And Shenanigans Ensued

Holding myself accountable and keeping my thoughts in order for stories I should write someday

[magicalprofessorranchdiplomat]

If you have stumbled here, it is just for me being silly and organizing my thoughts a little bit! You are welcome to engage and message me or whatever else you decide to do (since this is the internet and by putting my thoughts here I am subject to your mercy) but I expect zero traffic because I am simply here for vibes. :)

[cepheusgalaxy]

"Doomed yaoi" this "doomed yuri" that what about doomed found family. What about finding comfort in these new people after going through so much on your own—a community, a solace, a home to come back to. Caring for them with all you've got, only to realize that it wasn't going to work, ever, no matter what you tried. Only to have it ripped apart, no matter how much you tried to hold them close. Found family that becomes lost family. Found family that takes your heart with it when they go.

[bump-of-whump]

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

[ruvviks]

OC ASK GAME

Where was your OC born, and where did they grow up?

How does your OC remember their childhood? Is this an accurate reflection of what their childhood was actually like?

If your OC could revisit their childhood, what would they want to change about it, if anything at all?

Describe three of the most important photographs your OC owns.

What is your OC's gender identity and sexual orientation? Is this also what they identify as in canon, or are they not (fully) aware?

How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they like who they are? What would they want to change about themself?

What is your OC's occupation?

What does your OC's family look like?

Describe a mundane day in your OC's life.

Does your OC have any physical scars? What is the story behind them?

What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?

What is the worst thing that has happened to your OC? How has it affected their behavior, their health, and their life in general?

What is something your OC does (to others) that they would not like if others did to them? Are they aware that they do this?

Does your OC hold grudges? How good are they at letting things go? Do they believe in second chances?

What is your OC's fatal flaw?

Is there anyone your OC has lost contact with? What happened?

What are some of your OC's coping mechanisms during stressful or overwhelming periods in their life?

What are your OC's bad habits?

How does your OC handle preparing for and initiating a difficult conversation? How does the conversation itself go?

How quick is your OC to shift blame? Do they own up to their mistakes, or are they prone to start pointing fingers at others?

How does your OC handle criticism?

How good is your OC at apologizing, if they do this at all?

What is your OC like when they're angry?

What is your OC like when they're upset?

What is your OC's deepest desire? Would they ever ask for this?

How quickly does your OC reach their breaking point? What are they like when this point has been reached?

What are some assumptions others make about your OC? Are any of them true?

What does your OC think others are saying about them behind their back? Is any of this true?

What are three traits your OC has that can both have positive as well as negative qualities?

How paranoid is your OC? How does this affect their daily life?

Are there any places or people your OC is avoiding?

How does your OC handle rejection?

How does your OC handle jealousy?

What would be some of the signs your OC is starting to push people away?

If your OC had to kill someone, how would they do it? If killing is a near-daily occurrence to them, what is their preferred method?

Does your OC believe they deserve it when bad things happen to them?

What is the most common feeling or emotion in your OC's life?

What is the most recurring theme in your OC's nightmares?

What is your OC's pain tolerance like? What is the worst pain they have ever felt?

What is your OC afraid of?

Has your OC ever hurt someone, either physically or verbally?

How easily influenced by others is your OC?

What are common things your OC worries about?

Do others consider your OC to be scary or intimidating?

Does your OC keep their promises? Have they ever broken one before?

Does your OC carry any guilt with them?

If your OC had to pick a new identity and skip town, what would they come up with? Where would they go?

What would your OC do if they knew that this was their last day alive?

Does your OC fear death?

How does your OC die, eventually?

[pukicho]

Made some Cool and funny horse effects

[small-unfunny-horse]

SOME FUCKING WHAT!????

[pukicho]

Try to get along.

[aranelium]

[jiraiplume]

STOPP I GIGGLED WHO WAS THIS

[writingwithfolklore]

Writing Resources to use instead of AI

For coming up with character names:

Behind the name (my absolute fav)

Allows you to choose the origin of where you want the name to be from, whether you want a more feminine vs masculine vs androgenous name (as voted by users), random surname generator, and clicking on the name gives you important info like if there are any famous people with the same name, where it’s from, how common it is, and how people tend to see it, etc.

You can also search their name database by letter or meaning or origin, so if you know you want a character who has a name/surname that starts with an A from Ireland, there’s a whole list for you to choose from.

Census sites

Especially useful if you’re looking for a name from a specific place and/or time period. Just search “(country) census (year)” and you’ll find a database of real people who lived in that place at that time. No one can ever call your names unrealistic again.

For coming up with place names:

Fantasy name generator

This site can basically come up with any name for any person, place, or thing you might ever need. There are also specific generators for different fandoms if you’re looking to make an OC in an established world.

For finding that one word on the tip of your tongue:

One Look Thesaurus

This is my go-to. Not only can you find synonyms like a regular thesaurus, but you can also describe words like “unhappy smile” or “quiet laugh” to find the more specific word you’re looking for.

For coming up with ideas:

Word cloud

When I need to inspire a new idea, I write down all the things I’m interested in (hauntings, academia, lesbians, etc.) and put them into a word cloud to shuffle them next to each other. Sometimes seeing a concept in a new context can spark new ideas!

WWF Discord

This is my discord channel (shameless plug) for when you need to brainstorm off other people but don’t have anyone irl to talk to. We’re also happy to read and give feedback on writing, answer writing questions, or just chat!

For visualizing places and characters:

Pinterest

Pinterest can at times be a bit too sterile for my tastes, but if you use the right words, you can find more realistic photos of places. For example, adding “aesthetic” after basically any word will bring up a more broad collection of photos to help you flesh out places.

This is also a great way to find photos of people and fashion to help visualize characters. I’m bad at describing clothes, so I usually collect photos of outfits to help me know what my characters are wearing. Searching up “character inspiration” will collect more interesting photos and drawings of people who might not exactly be of our world.

(However, to make Pinterest not show you AI results, you have to go into your settings and check the “reduce AI” box. Luckily, it does mostly work.)

Death to Stock

Like pinterest but completely AI free (hooray!) Only drawback is that you have to pay a monthly subscription (about $20 CAD).

Cosmos

Very similar to pinterest but slightly more "artsy". I'm not super familiar with this one but I believe all the photos are human and you can save them and create collections with a free account.

Dupe Photos

Royalty-free stock image site with very Pinterest-core photos!

Minecraft

If you haven’t built your entire fictional city in Minecraft instead of writing, why not? It’s fun.

The Sims

This one is dual purpose because you can not only create your characters in Create a Sim, but you can design their houses. If you really want to go for it, you can bulldoze all the lots in your town and build your world from scratch.

For checking grammar:

Grammar Girl

Easy to follow definitions and examples, and if you learn better by listening, every article comes with a podcast to follow along with instead.

Grammar Monster

This one is my favourite for checking grammar rules because there’s tons of examples in graphics that helps for any situation.

Reedsy

Among other things, reedsy can connect you to professional editors within your budget.

For writing advice:

One Stop for Writers

This one was recommended from my discord channel and has all sorts of tutorials and resources for the writing craft.

My Blog Directory

Another shameless plug, but if you need writing advice on something specific, you can search through my directory to see if it’s there. If it isn’t, you can always send me an ask about it!

For an alternative to Google Docs:

Ellipsus

Think google docs but without AI. Yay!

(will update this list with any more suggestions or resources I discover 😊)

[just-a-readthrough]

A great resource

[july-19th-club]

simply cannot ever resist what i call the little mermaid or the tin man or the pinnochio plot, the one about a character who is either inhuman or human but outside in some way, constantly searching for whatever it is that they consider to be the quintessential proof of humanity, preoccupied by it so deeply that they fail to realize the proof is in the act and fact of the search itself

[mischiefseven]

(via @notaficwriter)

[sarahreesbrennan]

MAYBE WE’LL FIND IT IF WE BOTH LOOK

[cuunos]

peak dynamic in my opinion

[magicalprofessorranchdiplomat]

Stupid, beautiful Kevin

[jewfrogs]

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

[naamahdarling]

I have a friend who is an editor, and gets submissions of mostly poetry and short stories.

I have had a glimpse into her slush pile, and let me tell you, the contents were unbelievable and immediately disabused me of the notion that reading through submissions is in any way glamorous. People have the nerve to submit unhinged paranoid ramblings, fetish porn, and a seemingly endless supply of poems about masturbation.

I no longer feel like my fiction is somehow an imposition on the people who read it. It may be forgettable, but at least it isn't typeset to look like sperm.

Do not be afraid to submit your work. Your competition is not only worse than you think, it's worse than you ever imagined.

[silverhand]

Do these three things to get to the top of the slush pile:

The place has a style sheet. Use it. They say they want your MS in 16.5 point Papyrus italic with 0.8 inch margins all around, guess what you're doing before you send it off? Save As, reformat, send it. In the absence of a specific guide: Courier 12 pt (Times New Roman if you must), double spaced, align left, tab 0.5 at each new paragraph.

Check the word count. Don't submit novellas to 2500 word short story venues. BTW, you format the MS in that old style above because the question isn't literal words. Courier 12pt double spaced gives you 250 words per page for typesetting purposes. 2500 words is 10 ms pages, 5000 is 20 pages, etc.

Don't send your romance to Analog or your war story to Harlequin. If it's a cross-genre story, be sure there's enough of what the publication is focused on to interest them, but breaking through is hard if that's not something they usually do.

That's basically what every single editors' panel at every con I've ever been to has boiled down to. And invariably, someone tries to get up and argue with them, not realizing it's not a discussion.

Bonus tip: Don't be in any way cute in your cover letter. Just the facts/Luke Skywalker's message to Jabba the Hut in ROTJ.

Enclosed/attached is my story <Title> for your publication <Magazine>. It is x (rounded to the nearest 500) words. I can be reached at <email> (that you check regularly and isn't likely to dump things into spam) and <phone>.

(If submitting a hard copy: The manuscript is disposable. A SASE is enclosed for your response./A SASE is included for return of the manuscript and your response.)

Thank you for your consideration.

If submitting a novella length piece or greater, a brief and complete summary is appropriate.

In the midst of an interstellar revolt against an evil galactic Empire, vital weapon plans fall into the hands of a farm boy on the edges of the galaxy. With the help of an aging warrior from the Old Republic, and a smuggler with a dark past and his imposing alien copilot, the four set out to deliver them to the rebel forces but are instead flung into a rescue mission to save the beautiful princess who stole the plans as worlds are destroyed by the might of the Empire's weapon, the Death Star.

Captured by the Death Star on route to deliver the plans, they manage to escape the base with the princess, the old warrior sacrificing himself to make this possible. As the Death Star approaches the rebel base, they use the captured plans to stage a desperate final stand. In a fierce space battle of single-pilot ships over the surface of the moon-sized weapon, the farm boy manages to make the critical shot with an unexpected assist from the smuggler, destroying it.

Never under any circumstance put a cliffhanger into a query letter summary. There is no faster way to get the entire MS binned than doing that.

Happy writing.

PS "Top of the slush pile" means into the top 25% of manuscripts received. Three quarters of the submissions don't take the trouble to do even those three basic steps.

Now, that still means 25/100 submissions or 250/1000 submissions, but it still improves your odds and forms the basis for starting a relationship with the publisher for the next piece you send them.

PPS This is obviously about prose. Poetry certainly has its own submission rules, and I know none of them. If you're writing poetry, find out what they are.

[ariaste]

This goes for query letters to agents as well.

Also, that emphasis on the submission guidelines (or style sheet) and formatting things EXACTLY the way they requested it? Yeah, that's so that they know at a glance whether you have a brain in your head and can fucking read. Didn't follow the guidelines? They can discard your submission in an instant rather than wasting the two minutes it takes to read your cover letter.

FOLLOW THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES!!!!! THIS IS STEP ONE OF "PROVING YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL AKA SOMEONE WHO SHOULD BE PAID MONEY FOR THEIR WORK". FOLLOW! THE! SUBMISSION! GUIDELINES!

Wait hang on there's still a couple of you who are not internalizing Follow The Submission Guidelines. I will tell you a story.

Couple years ago, I taught a college course on Writing & Publishing Scifi/Fantasy. Towards the end of the 8-week workshop, I told the class that they were going to learn what it is like to be a literary agent. I asked them to tell me a few things about what their dream novel would be if they were an agent (genre, themes, etc) and then I went and wrote fake a fake query letter for each of them. Then I scraped together a bunch of other query letters from Queryshark, and then I wrote some unhinged ones. Printed them all out, put them in a box, walked into class on the day, said "The first person to find their Dream Client in the slush pile wins Twenty Real Human Dollars." The air in the room suddenly became *FERAL*. RABID. College students will literally kill a man for $20. I dumped the box on the floor, screamed "GO!" and watched them throw themselves into it.

You know what happened? Almost instantaneously they developed a sense of "UGH FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES." They were ruthlessly throwing things aside simply because it did not include a "Dear [your name]," salutation. They were crying, "NO!" when they got a query letter for a short story instead of a novel. When confronted with a pile of garbage with a couple gems in it, they figured out in nanoseconds that the #1 red flag for garbage is "did not follow the submission guidelines."

FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES!!!!!!

[asymbina]

Back in the days when it was all done by snail mail, I had a gift subscription to the magazine Writer's Digest, and there's one thing that has stuck in my memory from an article (which was published probably 35 years ago) about sending unsolicited manuscripts for novels to a publisher: make your envelope or box distinctive anything other than plain, stark, unadorned white. Every publisher, according to the article, had stacks and stacks of manuscripts in undifferentiated white packages and they just sort of all blurred together when you looked at the physical slush pile, so if one was in a colorful box or they'd drawn or written something on the side it'd immediately jump out and get their attention.

Bear in mind that they were also very, very clear to always follow the submission guidelines.

I don't work in publishing and you could not pay me enough to work a slush pile, but I know I'd quickly start looking for the manuscripts that stand out like a hot pink giant document mailer, but that still followed the submission guidelines, because that's the sign that you're someone the venue can work with. When I was doing research for publication in refereed journals, I worked for an organization that had an entire editing and proofreading department dedicated to ensuring that all the researchers' journal submissions would follow the submission guidelines, because otherwise it wouldn't even make it past the first step of submission.

Again, I'm not an editor and you couldn't pay me enough to be one — I'm extremely happy to torture data until the numbers come out for a living — but I do understand how this part works, and I hope that you understand the subtle FOLLOW message THE I'm SUBMISSION sending GUIDELINES here.

FOLLOW THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

[pythosblathers]

Did not realize people couldn't see these blanks on bsky if they didn't have an account, so here they are! I'll post any new ones I make or updates to these here instead from now on.

[xxxprosp3r0neilxxx]

Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it's finally done you're just like "nvm. it's trash" and go to bed

[dragongirlsweetie]

it sucks that the backrooms and by extent liminal spaces turned out the way they did in popular culture. i love dreamy places not because they're full of Scary Screatures or whatever but because they're fun and interesting and cool and a perfect place for a girl like me to lay her eggs

[dragongirlsweetie]

i could make a nest here it would be so good it's got the perfect amount of structural support for the strands of goo to connect up and hold together easily without collapsing and forming a cozy little den for me to sleep in. but all anyone cares about is booboo's playtime party friends

[foxxear]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but you are one of the Scary Screatures

[dragongirlsweetie]

i'm a cute girl and everyone loves me

[wulfrann]

i am once again begging people to ask native speakers to please check their french in fics please. I cannot go on like this.

[wulfrann]

yk what. I'm doing this. why not. be the change you wish to see in the world etc.

Disclaimer that you should have someone check every time you write something in a language you're not fluent in, but this post is for me specifically so this is about french:

if you are thinking about writing 'mon cher' or 'mon chou' consider not doing it. for my personal mental health.

'mon cher' only works for old-fashioned old people writing letters or historical contexts from when that was a thing people said (baby boomers gen and before). you are making your 20-something twink sound like Hortense, 92 yo, writing a lavender-scented letter to a dear family member. The word you're looking for is '(mon) chéri' ('(ma)chérie' in the féminine), which is like 'darling' and is what middle-aged people often call their s/o's. some younger people do it too, though not as often.

NEVER have someone call someone else 'cher'. It is NEVER used alone like this. As an adjective it means 'expensive', and before a name it means "dear [name]" like you would in a formal sounding email or in a letter. 'mon cher' means 'my dear'. But 'cher' alone as a way to call someone means nothing and sounds VERY strange.

'mon chou' is funny haha cabbage yes but it is once again a grandma thing to call a child and even then it's very dated. a real thing my mom called me as a kid is 'ma puce' (or 'pupuce' for a cuter version of the word) which translates to 'my flea'. for a boy you can say 'mon poulet' ('my chicken'). This is almost only for children and sounds ridiculous when used for adults (I've heard 'mon poulet' as referring to a husband only in sketches or in joke contexts, because it sounds silly).

other terms of endearments for people who are dating/hooking up: 'bébé' (baby), 'mon amour' (my love - my mom uses this for her bf very often), '(mon) trésor' (treasure - more for kids but I've heard it used by couples too), 'mon cœur' (my heart). if you don't mind sounding old-fashioned there's also 'ma moitié' (my half).

People who are young and dating usually refer to their s/o's in conversation as 'mon copain' / 'ma copine' (my bf / my gf) or 'mon amoureux' / 'mon amoureuse' (kinda like 'the person I'm in love with'). Or, as established, 'mon chéri' / 'ma chérie'.

Some fun stuff I've never seen in fics:

- mdr/ptdr (lol/lmao)

- 'fingers in the nose', said in heavily accented english. translation of a french expression, 'les doigts dans le nez', which means 'that was super easy' (so easy you could have done it with your fingers in your nose). Idk why it's often said in english.

- 'Bisous' (kisses) is a pretty standard way to end an email or letter to family or close friends. Slightly more formal is 'Bises' / 'La bise', which you could use for family, friends, and close acquaintances.

- 'le sang de la veine' (the blood of the vein) or its shorter versions 'le sang' and 'le S' is a way to refer to close friends, with the idea that you're so tight it's like you're family. it's hyperbolic, so often said playfully, as a greeting or when someone said/did something that demonstrated how close you are.

- 'putain' ('whore', used like 'fuck') is a versatile curse word but it's also very vehement and not used as often or easily as 'fuck', imo. Other options: 'merde' (shit), 'bordel' (literally 'whorehouse', can also be used as an adjective to means that something's really fucking messy), and the winning combos 'bordel de merde' and 'putain de merde'.

- 'un baiser' means 'a kiss' but 'baiser' as a verb means 'to fuck'.

- some english words are fully part of the language, but a little to the left. for example: 'shopping' as in 'faire du shopping' (to do shopping) means 'to go buy clothes/make-up' as an activity (not when your goal is to be efficient). Or 'jogging', which in french is the word for 'sweatpants' - 'jogging' as in the activity is 'faire du footing' (to do a 'footing'). 'Un sweat' (often pronounced 'sweet') is 'a hoodie'.

- more of an easy mistake than a fun fact, but when talking informally, people say 'ouais' (yeah) a lot more than they say 'oui'. However, 'ouais' is a little more informal than 'yeah' - most people wouldn't use it when talking to a teacher, for example.

- 'bonjour' is kinda formal. when greeting people informally, people say 'salut' or 'coucou' . Some people also say 'bonsoir' (good evening) as an informal greeting at any time of the day, idk why. Same thing with 'au revoir' - I don't really ever say that to people I'm close to. An informal version would be 'ciao', 'tcho', 'salut' or 'bye', or for 'see you' you could say 'à la prochaine' / 'à plus'.

- 'Euh...' is what most french people say instead of 'er...' or 'um...'. Similarly, 'aïe' is what people say instead of 'ouch'.

Finally. As stated. I know we're all having fun here but please have at least someone fluent, better if they're a native speaker, check your french. for me. please. It is so easy to write something technically correct but so so wrong for the context.

If you don't know anyone, ask me! I love doing stuff like that. Or ask on a language forum!

Please.

Thank you.

Good night.

[a-random-fandom-friend]

The ONLY exception to "cher" is if your character is cajun or has ties to cajun culture (growing up around cajun ppl, ect).

"Cher" in cajun and "Cher" in france-french are distant cousin. They say stuff like "Mais, cher! I'm so glad to see you! " ; that use would make no sense in france-french but makes sense in cajun.

So if your character is french and not usamerican, let them use the "mon cher", i beg

[wulfrann]

Good point! ☝️ My perspective is france-french, I can't speak on the way french is spoken in other regions of the world. there are many variations, dialects, créoles, etc., and they all have their own rules, words, and expressions.

That being said, from a france-french perspective, "mon cher" is still 99% of the time not something people from france would say. It's very old-fashioned.

"chéri(e)" is usually a good alternative, or another pet name entirely.

[a-random-fandom-friend]

Oh yeah, "mon cher" is something that an extravagant old lady calls her friends. The lady from Aristocat calls her friends "mon cher". Very "daaarling", you know.

Alternatively, in a period piece, a distraught person from the 20th century, having just lost a huge sum of money but seeing the face of a dear friend who came to comfort them, can say "oh, mon cher [name], [how happy I am to see you! ] ". Or something of the sort.

But yeah french people under 80 do not use "mon cher"

[icouldshowyoumyscar]

Poulet/mon poulet is used by male friends for their male friends also! Not just for kids

[icouldshowyoumyscar]

i just remembered "poulette" exists xD and i have heard women refer to their women friends with it! sometimes, women who are older than others will use it in a cute but funny pet name way.

[moonsworndandelion]

"poulette" is good but i also loove "bichette" (a female dear, can be used as poor dear both in genuine and sarcastic context)

and for cutesy affectionate nicknames (for kids or friends or partner) I also really like "chaton" (kitten) or "minou" (pussy -yes with the same double meaning)

They are a bit cheesy but very reliable.

Oh and about Cher ! Bit of a tangent, but in aome area (south east of france i think ?) it can be used as an exageration. For examples, these three sentences have the same overall meaning :

C'était grave bien !!

C'était cher bien !!

C'était trop bien !!

[codename-adler]

other term of endearment is “ma vie” !!!!!! literally translates to ‘my life’ but means something equal to “mon cœur” (my heart) or ‘my dear’/‘my dearest’ that can be used for friends or romantic partners! it can be said casually or very profoundly <3

-> “Trop contente que tu sois de retour, Sophie! Oh tu m’as manquée, ma vie.” (‘So glad your back, Sophie! Oh how I’ve missed you, my life.’)

-> “Ma vie, tu sais à quel point je t’aime?” (‘My life, do you know how much I love you?’)

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!