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lotusvalkyrie

Barry in Ravenclaw’s Quidditch Uniform ♥ for my coldflash fic: Veiled Prophecy I was bored and this happened haha :3

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. ”

deanwinchestersgirl87

sammysnaughtygirl

beaulesbian

~ Why would any sensible creature crave an eternity of this?

~ You could find out.

aborddelimpala

Jared + tucking his hair behind his ears for anonymous

thefallofbyzantine

theglitchywriterboi

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you’re able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

lotusvalkyrie

The Winter Lightning. Last Chapter is finally up! ♥ Enjoy the long awaited wedding and the happy ending! Coldflash. Fanfic. Medieval Au with powers. Completed.

Hi! If you guys were wondering, this are some real places I used for inspiration to write this fic: The Hall of Mirrors - Palace of Versailles, France. The Gloriette - in the Schönbrunn Palace Garden, Vienna, Austria. The Winter Palace - Neuschwanstein Castle The Northern town - Salzburg Vienna, Austria The Azure Lakes - Moraine Lakes, Alberta, Canada.

AO3 link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6638248

tall-tree-tales

Writing absolutely was easier when you were younger simply because you knew less of the craft. The more you learn increases the pressure to live up to your own knowledge base. You can see flaws in your work that you (probably) weren’t aware of before and this gives the false impression of creative back-sliding. This can be extremely discouraging and you may long for those early days when writing seemed so much easier. But that longing is rooted in a lie. Ignorance truly is bliss. So take pride in the fact that your struggles are the byproduct of improving your craft. Your work is not as bad as you think, you simply have a much stronger magnifying glass than you used to so the flaws seem bigger than they truly are.

battlestar-royco

here have 10 pieces of writing advice that have stuck with me over the years

every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person

even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday

exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them

if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love

make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you

if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders

don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts

i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less

sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer

a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks

aletheiawriting

why you should keep writing your story

because it’s a puzzle no one else will ever arrange the same way as you.

because there are ideas that simply won’t come to you until you write down the wrong words.

because all the bad scenes are the bones of the wonderful scenes.

because someone will love it: someone will read it once, and twice, and thrice; someone will ramble to you about the complexity of it; someone will doodle your characters out of love; someone will find it in exactly what they were looking for with or without knowing it.

because they have things to say, your characters. they’ve told you all those secrets and they have more to tell you, if you will listen.

because you love it even when you don’t; even when it drives you mad or when it accidentally turns into apathy; even when you think you’re doing it all wrong; you love it, and it loves you back.

because you can get a treasure even from things that go wrong; because if a story crumbles down you can build a shinier one on the same spot; because you won’t know where it will take you until it takes you there.