Writing Blog

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trying to get your story together like:

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Explaining your story to a willing ear:

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“I really like your story! is there more?”

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“I like this character, is there more about them?”

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When they ask “What happens next?” and you haven’t figured it out yet.

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When you have figured things out but you haven’t written/drawn anything yet, and trying to figure out how to:

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When you only write and draw things out of order and everything remains in the drafting stage:

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When you publish something and someone else points out a continuity error:

[willow404]

I feel WHOLE post on a mental and emotional level

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Its such a rip off that flowers don’t taste good

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Spoken like a woman who’s never used garlic blossom in a stirfry, had an elderflower fritter or used Calendula and Nasturtium in a salad.

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I have not but im going to now

Add pics of the tasty flowers plz

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garlic blossoms (allium) balls of tiny flowers, may be white to deep purple. literally just the flowering head of the garlic you use in food. it tastes like garlic. but colorful.

elderflower, the blossom of the elderberry bush. can be battered and fried. excellent with elderberry syrup or honey. tastes fruity with a tiny hint of anise. also good in teas and sweets.

Calendula, also known as pot marigold. (please, verify you’re using pot marigold, not regular marigold. calendula is actually a daisy.) tastes similarish to bell pepper, sans crunch. leaves are also edible. should be grown with broadleaf plantain:

as a poultices of calendula and plantain can be used to rapidly heal small cuts and scrapes, and are also helpful for other dermatitis. don’t use it on deep wounds though, as it can and will cause the surface skin to heal before the underlying tissues. all of broadleaf plantain is also edible. if bitter.

Nasturtium ranges in color from bright yellow to deep red. it’s peppery and very slightly spicy.

[glumshoe]

Personally I love squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta and fried in a pan. Not ideal if you also want to harvest squash, though.

[3gallopingdogs]

Elderflowers also make great wine or cordial! I concur with the squash blossoms, can always just use the male ones so the female flowers can still form fruit.

[blackwoolncrown]

Finally a thread for the REAL folks: those who eat flowers

[therestlesswitch]

Borage! Looks like blue stars and tastes a like lightly sweet cucumber. The young leaves tase like cucumber too!

The flowers that come from any brassica (cabbage, radishes, broccoli, kale, etc) are all excellent and taste like the rest of the plant.

Queen Anne’s lace blossoms, (daucus carota, just like our domestic carrots) super common wild plant, and the flowers make a jelly that tastes kind of like pink lemonade?? It’s /delicious./ but make 100% sure you have a correct identification as water hemlock and other toxic species look similar.

Rose!!! Rose flavoured things taste exactly as they smell. So scrumptious!

Same with lavender and lilac, and violets! The list goes on! 🤩✨🌱

[heatherwitch]

Here are some of my local (PNW) favorites:

[X] Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) blossoms are excellent in fritters.

[X] Dandelion (Taraxacum offinale) is also excellent in fritters, or my favorite is separating the petals and mixing them into pancake batter.

[X] Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia sibirica) flowers have a delicate, lettuce-like taste.

[X] Oregon grape (Berberis/Mahonia aquafolium) flowers are delightfully sour. I like to pick off a few small flowers from the cluster!

[X] Wood sorrel (Oxalis sp.) also sour (from oxalic acid).

[X] Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is mildly sweet.

When eating wild plants, you should be completely certain in your identification and aware of any lookalikes. Be sure you are allowed to harvest and that the area has not been sprayed by any chemicals. Many of these plants are also medicine, so you should be sure that you can safely ingest them (do your research before putting things in your face pls). This was just intended to get them on your radar!

Resources for plant identification.

[unseelie-witch]

Roses are delicious. Lavender is delicious.

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

Chive flowers are also edible, and bonus points because chives can be invasive if they go to seed, so by eating the flowers you contain the plant to only where you want it to grow!

[randomramblesofaraven]

Gorse flowers! Smell like coconut, taste fresh & salady. They make a really pretty yellow garnish to meals! They have several blooms year round - there’s some out around me now, in December, and I regularly meet hikers’ eyes while scoffing them straight off a bush like some horrid forest gremlin

[uraniumwriting]

Creating a new wip: :D

Realizing you have to create a cool sounding name to help people be interested in it: >:(

[parkerlyn]

~ January IFWriMo ~

Hi everyone! 

Idea has been thrown around to do a pseudo informal “NaNoWriMo” in January, but specifically with IFs in mind!

🌟Who: You! (Anyone working at any stage on an IF) 

🌟What: IFWriMo? IFGoalMo? But anyway, instead of a strict word count, the idea is to have a dedicated month to set personal goals and post those for posterity. 

Certain branch been haunting you? Trying to figure out the outline for a chapter or scene? Stats page plaguing your existence? Find what tasks speak to you/what challenge suits you, write and post them somewhere, and work through the month to complete them! This can be one or a few, and can still be word count if you like. 

Example goals I might use:

Finish branches for Chap 3

Finish detailed outline for Chap 4 and 5 

Update public demo with Chap 2 and 3 

Periodic updates on progress are always good, but this is completely personal preference! (Was thinking of doing something weekly myself?) 

🌟When: Current thought is one in January and one in June/July to line up with different hemisphere summer breaks and winter well-being check-ins!

🌟Where: Online and wherever you write C: 

🌟Why: To kick-start creativity and 2021, and help encourage each other’s writing! (Read: HYPE) 

🌟Extra: There’s some generic prep and planning exercises on NaNoWriMo’s site that are pretty neat

This is still very much a developing idea, so if there’s any improvements or anything else you think should be part of this/included/removed, feel free to mention. And thanks for taking the time to read!

Good luck, and happy writing! 🌟

[kiramartinauthor]

When you're writing and you suddenly realize you don't know what happens next

[taraljc]

When you’re writing and you suddenly realise you DO know what happens next

[justahappycloud]

When you’re writing and you realise you have to write what happens next

[spicychestnut]

Reblogging again because always relevant.

[madllamamomma]

😂 This is so painfully accurate, bruh.

[silkwingfood]

my best friend’s been writing a lot of stories and she’s told me that she wanted to have one of the main characters say no to the other’s offer, but that the character said yes against her own will and writers everywhere are y’all okay?

[maybebrilliant]

No

[toastyglow]

LISTEN,

the very CONCEPT of bodyguards is so narratively juicy and excellent, and I don’t just mean like “character x is character y’s bodyguard so they can be in the same place and fall in love”, I mean the protectiveness, the tension of trying to balance personal and professional, the unified dichotomy of devoted guardian/loyal servant!  the power dynamic.

and even platonically speaking??  again: loyalty!!  personal/professional!!  the sheer delight of watching someone kick righteous ass in defense of their principal!!  honestly it’s even good when the two people in question hate each other.  it’s always good.  write more bodyguards into your stuff, I’ll read it.

[professorsparklepants]

The inherent eroticism of loyalty

[kainablue]

The sexiness of duty vs desire

[randomknowedge]

Howdy y’all! My name is Jimynie, I’m a genderfluid/nonbinary aspiring comic artist who is in general a massive geek!

My accounts seem blank, but I’ve been on Tumblr for 8 years now under the same usernames I’m currently using. In short, I nuked 8 years of animations, AWESOME blogs that I followed, drawings, writings and world building nonsense.

Anyway, since I’m on a restart, if you’re interested in any of the following or have a blog dedicated to it, like or reblog this (or shoot me a dm!) and I’ll check you out!

• Anime!

- Utapri

- my next life as a villainess

- literally anyhing by CLAMP

- Darling in the FRANXX

- otomes/reverse harems 👀👌

- (feel free to send me recommendations too pls)

• Graphic Novel Video Games!

- The Arcana!

- WTNC

- Call Me Under (lunaris games)

- lowkey fire emblem fits here so go crazy y’all

- mysmes 😌👏

- Mr. Love : Queen’s Choice

- let me in on that all that ikemen app game nonsense

- ... Stardew Valley also fits and I’m obsessed with it so, pls y’all. Stardew Content.

- WAY 👏 HA 👏 VEN 👏 👏 CHRON 👏 IC 👏 LES 👏 Wayhaven Chronicles is the bomb dot com so ye

- there’s... a lot. I dont even play these much anymore but i love them ok 👍

• Aesthetic Stuff!

-corvid core! Basically crow/raven core.

- cottage core

-studyblr

-writeblr

-DnD Anything

- and i like seeing anime and animation gifs!

• Artists!

- i love finding new artists to look at their work!

- fandom or original content! I love both

• MISC!

- Cartoons! The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, early 2000s cartoons, Daria, and a lot more! ^^” I’m an animation buff because I want to make my own cartoons in the future.

- Books! Leven Thumps, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Pumpkinheads and Carry On, Lunar Chronicles and the Harry Potter Series(Jk Rowling may be terrible, but the actors have really kept it alive for me).

- sci-fi shows and stuff! I love Star Trek, Star Gate and Star Wars, but I adore Fringe and anything in the “humans are weird” or “space exploration” or “space pirate” sort of stuff. Its just.. so cool to think about living and travelling in the stars, meeting alien species and seeing their differences. Oh, and Steven Universe!

- ... WEBTOONS thx

- crime shows! I’ve already mentioned I like Fringe, but I also watch Law & Order SVU, Criminal Minds, boston legal and anime crime shows ^^” I swear I’m not insane lol its just interesting and good for worldbuilding

That’s all I can think of for now, but it’s not everything ^^” Thanks for sticking with me! Hope y’all have a lovely day! ☺️💚

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Reblogging this from my main to my art account!

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Reblogging this from my art account to my writing account!