#Writing Tag Game

[aalinaaaaaa]

Fun Lines Tag

Thanks to @spideronthesun for the tag!

The premise of this is to give one line you're proud of plus one line that sounds ridiculous out of context

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A Line I'm Proud of:

What danced behind those pale gray eyes she did but did not desire to know. The thought made her seize, this dread rising, a monster within come to claim her. It spun her thoughts on a chandelier, spinning flames around the same thing.

A Line that's Ridiculous Out of Context:

"So is it true you go around stealing children from windowsills at night?"

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Sending tags to @houndsofcorduff @darkluminosity @imsoveryveryconfusedatlife @seastarblue @ark-inkweaving @bardic-tales @thepeculiarbird plus an open tag :D

[stardustcasti]

Writeblr, writeblr lets play a game!

Pick an OC and think-

If the were to carry a picture of someone it thier wallet, who would this person be?

A loved one? Someone they's lost? Thier mortal enemy, perhaps?

Tell me!

I'll start- Yu, the main character in one of my stories, would carry a picture of him with his grandmother and mother. They both are his greatest source of inspiration in different ways. His mother is the thoughest person he knows (metally lol) and his grandmother is the one he inherited his magical ability from (kinda). She is there for everything he needs regarding it. He also loves them both a great deal.

I'll tag some writer moots (no preasure ofc) but feel free to join! (And tag whoever you want) One of my favorite things is to hear about other people's ocs.

@inspirationallybored @unlivresanstitre @zonatcannibalism @fourthemarauders @theforgottenhorcrux idk guys I am bad at this tagging thing

[wikiangela]

wip wednesday

tagged by @theotherbuckley

hello, I need to start posting more snippets again, I have too many wips I need motivation for lol

here's my "8x11 morning after going differently fic" where im giving them the counter make out they deserve lol it uses some of the dialogue until a certain point, but then it's going how it was supposed to idc lol

(lowkey set myself a cut off point in the episode dialogue to change stuff from then on and got stuck but I rememberd I can change stuff at any point actually, who knew lol)

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"Honestly?" Buck scans Tommy's face, leaning in slightly. He can't help his eyes falling onto his lips, that perfect cupid's bow he needs to taste again. "This was the best night I've had in this place." He smiles, feeling so light and well-rested for once, and so happy. Just, he feels right, sitting here with Tommy so close. "To be fair," Buck adds, "it's also the first night I've had in this place, but, uh, still." He licks his lips, not even hiding he's looking right at Tommy's. Craving another taste.

Buck squeezes his thighs around Tommy's hips, reaches out to wrap his arms around Tommy's neck and bringing him closer. Tommy's not protesting, his smile only growing, hands inching a little further up on Buck's thighs.

"Yeah?" Tommy tilts his head, gaze stopping on Buck's lips.

"Mhm." Buck's eyes flutter as he leans further into Tommy, their noses brushing.

"Wonder why's that." Tommy hums, and Buck laughs, shakes his head slightly, enough to not lean away from Tommy.

"I always sleep better with you next to me." Buck whispers, and hears Tommy's breath hitch before he presses his lips to Tommy's.

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no pressure tags

@dr-shortsighted-owl @eddiebabygirldiaz @watchyourbuck @diazpatcher @monsterrae1 @pirrusstuff @rogerzsteven @honestlydarkprincess @diazheartsbuckley @giddyupbuck @thewolvesof1998 @underwaterninja13 @your-catfish-friend @gaytommykinard @beyourownanchor6 @weewootruck @kirkaut @quillvice @wildfluorescent @bucked-it-up @drcloyd @girlwonder-writes @dadbodbucky @loullaby @aringofsalt @actuallyitsellie @hippolotamus @diazsdimples @hyperfocusthusly @cornerofspace @tommybuckleys @romanbridgers @evansbuck-ley @champagnetommy and anyone who wants to idk <3

[davycoquette]

Character Writing Exercises

I was going to make this a tagging game & include my taglist, but it's pretty involved and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to do it if it's a chore/they don't want to/it's not helpful to them.

Below are some exercises I find really, really useful for pulling brand new characters out of my ass. Barring that, they're fun to do for existing characters as well!

Paint a picture of a character by describing their bedroom while they’re not in it.

Whip up a new one right now, fall back on a tried and true OC. Or a canon character; I’m not the boss of you.

Shuffle a playlist on your music player of choice. For whichever song plays, describe what you “see” with your imagination.

For those of you who struggle to “see” imagined things, just tell me what’s goin’ on in that beautiful noodle of yours. Also, please tell me the song so I can listen to it while I read this part!

Describe a character by turning out their pockets.

what has it got in its pocketses?

An abandoned and unlocked phone (or wallet, if you wanna go back a coupla decades) has been discovered in a ratty little diner bathroom. What’s in there? What does it tell us about its owner?

Think photos, payment methods, notes, messages, Internet searches, receipts, etc. If cell phones and Waffle Houses aren't things in your character's world, pretend they are.

If you do all or some of these, please tag me because I would be overjoyed to read them!

[dude-why-3]

WIP ASK GAME

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. tag as many people as you have wips. people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Thank you @novaae for tagging me! 💜

And here's an incomplete list of my wips (excluding the ones already posted to any degree):

Of Necessity and Love

Obedient, Blue Eyes

King and Lionheart

Dragobete au

Yet another summer love au

No pressure tags: @annawayne @oniricdiary @moonspirit @distortedclouds @aruanimess

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

@melodicwriter I'm borrowing your meme to start a tag post, hope that's okay! 😁

So, my writer friends...

What's a line/scene you've written that you're REALLY proud of?

(Doesn't have to be Shakespeare, just one that makes you feel like everything you've written to get to that point in the story is worth it 😄)

No pressure tags: @lifblogs @niobiumao3 @kybercrystals94 @archivewriter1ont @gonky-kong @indigofyrebird @fanfoolishness @ireadwithmyears @royallykt @apocalyp-tech-a and anyone else who wants to share!!!

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For me, the first one that comes to mind is a specific exchange between (Star Wars) Bad Batch's Hunter and Crosshair. Picturing this scene - and hitting on the last few sentences shared here (in bold) - is what convinced me to turn some of my post-season 3 finale Hunter headcanons into a full fanfic. (I'm including some of the initial dialogue from the scene for further context.)

“I wasn’t there for him.”

Crosshair spoke quietly, and Hunter almost flinched at the words – he could guess where this was going. “Crosshair, don’t…”

“I’m the sniper. I’m supposed to watch your backs. I wasn’t there to watch his.”

“His death was not your fault,” Hunter insisted.

“I… I know that now,” Crosshair said, briefly dropping his gaze before looking up again at the memorial, though now not seeming to really see it. “Even if I had been there to help you all find Hemlock, Tech might have died anyway. Still, I failed all of you. I’m trying to make up for it. Omega says Tech wanted us to live and be happy, so… I’m trying. I’m trying to live up to what he sacrificed himself for. But that doesn’t change the fact that I failed him, I wasn’t there for him, and now he’s gone, I can’t make it up to him, and I’m going to have to live with that for the rest of my life.”

Crosshair was relating his own personal thoughts and feelings; yet it was as if he had reached into Hunter’s brain and pulled out all the darkest thoughts lurking there, giving them substance in words. But those thoughts shouldn’t belong to Crosshair, those words shouldn’t be coming from Crosshair’s mouth; that guilt was Hunter’s to own, and Hunter’s alone.

“Crosshair, I am – was – the sergeant. I’m supposed to lead. Protecting you all is my responsibility.”

“And you have,” the other replied, now looking Hunter square in the face. “You still do. You’re not watching just our backs, either – you’re… you’re everywhere all at once, all the time, protecting us. We’re going to make our own decisions, Hunter, and you couldn’t stop Tech from making his; but you were there for him all the time. You were there with him. And that matters.”

[caterpills]

Traffic Light Tag Game!

Thank you so much to @cha-melodius and @leaves-of-laurelin for the tag for this! Similarly, I'm going to do this instead of the normal Sunday snippet sharing.

rules: talk about something creative you're working on of any kind.🚦

green: what is it about, what excited you about it, what sparked the idea?

orange: slow down and share something from it: a photo, a few words, some more background info etc.

red: what is the roadblock currently? what is one thing that is a necessary evil in making it? GREEN

So many things, but going to pick this one: affectionately called "the saudade fic" was an idea I had mid-writing and posting Comment/Question, and it's been percolating for a while. Basically, Alex attempts to save a boy from drowning when he's younger, but he never knows if the boy survived, so in order to cope with the loss, he creates an imaginary version of the boy, who he calls "H", to talk to. Except you know, H talks back. And maybe isn't as imaginary as Alex thought when they meet (unknowingly) again in college. There's grief! Feelings of loss! And so much yearning! And coming to terms with not being everything to everyone! So many water metaphors! And takes place over a series of time, and playing with some timeline things, for funsies. It has all the things I love reading about in books.

ORANGE

I have a whole pinterest board of things that inspire the feelings I want to feel while reading/writing it, so it's grown a lot (lots of oceanic pictures - I'm also afraid of the ocean, so this is really a terror writing experience for me too!!) I also have an extensive playlist for no reason other than I love music to write to. But I wanted to use this quote, in the literal sense, as well as the emotional one in the book:

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having saved me. I was drowning and you threw yourself into the water without hesitation, without a backward look.”

And a quick little collage of some photos on that pinterest board:

RED

URGHGHGH so many things. Real life is very nightmarish, so finding time where I don't want to sit and disassociate is hard. I also have some pretty complicated feelings about writing and fandom at present and feel that maybe the idea might be too big for me to tackle (right now.) It's weird because the urge is there, but the words are all mucked up, and I just wish it was easier than I thought (this goes for all my languishing WIPs, too.) tl;dr - I'm tired, and I feel like putting words to paper is a massive undertaking for me. But I figured blabbing about it here to people might get me out of that stupid little rut and get more than 2-3 sentences on a page a month.

ANYWAY, if you've gotten this far, here are some no-pressure/low-pressure tags to join in!! I hope you all have a wonderful week ❤️

@alasse9 @taste-thewaste @firenati0n @thesleepyskipper @suseagull5914

@myheartalivewrites @miss-minnelli @judasofsuburbia @thinkof-england @onthewaytosomewhere

@anincompletelist @14carrotghoul @porcelainmortal @wordsofhoneydew @blueeyedgrlwrites

@stellarmeadow @faketrex @sophie1973 @littlemisskittentoes @thedramasummer

@tailsbeth-writes @milowren29 @tinyarmedtrex @sparklepocalypse @clockwrkpendrxgon

@cricketnationrise @kj-bee @thighzp @theprinceandagcd @bitbybitwrites

@miharaikko @dani-dabbles @msmarvelouswinchester @priincebutt @incalamity @shesfromboston @zwiazdziarka

[sassay-fox]

Snippet Saturday (Sunday)

Tagged by the inspiring @sofa-king-lame who helps me all the time with my fics and listens to my rambles.

I'm mainly working on Gardener Buck and I'm hoping to finish it soon.

Eddie groaned as morning sunlight hit his face. Pain spiking through his head. Hen and Karen were evil, evil women. "Oh my God. Why?" moaned Karen, holding her head in her hands. "A plague on both your houses," said Eddie, with his arm across his eyes. "Here," Hen gives both Karen and Eddie glasses of water and painkillers. "Thank you," the pair chorus. "Why aren't you suffering?" Karen squints one eye at Hen. "Because I actually followed Evan's advice to drink water before sleeping." "Evan?" queries Eddie, "Garden Evan?" "The pineapple lover," mumbles Karen, leaning into Hen's shoulder. Eddie furrows his brow in confusion. "Here," Hen passes him his phone. Eddie takes a few moments to scroll over the messages to Evan. "Oh my God!" "Shhhh, too loud, Eddie," whines Karen. "Cereal, Star Wars and pineapple on pizza? Those are the questions to vet someone? Really?" Eddie scrunches his face. "You're welcome by the way. We saved you by finding out he likes pineapple on pizza. That's an abomination," Hen settled next to Karen. "I like pineapple on pizza," Eddie says distractedly as he types out a message to Evan. "Get out of my house Diaz. You are dead to me," Karen sits up and points at the door.

No pressure tagging @babygirl-diaz @annoyingcloudearthquake @multi-fanforever and anyone else who wants to join in

[kaylinalexanderbooks]

Writing Share/Nine Lines Nine People

Thanks to @oh-no-another-idea here, @winterandwords here, @melpomene-grey here, @willtheweaver here, and anyone else who tagged me in the last several months!

Writing Share rules: share some writing!

Nine Lines Nine People: share nine sentences from your WIP! Then tag nine people

Got to FINALLY come up with an Alii video game. Took a while. This has been a placeholder scene for a while. So hope this is better.

From The Secret Portal, Part One (Lexi POV)

I followed Robbie’s avatar as he showed me the ropes of the game. It was quite interesting, actually. It was a horror-survival game where there was a virus that warped an Alii’s powers to a disturbing degree. I’d never been into horror, so I kept screaming. “Watch out, Lexi!” Akash screamed from behind me, pointing at the screen where what looked like a zombie jumped around a corner. I shrieked as I slammed my finger into the tablet screen, into the “Use Power” symbol as I had my character teleport behind the zombie. Then I used a few sword swipes at the thing in front of me. “Ahhhh!” Maddie screamed with me until the zombie was dead. “Epic,” said Kelsey.

Tagging @cherrybombfangirlwrites @sarandipitywrites @sarahlizziewrites @elizaellwrites @diabolical-blue

@leahnardo-da-veggie @katwritesshit @mrbexwrites @orphanheirs

+ ANYONE ELSE

TSP intro

TSP tag list (ask to be +/-): @thepeculiarbird @illarian-rambling @televisionjester @finchwrites

@literarynecromancy @honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @corinnes-old-blog

[smellyrottentrees]

Simple OC Ask Game

Thanks for the tag, @willtheweaver!

I’ll answer for Am’asy and Arroti both (MC and personal favorite). If you’d like to see this for other characters, don’t hesitate to ask!

1. What is something your OC would never purchase for themselves, but would (secretly?)be delighted to receive as a gift?

Am’asy: A nice dress that she can wear without worrying about it getting ruined.

Arroti: New clothes in general.

2. Is your OC ticklish? Has anyone ever dared to find out?

Am’asy: Yes, and Kys’so takes advantage of it often.

Arroti: Yes, but He would never allow anyone to find out.

3. How easy does your OC find it to apologize?

Am’asy: Not easy. She tends to find it difficult to admit she could be wrong.

Arroti: Easy—but only if He believes He actually was in the wrong.

4. When did your OC first see a dead body? If they have not seen one yet, how might they react to doing so?

Am’asy: When she was a young child, and it was fairly traumatic for her as it had been her grandfather.

Arroti: Unknown. He responds with utter neutrality, unless it was someone He was fond of.

5. Does your OC have any recurring dreams? Have they told anyone else about them?

Am’asy: Usually nightmares of being hunted by a leopard through her family’s grain fields. She would only admit something so silly to Kys’so.

Arroti: It is unknown if He dreams.

6. Is your OC stingy with their money (or other resources)? Or are they something of a spendthrift?

Am’asy: A certain level of frugality can be expected of her, living off a soldier’s allowance, but when she does have extra money she likes to splurge on snacks.

Arroti: He only takes as much as He needs of anything, but will not hesitate to share with others. So not stingy so much as… focused on subsistence.

7. Does your OC have a sweet tooth? Or do they prefer to avoid sweets and sugary treats?

Am’asy: A small one. She likes carb-heavy foods.

Arroti: Not particularly. He prefers salty or umami flavors.

8. Is your OC easily provoked by insults or mockery?

Am’asy: Yes. She has some pride and gets irritated easily.

Arroti: No. He is, however, provoked by threats of aggression, no matter how unlikely it is they would do any harm to Him.

9. Where is somewhere your OC has visited that they would not want to visit again?

Am’asy: Ny’zasaji, the jungle queendom under Yetova’s control. She would claim it worse than Deri if you asked.

Arroti: If He could avoid the Furajyan imperial palace, He would. He doesn’t fit well in it.

10. Is your OC somewhat flirtatious?

Am’asy: Not knowingly.

Arroti: When He wants to be.

[aalinaaaaaa]

Last Line Tag

Thanks to @space-writes for the tag!

This line is a taste of what I'm working on for my Writecamp entry today 👀

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A choir not for this solemn hymn. Hummed alone by a father on this trail.

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I'm going to tag @darkluminosity @houndsofcorduff @ark-inkweaving @seastarblue @winterandwords @thepeculiarbird @nightmaricwriter @kingragnarok-writes plus an open tag :D

[wynnyfryd]

WIP Word Game

Rules: The person who tags you gives you a word, and you have to share WIP sentences beginning with the letters.

tagged by @matchingbatbites with the word TRUST, thank you 😘 sentences taken from an old s1 steddie wip i found in the trash heap

T

Thank fuck. Eddie’s too high for this.

R

“Really, Steve?” he asks, holding the soft yellow sweater out in front of him. “Trying to ruin my bad boy reputation?”

U

“Uh huh,” Steve laughs at him, “is that why you’re clinging to the ladder for dear life right now?”

S

“Shut up! Shut the fuck up,” Eddie hisses, scrambling to clap a playful hand over Steve’s mouth.

T

This is a joke, right? Some weird prank? No way Steve fucking Harrington just looked directly at his lips and then invited him to his pool party. Right?

tagging @asexualasshat @formosusiniquis @fkinkindagauche @eriquin @starryeyedjanai @after-the-end-times @fortheloveofallthings @vecnuthy your word is DAMSEL 👸

[wikiangela]

tease tidbit tuesday

hiii, I haven't done one of these in a whiiile omg

i was very focused on winterfest but im back to my regular wips now, and there's a few 8x11 fics in the works - first, bucktommy 8x11 phone call lol

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“God, Evan, you’re so adorable.”

[...]

"You still think so?" Buck asks teasingly, but his voice wavers and he bites his lip hard. He wants to thread carefully, this conversation feels big, like if he messes this up, he might never get another opportunity to fix it. And damn it, he wants to fix it.

"Yeah, of course. Why would that change?" Tommy asks so casually, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well, a lot changed. I just assumed." Buck shrugs, even though Tommy can't see him.

"Hm." Tommy hums. "Maybe we both should stop assuming so much," he mutters quietly, almost under his breath, so quiet that if they weren't in silent rooms and his voice wasn't directly in Buck's ear, he might've missed it.

"Is that our problem? Assuming?" Buck flips onto his side, his phone between his cheek and his pillow. He feels restless. He wishes he could curl up under Tommy's arm, press his cheek to Tommy's chest, feel his heartbeat. He misses that so much.

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no pressure tags (copying from the last one I did, if you want to be added or removed, pls lmk):

@dr-shortsighted-owl @eddiebabygirldiaz @watchyourbuck @diazpatcher @monsterrae1 @pirrusstuff @rogerzsteven @honestlydarkprincess @diazheartsbuckley @giddyupbuck @thewolvesof1998 @underwaterninja13 @your-catfish-friend @gaytommykinard @beyourownanchor6 @weewootruck @kirkaut @quillvice @doctorkinney @bucked-it-up @theotherbuckley @drcloyd @girlwonder-writes @dadbodbucky @loullaby @aringofsalt @actuallyitsellie @hippolotamus @diazsdimples @hyperfocusthusly @talktonytome @cornerofspace @tommybuckleys @kinard-buckley and anyone who wants to idk <3

[wollemi-whump]

Thanks for the tag @whumpdoyoumean!

Rules: in a new post, share the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like)

His throat was too scratched to comfortably speak, so he settled for writing it out on the dirt instead.

(I would tag 19 people but that's a lot so here's 8)

Tagging (no pressure :)): @cakeinthevoid @dresden-syndrome @mirasmirages @whumped-by-glitter

@violet-prism-creatively @whump-kia @whumpninja @therealbluespirit

[mythals-whore]

A Word with Friends

Thank you for the tag @woundedsoul12 & @serensama

This week's work is apriciry

Definition: The warmth or light of the sun in winter A noun.

Gentle tags for @thedissonantverses (I know you're busy, no pressure) @basedonconjecture @serstolas @bubblecat-co @sugar-peanut-cat

But when even Choquet joins in on the fun—reaching a hand to shove Julian into the pool just to their right—Davrin realizes he had missed this. The kinship, the sense of a shared fight. A brotherhood. They started with nine in their cohort, training and eating and doing chores together. Two of them had been dismissed, one had simply left in the night. There were five of them left now. Mal, who Davrin had grown closest to these last few months. They're the closest in age, and the only two true volunteers, it seemed. Davrin had come for the challenge and Mal for the women—or so he said. The others rankled him more than once about the fact that women seemed less than a third of the Warden ranks. Somehow, it never managed to discourage him. Malmont was an endless wealth of boyish charm and apriciry. Ruhn is the quietest of them, but even a small, fond smirk curls his mouth when Julian splutters to the surface of the water. Ruhn is an elf, like Davrin though he isn't Dalish—not that they know much more about him. All they managed to get out of him was that he'd been recruited from a jail cell. From the quiet with which he moved and the wicked knives he carried, they could only guess.

[flyinghome-againstthewind]

writing game: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

thank you @philtstone for the tag! 💜

“Tell me more about what you dreamed up for Fairy Hill.”

no-pressure tagging @walkinginland @theawkwardterrier @frasers-of-my-heart @forgetmenotsassenach17 @lara-frasers @adsosfraser @let-the-dream-begin @islayandlochs and anyone else who would like to share!