Oxford Comma Supremacy

| Main blog: sydney-cartonn | Side blog for writing, literature, and Linguistics | current wips #Luna Legacy Comics and #Aldus the Lost | Children’s and YA writer | This is also where I post art of my OCs bc why not |

[thelastwritingofmysoul]

Blog Navigation

This blog probably won’t be as organized as I want it to be, but I’ll make this post (and probably continue to edit it) as a navigation. Tbh this is more for myself than anything.

My Tags

#sydney’s thoughts: anything that is my original post

Current WIPS

I use these tags to tag anything I personally post about my work as well as reblogs that inspire my work

#aldus the lost: my medieval fantasy novel

#luna legacy comics: my children’s modern fantasy comic (currently my top priority project)

Other Tags

#writing advice: any posts dealing with writing tips or reminders. (also check #editing advice)

#story inspiration: anything that inspires my work, my writing mood in general. Some posts don’t directly have to deal with writing.

#writing resources: mostly posts that contain master lists of links to helpful writing websites or tools you can use (also check #fantasy resources and #linguistics resources for more specific subsets of this)

#diction help: posts mainly dealing with word choice (ex. bulky words to get rid of or lists of words to help describe specific things)

#grammar help: grammar talk and other technical writing things. 

#linguistics: (obviously) for linguistics and language stuff that doesn’t necessarily deal with writing.

#literature: dealing with discussion of books

#books to read: lists of suggested books/short stories to read

#character development: anything dealing with how to create or utilize your characters

#writing prompts: lists of prompts or things that inspire me to write

#writing positivity: Check this out if you feel bad about your writing or your ability to be a writer (also check #writing memes for laughs)

[ad-wills]

don't leave me!

[cedar-west-deactivated20230408]

Talking to people about your characters really is a game changer. You'll start saying things about them you didn't even know you knew.

[cedar-west-deactivated20230408]

[hallownest-archive-deactivated2]

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

[redporkpadthai]

The reason none of my wips get finished

[greengrassandcyansea]

Me just after opening a Word document

[animentality]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

[snowberry-pie]

new survey time. what Main Thing did you project onto your ocs. lay your heart out on the table in front of me i wanna see

[peigslayers]

obsessed with stories where you can never go home

[peigslayers]

you can never go home because you fell asleep for a thousand years and when you woke up and returned there, your society had changed, your house had fallen and all of your friends were dead. you can never go home because you made a choice and were shattered into pieces and your home was destroyed in your wake. you can never go home because someone took you and changed you against your will and although your home is the same, the person who belonged there is dead. you can never go home because you committed a crime and your family expelled you and even as they extend a hand of reconciliation, you will never forgive them. you can never go home because your home was a person and someone murdered her and now you drift and grieve to the point of insanity. you can never go home because you never knew your sister but she gave you every opportunity you have and now she's dead and your parents see nothing but her in your eyes.

[myoxisbroken-deactivated2024022]

[canismajors]

still so obsessed w the empty gaping hole characters that never actually appear in the story leave like god. you can see the shape of them

[writingmaz]

World Building

Creating Land

❂

⥇ agriculture

⟿ what is grown in abundance? how common is farmland? where is the farmland?

⥇ architecture

⟿ what kind of buildings? how tall/spacious? what are they made of? how well made? how well planned?

⥇ animals

⟿ what wild animals are lurking in the area? hunting? any animals affecting the livestock or agriculture?

⥇ biomes

⟿ desert? tundra? grassland? forest? savanna?

⥇ bodies of water

⟿ seas? lake? ponds? rivers? fresh water/salt water? fishing? keep in mind, settlements are often built near bodies of water

⥇ climate

⟿ dry? rainy? temperate? tropical? polar? how have people adjusted to this climate?

⥇ elevation

⟿ altitude? how does the altitude affect lifestyle?

⥇ geology

⟿ rocky? types of rocks?

⥇ landforms

⟿ mountains? valleys? plateaus? plains? hills? glaciers? peninsulas? volcanos? canyons?

⥇ latitude / longitude

⟿ location on planet? how does it affect other elements of land?

⥇ livestock

⟿ common domesticated animals? common animal usages?

⥇ minerals

⟿ any valuable minerals / metals? are they mined regularly? how are they used?

⥇ natural disasters

⟿ earthquake? tornado? volcano? duststorm? flood? hurricane? tsunami? how often do these occur? protocols?

⥇ population

⟿ how many people? how dense is the population? how does the population affect surrounding nature?

⥇ resources

⟿ what is abundant? scarce? how are they used? how available are they?

⥇ sacred land

⟿ religiously important land? historical importance? widely accepted as sacred? how is it honored?

⥇ soil

⟿ good or bad for vegetation? rocky?

⥇ tectonic activity

⟿ earthquake frequency? volcano frequency? trenches?

⥇ topography

⟿ how common are maps? how accurate? how long have they been around? who makes them?

⥇ vegetation

⟿ what is abundant? scarce? what grows easily? with difficulty? what is commonly foraged? who forages? plant types? tree types?

[skulandcrossbones]

What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

[everythingliar]

[Image description: 4-panel comic. December 9, 2017. Panel 1: Sometimes I worry that nobody wants to read the things I want to write. Panel 2: But I want to read them. Panel 3: And I am a real person even if I don’t always feel like it. Panel 4: So I’ll keep writing.]

[sweatermuppet]

devotion that corrupts is my favorite btw there's nothing wrong with it ever & it should be encouraged

[froyo-ocs]

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol