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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

(Also, check my blog if you want to!)

monroe-marilyn

Black Swan (2010) || Spongebob Squarepants (1999-)

prokopetz

More seriously, there’s a pattern you tend to see play out any time there’s a major war:

1. Everybody involved hires a bunch of soldiers. (Obviously.)

2. The war ends, and the big players get to thinking “you know, it would be a lot cheaper to just not pay any of those soldiers we hired to fight our war for us.”

3. So they don’t, leaving a whole bunch of large groups of well trained, heavily armed men stranded and broke wherever they happened to be when the war ended.

4. Fast forward ten years, and those same big player are going “where did all these bandits come from, and why are they kicking our asses?”

It’s a common enough trajectory that you can basically predict which periods in history will see a surge of outlawry that ends up getting romanticised in subsequent popular culture by looking for the war a decade earlier.

Pirates follow the same pattern. Though there have been several periods throughout history that have been called “the Age of Piracy”, the one that most directly informs the romantic image of the pirate in modern popular culture is the period from 1715-1725 – i.e., right on the tail of the War of the Spanish Succession, which wound down in 1714. And sure enough, a great many of the pirates who operated during that period were former privateers who’d been cheated of their pay and left to rot when the war ended, or else got their start in the piracy trade as members of an ex-privateer’s crew.

So when I say that pirates are the feral counterpart to the domesticated privateer, I’m only partly joking – that’s more or less literally how it happened!

vergak

yallive-deactivated20260426

godspeed mr poopy

determinate-negation

why are these kids just out here in their prom pics looking like the personified embodiment of capitalism and america that youd see in an old soviet propaganda poster

vaporize-employers

i can tell you right now that these are rich people. it’s not the hot tub in the background. it’s not even the money suit. it’s the fact that both girls are dressed and styled like women in their 40s. seriously, i have two cousins who are rich as hell and this is how they dress. ive seen pictures of groups of them flocked together, usually somewhere with a golf course in the background, every last one of them dressed exactly like their mothers. i dont know why. but i can tell you right now with absolute certainty these girls went to a debutante ball and have had their own horse since they were 10. they named it trudy or something. i know all this because those girls are about to leave the house looking like the desperate housewives and nobody sees anything wrong with that

khaleesiofalldragons-deactivate

Damn, chill^ I purchased my first horse as a child with birthday funds, lets save all that salt for fries honey.

determinate-negation

“i purchased my first horse as a child with birthday funds”

vaporize-employers

“my first horse”

suspend

why is everyone dying to go to the cemetery????

apostatefrog

Gather ‘round kids: I had a coworker mention to me this morning that it’s impossible to get grease stains out of fabric. As a former chemistry minor who worked two years under the table doing housekeeping and who generally tends to be a fucking disaster, I am here to tell everyone that it absolutely is not impossible, in case this is a widespread belief. Here are a few of my favorite cleaning stain removers that I always have at home.

Here are some options:

A Tide™ pen.

I’m a generic kinda lady. I hate promoting brands 99% of the time. BUT if you catch absolutely any kind of stain before it gets ground in, you can get most of it out with one of these babies. I’ve tested it on blood, chocolate, coffee, guacamole, pizza sauce, red wine on, on that one time i accidentally slopped some oil I was supposed to be using on antiques onto a fancy rug (also an antique but not the one I was gunning for). If you’re washing something delicate, pump it onto your finger a couple of times and gently rub it in. I’m not sure what they put in these things but I’m pretty sure it’s an arcane secret.

Dish soap

Granted, this is a little trickier for upholstery/carpet, but it can still be done using a rag, some water, and some patience. But for clothing, just pour some soap on the stain and rub it in under cold running water.

Absolutely any clear alcohol is your new best friend

You know the old “white wine to clean red” trick? Well, this is its updated sister I like to call “you, too, can use coconut rum to get red jello shot out of your nice white dress”. It’s a nice party trick. Straight vodka works even better. For every day situations involving any kind of alcohol-related spills (including markers)–and especially work situations–rubbing alcohol is ideal. To quote another adage, this one from every chemistry teacher you will ever meet, “like dissolves like.”

Hydrogen Peroxide

It can get blood out of absolutely anything, including your mattress. It reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, which breaks down the molecule, causing it to lose its red color. So make sure you’re not using a cast iron skillet to wash your period underwear in.

Vinegar

This will dissolve lime buildup overnight. Fill a bag, tie it around your showerhead, and presto. You can also use it to scrub the area around your sink and to break up any buildup in pipes. (Limeaway™ is for rich people.)

Baking soda

This is great if you have a pet or child who peed on the carpet. Just cover the area, wait until it dries, and vacuum it up. The longer you leave it, the better it will do at removing the smell. It’s also good removing mild odors from a small space, like a fridge or a laundry hamper.

Charcoal

This is your heavy duty odor killer. A little goes a long way. In chemistry, activated charcoal is used as a purifier in reactions, and in medicine, it can be used to treat mild poisoning/overdoses. In your car that smells like someone died because you forgot you had potatoes in the trunk for six months? All you need are regular old charcoal briquettes. Stick a couple handfuls in a flat box and the smell will be gone overnight. Guaranteed. For larger areas, just use more charcoal.

captainlordauditor

Baking soda is also good for stuff stuck on pots pans and your stove top. Add a little bit of water and elbow grease and it’s like magic

@howtogrowthefuckup

madamehardy

Baby shampoo will get oil stains out of clothing even if it’s been washed and dried several times. Shampoo is formulated to remove oil from organic stuff.

inmysewingbox

Fabric cleaning tips. good to know for sewers.

badass-art-tutorials

Helpful!!!

curioscurio

My Foretold Mario movie predictions:

"haha we know we're in a video game a la Wreck-it-Ralph"

Luigi does a Fortnite dance

some multiple universe gimmick

toad falls into the "cute adorable little guy with deep voice and is actually kind of violent" animated trope

Peach girlboss moment where she rescues herself from Bowser and someone has to make a comment about it so they can say something like "just because im a girl doesn't mean I can't fight! also sexism is BAD!"

waluigi is not in the film

Jack Black absolutely kills it as Bowser

Chris Pratt actually does a decent Italian accent but still doesn't sound like Mario

Charles Martinet has a Stan Lee esque cameo and one line

The plot introduces a villain that all the characters have to team up against to defeat including Bowser, and the villain somehow doesn't even feel like a Mario character

Toad almost says a swearword or the swear word gets replaced with a child appropriate but still recognizable substitute ( "What the Fire Flower!?!?" "You son of a BULLET")

Seth Rogan does not change his voice in any way for Donkey Kong

innuendo line referencing magic mushrooms "for the adults"

mario is mean to luigi

pop song sung by celebrity that doesn't fit in with the rest of the soundtrack

toby fox is revealed to have composed an absolute banger final boss battle song

curioscurio

I'm just so absolutely sure about Peach Girlboss Moment that she gets 4 spaces

greatestjubilee

took an L today

mocksyoucondescendingly

whitepeopletwitter

ohlivish

handageddon

HEY WAIT A MINUTE!! Wasnt there a post like that? Like someone liveblogged being attacked and they just played possum because they felt awkward?? Or maybe they pretended to drown in someone’s pool just to be a dick and didn’t know when to stop until they were hidden in a closet. Or something

Am I making sense to anyone?

benthicpressure

andmyvape-deactivated20260103

You are my hero for finding this

sixmapleleafs

I found this on tiktok and I laughed so hard so I thought I’d share on here

It’s so chaotic I love it

the-privateer

just so you guys are all aware, the only reason gritty exists is allegedly because the NHL made a rule that every team HAD to have a mascot and were apparently assholes about it. so the fliers made him as a chaotic fuck you. hell the first tweet made on his official account was a "sleep with one eye open" threat towards another mascot for making fun of his design

0v9

are we not going to talk about how he launched an entire sheetcake into that man’s face, probably killing him?

lavender-truth

He also collects crystals

tenaflyviper

I fucking love Gritty.

artyphex

“There are no female aliens in our game because we don’t know how to make a female version of this alien” You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to do

Make her shorter if you must

Make her BIGGER if you aren’t a coward