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I just love *clenches fist* talking about character analysis and why characters act the way they do. It’s supremely satisfying to figure out motivations of characters and see how that ties into their core nature and how they perceive the world around them.
The Vizier’s Apprentice | A Short Story – Summary
Keywords: Alternate Victorian, Alternate Qajar Dynasty, Middle Eastern Royalty, One Thousand and One Nights, Extreme Canon Divergence, Romance, POC-Centered Narrative, Strong Female Protagonist, Muslim Characters Expected CW: Canon-Typical Violence Target Word Count: 30K or less Tag List: Click here or ask!
In this alternate universe retelling of a classic Persian love story, a young woman named Dunyaazad flees home after her elder sister Scheherezade fails to seduce King Shariyar and is killed at the hands of their inconsolable father, the vizier. With few skills aside from a knack for portraiture, she promptly finds herself with no choice but to set up a small art shop in Samarkand, where Prince Shah Zaman is as cruel and mistrusting a sultan as his brother is a king.
Days after her arrival, word spreads that Shariyar has met an untimely demise and that Shah Zaman will soon be called upon to take his place… Pending one condition:
Shariyar’s last will and testament, as amended the night before his death, demands that Shah Zaman have a royal portrait painted before his coronation.
In an effort to honor his brother, Shah Zaman issues a call for artists – searching door-to-door across Samarkand for a portraitist who is up to the task… And by an ominous twist of fate, Dunyaazad is selected due to how uncannily her work resembles the late king’s own coronation painting.
To refuse would be to tempt ruination, and thus she travels day-after-day to serve her duty – veiled to disguise her identity. Little does the sultan know, however, that her presence in his palace is not nearly as fortuitous as it seems.
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I was talking to someone today about writing, and I was surprised by how amazed they were by writers’ ability to create a story. They couldn’t understand how JKR was able to create the world of Harry Potter–how she came up a world so far removed from our reality.
It made me realize something; not everyone can come up with worlds on a whimsy. Not everyone can create characters that they grow so fond of that they’re like real people in their eyes. Not everyone has gone through the experience of a character derailing their story and swearing it wasn’t them typing those words in that document. Not everyone can just envision a story and then just write it.
I’ve been making stories since I was a small child–it’s something so ingrained in me that to imagine not being able to write (no matter how much I agonize over writing woes) is such a foreign concept to me. Writers, cherish your ability to create stories. Because not everyone can create stories. Because there isn’t anyone in the world who can write the stories you are writing. Because you don’t know when or where there might be a person in the world who needs to hear your story.
we owe literally no one more on this planet than the woman behind fantasy name generator
her name is emily and and she runs it all by herself
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Bless you, Emily, for real! You’ve helped me so much!
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Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”
You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.
Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.
First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.
Example:
Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.
Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.
There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.
There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.
There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.
Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.
Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.
Mages who only wanted to see the sun.
This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.
Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice.
For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book.
Holy shit.
These sound like techniques for making prose have more in common with poetry, or even with music. I just put the book on hold at the library!
“…in the gentle hues of morning, she swept them up to look at them and her eyes were strange realms, older than the oceans that hold her."
Happy Mermay everybody. Once again, a giant rises from the depths.
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DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR
You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome? Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.
FEAR NOT.
Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!
GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.
Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.
Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks. Also multidisciplinary.
Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more. Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.
Europeana- Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.
Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.
Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too. Free! And legal! They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.
College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies. Because that’s what I do.
Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.
LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.
Wiley Open Access- Science things! Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.
SpringerOpen- Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.
Elsevier Open Access- Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this. Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.
Please be gentle with your first drafts; they are the way they are because this is the first time you’ve ever written those scenes, chapters, etc. Some concepts you thought of literally moments ago. Of course they’re not going to be perfect or come out exactly the way you wanted. There will always be more time to perfect them, though, so just keep writing and have as much fun as you can!
twitter started this really cute ship dynamics meme, so I came bearing crystalcore ships
What is that old saying - a hero is only as good as their villain? This week on Write & Wrong, we take a look at the 6 faces of Villainy, the tried and true wa
I mean I understand where a lot of people are going when they talk about women riding sidesaddle and Shit but y'all do realize that throughout the Middle Ages women in Europe rode astride, like, most of the time right? Not only were split skirts a thing, a lot of what we traditionally consider the confinement of women in the west didn’t come around until significantly later, coming notably to a head in the Victorian era where Victoria helped them merrily along.
Just something to note.
(I say European and western because I unfortunately have significantly less knowledge of other parts of the world. I’m in the process of remedying that but don’t have the confidence yet to speak with much authority on the subject. Would welcome more worldwide context!)
Like even when women rode pillion with trusted men they still mostly rode astride because it was SAFER. Sidesaddle is an art that requires specific gear and trained horses. Further, women who did ride sidesaddle were still probably skilled riders or they wouldn’t have been able to ride with hunts or for long periods of time at anything but a walk or very sedate trot. You try balancing on the back of a cantering thousand plus pound animal prone to panicking at the sight of small children and/or leaves. It’s not a venture for the faint of heart.
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Tbh a lot of bad high fantasy tropes can probably be blamed on Queen Victoria + the Regency Era and also humans being shit at researching real medieval and Renaissance history
You’re right and you should say it
#Viet women were known to ride war elephants #which isn’t quite the same but like#WAR ELEPHANTS
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Please be gentle with your first drafts; they are the way they are because this is the first time you’ve ever written those scenes, chapters, etc. Some concepts you thought of literally moments ago. Of course they’re not going to be perfect or come out exactly the way you wanted. There will always be more time to perfect them, though, so just keep writing and have as much fun as you can!
Thought it might be useful: a list of some novels with an average number of chapters & word count per chapter. source
Like if you’re a #writing positivity fan, reblog if you’re a #creating characters fan.
i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills
it’s just choppin wood and harvesting vegetables and herbs from here on out
amen!
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Please hit me with more homesteading concept drawings
Good reference material here.
My brain during sane hours of the day: “I have a good job with benefits, a stable social network with supportive friends and family, and I’m a nerd who thrives on advanced technology. Also, I dislike the taste of fish.”
My brain on Tumblr at 3:30am: “Y’know, abandoning all technology and leaving civilization behind looks like a lot of fun! And I could teach the kids how to build a fish trap!”
RADIATION RAT // NUMERIKA’S BIOMES
Depends on where you want to go, kiddo. What you want to do with your life – Numerika’s seen some changes since you got locked up. Let’s see… how about a charger on the arterials through the deserts? Or salt harvesting? Churning through those great bogs for anything still intact from the old world? Fish farming is well and good… so long as you can swim. And if it’s death you want, head to the walls of an Heirloom for a bullet in the brain. …Or a char pit if you’ve got a flare for the dramatic. Whaddya say, sweetheart?
Any of those suit you?
