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quinnyandco:

sir that’s my emotional support story that I’ve been working on for five years that still has no conceivable plot

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goddessartemys:

Dear authors: you have to learn the difference between a bad boy and a bastard abuser.

Um, yes.

For those of you who are confused:

Bad boy: probably poor, doesn’t follow rules because he thinks they are harmful or stifling (”I can’t sit there all day when teachers don’t give a shit if I learn or not”), outbursts are at injustices, fights to defend (”leave them alone/you’re hurting this place leave!”)

Bastard abuser: probably middle class or higher, doesn’t follow rules because he think’s he’s above them (”school is a waste of time I can learn what I need to from books”), outbursts are about things not going the way he wants them, fights to prove superiority or lay claim (”stay off my turf/away from my girl!”)

Also, for their significant others, please learn the difference between being a nice, compromising S.O. and being a borderline or actually abused S.O.

Too many authors write the latter as though it’s supposed to be romantic. It isn’t.

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writeroftheprompts:

We all know those tired clichés. It’s time to kill them. Take one of them and turn them on their heads or at least these will hopefully keep the errors out of your writing. If you think of any other way to change them up go right ahead. Happy hunting!

I shook my head, trying to clear the image. It was my imagination. There were fairy tales. Humans were not real.

One of my favourite prompts


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Now first, I have to say, that the plot you’re able to come up with in one day is not going to be without its flaws, but coming up with it all at once, the entire story unfolds right in front of you and makes you want to keep going with it. So, where to begin?

  • What is your premise and basic plot? Pick your plot. I recommend just pulling one from this list. No plots are “original” so making yours interesting and complicated will easily distract from that fact, that and interesting characters. Characters will be something for you to work on another day, because this is plotting day. You’ll want the main plot to be fairly straight forward, because a confusing main plot will doom you if you want subplots.
  • Decide who the characters will be. They don’t have to have names at this point. You don’t even need to know who they are other than why they have to be in the story. The more characters there are the more complicated the plot will be. If you intend to have more than one subplot, then you’ll want more characters. Multiple interconnected subplots will give the illusion that the story is very complicated and will give the reader a lot of different things to look at at all times. It also gives you the chance to develop many side characters. The plot I worked out yesterday had 13 characters, all were necessary. Decide their “roles” don’t bother with much else. This seems shallow, but this is plot. Plot is shallow.
  • Now, decide what drives each character. Why specifically are they in this story? You can make this up. You don’t even know these characters yet. Just so long as everyone has their own motivations, you’re in the clear.
  • What aren’t these characters giving away right off the bat? Give them a secret! It doesn’t have to be something that they are actively lying about or trying to hide, just find something that perhaps ties them into the plot or subplot. This is a moment to dig into subplot. This does not need to be at all connected to their drive to be present in the story.  Decide who is in love with who, what did this person do in the 70’s that’s coming back to bite them today, and what continues to haunt what-his-face to this very day. This is where you start to see the characters take shape. Don’t worry much about who they are or what they look like, just focus on what they’re doing to the story.
  • What is going to change these characters? Now this will take some thinking. Everyone wants at least a few of the characters to come out changed by the end of the story, so think, how will they be different as a result of the plot/subplot? It might not be plot that changes them, but if you have a lot of characters, a few changes that are worked into the bones of the plot might help you.
  • Now list out the major events of the novel with subplot in chronological order. This will be your timeline. Especially list the historical things that you want to exist in backstory. List everything you can think of. Think about where the story is going. At this point, you likely haven’t focused too much on the main plot, yeah, it’s there, but now really focus on the rising actions, how this main plot builds its conflict, then the climactic moment. Make sure you get all of that in there. This might take a few hours.
  • Decide where to start writing. This part will take a LOT of thinking. It’s hard! But now that you’ve got the timeline, pick an interesting point to begin at. Something with action. Something relevant. Preferably not at the beginning of your timeline - you want to have huge reveals later on where these important things that happened prior are exposed. This is the point where you think about what information should come out when. This will be a revision of your last list, except instead of being chronological, it exists to build tension.
  • Once you’ve gotten the second list done, you’ve got a plot. Does it need work? Probably. But with that said, at this point you probably have no idea who half your characters are. Save that for tomorrow, that too will be a lot of work.

Disclaimer for this post.

theauthorofus:

I find that a rise in LGBT in books, tv, movie etc to be so inspiring an outstanding. I love how people are finally getting the idea that if you want your audience to feel a connection to a character you charter has to be real. A HUGE part of real life is the LGBT community.
  But I dislike when shows and books just throw LGBT characters in there with no development. It is great to see some representation but why is that character gay for like two episodes or the last thirty seconds of a movie.

   When I first started writing LGBT I asked people I knew what it was like and the answer was always different. The only thing all those people had in common was it took time to find that part of themselves. It is so inspiring to hear those stories and to implement them can teach your audience such important lessons about self-discovery. When That story is just thrown in I feel like something great just got thrown out.

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crockpotcauldron:

just looked through about 700 werewolf books, good grief.

most seem to fall into two categories:

  • werewolf serial killer mysteries
  • domineering alpha romances

neither is really what I’m interested in.

here is what I’d want from the werewolf novel of my wildest dreams:

  • good relationships, especially friendships between packmates (lone wolves are boring)
  • werewolves who like being werewolves. (angsty wolves are boring)
  • the practical details of werewolfery: who’s got the bail money for animal control, whether anyone’s microchipped, what you pack in a bag for a night out werewolfing
  • the uses of werewolfery: hiring yourselves out as trackers or canine rescue, getting certified as service dogs, spending your free time at the library letting little kids read to a friendly doggie
  • female werewolves, and no weird gross hypermasculine alpha stuff going on in werewolf culture
  • queer werewolves, and no weird gross heteronormative ‘laws of nature’ stuff going on in werewolf culture
  • dog jokes.

The standard urban fantasy female protagonist dating a werewolf who is not an alpha. Bonus points for it being a cute beta werewolfess who thinks her girlfriend’s perpetual posturing as the ‘baddest bitch on the block’™ is the most adorable thing ever. Extra bonus points for fuzzy baby werewolves and adopted babies. (Because actual wolf packs? Exist to raise children. They’re family units, focused around rearing cubs.)

#werewolves #queer wolves #werewolves as the foster parents of the supernatural world #if there’s a kid so much as sniffling in their general vicinity they’re going to get adopted #the fae discovered that they could straight-up hand off changlings to werewolf packs #no deception needed #magic using children of mundane parents who can’t handle it? #every pack has a dozen of them #fic ideas

okay this is one of the cutest reblogs I’ve gotten. 

imagine it

werewolves just going YES FAMILY GOOD and adopting everyone and making sure they get attention and food and understand that it’s fine to be who you are and that you’re not alone, you’re pack now

and the kids that can’t turn into wolves get to ride on the dogsleds to make sure they’re not left out during the full moon family bonding time (… you have to be an adult to pull a dogsled. mistakes have been made.)

werewolves on the PTA. werewolf den mothers. werewolf little league coaches. werewolves filling the bleachers and auditioriums and dance halls and galleries, cheering for their kids. werewolves helping kids with their homework, werewolves sewing costumes for the school play, werewolves showing kids how to change a tire

werewolves with battered kitchen tables with chewed legs. werewolves with huge family dinners. werewolves ferrying pies and casseroles and fresh baked bread back and forth between family members’ houses. werewolf extended families. massive werewolf packs that are technically only about 25% werewolf but still definitely packs

puppy teeth being left for the tooth fairy. fangs being left for the tooth fairy. cuttlebones being left for the tooth fairy. stolen teeth being left for the tooth fairy. werewolves with giant families full of kids with different needs and species.

werewolves adopting everyone. werewolves fostering everyone. werewolves who wind up with dozens of kids, all of whom are family and therefore pack.

yes good, give me more like this

ladyzolstice

i feel this in my soul

WEREWOLVES BASED ON ACTUAL WOLF PACK BEHAVIOR INSTEAD OF BULLSHIT DOMINANCE THEORY! All the werewolf fiction I’ve read involves everything falling to shit due to infighting over who gets to be alpha like WAY TO ILLUSTRATE EXACTLY WHY THIS IDEA DOESN’T WORK. You really think wolves would be successful hunters if they were constantly getting injured and wasting energy fighting each other?!

The whole idea of “alpha” dynamics is based entirely on the behaviour of wolves in captivity! If you so much as google “wolves in captivity alpha”, you’ll get a bunch of results about why it’s not representative of actual wolf behaviour.

As it turns out, if you capture, restrain, and shove together wolves from unrelated packs, they will fight and form a hierarchy of power.

Kind of like prison. Because, functionally, the exact premise of that kind of captivity is kind of like prison.

Wolves are social animals, and they interact in the wild pretty much the same way other family-centric social animals do.

Hey, you know what another family-centric social animal we’re all familiar with is?People. Just, you know, take away the oppressive idea that one parent is the definitive and unchallengeable head of the household that most of us have lived under for so long first.

Wolves are apparently group problem-solvers, and presumably, in large packs, you’re going to get squabbling and older pack members mitigating it, just like that one patient aunt or uncle or grandparent or close family friend who is essentially a relative often does in big families.

There’s a very legitimate basis for writing werewolves as friendly, community-minded folks. If your werewolves view their human neighbours as other packs not in competition with themselves, they’re likely going to be those people that the entire neighbourhood views as very nice, but “a little overwhelming.” (And maybe a little too indulgent with their kids, according to the neighbourhood snobs.)

Your gigantic werewolf family is probably going to be a litle less threatening and overtly secretive and a little more “we’re having a barbeque, when can we expect you??? you didn’t come last week, were you sick??? we were all worried- do you not eat meat?? oh, okay, I’ll have Sophie and Thaddeus pick up some Halal burgers and we’ll scrub off the second barbeque for them and some vegetable skewers, too, does that sound good?? so when can we expect you????”

(Also: werewolves taking in queer kids and mentally ill kids and kids from broken homes even though they’re mundane because they can’t comprehend how someone could not want them. Werewolves taking in street kids.)

#…a pack of werewolves living in a huge house together like one of those huge families people sort of smile incredulously at#multiple generations#a pack occupying a trailer park because it’s near the woods and there’s a certain amount of security in having a mobile home#packs being viewed by mundanes as those eccentric families that fill the school gymnasium every time there’s an event with one of their kids#packs migrating to accomodate new packmates and encountering other packs#packs fusing to form entire communities#wolves taking in mundane street kids#werewolves#writing#urban fantasy

*SLAMS FIST ON TABLE* NOW THIS IS THE KIND OF CONTENT I WANT TO SEE

theauthorofus:

Using said after the dialogue isn’t great and neither is just plugging in -ed or -ly words. Try adding more to help your reader better understand how the charter feels. Don’t be afraid to make it creative, make a comparison, or make it metaphorical.



“I can’t” she said. 

“I can’t” she said shyly. 

“I can’t” she whispered only to herself, but she didn’t realize the dust in the empty chair could hear too. 

theauthorofus:

     So often I see people struggling with descriptors. People are looking for a great way to describe their surroundings and pull their reader into the scene. But, what you’re really doing a lot of the time is feeling a need to make everything beautiful and poetic. You want to tell your reader your character is wearing rugged blue jeans with stains down the legs, you say that: “he was wearing rugged blue jeans with stains down the legs.” Done. Don’t hold their hand. If the thing you’re describing has no other purpose than existence, then it probably doesn’t need more than a single, simplistic sentence.
      The key to a good descriptor is to keep its purpose in mind. You must ask yourself: how important is this? How much does it deserve?

thatwritergirlsblog:

Writing a sub-plot

Here are some tips for writing great sub-plots, romantic or otherwise.

1. When to introduce a sub-plot

  • Of course, every story is different. However, there is some consensus that it’s good to introduce your sub-plot a little ways into your book
  • The main plot needs to be established first. The readers need to know the main character(s) and understand what the story is about. They need to care about the crux of the book and the characters first.
  • Then, you can introduce an intriguing subplot to keep their interest.
  • Don’t wait too long, though. Anything after 1/3 through might feel forced and misplaced.

2. When to resolve the sub-plot

  • The sub-plot should be resolved before the main plot is.
  • Generally, you want your readers’ attention focused on the main conflict once you reach the climax.
  • This means that you want to give them the resolution of the sub-plot a few pages/chapters before the big showdown of the main plot.
  • You’ll see that most TV episodes also follow this guideline and it works.
  • You can, roughly, aim for the ¾ mark if you’re unsure.

3. Remember the sub in sub-plot

  • I love a good sub-plot, especially one about characters growing closer. However, if I pick up a sci-fi thriller from the bookstore only to read a 400 page love story, I’m gonna be disappointed.
  • You classify your genre according to your main plot. What is the main conflict or purpose in your story? That should be the focus.
  • A sub-plot of whichever variation is always secondary to the main storyline.
  • If you focus too much on the subplot, it may overpower your real story and bump your book into a whole other genre.
  • So, maybe have the romance take a backseat when the main plot comes to play.

4. When to indulge

  • Let’s be honest; we all love writing our sub-plots. They often contain the scenes you envisioned when thinking up your story - the conversations and fluff, the banter and depth of character. This, unfortunately, means that it’s easy to get carried away, as I made clear in my last point.
  • However, there is a part of your book in which you can indulge, a point during which you can explore the sub-plot to your heart’s desire.
  • When is that point? The middle.
  • Often, the main plot slows down in the middle of the book. The characters need training or there’s a period of false security etc. Many stories have a lull in the middle where the main conflict isn’t in full swing.
  • And this is where the sub-plot shines. This is where characters fall in love and heroes reunite with long-lost fathers. This is where you get to place your darling scenes.
  • And no, this doesn’t mean that your middle can be 200 pages and you can write an entire romance novel. It also doesn’t mean that the main plot must disappear. It’s just a stage in the story where you can let the sub-plot loose a bit.
  • Also don’t leave every aspect of your sub-plot for the middle. It should be woven into your story.
  • But use the middle to let the sub-plot shine.

5. Should you have a sub-plot?

  • Personally, I think every story needs some form of sub-plot.
  • There has to be some conflict/story/relationship that develops and adds intrigue aside from the main plot.
  • Not having one could screw up your pacing, make your characters feel underdeveloped and generally make for a boring read.
  • But, this is just my opinion. Each unto their own.

That’s it. Those are some basic tips on writing a sub-plot. I hope that they could be helpful. As always, my inbox and asks are open for any questions.

Reblog if you found these tips useful. Comment with the type of sub-plot you’re writing. Follow me for similar content.

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This is awesome! Make sure to be careful with online translators, though-for example I just typed in “I am bored” into the latin translator and got back “i, cibi” which makes no sense at all.

I’M JUST GONNA BE THAT ASSHOLE WHO REBLOGS AGAIN BUT, PLEASE! don’t use use ancient greek/latin translators. if you just want simple words or verbs (for latin at least), use WHITAKER’S WORDS — it’s a secret classicists keep.

i wasn’t aware of this but YES DO AS THE TWO ABOVE SAY :)

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Fantasy Guide to Succession Systems

We usually write royal families based on the modern or medieval ones of history. We almost always fall into the trap of Male to Male succession because… that’s usually what is done. We get confused over who is next when you kill off a cast of characters or have a strong female lead and we fall into a whole. But no longer. Here are some succession systems you can use in your fantasy setting.


Male to Male Primogeniture

This is when the firstborn son inherits everything outright from his dad. His son will inherit after him followed by his grandson and so on so forth. This is our main system of succession in real world history and fantasy. This can be an easy one to work off since there are so many examples. However, just as the real world is run by genetics, so will your fantasy land. There is a 50-50 chance of having a daughter or a son. You can’t always bank on having a son. And if you have a surplus of sons, it can lead to trouble down the road.


Female to Female Primogeniture

There are some cultures that are strictly matrilineal, with inheritance passing to mother to daughter to granddaughter and so on. This can be another easy line to follow as it is basically the system up above just gender reverse. Examples of this succession can be found in Africa such as the role of Rain Queen where only females are eligible to take the throne and the Undangs of Negeri Sembilan in Asia. There are the same kind of issues such as the possibility that a daughter may not be born.


Tanistry

This is a Gaelic system for passing on titles and lands. The Tanist/ Tánaiste is the title bestowed upon the candidate chosen to inherit the throne who acts as a second in command. The eligible candidates would arrive at a chosen place and there would be a grand discussion on who gets to be named the heir. The candidates don’t have to be a blood relative or even an ally of the current ruler. This was practised in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Mann and was also sort of practised in the Holy Roman Empire. The Vatican uses this to some extent though they might forgo all the drink… OK probably they do. There is no real issue with this, the best candidate is chosen and everyone has a say. Of course in politics, some force might be used in order of specific favourites to succeed but hey its nothing more than what’s going on in modern politics.


Agnatic Seniority

This is another patrilineal inheritance system only this one is slightly more confusing. In this system, the succession goes from monarch to their younger brothers and then the monarch’s own sons. The monarchs children don’t inherit until the older generation have all died. Agnatic seniority bars all female descendants and their descendants from the throne.


The Ottoman Empire’s Version of the Hunger Games (or just what siblings are like)

The Ottoman Empire had a fun succession order. Oh, perhaps not order. You see when a Sultan dies, his sons fight over who gets to be the next Sultan. The Şehzades (the male issue of the Sultan) will turn on one another, often having all their brothers and half brothers massacred by guards armed with bowstrings. This fratricidal system did work in the Sultan’s favour as his throne was safe from claims of rivals. Yet if you get rid of all your heirs and you can’t sire one and you die… well bye bye dynasty. The Şehzade who usually comes out on top will be the one who is backed by the military. This practise became less awful as years went by and the brothers of the Sultan were imprisoned in the harem in chambers called the Golden Cage or kafes. Some went insane and some actually succeeded the Sultanate.


Roman Adoption

The Romans didn’t follow blood but rather the surname. Like the tanistry, a Roman noble/emperor would take stock of their relatives or even perhaps acquaintances and pick the best one. They would be given everything in the will including the right to inherit. Julius Caesar picked his great-nephew Octavian and in turn Octavian, now Augustus Caesar, chose his step-son Tiberius. If you go back through the Judo-Claudian dynasty you will see that most the heirs were adopted and not all came from the same bloodline.


Hope this helps @anomaly00

pens-swords-stuff:

Anti-Writing Advice #19

If you’re stuck staring at a blank page, just smash your face into the keyboard.

Voila! You no longer have a blank page.

intergalacticwanderer:

One upside to being a writer is you can write your own comfort fic. The downside is you still have to actually write it.

thetorturerwrites:

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writeness:

put ur answers in the tags!

google docs or microsoft word? character moodboards or character playlists? writing with music or writing in silence? lots of half finished wips or one project at a time? plotter or pantser? more dialogue or more description? character-driven books or plot-driven books? enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?

Well, i’m new to this but…

Open office with everything minimized so there’s only me, my page and one line of options. Icons are distracting. A character playlist to listen to when not working on the thing for inspiration and fun, then the same one playlist packed with soundtracks and chill music matching the atmosphere (fuck that construction on my street, i need to concentrate). Plotter but only like for key scenes. Stuff like inspiration and motivation usualy pikes during my work so i scribble it on some random piece of paper or into the note app, then read through it at home and add it to the rest somehow. However, sometimes my characters live their own lives right as i am typing and somehow they MIRACULOUSLY fit into the plot. You know, like “wtf brain, you are genius, but how, i am you and i sure as hell didn’t come up with that” brain: *shrugs*. Half half? Dunno? And just like friends to better friends for now. Maybe in the future i will write some thirsty romance too but as for now i’m just having fun exploring platonic side of the story which in my wip sort of happened between episodes/books.

@morby@gamebird@pianopadawan how about you guys?

Ooohhh cool question @silly-jellyghoty love your method… I know what you mean about the characters morphing under your fingers…. it’s a total groove! I have been known to sleep with my tablet next to me cos sometimes I get ideas in the middle of the night (ooh err) so I have to memo pad them b4 I forget them!

Me cant afford Word so I use the cool Wordpad program on my laptop… means I need a dictionary but teaches me not to be a lazy typer, and I hate all those wiggly lines under the grammar… I’m English ffs…. I know what I sound like no need to remind me!

When I start a story the music MUST NOT have lyrics in it as I tend to find I’ve typed them by mistake… did this with my dissertations and they were fun to edit. I’d be writing about evidence in thin sections for Magma mixing in The Auvergne and all of a sudden there would be a Depeche Mode Lyric in it!

Weird Al once!

One window open ONLY on laptop and NO INTERNET cos I end up scrolling through tumblr as a distraction…

I write the dialogue first, I love writing it, I have a situation in my head and I can hear what all the characters are saying, so I shove all that down first. Then I edit, check for double words spelling…. can tell when I’m poorly or tired cos my spelling goes to shit.

Then I add description of what the characters are doing…. then where they are, then what they are thinking and it works so well.

But

I cant post a fiction until the whole story is finished, as I write I think of lot points along the way, or throw in twists and connections and coincidences, then I have to go back to the beginning and re-jig the story. Power to the chapter by chapter posters…. they deserve medals and recognition for all their hard work!

As the chapters get more numerous I go back and check dates and maths, peoples ages etc….

So far so good, I like to add ALOT of MUSIC to mine and the lyrics I know off by heart have to be checked…. like lots of funny stuff too and check the jokes arent too stupid…. like I care.

Oh and on the subject of Smut…

I have never written it, I read it and its good fun. But…. I write it now, surprised at myself to be honest, and I’ve found it really freeing, it’s so much fun…. dont have to be crass or nasty…. can be cute and fun and daft and soft.

Silly me

Come on @clumsycopy@candycanes19@thetorturerwrites

What’s your routine?

my writing style?

vomit a bunch of stuff at a page and then hack the shit out of it?

no, but for real. i don’t have a particular method because what works changes for me. sometimes, i sit in the dark with headphones on. sometimes, i sit at my computer writing porn while i should be working. sometimes, i write on my phone at the pharmacy. its just whenever something wriggles in my brain and needs to be put down.

i use google docs so that my shit syncs across whatever platform i’m working on. i have a lot of idea markers but only 2 WIPs currently. i tend to try to plot but then i follow where the story goes and have to throw out what my original plan was. it has to be organic. 

Uh……that’s it i think?

@bexterbex did you do this one yet?

google docs or microsoft word? character moodboards or character playlists [DEPENDS ON THE CHARACTER]?writing with music or writing in silence? lots of half finished wips or one project at a time [RIGHT NOW I HAVE TWO GOING AND I HONESTLY HATE IT]?plotter or pantser [DEPENDS ON THE CHAPTER]?more dialogue or more description [TRYING TO LEARN TO BE MORE DESCRIPTIVE}?character-driven books or plot-driven books [REALLY I DON”T KNOW]?enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?

Not in the tags but oh well ‍♀️Currently working on Masking the Heart’s next chapter, so here is a bit more about my style. 

Tags: YOU. If you write or even dream about being a writer. {ASLO IF YOU ARE A WRITER CHECK OUT @thetorturerwrites post about the DISCORD SERVER}

Thanks@clumsycopy​ for the tag, 

NAME: Bex

GENDER: cis woman, she/her

STAR SIGN: Sun: Pieces, Scorpio Rising, Moon: Scorpio

HEIGHT: 5’8”-5′9″ depending on how my spine is feeling that day. 

SEXUALITY: Pansexual and borderline Demiromantic

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin

FAVORITE ANIMAL: Otters

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 5-9h (that’s if insomnia doesn’t take over)

CURRENT TIME: 12:31 PM CST (as I type this)

BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: Depends on the season, currently it is summer so 1 weighted blanket and 1 down blanket. In winter it is all the blankets (10+)

DOGS OR CATS: I love them both, currently have cats but I honestly want a dog. 

DREAM JOB: After saving enough up? A sustainable homestead. 

WHEN I MADE MY BLOG: Can’t remember, this was originally just a shit posting one. 

FOLLOWERS: I stopped counting. 

WHY I MADE A TUMBLR: My best friends had them and it was a source of Fandom content. Also it was a social media platform my parents didn’t know about. 

REASONS FOR URL: It’s a nickname from my sister, Bexter, which is just shortened to Bex. 

Taggs?: YOU, if you write and don’t normally get tagged this is an opportunity for you to do it! (But tag me as the person who tagged you, just so I know who I can tag in the future. 

screnwriter-old-deactivated2021:

screnwriter-old-deactivated2021:

a character whispering “kiss me” to their love interest is kinda hot and you can’t really go wrong with it

enemies to lovers? check the slow burn of finally being able to kiss each other. friends to lovers? confirmation that everything you’ve been feeling hasn’t been unrequited. fake dating? it was never a lie to begin with

forbidden love? screw everything else, all that matters is you and i. second chances? i’ve never stopped loving you. opposites attract? look at me. i love you for who you trulyare.forced proximity? we can hereby no longer fight this thing going on between us

writeouswriter:

*Watches scenes from my WIP like a tv show on repeat in my head instead of ever writing them down*

bluebxlle-writer:

Writing believable friendships

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Even without taking their backstory into account, your characters’ friendship in the present should be believable enough to allow your readers to root for them.

1. Both ways

This is the number one rule for the friendship to be healthy and believable - affection, communication, help, and everything else should go both ways. You can’t have one character always asking for help and the other always helping while never getting anything in return, or a character always showing affection while the other never reciprocating it - the friendship needs to go both ways.

2. Similar or different

Friends can either be very similar or different, and both are interesting to write about! If they’re similar, they will usually get along pretty well. However, it also leads to the potential of more bickering with each other, since their personalities will clash. Just imagine two equally stubborn or talkative characters in a disagreement

If they’re different, they’ll be able to complement each other well (eg. the troublemaker and responsible one). However, you will still need to give them a common similarity to bond over. Maybe it’s a shared hobby or favorite animal!

3. Communication and trust

Friends can either be all giggly and soft around each other or bicker 24/7, depending on their friendship dynamic and the personalities of the characters. However, a constant thing to keep in a healthy friendship is the ability to trust and communicate with each other.

Friends should trust each other, not leaving each other for a love interest or some whack reason. They should also know the best ways to communicate with each other. Even with friends who bicker a lot, the arguments should be playful. They should always know and avoid the topics that are off limits and would truly hurt the other.

4. Flesh them out individually

Most of the time, there’s only one main character in the friend group, and the rest only act as their friend and nothing more. They don’t have any other role in the story besides being the main character’s friend.

While you can’t always dive into the backstory and depth of the other characters, especially if your story is only from one pov, you should still fully flesh them out. Give then strengths, weaknesses, hobbies, goals, quirks, etc. Make sure that everyone in their friend group are their own person, not just a supporting character for someone else.

5. Reason to stick together

Your character will meet so many people throughout their life, but they can’t keep in touch with all of them. Chances are, they’ll “abandon” old friends for new ones they just met. If you want to write a long-lasting friendship, you’ll need to find that key reason why they choose to stick together despite their hardships.

Maybe they ever saved each other’s lives in the past? Or maybe they live close to each other, so it’s easier to maintain their friendship. There are lots of possibilities!

6. Different friendship dynamics

  • Chaotic x chaotic
  • dumb x dumber
  • grumpy x sunshine
  • talkative x shy
  • goofy x serious
  • cinammon roll x cinammon roll protector
  • Playful & friendly rivals
  • sarcastic x blunt
  • calm x always angry
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