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25 Days Christmas Romance Challenge

Anonymous said to @alloftheprompts: Do you have any Christmas Prompts that could be used for romance? I was hoping for like a 25 days of Christmas writing type thing but I can’t find prompts that could be used for mini romances

I hope these help! ♥

Character A and Character B, sworn enemies, are chosen to prepare the company Christmas Party.

Character A’s best friend rigs the Secret Santa, because they know Character A has a crush on Character B.

Character A works as a Santa’s helper. Character B has a small sibling/child.

Character A is desperate to find a particular item (book/toy/etc.) as a present for someone, but it’s been sold out everywhere. Character B helps.

Character A and Character B are co-workers, but they barely know each other. But they both have to work through the holidays.

Character A and Character B meet in the ER on Christmas Eve.

Character A can’t wrap gifts to save their life. Character B is thir neighbor and can help.

Character A’s ex will be at the Christmas Party A is attending. Character B poses as A’s fiance.

Character A vows to do something nice for a stranger during the Christmas time. Character B is that stranger.

Character A and Character B both sign up for a Christmas Pen Pal project to exchange postcards.

Character A and Character B broke up, but now they meet at a Christmas party.

Character A is stuck working in coffee shop on Christmas Day and Character B is the lonely soul spending their whole day there.

Character A’s little sibling/child wants to meet their favorite celebrity/writer/person for Christmas. Character B is said “Christmas present”.

Character A can’t travel to see their family on Christmas, so they invite their grumpy loner neighbor Character B.

Character A and Character B compete in Christmas house decoration.

Character A bakes too many Christmas cookies so they share it with Character B.

Character A has to dress up as Santa for Christmas.

Character A and Character B have to save Christmas.

It’s Character A’s first Christmas since a tragedy.

Character A returns to their birth-town for the holidays. Character B is their estranged childhood best friend.

Character A is pretending to be their friend’s lover for the sake of the friend’s family. Character B is said friend’s sibling.

Character A loses a bet and has to wear a different ugly Christmas sweater every day till Christmas. Character B works at a clothes store.

Character owns a struggling toy store. Character B is looking for a Christmas present.

Character A doesn’t feel the Christmas spirit but Character B, who lives above them, keeps playing Christmas carols really loud.

Character A overhears Character B’s Christmas wish and decides to fulfill it,

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Some critical rules for writing coherent genre fiction, courtesy of my writing teacher, who is very wise. I don't pretend to have mastered all of these, but their application can do wonders for a story, their lack can cripple it:

Employ the causal chain - every action must be connected to what comes before and after. Each action and beat needs to have impact. They don't all need to be shown but the author needs to know what they are. It is impossible to build suspense without this principle. Things can't happen "just because" or there's no reason for the audience to become engaged with your sequence of events or do things like make predictions. All subsequent rules follow from this principle.

When showing a new type of fictional magic or science, you must show it work before you can show it break. For example, if a character has the ability to summon objects into their hand, we need to see them do so successfully and see how it works, before we see it break at a critical moment during the climax. Otherwise, the audience can't be expected to follow why this situation is unusual because they don't know how it works during normal circumstances.

When claiming a character is good at something, you must show them succeeding at it before you show them failing at it during a moment of pressure. Otherwise, we don't believe you when you establish your character's competence or badassery. For example, when saying your character is an excellent military commander, we need to see them win a fight using those skills and tactics. We can't open with a fight they lose, or else the character and author lose credibility. By all means, show the experienced hero/military leader/ruler/assassin/mage etc break down during a moment of intense pressure, fall down sobbing in terror at a truly insurmountable foe, or otherwise fail to meet the moment, but don't do this before we've seen them succeed at least once, or the moment loses impact.

During the build-up of tension, coincidences should hurt the hero and help the antagonist. This plays into the causal chain rule. Coincidences that help the hero feel cheap. Coincidences that help the villain raise the tension.

Every beat, whenever possible, should be connected to conscious action by central characters (hero, love interest, or villain). The more events are connected to purposeful action by key characters, the more satisfying the causal chain for the reader.

Avoid things that happen "just because" whenever possible. You can have one or two, sure, but the more often things happen "just because" the less interesting the story is, especially if those "just because" moments are core to the story. Fiction is not real life. Audiences are drawn to stories where purposeful actions dictate the success or failure of the characters.

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It doesn't matter if you're a slow writer or a fast writer. If you're writing 1000 words every day or 100 words in a month. If you're amazing at starting new wips, but never really finish one. Even if all the beautiful stories are just in your head for now. You're still a writer.

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5 Ways to Challenge Yourself During NaNoWriMo This Year

NaNoWriMo is great, but it isn’t for everyone. Perhaps you don’t have the time or energy for it right now. Or maybe this just isn’t how you work — there’s nothing wrong with being a slow writer. You don’t need NaNo to write a book.

At the same time, NaNo generates a lot of momentum in the writing community. It creates a wave that, if you get on it, will carry you forward. It would be a shame to sit on the sidelines and not take advantage of the extra motivation.

Why not take the opportunity to challenge yourself in a different literary way? Here are five things you can do if you’re not feeling like doing a full NaNo this year.

Write a Novella

The obvious way to go about this is to lower the goal. Why not do a National Novella Writing Month this year?

Instead of aiming for the full 50k, you can write 10,000 or 20,000 words and finish a shorter story that can either become a base for a novel or can stand on its own too.

Particularly if you’re planning to write a series, starting with a novella can be a great way of testing the waters — both for your long-term interest in the characters and the world, as well as how hard it will be to find an audience for it. Finding out that nobody wants to read your 180,000-word epic is a lot harder than when it happens with a 15,000-word prequel novella.

Write Short Stories

If you have even less time on your hands, consider writing short stories. You can do one story per week at between 1,000 — 2,000 words. Experiment with different things or make all of them about the same character.

Short stories are great training grounds for writers for so many different reasons. The feedback loop is an order of magnitude shorter than when you’re working on a book.

You can do single-scene stories that feel more like chapters in a novel or more complicated ones. You can practice almost any storytelling technique by writing a short story.

Write Flash Fiction Every Day

In case you’re completely slammed, there’s still stuff you can do. Loads of people challenge themselves to write tiny stories every day. You can probably write one in less than 10 or 15 minutes. The important thing here is that you get to engage your writing and storytelling brain and practice every day.

If you take public transport to work, write a flash fiction piece about someone who’s on the same bus or train as you. Where does the man in the suit sitting in front of you work? Is he sweating because it’s hot, or because he expects his boss to yell at him as soon as he arrives at work? Perhaps he’s a secret agent following a drug dealer who is on the same train?

The more you write, the easier it will be for you to find interesting ideas. Perhaps you’ll discover the protagonist of your next novel while writing a very short story?

Read a Short Story Every Day

A few years ago, I worked on a different project during NaNo. I didn’t feel it quite fitted the pace of the challenge. Instead of writing, I decided to read one short story every day during NaNoWriMo. I felt like I wasn’t reading enough of them, and I could definitely read one every day.

It worked out pretty well. I finished the challenge and kept the habit going for many months afterwards. I ended up reading hundreds of new short stories because of this.

Write a Poem Every Day

If you enjoy poetry, why not write a few lines of a poem or some lyrics every day? Instead of focusing on storytelling, use those to capture your feelings that day.

Write down whatever comes to mind in the spirit of NaNoWriMo. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but you have to finish it.

Create a Habit with Writing Analytics

The goal of all of the above is to establish a routine. The beginning is always the hardest, and that’s why starting during NaNoWriMo can help so can feed off the motivation of others. When NaNo ends, you’ll be in the best position to keep it going. One novella per month will become 12 per year. One short story per week will turn into 52 stories in a year’s time. One poem a day will easily become 365 poems per year.

If you’re planning to be writing anything this November, check out Writing Analytics. It’s a writing app designed to help you stay focused and create a sustainable writing routine.

The app is FREE to try until 4 December 2021 — plenty of time to kickstart your writing habit.

Use *this link* to sign up to make sure you get the extended trial!

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Hello! I'd like to share with you a character work game! I call it "Six Secrets" and honestly it's a work in progress but I'm sharing it anyway

List six secrets that your character has.

1 is an open secret

2 is a secret the people close to your character know

3 is a secret that your character wouldn't really care about getting out

4 is a secret exactly one person knows anything about

5 is a secret no one knows about but they sort of want to come out/to tell someone

6 is a secret no one knows and they desperately don't want anyone to know about.

You can also decide who knows and how

The secrets don't have to have anything to do with your actual plot! The secrets can have super low or super high stakes! It doesn't matter! But you will absolutely have a better idea of your character's intentions and state of mind, and you may wind up coming up with some new plot points/obstacles to play with

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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Doris Lessing (b. 22 October 1919)

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Masterpost: How to write a story?

Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.

How to motivate myself to write more

How to get rid of writer’s block

Basic Overview: How to write a story

How to come up with plot

How to create a character

How to make a character unique

How to start a story

How to write a prologue

How to write conversation

How to write witty banter

How to write the last line

How to write a summary

How to write a book description

How to write romance

How to write emotional scenes

How to write an argument

How to write yelling

How to title fanfiction

How to write an unreliable narrator

How to write character deaths

How to use songs in a fanfiction

How to name fictional things

Introducing a group of characters

Large cast of characters interacting in one scene

Redemption arc

Plot twists

Fatal Character Flaws

Good traits gone bad

More specific scenarios

Slow burn

AU ideas

Favourite tropes

How to create quick chemistry

How to write a bilingual character

How to write a character with glasses

How to create a villain

How to write a polyamorous relationship

How to write a wedding

How to write found family

How to write forbidden love

How to write a road trip

How to create and write a cult

How to write amnesia

How to write a stratocracy

How to write the mafia

Criminal past comes to light

Reasons for breaking up while still loving each other

Relationship Problems

Milestones in a relationship

Platonic activities for friends

Introducing partner(s) to family

Honeymoon

Date gone wrong

Love Language - Showing, not telling

Love Language - Showing you care

Affections without touching

Giving the reader butterflies with your characters

Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms

How to write enemies to lovers

How to write lovers to enemies to lovers

How to write academic rivals to lovers

How to write age difference

How to create a coffee shop atmosphere

How to write a college party

How to write modern royalty

Arranged matrimony for royalty

Paramilitary Forces/ Militia

Inconvenient things a ghost could do

A Queen’s Assassination Plot

Crime Story - Detective’s POV

Evil organization of assassins

Evil wins in the end

Causes for the apocalypse

Last day on earth

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Spooktober Prompt Masterlist 2021

#760: “I wonder, how many people are dead in that graveyard?” “Hopefully all of them…” {Submitted by: crowned-avery}

#761: The meeting with Death went better than they had expected.

#762: Her hair was blacker than the night sky and her skin so pale that it felt like you could see right through her. She looked like she was no longer alive and the unnatural snarl on her face indicated that she may have never been.

#763: They didn't want it to be true, but with time they realized that the whole town continued to have the same nightmare every single night. And now the nightmare seemed to become reality.

#764: Having a high-ranking demon on speed dial did come in handy sometimes.

#765: A magic user wants revenge on a hated enemy. However, the stronger her emotions, the weaker her magic becomes, so in order to carry out her revenge she must let go of her anger. Submitted by: sheherlocked}

#766: If you believe in angels, you have to believe in demons too.

#767: Making out in a graveyard can lead to some very unexpected things.

#768: The abandoned theme park seemed to be the perfect location for their horror movie. But nothing went according to plan.

#769: A group of teenagers film themselves going into a 'haunted' house and try to win a challenge by staying the whole night. In the beginning, they film random spooky events that they themselves had planned to gain followers. But suddenly their little game becomes the harsh reality.

#770: There was a reason why they were called the walking dead, not the running one.

#771: So maybe you weren't supposed to go into town alone. And maybe you weren't supposed to go into suspicious looking pubs in the dead of night. But nothing had ever said you couldn't go disguised as a goblin. {Submitted by: avokadoodoo}

#772: The flower was beautiful and its smell was heavenly. Unfortunately, it was also deadly.

#773: They were paid barely enough to clean out deceased people’s apartments. They were definitely not being paid enough for what they found in this one.

#774: When they tried to dig up the body, to everyone's surprise, it was not empty. There were more bodies in the casket than expected.

#775: There was a howling in the distance, but it was coming closer and closer. Now, it was too late to run.

#776: The small cave they had wanted to explore turned out to be much bigger than expected. They tried to mark their way back, but when they turned around, the symbols they had painted on the walls where gone. And so was their way out of the cave.

#777: They soon realize that not everyone at the Halloween party is actually wearing a costume.

#778: It all started when fresh flowers began to appear at graves and the bereaved swore that it hadn’t been them who put them there. At first, they believed it to be a nice gesture from a stranger, but when every single grave had their flowers and they never seemed to wilt, the people became suspicious.

#779: You’re a modern vampire, hidden away from the prying eyes of the world for a few decades now. Stories of your kind have slowly faded into the background. Most of what people know about vampires is false anyways. You integrate back into society, start attending university, and get a job, and all seems well! Until you start hearing about a modern vampire hunter. {Submitted by: handsome-lovecraftian-horror}

#780: The howling noise grew louder, the closer he got to the end of the lane. One more step and he would know for sure what it was, that he had to face. {Submitted by: ouilah}

#781: “I ordered a grande of human’s blood, not cow, you dimwit.” {Submitted by: avokadoodoo}

#782: “I don’t forget.” “I’m pretty sure even ghosts can forget things too, buddy. But I definitely wouldn’t forget if I killed someone. Get your accusations straight, damn.” {Submitted by: thesaurus-lover}

#783: Animals have the ability to sense things, that shouldn’t exist in the living world. So if you see your pet whimpering at a seemingly empty corner - listen carefully.

#784: When I was younger, I lived up in Alaska where there's usually several feet of snow on the ground when Halloween night arrives. As you can imagine, trick or treating in those conditions took willpower! I was just a kid, of course, but perhaps if I had been aware of what was festering beneath the layers of snow and ice, I may have taken more precautions before going outside those nights... {Submitted by: havvki}

#785: Humans had the tendency to not believe that they were actually dead. And it always took some time to convince them.

#786: "Is that a bowl of rodent bones you're crunching on right now?" "Well, I'm hungry and you didn't offer anything better." {Submitted by: avokadoodoo}

#787: “I’m afraid Death is busy at the moment, but I can put your call through to his wife, Taxes, if you like.” {Submitted by: sheherlocked}

#788: Everything about the move was normal. That was until a stranger starts to call them on their landline. The stranger starts to call hour after hour and frantically speaks in a foreign language. {Submitted by: mxghostbee}

#789: Witches always had a special connection to their surroundings, feeling the power and the pain of nature around them. And right now, she felt like she was stabbed right into her heart. {Submitted by: ouilah}

#790: The maze suddenly appeared on a previously empty field and no one came forward to explain this as some kind of joke. A few kids made a challenge out of it: who was brave enough to go through the maze and come back out at the end? But there was no end to it. And it had been days since the children had been seen and with every day, more people vanished, trying their luck in the maze, desperate to save those who were lost.

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All done! Hope you had fun this Spooktober!

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I feel like when it comes to action and environment I can write well but I struggle the most with dialogue, especially when it's between more than two characters. Do you have any advice on how to build up a flowing conversation?

I’m going to be honest - dialogue takes work. It takes stripping out the boring parts of speech and cutting off conversations you think should last longer. It takes some work, and it’s good practice to study other mediums, like TV/movies, and comics, to see how it’s done there.

Some quick tips:

Make dialogue dynamic, not realistic. - No ‘ahs’ or ‘ums’ need apply. Choppy sentences are better than meandering ones. Accents are fine, but no one wants to difficult to read phonetic spelling - keep it simple, and by focusing on the way people speak, not just how they speak, you save us all a headache.

Dialogue is just as much about what’s not being said as it is what’s being said. If you’re writing a mystery, characters are withholding information. If it’s a romance, characters are hiding their feelings for each other. But regardless of the genre, all characters have something they’re aren’t saying - whether it’s their personal feelings on events or the fact that the magic potion everyone is looking for is tucked in their coat pocket. What they don’t say - and what they say instead - will get your plot some great interactions.

Cut your grand speeches short. Long speeches leave readers bored. If you have a character that needs to convey a lot of information, doing it in text (“She went on to tell us about the last great battle of the war...”) or find another way to convey the information. A great ‘secret’ in writing is that you have to think about how your words look on the page, and if there’s anything too long or chunky the interrupts the flow. Lengthy dialogue can do that, so watch out.

Remember:

Dialogue either resolve a plot point or complicates it.

The goal of dialogue is to reveal information or hide it.

Snappy back and forths are better than lengthy sentences.

Also check out:

How to write dialogue in fiction

How to Write Dialogue That Captivates Your Reader

Writing Dialogue: 10 Rules For Sounding Like a Pro

How To Format Dialogue

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The Top 10 Writing Posts From August 2020

Every month, we look at the posts that people read the most. These were the new Writers Write posts you enjoyed in August 2020:

The 4 Pillars Of Fantasy

14 Tips & Tricks To Make Your Writing Stronger

31 Writing Prompts For August 2020

Why You Need A Short Story Checklist

David Baldacci’s 5 Top Writing Tips

5 Story Killing Mistakes & How To Fix Them

10 Mantras To Make You Grow As A Writer

7 Ways To Rescue A Writing Day That’s Not Happening

Which Generation Reads The Most?

What Is A Literary Trope & Why Should I Use One?

The Top 10 Writing Posts From July 2020

The Top 10 Writing Posts From June 2020

The Top 10 Writing Posts From May 2020

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In Which Diversity Isn't a Myth

Ok. I’m tired of the typical vampire, werewolf and fairy.I’m also tired of the occidental-centrism in mythology. Hence, this list.

I tried to include as many cultural variants as I could find and think of. (Unfortunately, I was restricted by language. Some Russian creatures looked very interesting but I don’t speak Russian…) Please, add creatures from your culture when reblogguing (if not already present). It took me a while to gather all those sites but I know it could be more expansive. I intend on periodically editing this list.

Of note: I did not include specific legendary creatures (Merlin, Pegasus, ect), gods/goddesses/deities and heroes.

Dragons

The Chinese Dragon

The Japanese Dragon

The Korean Dragon

The Vietnamese Dragon

The Greek Dragon

The Indian Dragon

The Polish Dragon

The Austrian Dragon

The British Dragon

The Ancient Dragon (Egypt, Babylon and Sumer)

The Basque Dragon

Lindworm: The wingless dragon (Norse mythology)

Of the Cockatrice (creature with the body of a dragon)

Alphabetical List of Dragons Across Myths (Great way to start)

Balaur: the Romanian Dragon, more on the balaur

Taniwha: A dragon in Maori traditions

Little creatures (without wings)

The Legend of the Leprechauns, The Leprechaun

Chanaque /Alux (the equivalent of leprechauns in Aztec/Mayan folklore)

Elves

Elves in Mythology and Fantasy

Elves in Germanic Mythology

Norse/Scandinavian elves

Landvaettir: protectors of the land

Korrigans, more on Korrigans (Dwarf-like fairies in Breton folklore)

Kabeiroi or Cabeiri (Dwarf-like minor gods in Greek mythology)

Norse Dwarves

The Myth of Loki and the Dwarves

Eloko (dwarves in Zaire mythology. Also called Biloko)

Ten Types of Goblins

Goblins

Tengu: Japanese Goblins

Gnomes

More on Gnomes

Pooka: an Irish phantom

Creatures with wings (except dragons)

Fairies

All sorts of Cultural Fairies

Fairies in Old French Mythology

A Fairy List

Bendith Y Mamau (Welsh fairies)

Welsh Fairies

Peri (Persian fairies)

Yü Nü (Chinese fairies)

The Celtic Pixie

Changelings, more

Angels in Judaism

Angels in Christianity

Hierarchy of Angels

Angels in Islam

Irish Sylph

Garuda (Bird-like creature in Hindu and Buddhist myths)

Bean Nighe (a Scottish fairy; the equivalent of a banshee in Celtic mythology)

Harpies

Spirited Creatures

Jinn (Genies in Arabic folklore)

Types of Djinns

Aisha Qandisha and Djinn in Moroccan Folklore

Oni (demons in Japanese folklore)

Nymphs

Spirits in Asturian Mythology

Valkyries

Lesovik

Boggarts: The British Poltergeist

Phantom black dogs (the Grim)

Demons in Babylonian and Assyrian Mythology (list)

Demons in the Americas (list)

European Demons (list)

Middle-East and Asia Demons (list)

Judeo-Christian Demons (list)

Nephilim, more on Nephilim

Mahaha (a demon in Inuit religious traditions)

Flying Head (a demon in Iroquois religious traditions)

Huldra, more on the Huldra (spirit of the forest in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In Norwegian folklore, they are called skogsfru)

Ghosts

Toyol (a dead baby ghost in Malay folklore)

Malay Ghosts

Yuki-onna (a ghost in Japanese folklore)

The Pontianak (a ghost in Malay mythology)

Funayurei (a ghost in Japanese folklore)

Zagaz (ghosts in Moroccan folklore)

Japanese Ghosts

Mexican Ghosts

Kitsune (a fox spirit in Japanese folklore)

Dullahan (a headless ghost in Celtic mythology), more details

Tulpa (ghost in Tibetan folklore)

Horse-like mythical creatures

Chinese Unicorns

Unicorns

The Kelpie (Could have also fitted in the sea creatures category)

The Centaur

The Female Centaur

Hippocamps (sea horses in Greek mythology)

Horse-like creatures (a list)

Karkadann, more on the Karkadann (a persian unicorn)

Ceffyl Dwfr (fairy-like water horse creatures in Cymric mythology)

Undead creatures

The Melanesian Vampire

The Ewe Myth : Vampires

The Germanic Alp

The Indonesian Vampire

Asanbosam and Sasabonsam (Vampires from West Africa)

The Aswang: The Filipino Vampire

Folklore Vampires Versus Literary Vampires

Callicantzaros: The Greek Vampire

Moroi: The Romanian Vampire

Dhampir: Half human half vampire, more on dhampirs (Eastern Europe mythology)

Strigoi: another Romanian Vampire

Vampire mythology in Romania

Pricolici:an undead werewolf in Romanian mythology,

Vampires in Malaysia

Loogaroo/Socouyant: The Haitian Vampire

Incubi and Sucubi Across Cultures

Varacolaci: The Romanian Vampire

Brahmaparusha: The Indian Vampire

Genesis of the Word “Vampire”

The Ghoul in Middle East Mythology

Slavic Vampires

Chiang-Shih: The Chinese Vampire, more on Chiang-Shih

Vampires A-Z

The Medical Truth Behind the Vampire Myths

Zombies in Haitian Culture

Shape-shifters and half-human creatures (except mermaids)

Satyrs (half-man, half-goat)

Sirens in Greek Mythology (half-woman and half-bird creatures)

The Original Werewolf in Greek Mythology

Werewolves Across Cultures

Werewolf Syndrome: A Medical Explanation to the Myth

Nagas Across Cultures

The Kumiho (half fox and half woman creatures)

The Sphinx

Criosphinx

Scorpion Men (warriors from Babylonian mythology)

Pooka: an Irish changelings

Domovoi (a shape-shifter in Russian folklore)

Aatxe (Basque mythology; red bull that can shift in a human)

Yech (Native American folklore)

Ijiraat (shapeshifters in Inuit religious traditions)

Vilkacis (a werewolf in Lithuanian mythology)

Sea creatures

Selkies (Norse mermaids)

Mermaids in many cultures

More about mermaids

Mermen

Jengu: the Cameroonian mermaid

The Kraken (a sea monster)

Nuckelavee (a Scottish elf who mainly lives in the sea)

Lamiak (sea nymphs in Basque mythology)

Bunyip (sea monster in Aboriginal religious tradition)

Apkallu/abgal (Sumerian mermen)

An assemblage of myths and legends on water and water creatures

Slavic Water Creatures

The Encantado (water spirits in Ancient Amazon River mythology)

Zin (water spirit in Nigerian folklore)

Qallupilluk (sea creatures in Inuit religious traditions)

Bunyip (Aboriginal mythology)

Monsters That Don’t Fit in Any Other Category

Aigamuxa, more details on Aigamuxa

Amphisabaena

Abere

Bonnacon

Myrmidons (ant warriors)

Troll, More on Trolls

Golems

Golems in Judaism

Giants: The Mystery and the Myth (50 min long documentary)

Inupasugjuk (giants in Inuit religious traditions)

Fomorians (an Irish divine race of giants)

The Minotaur

The Manticore, The Manticore and The Leucrouta

The Ogre

The Orthus (two-headed serpent-tailed dog)

The Windigo

The Windigo Psychosis

Rakshasa (humanoids in Hindu and Buddhist mythology)

Yakshas (warriors in Hindu mythology)

Taqriaqsuit (“Shadow people” in Inuit religious traditions)

References on Folklore and Mythology Across the Globe

Creatures of Irish Folklore

Folklore and Fairytales

An Overview of Persian Folklore

Filipino Folklore

Myths, Creatures and Folklore

Alaska Folklore

Spanish (Spain) Mythology

Mythical Archive

Mythology Dictionary

List of Medieval and Ancient Monsters

Native American Animals of Myth and Legends

Native American Myths (*I say myths as in: stories of the creation of the world)

Bestiary of Ancient Greek Mythology

Mythology, Legend, Folklore and Ghosts

Angels and Demons

List of Sea Creatures

Yoruba Mythology

Ghosts Around the World, Ghosts From A to Z

Strange (Fantastic) Animals of Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Mythology

Creatures from West Africa

On the Legendary Creatures of Africa

Celtic Mythology (Welsh and Irish)

Myths, Creatures and Folklore

Encyclopedia Mythica

References on writing a myth or mythical creatures

Writing a MYTHology in your novel?

How to Write a Myth

10 Steps to Creating Realistic Fantasy Creatures

Creating Fantasy Creatures or Alien Species

Legendary Creature Generator

Questions You Need to Answer When Creating a Mythology for Your World

Book Recommendations With Underrated Mythical Creatures

(I have stumbled upon web sites that believed some of these mythical creatures exist today… Especially dragons, in fact. I just had to share the love and scepticism.)

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Plot A Month W4D6: Pre-Writing - Dealing With Writer's Block

It’s gonna happen. It happens to the best writers. Writer’s Block. As much as some writing books swear up and down that it doesn’t exist (apparently in their opinions, writers are just lazy?), it does. The people who tell you to just get over your writer’s block can go fuck themselves.

If you hit that wall, check out our Writer’s Block tag. It’s big, and possibly overwhelming. I don’t want you to spend all your time scrolling through it, so you could hit these posts in particular:

What About Writing: Getting Over Writer’s Block

What About Writing: Avoiding Writer’s Block

Terribleminds: 25 Ways to Defeat Writer’s Block

Killing the Suck(y Writer’s Block)

It’s hard hitting writer’s block, especially if you’re trying to do NaNoWriMo. Keep going! Give yourself breaks, watch a show or two, but keep going! You can do this thing!

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