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writing tip #1111:

all plot holes can be fixed with magic

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by Sean Platt

Face it. There are few things as intimidating as the blinding white of a blank page.

It makes no difference if it’s an empty sheet lying on our desk, or a blank screen, aiming between our eyes. Defeating “nothing” by subjecting it to “something” with our words...

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japanese dragon:

- long - chill - no wings - legs - moustache - in the sea

chinese dragon:

- long - p chill - no wings - legs often but not always - impressive beard - 9 is a big deal

european dragons:

- jerks - breathing fire - wings - often actually a wyvern - compulsive hoarding - caves

slavic dragon:

- three fucking heads bro - can you believe it - wings and like - 3 whole heads

leviathan:

- honestly probably just a whale and you should all chill 

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that awkward shiver that makes me look like im being possessed by satan

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Not taking any chances

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I Choose. by Juan Manuel Orozco.

Check out the artist’s Tumblr.

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Death and Graveyard Symbolism Infographic. For more Halloween infographics go here.

This infographic briefly covers symbols for:

Death

Death Personified

Colors of Death in Different Cultures

Gravestones

Afterlife 

Religious Symbols

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Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately — many people will help you unintentionally.

Santha Rama Rau (via writingquotes)

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Un like si hacéis promos, por favorrrrr c:

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Editing on the sentence level

Many people get hung up editing on the sentence level and see it as a chore. I used to be that way too, and it was for a very specific reason: I didn’t know what I was aiming to fix aside from general grammar issues. I knew I wanted my sentences to be better, but I did not have a firm grasp on what “better” meant. Now I do and I find sentence level editing fun.

To make your sentences better, you can:

Make sure it conveys the meaning you want it to.

Make it succinct and delete any extraneous words. (Though never at the sacrifice of meaning. It’s better to have a clunky paragraph that says what you want than a short but confusing sentence that doesn’t get the point across.)

If you have two descriptions of the same thing from the same POV, choose your favorite and delete the second.

See if you can change weak verbs or rearrange the sentence to exclude them.

Alter the sentence so that it enhances the voice of the POV character (or the story, if you’re writing third person omniscient).

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I was looking for a sort of ‘database’ for colour names, and found that paint brands have hundreds of colours and are generally super useful. Here are a few of my favourites! At the end, there are a few other sites with colour names as well. Hope this helps.

godavari paints — [ url ]

shades of blue

shades of blue-green

shades of yellow-green

shades of yellow

shades of orange

shades of brown

shades of red

shades of pink

shades of purple

Benjamin Moore [ url ]

off-white

blue

green

yellow

orange

red

neutrals

2015 colour trends (.pdf booklet)

Behr [ url ]

room / style inspo (main page)

2015 colour trends (simple web page)

colour gallery

Dulux [ url ]

colour gallery

colour wheel / colour schemes

2014 colour trends (simple web page)

The wiki! [ url ]

compact list of colours

list of colours A-F

list of colours G-M

list of colours N-Z

list of fictional colours

crayola crayon colour names

shades of colours (main page)

shades of blue

shades of green

shades of yellow

shades of orange

shades of red

shades of WHITE - BLACK - GRAY - BROWN

Wiki’s COLOUR portal

ETC.

colorhexa - you can even type in the colour’s hexcode and it will give a lot of information on that colour! This site is great, and it even provides colour schemes and alternatives. Very handy.

design-seeds - a blog that has tons and tons of pretty palettes, generated from images. You can click on a colour, and it will give you other palettes containing that same colour!

colorcombos - crap ton of palettes and colours. You can input a website’s URL and it will spit back all of the colours used! Handy for making blog pages match the main theme!

colornames.facts.co - really strange site and terribly formatted/designed, but has hundreds of colour names. You can also choose a specific base colour and see all the variants of it (red, blue, etc.) I would use adblock when going to this site.

paletton - really, really neat palette generator. To me, it seems very intimidating because of all the options, but it’s very useful.

I hope this mini impromptu colour name guide helps when describing your protag’s love interest’s eye colour B) Just please don’t describe them as orbs…

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How I Outline Plot (Using 6-Stage Plot Structure)

Most writers dread outlining their stories. I don’t really know why. For every good book I’ve written, there’s been a nice, meaty outline. An outline consolidates every detail of your story and keeps it in a place where you can easily see the transition between scenes, chapters, and acts. My personal method has only 5 steps.

1. Create a synopsis for your story. Or just write down what you kinda want to happen. It can be pretty rough. 

2. Create a table in your document. I’m using Microsoft Word 2007. 

3. In a fresh document, divide your story into three acts: beginning, middle, end. (If you’re using the 6-Stage Plot Structure, assign the parts their names.) Here, I broke it into four sections but there shouldn’t be very much back story in your actual book at all.

4. Decide what happens in your story to start it (Mirabelle leaving her house), and put that in the first square of your table (the top square circled in green.) What happens after that? That second thing (Mirabelle hesitates) goes in the second square, (the bottom square circled in green). Pretty simple.

5. Continue filling in the squares with whatever material you have. You have gaps? No problem. You’ve got entire chapters missing? No problem. When you create a synopsis, or write your goals for a story, you tend to figure out your plot as you go. It’s normal to have gaps after that, too—filling in character sheets or just a good, ponderous shower can unlock the mystic gaps of your plot. Whenever you think of something, WRITE IT DOWN. 

And there you have it! Your book is outlined, and you have a temporary synopsis, too. I’m not kidding about writing down every idea you have, by the way. Whether you think it’s stupid or not, it could save your book’s life when chapter nine is just a glaring, blank space with nothing to say.

I hope this was comprehensive, but if you have any questions let me know!

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