Jeremy Williams, Author

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[writing-masterlists]

Synonyms For Very

This masterlist is a masterlist of words that you may use alongside the word very, very being one of the most common words that are used when writing. I hope this helps you as much as it helps me in our writing seem more sophisticated and unique. 

A:

Very accurate - exact Very afraid - fearful Very angry - furious Very annoying - exasperating

B:

Very bad - atrocious Very beautiful - exquisite Very big - immense Very boring - dull Very bright - luminous Very busy - swamped

C:

Very calm - serene Very careful - cautious Very cheap - stingy Very clean - spotless Very clear - obvious Very clever - intelligent Very cold - freezing Very colourful - vibrant Very competitive - cutthroat Very complete - comprehensive Very confused - perplexed Very conventional - conservative Very creative - innovative Very crowded - bustling Very cute - adorable

D:

Very dangerous - perilous Very dear - cherished Very deep - profound Very depressed - despondent Very detailed - meticulous Very different - disparate Very difficult - arduous Very dirty - filthy Very dry - arid Very dull - tedious

E:

Very eager - keen Very easy - effortless Very empty - desolate Very excited - thrilled Very exciting - exhilarating Very expensive - costly

F:

Very fancy - lavish Very fast - swift Very fat - obese Very friendly - amiable Very frightened - alarmed Very frightening - terrifying Very funny - hilarious

G:

Very glad - overjoyed Very good - excellent Very great - terrific

H:

Very happy - ecstatic Very hard - difficult Very hard-to-find - rare Very heavy - leaden Very high - soaring Very hot - sweltering Very huge - colossal Very hungry - ravenous Very hurt - battered

I:

Very important - crucial Very intelligent - brilliant Very interesting - captivating

J:

K:

L:

Very large - huge Very lazy - indolent Very little - tiny Very lively - vivacious Very long - extensive Very long-term - enduring Very loose - slack Very loud - thunderous Very loved - adored

M:

Very mean - cruel Very messy - slovenly

N:

Very neat - immaculate Very necessary - essential Very nervous - apprehensive Very nice - kind Very noisy - deafening

O:

Very often - frequently Very old - ancient Very old-fashioned - archaic Very open - transparent

P:

Very painful - excruciating Very pale - ashen Very perfect - flawless Very poor - destitute Very powerful - compelling Very pretty - beautiful

Q:

Very quick - rapid Very quiet - hushed

R:

Very rainy - pouring Very rich - wealthy

S:

Very sad - sorrowful Very scared - petrified Very scary - chilling Very serious - grave Very sharp - keen Very shiny - gleaming Very short - brief Very shy - timid Very simple - basic Very skinny - skeletal Very slow - sluggish Very small - petite Very smart - intelligent Very smelly - pungent Very smooth - sleek Very soft - downy Very sorry - apologetic Very special - exceptional Very strong - forceful Very stupid - idiotic Very sure - certain Very sweet - thoughtful

T:

Very talented - gifted Very tall - towering Very tasty - delicious Very thirsty - parched Very tight - constricting Very tiny - minuscule Very tired - exhausted

U:

Very ugly - hideous Very unhappy - miserable Very upset - distraught

V:

W:

Very warm - hot Very weak - frail Very well-to-do - wealthy Very wet - soaked Very wide - expansive Very willing - eager Very windy - blustery Very wise - sage Very worried - distressed

X:

Y:

Z:

A/N: If you know of anymore words I can add please message me.

[distractionsetcetera]

writing is either

or

there is nothing in between.

[avengerofyourheart]

WHY IS THIS SO TRUE. 

[jswauthor]

Patreon account!

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[lazy-writing-prompts]

Lazy Writing Prompt #296

“Okay, look! Snow days are for sleeping in and reading trashy romance novels next to a fire and drinking hot cocoa! Not kidnapping the president!”

“What if we stop and get cocoa on the way?”

[thewritershandbook]

[kiramartinauthor]

[butchamy]

Story idea when you try to actually write it:

[calamitycons]

Story idea when you first rewrite it:

Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!

[snurtle]

Your story when somebody else sees it:

[starspangledscarf]

hhhhhHHHHHHH

[thatincompetentperson]

(⚪д⚪)

[servicek9s-deactivated20180617]

This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents. 

[teffyjeffy]

This.

[bassiter]

some REAL writing advice

i posted this list a few years ago but i thought i’d repost it with a couple edits, since it’s all still perfectly good and plenty of people could do to see it. it works no differently for fanfic and original works.

For the most part, just don’t listen to anything your English teachers say unless they’re like, a published author. You know that shit about how “you shouldn’t use the same word to start a sentence more than once in 4 consecutive sentences” - yeah, that’s bullshit. As long as you don’t REALLY over-use something, you’re fine. Good flow in a story isn’t even necessarily consistent with proper grammar.

That being said, be well-versed in proper grammar. Yeah, there’s always artistic liberty, but there are times when you do absolutely need to structure a sentence a certain way. Such as “would have” (correct) vs. “would of” (you’ll look like an idiot if you write that). Know participles and all the different tenses and how to use them correctly, know passive and active voice, etc.

Keep expanding your vocabulary. Contrary to what your English teachers say, using “said” a lot isn’t that bad, but using other words sometimes keeps it from getting monotonous. Keep learning new idioms and phrases. Know when to use the words and how to use them. Example: “for all intensive purposes” isn’t a thing - it’s for all intents and purposes. Know the connotations that certain words have.

Know your voice. Even if you’re writing in 3rd person, you’re probably still writing from the POV of a particular character - write as though you’re in that character’s head! Keep to a vocabulary level that that character likely has. Vaguely switch over to first person occasionally. Teachers often say not to write how you speak, but if you’re writing limited from a person who wouldn’t speak like a scholar all the time, write how they would speak. If you’re writing omniscient, you’re hopping from person to person and you can still do that.

Know how people work. Observe people, keep track of your own emotions, actually think about how different people would react in a certain situation. Make people stutter a little bit in their dialogue or not say precisely what they mean - most people don’t talk like a textbook. Put in thought processes and body movements in between dialogue. A sentence like “He blinked.” is perfectly acceptable in some contexts and could mean a lot.

Know how the world works. If you’ve never had a job before, research what getting a job is like before you write about it. If you’ve never had anal sex before, dear god please fucking research it. Make your story realistic and keep the “altering real-life events for the sake of a more entertaining story” to a minimum. And if you’re writing fantasy, do some worldbuilding.

And that being said, know what’s entertaining. Know what keeps your readers hooked. You don’t have to write out every single class a character goes to and all their homework and whatnot if it’s not relevant to the plot or characterization. You can just mention that they had a long day at school. Do time lapses, it’s okay. You don’t even have to give a summary of the things that happened during the time lapse because that makes it seem like you think your readers are stupid. Give them credit and don’t explicitly state everything.

Really just a follow-up, but DON’T write day-to-day. Unless it’s specifically a day-to-day fic or something that takes place in a very short amount of time. Chances are not every day has something interesting or relevant to the plot going on.

Write more about thoughts and actions than dialogue. Knowing how a character is feeling about something and how they express it is can be much more telling than what they’re saying. But it’s also good to have a healthy mix of thoughts, direct dialogue, and hearsay.

Know how to structure your writing, mainly for accessibility. Don’t make paragraphs that are too long and don’t only make one-sentence paragraphs. Start a new paragraph when someone starts talking. Don’t confuse your readers.

Read. Read a lot. Get a good grip on how the most successful writers of our age write. Read unpublished writers, too. That isn’t to say that you should copy them - just take some pointers from them. No one writes well without ever reading a fuckload. Develop a writing style that you’re comfortable with. Some people are more descriptive than others, and that’s okay. Some people rely more on dialogue to tell a story, and that’s also okay.

Write. Just keep writing. Like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get. Write things you like to write about and get feedback. Even Shakespeare probably started out with some pretty shitty stuff, so it’s okay if you’re a little rusty right now. You will get better with practice.

[studyquill]

Word Counter - Not only does it count the number of words you’ve written, it tells you which words are used most often and how many times they appear.

Tip Of My Tongue - Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t figure out what it is? This site searches words by letters, length, definition, and more to alleviate that.

Readability Score - This calculates a multitude of text statistics, including character, syllable, word, and sentence count, characters and syllables per word, words per sentence, and average grade level.

Writer’s Block (Desktop Application) - This free application for your computer will block out everything on your computer until you meet a certain word count or spend a certain amount of time writing.

Cliche Finder - It does what the name says.

Write Rhymes - It’ll find rhymes for words as you write.

Verbix - This site conjugates verbs, because English is a weird language.

Graviax - This grammar checker is much more comprehensive than Microsoft Word, again, because English is a weird language.

Sorry for how short this is! I wanted to only include things I genuinely find useful.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

If you write a book that 0.01% of the country wants to read, you’ll sell 30,000 copies, and if you’re self-publishing it at an above $2.99 price point, that’s $60,000. Multiply it by the rest of the English-speaking world, and you don’t even need to get 0.01% of the people. Not a bad income. The trick is not figuring out what sells—if you’re writing good books that are of commercial quality (even if not of broad commercial appeal), there are enough readers out there who want to read your book to sustain a career. The trick is making sure that the 0.01% of the country that wants to read a book like yours knows that it exists. It’s easier to start a career on a book that 90% of the country wants to read, but if you’re writing books that really speak to 0.01% of the country, you can get a self-sustaining career eventually today in a way that you couldn’t even five years ago. Starting it up may be difficult, but once they’ve found you, I think you can keep going for a lot longer than used to be true.

Courtney Milan’s FAQ (via fixyourwritinghabits)

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[wishyroses]

THANK YOU

[jswauthor]

Damsel Episode 2: Tracking (Heroes of Crystal City: Damsel) - Kindle edition by Jeremy Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Damsel Episode 2: Tracking (Heroes of Crystal City: Damsel).

The second installment in the Heroes of Crystal City: Damsel series.

Damsel and Leventa begin to track down those responsible for the criminalization of heroes. The only problem? They’re also being hunted by the same people they’re tracking.

Both sides try to trap the other and end up in a brawl that leaves both sides reeling, with more questions than answers.

[jswauthor]

Damsel Episode 1: Damsel (Heroes of Crystal City: Damsel) - Kindle edition by Jeremy Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Damsel Episode 1: Damsel (Heroes of Crystal City: Damsel).

Crystal City, hub of the world hero network. A large city situated just southwest of New York City.

It’s newest protector and heroine, a woman going by the name ‘Damsel’, is recruited by the oldest still living heroine, Leventa.

Together they discover that once-great heroes are being driven to commit crimes by an unknown force. Their investigation drives them into the depths of a massive, mysterious criminal enterprise.

What will they find along the way?

[jswauthor]

Villain vs Villain: War - Kindle edition by Jeremy Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Villain vs Villain: War.

Retired supervillain Master Fighter is living a comfortable life with his family out in the country. One day his daughter, Jennifer, and granddaughter, Kylie, are caught in the middle of a bank robbery by a hero-turned villain ironically named ‘Hero-man’. The former hero severely injures Kylie in the attack.

Master Fighter does what any good villain would do. He goes after Hero-man with everything he has.

But he soon discovers that the former hero has new, powerful allies. Add in the ability to increase his powers with the help of a special performance enhancing drug and Hero-man is now a formidable opponent.

With his rage threatening to destroy him from the inside and his enemies threatening to destroy him from the outside, can Master Fighter prevail and avenge his granddaughter? Or will he suffer a worse fate than her?