life.after.monday

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Someone

Strange how I can't wait to talk with you then stumble over my thoughts when we finally do. But you're patient, sensing the battle between my head and heart, as though you know every thicket and bog in the valleys I've been through to get back to a place where I can let someone in again.

Just know I'm glad that someone is you.

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Funny how things work out when I focus on more than results. Hiking the same rough incline gets easier each time around, though the peak may yet be well out of reach. Setting up camp before dark means next climb I can go that much further, and that keeps me coming back, motivated to be a better version of myself.

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"Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." Christopher Morcom | Imitation Game

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Ache

You asked if we could walk down by the river to watch the moon and listen to the night.

Glad I wore an outer shirt so I could wrap it around you when you rubbed your arms to warm them. The breeze off the water fueling cooler air, but you didn't want to go. We exchanged few words, just being with each other was enough.

A couple of hours into this day-long bus ride, the sun is rising through patchy cloud cover. The taste of your goodbye kiss fresh on my lips, all I can do now is hope that somehow I’ll get past the ache of missing you.

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I’m at my best when I’m everything and nothing at the same time.

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Depths

It would take time to determine the limits you wish to explore, how much discomfort (or pain) you can withstand, how to connect it all to our mutual pleasure. Then once we’re spent, take you in my arms and show you how much I treasure you as the incredible woman that you are.

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New Rope

You wear me out like the soles of a pair of favorite shoes, so why do I keep coming back?

Perhaps the way your hands and lips draw the ache from my shoulders after a month of sleeping in 2-star motels? Or the words you use to melt the wax off my heart when alone is all I want to be... and I need a new rope to burn at both ends?

Maybe someday I'll have to do without you. Until then, keep erasing your skin on mine, etching memories into my mind, and pouring your essence to my soul.

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Left home without my compass

Parachuted into a canyon

Sun going down

I don't dare sleep

But can barely stay awake

What if my next step

Is my last mistake?

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Is it possible to touch someone without ever meeting them?

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Makes me wonder...

They say good things happen when least expected. Some may slip by due to my lack of vigilance, certainly reason to continue simplifying how I view and go about life. Less clutter, more time to wonder. To enjoy how words and tastes and sights and sounds awaken my senses, igniting creative sparks, as well as the desire to enjoy the outpouring of imaginative originality of others.

Might be a whimsical blip or emergence of a new chapter, either way, sure makes me wonder.

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WriterofthePrompts Ultimate Ask Masterlist

I’ve decided to make a masterlist of asks I’ve done to make them easier to find for you guys (and for myself). I split them into categories as best as I could by genre and topic. Also, some asks have some helpful tips in the notes as well to check out (some are marked but not all) and if you have anything to add that you think would help, feel free to reply or reblog with your addition. I’ll try to keep it updated with future asks.

Now without further ado, the strangest and most wonderful list I’ve ever made.

World Building

Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under fantasy)

Links to help with world building

Creating a pantheon of gods

Things to research when writing a historical novel (also linked under Historical)

Using metaphors in descriptions

Too much world building?

Asking questions to develop a magic system

Wizard school ideas

Why magic would drain from a world

Tips for descriptions

Reasons for civil war

Character Development

Writing confusion in your character

Obstacles to character goals: traveling abroad

Reactions to sadness

Reactions to a devastating event

Showing a character’s anxiety towards something

Showing a character’s secret without revealing it

Reasons a character would die for another

Secrets in a character’s past

Culture shock with loss of rules

Growth of a trainee witch

Characters provoking other characters

Dealing with moving to a completely new place

Why a 19yo would allow a strange boy to live with her

Why a character would want a do-over in life

Showing a character going from good to bad

Possible good messages when the villains aren’t reformed

Kid growing up surrounded only by adults

Quirks for characters

Showing friendship with reserved characters

Introducing an antagonist

Introducing side characters

When you don’t think your character’s backstory fits

Writing Different Types of Characters

Writing antiheroes

The reluctant hero

Writing a violent character afraid of their mind

Making an immoral character likeable

Not a normal girl

Sympathetic villain

Making sure your character isn’t just a flirt

Writing intelligent characters

When your hero isn’t very heroic

Confident characters

Writing an antisocial character

Character Family

Visiting family for the first time

Showing closeness in siblings (opposite twins)

How a joker and a quiet character can become friends

Daughter of a party organizer prompts

Parent jobs where the kid needs to keep up appearances

The mom that left comes back…a vampire

Including character’s parents

Why a character would leave another

Sibling relationships

character with an abusive father (and how to show fear)

Romance

Writing a slow paced love story

love interest vs the ex revamped

Platonic male x female relationships

Random places to get married

Suspense and romance with a “different” male lead

sad relationship prompts

Asexuality and romance

Mutual pining

Romance with large age differences

Childhood friends falling in love

Fluffy unique first kiss

Ways of showing commitment in characters (vampire edition)

Friendship to romance

Small situations for a couple story

fantasy creature and human fluff

characters meeting and falling in love during war

Why best friends might fall in love

Unlikely soulmates prompts

Sci Fi

Using dreams as energy

Time travel prompts (asked for male x female protags)

Time travel: how saving someone can go wrong

Reliving memories

Android characters

Writing humanoids in post apocalypse

Consequences of growing a baby in an artificial womb (theoretical)

The evil AI that characters can’t (shouldn’t) destroy

Girl and guy get trapped in the same body

Rich people in post apocalypse

Discovering you have a doppelgânger

Superheroes

Teenagers, hormones and their superpowers

Weird superpowers

Superhero kids reluctant to be superheroes

Aliens

beings traveling to Earth

Why an alien wouldn’t be able to leave Earth

Reasons an alien would be sent to live on Earth

Human/alien team surviving on hostile planet together

Fantasy/Paranormal

Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under world building)

gods losing their powers

creations turning on their creators

How elemental powers might work

Why NOT to destroy the world when it’s your goal

Mistreated genies

Tropes of a fantasy (also linked under Writing Motivation/Tips)

Male character ideas in a fantasy

Immortal woman prompts

Beauty and the Beast revamp

How Death and a teenage girl become adventure teammates

Powers for magical beings writing down history

Girl meets demon from forest behind her house

Reverse fairytale prompts

Revamped fairytale prompts 2

Manatees being confused by mermaids

a princess befriends a baby dragon

Making a character believe in a cure for a curse

Egyptian gods living among us

A love between the sun and the moon

What fantasy creatures do on Halloween

Human and fantasy creature become pen pals

Creatures

Monsters and urban legends

Fantastic creatures

A little bit on dragons

Kind dragons

Magic and Witches

witch x wizard romance

witch prompts

Witch being protective over a human-turned-doll

magical boarding school

Ideas for curses

A young witch exploring the boundaries of her powers

Traps a wizard could set for a thief

Angels and Demons

Angels and demons

Angel as a human on earth

Jobs for angels and demons who fall in love

Physical impacts on a demon who keeps dying and coming back

Demons hunter prompts

Vampires

Human meets vampire 1

Human meets vampire 2

How to hide your vampirism from your family

Royal vampires

Vampire hunter gets bitten by a vampire

Reasons a locked up vampire would go after your character

Why a vampire and vampire hunter would work together

Vampire x werewolf forbidden love

Ghosts

Helpful ghost prankster prompts 1

Helpful ghost prankster prompts 2

Human and ghost solving mysteries together

1776 woman with supernatural abilities prompts

A medium whose friend is in a coma

Medium question Pt. 2: their fatal flaws

Battle Scenes

Writing Battle Scenes Tips

How to lead up to an action scene

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I’ve fallen and can’t get up.

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Home on the range.

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Nature at its finest.

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String theory… play ‘em if you got 'em.

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Expecting nothing makes life simpler.

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Peaceful.