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Kai | 19 | Writer | Maker of Mistakes. writeblr: you can find drafts of my work, advice for my reference, etc. find what you want to find in the tags "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so." -John Berryman

[wordsnstuff]

Hey there, I'd need help with organizing my work. Where do I start? What should I finish first? Characters? Plot? Worldbuilding? Basically I have a word documents with fragments, Exel charts for timelines, couple of Pinterest boards, a playlist but I can't really keep things consistent and fast paced for the readers. I usually end up writing a lot of unnecessary details I have to get rid of...

So, a couple of the issues you seem to be having revolve around organization of your writing process, outlining, and editing/revising. I’ve linked the resources I’ve created for those subjects below so you may read through them and find what you need.

Organization/Writing Process

Resources

Useful Writing Resources

Useful Writing Resources II

Apps That Help You Focus

How I Recommend Building Your Own Writing Playlists

Articles

How To Develop A Distinct Voice In Your Writing

When To Stop Planning

Why “Burnout” Is Okay - The Creativity Cycle

Writing The First Chapter

Tips On Starting A Scene

Showing vs. Telling

Asks

On Making Scenes/Characters Unpredictable

Pacing Descriptions

When To Use “Felt”

Keeping Characters From Sounding Identical

Showing Vs. Telling And Characters

On First Drafts & How You Write Them

Leaving Techniques To The “Professionals”

Falling Out Of Love With A Story You Want To Finish

Blog Recommendations

Outlining

Resources

Resources For Creating Characters

Resources For World Building

Resources For Plot Development

Articles

Novel Planning 101

How To Write A Good Plot Twist

Tackling Subplots

Things A Reader Needs From A Story

Planning A Scene In A Story

Ways To Fit Character Development Into your Story

21 Plot Shapes and the Pros and Cons Of Each

How To Outline Effectively

Plot Structures

Asks

Tips On Outlining Chapters

Outlining Without Chapters

Mapping Out A Series

Where To Start The Story

Revising/Editing Your Writing

Resources

Things To Listen To When You’re Working

Articles

Improving Flow In Writing

Step-By-Step Plan: Editing Your Own Writing

How To Foreshadow

What To Cut Out Of Your Story

Constructive Criticism: How To Give, Receive, and Utilize

How To Perfect The Tone In A Piece Of Writing

Tips On Dialogue

Editing & Proofreading Cheat Sheet

A Guide To Tension & Suspense In Your Writing

Editing: What To Change, Draft By Draft

Dialogue Punctuation

Finding & Fixing Plot Holes

Using Vocabulary

Asks

Editing Your Own Work

Info-dumping

Story Sounds Monotonous

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[nemesisadrastia]

Here I am, doing the Lord’s work: here’s a masterlist of traits with their definitions. Putting this under a read-more so I can edit and add onto it later. Don’t ask me how many traits there are, I don’t know, but it’s about nine pages worth. If you see any errors, or a better definition to a word, feel free to message me. If you find this useful, please like or reblog!

Keep reading

[sugar-salt-n-spice]

my writing: please, please i’m begging just use normal punctuation for once in your terrible writing

me: haha time for another

comma

[wolvesofarcadia-archive]

You know that feeling when you’re writing something in your WIP, and as you type every word you just know it’s all going to be scrapped in a future draft, but you know that you need to write it anyway because otherwise you won’t know how to continue the story? Yeah.

[wordsnstuff]

Wordsnstuff Asks Masterlist

Character Development

Traits Shared Between Family Members

Having Trouble Connecting To Your Characters?

Writing People Of Color

Writing Children

Writing A Romance That Begins As Characters Are Children

Giving Characters Bad Traits

Relationships Between Characters With No Connection

Relationships Between Polar Opposites

Worldbuilding

Mimicking Diversity In Science Fiction/Fantasy

Writing About Another Era

Plot Development

On Making Scenes/Characters Unpredictable

Tips On Outlining Chapters

Outlining Without Chapters

Mapping Out A Series

Where To Start The Story

Editing Your Own Work

Types Of Scenes

Chase Scenes

Technique

Story Sounds Monotonous

Showing Vs. Telling And Characters

Pacing Descriptions

Info-dumping

When To Use “Felt”

Keeping Characters From Sounding Identical

Wordsnstuff’s Pep-Talks

Hesitant To Start Writing

On First Drafts & How You Write Them

On A Lack of “Formal Training”

On Coming Back To Writing

Writing About Uncomfortable Topics

Leaving Techniques To The “Professionals”

My Advice For Aspiring Writers

Falling Out Of Love With A Story You Want To Finish

Fanfiction

Original Characters In Fanfiction

Miscellaneous

Apps That Help You Focus

How I Recommend Building Your Own Writing Playlists

Getting More Engagement From Readers Of Fanfiction

About The Blog Itself

Blog Recommendations

Blogs I’m Following

Donating To My Ko-fi Through PayPal

Credit For Using My Writing Prompts?

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[the-vaudevillain-deactivated202]

Let's talk about mynoise.net

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

[readysetgaikokujin]

OH MY GOD

[kinkykinard]

Y’ALL I JUST STARTED USING THIS TODAY BUT THIS HAS BROKEN THROUGH MY WRITER’S BLOCK LIKE NOTHING ELSE.

TRY IT.  USE IT.  LOVE IT.

[thewinedarksea]

all writing is is frantically scrolling around your document trying to figure out where everything is supposed to be and also occasionally you add some words or something

[wordfather]

small writing exercises

make up an origin and meaning of a name

write a family history going back centuries

pick a character and make them ramble about their favorite thing

make up a fable, pretend it’s as famous as the Grimm fairytales. how does this fable affect the world and what would people reference from it? (i love this one because it can be as crazy and silly as you want)

make a commercial for something that really shouldn’t be sold at all. try to convince people to buy it.

ACRONYMS. but, like, try to have it make sense

make a poem about your story/something in your story

rewrite a classic but put your own twist on it

make up a detailed recipe

make a monologue with a plot twist or punchline in the end

create a ridiculously detailed timeline for a character

childhood memory (real one or make it up!)

improve rap lyrics

the story behind an inside joke

make up a mythical creature

pretend to be a commentary youtuber and pick a topic

the what if? pick a story and create an alternate ending to it

pick one scenario and several characters. how different are the reactions based on their personalities?

[nightthinkersworld]

SITES FOR WRITERS

Fantasy name generator

Fighter’s block - try to defeat a monster by writing

Child’s Traits Calculator ; predict a child’s appearance 

Child’s Traits Calculator ; predict other traits

Fifty Plot Twist Ideas For Your Work-In-Progress!

Name generator (Character, Baby, Last name, etc.)

Plot generator ; Inspiration for your next novel, film or short story

Character generator ; Generate Rich Characters in Seconds

Writing Exercises ;  This site provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks. 

Notebook ; create your characters, worlds, objects, places, etc. and save them

Festisite ; Create a fake license, marriage certificate, credit card, ticket and you can find other stuff as well.

The most common last names in the US

Lists of most common surnames

List of most popular given names

List of the least common surnames [last names] in America, rank 16,001-20,000

Fantasy name generator (again)

Random Name Generator (Choose origins, gender, etc.)

Said is dead (Remember that you can use said, don’t use it to less.)

How Much Blood Can The Human Body Lose? 

How Long Can Someone Go Without Breathing?

The 6 Types of Collars Every Man Should Know by Name 

18 Different Types of Sleeves Design Patterns

What are the most widely practiced religions of the world?

Differences Between a Short Story, Novelette, Novella, & a Novel

Hemingway editor ;  It grades your writing by its readability. 

Zen writer ; writing without distractions (Might not be free after a while)

33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters

75+ bad habits for your character

30 SCENE IDEAS FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

10 Things Writers Don’t Know About The Woods

British and American terms

Free writing worksheets

Feel free to add more!

[nightthinkersworld]

TUMBLRS WITH USEFULL WRITING HELP

@writinghelp

@creativewritinghelp

@writingwithcolor

@inkskinned

@detectiveharmony

@daily-writing-tips

@lazy-writing-help

@creativepromptsforwriting

@radioactivepeasant

@writeinspiration

@writing-reading-bitch-queen

@authors-haven

@barthosprompts

@writers-are-writers

[authors-haven]

These are all fantastic! Thank you for the blog recs!

[oliviapaigewrites-deactivated20]

So, I heard that some of you were having issues with the download. Here’s my outlining guide just as is in photos. Same quality. Enjoy!

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[wordsbysarah]

Do you ever have a scene where you know a smash cut would just be perfect but you’re… writing a book… so it don’t work that way

[thewritershandbook]

20 Basic Plots

1. QUEST - the plot involves the Protagonist’s search for a person, place or thing, tangible or intangible (but must be quantifiable, so think of this as a noun; i.e., immortality).

2. ADVENTURE - this plot involves the Protagonist going in search of their fortune, and since fortune is never found at home, the Protagonist goes to search for it somewhere over the rainbow.

3. PURSUIT - this plot literally involves hide-and-seek, one person chasing another.

4. RESCUE - this plot involves the Protagonist searching for someone or something, usually consisting of three main characters - the Protagonist, the Victim & the Antagonist.

5. ESCAPE - plot involves a Protagonist confined against their will who wants to escape (does not include some one trying to escape their personal demons).

6. REVENGE - retaliation by Protagonist or Antagonist against the other for real or imagined injury.

7. THE RIDDLE - plot involves the Protagonist’s search for clues to find the hidden meaning of something in question that is deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous.

8. RIVALRY - plot involves Protagonist competing for same object or goal as another person (their rival).

9. UNDERDOG - plot involves a Protagonist competing for an object or goal that is at a great disadvantage and is faced with overwhelming odds.

10. TEMPTATION - plot involves a Protagonist that for one reason or another is induced or persuaded to do something that is unwise, wrong or immoral.

11. METAMORPHOSIS - this plot involves the physical characteristics of the Protagonist actually changing from one form to another (reflecting their inner psychological identity).

12. TRANSFORMATION - plot involves the process of change in the Protagonist as they journey through a stage of life that moves them from one significant character state to another.

13. MATURATION - plot involves the Protagonist facing a problem that is part of growing up, and from dealing with it, emerging into a state of adulthood (going from innocence to experience).

14. LOVE - plot involves the Protagonist overcoming the obstacles to love that keeps them from consummating (engaging in) true love.

15. FORBIDDEN LOVE - plot involves Protagonist(s) overcoming obstacles created by social mores and taboos to consummate their relationship (and sometimes finding it at too high a price to live with).

16. SACRIFICE - plot involves the Protagonist taking action(s) that is motivated by a higher purpose (concept) such as love, honor, charity or for the sake of humanity.

17. DISCOVERY - plot that is the most character-centered of all, involves the Protagonist having to overcome an upheavel(s) in their life, and thereby discovering something important (and buried) within them a better understanding of life (i.e., better appreciation of their life, a clearer purpose in their life, etc.)

18. WRETCHED EXCESS - plot involves a Protagonist who, either by choice or by accident, pushes the limits of acceptable behavior to the extreme and is forced to deal with the consequences (generally deals with the psychological decline of the character).

19. ASCENSION - rags-to-riches plot deals with the rise (success) of Protagonist due to a dominating character trait that helps them to succeed.

20. DECISION - riches-to-rags plot deals with the fall (destruction) of Protagonist due to dominating character trait that eventually destroys their success.

by Pavel Simakov

[arepuhs]

i want to follow more writeblr blogs. so uhhh I guess reblog if you’re a writeblr?

[golden-eyed-writer]

Being a writer is great because when it really comes down to it, you don’t have to follow any rules. Your world is yours and it is whatever you want it to be, break the laws of physics if you want. What you create is purely yours and no one can tell you you’re wrong or right or that you need to change it.

Aka I’m ignoring the laws of biology and any and all reasonable assumptions to design some big ol’ merman dick

[wordsnstuff]

Resources For Writing Period Pieces: 1970-1999

Ko-Fi || Masterlist || Work In Progress || Request

Major Events

Below are links to extensive lists of events, categorized by individual years within the indicated decade. There you will find summaries, information, and timelines that will help you with further research.

1970s

1980s

1990s

Popular Culture & Society

Music

1970s

1980s

1990s

Film

1970s

1980s

1990s

Literature & Art

1970s

1980s

1990s

World Leaders

1970s

1980s

1990s

Technology

1970s

1980s

1990s

Politics

1970s

1980s

1990s

Notable Eras/Movements of The Time Period

Information Age 

The Social Age

Bosnian War

Vietnam War

Postmodern age

Marcos era Martial Law 

People power EDSA revolution 

Post Martial Law

Cold War 

Post-Cold War / Postmodernity 

Heisei period

Third-Wave Feminism

1970s Social Movements

Popular Names

1970s Top Male and Female Names

1980s Top Male and Female Names

1990s Top Male and Female Names

Clothing

1970s Fashion & Popular Clothing Items

1980s Fashion & Popular Clothing Items

1990s Fashion & Popular Clothing Items

By Country

1970s By Country

1980s By Country

1990s By Country

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[artoodeeblue]

me: damn i’m so bored ugh what could i possibly do???

my brain, family, and countless wips in my folder: you could? write??

me: ……anyway what a tragedy