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Do you ever go back to your very first drafts and see a character so ungodly different from how you’ve written them now that you’re just staring at them like “who are you”

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I need you folks who are going back to school to understand this, sleep deprivation is not something to be proud of. You are being fed capitalist propaganda to make you believe that working yourself to the bone is a good and smart business model from a young age. If all you do is “get 3 hours of sleep” because you’re studying, you’re just gonna burn out quicker, forget the information you’re trying to cram, and cause your brain to cannibalize itself.

Do not compete by making unhealthy habits. This will only fuck you up in the long run.

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Finding the Write Time Taglist (ask to be -/+): @eli-writes-sometimes, @keysandopenmind, @cocoamoonmalfoy, @scriptrix-eclectica, @darkluminosity

@faithfire-writes, @bilightningwhumper, @justnerdy15, @jacqueswriteblrlibrary, @tricksexual

@of-potions-and-blades-official, @kingragnarok-writes

"Don't you dare."

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"Don't you dare."

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Updated FAQ

When will you be posting the prompts?

The first Friday of every month at 12pm EST, reblogged every week to give writers time and a reminder to complete the challenge during the month!

Do I have to tag you?

Not at all! You do not need to notify me in anyway that you are participating if you do not want to, but I would love to read your work and see what the challenge has been helping you write! Tagging me is 100% optional and not required, just appreciated :)

What if 30 minutes isn't enough time?

No problem! I find that 30 minutes is a personal goal because it’s tight, but I can get some good ideas down. If you need to up the time limit, go ahead! The main purpose of the challenge is to have a completed work by the end of a single writing session and see how you feel about it!

If I like the prompt, can I still use it without participating in the challenge?

Absolutely! The prompts I come up with are general and can be used for any and all creative projects. As always, credit and a tag is appreciated so I can see and reblog your work, but not required :)

Do I have to complete the challenge on a certain day?

Nope! It’s as flexible as you need it to be! No strict deadline, as long as you consider whatever you wrote for the challenge “finished” when you wrap up your writing session.

Can I participate with older prompts/prompts from different blogs?

Sure! Just make sure you give credit to the prompt blog as well as tagging me (if you want to share your work with me).

If your question wasn’t included on this list, feel free to send me an ask! I will do my best to answer your question ASAP. Happy writing!

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Finding the Write Time: A Monthly Writeblr Challenge

Hello, and welcome to the 2025 edition of Finding the Write Time! A monthly writing challenge aimed at helping writers finish a work in a set time.

The Challenge

Use a prompt to write a complete story in 30 minutes or less. Whether it ends up being 100 words or 1000, the goal is to completely brainstorm, plan, and draft a piece of writing in a single writing session.

The Prompts

Every month, I’ll post a writing prompt specifically meant for the challenge. This year I will be sticking to dialogue prompts as they seemed to be the favorites of last year. Feel free to send in submissions for prompts!

How to Participate

Just let me know you want to use the prompt for that month and tag me in your work once you post it so I can read and reblog it! You could also submit it to my blog directly if you wish, or you can add your submission to a reblog on the prompt you are using. Any and all methods of submission are accepted, just let me know!

Taglist

If you wish to be added to the taglist for the event, please let me know! You will be tagged in the prompt at the beginning of every month this year. If you were on the list last year, I have reset it, so let me know you want to be added again!

If you have any questions, feel free to check out the FAQ or send me an ask!

Thank you for checking out the challenge. Happy writing!

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Haven't quite pinned down the timeline and order of the next couple scenes of my original story, so today I did a sprint with my one RWBY fanfic that I haven't finished yet. I did write 950 words in less than 30 mins so I guess you could say it worked out :)

I wrote today 🎖

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by Alexander Popov

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Yessssss, I love when the slightest variation in phrasing or how a character says something can change the meaning and the weight of it

And Jance perfecting that fake smile 😢 yikes, hang in there, buddy

For the specific asks :)

How loose is their use of the phrase ‘I love you’?

When do they fake a smile? How often?

When they make a mistake and feel bad, does the guilt differ when it’s personal versus when it’s professional?

Heya Zac! Thanks!

Apparently Jance has volunteered himself to answer these, so you're getting Jance answers.

How loose is their use of the phrase "I love you"? People who don't pay enough attention would say that Jance is extremely free and loose with the "I love you"s, but those people are wrong.

What Jance is very loose with is the "love ya"s. He is incredibly generous with the "Love Ya"s. He ends conversations with them, teases people with them, has even doled out the occasional one to a barista when they supply him with a needed caffeine fix (always a little odd for the baristas).

When someone says "i love you" to Jance, he is most likely to respond with "Love you too" - still missing the I part of that sentence.

His actual use of "I love you"s is serious, sincere, and shockingly uncommon. But his liberal use of the variations makes up for it.

When do they fake a smile? How often?

Jance? Fake a smile? Surely you jest! He is always completely and genuinely happy!

Okay, now that I've got that bit of sarcasm out of the way, Jance is unfortunately very accomplished at the fake smile. He's very good at it and it takes someone close to him to be able to identify one. As something of a kinda public figure, Jance is ready to turn that smile on at a moment's notice. Thanks to certain events in ML, that fake smile gets deployed a whole lot more for quite a while in the aftermath.

When they make a mistake and feel bad, does the guilt differ when it’s personal versus when it’s professional?

Honestly, it depends! His guilt is probably worse for a personal mistake, but also "professional" mistakes are likely to be more far-reaching and have greater consequences not just for him, but for the rest of his group. (This is why Jance isn't the one that handles gig bookings for Gin Run.)

Guilt over personal mistakes definitely usually bothers him more because he did that. He did that on his own. Whereas professional mistakes usually have more than just him at fault. Or there's at least an opportunity to share the blame somewhat - still feels bad, but the onus isn't necessarily solely on him.

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Writer’s Month Prompt List 2025

As in previous years, we are once again hosting Writer's Month! A month-long daily prompt challenge! Each day, we present you with two different prompts, because we like to give an alternative if someone doesn't vibe with the daily prompt so there is an additional setting prompt. You can choose to write either of them or both, that is entirely up to you! The goal is to have fun and get some writing done.

This even is open for all forms of writing. Original stories, fanfiction, poems, haikus, drabbles or novel lengths. We don't dictate what you write or how you write it; all fandoms and all ships are welcome in our event.

Some important links: Rules (more detailed) | FAQ | AO3 Collection 2025 | Discord Server

chemistry | restaurant

sibling | playground

tattoo | pond

hat | bedroom

heart | book store

book | cabin

loss | home

trial | coffee shop

gold | desert

rope | bonfire

sword | temple

trouble | court house

fame | tailor

tears | camping place

tree | high school

flower | river

death | harbor

rain | emergency room

map | grocery store

abandoned | ranch

soft | garden

burned | parking lot

scar | hotel

knight | labyrinth

warmth | cave

echo | house

nightmare | on the road

free | spa

panic | nature preserve

phone | ice cream parlor

loyal | university

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Just a little practice sketch to get me back into the swing of thinnggggggsss. Will I be more consistent with art in the future? Who knows!

For now, here's a sketch of my OC, Nate, with a very important message :)

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Ålvundfjord, Norway

ragnarme

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me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

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Yeah, me too, it's so frustrating :(

I ended up doing some research myself and found some alternatives if you want to take a look here.

Actually, after answering those asks, I have a question.

Does anyone know of any good Anti-AI alternatives for Pinterest?

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21 and 46!

Thank you for the ask, TC! I think I'll answer these with Nate XD

21. What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?

Hmmm... probably not cursing. To Nate, they're just words. He slips up a lot and curses in front of people when he shouldn't, even when he tries not to.

46. Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?

Nate is really both, depending on the vibe of the situation. He can adjust to whatever is needed based on the person or group setting he is in. In one on one situations, he is much more of a listener and he usually gives good advice :)

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hi sending in writing asks!! this is from @/haunted-narrative, I can’t send asks from sideblogs 😔

Is there a motif or a theme you see recurring in your works a lot, either on purpose or unconsciously?

Ah! I forgot to answer this yesterday after I went on my Pinterest alternative deep dive! Thank you so much for the ask!!! XD

I definitely have a lot of themes that recur in my works. At first, it wasn't on purpose, but now I just think that I am more aware of them when they appear XD the two that are most prominent in the works I have worked on the most are recovery and the meaning of home :)

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Frantic week at the day job, when what I really want to do is immerse myself in my fictional characters and their problems.

Their current problems are as follows:

A sexist, racist pirate jerkface who controls the shipping trade in healing herbs

A meeting that could not have been an email because those don't exist in a fantasy novel

Moving furniture by magic

Unresolved sexual tension between two people who can read each other's minds (this doesn't make them better at communicating)

Racist religious zealot jerkfaces cluttering up the town

And, you know, the ever-present god of destruction in the backyard

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