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[chaikovskiyy]

Writings Terms to Know

Is this going to be an organized index? Yes. Will it help new writers sink in to the community? Yes! Will it be fun for writers with experience to try and see if they now know all them? Also yes. So let’s get started!

Planning / Outline Terms - Plotter: A writer who outlines their projects - Panster: A writer who doesn’t outline and therefore “writes by the seat of their pants” - Story Beat: An important event or turning point in the story. (there are tons more vocab within this- resources are available all over the internet!)

Drafting Terms - WIP: Work in progress / writing in progress - Writer’s block: When a writer is having a hard time coming up with ideas or putting words onto the page. A lot of us struggle with this! - First Draft: The finished version of a project with no edits - Zero Draft: A process some writers use to get through that first version of their story and keep momentum. Often under-written, with missing scenes, lots of placeholders, etc.

Revision / Editing Terms - Alpha Reader: A person the writer taps to read their first draft - Beta Reader: A person the writer taps to read whatever draft (not their first) that the writer is on to help - Critique Partner: Another writer who a writer exchanges their work with. They provide each other with critiques/comments on their drafts - Developmental Edits: Revisions made to the story’s big elements like plot, character, setting, etc. - Line Edits: Edits to fix the prose - Copy Edits: Edits to fix grammatical/spelling errors

Prose Terms - Purple Prose: Prose that is so convoluted that the meaning of the writer's words is lost. - Literary device: Anything used in the prose like a simile, metaphor, imagery, allegory, etc. - Show don’t tell: The mega tip that you should show and dramatize what your characters act like, how places look, etc. instead of just saying so in the prose.

Miscellaneous Terms used by the Community - OC: Original character - CR: Currently reading - Self-promo: Advertising your account/work on someone else’s account/profile/post. A big no in the community - Wattpad/Commaful/FictionPress: Places on the internet where writers can share/post their work to be read for free!

That’s all for this post! Until next time, happy writing! - E. ⚘

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[aisazia]

For those of you who don't know, I usually choose to write with #waterproof or water resistant #ink. Even #pencils in a pinch, because if I don't, this is what happens. LOL I don't dry my hands thoroughly and sometimes I accidentally drop paper onto a spot where I had my drinking cup (which is what happened in this instance) and this is what happened. I feel like I prefer the reliability that if I drop my notebook or notes in water, that they will survive and not become messy ink blobs. Fortunately, this was salvageable but I did have to rewrite it with a ballpoint and I don't usually like to rewrite things. Imagine if this was my story! 0.0;; I do want to hand write my future stories, as soon as I finish with my current #WIP #revisions which are progressing slowly but I have a plan for my vacation week. Next week, I plan on hunkering down and trying to finish another pass of revisions for my #novel. As some of you know, I've been working on revisions for what seems like FOREVER but I haven't been working on them daily as I should. Still I'm going to try to push myself this week and finish because if I don't do it now, I won't finish it any time soon. lol I know a lot of people are fans of Pilot G-2 which is what I used for the picture above, but I can't say I'm a fan. I'm definitely more of a #Uniball pen fan. I probably even prefer ballpoints because their ink is more waterproof than the gel ink. Do you have a preference of what you write with? What are your #pen or #waterproofink recommendations? Any other of you guys write your stories by hand? Getting the urge to write with my fountain pens again on a more regular basis! Please tell me I'm not the only one that has this issue with writing with wet hands. haha #amwriting #amrevising #nano2018 #amoutlining #amplanning #indiewriter #indieauthor #indiewriters #indieauthors #authorpreneuer #nanorebel #revisingtips #writingtips #novelwriting #novel #fiction #amwritingfantasy #fantasy #ya #waterresistant https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-BLBinxW4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4r4kywgbzva3