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If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers
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Morally grey: A character who does too much bad to be a good person, but does too much good to be a bad person.
Sympathetic villain: A character who is a bad person, but whose backstory/character arc makes you feel sorry for or sympathetic towards them.
Anti-hero: A character who does bad things to achieve a good goal.
Anti-villain: A character who does bad things to achieve a goal that they believe to be good, but is actually messed up.
Just plain annoying: A character who does bad things to achieve a bad goal but has one throwaway line about a hard childhood that is expected to put them into one of the aforementioned categories when in reality it just makes them annoying
no offense but male protagonists whose strength comes from empathy, compassion and humanity will always be more interesting than snarky assholes who punch everything and treat everyone around them like shit
holy shit
This… this is what lightning magic is supposed to be like.
NaNoWriMo: Hey!!! Are you ready???
Me: HELL YEAH I'M READY TO FUCKING DIE
Imagine your otp
Person a: FUCK! Person b: language Person a: English
When you’re excited to bring pain to your readers as an author, and then realize you put yourself in pain as well.
🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊
please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.
🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night.
🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin.
🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy.
🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind.
🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure.
🌊 Aicaya - Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea.
🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics
🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness.
🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk.
🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology.
🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology.
🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet
🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life.
🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish.
🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.
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Lorelei - a water siren who lives on the Rhine river, Germany, and lures sailors who follow her beautiful singing onto shallow rocks and to their deaths.
Mami Wata - West African and Yoruba water spirit, often with a woman’s upper body and the hindquarters of a fish or serpent. Known to abduct people off the water, she remains feared and venerated in various countries.
How To Write a Killer Sex Scene: An Illustrated Guide.
@silkoversteel asked:
HI first of all, thank you for this blog it’s fantastic and super helpful and secondly, I was wondering if you would know of any posts/articles about writing sex well? Particularly gay and lesbian sex well? Because it is something that I want to explore writing, but as an asexual, I have no experience of my own and I want to write it realistically. Thanks!!
Great question. There are different ways to incorporate sex scenes into your work, and none are less valid than the others: maybe you want to keep sex more abstract, more artistic and emotional. Maybe you want to focus predominantly on how your characters feel for each other and leave the mechanics of the sex itself up to the reader’s imagination.
Some people prefer to take the “fade to black approach” after the characters kiss, or just show the reader the aftermath (i.e. them lying in bed together, undressed, possibly smoking a cigarette if you want to get French about it) and let them fill in the blanks.
However, since you specifically said you were interested in writing about sex, I’m going to presume you don’t want to skimp on any of the sordid details. So, fair warning to my readers that this post will get a tiny bit graphic, and definitely a lot less PG-13 than I usually talk about on my blog. It’s also probably not the best thing to read at work, around small children, or in front of your grandma.
So without further ado, let us begin!
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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE! Don’t ignore this in your writing!
When you’re excited to bring pain to your readers as an author, and then realize you put yourself in pain as well.
Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel
It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.
For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits.
Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer.
You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?
And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.
Enjoy ^_^
This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways.
For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.
Don’t believe me?
Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.
One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.
Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past.
The Writing Process
Phase One: THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST STORY EVER
Phase Two: Haha writing easy, I'm so good at it
Phase Three: Hmm I'm kind of stuck now
Phase Four: PUSH ON, THIS BOOK IS GREAT
Phase Five: This is not going exactly right
Phase Six: *rereads writing so far*
Phase Seven: THIS IS HORRIBLE THIS IS GARBAGE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS. WHAT IS THIS TRASH I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK I SUCK
Phase Eight: Internal screaming and dying slowly inside
Phase Nine: Abandons draft
Phase Ten: Watches Netflix
“Come on, you can’t just go peeking into another witches spellbook. We all have spells we’re not proud of.”
Imagine: "That's What I Love Most About You"
So Person A and Person B are at dinner with some of their friends. The dinner is going fine until Person C opens their mouth. Person C is an asshat. No one is really sure why they are friends with Person C but then again we are all friends with at least one asshat for some reason.
Anyways, Person A is talking to the table about something they are passionate about. They are animated, their eyes light up and they can’t stop smiling. Person B notices all these things about Person A and can’t help but think that this what they love most about Person A.
Then, Person C bashes Person A and calling what they are passionate about stupid and how it’s a waste of time. Person A is shocked and upset so they decided to not say anything. Person C then takes their silence as a form of to continue ridiculing Person A.
This goes in until Person B can’t take it anymore and stand ups for Person A. Person B yells at the Person C calling them insensitive and an asshole.
Person B then goes on to says how much they love how Person A lights up when they talk about the thing they love the most and if Person C has a problem with that, they should get out. Person C rolls their eyes and leaves.
Person A, since they are sitting right next to Person B, reaches over and laces their hand with Person B as if to say, “Thank you. ”
Person B looks over and squeezes their hand. Anytime, love, anytime.
More imagines here
Imagine: "I fell for you"
Person A is having a hard time writing a scene for their book so they decided to turn to their best friend, Person B.
Person A: “Hey, have you ever felt in love before?”
Person B: *small, shy smile* “Yeah, why?”
Person A: Can you describe it to me, please?!“
Person B goes on to describe how they felt. Pretty soon, Person B starts saying really specific things that could only apply to Person A. Person B then confesses to Person A and vice versa.
They spent the rest of the day telling each other the little thing they love about each other
More imagines here
I swear half of the things I google are for writing purposes
