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By the amazing and talented @gabriel-picolo!

Link to his OG post in the comments! Give him love for this amazing work!

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Remember, you will always be growing as a writer. There is no peak, only improvement. It’s a continual learning curve and you can only go up from here. So keep writing lovelies.

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reblog if you’re a lesbian who supports bi girls, a bi girl who supports lesbians, or if you want all wlw to have a nice day

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Forever reblog lol

Idea:

Medusa wasn’t Cursed with Snake Hair and Scales.

She Already had Snake Hair and Scales and was still the hottest lady the Gods have ever seen.

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"Werewolfs are furries"

@supersockosis

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some writer snob somewhere: Do not start sentences with But or And because doing so is grammatically incorrect.

me, writing my fic: But I don’t care. And you can’t stop me.

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One of my favorite things ever is when one person’s creativity inspires and motivates someone else’s. And you get this beautiful feedback loop of imagination and creation and people motivating and inspiring and supporting one another and goddamn that’s just fucking delightful. 

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when you finally get to writing the scene you started this story for, and now you have to make sure you don’t fuck it up

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It’s October, which means that National Novel Writing Month is just one month away!

Are you writing a novel with us in November? Let the world know by updating your social media profiles with this participant flair! (We have a square icon image, as well as banners sized for Facebook and Twitter). 

You can also announce your project on the brand new NaNoWriMo website! If you haven’t seen it yet, log into nanowrimo.org with your existing username and password (or create a new one if you don’t have an account). You can go to “My NaNoWriMo” > “Projects”, and click the “Announce new project” button at the top.

Not sure what you want to write about yet? Don’t freak out! We’ve got a lot of resources to help you prep for writing a novel this month with our NaNo Prep 101 workbook and exercises. 

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other fanfic writer: *cranks out beautiful, heartbreaking, 4000-word chapters weekly*

me, writing: “should I remove this comma?”

me, twenty minutes later: *removes comma*

me, an hour later: *puts comma back*

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Official 2019 Promp list is out!

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give me two characters who are each other’s home. two characters who feel completely safe, warm and protected in each other’s presence, and who are completely respected by the other. two people who, on some level or another, were missing that little extra spark they needed to feel fully confident and accepted as their whole selves until the other came along. they don’t “fix each other” or “make each other better”–they give the other the support they need to build on what was already inside them. sure they might kiss, or make goo-goo eyes, but they can also just…talk, and make each other laugh and smile, because for once they feel comfortable enough in themselves and with each other to be vulnerable in that way. two complete people who finally find someone to share all of themselves with. and no matter what they do or how far they go, they’ll always have each other to come back home to. 

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Dressed up the Demigods in Kpop inspired outfits! Anyone who says Annabeth and Piper wouldn’t wear skirts are weak. Also I don’t even like Kpop, I just like the street fashion lmao

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Cheep and easy ways to find a basis for your plot.

When you have characters:

What does your character aspire to do or become? Making that aspiration really hard for them to reach.

What does your character love? Take it away from them and make them earn it back.

What does your character hate? Bind them too it and make them work to get rid of it.

When you have a world:

What is the most chaotic thing that can happen to this world’s politics? Find the character this chaos would effect the most and see what they do about it.

What is the most dangerous thing that can happen within this magic system? Figure out who would come to stop or reverse it and see what they do.

Who is the most damaging person in this world and what are they doing? Figure out who of those they hurt might rise up and defeat them.

When you have only spite:

What story do you absolutely hate the execution of? Take the very basic concept of its plot and build it into the story you wish it produced.

What plot structure do you enjoy but wish writers would be more original with? Take it and then throw a dozen spins on it.

** Remember to mix and match for more elaborate plot structures. Carry on this format with your own tricks to digging up basic plot structures!

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To all of my mutuals and frankly anyone out there reading this. I really hope that you find the person you’re looking for. I hope love finds you when you don’t expect it to. I hope it knocks the wind out of you.

It’ll find you. It’ll sneak up on you and hit you upside the head but it’ll find you. I promise.

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Hello! I'm an aspiring author, pretty much self-taught (which explains my grammar lol). I've been reading and liking your blog for a while, and I hope you can help. See, while writing a summary for my main project (fantasy genre) I noticed something; there's no conflict. I think the protagonist sees one in the distance, like someone on the sidelines, but isn't actually part of it. Am I missing something? PS this took a couple tries to word this right, hope I nail it. have a nice week!

Conflict is the driving force of a plot — it’s what adds tension to a story, it’s what makes a story interesting and engaging, it’s what makes the story have any sort of stakes.

Does every single story need to have conflict? There’s some debate about that, I think. Slice-of-life stories are often used as examples as stories without conflict, but I disagree. Slice-of-life often has conflict in it too, but people might have trouble identifying it because it’s not something we stereotypically think of as conflict.

(Of course, going back to the earlier question… I’m sure there are stories out there without conflict. And it’s possible to write a story without conflict, and it might be possible to do it well. But for the most part, conflict is a really important tool to make a story interesting.)

Remember the 6 types of story conflict that we all learn about in middle school English class?

When we think of conflict, I think the first thing that comes to mind is Person vs Person conflict, like Good vs Evil, Side A vs Side B, Harry Potter vs Voldemort, Mario vs Bowser… But that’s not all that conflict is.

A conflict is a problem. It’s something that prevents your character from reaching their goal. 

If your character can reach their goal without obstacles right this moment… Then what story is there to write?

And it might be Person vs Person, Group vs Group where an antagonist is trying to prevent the protagonist from doing something… But it could also be Person vs Self, where the protagonist is too scared to achieve their goal, despite there being no other obstacles, and the story could be about them learning to move beyond that fear. Or it could be Person vs Society, where certain societal norms and pressures don’t allow a person to live the life that they want to. Person vs Technology can be as complex as the example in the image, but it can also be as simple as “This essay is due in 5 minutes and the printer decided to just stop working for no discernible reason and oh my god it’s so important i’m going to fail my class.”

So it might be possible that you already have a conflict, and you just don’t realize it. It also might be possible that you don’t have a conflict yet, and you might want one to help guide your story and make it more engaging.

Ask yourself this:

What is the goal for each of my characters?

What is stopping them from achieving it right this moment?

There’s your conflict.

And it can get really interesting when your characters have conflicting goals, because that in turn, can generate new conflicts.

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so easy; to make fun of the internet poets and the webcomic artists and the fanfiction authors

i hear a man snorting into his beer about it on a tuesday night. i am waiting to pick up my boss’s dinner. i am waiting to go home to my own empty fridge. “that’s not real,” he says. “anybody can do that shit.”

once, i saw a description of modern art as “i could do that + yeah but you didn’t.”

so easy to sneer at self-published. at etsy store. at youtube singer. so often i see posts: “it’s not poetry because you hit enter”. “graffiti is vandalism, though.” “i don’t think that’s real music.”

i understand, you know. the desire to make it seem small. how easy to package art and never open it. to blame ribs or galaxies or whatever other internet trend. it is safer to live under the rock than to burn in the sun above it. i picture a life of poems they never copied out of their journals.

i understand. i laugh at my own work, but i will not cringe. it is worth it to love something so much - to love writing. it is worth it, you know. to be crushed, time and time again. it is worth it for exactly one moment:

i get a note from a young kid. “thank you for this. it helped me keep going.”

okay, then. this is why. this is purpose.