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[wordsnstuff]

Useful Writing Resources

This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)

{ *** } Indicate a Highly Reccommended Resource

Planning/outlining Your Work

How To Outline ***

Zigzag Method : Creating Plots

How to Plot a Romance Novel 

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances 

Let’s talk about brainstorming

Writing Something With Meaning ***

Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide

Writing Your Work

How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story 

The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy 

Romance Writing Tips ***

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes

7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing *** 

80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High 

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid 

Removing the Creeps From Romance

19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***

50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***

How To Write Action And Fight Scenes

10 Steps To Write Arguments

9 Ways To Write Body Language

Writing Good Kissing Scenes

Writing Murders

Create And Control Tone ***

Tips for Writing Ghost Stories

Incorporating Flashbacks

12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***

Characters

Behind the Name

Top Baby Names

Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***

7 Rules of Picking Names

Most Common Surnames ***

Minor Character Development

Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains

Characters With Enhanced Senses

5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters

How Do You Describe a Character?

How To Write Child Characters

36 Core Values For Building Character

Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

Character Archetypes

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters

Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language 

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion 

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***

Describing Clothing And Appearance ***

Career Masterpost ***

Creating Your Character’s Personality ***

Character Flaws ***

Editing

DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST

Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***

Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***

Grammar and Punctuation ***

How To Write A Captivating First Sentence

10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***

Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong

How To Condense Without Losing Anything

The Stages Of Editing

Dialogue/Description Balance

3 Proofreading Tips

The Short Story Form

Chapter & Novel Lengths

Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***

How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***

Where Chapter #2 Should Start

Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft

Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***

How To Kill A Character

25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story

5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***

Setting

{Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***

20 Questions To Enhance Setting

How To Bring Your Setting To Life

Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between

How to Write from a Guy’s POV 

The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus

Text To Speech Reader

Compare Character Heights 

A Visual Dictionary of Tops

Writers Helping Writers

7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight

Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***

Most Important Writing Tips ***

Let’s talk about diversity in novels

Letting Go Of Your Story

Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***

How To Create A Good Book Cover

Write or Die

Tip of my Tongue

Character Traits Form

Online Thesaurus

Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law

Coma: Types, Causes, etc

Tips for writing blood loss

Gunshot Wound Care

Examples of Hospital Forms

Common Legal Questions

The Writer’s Forensics Blog

Brain Injury Legal Guide

Types of Surgical Operations

Types of Mental Health Problems

A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient

Global Black Market Information ***

Crime Scene Science

Examining Mob Mentality

How Street Gangs Work

Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity

Story Plot Generator

@aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***

50 Romance Plot Ideas

Reading Like A Writer ***

Defeat Writers’ Block

Writing In A Bad Mood ***

Writers Block

When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***

What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***

9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer

“I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***

Real Writing Advice ***

Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of

A Writer’s Thesaurus ***

Words To Describe… ***

Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***

Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)

List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***

List Of Elemental Abilities

inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting

Body Language Phrases

List Of Legendary Creatures

How To Write Magic

Hairstyle References

Hemingway : Writing Checker

Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around

Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***

The Psychology of Color

The Meaning behind Rose color

Types of Swords

Color Symbolism

How a handgun works

How to Write a Eulogy

Types of Crying

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***

Superstitions and More

The 12 Common Archetypes

Language of Flowers

12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes

Using Feedback And Reviews

Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***

Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***

Authonomy Teen Ink Figment Fiction Press ReviewFuse

These Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)

[impromptuebooks]

im advancing to sectionals in impromptu and instead of practicing i made this. the quality is kind of garbage because i was having difficulty with the programs i was using but here take it

[4n6confessions]

confession #616

late last year my girlfriend broke up with me because she thought I was spending too much time working on my nationals prep, I broke at nats but honestly I wish I didn’t go

[academic-em]

Speech and Debate Would-You-Rather

I had fun making the ask thing, so I figured I’d make this, too! Reblog and send an Ask as you please with this!

Would you rather…

1. Go to a tournament that serves food and not coffee or coffee and not food?

2. Debate against somebody you loathe with a fiery passion or somebody you’re head-over-heels in love with?

3. Accidentally laugh or cry during a round?

4. Use a laptop or use paper for evidence?

5. Have a lay judge or a flow judge?

6. Only do debate or only do IEs?

7. Go to every single tournament and have to frantically catch up on school work or go to very few tournaments and always be caught up on school work?

8. Have lots of fun at a tournament but do poorly or have the worst time of your life but place first in all your events?

9. Laugh loudly during somebody’s HI or cry silently during someone’s DI?

10. Be unexpectedly signed up for an event you know nothing about or be dropped from your favorite event?

[liafromld]

1. Food with no coffee because coffee early in the morning upsets my stomach

2. Someone I hate- as long as I win I get to revel in my victory

3. Accidentally laugh in round, I don't think crying in debate is a good thing

4. Paper evidence jeez

5. Flow judges. I've been screwed over too many times by lay judge and it's nice to know that you convinced someone who knows what they're doing, that it was an earned win

6. Ugh this is hard as I do both but I'd have to say only debate because it's so exhilarating. Only in debate is there the threat of being stabbed with a pen, that thrill isn't there in speech.

7. Few tourneys and being caught up on school work- if my academic life suffers, my Debate life suffers. Also, if I'm drowning in school work, when will I find the time to write cases/cards/intros? 😉

8. The last tourney I went to I got 6th in Varsity OI. It was my first time doing poetry and prose so nonetheless I was surprised to break and wasn't expecting much as no coaches had watched me besides the morning of. I had a lot of fun at that tourney. I think placing poorly but having fun is more important. Trophies are only fun if you have a good day.

9. Laugh loudly at someone's HI- I've done this before

10. Signed up unexpectedly for a new event- I'm always up for a challenge 😉😋

Please make more of these, they're a lot of fun!

[inritum]

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

[ghostdog07]

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

[deathklaue]

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

[doryishness]

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

[victoriaringsinyourears]

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

[lenshade]

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

[themixedbagofwhat]

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

[wodkat]

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

[acstiel]

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

[juststrokemyglabella]

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

[adweeb-deactivated20160228]

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

[mydeadcarcass]

I WISHED FOR SNK MERCH THE FIRST TIME. I GOT A JACKET.

I WISHED FOR MY GIRLFRIEND THE SECOND TIME. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

[openyourthird-eye]

THIS WORKs I WISHED I WAS MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA AND GUESS WHAT GUYS IM MOVING TO NC IN AUGUST I PROMISE U IM NOT LYING

[ariya-art]

guys ok ur probably thinking that this is all just bs right? WELL I THOUGHT SO TOO BUT I WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD CHAT ME AND HE DID AND IM FREAKING OUT not even kidding i swear on my grampas grave this works

[haihl-blog]

I love this it always works for me yey thank u shooting star :’)

[phoxae]

woah the notes let’s hope my wish comes true

[fem-usa]

I know my wish

[biggbbrother21]

reblog while you still can

[liafromld]

Prose Piece?

hey guys! i’m looking for a new prose piece to complete my oral interp, i’ve kind of grown bored with my current one, and I want a more jarring and poignant piece. i’ve scoured the internet looking for pieces but none of them resonate with me. if anyone could suggest a piece or a surefire place i could find one, it would be much appreciated!

[debateconfessions]

Confession #17

I just really can’t stand certain people at times…

[thatdebatelife]

How to Stalk a Debater

[jewel4learning-deactivated20190]

ATTENTION STUDYBLR: Free AP Prep Books

so right now (4/7/16) it’s less than 4 weeks till AP EXAMS START

it may be too expensive or just not possible for some students to purchase ap prep books especially if they have more than one exam in may so HERE IS SOME FREE HELP~~ 

There is a similar community to studyblr on Reddit that focuses on ap classes/exams under the name /r/APStudents (https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/)

a person under the username “molotoviphone” posted a bunch of mediafire links that actually lets you download the ap prep book pdf 

here is the actual link to the actual thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/303ym5/ap_study_book_megathread_v2/

i know there is already a lot of resources out in the studyblr community for ap prep books but in case you haven’t found what you’re looking for, here is yet another set of resources !! :3

HERE ARE THE ACTUAL LINKS TO THE BOOKS :D !!!!!! :

AP Calculus(Some AB/BC)

5 steps to a 5 2010-2011

Peterson’s Master AP Calculus AB & BC 2nd Edition

Princeton Review 500 AP Calculus Questions to know by test day

Princeton Review Cracking the AP Calculus AB/BC Exam 2014

Barron’s AP Calculus

Cliffs AP 3rd Edition

AMSCO AP Calculus

AP Chemistry

5 Steps to a 5 Chemistry 2008-2009

5 Steps to a 5 Chemistry 2010-2011

AP Chemistry for Dummies

Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam 2012 – EPUB

Master AP Chemistry 2nd Edition

Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam 2014 – EPUB

AP Macroeconomics

AP Macroeconomics 2008-2009

AP English Language and Comp

5 steps to a 5 2005 AP English and Composition

500 Questions to Know by test day

500 Questions to Know by test day

5 steps to a 5 AP English Language and comp 2014-2015 edition

Cracking the AP Lang and Comp - Princeton Review

Peterson’s Master AP Lang and comp

AP English Literature

5 steps to a 5 2014-2015

Possibly a 5 steps, but unknown review book in epub format

5 steps to a 5 500 AP Lit Questions

Peterson’s AP Lit and Comp

AP Environmental Science

5 steps to a 5 APES 2010-2011

Cracking the APES Exam (unknown edition/year)

AP European History

Cracking AP Euro History 2012

5 steps to a 5 AP Euro 2008-2009

Barron’s AP Euro

Peterson’s AP Euro

AP Government

5 steps to a 5 2008-2009

AP Gov Crash Course

5 steps to a 5 2014

5 steps to a 5 2003

Princeton Cracking APUSG 2012 or 2013

AP Human Geography

APHUG Crash Course

AP Physics

5 steps AP Physics B & C 2005

5 steps B & C 2008-2009

Princeton cracking the AP Physics B 2013 EPUB

Princeton Cracking AP Physics B 2014

AP Psychology

5 steps to a 5 500 Ap Psyc Qs

5 Steps 2008-2009 Psych

5 steps to a 5 2010-2011 Psych

5 steps to a 5 2014-2015 EPUB

Barron’s 5th Edition

AP Statistics

5 steps to a 5 2008-2009 Stats

Crash Course

5 Steps to a 5 2010-2011

Cracking AP Statistics 2014

AP US History

5 steps to a 5 2004

5 steps 500 Qs to know 2010

The AMSCO book(it’s really good, look it up if you don’t know of it) not the latest version

Crash Course

Peterson’s master APUSH

Peterson’s master APUSH Edition 1(I’m not sure if they’re the same but I’m way too lazy to look)

AP World History

5 steps 2008-2009

Cliffs AP World History

Princeton’s Cracking the APW exam 2013 EPUB

Peterson’s AP World History something or other

AP Biology

AP Bio for dummies

Barron’s AP Bio(mobi)

Cliffs AP bio 3rd edition

Cracking the exam 2010

Cracking the exam 2012 EPUB

AP Spanish Language

5 steps to a 5 2008-2009

AP Chinese Language and Culture

5 steps to a 5 AP Chinese Language and Culture 2009

AP Computer Science

AP Computer Science Barron’s book

let’s slay these exams y’all !!!

[p0stings]

event meme

prose- very good at holding things without dropping them most of the time. cares deeply about eyebrows

poetry- small, good fashion taste, quirky, spends too much money on books

POI- spends too much time on the internet. very good at memes

declaration- practices lip synching extravagantly complete with dance moves, underappreciated

humor- yells a lot when excited. probably owns at least 1 pair of ridiculous sunglasses. 

drama- fashionable. wears a lot of scarves. likes birds

duo interp- graceful like a ballerina. goes to ikea just to look at stuff and eat meatballs. 

duet act- definitely has broken a piece of furniture on accident before. a fan of frozen yogurt. 

duo improv- secretly wishes they could do stand up comedy but don’t due to fear of failure. scatterbrained and enthusiastic. loves dogs a lot

extemp- excels at stubbing toes. fan of newspapers and buzzfeed. appreciates google chrome

impromptu- hand motions at everything. knows a lot of random facts, will bring them up any chance they get. 

expos- the mom friend. crafty, very talented at gluing fingers together. fan of magicians

oratory- pun god. owns a lot of shoes. best subject is english

congress- really good at arm wrestling. has strong opinions that they must share always 

ld- has a lot of games on their phone. cargo pants. their laptop has a bunch of stickers on it. 

policy- always forgets to eat breakfast, independent. bad at science

pf- most likely has a samsung phone. afraid of clowns. strong

[scorpia-rose]

Tag yourself I’m declaration and impromptu

[benisbenus]

A Little Hero au where the Marvel universe characters get their starts as kids! I’ll probably do some X-Men and characters like Sam and Bucky next. Fury and Coulson too. I hope everyone likes these as much as they did Peter and Wade! Comics and fanfiction are coming from this. Im sorry.

Tony Stark- After the events of his parents death,his own kidnapping and invention of the Iron-Man armour, Tony Stark became the sole heir of Stark Industries. Immediately deciding against it and wanting to avoid anything regarding the his status as a minor, Tony now lives with on and off girlfriend Virginia Pepper Potts (18) his appointed CEO and  best friend James’ Rhodey’ Rhodes (20) his legal guardian. After the events of the Avengers Tony offered his up his tower as a residence for his new companions where the group now resides while they’re in town. Tony spends most of his time with in the lab but when not he’s mostly hanging out with Bruce, playing with little Peter and seeing how often he has to flirt with Steve before the guy figures out he isn’t joking about taking him on a date to see the Mona Lisa.

Steve Rogers- Two years out of the ice, Steve Rogers has been residing in his personal floor in Stark Towers since finding out he wasn’t old enough to own his own apartment. Between his time out and about drawing, taking a few college classes to catch up on lost time, and visiting  Peggy Carter (74) in her retirement; Steve keeps busy during missions with Natasha, catching up with his newly revived best friend Bucky and keeping Tony out of trouble and making sure he doesn’t let Peter set anything or anyone on fire. Again.

Thor Odinson- After his younger brothers realization of adoption, Thor suddenly found himself with the task of finding Loki (10) on earth and returning him home to their worried mother. Refusing to return home fully when his brother escapes grounding on Asgard after the Avengers events, Thor resides between Stark Tower and Asgard while he tries to negate his stubborn younger siblings mischief and tantrums. All while enjoying his new life on earth with his other avengers and friends. (including Jane Foster (14) and Darcy Lewis (9)) Thor has come to favor his life on earth as of late since his discovery of frozen yogurt and,being the flirt teengerdom as made him , the vast number of very beautiful new people the super hero community has to offer.

Natasha Romanoff- Five years fresh out of the Red Room, Natasha is still learning how to act outside if her life as an agent. She spends free time away from missions with Bucky,Steve, Clint,Sam and few other friends mostly in the team or acquainted with them ( Such as She-Hulk and Susan Storm). She enjoys ballet, either watching or performing when alone, and reading on her floor. Her brand of humor seems to keep her from seeming too stoic while she learns the ins and out of society as a normal teenager, but seeing as her foster father Nick Fury (37) isn’t the best option for learning the do and don’ts of being a teenage girl, she’s pretty much on her own.

Bruce Banner- As the youngest official avenger ( sadly being small for his age as well), an orphan scientific prodigy and makeshift doctor, Bruce spends most of his time meditating and studying hard core instead of socializing. After having to run off on his own, away from his brief foster dad General Ross and best friend Betty Ross (12) Bruce was only recently put back on the radar during the Avengers. Surviving for a year after his accident in ways he won’t talk about, Bruce finds himself trying to control his monstrous alter ego. He struggles with the occasional temper tantrum and finds himself in a constant state of nervousness and quiet. He;s made few friends such as Tony, who marvels his young mind and after one too many times hearing about the trouble the young boy faced with clothing after transformations, made Bruce a stretching form of underwear to wear under his clothes for just the situation. One day Bruce simply wants to be able to see his best friend again, and possibly control the other guy ( which the team seems to be doing easier after finding out Hulk has a soft spot for Natasha and Tony. Twas badass that tamed the beast?)

Clint Barton- Eager to build his name as a hero, new SHIELD agent and former circus performer Clint has taken to spending time on missions before friends, but all making time with his old friend Natasha and picking on Phil Coulson (19), newly revived agent of SHIELD. Being as social a kid as he is, Clint prefers time at the range and on missions rather than at the tower, but has made the air vents his own personal playhouse since taking over a floor with Natasha. His hobbies include archery,balancing arrows between the gap in his teeth,pissing off Tony and genital blocking every attempt to hit on Natasha she gets, not that he likes her like that or anything.

[liafromld]

Some Thoughts on The New LD Topic for Sept/Oct 2016

So here’s the topic:  Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. 

So here’s my opinion(which isn’t worth much) on this res. 

1)   I feel like some people might fall into the trap of defining “nuclear power” as “nuclear weapons” and not defining it as “nuclear energy.” Watch for that definition. It could save or cost you a round. 

2) Making the definition nuclear weapons does either two things: renders the debate one-dimensional and policy-esque, arguing about stats- or it opens for more value. I guess it just depends on what type of debater you’re facing. 

3) One thing I always look for in a res is who is the agent, what is being proposed, and to whom/what are we affecting. The agent is clear, the proposition is clear, but the whom/what being affected is not. Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power where? Internally or externally? Could this res be opened up to a situation much like the personally loathed March/April res where we’re going into other countries and taking over their domestic policy? The choice is yours- internally or externally is totally your call, since it isn’t explicitly stated in the res. 

4) I think that some stats and cards would be a great supplement, but I hope this res doesn’t become policy-lite. I like this res and I wish I would get to debate it- but alas, we don’t get funding, so we’re not going to Yale. Damn it, private school. However, I am looking forward to writing these cases and getting my feet wet for the rest of the season.  

To anyone debating this res, I would love to know what you do with your cases. Have fun with it. I’ve always liked the Sept./Oct resolutions, I feel like they’re the best of the whole year. 

[straightwhiteboyproblems]

When your friends are chilling in the hallway between class but you don’t have time to talk to them 💃

[liafromld]

when your rivals are hanging out by postings after not breaking and you're on your way to your finals

[liafromld]

speech and debate is the only thing that gives me purpose.during the summer months I am a dead corpse.during season I am an animated corpse😅

[forensicate]

[studeam-blog]

this is especially for all my juniors out there who want to get their testing in before college apps start, but for underclassmen, if you have the time, definitely start studying now! it’ll make your junior career so, so much easier.

the whole world of test prep is strange and competitive and overwhelming, and chances are that you’ll hear at some point that you absolutely need a private tutor to do well on standardized testing; it’s the only way! nope, nope, nope.

it might be nice, but it’s entirely possible to do well with only the help of the internet (and maybe a prep book or two if you can spend a little money). i scored a 2300 on the sat, a 35 on the act, and two 800s and a 760 on my sat subject tests this way.

i’m definitely not a genius, and i didn’t have any sort of outside help. you can do it too!! and i want to do whatever i can to make sure you get the scores you want on your tests, so i’ve made a list of free resources.

(note: if you do choose to buy prep books, only go with those directly from the maker of the test – i.e. college board and the act; official tests are definitely give you the most helpful and most accurate results when you’re studying).

good luck, everyone!!!!!

+sat:

college board official website

sat resources by @apbymichelle​

best free sat resources

huge sat post by @university-bound​

khan academy (offers free, personalized prep for the new sat!!)

magoosh sat resources

sat i test taking tips and techniques

sat study plan by @doctortatertot​

sat tips and strategies

shmoop sat prep

silverturtle’s guide to sat and admissions success

stevie’s guide to the sats by @korean-fashion​

the best sat prep websites (prepscholar’s blog is a goldmine in general)

the 21 sat tips and tricks you must use

xiggi’s sat prep advice

5 free sat apps worth downloading

9 tips for sat success

+act:

act student official site

act study masterpost by @ib-dead​

act test help masterpost by @consultingstudents​

act test tips and techniques

act tips, tricks, and strategies by @studyingstudent​

act tips, tricks, secrets, and experiences from a first-time 36-er

free act practice materials

free act test prep resources

last minute act prep tips

magoosh act resources

shmoop act prep

the best act prep websites

top 15 act tips to ace the test

6 tips for act success

15 act tips and tricks to improve your scores

+sat subject tests:

college board official website

college board sat subject tests preparation booklet

how i aced my sat subject tests in a week by @studypeony

how to study for sat subject tests

sat subject test requirements and recommendations

shmoop sat subject test prep

studying for the math level 2 sat subject test by @collegemania

when should i take the sat subject tests? by @appsademia

3 questions to ask before taking sat subject tests

+misc:

act, sat, sat ii, and ap testing dates 2015-16

act/sat prep resources

@appsademia‘s whole blog for sat and sat subject test tips

free sat & ap prep materials by @raincoffeebooks​

freetestprep

how to write a bomb ass essay by @intergalactic-ashkenazi​

number 2 free sat and act prep

official sat and sat subject tests practice tests

prepfactory

prepscholar blog

sparknotes test prep

more posts:

studyblr masterpost

back-to-school reminders

testing dates masterpost

college/uni criteria masterpost

guide to choosing classes