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actually lil nas x is the only celebrity that exists

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I have a simultaneously amazing and appalling memory which means that I’ll remember that months ago you quickly mentioned you collect bookmarks once and then you never brought it up again so for your birthday I’ll buy you a mermaid related bookmark because you brought up you like mermaids once but you won’t end up getting it on your birthday because I forgot when it is

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Who Wants to Live Forever: 25

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Has this one made it to tumblr yet

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cas also does 10,000 calorie mukbangs 😇

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Season 1 Moira Rose mood board

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Video games peaked in 2006 when in lego star wars the original trilogy, they couldn't have the iconic dialogue of darth vader telling luke skywalker he's his father because lego games didn't have dialogue at the time. So they just had to have vader point to a fuckin photograph of anakin and a pregnant padme

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SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

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SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

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Barbie Riding Club, 1998

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a page of this pop sci book about fungus I’m reading may interest a few of you:

Galadriel is a mycologist!

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my dear friend is writing a fic where draco has a muggle job and blockbuster and he lives in my head rent free every day 🤭

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Hi! Your writing tips are beyond helpful, your blog is a testament to writing🙏 I'm currently writing a story and I was wondering if you had any tips on describing scenery for the mood you want to project? Say you character is looking out a window at a forest or fields etc. as the scene playing on. I have both aspergers and dyslexia so this aspect of writing I find quite challenging. I can never seem to get the idea in my head projected onto word and have it feel right.

Description & Tone...

I’ve decided to approach this by tackling 3 distinctive tones and the different methods you can use to evoke them through description.

Suspense

extreme detail

extreme vagueness

evocative word choice

Comedy

careful timing

short, succinct details

benign violations

Melancholy

slow pace

long or specific word choice

Helpful Resources

A Writer’s Thesaurus

Words To Describe…

How To Develop A Distinct Voice In Your Writing

Tips On Dialogue

Showing VS Telling in First Person POV

Using Vocabulary

Writing Intense Scenes

How To Better Your Vocabulary & Description

Step-By-Step : Editing Your Own Writing

Improving Flow In Writing

How To “Show Don’t Tell” More

What To Cut Out of Your Story

Constructive Criticism : How To Give & Receive

How To Make A Scene More Heartfelt

How To Perfect The Tone

A Guide To Tension & Suspense

Resources For Describing Characters

Resources For Describing Emotion

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we seriously need to bring back the concept of “despite its flaws i still enjoy it” instead of ‘cancelling’ every fuckin thing in sight 

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everytime i see someone use 🧿 incorrectly i lose a year off of my life

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10 Mistakes to Avoid in Action

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Over-Describing

When it comes to action, it helps to remind yourself that readers like to inject action with a hint of their own imagination. They can fill in the blanks very easily with written action scenes, because unless otherwise stated, a reader will assume that the characters are moving quickly with a lot of precision and a lot of energy. Try to comb through all of your action scenes and ask what your reader can and can’t infer. By all means, hint at the highlights and intensify focus on important details or symbolic moments, but the action is not why they’re here. They’re here for the progression the action creates. 

Superhuman Pain Tolerance

As it turns out, getting hurts is painful. Getting hit or kicked or stabbed or shot is painful, and unless the injury was very light or minor, it’s gonna hurt for a while. Even if your character is the type to repress their own feelings and ignore their pain, some inability due to pain or injury is unavoidable, especially if your character is simply human. 

No Internal Events

Action scenes are about more than what the characters are doing with their body. It’s mentally taxing, and incredibly revealing how an action scene plays out. Use this to your advantage. Use body language, pacing, emphasis, and expression to show how your character is feeling, what they’re thinking, and portray the larger implication of the scene overall. 

No Stakes

Every action scene needs stakes. It’s a simple truth, but one that is often ignored or excused away. Even if the action scene is for “entertainment”, it needs to play a role in pushing the story forward somehow. Create a smaller conflict that the characters attempt to solve, resulting in the fight scene, and then revealing a larger truth about the overall plot or developing the characters themselves. Someone needs to have something to lose or something to gain. 

Scene Accomplishing Nothing

I touched on this in the last point, but any scene whose sole purpose is “entertainment” will probably be cut in the final draft because out of all moments to make up the final product, a meaningless action scene is the quickest to cheapen it, at least to an audience. There must always be an immediate purpose, and an overarching place in the story. 

Thoughtless Character Actions

What your characters do is revealing. Body language is the hardest to manipulate to suit one’s own agenda, so the way your character fights can do an incredible and efficient job of developing them. Be intentional in your choreography of action scenes. Question why your character would choose to lunge at that moment and shy away in another. Why does this character avoid the physical confrontation versus another character who actively seeks it out as the ultimate solution to the problem?

Destroying The Suspension Of Disbelief

Your reader can let a lot of improbabilities slide, but not everything. There has to be some logic in the way action scenes play out. Where did that helicopter come from and who sent it? How are they all communicating with each other despite being miles apart? Where is this endless hoard of enemy soldiers materializing from? 

Editing Too Kindly

Cut out what doesn’t develop the story or the characters. World building can be an iffy task during an action scene, but occasionally those moments are valuable. Action scenes should never occupy too much space, because there’s only so many words a reader can read in one sitting in which characters attack each other. 

Muddy Descriptions

Be succinct and precise in your description. Avoid filler and excessive context, and please don’t spend paragraphs describing the city center before the upcoming action scene results in it being destroyed. 

Be Intentional With The Tone

Tone is everything. Where the tone begins and where it evolves to is so, so telling about your story and the characters within it. If your action scene starts with a funny moment that is interrupted by an abrupt and unexpected attack, follow through with an appropriate tone like smug victory. If it starts with a devastating loss, the ending should be equally impactful.

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