#of writing

[trivialcrow]

“It’s a yes or no question, Jason,” Kyle said, still floating a foot off the floor with an aura of white light so bright boats in the Hudson could probably see it. “Do I need to fly to Gotham and kick Batman’s ass?”

Everything from the question to the still battle clad white lantern hovering in his living room was so ridiculous that all Jason could do was laugh. “I’m almost tempted to say yes, just to see you try, Rayner.”

“You don’t think I could take him? I’m like the only white lantern.”

“Yeah,” Jason said. “And he’s Batman.”

“Exactly.” Kyle finally had the decency to stop floating, but only so he could brace his feet and glare at Jason. “Which means I mastered the entire emotional spectrum before he’s even found it yet. World’s greatest detective, my ass.”

Jason hated that he found himself laughing again. Hated how fucking easy Rayner always managed to make it seem. Hated that he was getting way too attached to someone whose literal job was to be anywhere but on Earth.

“Just sit down, nightlight,” Jason said. “B would hand your ass to you backwards and upside down.”

“Hey, I do actually know how to fight,” Kyle said. “It’s not all just light shows and imagination.”

“Yeah? Please just tell me John or Guy showed you how to throw a punch, and not Hal.”

“The old guard wasn’t exactly around to teach me when I started this, so no. Donna taught me, and Bruce.”

Jason winced at the clumsy misstep. He forgot, sometimes, that Kyle had spent the first part of his hero career making things up and learning as he went. As much as Jason would never admit it to him, Kyle was competent, more than. He was smart, tactical when he needed to be, and on his second stint of wielding god-like powers.

“Wait, Bruce taught you how to fight? When the hell did that happen?”

Kyle shrugged. “Back when I was on the league. Almost seemed like he’d decided it was his job to look out for me.”

Jason hummed, giving Kyle a once over. “I mean, you are his type. Black hair, blue eyes, constantly stumbling into trouble. He probably thought you were one of his and he’d just temporarily misplaced you.”

Kyle snorted, before the sound became a full laugh and he finally flopped down on the couch beside Jason, dismissing his white lantern uniform as he fell. “That’s so fucked up.”

“Yeah,” Jason said, lifting his glass of water in a fake cheer. “Now, whose turn was it to pick the movie?”

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

From an early draft Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833), where the author procrastinates by sketching his Russian contemporaries.

[west-brooke]

I’m in a bit of a writers block atm, so send some asks or little art requests about either me or New Hardware if you’re up for it! I’ll do my best to get to all of them but I ofc answer at my discretion lol.

[castingmysilver]

I grew up on a mix of American and British books, so both spellings of gr-y got lodged in my head. But (apparently I am not the only one, but it's still not *common*) I alternate not out of pure habit, but out of a deeply-embedded feeling that the spelling changes the type of shade it refers to.

Gray has always been *warm* to me. Its most ideal form is heavy and thick and mid-range darkness, preferably with hints of brown or yellow undertones. Gray is smog and wolf-fur and volcanic ash; particular shades of clay-mud can be gray, flint stone can be gray. Gray is something unsettling slowly bubbling in a witch's cauldron.

Grey is light and thin and cool. It is mist and stormcloud - but not the ones at sunset or the ones tinted by tornado green or windblown desert dust - it is shining ripples in rain-puddles, certain silks, the least organic and messy-looking part of the oyster-shell beneath its pearl, slightly bluish rough rock veined with pale crystal or bearing the shimmering trails of recent snail-slime.

I want *precision,* I want the weight of meaning in a word - a vowel-shift as code for a literal change of shade just feels so elegant.

But it's code. It's very narrowly understood code, a tiny shade of idiolect, and outside of very limited rings of people, not actually communicative or useful. Grammatically incorrect even, if you're dealing with a teacher or prof or copy-editor with one set of fixed norms for the spelling. And so sometimes I must remember to add an extra descriptive word or three to achieve the same weight for someone else's mental scales, sometimes while my brain turns the spelling underneath them like a pebble in my shoe, insisting it's the *wrong one.*

[mockingbirdshymn]

hc when harrison is stressed he yells into his hat

[off-brand-afterfire]

Some personal do's and don'ts for writing:

-Don't over describe the room or characters, no matter how much you describe everything, the reader will not see exactly what you see. Sorry.

-FOR THE LOVE OF GOD'S LET YOUR CHARACTERS HAVE FLAWS. It doesn't matter if they're the main character or the side character. They need flaws. Everyone. It's not realistic without.

-Think of little things your character has, like little quirks or likes/dislikes. It doesn't have to be mentioned at all, even, but its to help you figure out what type of person your character is. Do they like sweet things? Are they more of a healthy eater? Decide!

-Your antagonist doesn't always have to be down right evil, or comedic. They can morally grey, they can even seem like the protagonist for a bit! You decide how you want your antagonist to appear to others. Do you want readers to sympathize with them? Do you want them to hate the antagonist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when designing your antagonist.

-Don't overuse the word "said". Please. But also don't underuse it. Said is a good word to describe dialogue, but it also shouldn't be overused. Generally you want to try and avoid repetition in your work.

Which is better?

1. Freya looked back and forth between James and Brandon. "I think I know which one I want to choose." She said.

2. Freya looked back and forth between James and Brandon. "I think I know which one I want to choose." She murmured.

-Please. For the love of everyone's sanity. Learn the difference between "your" and "you're". And "there", "their", and " they're".

-This is specifically for fanfic writers. If you don't put a space between your paragraphs, your readers will leave unless you have a really convincing/good plot.

-And if your dialogue paragraphs are getting really long, do this:

"I just really think you're awesome. You're talented, kind-hearted, and brave. When the villain challenged you, you didn't back down. Not even when you were close to death. You stood up and tried again. You can do so much, and it's always incredible. You've helped so many people, even when nobody else would. You're so selfless that sometimes you forget to take care of yourself in the event of helping other people.

"That's why I admire you. Because of your selfless nature. You've inspired me to become a better version of myself, so please, let me help you become a better version of yourself."

See what I did there? Readers can tell it's still dialogue, but it helps it so it doesn't look like one big jumbled mesh.

[makeitmingi]

WAIT DID YOU SAY OT8 X READER?! YES PLEASE!! I NEED MORE OT8 SERIES TO READ ON HERE! (PLUS THEM IN THE IDOL RADIO OUTFITS ARE CHEFS KISS)

hahahaha yes!! i do plan to write an ot8 x reader series for them!! that tiktok i saw just put the genre/ plot in my head! but i wanna write my seonghwa series first thooooooooooo T-T

[animentality]

[blueboxbeagle]

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[sourdough-seal]

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

[out-of-jams]

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

[pierog]

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

[cityelf]

this poem is about being nonbinary.

[castingmysilver]

.....I feel like I just caught myself with my feet walking backwards on a line of a sonnet. <.<

[ad-wills]

[writing-prompt-s]

Two lovers have reincarnated throughout history, destined to find each other and fall in love all over again. There’s also this third guy that reincarnates alongside them… we don’t really know what he does.