Jenni Pasanen

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@pennilessauthoress
Jenni Pasanen
I’m sorry but also extremely not sorry
If only people could understand that what is surface level “healthy” for a romantic relationship between two fictional characters is NOT always healthy for the narrative, themes and messages that surround them. A story WITHOUT conflict and dynamics that pushes the characters to challenge and engage each other is NOT healthy for character development. Also, this is just me, but I dont watch or ship something because I want to see a ~model~ relationship - a good character dynamic should be INTERESTING above all else
The Corvid Lord
Stage 1&2
2018-2020
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Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel
It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.
For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits.
Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer.
You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?
And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.
Enjoy ^_^
This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways.
For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.
Don’t believe me?
Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.
One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.
Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past.
SEE ALSO Etymonline. Word origins and when they’re first recorded. So, say I wanted to find out when a “coffee break” became a thing – around the 1950s, as seen in magazine adverts – or characters might talk about more genrallly “taking a break” from the 1860s…
Beautiful Illustrations By Tom Booth Telling The Story Of A Woodworker Grieving The Love Of His Life
Just beautiful
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.
English Surnames
Dutch Surnames
Spanish Surnames
Scottish Surnames
German Surnames
Italian Surnames
Irish Surnames
French Surnames
Scandinavian Surnames
Welsh Surnames
Jewish Surnames
Surnames By Ethnicity
Most Common Surnames in the USA
Most Common Surnames in Great Britan
Most Common Surnames in Asia
For whoever needs these.
I NEED THE ITALIAN LAST NAMES SO BAD
We are like fireworks…: Surnames Master Post.
Chinese surnames
Indian surnames
Indonesian surnames
Pakistani surnames
Bengali surnames
Japanese surnames
Filipino surnames
Korean surnames
Syrian surnames
Mongolian naming and clan names
Thai surnames
Asia is not a single country.
“Asia is not a single country.”
Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers. Let me know which author you got!
For canon I got Ursula K. LeGuin.
For modern I got Stephen King.
Huh. Agatha Christie for both canon!verse and modern AU.
If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?
i’m gonna make so many new friends
Valin Mattheis
For anyone who’s ever wondered who they’d be in a 19th century novel, the wait is over: I put together a 19th Century Character Trope Generator!
If you’d like to reblog, put your character in the tags because I’m curious.
“I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it’s not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert. I have no energy. I never have. I just have no desire to be productive. Now that I realize I don’t hate to write, that I just hate to work, it makes writing easier.”
— Fran Lebowitz
every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!
me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me
May I add something, because I will never shut up about this book (Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark):
Finally, some good fucking advice
“The Dying Artist” (1901) by Zygmunt Andrychiewicz (Polish;1861–1943), oil on canvas, National Museum, Warsaw
alignment chart: 11th grade english edition
THINGS WRITERS SHOULD DO TODAY:
Write
Straighten their backs
Celebrate their victories
Write anything
Take the empty cups out of their rooms
Seriously. Stop overthinking and just write