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thorn. 24. they/he. intj. cst.

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[writerscastle]

looking for mods!

I’m getting a new (18+) Writer’s Group set up on discord and am looking for a couple of mods to help me. I’ve been in discords but I’ve never set one up and run one on (what I hope will be) a larger scale.

Mods need to have experience modding a discord server and a love of writing!

Fill out this Google Form if interested!

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[writerscastle]

looking for mods!

I’m getting a new (18+) Writer’s Group set up on discord and am looking for a couple of mods to help me. I’ve been in discords but I’ve never set one up and run one on (what I hope will be) a larger scale.

Mods need to have experience modding a discord server and a love of writing!

Fill out this Google Form if interested!

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[writerscastle]

LOOKING FOR MODS!

I’m getting a new (18+) Writer’s Group set up on discord and am looking for a couple of mods to help me. I’ve been in discords but I’ve never set one up and run one on (what I hope will be) a larger scale.

Mods need to have experience modding a discord server and a love of writing!

Fill out this Google Form if interested!

[vellichorwrites]

jay. 26. they/he. writeblr.

i know i haven’t been here in like 2 years or whatever

but if you want to catch up! i’m over here trying to get back to writing

[writerscastle]

LOOKING FOR MODS!

I’m getting a new (18+) Writer’s Group set up on discord and am looking for a couple of mods to help me. I’ve been in discords but I’ve never set one up and run one on (what I hope will be) a larger scale.

Mods need to have experience modding a discord server and a love of writing!

Fill out this Google Form if interested!

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

[audacityinblack]

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice. 

[ariaste]

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book. 

[just-a-jumbled-writer]

Holy shit.

[shiraglassman]

These sound like techniques for making prose have more in common with poetry, or even with music. I just put the book on hold at the library!

[peppermintstranger]

Chanel de Leon Gomez — born in 1999 — Dominican Republic

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3

[lutra-panchi]

A Note on Magical Word Structure

While scanning through a lot of magic posts on tumblr, I’ve seen a lot of tags misusing suffixes. In particular “-mancy” gets used as a general term for magic works, I guess because it just sounds mystical in nature. As someone deeply in love with facts and the English language, such misappropriations van be a little off putting. With one simple search, it would be immediately and obviously revealed that -mancy specifically refers to forms of divination; i.e. cartomancy, the use of cards in divination.

The obvious exception is of course, ‘necromancy’. The term actual literally means ‘conferring with the dead as a mean to divine answers’, but modern media has bastardized the word into encompassing a strange hodgepodge of dark arts involving corspes. This is wholey inaccurate, and probably is the single reason for that abuse of -mancy. However, the fact that we study eclectic wisdom not typically included in modern academia, is no excuse to abandon higher study practices and formal education. And so, I present a brief list of suffixes and how they can and are applied to magic.

-Mancy: A form of divination.

(CRYSTALLOMANCY: Divination by crystal gazing.)

-Graphy: Writing or feild of study.

(TASSEOGRAPHY: Study of tea leaves)

-Tion: Action of.

(INCANTATION: Act of chanting.)

-Ology: Study of.

(NUMEROLOGY: Study of numbers.)

-Ism: Practice or system of.

(MYSTICISM: Practising mystic arts.)

-Ry: Occupation of.

(PALMISTRY: Work of reading palms.)

-Ic: Having characteristics of.

-Scopy/Scope: Examination of.

(HOROSCOPE: Examination of a time.)

-Sis: Action, state, condition, or process of.

(TELEKINESIS: Process of long distance psychic interaction.)

-Magy: A form of magic.

The suffix -Magy would be a much more logical end to a custom word describing a practice of magic, and far better than the overused -mancy. For instance, magic with technology would become ‘technomagy’. Magic involving thoughtforns would become ‘tulpamagy’. It’s a slight change in spelling and pronunciation, but a huge shift in meaning.

I hope this will clear up some confusion on not only naming of magic practises, but also understanding the meaning of names of existing practices. As always, I’ll update this post as I find more useful ideas, and I’ll probably also make an extensive list of magic related studies and words for reference purposes.