Inspiration for fiction writers

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[pumpkin-patch-fairy]

Puppy In The Window

For Day 4 of the Christmas Advent, I decided to draw a puppy 

[tamapalace]

[pumpkin-patch-fairy]

@dabisdarling new tamagotchi omg

[reesewestonarchive-deactivated2]

Hey... writers... you guys do excellent work

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

me having a new idea for a relatively short fic:

[loxxxlay]

I love this, and I gotta confess that my timeline has a bit more of a s2 vibe:

[nicholewrites-deactivated202007]

Writeblr: hahaha, there will never be another website that operates as poorly as tumblr dot com

Nanowrimo: bet?

[raiven-raine]

[bougieaesthetic]

A Rocker Chic Home in the Hills 

Consort

[fluffgo]

Fluffiest ♡

[pumpkin-patch-fairy]

December Advent Day 2

Snowstorm

Cracking lips and a blustery gale of shards. Glitter on white blankets, stay here with me. Trapped in this endless maze of frost and snow. Caught in the headlights of every broken-down car, as we make our way home.

Sky a yellow haze as every lamp post sets the sky on fire each step heavier than the last. our toes crisp and crunch, blemishing the blanket. A hallmark card imprinted in my memory, As we laugh our way home.

[thependragonwritersguild]

Prompt #11455

“Most have children of their own or adopt. I had to build mine from the ground-up.”

[inspiring-prompts]

“Oh please. So he wants to ‘rule the world’, huh? Does he even know how unrealistic that is? Does he have any idea of how huge the world even is? Trying to take care of something that big is going to give him a heart attack within a week!”

[redlipstickresurrected]

Catherine Hyde (British, b. Dartford, Kent, England, based Helston, Cornwall, England) - The Soft Night Descending  Paintings: Acrylics, Gold Leaf on Canvas

[coldsoba]

here it is folks! The December Prompt List! The prompts can be used in anyway you like! Poems, stories, art, playlists. All prompts with a music symbol are song based!

[coldsoba]

reblogging because im going to be writing poetry on my @pumpkin-patch-fairy blog using my prompts ^.^

[pumpkin-patch-fairy]

December Advent Day 1

Fireplace

Splinters of forest fires, living in hovels and holes. Catching ash in your brittle palms like snowflakes. it’s safe here, inside this cocoon of crackle and spit. as though the cold melted away outside the fog-lined window.

Toasty orange and the smell of damp smoke. Come sit with me,  Hot cocoa in hand and we’ll watch together. forget the world exists and just be.

[thatwritergirlsblog]

Writing a sequel (how to make your life easier when writing the second book)

Thank you to @through-shadows-falling for requesting this post. As I started planning this post, I reliased that I have never written a sequel. So, these tips are from research and the things I believe could help. They are not from personal experience.

1. Accept that it'll be harder than the first book

I have heard this from so many authors. The pressure of writing the second book is intense; this is accepted across the board.

So, before you go in, know that it will be more challenging. Prepare yourself for a process that may differ from that of writing your first book.

2. Outline

Ideally, you should outline the entire series before you start. That doesn't mean that you have to have detailed outlines for each book.

It just means that you have a good idea what will happen in each of the books in order to move the big plot forward. This way you know what to reveal and focus on in your first book. And you won't write yourself into the corner.

However, if you haven't outlined the series, you still can. Create a somewhat detailed outline of the second book, keeping the first book at hand.

Even if you're a pantser, I think some kind of outline will make the process much easier.

3. Series bible

A series bible contains everything you need to know about your series. Character sheets. World-building. Outlines. Photos. Whatever.

Once again, it would be ideal to make this before you start the series, but you can do this after having written the first book as well.

Use whatever you established in the first book to consolidate everything you may need going forward.

Then, keep this with you in order to maintain consistency and speed up the process.

I haven't really used a series bible before, but many authors swear by it. So, it might be worth a try.

4. Keep the first book at hand

Have the finished version of the first book with you while you write.

This way, you can check details you need when writing the sequel.

5. Don't fix what ain't broken

If your first book was a success or you liked it, don't try to change a lot of things in the sequel.

If the writing style and plotting style worked, keep on that trend. Use what you already know works.

You can obviously change things as you improve as a writer, but don't freak out over trying to make your sequel something completely new/different.

Trust yourself. You've written a book before. You can do it again.

Those are as many tips as I can give without personal experience. I hope that this helps somewhat.

Reblog if you like these tips. Comment with your own. Follow me for similar content.

[writerfae]

To be completely honest, I think the whole “fae fear cold iron” thing is a lie.

[writerfae]

@whisperinghallwaysofmirrors People say iron helps against fae because they fear it and it can hurt them. But I can’t really imagine it to be true. Why would they fear iron? Why does only iron hurt them and not other metals? Because it can be turned into a deadly weapon? Weapons of other materials are just as deadly, no? Church bells or crosses of iron? That’s not because of the iron itself but more because of the religious aspect. Also fae are not evil spirits and not “unholy” like one might say about vampires. And isn’t iron something natural, coming from the earth itself? Why would they fear something coming from nature, when they themselves come from nature? It doesn’t make sense to me. But that’s just my personal opinion.

[whisperinghallwaysofmirrors]

You are right that it is rather contradicting that fae can be harmed by iron. This assumption may be incorrect, but isn’t it possible this myth became paired by the renewed interests in historical myths and folklore by the Romanticism Movement? As in that the fae represent nature in its purest and mysterious state and that the iron represents industrialism? How nature decreases as urbanisation increases?

[writerfae]

When you look at it like that, it makes more sense, that’s true! Then it would be more of a metaphor, something modern.

(But from the classical perspective it really doesn’t make sense.)

[nikaalexandra]

the worst thing about writing is that you aren’t just a writer. you have to be a thousand things. a poet, a flirt, a weapons expert, a bleeding heart, a scholar, a legendary cook, a theorist, an engineer, a reckless teenage girl, a dying god. you have to be able to write monologues and speeches and heartfelt confessions, and you have to make them believable. writing is putting yourself into someone else’s shoes.

writing is really hard (◕︿◕✿)

[myrddinderwydd]

Writing is putting yourself in everyone else’s shoes.

[lilies-and-lavender]

Writing is a prime example of empathy.