KowaiKaktus

✨Failed as a disney princess, so now I'm a witch✨ ✨mom of 4 rats✨writer, modern witch, goofball✨24✨polish✨ ✨slytherin pride✨

[kowaikaktus]

I have 4 chapters till the end

And it's like. I know I don't have publishing house yet. I know I just finishing.

But damn.

Guys.

I really wrote a book!

[kowaikaktus]

I FINISHED

[writing-prompt-s]

You, an elf, married a human, built a small farm and raised children. Your children grew up, had families, and started farms nearby. So did their children, and those children’s children. Now your many descendants have formed a bustling city and you are known as the official “town grandparent”.

[chimso-writes]

Optimist: The glass is half full

Pessimist: The glass is half empty

Writer: I haven't drank water in hours 😂🤣😜🤪😟😢😥😭

Poet: Okay but what does the water symbolise? How does it make me feel?

[chimso-writes]

Optimist: The glass is half full

Pessimist: The glass is half empty

Writer: I haven't drank water in hours 😂🤣😜🤪😟😢😥😭

Poet: Okay but what does the water symbolise? How does it make me feel?

[thememedaddy]

[nondelphic]

i have the soul of an author and the work ethic of a gen z young adult who quite frankly did not choose to be born

[my-dailydreams]

[thememedaddy]

[luna-azzurra]

Things to consider when writing a character!! --1

⊹ What do they want vs what do they need. these should not be the same thing. what they want is the surface goal ( the job, the person, the revenge, the answer.) What they need is the thing underneath that they can't name yet. The story is what happens in the gap between those two things. if they're identical your character has nowhere to go.

⊹ What are they wrong about. Not morally wrong necessarily. just. what belief do they hold that the story is going to test. What assumption do they make about themselves or the world that turns out to be incomplete? A character without a wrong belief is already finished. They have no arc, give them something to learn even if learning it hurts them.

⊹ How do they talk when they're nervous. Do they go quiet or do they talk too much? do they deflect with jokes? do they get weirdly formal? do they ask questions instead of answering them? the way a person behaves under pressure is who they actually are. And it should be different from how they behave when they're comfortable.

⊹ What do they find funny. this one sounds small and it is not small at all. Humour is worldview. What makes someone laugh tells you what they value, what they're afraid of, how they handle pain. A character with no sense of humour is just flat. even the gravest person finds something absurd. find the thing.

⊹ What are they ashamed of? not their tragic backstory. their actual shame. The small ugly thing they would never say out loud. The time they were a coward. The feeling they pretend not to have. The desire they think disqualifies them from being a good person. Shame is where the most interesting character work lives and most writers skip straight over it :(

⊹ What do they do when no one is watching? how do they move through a space alone. What do they reach for when they're sad. What do they do with their hands??? Public behaviour IS performance. Private behaviour is truth. you don't have to show all of it but you have to know it or the character will feel hollow in a way the reader notices without being able to name.

[luna-azzurra]

Ways to write someone leaving without writing "she left"!!

☽ the absence of a coat that was always on the hook

☽ a mug washed and put away instead of left on the side

☽ the door that takes a second longer to close than usual

☽ saying goodbye to the dog but not to you

☽ the careful folding of something that didn't need folding

☽ checking every room once before going

☽ the last look that pretends to be a normal look

☽ a key placed on the counter with too much precision

☽ footsteps that slow down at the end of the hall

☽ the particular quiet of a space that still has someone's shape in it

[nondelphic]

i don’t need discipline. i need a wizard to hit me with a staff and say “finish chapter 12”

[luna-azzurra]

Quick tips for Writing Villains!!

☆ A villain who thinks they're the hero is scarier than one who knows they're evil.

☆ Give them something they love. It makes everything worse.

☆ Their logic should make sense, even if their actions don't.

☆ The best villains don't monologue. They ask questions.

☆ Not every villain needs a tragic backstory. Some people are just hungry for power.

☆ Let them win sometimes. Repeatedly, it raises the stakes.

☆ A villain who is polite is more unsettling than one who screams.

☆ They should change the hero just as much as the hero changes them.

☆ Give them a genuine friendship or loyalty somewhere. It humanizes without excusing.

☆ The scariest thing a villain can do is be right about something.

☆ Not every villain needs to die. Some walk away. Some become allies. Some just... disappear.

☆ A villain with a sense of humor is dangerous because you almost like them.

[kowaikaktus]

So... Apparently my medicine cats fell in love with each other.

What can I say except congratulations 🤷🏻‍♀️👏🏻

(yes, I was recording my switch by hand, sorry about that, I'm lazy)

[kowaikaktus]

THEY ALMOST GOT MARRIED (but I failed the mini game) GUYS WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SPEEDRUN THIS IS 🤣🤣🤣

[kowaikaktus]

So... Apparently my medicine cats fell in love with each other.

What can I say except congratulations 🤷🏻‍♀️👏🏻

(yes, I was recording my switch by hand, sorry about that, I'm lazy)

[my-dailydreams]

[kowaikaktus]

I want to post my tomodachi sh1t, but I need to transfer photos first and I'm too lazy for that.

So here's some photos instead.

The island is still work in progress. And it has humans. Mostly 🤣

And kitties are from my second, warriors island with OCs😁

Wetscar is @klairney's OC.

[writingdose]

a writer’s struggle