dreamer in the clouds

Hold onto hope if you got it // Don't let it go for nobody

[thenighteternal]

[blacktealiterature]

Imagine not reinventing yourself with each piece of writing you read

[miskribas]

Writing research be like:

Closes eyes, turns head towards sun to see the colour my eyelids go.

Feels up a wall

Google search: what is the slipperiest brand of playing card?

Google search: how to steal evidence from police

An hour and a half spent reading up on nightclub lighting for one (1) metaphor.

Making a list of conspiracy theories

Google search: average parking lot size

The internal debate: can I invent a desert? Can I not? Can I use a real desert? What deserts do we even have in Australia? Why do I not know this?

More at 11

[leave-her-a-tome]

Goes outside to be reminded of what nature™ is like

Taking a shady online class

Google search: how many licks does it take to die from nightshade

Thinking very hard about name meanings

Then giving up and naming the mc something like “Mary”

Tries to learn smoke signals while camping

Categorizing weapons by coolness

Tastes juniper berry

Google search: are juniper berries poisonous

Stares at moon. Contemplatively

Buys a whole coconut and tries to open it

Writes notes about the dandelion you saw growing in the sidewalk.

Another internal debate: can this animal?? live in this terrain?? on this continent??? hold up now where are they native to? and what about this plant??

Google search: what did Italians eat before the tomato

More at 12

[miskribas]

Lies upside down on a chair

Punches self in face to see what colour it feels like

Google search: how do fishermen fish

Soliloquises about the dandelion for three paragraphs but can’t think of a greeting other than “hey”.

NEVER goes out, what the hell are you doing?

Makes punching movements at the mirror for forty-five minutes

Google search: videos of people shrugging

Google search: theory of semicompatibalism

Goes to the beach just to see how much sand I can track into my car

More at 1

[endless-plotter]

Google Search: How fast does fire burn concrete?

How much stuff can I fit in a backpack, for research purposes?

Videos of how to escape a hostage situation

Looking up name meanings so you can find the perfect name for a restaurant that is mentioned exactly one (1) time

Spinning my combination lock next to my ear so I can describe how the tumblers sound

Seeing if my character can actually go with that little sleep

Google Search: How to fight on ice

Reading the first few pages of Macbeth for no apparent reason

Inspecting the roof of a local high school

Google Search: Local Arson Code

More at 2

[miskribas]

Google search: how quickly does a match stop smoking

Bookmarks tab: six (6) flower meaning websites, two (2) home design sites, every police response article ever written.

Going out for Chinese food just to experience picking celery out of Chow Mein

Night walks night walks night walks

“How tall can a newspaper stack be before it falls over?”

Throws paper into the air to see what type of bird it most looks like coming down

Google search: average coma length (medically induced)

I have to gain filmmaker-standard knowledge and raw poetry talent in maybe a week? Easy.

More at 3

[badwriterpositivity]

Things to do in quarantine (other than writing)

Make long, drawn out descriptions of your characters

Create moodboards, playlists, art, or anything else to do with your WIP

Write a dumb au- just for yourself. No deadline, no pressure of quality. Just write.

Figure out the perfect circumstances to write- do you like to drink coffee? Tea? Table, or lap? Music, TV, silence? Try out new things, too!

Clean up your workspace, if you have one. Decorate it. Make it home.

Go for a walk and listen to your muse playlist.

Try to cosplay one of your characters, no matter what you have at home.

Understand your MC better. Imagine them in quarantine- what's their favourite food? Their favourite music? Their favourite pastime? How do they sleep? How do they clean?

Make a shitty rendition of something from your story. Build a character from clay. Sew someone's outfit from scratch. Make a prop from tinfoil. Recreate a room with Lego.

Have stupid fun! Get to know the world of your story, get stuck in Wikipedia holes, scroll shopping websites for hours.

Just have fun, and feel happy knowing it'll help your world, even if you're struggling.

What we need right now is entertainment. Not stress.

[blacksalander]

Cowboy/Western Mage

[lovestereo]

Visit Original Link

[clypso]

camp nano excerpts // 04.11.20

daily words : ~1,653 total words : 6,622 goal : 30,000 notes : I’m less than 5,000 words behind! which is fine considering my recent struggle. also, I’m counting words from my RP in my total – basically any fiction words I write. still trying out styles for this draft, so it’s going to be all over the place. that’s what draft 2 is for!

current media

reading : The Weird of the White Wolf // Moorcock ; Dead to the World // Harris watching : Ozark, season 3 listening : Flight of Icarus // Iron Maiden

[writeness]

writing style game!

put ur answers in the tags!

google docs or microsoft word? character moodboards or character playlists? writing with music or writing in silence? lots of half finished wips or one project at a time? plotter or pantser? more dialogue or more description? character-driven books or plot-driven books? enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?

[letswritesomenovels]

Monthly Progress Tracking Template (With Chart!)

I love spreadsheets and charts and visual motivators, and I’m pretty sure some other people do too, so I’ve decided to make a shareable template of my monthly progress tracking spreadsheet! 

You tell the spreadsheet your unit of measurement (hours, words, pages, etc.) and your actual goal (50,000 words, 200 pages, 70 hours) and the spreadsheet will calculate how much you need to write per day. 

Simply fill in your daily progress and click on the “Progress Chart” tab and you’ll find a pretty chart that maps out your progress (bars), and how it tracks compared to your goal (dotted line). 

It might not be the most sophisticated piece of software, but it’s easy to use, free, customizable, and will provide you with that simple satisfaction of watching a progress bar get taller and taller. 

The template isn’t editable, but you can either make an editable copy or download it by going to “File” and then either “Make a copy” or “Download.” Easy peasy. 

Google Drive Spreadsheet Link

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (2011) PETER PAN (1953) SIREN: SEASON 2 EPISODE 10 (2019) HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) HOOK (1991) THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (2005)  PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA (2008) AQUAMARINE (2006)

[writeroftheprompts]

Writing Character Relationships

Character relationships are important to add dimension to the characters and can help make them and the plot more realistic. This isn’t just for romantic relationships because building the characters’ platonic and familial relationships are important as well. So here are a few tips on creating believable and endearing relationships your readers will love.

Don’t rush into it. This goes for platonic relationships as well as romantic ones. A big cliché complaint with romance stories is that the two characters tend to meet and fall head over heels in love with each other after two conversations or one loving glance across the room (sorry Romeo and Juliet). While romantic connections can begin on the first date, the characters probably shouldn’t be professing undying love and devotion to each other an hour after meeting. The problem isn’t so much the length of time that they’ve known each other as it is how well they know each other, which is why character friendships need time too. If your characters spend two full days together where they really get to know each other deeply and we can see the progression from strangers to people who understand each other, great. If their relationship spans a year but all they do is check each other out then you have a problem. Make them know each other and interact in meaningful ways to create the relationship and show how it came to be.

Show their history. Not every relationship your characters have is going to be created in the span of time in which the story takes place. Your character might have a best friend they’ve known for ten years or three older siblings. Just because these predate the beginning of the story doesn’t mean you don’t have to show what kind of relationship they have. You can say that so-and-so is the best friend but you have to make us believe it. Are they the kind of friends that tell each other everything, like even what they probably shouldn’t? Or are they more the kind that have fun and leave the drama when they go out? Show what kind of relationship the characters have rather than just telling.

Give the reader a sense of why the relationship fits. In some stories you read about the guy and the girl who are just so cute together and they’re falling in love but…why? Why does this pairing work? Having things in common is important, particularly in things that are important to the character, like values. But they can and should also have differences, some of which serve to make the other better. Together they should push each other and support each other. If you make them connect in this way it makes the connection much stronger to the reader and that makes them want to cheer them on more. If it’s all about the smooching it can get rather boring quite quickly.

Make them complete without the other(s). I know I just said that making the characters push each other is a good thing, but they still need to be complete characters on their own. If the only real thing you can say about the character is that they are X’s soulmate or best friend, then they’re not a character. It’s more interesting to see how people interact with each other than Love Interests™ following each other around.  

[jaywrites101]

Bless you, good sir, madam, or other entity. Bless you.

[angelnumber27]

[thecollectibles]

Art by Janice Sung

[6i]

it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.

[penguinsledding]

this quarantine, we’re bringing tumblr back! I’ve tried the other social media platforms, and I hate them! they make me use my real name! they’re always trying to sell me things! here, the mean users are random antis or racist bone thieves. on twitter, it’s the actual president of the united states. don’t you miss reading 1800 word rants about the way two characters looked at each other in a three second scene? wouldn’t you rather be looking at a gifset of katara right now? fuck instagram. I’m crawling back to my hovel.

[reconstructionbaby]

day one of quarantine. i’ve gathered my most glamorous friends with the most shocking secrets to my secluded mansion. but there’s been a mysterious murder…….

[merriamlloydwebster-deactivated]

irresponsible gathering. im calling the police

[reconstructionbaby]

there was also a murder

[depresseddisneyprincess]

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing