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[writingmonster]

Part 3 of my dark fantasy short story collection based on Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood is live on my substack. Please give me a read and let me know your thoughts.

Glass Fangs

Beauty is A Beasty {Story 3}

[just-french-me-up]

Writer's affirmations:

no one is disappointed in you for not writing today

sometimes wips need to breathe a little

you will figure out how to write this scene

just because words aren't working now doesnt mean they won't forever

[localbookshop]

eskimo

[fallinoutoforbit]

Beauty Is A Beast

Glass Fangs, story three - A Preview

Here's the link for a sneak peek of the short story collection based on Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood. This is story 3 in the collection and the previous two stories have been posted to my substack. Please give me a read and share.

[promptcalender]

Tips for Describing Sensory Experiences

Sensory Focus: describing every single experience is going to overwhelm the reader. instead focus on those that stand out or actually advance the story.

Show, don‘t tell… unless you should tell: yes, usually showing is better than telling, but not everything needs to be packaged in wonderful words and metaphors. if it has no grander impact other than context or setting the mood, you can just say that the character is cold

Narrative Focus: depending on the narrator, the focus might be on different things. This can be influenced by interests, fears, emotional state, experience, ... (For example, someone who enjoys art/architectue/ fashion/... will focus on that particular aspect of their surroundings...)

Noticeable Abnormality: people are creatures of habit, they are unlikely to take conscious notice of things that are the exact same way they always are. Focus rather on things sensory experiences that are unusual; like an unusual scent when coming into a room, unusual heat, a car that doesn't fit into this part of the city, ...

Emotional State: someone‘s emotional state is going to influence how well they pay attention to their surroundings and which details they focus on (For example, someone who is frantic might miss details)

[Prompt Calender: June 24th, Celebration of the Senses Day]

[caats]

[ephemeralwizard]

[writingdose]

[nondelphic]

the feminine urge to abandon the novel and start a newer, hotter, less emotionally demanding novel

[caruccio]

The smell of books

[glassfrogforest]

[alunaloverworld]

[nondelphic]

i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene

[a-book-of-creatures]

Book that was good: I liked it 👍

Book that was bad: this sucked 👎

Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me

[nondelphic]

unfortunately my story needs a middle. i personally think this is excessive

[writers-bane]

How it feels to finally string 5 coherent sentences together after a writing block

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter