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New writing challenge! Write a story based on a personal life event, and then send it to me so I can submit it for my assignment! (750 words max) thanks

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I wish I was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with an eccentric fashion sense

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Forget ‘bury your gays’, dig up your gays become the necromancer you were born to be

#gay #lgbt #lesbian

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“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

#quotes

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16 Villain Archetypes

The TYRANT: the bullying despot, he wants power at any price. He ruthlessly conquers all he surveys, crushing his enemies beneath his feet. People are but pawns to him, and he holds all the power pieces. Hesitate before getting in this man’s way – he’ll think nothing of destroying you. The BASTARD: the dispossessed son, he burns with resentment. He can’t have what he wants, so he lashes out to hurt those around him. His deeds are often for effect – he wants to provoke action in others. He proudly announces his rebellious dealings. Don’t be fooled by his boyish demeanor – he’s a bundle of hate. The DEVIL: the charming fiend, he gives people what he thinks they deserve. Charisma allows him to lure his victims to their own destruction. His ability to discover the moral weaknesses in others serves him well. Close your ears to his cajolery – he’ll tempt you to disaster. The TRAITOR: the double agent, he betrays those who trust him most. No one suspects the evil that lurks in his heart. Despite supportive smiles and sympathetic ears, he plots the destruction of his friends. Never turn your back on him — he means you harm. The OUTCAST: the lonely outsider, he wants desperately to belong. Tortured and unforgiving, he has been set off from others, and usually for good cause. He craves redemption, but is willing to gain it by sacrificing others. Waste no sympathy on him - he’ll have none for you. The EVIL GENIUS: the malevolent mastermind, he loves to show off his superior intelligence. Intellectual inferiors are contemptible to him and that includes just about everyone. Elaborate puzzles and experiments are his trademark. Don’t let him pull your strings – the game is always rigged in his favor. The SADIST: the savage predator, he enjoys cruelty for its own sake. Violence and psychological brutality are games to this man; and he plays those games with daring and skill. Run, don’t walk, away from this man – he’ll tear out your heart, and laugh while doing it. The TERRORIST: the dark knight, he serves a warped code of honor. Self-righteous, he believes in his own virtue, and judges all around him by a strict set of laws. The end will always justify his nefarious means, and no conventional morality will give him pause. Don’t try to appeal to his sense of justice – his does not resemble yours. The BITCH: the abusive autocrat, she lies, cheats, and steals her way to the top. Her climb to success has left many a heel mark on the backs of others. She doesn’t care about the peons around her – only the achievement of her dreams matters. Forget expecting a helping hand from her – she doesn’t help anyone but herself. The BLACK WIDOW: the beguiling siren, she lures victims into her web. She goes after anyone who has something she wants, and she wants a lot. But she does her best to make the victim want to be deceived. An expert at seduction of every variety, she uses her charms to get her way. Don’t be fooled by her claims of love – it’s all a lie. The BACKSTABBER: the two-faced friend, she delights in duping the unsuspecting. Her sympathetic smiles enable her to learn her victims’ secrets, which she then uses to feather her nest. Her seemingly helpful advice is just the thing to hinder. Put no faith in her – she’ll betray you every time. The LUNATIC: the unbalanced madwoman, she draws others into her crazy environment. The drum to which she marches misses many a beat, but to her, it is the rest of the world that is out of step. Don’t even try to understand her logic – she is unfathomable. The PARASITE: the poisonous vine, she collaborates for her own comfort. She goes along with any atrocity, so long as her own security is assured. She sees herself as a victim who had no choice, and blames others for her crimes. Expect no mercy from her – she won’t lift a finger to save anyone but herself. The SCHEMER: the lethal plotter, she devises the ruin of others. Like a cat with a mouse, she plays with lives. Elaborate plans, intricate schemes; nothing pleases her more than to trap the unwary. Watch out for her complex designs – she means you no good. The FANATIC: the uncompromising extremist, she does wrong in the name of good. She justifies hers action by her intent, and merely shrugs her shoulders at collateral damage. Anyone not an ally is an enemy, and therefore, fair game. Give up any hope of showing her the error of her ways – she firmly believes you are wrong, wrong, wrong. The MATRIARCH: the motherly oppressor, she smothers her loved ones. She knows what’s best and will do all in her power to controls the lives of those who surround her – all for their own good. A classic enabler, she sees no fault with her darlings, unless they don’t follow her dictates. Don’t be lured into her family nest – you’ll never get out alive.

#writing #characters

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how to make yourself write if you don’t know where to start

1. don’t expect too much of yourself

2. write down whatever you know about your idea

3. don’t format it to make it look pretty

4. use paragraphs whenever you get a new idea

5. don’t read back on what you’ve written before

6. if it helps, set your font color to white or light gray

7. don’t skip around. when you have a new idea, it goes on the end of the document

8. write sample dialogue if you have any

9. link to resources you find while googling

10. don’t delete anything. if you want to disregard something, use strikethrough

#writing

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favourite poems about the forest?

edward thomas, “lights out”: i must enter, and leave, alone, / i know not how.

gabriele d’annunzio, “the rain in the pinewood”: rain falls on your black eyelashes / so that you seem to weep / but from pleasure

evie shockley, “where you are planted”: we settle into still pools of humidity, moss- / dark, beneath live oaks

amy gerstler, “bon courage”: a forest appears / to a young girl one morning as she combs / the dreams out of her hair.

richard levine, “in a blue wood”: the faceless couple in van gogh’s blue wood, is walking / where there is no path

siegfried sassoon, “dream-forest”: where sunshine flecks the green, / through towering woods my way / goes winding all the day.

robert frost, “stopping by woods on a snowy evening”: and miles to go before I sleep, / and miles to go before I sleep.

mary oliver, “sleeping in the forest” and “black oaks”: and you can’t keep me from the woods, from the tonnage / of their shoulders, and their shining green hair.

john keats, “ode to psyche”: far, far around shall those dark-cluster’d trees / fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep

r.s. thomas, “forest dwellers”: who called them forth to walk / in the green light, their thoughts / on darkness?

léonie adams, “recollection of the wood”: toward that caress of the boughs a summer’s night / illimitable in fragrance and in sound.

gabriela mistral, “pine forest”: the night watches over its creatures, / except for the pine trees that never change.

kenneth rexroth, “falling leaves and early snow”: between the black pines lie narrow bands of moonlight, / glimmering with floating snow.

william carlos williams, “epitaph”

h.d., “the helmsman”: we forgot—we worshipped, / we parted green from green

cole swensen, “five landscapes”: the trees are half air. they fissure the sky;

pablo neruda, “lost in the forest”: wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig / sang under my tongue

atsuro riley, “thicket”: for darkling green; / for thorn-surround.

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NOBODY ASKED ME FOR WRITING ADVICE BUT YOU’RE ALL GETTING IT ANYWAYS

Listen up. Listen. Listen to me. You wanna write? You wanna do fanfics? Poetry? Just whatever for yourself? Let me tell you something.

When you first start out you are gonna suck. You are gonna be terrible. In ten years your eyes are gonna burn when you read it back. You’re probably gonna be clunky in one way or another. You will fumble through the dark trying to find your style and you will fall and break your nose more than once.

But don’t let that stop you. Get up, dust yourself off, and spit that blood out and keep going. Keep writing. Keep reading and pay attention as you read. Read bad writers especially. I cannot stress how important it is to read absolutely terrible writing. That teaches you more then the good stuff ever could.

And one day you’re gonna realize that you’re never gonna be like your favorite writers and never have the same magic that they do and let me tell you right now that is GREAT. It is wonderful. It is stupendous. You know why? Because that makes you different. The magic is yours and nobody else’s. Don’t ever aim to be just like somebody else because that somebody already exists. We’ve got one of them. Do your thing. Your thing is nice and fresh and new and tasty. Use your own words because only you can use your words.

And any and all writing advice you get, even the advice I’m giving you now, could work for you or not. If somebody says you have to write 1000 words a day and you can barely get out ten one day, that’s fine. If you can’t write for months and then suddenly write ten million words that works. That works. Just write. Do what works for you. Some people can write any time of day anywhere at any time with any kind of writing device and others can only write on Tuesday evenings on a typewriter with blue ink as classical music plays in their basement and they burn a peppermint candle. And there’s everywhere in between. Whatever you have to do to write, do it.

Just. Write. Fall down a few times. Figure some things out. Listen to writing advice but don’t take any of it as the word of God. Just do the thing. You’ll get better if you just do the thing. And read. Read terrible things and good things and so-so things and write all of those things too. Don’t be afraid to suck, listen to constructive criticism, and do what you want. DO WHAT YOU WANT. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SUCK. HAVE. FUN. DO THE THING.

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A Quick Tip for Controlling Pacing

Short sentences speed up the action. They pack punch. They also draw focus to each event. Subject. Verb. Like a camera zoomed in close. Slow-motion shots. Good for fights and epic chase scenes. Don’t fear using sentence fragments. But don’t use it for everything. It can get exhausting for the reader.

Long, complex sentences slow down the action and can create suspense and tension. Imagine them like twisting corridors and long, slow camera pans following the action from beginning to end, moving smoothly from one image to the next without lingering too long over anything in particular. Whole years can pass in the duration of a long sentence; imagine them like those panoramic establishing shots where one season fades slowly into the next. Embrace semicolons; do not shy away from complicated sentence structure from time to time as necessary. But, like all things, practice them in moderation. Long sentences can slow the reader down too much, leading to boredom; they may wander away from the page.

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