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Writing Advice and Resources Archive

A collection of writing advice and resources.

The entries are in no particular order. The post is edited with new entries when I come across them.

Writing meta-advice

How to get rid of writers block NOW

Getting started with web serial writing

5 hacks to boost your writing confidence

Dumbest version / allow yourself to suck

Getting ideas: become a cardboard box

The comic sans trick against writers block

How to write a certain character?

A general cane guide (for artists and writers)

How to write a cane user character

Writing a good amputee character

Writing multilingual characters

How to create a good main character

Writing Medieval-coded women

Writing disabled characters: change what is available

Writing characters with one eye

Some thoughts about vampires

Other writing advice

"Real people don't do X" nuance

Subtle foreshadowing

Sentence structure to control reader heart rate

Snippet from "The Witches Are Coming"

"Bad" writing advice taken too literally

Show don't tell: anger

Kill your darlings

Show-don't-tell list of things to use for emotions

How to create character flaws

Use the right kind of prose for the right story

Worldbuilding: making realistic landmasses

Writing fight scenes

Writing fight scenes in 20 points

Writing body language

How to write a satisfying ending

Other writing resources

Writing resources masterpost by @/thewritingbeast

Stimuwrite, a writing help for neurodivergent people

The colour of wounds cycle

Difference highway, freeway, and interstate

Wikipedia monster compilation

Common writer terms

Food information in time periods

Gif of someone disarming a person with a sword

Names of different types of ships and other ship terms

Magical girl-themed generators

Best tumblr accounts to follow as a writer

List of things to take inspiration from (or how to "write fantasy")

Resources for describing physical things

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if anybody needs to hear it:

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STOP KOSA

The thing about KOSA that makes me feel the worst is that I am helpless. I am not an American. I have no power to change the votes or reps. But the internet and social media are used by everyone.

Please. If you have the power. Email your representatives, vote against this bill.

Because so many of us don't have that power

If we lose the internet as it is now. We lose some of the most important resources we have in our modern day. Widespread information, online communities, connections to others that are different than us, online safety, understanding.

Movements like Free Palestine will be censored, LGBTQ topics and protection online will be exposed, we will lose millions of posts on these subjects.

Please, please, we don't have much time.

LINKS:

badinternetbills.com

https://x.com/lykoico_/status/1759459803691102549?s=46

https://x.com/lykoico_/status/1759459803691102549?s=46

stop KOSA

EFF

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PLEASE READ

So as of tomorrow, the Kids Online Safety Act, is set for markup as of July 27 at 10:00 am. And for those who aren't aware, this bill, if passed, does not protect kids. If merely eradicates privacy, freedom of speech, and unlawfully searches and seizes everything you say and do on the web.

It will censor everything the government does not like and if you want "unrestricted access" you will need to prove you are above the age of 18, which will most likely mean you will need to upload some kind of ID. Additionally, if you need to upload your ID, there is no guaranteed protection that your image or the ID itself will not be swiped or sold like how Instagram/Facebook/Twitter did when they sold data to the Russians.

This will also be harmful to kids, especially those to have a bad living situation. KOSA does nothing but police the Internet for everything you say and do on the Internet. It will censor medical information, history, information, and restrict and limit, if not outright ban what can be posted on social media.

Sites like Ao3 (Archive of Our Own), Wattpad, Tiktok, Tumblr, etc.... EVERYTHING will be affected, art especially. And what's more, is KOSA passes, it will be a gateway to pass all the other bad internet bills like the RESTRICT ACT, EARN IT ACT, COOPER DAVIS, etc.

The Internet will turn into a hellscape for everyone; kids, companies, and adults alike!

The picture above, from @dontdelete.art, is a call to action in protesting these bad internet bills. As of today, July 26, we need to protest against this bill for our privacy and our freedom. Call your representatives and senators, AND ALSO call the Commerce Committee as they are the ones overseeing this mark up meeting.

The Commerce Committe's numbers are:

Majority: 202-224-0411

Minority: 202-224-1251

Call them and tell them you oppose KOSA, tell them the dangers, tell them how it breaks our first and fourth ammendment rights and how it violates our privacy.

We only have one more day before it goes to mark up, so let's make it count. Spend today speaking out on KOSA, post on social media talking about the dangers of KOSA, call and email your representatives, senators, and the committee!

DON'T SIT IDELY BY, MAKE TODAY COUNT!

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Once again...Black users (and a great deal of those Black users Black trans women) as well as sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine. Because there was a sweeping disappearance of Black blogs orchestrated by the site and officially justified by "Russian interference" (as in those Black bloggers were conveniently branded as bots). Even though the little bit of Russian interference there was showed up under the form of organized white supremacists. Then the FESTA-SOSTA bill came along, a bill that should have gotten the same attention than KOSA, because it opened the floodgates and was largely responsible for the erasure of sex workers on Tumblr and the fight against any type of nudity, at the same time there is an increase of porn bots and non consensually taken nudes and other videos. It took years of escalation for a lawsuit to be filed, when if all of Tumblr, as in, its user base, had congealed around the disappearance of Black blogs, maybe we would be nowhere near those vicious catastrophes. A lot of the Black users exterminated...were Black cis women and Black trans women. The pattern has been very clear on Twitter, it's now happening in Tumblr in different ways. Once again canaries in the coal mine and all...

ID [Tweet by @Blackamazon. Dated May 22, 2021

Everyone is shocked that the attacks are more blatant and things are worse.

But you treated everyone who said it was going to get this bad

Terribly

And in public

People went out their way to show "the canaries in the coal mine"

didn't matter] End of ID

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Really frustrated by the fear mongering surrounding people talking about KOSA.

I don’t like it nor support it but at least understand how the American government works before you make others more afraid and hopeless. It will not go into effect on the 26th if the Senate votes for it. The House has to vote as well.

It’s showing support in the Senate. It’s not yet passed, and even if it does it still needs to pass in the House as well before it’d go into effect (btw the House is Republican-dominated and considering Biden supports KOSA it’s fairly likely they will do everything in their power to not let it pass simply because the leading Democrat supports it and that’s how partisanship works.)

But this means We still have time to change people’s minds. I recommend going to Stop KOSA, it will directly connect you with a prewritten email so you can email your senators/representatives. You can even get connected with the phone numbers of your representatives after that.

Don’t give up hope. Contact your representatives.

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Hey, so, uh…

KOSA literally violates the First Amendment freedoms. If this is passed, then that means the Constitution and Bill of Rights are basically void, because Congress are ignoring them. THATS A PROBLEM

As a teen myself, it pisses me off. I wish for anarchy, with everything the US government has been doing, from supporting Israhell to this bullshit.

Please, do what you can to prevent this from getting passed. It violates everyone’s rights in the US, and if it gets passed, then we’re back to where we started; a monarchy. Just with far too many people.

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‼️Call/Write your Senators to STOP BILL S.1409 (KOSA)‼️

This is not my normal content but the word needs to spread

‼️KOSA IS A MASSIVE ONLINE CENSORSHIP BILL‼️

This bill is proposed by, Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn, who is very vocal about being against LGBT ppl!

It will force everyone online who wants to use a website to UPLOAD THEIR GOVERNMENT ID AND AGE TO THE PUBLIC!

Yes they did change the language of the bill but the sentiment is still the same. It will be used for censorship no matter what they say.

THIS BILL COULD PASS THE SENATE AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK AND THEN THE HOUSE THE SAME DAY

Omarsbigsister on TikTok is going into more detail.

This is so serious and will change the internet as we know it. People need to spread the word and call/write their senators.

Omarsbigsister on TikTok has videos and recourses on their page to help.

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WELL, SHIT.

So, Kosa is almost certainly going to pass the Senate, almost entirely just as bad and censorious as it ever was, but, that just means we need to take the fight to The House of Representatives, because that's where it's going now.

So, find your reps' numbers here and call them ASAP.

And this is bipartisan too, it's not just the Dems that might be swayed against this due to the well documented threats to LGBTQ people it presents, I'm sure even the right-wingers would not be happy to sign on a bill that's likely to lead to government-mandated facial scans for everyone using the net., along with the encroachment of actual big-government on our freedom of speech.

So, call now, call often, and if you want a further follow-through on this, there's a discord server organizing to fight this that you can join here.

And of course, as per usual, I make this poster available under a CC0 Public Domain License for anyone to use, complete with added QR-codes for use in actual physical prints. Now hop to it!

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ENDING KOSA!

The only reason it didn't pass the first two times is because we spoke out about it!

DON'T PANIC, TAKE ACTION.

LET'S GET KOSA TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!

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It's crazy how kosa will affect the entire internet and yet there's barely enough of anyone speaking out about this. If you can raise awareness and spread the word, you should do it to the best of your ability. When the internet is a means of communication for so many people, it's unfair not to take action. I've seen people who thought it was dead just because we stopped talking about it! Don't just reblog posts or whatever, tell those in your actual personal life. Contact your senators and make your opposition known. I know they bring this back every year, and it's tiring, but don't give up now. We need to try all we can to prevent this from passing.

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RED ALERT FOR THE INTERNET: KOSA AND EARN IT ACT ARE RETURNING(2024)

These twos bills are very bad for the future of the Internet. Like..Very bad.

In a nutshell, KOSA would allow states to sue any websites that host content deemed “harmful” to minors. With such a vague wording, its expected that any nsfw or lgbt content will immediately be taken down.

Plus, it will be made mandatory to use IDs to confirm your age when going online, to so called “protect kids” but all that will cause is a huge potential data breach.

As for the Earn It Act bill, it would allow the governement to spy and filter out antyhing they dont like in private dms for any users,as well as blowing a hole into Section 230 : The thing that prevent websites from being directly liable in case a user post something illegal,instead of the user being punished directly.

I also made comics about these in the past, while the “contact your senators” bits may be outdated, I heavily encourage you to spread the word about this, as the linktrees are very interesting and useful still, especially call script wise.

KOSA Comic here

Earn It Act comic here

New post here

KOSA UPDATE !!! (16/02/2024)

PLEASE REBLOG !

ALSO IF YOU WANNA HELP DO JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER AGAINST THESE BILLS

https://discord.gg/pwTSXZMxnH

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If you care about activism and DON'T WANT TO USE YOUR GOVERNMENT ID TO ACCESS THE INTERNET please contact your representatives.

THEY WILL BLOCK CRITICISM OF ISNOTREAL, SEX ED, LGBTQIA+ TOPICS, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, HISTORY, NSFW CONTENT, ETC.

FOR REPUBLICAN REPS:

FOR DEMOCRAT REPS:

Image captions credit to @fr0ggs

[image id 1: black text on a white background reading:

"My name is (blank underlines) and I'm one of your constitutents. I'm calling to urge you to vote NO on KOSA - the Kids Online Safety Act. The bill's sponsors claim it will protect kids by placing a duty of care on online platforms to prevent anything that could be harmful, but who decides what's harmful and what's free speech?

(next line) The power to decide has been ceded to the FTC. FTC leadership is made by presidential appointment. Current president Lina Khan, a Biden appointee, will have one agenda, but what happens when the someone even farther left than Joe Biden is in the Oval Office?

(next line) Imagine a President Gavin Newsom or Letitia James: Do you trust their appointee not to abuse this enforcement power to scrub information about your children's second amendment rights from the internet?

(next line) KOSA claims to protect kids, but it's poorly designed and will absolutely, without question, (underlined) harm (end underline) children, adults, and anyone who values free speech online. Vote No on KOSA." /end id.]

[image id 2: black text on a white background reading:

"My name is and I'm one of your constituents. I'm calling to urge you to vote NO on KOSA - the Kids Online Safety Act. The bill's sponsors claim it will protect kids by placing a duty of care on online platforms to prevent anything that could be harmful.

(next line) The power to decide what's harmful has been ceded to the FTC. FTC leadership is made by presidential appointment. Current president Lina Khan may proceed fairly, but what happens when the next Donald Trump is in the Oval Office? What if it's Trump himself? Do you trust a Trump appointee not to abuse this enforcement power?

(next line) KOSA claims to protect kids, but it's poorly designed and, given time, it will absolutely and without question, (underlined) harm (end underline) LGBTQ children, adults, and anyone who needs information on reproductive health or abortion.

(next line) KOSA author, Senator Marsha Blackburn, said she introduced KOSA in part - and I quote - "to protect minor children from the transgender in our society." The Heritage Foundation proudly said they'll apply pressure through KOSA to block information about abortion, reproductive health, & LGBTQ issues.

(next line) Vote NO on KOSA."

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THOSE OF YOU AMERICANS WHO SUPPORT GAZA NEED TO ALSO FOCUZ ON MAKING SURE THE KOSA ACT DOSENT PASS. IT WILL CENSOR ALL THE VIDEOS FROM PALESTINE BECAUSE IT WILL BE LABELD ‘HARMFUL TO CHILDREN’ YOU HAVE TO MAKW SURE THE KOSA ACT DOSENT PASS SO WE CAN HELP THE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE 🇵🇸

AND FOR CHILDREN THAT THINK THEY CANT DO ANYTHING GO TO

eff.org/KOSAsurvey

IT IS ANONYMOUS YOU CAN DO IT ITS A. QUIZ WHERE YOU ANSWER THE GUESTION OF THE POSITIVE EFFECT THE INTERNET HAS HAD ON YOU!! AND ALL THE ADULRS YOU CAN DO IT TO AND GO TO

Bad internet bill’s website PLEASE DO THIS FOR THE PEOPLE IN GAZA AND FOR YOURSELVES THIS LAW WILL TAKE AWAY PRO LGBT COMMUNITIES AND TIKTOK,TWITTER,AND AO3

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To anyone concerned about KOSA and the state of the web

My wife, @utopicwork, is working hard on a "next internet" with the primary goal of being a place where marginalized people can safely and privately communicate without being restricted by the whims of advertising algorithms and malicious bills.

This would be a decentralized peer-to-peer network, which means

A) it won't be easily shut down

B) it's built around the best aspect of tumblr: being able to choose who you do and don't connect to

She is a highly qualified computer scientist with years of experience in cybersecurity, web development and network technology. However, she can't do this alone. A trans woman is fighting hard for the future of free communication so please support her.

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I’m seeing a lot of stress from Americans about AO3 being down! If that’s the case for you, gentle reader, then may I advise you to take action against KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)?

This act threatens to allow the government to censor what they decide what they deem “obscene content” online. Given Rupublicans’ very recent history of deeming all LGBT+ content of any type “too obscene for kids”, this can very possibly result in restricting access to any sort of queer resources and queer content online, for the sake of ‘protecting kids’. Which includes your favorite gay fanfics!

For more information, and a very easy way to contact your representatives, click HERE!

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Hello Neil,

You seem to be very well established and respected on the internet and as someone newer to this I have a question for you.

Has everything always been this bad or am I just now seeing it? Because I finally got unrestricted access to the internet and I look around and all I see is war and lgbt rights being taken away and project 2025 and kosa and hate and climate change and it all looks terrible. Is this how it's always been or am I only seeing the now? Everything feels hopeless, is this the end? Not to be a downer I just cant stop thinking about it.

Thank you for your time, I have a lot of respect for you for being just a person on the internet and an author.

It hasn't always been this bad, no.

I don't think that this has to be the end though. I do think that it feels like we're on the wrong timeline, but I have faith in humanity and our ability to get back to the right one.