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Do threats and punishments make people change their behaviour to the desired? Or does it make them prepare for the punishment? The answer will shock you.
WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}
E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;
Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);
BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;
Charlotte Dillon - Research links;
Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;
One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;
One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!
Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;
National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;
Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;
Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;
The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;
Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;
QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);
Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;
Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;
I hope this is helpful for you!
(Also, check my gumroad store if you want to!)
How to Keep an Edit Notebook
In my How to Edit a First Draft post, I mentioned something I call an edit notebook. Edit notebooks help you figure out what level of revisions your WIP requires, and exactly what is wrong with your manuscript. I use a 3-subject notebook per project, and a section per draft. An edit notebook is composed of a few parts:
1. Chapter-By-Chapter Notes
this is where you read through your manuscript and take notes on scenes
you usually want to note what happens in the chapter, how well it is written, and whether or not it is relevant to the plot
2. Overall Plot Notes
these also happen while you’re reading over your WIP
I usually made them in-between sections of chapters, but some I made while reading
these include things you’d like to add/change/remove from the plot
3. Analysis (Note: This is the most important part! The whole point of an edit notebook is to figure out how much editing you actually have to do. I sort these into different “levels.”)
Novel-Level: If all your notes say “delete scene,” “scrap,” “poorly written,” “unecessary” etc., then you’re probably looking at a full-on rewrite. Pull on your big-boy pants, grab a cup of coffee, and start re-plotting.
Chapter-Level: If your notes are less about how bad the plot is and more about how bad the writing quality is, then your revisions should focus more on pacing, the order of your scenes, point of view, and rewriting/recrafting scenes to make them better.
Line-Level: If the plot is flawless, there aren’t any plot holes or dull moments to be accounted for, just grammar/sentence structure problems, then this is when you print out your novel and go through it with a red pen.
Of course, there are steps in-between, and sometimes you’ll spend several drafts in one level. But in general, this is what you should be looking for!
4. Redrafting (Especially important when making novel-level edits, which is probably what you’re dealing with when you have a first draft)
list possible scene ideas, brainstorm
try to write out your new plot, or at least the “tentpole” moments (the important events)
from there, fill in what goes in-between the major events
remember, you can’t really know if it works or not until you actually write it!
5. Reoutlining
I like to make a summary sheet (below the cut), which ideally includes your major plot points, major flashbacks, subplots, symbols, conflicts, resolutions, and the story arc (as well as anything else you want to keep track of)
plot out timelines/arcs for characters
basically do whatever you would normally do before you begin writing something new. Except, this isn’t new! You know what you’re doing and where you’re going this time. You got this.
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all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) "here's a strategy to draw the land masses! here's how to plot islands!" :) and that's wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I'm throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is
okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao
Cities - go near water! freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there. Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.
for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring--more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end. rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat
mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains! mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey). a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half. These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks
Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry--almost desert-like, in fact. think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies
forests - depends on how warm the area might be. coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too
If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower). if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada--the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)
You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)
and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains
tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules
Another poem I performed at Unislam!
Trigger warnings for slutshaming and sexual assault
I love you.
And I never said I didn't.
And you love me.
And you never said you didn't.
But our stories are shelved on opposite sides of the library.
We were only supposed to meet in the book return box.
This is me at Unislam 2020, enjoy!
((p.s. if you subscribe to this channel I might even post more poetry!))
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If the sea became the sky
How would it rain?
Still down? From top to bottom?
Each wave pulled across the ceiling
Splashing flecks of grey to the carpet
Liquid water
Racing down, down
In bubbles
That will never pop,
Just dissipate into foggy air
Before it reaches our heads
And falls into our ears in silence.
If the sea became the sky,
How would puddles form?
Would our feet be cradled in clouds
Each rainy day?
Leaving little pools of smoke
For the sun to turn liquidy and pull up,
Up,
Where would we keep the sun?
Would the fishes survive the thin atmosphere?
If we cried, would our tears be pulled up our foreheads too?
Or would my eyes become a smoke machine?
Would I ever feel the thrill of touching liquid water?
If the sea
Became the sky?
Would my mind suffer the same fate?
Ducks
Not chickens, not swans,
Ducks,
Not pheasants or penguins,
Ducks,
Not bats or cats or pigeons
Or elephants or cheetahs
Or trees or fruit or tins of beans
Or toast or toasters or
Toilet roll or water
(though part water)
Or grass or happy or social unity
Or thoughts or anxiety or energy
(though part energy)
Or viruses or stars or outer space
Or God
Or fish.
Ducks aren't fish.
Take away everything that a duck is not,
And you'll be left with a duck.
To the guy I found at the beginning of the apocalypse.
I'm sorry for the second time I saw you,
When I cried so hard I made your shoulder skin soggy.
I'm sorry
That I reeled you in to this lonely cloud that surrounds me.
You found me at the wrong time,
Pulled closer to my isolation through this isolation.
One week in and I'm pulling out my childhood trauma
In the hopes you'll understand my sadness,
I hope we're not moving too fast.
I'm just trying to keep up with the pace of this still world.
Because we kissed.
I blinked.
And then the whole world disappeared.
I wish this were a romance novel
So that phrase existed to harmonise with hope
Instead of this.
Look me up in the dictionary
Under C for child:
She's crisp packets and cartwheels
And the click of small feet in big red heels.
A hop, skip, trip.
The world is an oyster,
Or whatever that means.
Look me up in the dictionary
Under L for lover:
She is lips and laughs and lazy days.
Alone, she's a melody, lilting and smooth as a smokers cough,
Clumsy and lovely with a heart that will beat for the world.
So go to her.
Look me up in a dictionary
Under S for seduction, sultry, sex:
She is skin through the camera lens,
All eyelashes and tongue and cold, bare
Skin.
Can you feel the heat yet?
A heartfelt moan through a microphone,
Just static.
Look me up in a dictionary
Under W for words, writer:
She's the stroking of sharp wrists on the papers edge,
The calm in the current,
Conductor in a knife fight.
She's alive.
A silent voice of black and white pixels
And an emotion that'll stay with you for a lifetime.
hitch your heart to one small thing
reminds me of this!
oc design is just “this is me” and “god I wish that were me” in random measurements on a scale
may I present an alternative take
Fridge poetry.
It's been a while since I actually talked about myself or my projects on here, rather than just irregularly posting angsty poems about relationships, so here we go.
Those poems I've been posting are part of a project I'm working on for myself I'm calling Polyamorish, a collection of poems written to explore my relationships and identity. I don't intend to publish it or even finish it, but it's nice to have something to work on when I'm feeling the Feelings™️
Some other projects of mine include writing for a slam poetry competition I'm doing with my university, I may share some of my works from that here. I'd like to, slam poetry is a little more out of my comfort zone than what I'm used to, but it's definitely growing me as a writer and performer.
Y'all also seem to know me as that writeblr who writes romance and not a whole lot else, but I'm actually working on a script for my light entertainment society which is the most out of my comfort zone I've been in my writing in a while, but man I'm loving it. Turns out I'm actually fairly good at it too, who knew I could be funny?? Id like to share some information about that here, it feels like the wip most important to me right now so it seems only fair. Let me know if you wanna hear more about it, I might be motivated to get round to telling yall that way.
Thanks for sticking around while I'm finding my ground with the writeblr community. I doubt I'll ever properly know what I'm doing, but I hope you're enjoying my mess in the meantime
Fucking with a flatmate - don't screw the crew
We're reckless, always have been.
That first kiss a drug, never should have taken it.
Thank god for soundproof, they're all sat next door while I'm fucking him harder, fucking him louder.
We're reckless. No locks. Daytime sex. Blowjobs in the kitchen. They still haven't guessed. "Thank god I'm not pregnant." "From what sex?" Still they don't know. Sex once a day, every day, twice a day, condoms from the doctors are out in two weeks, he buys a box more, they pick it up from the door, 144, is he having that much sex? With me, yes. Missing lectures for the flat to ourselves, kissing in the club, invisible in a crowd of so many eyes.
We're reckless with our words. "Yeah we fuck in the kitchen all the time," we play it like a joke and they think it's all a joke and we're fucking reckless. Reckless fucking. Think they'll ever find out? I doubt it.