#writing inspiration
This is an important message.
One of those mandatory reblog. Because, Leslie Jones. Enuf said
Never fear failure, because bad writing is still writing. Take your rejection letters and negative reviews and stack them up in a pile. As that heap of failures rises, climb to the top of it and see how much closer you are to your goals.
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I thought someone may like this. This is the collection of sites and pages I usually use to give form to an original character:
TRAITS, STORY AND BACKSTORY
Profile Sheets and Charts
Blank Character Sheet 2.1.8 (390+ Questions!)
Big-Ass Character Sheet (Updating)
Character Chart for Fiction Writers
Character Development Worksheet
Random Generator
All kind of generators, from Anime/Manga to Superheroes
Fantasy/Sci-fi and D&D generators
A lot of writing exercises and random generators
APPEARANCE
Dressup Games/Character creators
A lot of very cool dress up games of various fandoms and historic periods
Mainly anime/manga inspired character and scene creators
Very versatile character creator, is a little tricky to use and need some practice
The Sims 4 character creator demo
Pinterest boards for inspiration
It’s for art but have a tons of very inspiring boards
A lot of boards about character inspiration
Humans are the only species in the universe with concepts of hatred and vengeance, and this is what makes us so warlike. The galactic council’s decision to punish us for exceeding their arbitrary “population cap” backfires HORRIBLY because of this.
Your punishment was to be forced to maintain an energy orb, a task that requires immense concentration, for the rest of your life, but you started enjoying it, time was a blur. When your concentration finally failed, you look up, to see your dungeon in ruins, your chains rusted apart.
A young maiden dies before she is betrothed. Another family who lost a son arrange to have them married. In the afterlife the maiden is shocked to discover this marriage and unhappy with the match. She returns to the land of the living to demand a divorce.
“Roll for perception!” you jokingly yell before making a forward roll on the ground. As you come up, you suddenly become acutely aware of the number of power outlets, location of and path to the fire exits, and that your friend Sebastian is actually a lizardhuman.
The alien invasion is going unbelievably poorly for the technologically advanced aggressors, to the surprise of many. You, a retired military tactician, are trying to explain how this is actually pretty logical all things considered.
The kingdom pays you quite well in order to bury the remains of magical beasts on your property. You’ve always just seen this as free and easy income, but this season you start to notice something off about your crops.
Reincarnation is proven real and a device to see how you died in your previous lives is created,and without fail,the cause of all your deaths is a man in a heavy combat gear with a ballistic mask shoving an axe through your skull, all the way from the first humans to your most recent death.
You recently got yourself a new dog from the shelter, thinking he was just your average domesticated canine. However, one night on a bright full moon you witness your dog make the horrible transformation into a human. You accidentally just bought a werehuman.
You’re the city’s superhero. Your greatest enemy is the city’s supervillain. However, you’re secretly brothers. This isn’t tragic, though, because your whole destructive rivalry is just a massive prank on your older third brother - the mayor.
You are a supervillain who has just captured your rival’s child. Rather than being afraid, they’re begging you to let them stay.
You were abandoned by your parents as a baby. An eldritch being sees you and adopts you. You are taught about higher dimensions and arcane magic. But things change when your eldritch parent insists you go to a human school to experience a normal life.
A disgraced knight wanders the slums after failing to protect the princess in his charge. Astonished by the selflessness of a blind child, he begins to contemplate why knights must exclusively pledge themselves to nobles.
Humanity has been long extinct, all that exists now are rumors of large metallic birds and towers that touched the sky, but there is no solid evidance of anything. You and your adventuring party have just stumbled upon a the remains of an old facility deep underground: The Large Hadron Collider
You work as a truck driver in the Mushroom Kingdom. One day, the Mario Kart commissioner offers you a handsome bonus if you’re willing to drive your truck as an obstacle on Toad’s Turnpike for the race next week.
You finally accessed the secret level in your favorite video game. Many doubted it existed, but here you are! Your character stands before a strangely familiar-looking door in a blank void, as the “INTERACT” prompt appears. You press it, and a knock comes from your bedroom door…
Magic once existed; this is a proven historic fact. But when the dragons deemed mankind unworthy and left the mortal realm, they took all magic with them. Now, one stands before you with a proposition…
Turns out the Aztecs were like super correct and the gods demand blood. Conveniently, it was a set amount and due to large numbers, we had been satisfying the blood price and then some passively since the ??00’s. Ages past humans achieved world peace, those gods show up.
In a world of superpowered people, your own ability to keep all insects 30cm away as a force field made you mediocre at best, until one day, as you are about to sign your lease with the director of your bank’s branch, you both cant seem to be able to shake hands.
