels the weight of the entire fucked up world fall off the minute she steps into a bookstore or a library, as a reader, please god give me conflict. Give me those “problematic” situations. Make your bad guys truly bad, I mean real assholes. Your characters, they should say things and be wrong sometimes, it’s okay. These are plot points. These are characters that we, as readers, love (or love to hate). Conflict is essential to any story worth reading. Don’t be afraid of it, please. That’s where great stories come from. It doesn’t make you a bad person if your character is a bad person. If your character says something horrible, it doesn’t mean you believe it. It’s okay to write stories like this, this is how stories are told.

[evans-write]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter two is here! Still making myself sad writing this, but at least Alderface is taking it in stride.  Favorite line: “Your faith is beautiful.”

FANDOM: Warriors - Erin Hunter

CHARACTERS / SETTING: All original characters, in the lake territories

AU: Canon books never occurred. Expands on the lore in the warrior’s universe, particularly centering on death and StarClan.

DESCRIPTION:   Eventually, each Clan would have their own story for her, and with each new story came a new name. They called her Deadheart, Loststep, Spliteye, Missingface. They all knew her by the same epithet: the wandering star. This is who she was before her story fell to myth.

[windflowerfairy]

by Emily Dickinson

[graylish]

art is pretty cool. you know what else is cool? not getting burned out or sick. take breaks

[wizardmoon-deactivated20190222]

op youre gonna be alive and doing art long after the rest of us have succumbed to exhaustion and idk scurvy probably

[carlywatters]

On Twitter.

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[zarathustra-would-be-proud]

[cyberdragoninfinity]

when youre listening to a song and it reminds you of your OC

when youre listening to an entire album and it reminds you of your OC

[sybilius]

Don’t give me one-sided unrequited love, give me two-sided unwanted love. Both sides are deeply in love with the other and both sides are like ‘fuck, really?? them??? really?’

[queen-of-the-merry-men]

[immawritethat]

I think this tweet is incredibly important, and I wanted to share it.

[isisparker]

@maxisthenewalex and for any of my other followers who might need this

[evans-write]

got my first kudos on ao3 and honestly? already planning my next eight fanfics

[evans-write]

you all may think I’m kidding but I just posted a 2k chapter I wrote entirely today and that literally never happens

[evans-write]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter one, and I’ve already made myself sad. Beware of angst and emotion.

FANDOM: Warriors - Erin Hunter

CHARACTERS / SETTING: All original characters, in the lake territories

AU: Canon books never occurred. Expands on the lore in the warrior’s universe, particularly centering on death and StarClan.

DESCRIPTION:   Eventually, each Clan would have their own story for her, and with each new story came a new name. They called her Deadheart, Loststep, Spliteye, Missingface. They all knew her by the same epithet: the wandering star. This is who she was before her story fell to myth.

[evans-write]

got my first kudos on ao3 and honestly? already planning my next eight fanfics

[evans-write]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Technically this is chapter 1 after the prologue, but oh well. Introducing Spidereye, my blunt, brusque, and perpetually angry medicine cat character. 

FANDOM: Warriors - Erin Hunter

CHARACTERS / SETTING: All original characters, in the forest territories

AU: Canon books never occurred. SkyClan never left the forest.

DESCRIPTION:  Aspenpaw is chosen to fill the position of medicine cat apprentice after ShadowClan’s former medicine cat passes away without a successor, but one StarClan cat refuses to accept her until they share a few words.