Inkling

Writing prompts! || Fantasy Writer || Avid Learner || Cat-Dragon Seeker || Airbender || She/Her || Asian || Demisexual All of my responses involve my OCs. Want to buy me a coffee? Here's my ko-fi!

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Hi! The name's Ink, and I write fantasy novels! Most of the posts you will find here are of word prompts that I post, as well as a few other small writing thoughts I might have. Here's a list of my WIPs!

Speed Demon - an ongoing novel about a drag racer who gets stuck in a love triangle between her best friend and a detective investigating the death of her father. Romance, Chick-lit. Read Bonnie's story here.

Sight Amongst the Constellations - a novel about a mother who has to protect her daughter from the evil forces of the living and the dead. Urban Fantasy, Chick-lit. Still being planned.

From The Ashes Rose A Queen - an ongoing coming of age novel about how a normal girl becomes the most powerful mage in the world--saving the world in the process. High Fantasy. Read Mavis' story here.

A Guardian's Purpose - soon to be retitled, this is a book about a man who has to come to terms with the emotional and mental struggles he ignored for centuries in order to defeat an ancient evil. Urban Fantasy, Action. Currently being rewritten, but the beginning of Chase's story can be found here.

The Cerulean King - previously titled The Last True Alpha, this is a novel about a male werewolf who must learn the ways of his demisexual mate, while also fighting the forces of the rogues, witches, and warlocks. Werewolf, Romance, Action. Currently being rewritten.

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Word Prompt #70:

“Diaphanous”– characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through; characterized by extreme delicacy of form (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #69:

“Ersatz”– being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #68:

“Calamity”– a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering; a state of deep distress or misery caused by misfortune or loss (Merriam-Webster)

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Small note - this is my absolute favorite word. Plus, one of my MC's daughters is named Calamity...

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Word Prompt #67:

“Azure”– the blue color of the clear sky; the heraldic color blue; the unclouded sky (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #66:

“Ballistic”– extremely and usually suddenly excited, upset, or angry; of or relating to the science of the motion of projectiles in flight (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #65:

“Akimbo”– having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward; set in a bent position (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #64:

“Treasure”– wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded; something of great worth or value (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #63:

“Magic”– the use of means believed to have supernatural power over natural forces; magic rites (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #62:

“Stamina”– the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity; the moral or emotional strength to continue with a difficult process, effort (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #61:

“Health”– the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; a condition in which someone or something is thriving or doing well (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #60:

“Speed”– the act or state of moving swiftly (Merriam-Webster)

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Word Prompt #59:

“Tremble”– to shake involuntarily (as with fear or cold); to move, sound, pass, or come to pass as if shaken or tremulous; to be affected with great fear or anxiety (Merriam-Webster)

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8 Ways to Get Past Writers Block

Read. Read a lot. Read everything you can, but don’t read like a reader, read like a writer. If you’re doing it right, there’s nothing that gets the juices flowing quite as well. This is the way you develop your style; you see things you like and things you don’t like in books and you put these values into your writing.

Read a good book. Reading a good book is why you got into writing in the first place, right? There’s something new you can learn from every book. You can see what works well and what you ARE doing. It’s inspiring to read good writing and it makes you want to try harder where you might be lacking.

Read a bad book. Not only will reading a bad published book make the world feel more hopeful, but it will make you see what you can avoid doing in your novel and what you KNOW you can do better than them.

Find other writers. Connecting with other writers is so important, whether online or in person. Not only is it nice to able to share your writing, but knowing you have a group or person to depend on with your same goals in mind is motivating. Even just talking through ideas with someone tends to yield more powerful results, and they have their own tips and trick they’ve learned that may help you.

Break it up. Chapters are there for both readers and writers. If you can get through one chapter, you can get through them all. Even make a different word document for each chapter if you need to. It will stop you more from going back and getting caught up in your plot holes that occurred fifty pages earlier.

Read the last page you wrote. The darkest of my writers block days have been stopped with this technique. Tell yourself you’ll just read the last page, maybe edit some phrasing. Then write the next page. Stopping off in the middle of a sentence helps as well. All this settles you into your story gently and gets you involved and editing a more polished draft at the end.

Keep notes. Texts messages can be sent to your email. Finding a pen and paper is hard sometimes, so you can just text ideas to your email. Not only is this handy to get fresh ideas down, but every time you check your email you’ll see these awesome ideas. Or keep a notebook if that works for you. Or write in the margins of your school work. Just get the ideas out.

Immerse yourself. The reason you started your story is because you have such a huge passion for it. What you need to do is remind yourself of these reasons as much as possible. Surround yourself with writing and creativity. Think about how your characters would respond to situations you find yourself in. Describe people you see in the streets as you would if you were introducing them to a novel. Look for people that look like your characters. Tell your friends about your book, give them your ideas. If your life isn’t a little bit about your story, you’re not doing it right.

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What made you interesting in writing, i love writing, but sometimes i don't feel motivated, how do you get motivated?

To sometimes lack motivation is 100% normal. Not just for beginners and hobbyists, but for your favorite published authors too.

I became interested in writing as soon as I learnt to write. I didn’t become obsessed with it until I found other writers online and saw what they were up to. I literally didn’t know fanfiction was a thing and that I’d been writing it for years. That alone motivated me to write more.

When you’re not motivated to work on your story or come up with new ideas, there are many easy things you can try, like:

keep a journal/diary

practice describing people, places, and things you see during your day

collect images that inspire you to write; face claims, fantasy settings, etc.

create playlists of songs that motivate you to write or remind you of your characters

record dialogue and gestures of people you see/hear and interact with

find prompts or interesting images and write quick stories based on them

look at art

travel

READ some books, especially ones outside your preferred genre

watch TV and movies

exercise, sleep well, eat well, and your brain will work better

take an idea you hate or a story that bugs you and rewrite/fix it

write a letter to someone you see as a role model, but don’t name them

describe life on earth to an alien, starting with something simple like a toothbrush

study a different era in history, maybe an era in another country’s history

describe life in your country/era to a foreigner/time traveler

…and dozens of other options. Hope some of these tips work for you!

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Word Prompt #58:

“Torn”– past participle or tear: to separate parts of or pull apart by force; to wound by or as if by pulling apart by force (Merriam-Webster)

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