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feeling sad? you need this blog on your dash!

[the-right-writing]

A message to my past self

You will not start off writing great literature.

This is no reflection on you as a writer.

The people who tell you your work is bad are the ones you need to listen to the most. Not so you become sad, but so you know what you’re doing wrong.

Stories don’t write themselves. Get moving.

You are better at writing than the average person. This does not mean you are better at writing than other writers. 

This will take longer than you think.

Stop being so snobbish about what makes a good story. 

There is a happy medium between “a man with red hair” and three paragraphs of physical description. Find it.

Pacing is the most important thing in the world. People buy bad books because they have good pacing. Speed up, slowpoke.

Keep going. You’ll get better.

[chasind]

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Kitty won’t let me use the computer. [video]

[noruirin]

bot gang or die

[the-right-writing]

Reactions

A while ago, I read a book where everybody stayed away from the area an execution was being held. That is… not how people have historically reacted to public executions. My suspension of disbelief was lost.

Everybody has different things they need to research for their story, but no matter what you write, knowing about human reactions is essential. Read psychology articles. Look through forums after world events and after your favorite television shows update. Go through comments sections. Venture into the real world and observe the people around you. It’s actually really fun to do these things! : D

Your book will be more realistic because of it.

[the-right-writing]

Problem paragraphs

Surely I’m not the only one who deals with this.

So here’s the scenario. You’ve been writing for a while and you’re only two pages away from your big scene. All of your main characters are in the same city, raring to fight. The good guys are in a restaurant on one side of the city, preparing, and the bad guys are in their lair on the other side. Everything should be easy from this point, but out of nowhere comes this enormous case of writer’s block. You have no idea how to get the good guys to the bad guys’ lair. For pacing reasons, it would be best if the process took up two pages. Unfortunately, all you can do is put a single paragraph detailing the journey because there just isn’t enough information to fill up the rest of the space without resorting to filler or purple prose.

You decide to leave it there, since whatever you would have put probably wouldn’t have been that interesting anyways. When you later read over it, you find that the paragraph you put in seems to rush things, doesn’t give adequate descriptions, and doesn’t fit with the tone of the rest of your story. There appears to be no way to fix it, because expanding it to two pages would just result in a lot of boring crap. What do you do?

Paragraphs like that are signs that your plot isn’t as good as it should be. If the good guys needed to travel for that long, they needed to find something plot-important along the way. When you do something just to force the story along, you’re ironically cheating yourself out of valuable story. You need to use your writer’s brain to figure out what is missing, because a bunch of people walking over to meet a bunch of other people is not the best possible thing that can happen.

This does not mean that you should put in every little detail and never skip any time in-story. I trust that you’ll know when pacing and plot dictate that you need more when you usually need less.

[gendrie]

the way arya refers to sandor reflects her feelings about him in a way thats really important. people in this series almost exclusively call him “the hound” or “sandor clegane”. the hound is an alias for this man, the lannisters dog, who obediently kills for them. on their orders he murdered mycah. 

the hound is on arya’s list specifically for that

but after the red wedding arya begins to think of him, sometimes, just as sandor. she still uses the hound ofc but at this point the lines between the two are blurred. he’s the man who ran down mycah AND saved her at the red wedding. the events are intentionally paralleled in the text too (she ran from him as mycah must have run). they’ve gotten to know each other during their time together and arya even forgets to say “the hound” the last night they’re together. which confuses her. as much as arya hates him she can’t finish the job because her feelings are conflicted 

arya probably would have killed the hound but she couldn’t kill sandor 

#one of my fave things is how in affc #the hound is dead #like arya wanted #and at peace #like sansa wanted

[kittiezandtittiez]

[gayisnotasynonymforjalex]

reasons why you should watch big hero 6:

demonstrates compassion in a healthy way and is a perfect example of how “hate cannot drive out hate”

baymax is the embodiment of love and care so basically it feels like getting a warm hug just by watching the movie

fall out boy

[the-right-writing]

Prompt time!

Write a story about a young child trying unusual methods to get friends. 

If you use this prompt, let me know! I’d love to read your story! ^_^

[isriana]

“Nemo, you’re a bit distracting now.”

“Seriously, I’m trying to draw and - Do not bite the pen!”

“Really, that is not a good place to -”

“Sweetie..?”

“Oh, right. The cursor.”

“No… It’s not behind the screen.”

“…”

“I think I’ll just go make a cup of coffee instead.”

[trappedinsanity]

in Teen Titans we don’t say “I love you” we say “I like the way you shoot starbolts” which roughly translates to “batman never taught me how to talk to girls and that’s sadly the best compliment I could manage” and I think that’s beautiful.-cyborg-window-hallucination

[theiwatobipool]

#he went to the Shang school of ‘you fight good

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Daring Do Bubble by Kuroleopard

[the-right-writing]

the-right-writing: the-right-writing: Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process. I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed. I’m just going to reblog this every so often because it’s a site that every writer needs to see.

The Right Writing: Writer Beware  

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Autumn colors by Laszlo Gal

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