Vesper

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[writing-vesper]

Hello, it is I, Vesper, and this is my tagging list.

memes: Silly, goofy posts that pertain to writing/fanfics

Writing Prompts: Various writing prompts.

Dialogue Prompts: Dialogue starter writing prompts

Writing Advice - Characters: Writing advice as it pertains to character creation.

Writing Advice - Practice: Writing advice on how to get better at writing.

Writing Advice - Body Language: Writing advice on writing body language.

Writing Advice - Misc: Miscellaneous writing advice.

Writing Resources: Resources for writers.

Story Reblog: Reblogging stories I've enjoyed reading.

Smut: Adult content.

Vesper Writes: Original posts

[castielscaplan]

16.4K Prompts <3

Anger/Angst Prompts (1,345 Prompts)

Apocalyptic World Prompts (430 Prompts)

Desperation/Fear Prompts (493 Prompts)

Enemies to Lover Prompts (680 Prompts)

Fluff Prompts (923 Prompts)

Gaslighting Prompts (170 Prompts)

Holiday/Seasonal Prompts (517 Prompts)

Horror Prompts (691 Prompts)

Hurt/Comfort/Jealousy Prompts (801 Prompts)

Mafia/Gangster/Mobster Prompts (653 Prompts)

Misc Prompts (1085 Prompts)

Manipulation Prompts (347 Prompts)

Mythical Creatures Prompts (2129 Prompts)

Occupations Prompts (1162 Prompts)

Pirate Prompts (277 Prompts)

Possessive Prompts (320 Prompts)

Random Titles Prompts (2657 Prompts)

Royalty Prompts (547 Prompts)

Sci - Fi Prompts (555 Prompts)

Soulmate Au Prompts (684)

updated October 4. 2025 -- added a bunch of Misc Prompts & Fic Titles.

PLEASE reblog if you use any of these/ wanna share with your writer friends!!

[writerformanymuses]

i don't cope with my trauma. i put it in my writing and make some other poor sap cope with my fucking trauma for me.

i'm doubling that shit and giving it to the next person.

[writing-vesper]

Love working through my trauma with my characters.

[thelemonthief3]

I wrote a banger of a novel in a month when I was 17 years old, and then never wrote anything ever again.

6 years. I have thoughts and ideas, plenty of them.

But every time I open up an empty doc and sit down to write, I have the most profound writers block of my life.

And the whole "word vomit story" thing doesn't work. I sit down to write and my brain suddenly forgets how to speak English.

I would love to write. I think it would bring me a lot of joy. But there's such a severe mental block and I have no idea how to get around it.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

How would you describe suburban gothic?

-The streetlights on your block keep flickering. Every time they go out, you think you can see something moving in the shadows. When they come back on, everything is still and you’re sure you were just imagining it.

-You take the wrong turn. You’re in a cul-de-sac you’ve never been to before. All the houses are identical. All the cars are identical. Didn’t you just pass that mother and her son already? They wave, but neither of their smiles reach their eyes.

-All the stores in the mall close an hour before the building does. You sit alone under the glowing light of the Cinnabon finishing your dinner and wonder why you never see anyone else here this late, but the parking lot is never empty when you leave.

-Outside, a dog barks. Your dog doesn’t respond. A car alarm goes off. Your dog snuffles in her sleep. When there’s a soft whisper in the bushes, though, her hackles raise and she begins to howl. Whatever’s lurking in the hedges is far more frightening than you can imagine.

-There’s a boy standing alone on the soccer field after practice. Whatever you do, don’t offer him a ride.

[invokingbees]

-The neatly arranged rows of houses have almost imperceptibly deformed over the many generations, changing back to the shapes of old paths that lead to places which still dwell just under the surface.

-The weeds and other vegetation in the field behind your house are getting out of control. They pile up in great spurts, and sometimes, the way they grow looks like a human figure rising out of the earth.

-They say you are what you eat. If that’s so, you don’t want to eat the locally sourced produce harvested from the fields where they say those hanged men were buried.

-Between 3 and 3:30pm every day, for the past week, a child is heard laughing in the street. It’s taken days to notice, but one day the realization slides into your brain: it’s the exact same laugh, every single time.

-An alarming number of people have suffered a heart attacks on the street outside the old Smith house.

-There used to be several wild dogs that lived here. People had to shut in their pets because of a few incidents. Then people had to shut in their children, because when one of the creatures was chased through the wet cement of a roadworks, the prints it left were human.

-Three rows of houses in Arlsford, with their high-walled back gardens, completely enclose an unreachable house. Despite this, the paint has not faded, the windows are clear, and the grass only marginally unkempt.

[in-the-inky-black]

Gated Suburb Gothic

~ Your lungs burn as you sprint down the street. Almost there. Almost. Your stomach drops. The gate is closed. You are trapped.

~ There are certain rules pertaining to what you can and cannot do to your yard. Your neighbor planted marigolds in her front garden. You haven’t seen her in days.

~ Never look out the windows when the streetlights go out. Lock your doors. If you hear knocking, it’s already too late.

~The guard booth has been empty for months. Flies are swarming around the window. You decide it’s best not to look.

~It’s easy to get lost in the labyrinthian streets of your neighborhood. After a while, the houses all begin to look the same. You notice that the clouds have stopped moving. All is silent.

~ You hear the slightly-off-tune jingle of an ice cream truck. The streets are empty. That night, it’s playing again, outside your window.

~ 5 P.M. The sprinklers in the yard across the street switch on, as usual. Nobody’s lived in that house for as long as you can remember.

[in-the-inky-black]

Small Town Gothic

~ You pass a church driving down Main Street. You pass a church driving down Main Street. You pass a church driving down Main Street.

~ Walking down the sidewalk, you pass someone unfamiliar. You turn to your friend and ask who it was. “Oh, you know….” But you do not know. Neither do they. No one does.

~ You notice the scratch marks every time you drive over that bridge. Nobody ever did find out what it was that jumped over the railing and into the water below that night.

~ You overhear someone talking about that abandoned diner on Oak Street. But it can’t be abandoned, you think. The lights are on every time you drive past it.

~ You’re out on your porch late at night when a pack of coyotes screams in the distance. You head back inside. Coyotes have never lived around here.

[solarsthoughts]

“are you okay? you look like you’re about to cry.”

well, i had what i thought was an amazing idea for a new wip at 2am last night, but then realised the plot made absolutely no sense whatsoever when i sat down to write it. so you tell me if i’m okay, melissa.

[writercultureis]

writer culture is writing two reviews, an essay on reviewing and five new half-baked story ideas instead of updating your wip.

and leaving those incomplete, too.

[writingwithfolklore]

Movement Kills Pacing

                Something my screenwriting prof told us that really stuck with me was “avoid just moving bodies through space”, as in—movement on its own isn’t storytelling. I sometimes get into this habit where I get so caught up in where my characters are spatially that I forget to tell the story in favour of clearing up who is where and what each movement is, ala:

                Anna walked over to the kitchen, picked up the pitcher and paused, deciding whether or not she wanted water, before crossing back through the living room and looking out the window, then walked back towards the kitchen yadda yadda yadda, you’re bored, I’m bored, this isn’t a story, this is someone walking around.

                As with everything in writing, I’m not saying movement should be cut out entirely, but I am saying that it works best when it’s used intentionally. In any normal scene, other than a quick set up of who is generally where at the start of the scene: (Anna sat in the driver’s seat, staring down at her phone as John fell into the passenger seat beside her), we don’t need to know every little movement they make—readers will assume and fill in the spaces where movement may seem obvious.

                Then, the best time to bring up movement again is either for a dramatic motion (Anna leapt from the car window, tumbling across the concrete), or a dramatic shift in emotion/psychology. (John’s brows furrowed tightly. Turning on his heel, he stormed from the room.)

                Essentially, if you can take it out, you should. We have to trust our readers that they will fill in all the spaces we leave—we don’t necessarily have to write it out for them.

                Good luck!

[writingwithfolklore]

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[nondelphic]

being a writer is just switching between “i am a literary god” and “why did i write this sentence like an alien who’s never met language.” there is no in between.

[writing-vesper]

Had a dream where there was a secret organization/company that matched eldridge beings with humans. There were a few rules about not causing purposeful severe damage to the human and keeping a mostly human shape unless asked otherwise.

Anyways. I had a scene where the nonhuman asking if they could "explore" their human companion with their tendrils. The human is curious If they'd be able to taste them...with the nonhuman answering with something to the effect of the tendrils are meant for information gathering in every capacity.

So like, sexy shadow tentacles exploding hunan's body...should I write this?

(it was unclear if it was in a dating type of way or more platonic. I'm leaning towards it being like an educational curiosity part on the inhuman creatures and humans just tended to form bonds with them out of a mental necessity.)

[sourdough-seal]

one time a professor asked me if i’d ever wanted to write anything “more important” than romance. and i said no. i was put on this earth to write about sad people kissing. and if another writer ever came up to me and said they wanted to write 400 pages containing nothing but a character baking a single loaf of bread each day, then i would tell them to do that. people don't write something because it's important. they write about something and that is what makes it important

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Let writers ramble to you about their stories and they will forever love you.

[ghostflowerdreams]

Other Important Survival Skills & Information

For whatever reason you’re here, knowing survival skills can save your life or your character’s life (especially for those writers out there that are researching this topic).

Basic Rules If You Are Lost And Alone In The Wilderness

Basic Wilderness Survival Skills

Celestial Navigation & Land Navigation - Navigation without a Compass

Finding True North Without a Compass

Telling Time Without A Clock: Scandinavian Daymarks

Wilderness Survival - Field-Expedient Direction Finding

Wilderness Survival - Contact With People

Wilderness Survival - Clouds: Foretellers Of Weather

Wilderness Survival - Camouflage

Wilderness Survival - Sea Survival

Wilderness Survival - Cold Weather Survival

Wilderness Survival - Tropical Survival

Wilderness Survival - Desert Survival

Wilderness Survival - Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, And Equipment

Wilderness Survival - Psychology of Survival

Wilderness Survival - Signaling Techniques

Morse Code

The Survivalist - Survival Gear: Make Your Own Signal Whistle

The Survivalist - Survival Skills: Signal Whistle Codes

The Survivalist - Survival Gear: How To Make A Compass

The Survivalist - Survival Skills: Folk Wisdom Weather Predictors

The Survivalist - How To Make Rope From Natural Fibers

The Survivalist - Tying Knots That Work

The Survivalist - More Knots That Work

The Survivalist - How To Make Your Own Tick And Bug Repellent

The Survivalist - How To Make A Toothbrush In The Field

The Survivalist - Insulate You Clothes To Survive The Cold

The Survivalist - Survival Skills: Find Natural Toilet Paper

Going To The Bathroom In The Woods 101

How To Go In The Woods

Plants That Repel Mosquitoes

One Green Planet - DIY Natural Insect Repellent

Preventing Bug Bites In The Woods

Homemade Natural Bug Spray Recipes

Bushcraft Camp Hygiene

Wilderness Hygiene

Preparing For Your First Year Trip — Wilderness Living

Camping and Cramping: How To Handle Your Period While You Enjoy The Great Outdoors

Hiking While Menstruating?

What Did Women Use For Menstruation In Europe and America From 1700 - 1900, And Probably Earlier?

Menstruation, Menstrual Hygiene and Woman’s Health in Ancient Egypt

Survival: Animal Attacks

How to Survive Wild Animal Attacks

[heywriters]

Old links, but some are still alive! Visit old websites, remind them they still matter!

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