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Awesome Sites and Links for Writers

Just about every writer out there has several go-to websites that they use when it comes to their writing. Be it for creativity, writer’s block, to put you in the mood or general writing help. These are mine and I listed them in hopes that you’ll find something that you’ll like or find something useful. I’ve also included some websites that sounded interesting, but I haven’t tried out yet.

Spelling & Grammar

Grammar Girl – Grammar Girl’s famous Quick and Dirty Tips (delivered via blog or podcast) will help you keep your creative writing error free.

The Owl – is Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) it's a great resource for grammar guides, style tips and other information that can help with your writing, especially academics.

Tip of My Tongue — have you ever had trouble of thinking of a specific word that you can’t remember what it is? Well, this site will help you narrow down your thoughts and find that word you’ve been looking for. It can be extremely frustrating when you have to stop writing because you get a stuck on a word, so this should help cut that down.

Free Rice – is a great way to test your vocabulary knowledge. What’s even better about this site is that with every correct answer, they donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. So, please disable your adblock since they use the ads on the site to generate the money to buy the rice.

HyperGrammar – the University of Ottawa offers up a one-stop guide for proper spelling, structure, and punctuation on this site.

AutoCrit – the AutoCrit Editing Wizard can check writing for grammar errors, clichés and other no-no’s. It also provides a number of other writing resources as well.

Writer’s Digest – learn how to improve your writing, find an agent, and even get published with the help of the varied blogs on this site.

Syntaxis – it allows you to test your knowledge of grammar with a ten-question quiz. The questions change every time you take the quiz so users are sure to be challenged each time around. It definitely helps writers know if there’s something that they need to brush up on.

Word Frequency Counter – this counter allows you to count the frequency usage of each word in your text.

EditMinion – is a free robotic copy editor that helps you to refine your writing by finding common mistakes.

Proofreading for Common Errors – this is a simple tutorial on proofreading your writing by Indiana University.

BBC – has a section for helping you with your skills, especially in writing, from grammar to spelling, to reading, to listening and to speaking.

Tools

Copyscape – is a free service that you can use to learn if anyone has plagiarized your work. It’s pretty useful for those that want to check for fanfiction plagiarism.

Plagium – is another a copy detection system, that provides a very similar service to Copyscape and uses Yahoo! rather than Google to perform its searches. Just keep in mind that searches for simple text up to 25,000 characters remains free of charge, but any larger requires credits to be purchase.

Write or Die – is an application for Windows, Mac and Linux which aims to eliminate writer’s block by providing consequences for procrastination.

Written? Kitten! – is just like Write or Die, but it’s a kinder version. They use positive reinforcement, so every time you reach a goal they reward you with an adorable picture of a kitten.

Fast Fingers – offers you an easy way to improve your typing skills. It’s puts you through a quick typing game that tests your typing speed and improves it at the same time. It’s also a great way for writers to warm up.

Information & Data

RefDesk – it has an enormous collection of reference materials, searchable databases and other great resources that can’t be found anywhere else. It’s great to use when you need to find something and check your facts.

Bib Me – it makes it easy to create citations, build bibliographies and acknowledge other people’s work. This is definitely something that academics will love. It’s basically a bibliography generator that automatically fills in a works cited page in MLA, APA, Chicago or Turbian formats.

Internet Public Library – this online library is full of resources that are free for anyone to use, from newspaper and magazine articles to special collections.

The Library of Congress – if you’re looking for primary documents and information, the Library of Congress is a great place to start. It has millions of items in its archives, many of which are accessible right from the website.

Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names – is the most accurate list of popular names from 1879 to the present. If your character is from America and you need a name for them, this gives you a accurate list of names, just pick the state or decade that your character is from.

WebMD – is a handy medical database loaded with information. It’s not a substitute for a doctor, but can give you a lot of good information on diseases, symptoms, treatments, etc.

MedlinePlus – is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site that contains information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. It also offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. You can use the site to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.

Mayo Clinic – is a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group.

World Health Organization (WHO) – is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. Its current priorities include communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases; sexual and reproductive health, development, and ageing; nutrition, food security and healthy eating; occupational health; substance abuse; and driving the development of reporting, publications, and networking.

Google Scholar – is an online, freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. It searches a wide variety of sources, including academic publishers, universities, and preprint depositories and so on. While Google Scholar does search for print and online scholarly information, it is important to understand that the resource is not a database.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac – this classic almanac offers yearly information on astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips.

State Health Facts – Kaiser Family Foundation provides this database, full of health facts on a state-by-state basis that address everything from medicare to women’s health.

U.S. Census Bureau – you can learn more about the trends and demographics of America with information drawn from the Census Bureau’s online site.

Wikipedia – this shouldn’t be used as your sole source, but it can be a great way to get basic information and find out where to look for additional references.

Finding Data on the Internet – a great website that list links that can tell you where you can find the inflation rate, crime statistics, and other data.

Word References

RhymeZone – whether you’re writing poetry, songs, or something else entirely, you can get help rhyming words with this site.

Acronym Finder – with more than 565,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials.

Symbols.com – is a unique online encyclopedia that contains everything about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs arranged by categories such as culture, country, religion, and more.

OneLook Reverse Dictionary – is a dictionary that lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.

The Alternative Dictionaries – is a site that you can look up slang words in all types of languages, including Egyptian Arabic, Cherokee, Cantonese, Norwegian and many, many others.

Online Etymology Dictionary – it gives you the history and derivation of any word. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

MediLexicon – is a comprehensive dictionary of medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and health care abbreviations and acronyms.

Merriam Webster Online – the online version of the classic dictionary also provides a thesaurus and a medical dictionary.

Multilingual Dictionary – it translate whatever you need from 30 different languages with this easy-to-use site.

Writing Software

Open Office – why pay for Microsoft products when you can create free documents with Open Office? This open source software provides similar tools to the Microsoft Office Suite, including spreadsheets, a word processor, the ability to create multimedia presentations, and more.

LibreOffice – is a free and open source office suite. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, maintain databases, and compose math formula.

Scrivener – is not a free program, but it’s certainly a very popular one. It's great for organizing research, planning drafts, and writing novels, articles, short stories, and even screenplays.

OmmWriter – is for Mac OS X, a free simple text processor that gives you a distraction free environment. So you can focus only on your writing without being tempted or distracted by other programs on your computer. They are currently working on a Windows version of their software as well, so keep an eye out for that if you’re interested.

FocusWriter – is another free distraction-free writing application that keeps your writing space simple and clean without sacrificing functionality. It includes a daily goal tracker—work count and time spent writing—spell checking, real-time feedback on variables like word and page count, and tabbed document browsing. The great thing about this is that it's available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Q10 – is a free portable distraction-free writing tool for Windows. The interface includes nothing but a tiny bar at the bottom that displays the character, word, and page count—you can toggle the bar off for a totally distraction free workspace.

Evernote – is a free app for your smartphone and computer that stores everything you could possibly imagine losing track of, like a boarding pass, receipt, article you want to read, to do list, or even a simple typed note. The app works brilliantly, keeping everything in sync between your computer, smartphone, or tablet. It’s definitely a useful app for writers when you have ideas on the go.

Storybook – this open source software can make it easier to manage your plotlines, characters, data, and other critical information while penning a novel.

ScriptBuddy – is a full-fledged screenplay software program. It handles the proper screenplay format automatically, so you can concentrate on your story. It is easy to use and the basic version is free.

TheSage – is a free application, which is a comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus that provides a number of useful and in some cases unusual search tools.

Sigil – is ideal for e-book authors because it's a free EPUB editor with a stack of essential features.

YWriter5 – is a free word processor and is designed for Windows XP, Vista and beyond. It's a small but very comprehensive tool which helps you to plan your novel. It breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. You can set up deadlines, for instance, and the program’s Work Schedule report will let you know how much you’ll have to do, each day, to finish on time. You can even enter your characters, locations and items and freely organize them into scenes. This definitely sounds like it’ll be useful for NaNoWriMo writers.

Kingsoft Office (WPS Office) – is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android OS. The basic version is free to use, but a fully featured professional-grade version is also available. This software allows users to view, create and share office documents that are fully compatible with dozens of document formats, including Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel. In other words, the format is similar to a Microsoft Word document (.DOC or .DOCX file) and supports formatted text, images, and advanced page formatting. Kingsoft Writer documents can be converted to Microsoft Word *.doc files in the software.

Creativity, Fun & Miscellaneous

National Novel Writing Month – is one of the most well-known writing challenges in the writing community, National Novel Writing Month pushes you to write 50,000 words in 30 days (for the whole month of November).

WritingFix – a fun site that creates writing prompts on the spot. The site currently has several options—prompts for right-brained people, for left-brained people, for kids—and is working to add prompts on classic literature, music and more.

Creative Writing Prompts – the site is exactly what it says. They have 100+ and more, of prompts that you can choose from.

My Fonts – is the world’s largest collection of fonts. You can even upload an image containing a font that you like, and this tells you what it is.

Story Starters – this website offers over one trillion randomly generated story starters for creative writers.

The Gutenberg Project – this site is perfect for those who like to read and/or have an ereader. There’s over 33,000 ebooks you can download for free.

The Imagination Prompt Generator – click through the prompts to generate different ideas in response to questions like “Is there a God?” and “If your tears could speak to you, what would they say?”

The Phrase Finder – this handy site helps you hunt down famous phrases, along with their origins. It also offers a phrase thesaurus that can help you create headlines, lyrics, and much more.

Storybird – this site allows you to write a picture book. They provided the gorgeous artwork and you create the story for it, or just read the stories that others have created.

Language Is a Virus – the automatic prompt generator on this site can provide writers with an endless number of creative writing prompts. Other resources include writing exercises and information on dozens of different authors.

Background Noise/Music

SimplyNoise – a free white noise sounds that you can use to drown out everything around you and help you focus on your writing.

Rainy Mood – from the same founders of Simply Noise, this website offers the pleasant sound of rain and thunderstorms. There's a slide volume control, which you can increase the intensity of the noise (gentle shower to heavy storm), thunder mode (often, few, rare), oscillation button, and a sleep timer.

Coffitivity – a site that provides three background noises: Morning Murmur (a gentle hum), Lunchtime Lounge (bustling chatter), and University Undertones (campus cafe). A pause button is provided whenever you need a bladder break, and a sliding volume control to give you the freedom to find the perfect level for your needs and moods. It’s also available as an android app, iOS app, and for Mac desktop.

Rainy Cafe – it provides background chatter in coffee shops (similar to Coffitivity) AND the sound of rain (similar to Simply Rain). There’s also individual volume and on/off control for each sound category.

MyNoise: Online Fire Noise Generator – If you love the sound of fire crackling in a fireplace, this is the site for you.

8tracks – is an internet radio website and everyone can listen for free, well it use to be completely free. Unlike other music oriented social network such as Pandora or Spotify, 8tracks doesn’t have commercial interruption (that’s if you get 8tracks Plus). Users create free accounts and can either browse the site and listen to other user-created mixes for as long as they like, and/or they can create their own mixes. It’s a perfect place to listen to other writer’s playlist, share yours or find music for specific characters or moods. Note: Joining is still free, however you’re now limited to 1 hour of free listening for each week (or more depending on how much people like your mixes). If you want unlimited access it’s $30 per year or $5.00 a month.

Playmoss – with 8tracks no longer having free unlimited listening and no commercial interruptions many people looked for an alternative and Playmoss is what 8tracks use to be. It has all the same basic features that 8tracks has, only with extra goodies like unlimited skips, able to see the entire tracklist before playing, start at any point in the playlist, see how many playlists contain a certain song and even collaborate playlists with other people.

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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Explanatory Post

Hello everyone!

This post is just a basic explanation of how this blog will run from now on in. We officially started the blog on the 19th of September 2017. These last few days it may have seemed a bit quiet, it was mostly because the admins were busy making preparations. We have lots of things in store for our members and we hope you enjoy being part of our community!

Weekly Prompts

Firstly, shout out to @weltraumheldin (Admin Jana) for making these wonderful banners! Weekly prompts will come out at the start of every week. These prompts will all be for works under 1000 words in length where you are given a simple prompt and have to create a piece using it (anything you like, fanfics, one shots, poems, original writing, absolutely anything). You may post these onto your own blog and tag it under #weeklyprompt or submit it to the network. There are no other limitations apart from them having to be under 1000 words (max 1500). We hope that this will help with being able to compact a lot of story into few words. At the end of each week, the admins will go through the various writings we receive and offer feedback to each of the writers about their writings. Other members are also encouraged to give feedback to each other and the admins.

Monthly Prompts

Monthly prompts will work exactly like the weekly prompts only that they’ll come out once a month and much longer and they’ll also be a bit more thought provoking. Please tag these under #monthlyprompt or submit it to the network. It is encouraged that the members of the network try to do the weekly and monthly prompts if they can/find time to. But it is understandable if you are busy and unable to. The first monthly prompt will come out the first of October.

Random Prompts

Random prompts will come out (as the name suggests) randomly. These are just free for use.

Tags

Please tag your works with #thewritersnetwork if you’d like us to reblog it onto our blog. Also it’d be nice if you could specify if your writing is sfw or nsfw, though a lot of people do put it in the description section that is okay too just as long as we know what it is so we can tag it appropriately on the network. And of course the #weekly prompt and #montly prompt tags. Lastly, if you would like something to be given feedback on please also tag it as #feedback wanted so that we can give it feed back specifically.

Feedback

Feedback will be given when asked (via the #feedbackwanted tag or asked directly to the blog) but if anyone has any comments to share with any other member after reading their writing then it would be lovely if an ask is left for them in their own message box. If you’d like to anonymously give feedback for something then send an anon to the network specifying which writing you mean and your comments. Constructive criticism is great, but if we find anything rude or hurtful we will not post it.

Formatting

If your writing is over 500 words please put a keep reading cut off

If nsfw, please try keep most of it under the keep reading cut off

Specify if your writing is NSFW

I hope everyone enjoys being part of this network, we will work hard to make it a nice, safe, and productive environment for everyone to share there writings! If you have any questions please message us.

~Admin Annie and the admin crew Jana, Angel, Tay, Jade, and Derya

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A special welcome and shout out to all our admins and members! Thank you for joining our network and for creating such wonderful work. We hope to keep supporting your writing even better in the future. You can also check out all the bios on the member’s page.

Admins

Annie @confessionsofashyfangirl, Jade @taekachuk, Jana @weltraumheldin, Tay @imagination-of-a-melted-bitch, Angel @angelwriteswhat, and Derya @soft-chan-ty

Members

Danni @tae-taeland, Kat @jarpark, Mari @charizard-z, Jey @jeylovestoblog, Kavya @taehyung-the-baehyung, Lieu @joshooji, Sofia @floatingdownthemoonriver, Kali @dprwolfgang, Jay @princewoozi, and Dine @jungcooks

To all new onlookers, please come join our network! We’d love to share your writing and get to know more writers on tumblr.

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WIP Tag

I was tagged by: @confessionsofashyfangirl

rule: paste one line from something (or somethings) that you are working on

I’m only working on one story right now 😭

Together The World Ends: “I’m great. Darrell and I have been going head to head these past couple years with our ranks and to be honest I don’t think I ever deserved to be ranked #9 after our junior year of high school. Darrell’s parents constantly got mad at him for being ranked last in the “top 10” and now he can finally show them that he deserves the respect he should’ve been given the day he was born. I wasn’t mad if that’s what you thought, I was just shocked because I didn’t think this day would come,”

I have no one to tag but if you’d like to do this go for it

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Who Told?

So this is a scene from a story that I’m working on called Together Till The World Ends. It’s an original story, but I hope everyone enjoys it. I have no summary but I’ll try to make one now. Any feedback or constructive criticism is much appreciated!! :)

Summary: Ellington Academy is a school for highly gifted assassins. Things have been going great for a long time until one day there’s a change within the school. Changes can be good and/or bad, but this change proves to be bad as the students within the school have their worlds turned upside down. The enemy is out to ruin their lives no matter what it takes. They worked so hard to create a strong united front, but will it all come crashing down because of the enemy?

“I can’t believe you Brandon,”

“It’s not- I didn’t want to do this Sapphire, I swear. I wasn’t trying to hurt you or Kieran,”

“Are you kidding me? Right now I couldn’t care less if you hurt me, people do it all the time and I’m so used to it, but Kieran- Fuck! Brandon what the hell were you thinking!”

Sapphire’s voice echoed of the walls of the room when she yelled at Brandon from the other side of the table. Her emotions were running at an all time high, unable to deal with what Brandon had told her. For the first time in a long time she felt like she wanted to cry and that put her on edge. They weren’t going to be the little “oh I hurt myself” tears or the “I’m on my period and my emotions are messing with me” tears. These were going to be the “I’m on the verge of having a breakdown” tears.

Sapphire stood slightly and reached across the table to grab Brandon by his shirt. “Why?! Why would you expose Kieran like that? He’s never done anything to you. I told you what I did in confidence because we have feelings for each other and I-” Sapphire felt the tears welling up in her eyes. “I thought I could finally trust someone again after being stabbed in the back so many times, but I guess I was wrong.”

Sapphire dropped back down into her seat and ducked her head down to keep Brandon from seeing the tears as they began to burn her eyes. Brandon felt like he had been struck in the heart after seeing Sapphire like this. He stood up and made his way to the other side of the table, kneeling by Sapphire’s side.

Brandon softly grabbed Sapphire’s hands to turn her sideways, but her head remained ducked down. “Please look at me. I need to explain why I exposed Kieran. I truly was not trying to make his life even more hellish than what it is right now,”

Sapphire pulled her hands from Brandon’s grasp, wiped at her eyes, and look him dead in the eyes. “I don’t want any bullshit, you have to tell me the complete truth. Don’t try to leave things out to smooth things over more easily. I swear to god it had better be good or I’ll break your neck like it’s nothing but a twig.”

Brandon snorted softly at Sapphire’s words knowing she was somewhat serious, but he was thankful she wasn’t trying to beat his ass before letting him explain. “A couple days ago when you told me that Kieran was working for the enemy and that he was being blackmailed I thought about how hard that must’ve been for him. When you told me he had a relapse because of this I didn’t want anything worse to happen to him. I went to Director Jones because I knew he had a soft spot for Kieran, due to some incident from their past, thinking that he would be able to at the least put Kieran’s mind at ease. Unfortunately it looks like Jones had to do what he had to do. He swore on his life he wouldn’t tell anyone, but-” Brandon stopped speaking and a strange facial expression crossed his face. Something wasn’t adding up. When Jones said that he wouldn’t ever tell anyone his facial expression backed up his words even more.

Sapphire quickly caught onto Brandon’s change in facial expressions. “Wait, are you thinking that someone else found out and spread it around school leaving out the part that Kieran was blackmailed? Do you think it was Hemmin-”

Brandon cut her off. “Hemmington would never. I know you don’t like him, but he’s not a shitty person at least not without a justified reason. Even if Jones did tell Hemmington he wouldn’t have left out the part about Kieran being blackmailed. And like I said before Hemmington isn’t a shitty person. He has no reason to hate or be against Kieran. The two of them barely even know each other.You know anytime Kieran’s had to meet with someone in the school it’s always Jones. I’ve never been so sure in my life that someone else knows and is purposely trying to get people to turn against Kieran.”

Although hearing Brandon’s explanation changed Sapphire’s current view on him, she couldn’t help but still feel like she wanted to cry. Kieran had so many ups and downs in his life and constantly faked his happiness to keep people from worrying about him. She had seen Kieran after Taikei had found the bruises the enemy had left on him when he tried to defy orders. She had seen him when he broke down and told the two of them that he had had a relapse and that it had never been this bad before. Sapphire had seen him when he looked absolutely crushed after realizing that he might lose Taikei, the boyfriend he loved and never wanted to let go, because he was only allowed to tell one person the truth and he had chosen Sapphire. Kieran had no idea that the truth was out and neither did Taikei. The two of them had been spending time at home after what happened, but things were tense as it was becoming clear that Taikei didn’t like the fact that he knew nothing.

Sapphire let out a frustrated sigh and rubbed her hands over her face roughly, feeling the tears coming again. This time she didn’t try to hold them back. She was tired. Tired of everything that had been going wrong since Principal Matin and Director Lumes had left. Almost nothing good had come out of them leaving and it was taking a toll on everyone. Their enemies were getting stronger, there were traitors among them, and the bond that they had worked so hard to form was crumbling right in front of their eyes.

Brandon caught a glimpse of Sapphire’s tears and pulled her into a hug. “Why are you crying? What’s wrong?”

Sapphire’s face was buried in his neck, but she still replied. “My heart is literally breaking for Kieran. He’s been my best friend almost since birth and I’ve never seen him look the way he does now. Not to mention the school is falling apart because of the enemy’s new tactics. On top of that there’s the truth about Alec’s death. Everything is so fucking overwhelming and I just can’t deal with it anymore. I haven’t cried since last year and I’m tired of holding my tears back. I needed a good cry so here I am. If you tell anyone about this though I’ll shove your face into the ground.”

While Sapphire hadn’t cried hard, she still cried enough to where she felt a little bit of weight lift off her shoulders. The one thing currently bothering her the most was: who had exposed Kieran and left out the important details? Kieran didn’t go to the school therefore most people didn’t know him and those who did were a part of the school’s high ranking teams. As far as she knew none of them hated Kieran. He pretty much kept to himself when he was in the school without Sapphire.

Brandon stood up and Sapphire cringed at the sound of his knees popping. “Maybe we need to talk to Jones then,”

“Fine, let’s go then. I’m still on the fence about believing him anyways. If I see his facial expression I’ll definitely be able to tell if he truly did rat Kieran out. People make it too easy to read them nowadays.” Sapphire said standing up and heading for the door.

Sapphire yanked the door open and watched as it slammed into the wall connected to its hinges. She turned to face Brandon, who had quickly rushed to follow her. “I know I’ve said a lot of threats today, but if Jones is the one behind this I really will knock the shit out of him. I’ve had it with all these people around us trying to play games and it’s time for someone to learn a lesson. By the way you have to buy me some mac and cheese for dinner. I specifically told you not to tell anyone about Kieran. Even though you reason for doing so was good this could blow up in our faces. Make sure it’s from Heaven In A Bowl. Don’t forget to ask for extra cheese and bread crumbs,”

Sapphire turned on her heel and made her way out of the room. They were halfway down the hall before she remembered an important part of her request.

“Oh and make sure it’s to go. I don’t want to eat with you and get stuck seeing your nasty looking face,”

“That’s cute because just yesterday you said you loved my face,” Brandon said poking her in the back of the neck.

Sapphire rolled her eyes and elbowed him in the stomach to keep her distance. “I’ll make you a deal. Buy me two orders of mac and cheese and you can eat at my dorm, just try not to be annoying for once,”

Brandon spun her around and lifted her hand to give her a high-five with a smirk resting on his lips. “Deal.”

#thewritersnetwork #feedback wanted pls #original story #a little bit of angst #scene of original story #sneak peek #working on chapter one rn #idk if swearing needs a warning but there's swearing #hopefully people like this but who knows

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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Writer’s Network

Welcome to the Writer’s Network! The point of this network is to bring together writer’s on tumblr. The reason for creating this network is to create a group that will not only promote each others work but also give feedback. Whether your blog is big or small, the Writer’s Network will help you promote your work and encourage you to keep going.

Reasons to Join

promoting your work

getting feedback on your work from other members and admins

supportive environment to share your work

open to all levels of writer’s

open to fics, one shots, short stories, poetry, original works

nsfw works is allowed but will be tagged with a warning

good community to help develop your skills and communicate

Rules to Apply

follow this blog (following the admins too is optional but do check them out on the members page)

reblog this post

read the rules

fill out application form

After Becoming a Member

follow the #thewritersnetwork tag

when posting any writings that you want to share with the network, tag #thewritersnetwork in the first 5 tags

if we don’t reblog your work within a week of you posting it with the tag then please message us

put a link to the network somewhere on your blog

there’s a group chat on kkt and if you have filled out that section in the form then you will be added to it, if you’re not added within 3 days please message us

if you’d like feedback on your work please add #feedbackwanted in the tags

If you have any queries please send in a message. Thank you!

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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When I first start writing a fic:

When I come back to try to finish the fic:

#actually me rn

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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Explanatory Post

Hello everyone!

Weekly Prompts

Monthly Prompts

Random Prompts

Random prompts will come out (as the name suggests) randomly. These are just free for use.

Tags

Please tag your works with #thewritersnetwork if you’d like us to reblog it onto our blog. Also it’d be nice if you could specify if your writing is sfw or nsfw, though a lot of people do put it in the description section that is okay too just as long as we know what it is so we can tag it appropriately on the network. And of course the #weeklyprompt and #montlyprompt tags. Lastly, if you would like something to be given feedback on please also tag it as #feedbackwanted so that we can give it feed back specifically.

Feedback

~Admin Annie and the admin crew Jana, Angel, Tay, Jade, and Derya

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Writer’s Network

Welcome to the Writer’s Network! The point of this network is to bring together writer’s on tumblr. Specifically we’ve come together to support those who write about various kpop groups/artists but we also accept original stories. Another reason for creating this network is to create a group that will not only promote but also give feedback to each other. Whether your blog is big or small, the Writer’s Network will help you promote your work and encourage you to keep going.

Reasons to Join

promoting your work

getting feedback on your work from other members and admins

supportive environment to share your work

open to all levels of writer’s

open to fics, one shots, short stories, original works

fics and one shots are open to any kpop groups

smut is allowed but will be tagged with a warning

good community to help develop your skills and communicate

Rules to Apply

follow this blog (following the admins too is optional but do check them out)

reblog this post

read the rules

fill out application form

must be your own writing

After Becoming a Member

follow the #thewritersnetwork tag

when posting any writings that you want to share with the network, tag #thewritersnetwork in the first 5 tags

it’ll be shared on the network

if we don’t reblog your work within a week of you posting it with the tag then please message us

put a link to this blog somewhere on your blog

there’s a group chat on kkt and if you have filled out that section in the form then you will be added to it. if you’re not added within 3 days please message us

If you have any queries please send in a message. Thank you!

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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Angst Starter Masterlist

" Aren't you going to say something?"

" And I thought I loved you."

" And I thought you loved me."

" Angry. I'm.. I'm angry."

" Aren't you even going to cry?"

" Are you going to cry?"

" Are you crying?"

" Are you okay?"

" Ask if I'm okay. Just ask."

" And this is why I don't want to stay anymore."

" Addiction isn't the way to go, ___ "

" Are you angry with me?"

" Are you afraid?"

" And now is the part where we say goodbye."

" And now you're going to leave me!"

" Are you just going to leave me?"

" Be friends with someone else."

" Boy/Girlfriend? Is that what you thought I meant?"

" Because you're such an ass and I- I just hate you!"

" But I've changed."

" But you've changed."

" Buy yourself something nice. Because I don't want this ring."

" But.. you're still alive?"

" Can't you just let me be happy for one?!"

" Can't you be happy for once?

" Can't you just be happy for me?"

" Come on, leave already!"

" Coward. That's all you are. A coward."

" Do you even know what you've done to me?"

" Do you have any remorse? "

" Don't you dare close your eyes on me!"

" Don't you dare die."

" Don't you care about me/her/him/them anymore?"

" Don't give me that look"

" Don't you want me to be happy?"

" Dammit! Everything was just starting to get better and then you do this!"

" Damn you."

" Don't lie to me."

" Don't like to him/her/them."

" Dammit.. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck! You fucking ass!"

" Everything is fucked up now- everything is fucked because of you!"

" Everything's gone to hell."

" Everyone hates me."

" Everyone hates you."

" Everything hurts."

" Everything's going to be okay."

" Everyone loves you, not me."

" Everything is falling apart."

" Everything fell apart and I can't pick up the pieces anymore."

" For someone whose dying, you seem kind of happy."

" Friends forever, right? Isn't that what you said?"

" Fuck off!"

" Fuck you!"

" Find a new place to live."

" Find a new girlfriend/boyfriend."

" Find a new best-friend."

" Fine. I'll leave."

" Forever and ever. That's how long I said I loved you. But you never said it back."

" Fucking hell, I hate you!"

" Get lost!"

" Get a job, you ass!"

" Get out of here!"

" Go get a life."

" Go. Just go."

" How are you still alive?"

" How long are you going to keep this up?"

" How long until you finally get lost?"

" How about I just leave."

" Hold up. You're breaking up with me?"

" Heaven doesn't exist."

" Hell is the only place we're going to be going."

" How about you leave now?"

" Is this how you're going to treat me?"

" I can't believe you."

" I'm a monster."

" I killed someone."

" I want to kill myself."

" I want to kill something."

" I'm running away."

" I'm leaving you."

" I can't look at you right now."

" I hope you die!"

" I don't understand."

" I'm so angry/sad. But you don't care."

" I can't hear anything."

" I'm dying."

" I have cancer."

" I can feel the darkness coming."

" I can't breathe."

" Just joking, I don't love you."

" Just go."

" Just leave me alone!"

" Just fuck off."

" Kill yourself. "

" Kindly get the hell away from me."

" Kids? I don't want kids."

" Kind. That's the one thing you can never manage to be."

" Lie. Just lie."

" Lie to me."

" Life is not worth living."

" Living isn't possible."

" Like I give a shit about you."

" Lies are all you're capable of."

" Lay down. It'll all be over soon."

" My heart is broken. "

" My.. everything hurts."

" My girlfriend/boyfriend left."

" My ____ is dead."

" Man, you're an asshole."

" My lies aren't working anymore."

" Mutt."

" Many times I lay awake and wonder why I'm alive anymore."

" Never again."

" Never speak to me again."

" No. I won't do it."

" No, I don't like you like that."

" No way in hell!"

" Now, now, is there really any reason to cry?"

" Now and again I really start to hate you."

" No. Stop crying, just stop it."

" Not how I wanted to spend my life."

" Never look at me again."

" People hate me."

" People hate you."

" Person? No, no. You're not a person. You're a robot."

" People like you sicken me."

" People like you deserve to die."

" Perhaps you should just leave, then."

" Piss off."

" Question: why are you still here?"

" Quiet. I'm getting sick of hearing your voice."

" Run away. That's what I'm doing."

" See? I hate you."

" See? You hate me."

" Sometimes I wonder why you stay with me."

" So.. you hate me, then?"

" So this is how it ends."

" Shoot me."

" Shit..."

" So why are you still here?"

" Sometimes people lie to me."

" Stories are just that. Stories."

" Took off with everything I had!"

" Time to go."

" This is the end. It's done."

" The story is ending now."

" This is the end."

" This is why I hate you."

" Then why do you say you love me?!"

" Unlike you I have friends."

" Unlike me, you have friends"

" Under the bed is were I have to hide from you."

" Underwater is where i want me coffin to be."

" Utter it again and I swear I'll kill you!"

" Very mature. Cunt."

" Why can't you row up?"

" Why cant you care about me?"

" Why do you hate me?"

" Why do I hate you?"

" What do you mean?"

" What?You're dying?"

" Why can't you just be you."

" When am I supposed to get my time to be happy?'

" Well. This isn't how it was supposed to end between us."

" Whatever, you asshole."

" Whenever you decide you can stand to talk to me ago, please do."

" Well. I hate you now."

" Well, you hate me now."

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angelwriteswhat · 8 years ago

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13 quick tips when you're starting your novel

Wind down. The stress of the day stays in your system until you give yourself time to detox. Do something relaxing, even if that means scrolling a few pages on your dash – but be careful, because Tumblr and other social media sites are time thieves. Two hours later, you’ll realize you’re on page twenty of your dash and still on page 1 of your story.

Wind up. Spend some time getting yourself into the mood. Look at awesome art, play the right music for the right scene, doodle, even if your doodles suck. Sometimes windup time is also taking a shower or folding the laundry – mindless chores where you can let yourself immerse your brain in your story and get excited again.

First drafts suck. “I wrote too much of [thing]” or “My opening is just not working” or “I hate every word of it” are all legitimate thoughts, but leave all that in the past. It’s done. When you finish, you can go back and revise all you want (and you might even find that the beginning isn’t as bad as you initially thought). What matters is not the quality, but finishing. Give yourself permission to suck.

Gain momentum. For me, the first few minutes of writing are absolutely agonizing. Focusing is pretty much a physical strain, but once I’ve forced myself to focus for a good ten minutes, the next time I look up from writing, it’s dark outside. Let yourself get started before you get frustrated or distracted.

The beginning slump. Openings are always the worst part for me, and by “opening”, I mean the first few chapters. All I want is to be completely submerged in the story, and the opening is far from that. But once I labor through these first few chapters, I find myself writing a lot more proficiently with fewer agonized groans.

The post-beginning slump. For others, the slump happens after the opening chapters are finished. The shiny newness of the story is gone, and now we face being married to these characters and this story until the end. Find ways to keep yourself interested in your story, if that means simply writing through the agony or transforming your outline to make it fun again. Sometimes the scenes we don’t want to write are scenes that drag the story anyway.

When you’re stuck, outline. When we hit the “Now what?” problem, sometimes that stops us from moving forward. I get to a point of “I didn’t plan this out as thoroughly as I should have,” and then it’s easy for me to get distracted by other things instead of figuring out the perplexing problem. Oftentimes, I’ll take a moment to outline each step I need in order to clear the problem, using it as a guide to conquer the scene.

Don’t edit. It’s easy to get caught up in wondering what we’ve written, wanting to take a step back and look at it, but then we chance getting caught up in fixing things that don’t need fixing until the revision process. It’s like productive procrastinating, but it’s definitely not building your word count the way actually writing can. That being said –

Reread. I used to reread in order to get my brain back into the story, and I allowed myself only micro-edits here and there. Rereading can work for some writers, revving the fingers for plenty of words, but it can also work against other writers who might have trouble with confidence in what they write. Figure out what helps you versus what hurts you.

Read. If rereading doesn’t work, try simple reading, but read something that’ll get going that drive to write, something that inspires that absolute need to type a million words into your story.

Write with someone. Word sprints and word marathons are good ways to keep up morale. If nothing else, having a writing buddy to whine with about writing woes is always good for morale. But –

Don’t compare your word count to others. I can write for long periods of time, but just about all of my writing friends can write nearly twice as fast as I can. I’m a slow writer (and a slow reader, actually), but my writing stamina has built up over the course of a decade. You’re not in the same place in your life that others are, so set the goals that are right for you, not for them.

Give yourself permission to fail. If you only write a couple hundred words in a day, that’s okay. That’s a couple hundred words you didn’t have before, and if you write a couple hundred words every day, you’ll have a few pages by the end of the week. If you don’t write any words in a day, that’s okay. Tomorrows are not the same as yesterdays. You don’t know what you’ll do until you’ve done it.

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