#writing in general

[laurachouettepoetry]

[munamarvel14]

DIALOGUE PROMPT

"This is where the most ferocious, most terrifying, most hideous monster in all the la-"

"It's a pawn shop. You took us to a pawn shop."

[tahbhie]

40 Creative Ways to Describe an Old Wall in Tense and Eerie Settings #002

1. The wall stood like a silent sentinel, its surface cracked and crumbling.

2. An eerie feeling emanated from the wall’s worn bricks.

3. The wall exuded a sense of ancient dread.

4. Shadows danced across the wall's weathered surface.

5. The wall's peeling paint revealed layers of forgotten history.

6. A cold, unsettling aura surrounded the dilapidated wall.

7. The wall seemed to whisper secrets of the past.

8. The wall's uneven texture felt like a haunted relic.

9. Time-worn and mysterious, the wall held untold stories.

10. The wall’s fading graffiti hinted at long-forgotten memories.

11. The wall’s surface was pockmarked with holes and scars.

12. A strange chill emanated from the wall’s cracked mortar.

13. The wall's darkened crevices seemed to hide sinister shadows.

14. The wall's crumbling facade gave off an ominous vibe.

15. The ancient wall looked like it had witnessed countless tragedies.

16. The wall's surface was covered in creeping vines, adding to its eerie aura.

17. The wall’s rough texture felt unsettling to the touch.

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[lovemefornever]

my favourite source of writing inspiration is music

any & all artists are inspirational if you dig deep enough into their lyrics

[daytheweirdwriter]

What made you start writing?

I owe my love of writing to the author Holly Webb. The first series she published was about a set of identical triplets named Katie, Annabel and Becky and it inspired me to write a story about my own triplet sisters and I.

So what made you start writing?

[starryslyii]

If life were a novel, this would be the part where the protagonist—you—finds their strength to keep turning the pages.

Hang in there my friends & fellow writers! ✨

[r-f-m-writes-books]

A Lark In a Hollow - R.F.M (2024)

All images sourced from Pintrest.

[the-starry-lycan]

Can we please make this a word for the writing community:

Chaptergasm: The feeling of exaltation, bliss, and utter relief one gets from completing a chapter of their writing.

'Cause damn, I finished a chapter and ohh the chaptergasm hit me good.. I've been working on that bastard for a while..

[jester2b]

The Hardest Part of First Drafts

As I finish editing one draft and letting another sit for a little, I keep being reminded of my biggest struggle with them. Its hard for me to accept that they're supposed to suck ass. I know I'm not alone in wanting my first drafts to be perfect to the point I don't finsh anything.

I'm getting better at it now, but damn is it a tough habit to break.

[zeenhil]

A Place to Belong

You rarely embody the comfort I desire

The touch you provide ignites faux fire.

Your shine is sham, you taste of a liar

Yet still, I breathe fumes from your makeshift pyre.

Hours spent on reckless chances

Secrets passed through our shared mattress.

You wreck me with your wasted glances

Yet still, I kneel in your smouldering ashes.

The road we followed was long

With fumbling hands, we committed much wrong.

Still you withdraw, until your presence has gone

Yet still, I yearn for your blazing song.

How could something so beautiful be so wrong?

I fear I've found my place to belong.

-

EL Mori(Zeenhil)

[laurachouettepoetry]

October creeps into the room

through faint grey light

that stopped dancing on the windowsill

since July left.

Being haunted by silence

makes the air grow weary

and faintly colder.

I hear the noise of people

walking in solitude,

thinking to themselves about others—

sitting alone in between their steps.

Company of ghosts on lonely eves,

threading through the rustling of leaves.

I can write down what haunts me,

yet I cannot read the ones who do.

October.

- Laura Chouette

[crmsnmth]

The Pen, The Paper

For as long as these fingers can hold a pen I'll continue to vomit my emotions out Find the chunks within my prose This is my medicine and my addiction my lover and my obsession The day I stop writing is the day that I die

I've lost everything I've ever cared about Over and over in my time as an adult Sometimes the blame lays entirely on me and sometimes it lays on thieves in the night and sometimes it's a combination of the two But nobody can take this from me No matter how hard they might try

I find peace in the sadness Telling stories from my past in cryptic phrases There are no rules in poetry or love and I once claimed to be an anarchist This piece of notebook paper is the gasoline and this pen is wadded up paper Toss it and watch the words explode

I push myself to do this Sometimes it feels like my words have all been spent And I find myself staring at the screen fingers resting on home row Until the first sentence finally wakes And everything falls into place

My notebook is my home.

[foggyfanfic]

Hi uhm I saw you rbd a post about asks so- here's one!

What is your main inspiration in writing? I mean not the "what's the reason you write?" or "why do you keep writing?" (although I wouldn't mind getting the answers to them as well!) but more "do you have media in mind that you want your writing to be similar to?"

For example, do you try to replicate writing "tricks" of your favourite authors or do you like a specific way characters are introduced in a movie?

Hello! Seeing your icon pop up in my notifs always makes my day. This is tricky, nothing immediately comes to mind, I think I’d have to say a little of every story I’ve ever consumed pops up some where in my writing. The one I’m posting right now is inspired by Overly Sarcastic Production’s piece on time loops, but it’s sort of an outlier in that it has one single inspiration, everything else is a hodgepodge.

Separating the art from the artist, I’m a huge fan of the way Joss Whedon writes dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Prose and character wise, I like the book The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (at least I think that’s his name, my dog is asleep on me so I don’t want to get up and check my bookshelf). The economy is in shambles, so I crave happy endings, even when dealing with dark topics. Subject matter wise I can write short stories that are just about the characters and plot, but anything over twenty chapters risks becoming a way for me to examine a deeper subject like rape culture, colonialism, or globalism vs isolationism, so the inspiration for my longest stories are essays and editorials I’ve read. (Except Leandra’s story in Love and Fury, that ended up being about a real experience of mine).

And that doubles as the reason why I keep writing, the little stories I tell myself are how I digest the world, and pacing around the room while I daydream disturbs my dog’s sleep schedule so I write fan fiction instead!

[ficandkaboodle]

shaking, blubbering through tears: PLEASE don’t leave writing the thing I want to see in the world up to me. PLEASE don’t use me as the vessel through which the idea in my mind must manifest, it will come out so FUCKD

[fandomstars]

Do you have any writing tips????

Oh boy do I! 😂👍

Always finish the piece of writing you are working on first, before you start another. (one I wish I knew when I started writing fanfic at eleven and now have like over ten WIP years later)

Write for pleasure not for views. (Whether it’s to gush out about a character/scene, or a way to let out your tears of something (like a character/scene), find it and write it to your heart’s content.

If you’re going to do a crossover, start with just two fandoms in one piece before trying to combine more than two. (It’ll get crazy and somewhat confusing if you put like 5 fandoms together without any clue how to put it that makes sense (or is easy to follow).)

Try to listen to music, re-read/re-watch your fandom (or a specific scene) when writing. Music for the tone, the re-watching/reading for the context and spark of ideas.

Take breaks (but not too long or you might forget what you were going to write!)

Hope that helps!

If you or anyone has any need for help on writing wise, just submit to my inbox and I’ll do my best to help!

I got 14 years of fanfic writing under my belt, so have at it!🫡