On a scale of one to Kingdom Hearts, how unnecessarily complicated do you make things?
Homestuck.
What To Do When You Have No Plot
Sometimes you want to write, but you have no plot ideas. Perhaps your fingers are itchy to write, you want to meet a submissions deadline, a character is bugging you to tell their story, or a single image, phrase, or scene is sitting heavy in your head. But you still can’t find the whole story.
So what can you do?
- Start with characters: find their names, their backstories, their relationships. Create detailed descriptions, draw them, build their family trees. Get them interracting, put them into a room together, or bump them into each other in the street. Read their diaries, their love letters, their bank statements. Get to know them inside out. This is one place where you may find your story.
- Start with a world: create your map, name the towns, lakes, forests, and mountains. Work out the trade routes, position the markets, the ports, and the industry. Find the history, predict the future. Draw out the borders, bring war, re-draw the borders. Get down to street level and see who lives there. Walk the streets yourself. This is one place where you may find your story.
- Start with a room: stand in the middle of a room and open your eyes. What does the room look like? What’s in it? How many doors and windows are there? What is the room used for? Who uses it? What has happened here, and what is going to happen here? This is one place where you may find your story.
- Start with an object: pick something up into your hand. What is it? What is it used for? Who owns it, and who owned it before them? What is it worth, either monetarily or sentimentally? Has it been lost, found, stolen, given away? Why is this object important? This is one place where you may find your story.
The History of Typography - Animated Short by Ben Barrett-Forrest
Submitted by probablyincompetent
what if writers are just people from other universes that got reincarnated here and they subconsciously write about the world they came from
So today I was making headcanons for characters in this novel I’m planning
but then I realized
they aren’t headcanons,
they’re just canon
I am god
when I publish my novel I want you all to swear to me that you’re going to write uncomfortably erotic fic about characters I didn’t intend to have sexual tension
swear it
swear to me
Do you ever just read other people’s writing and then look back at your own and go:
How to improve your story
True story: this is exactly what I did in my screenwriting class last spring. :>
writer vs. muse: the animation
I tried to scroll over this
"Write freely and rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in progress is usually found to be an excuse for not going on."
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John Steinbeck (via ilivetowriteandinspire)
There are not enough electrons for all the THISs that need to appear here. Oh God, make some more electrons and there STILL won’t be enough. Argh.
(via dduane)
oh and this is probably the hardest thing to do, too. which is why it’s so necessary to do it. augh.
(via turdlewexler)
Character development thing.
Plot points on this chart to represent how important these different aspects of a character’s life are to them. By doing that you can help determine what type of things your character deems to be most meaningful in their life, especially compared to others aspects.
A brief explanation of each aspect is below in case you’re confused about the meaning of any.
Physical Aspects
- Strength: to have physical power and strength
- Sex: to have sexual gratification and satisfaction
- Possessions: to have objects and tangible things
- Health: to have physical health and stability
- Appearance: to have a good external appearance
Emotional Aspects
- Love: to love and be loved, romantically or otherwise
- Appreciation: to be appreciated by others
- Attention: to be paid attention to
- Security: to feel secure emotionally
- Approval: to be approved by others
Social Aspects
- Respect: to be respected
- Friendship: to have friends
- Intimacy: to be intimate with a partner or partners
- Belongingness: to feel needed and belonged
- Family: to be on good terms with/have a family
Spiritual Aspects
- Inner peace: to be content with themselves
- Purpose: to feel as though they are fulfilling a purpose
- Self-sufficiency: to feel that they are able to provide for themselves
- Growth: to feel as though they are growing and changing
- Acceptance: to be able to accept themselves without consequence
basically every couple of hours it gives you a word that you have to write 300 words about. it’s kind of like flash fiction and seems like it’ll be good for people who want to practice writing every day. it’s fairly new so you might be able to get your name as a un (i got erika)!
oh
oh i need it
[FIND OLD FANFIC (Fanfic Flamingo) MAYBE I’LL JUST - OH GOD WHY?!?!]
Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process. I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.
The follower of the day is splitseconddecision.
I have more followers now and they all need to see this site.
trying to decide on a title for my english essay
that works
i just got it back today
mission accomplished
