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Writing is about dealing with failure all the time. Writing is about very often not quite getting to what you’re hoping to get to. Then coming back the next day and getting closer or realizing, “Oh, that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was.”
Brian Koppelman on “Accidental Creative” (via graphei)
I want to kiss the palm of your hand Bury my words Lose my thoughts between your fingers Place my lips on the arch of your shoulder Breathe you in like a dose of cocaine Plant my kiss on the curve of your neck For an eternity tasting your honey Brush my lips against your collarbone Instilling my scent in your skin Sink my teeth into your hot flesh Lustily feast upon your fire Rest my lips on yours Quench the thirst of hundreds dreams unborn Or too soon crumbled Piece me back together With the melding of our breaths.
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(Sketches For) The Dope Fiend's Regime
1st January, 2016 1am
pure and pristine
robbed of my youth
a dragon breathed fire into my lungs
barely sixteen
“only this once,” I cried
tongue tied
but soon earned an aching sweet tooth
for a devil and his charm
as Satan is not ugly and foul
but the most handsome
stygian majesty
master of disguise
and Billy
left hopeless
alone to die
but he was selfish
so selfish
to take the easy way out
me, left back to get by
yearning for a high
only temporary
constantly fleeting
a lacking sense of empathy
hanging heavy in the air
aluminium scorching hot
shadows danced upon the walls
sense of self impaired
a simple remedy
proved true
a guilty conscience jaded
I lie there naked and sedated
carried to the heavens
redemption depraved
I lied and stole for you
all so I could score
a slave
your silly little whore
a pawn
in your devious scheme
but no more
it’s my turn now
before I’ve gone
revenge
repossession
the dope fiend’s regime
prompt 415
If I wake in the night, I know he’s somewhere in the room.
He comes to me as a black shape, grotesquely deformed, hunched, arms scraping the ground. And then the shivering starts, for with him comes the cold. I try to trick him into thinking I haven’t noticed him, maybe buy some time. I stay still, paralyzed, until I can get myself back under control, relax my muscles, calm my heart. He stays until I’m strong enough to banish him, pushing him out of the room with my thoughts. I know he’ll be back, though. He’ll never stop his visits. They’re on some brutal calendar he keeps.
I have to keep reminding myself My worst days in recovery are better than my best days in relapse Because perhaps When the voices in my head Won’t let me go to bed I still make the choice to wake up in the morning
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Second Week: NaNoWriMo Tips
The second week is super important during NaNoWriMo because it could either make or break your writing goals. Even if you didn’t have a good start during the first week or have somewhat fallen behind on your word count, please don’t throw in the towel now. Actually—never throw in the towel during NaNoWriMo. Any progress you make is a success. It’s something you’ve added to your story that wasn’t there before. Embrace any amount of progress and work from there.
Here are a few tips to keep you going during NaNoWriMo:
Take a look at your outline
Now’s a great time to check out your outline and readjust your outline’s direction. There’s a good chance something has changed in your story that you didn’t plan for, so figure out how your outline should change based on that. Is it up-to-date? Does it help you reach the next day’s word count? Take a look and see what will help.
Create more realistic goals
If your goal was to write 75,000 words and you’ve only reached 1,000 so far, it’s safe to say you need to be more realistic about your goals. Unless you’re planning on rallying for the next couple weeks and you know that’s a possibility for you, then go for it. If not, try to hit something more manageable. That doesn’t mean you’ve failed in any way, it just means your goals might have been too lofty to begin with. Remind yourself of your progress and keep going!
Familiarize yourself with what you’ve written
If you’re having trouble building on what you’ve written, maybe take some time to read it over. Familiarize yourself with how you started and decide where you’re going to go next. Take notes. Look at your outline. Know your characters. You can’t build on something that you can’t remember. Sometimes taking a step back will help you move forward.
Have a writing marathon!
Don’t forget to have fun and plan something exciting! Get together with a friend and work on your projects. Stay up all night and let your writing take you to new places. If you work and you can swing it, consider taking a personal day that’s all about you and your writing. I know a lot of people feel weird about doing that, but it’s nice to do things just to treat yourself. Keep it fun and enjoy the process as much as you can.
-Kris Noel
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via strandbooks)
Write your life story in five pages or less.
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
Paul Rudnik (via writingquotes)
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.
Roger C. Shank (via writingquotes)
This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).
✑ PLANNING
Outlining & Organizing
For the Architects: The Planning Process
Rough Drafts
How do you plan a novel?
Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character
Plotting and Planing
I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?
Choosing the Best Outline Method
How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Effectively Outlining Your Plot
Conflict and Character within Story Structure
Outlining Your Plot
Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
✑ INSPIRATION
Finding story ideas
Choosing ideas and endings
When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
Finishing Your Novel
Finish Your Novel
How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit
How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan
✑ PLOT
In General
25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story
The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development
Originality Is Overrated
How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps
Finding Plot: Idea Nets
The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure
Make your reader root for your main character
Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
Adding Subplots to a Novel
Weaving Subplots into a Novel
7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel
Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot
How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext
Understanding the Role of Subplots
How to Use Subtext in your Writing
The Secret Life of Subtext
How to Use Subtext
Beginning
Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)
Why First Chapters?
Starting with a Bang
In the Beginning
The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel
A Beginning from the Middle
Starting with a Bang
First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer
23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story
Start Writing Now
Done Planning. What Now?
Continuing Your Long-Format Story
How to Start a Novel
100 best first lines from novels
The First Sentence of a Book Report
How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book
How to Write the First Sentence of a Book
The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening
Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing and the Red Hering
Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing and Suspense
Foreshadowing Key Details
Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing
The Literary Device of Foreshadowing
All About Foreshadowing in Fiction
Foreshadowing
Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing
Setting
Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
Write a Setting for a Book
Writing Dynamic Settings
How To Make Your Setting a Character
Guide for Setting
5 Tips for Writing Better Settings
Building a Novel’s Setting
Ending
A Novel Ending
How to End Your Novel
How to End Your Novel 2
How to End a Novel With a Punch
How to End a Novel
How to Finish a Novel
How to Write The Ending of Your Novel
Keys to Great Endings
3 Things That End A Story Well
Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid
Endings that Ruin Your Novel
Closing Time: The Ending
✑ CHARACTER
Names
Behind the Name
Surname Meanings and Origins
Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames
Common US Surnames & Their Meanings
Last Name Meanings & Origins
Name Generators
Name Playground
Different Types of Characters
Ways To Describe a Personality
Character Traits Meme
Types of Characters
Types of Characters in Fiction
Seven Common Character Types
Six Types of Courageous Characters
Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)
Building Fictional Characters
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Character Building Workshop
Tips for Characterization
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills
Males
Strong Male Characters
The History and Nature of Man Friendships
Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)
‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship
Male Friendship
Understanding Male Friendship
Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling
Character Development
P.O.V. And Background
Writing a Character: Questionnaire
10 Days of Character Building
Getting to Know Your Characters
Character Development Exercises
✑ STYLE
Chapters
How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?
The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter
How Long is a Chapter?
How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?
Chapter & Novel Lengths
Section vs. Scene Breaks
Dialogue
The Passion of Dialogue
25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue
Dialogue Writing Tips
Punctuation Dialogue
How to Write Believable Dialogue
Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech
Writing Scenes with Many Characters
It’s Not What They Say …
Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
Speaking of Dialogue
Dialogue Tips
Interrupted Dialogue
Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue
Show, Don’t Tell (Description)
“Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder
The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bad Creative Writing Advice
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do
DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell
GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell
Writing Style: What Is It?
Detail Enhances Your Fiction
Using Sensory Details
Description in Fiction
Using Concrete Detail
Depth Through Perception
Showing Emotions & Feelings
Character Description
Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)
Help with Character Development
Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page
Omitting Character Description
Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T
Character Crafting
Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”
Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?
5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring
List of colors, hair types and hairstyles
List of words to use in a character’s description
200 words to describe hair
How to describe hair
Words used to describe the state of people’s hair
How to describe your haircut
Hair color sharts
Four Ways to Reveal Backstory
Words Used to Describe Clothes
Flashbacks
Using Flashbacks in Writing
Flashbacks by All Write
Using Flashback in Fiction
Fatal Backstory
Flashbacks as opening gambit
Don’t Begin at the Beginning
Flashbacks in Books
TVTropes: Flashback
Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction
3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks
The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks
How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing
Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?
Forum Discussing Flackbacks
P.O.V
You, Me, and XE - Points of View
What’s Your Point of View?
Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
How to Start Writing in the Third Person
The Opposite Gender P.O.V.
LANGUAGE
How To Say Said
200 Words Instead of Said
Words to Use Instead of Said
A List of Words to Use Instead of Said
Alternatives to “Walk”
60 Synonyms for “Walk”
✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS
Grammar Monster
Google Scholar
GodChecker
Tip Of My Tounge
Speech Tags
Pixar Story Rules
Written? Kitten!
TED Talks
DarkCopy
Family Echo
Some Words About Word Count
How Long Should My Novel Be?
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”
Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!
“Don’t look at me like that- like I should pity you.”
"Imperfections are what it means to be human."
21/09/15, 3:40a
Write about the last person who kissed you.
The ultimate struggle: having hundreds of unread books but not having the slightest clue as to what you want to read next
I bleed my soul into these words, scream my existence onto this paper, breathe my entire being into these stories.
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