PotatoWritesStuff

I was destined to be a potato but God accidently put me in a human body.

[potatowritesstuff]

how do you life?

[potatowritesstuff]

Am I the only one who’s disturbed by people shipping Ralph and Jack? Like ... have these people even read the book?

[emmettmccartycullen]

Edward: *sticking Bella’s menstrual cup in the freezer* yummy, popsicles :)

[paperfruit-deactivated20200815]

one day you will have to answer to a god who will not be as merciful as us

[potatowritesstuff]

not a day goes by when I don't think about this post

[potatowritesstuff]

that scene in Crime and Punishment when Dunya says to Raskolnikov: "it's not like i killed anybody" and he faints is so under appreciated. like ???? that is peak comedy right there, why does everyone just ignore it

[potatowritesstuff]

Putting textbooks beside my bed so i can study in the morning, fully knowing i will not.

[potatowritesstuff]

i win the procrastination game. i once watched an animation of the titanic sinking in  r e a l  t i m e instead of studying. amateurs.

[potatowritesstuff]

mood: singing simply the best but replacing you're with i'm

[armeniangenocidehistory]

Yepraksia Gevorgyan, 110

Armenian genocide: survivors recall events 100 years on

[cataclysmic-writer]

To this day, the quote I read in a survivors biography in 7th grade still haunts me. “Who does now remember the Armenians?” 

You know who said that? Hitler. Adolf Hitler, as a way to justify the Holocaust. Because the world turned a blind eye to the Armenian genocide, he thought the world would turn its back to the Holocaust.

The worst part is, he was right. America, Europe, the governments knew what was going on. And they ignored it. Now, more than ever, remember the Armenians. Remember the Cambodians, Rwandans, Jews. Never again means now.

[bitegore]

Remember the Armenians because it’s happening again and it can literally be stopped but not if people keep turning a blind eye, just as they did a century ago

[theemotionmachine]

[potatowritesstuff]

I wanted to describe a character's beard as a stubble, but the word for it in my language is super similar to the word for a toilet and there is no way I am using it now

[avi-why]

you ever really get in the Writing Zone™ and everything’s going super great and awesome and then you write that one sentence. and you have to take a break and think about how to phrase it for 6 hours

[ironinkpen]

writers:

break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared

fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)

blunette is not a thing

new speaker, new paragraph. please.

“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it

use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.

if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read

follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs

your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it

i love u guys keep on trucking

[aritany]

wip planning is going swimmingly. i know almost everything except for the important stuff

[potatowritesstuff]

Lately, I've been having a problem actually sitting down and writing. I usually ended up looking at a blank word document. Thankfully, I came up with a new method to help me push up my word count.

The rule is: everyday you need to increase your word count by a round number.

Hear me out:

Let's say you wrote 384 words today and don't know how to go on. Too bad - you need to force yourself to write 6 more words. However, you will probably write more than 6. Maybe you'll write 14. You're now at 398 - ah, well, you need 2 more. Only you won't write 2, you'll write 8, and so on.

I don't know if it will work for you, but it does for me. It's helped me a lot and hopefully, it'll do the same for you.

[raevenlywrites]

Reblog this if you're a writeblr and you wouldnt mind:

Random asks about your wips

Being tagged in tag games by people you don't know yet

Strangers complimenting your work

Fellow writeblrs striking up conversations

Interaction with new writeblrs in general

I see so many folks afraid to jump in to the community, so hopefully this post will lay out like a welcome mat for new folks to come say hi :)

[firefox-official]

any advice for writing bc I'm just sitting here. not writing -

my tip for writing is Write

[beanenigma]

Outstanding

[writinginslowmotion]

Groundbreaking

[potatowritesstuff]

Wow, I would never have thought of that

[isabellestone]

Me on a walk: Wow so many writing ideas

Me cooking: Wow so many dialogue ideas

Me doing uni work: Wow so many plot ideas 

Me sat at my computer trying to write: Wow so many distractions

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