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curious🕵‍♀️ + lazy🥱 | unapologetic 90's baby | 30+ | She/Her

[writersisland]

Dark Sides of Character Strengths

protective → reacting with excessive violence to small provocations and retaliating disproportionately

curious → disregard for safety and boundaries

determined → dooming self and even others when refusing to let a lost cause be lost

vigilant → paranoid control and distrust

independent → isolated and unable to ask for or accept help

decisive → coldblooded, reckless, and taking extreme measures without considering less lethal methods

forgiving → inability to hold peoole accountable and never learning from past mistakes

easygoing → unserious and not taken seriously by others even when warranted

optimistic → denial of real danger and damage

disciplined → rigid expectations of perfectionism from self and others

heroic → meddles even when told not to and ignoring people’s autonomy

generous and helpful → inability to say ‘no’ and stretching self thin trying to help everyone

loyal → blind trust to the point of complicity

[luna-azzurra]

OC Job Ideas (Cozy)!!

[goth-queen]

[luna-azzurra]

Hi! Since so many of you message me every day asking for eye-color prompts I’ve already made, I decided to put ALL my eye-prompts into one single post. From now on, every new eye-prompt I create will also be added here.

Feel free to reblog or save this post, so you always have the full collection at your fingertips.

I hope you like it. ⋆.˚ 🌙ྀིྀི .⭒˚

[luna-azzurra]

The single most useful edit you can do before you send anything to anyone: Read it out loud. The whole thing. Every sentence. You will hear every place the rhythm breaks, every word that doesn't belong, every line of dialogue that no human being would actually say. Your eye skips over problems because it already knows what you meant to write. Your ear doesn't lie. It catches everything. It is embarrassing how much a single read-aloud will fix. Do it alone. Do it in a weird voice if it helps. just do it.

[inquisitivemind-indolentsoul]

Lee Jun-young as Geum Seong-je 금성제

Weak Hero Class 2 | 약한영웅 클래스 2 (2025)

[adicttive]

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[moxxiethenarrator]

I hate that feeling where you wanna write but you can’t write so you don’t write but you wanna write

[perfectquote]

“It eventually gets better, without any sort of explanation; you just wake up one morning and you’re not as upset anymore.”

— Unknown

[unravelingwhy]

my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.

[spurbleu]

Hello bleu :3

I lovee how you write the characters accent, it's like i can hear them but i still able to understand them very well.. especially with Johnny

Do you mind sharing tips on how to write their accent? 🫴🌹

hello mbe <3 ofc!!

disclaimer: this is how i do it/what sources i use. i do not speak with either of these accents. so I am no expert.

for the four of them:

with intense emotions, kick the accent up a little bit. slurring the words especially with f or y (for me = f’me, you got = y’got). avoid writing g’s (turning = turnin’).

slang!! but when appropriate- look up some classic british or scottish slang and keep it in your back pocket. avoid packing it in too much because it will feel less authentic.

for johnny specifically:

hard o becomes ‘ae’ (to -> tae, no-> nae) and y’s endings usually become ah (my -> mah) ect. almost never pronounces an ending g. ‘ou’ becomes ‘oo’ (about-> aboot)

a great post

sources:

scottish slang

british slang

scottish accent guide

[shitbl0gger]

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marth Gellhorn

[veronicaleighauthor]

[inquisitivemind-indolentsoul]

haha I'm imagining some FBI agent scratching their head, feeling absolutely befuddled by the things I search up on the internet. If asked, all I can say is that inquisitive minds NEED to know

[perfectquote]

“When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.”

— Louis C.K.