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Popped in here and saw this, and I need to point out:

Any ideas you post online can and will be taken from you.

I'm a professional FT writer, and I've seen this all the time.

You can't copyright an idea. So if you see someone else take your idea and turn it into a story or book before you do, you can be upset, but an idea, in and of itself, is not protected.

When you post ideas online you're pretty much offering them up for other people to use.

If you're cool with that, then fine.

But if you're saying, "Hey, I'm going to write a book/fanfic, and this is my idea," anyone who sees it might take it.

So if you want to turn an idea into a fanfic or a professional work

DO NOT SHARE YOUR STORY IDEAS ONLINE. EVER. NOT WITH ANYONE.

Write your story first. If you're going to put it online, do it on a legit website, like AO3. Then tell people about your story.

Just giving fair warning to a reality too many writers either don't know or refuse to believe.

I've got loads of story ideas and here are my ideas

There are my lists of ideas and how the story is summarised.

Aura Guardian: Ash Aura keeps having dreams of a honey blond girl and wants to know why it's her when he goes to her world and finds himself going up against someone who wants her for himself.

Cyber-Knight Starstream EXE: The story starts with Astro Stellar dying as a baby but Astro's parents are devastated of the loss of their baby and decide to go to the simulation where Astro's dad made a decision for his son's DNA to go to the simulation world to survive and grow up but their parents also must go to the simulation world to become parents of Astro so that he can grow to become a adult but their data is there but they're not there except watch Astro grow up in the computer system in the screen and while Astro was growing up he met Cyber Omega who was created by Dr. Lan light who wanted to stop Dr. Cepheus who wants to destroy the country which I don't the name yet.

Dream Fairy: Dream Fairy talks about a main character named Dream who is a fourteen-year-old who stumbles upon a necklace in the creek in the forest with her dad only for her to be in the dream world where she meets the dream keeper Aurora who wants her to stop the nightmare man but is reluctant to do it because the necklace chose her making her a chosen one.

Teddy Bear Land: Bella received a teddy bear from her aunt who told her adventures of Teddy Bear Land Bella thought it was an ordinary teddy bear but it wasn't and got transported to Teddy Bear Land where she found out that the Teddy Bear Queen was controlled by the darkness and making the kingdom more miserable, but she met an angel and a lion who has powers of the sun and moon and got a star staff with cards to stop the darkness from teddy bear queen.

Government Experiment: A detective finds himself intruding that people have gone missing in the city of something still thinking of a name when he goes to the boat as a volunteer he finds himself on an island that is set in the 19th century and investigates from there he found an underground where people get their memories erased about their modern life and that the government planned to use the chemical to people and the detective stop it.

Girl Transported to Obsessive Fan in Love with a Celebrity: Janet Fukushima bought a book about an obsessive fan in love with a celebrity and was transported by the book to stop Willow from obsessing about Peeta Martin the celebrity and ends up Peeta Martin after meeting her with Willow and become a love interest of Peeta instead of Willow.

Time Complex: Reki dreams of a game that is based on a time loop but the game is controlled by a time master named Chrono who made the town in a time loop so very long that people are getting fed up and Reki who is Cibil who his name is along with Eugene and Alice who works alongside him to stop the time master from time looping the game and that they are trapped in a game until they succeed in stopping the time master.

Echo of Character: Khoa Evan got an email that says he got the role of voice acting of Detective Goodman which is Tim Goodman and he does voice acting of Tim Goodman who is investigating the whereabouts of his dad but has to stop a person who I don't know wants to make people age young by using the time crystal while finding his dad.

Detective Goodman Mystery: Tim Goodman goes to Unity City trying to find his missing dad but teams up with a boy named Richard who is trying to find Tim's dad while they are investigating they stumbled upon the time crystal which makes people age and that someone wants to use it on the whole city.

Mystic Evolution: Chris Thunder age 15 wants to become a caster trainer and compete in the elemental league to become the master of mystic evolution but will have tough challenges ahead as he meets friends who are on a journey with him who have different goals.

Grandma's gift: Janet received a book from her grandma that can write anything from stories and many more only for her stories to come to real life and make her friends go to that world and she has to save them.

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"How do I become a professional novelist?" (sound on).

You do the work.

If you don't know how to do the work, you find books that teach you how. Books. Written by real authors, real editors, real agents. Real professionals.

Not blogs by people who self-publish. Or who've "read a lot of stuff."

You go on hiatus from social media, go to the library, read, read, write, write, write, revise, revise, revise.

You make writing your priority. You don't spend time with people talking about writing and about how you're going to become a professional. You actively do the necessary work.

You can lounge online and meme and post about writing all you want.

But to be a traditionally published author you earn the part.

And you don't earn it by hanging out here.

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"How old were you when you first started writing?"

Actually, it was age 5 or 6.

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Caught the second before Ron Conigailaro got his ass kicked.

Snow leopard 🐾🐾🐆🐆

Photographer Ron Conigilaro from Detroit, Michigan captured the moment.

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Holmes and Watson celebrate Passover.

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I'm a professional FT writer who plots all my stories. Short stories, novels, fanfics, all of them.

Some people like to wing it. But here's info for those who, like me, prefer not to.

A link to a very rudimentary guideline.

But I suggest, very strongly, that you get yourself to a library and check out books about how to write a novel.

If your library doesn't have many, or any, you can ask the librarian for an Inter Library Loan (ILL). You can borrow a book from anywhere in the country, sometimes from other countries, for free.

Some examples:

Getting into Character by Brandlilyn Collins

The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler

Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

20 Master Plots and How to Build Them by Ronald B. Tobias

90 Days to Your Novel by Sarah Domet

From First Draft to Finished Novel by Karen S. Wiesner

Make a Scene by Jordan E. Rosenfeld

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

How to Write and Sell a Christian Novel by Gilbert Morris

The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass

Self-editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King

I highly recommend The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri. This is about writing plays, but it also is perfect for writing prose.

If you're writing in a particular genre -- fantasy, sci fi, mysteries, romance -- you can find books about writing those.

If you don't have a local library, you can buy used books on ebay or on Abebooks. Just buy ones in "acceptable" condition, which are the cheapest. You don't need them to look new, only to be readable copies. You can always buy good copies later if you want to. Also check out any used bookstores in your area.

Professional novelist Alexa Donne has a good video on this. Check out her other videos as well.

Good writing!

"How do I plot a book" You don't. You start writing. You make notes about ideas you have while writing. When you're finished, you bring everything together like a puzzle. You fix potholes, you delete dead scenes, you bring in funky dialogue. You let someone else read it and put some patches on it. Tada! There's your book.

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Earth Day.

I was 10 and a memeber of my school's Ecology Club on the first Earth Day. My poster design won a contest. Somewhere I still have the ribbon.

When I was 10 most of America's cities had air pollution. Water pollution was everywhere. Bald eagles, wolves, bison, and many, many animals and birds were on the brink of extinction. Litter was everywhere.

Because people acted, water and air pollution lessened and even disappeared. So did litter. Wildlife was saved.

I wish we'd kept up with this. If we had, America would no longer be dependent on fossil fuel, and everyone would have environmentally and ecologically healthy homes and buildings.

Now when I take walks I see litter all over the place. I see teenagers from the local high school toss their trash wherever they please.

We can go back to the action and idealism of Earth Day, if people have the will to do it, and the willingness to sacrifice.

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I had this Ecology flag patch on my jeans.

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And so begins my writing week.

When I sit down to write.

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Filling my queue for hiatus.

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It's all queue from here. It'll run out when it runs out.

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Just . . . the lyrics for Encanto's Waiting for a Miracle.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's word choices. His rhyming.

He perfectly captures a 15-year-old's longing to be equal to her exceptional relatives, to be more than she is. Better than a hell of a lot of middle-grade novels I've read over the past two years.

Don't be upset or mad at all Don't feel regret or sad at all Hey, I'm still a part of the family Madrigal And I'm fine, I am totally fine I will stand on the side as you shine I'm not fine, I'm not fine

I can't move the mountains I can't make the flowers bloom I can't take another night up in my room Waiting on a miracle

I can't heal what's broken Can't control the morning rain or a hurricane Can't keep down the unspoken invisible pain Always waiting on a miracle, a miracle

Always walking alone Always wanting for more Like I'm still at that door longing to shine Like all of you shine

All I need is a change All I need is a chance All I know is I can't stay on the side Open your eyes, open your eyes, open your eyes

I would move the mountains Make new trees and flowers grow Someone please just let me know, where do I go? I am waiting on a miracle, a miracle

I would heal what's broken Show this family something new Who I am inside, so what can I do? I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go

I am ready, come on, I'm ready I've been patient, and steadfast, and steady Bless me now as you blessed us all those years ago When you gave us a miracle Am I too late for a miracle?

The animation is perfect as well. How Mirabel moves, her expressions. The direction enhances the lyrics. Her going through the door to her grandmother. The telling green firework framing her head as she declares that she's ready for a transformation (green is Bruno's color).

When I get stuck trying to figure out who my characters are I think of them as Disney musical animation characters. I imagine their "I Want" songs, for the protagonist as well as the antagonist. I don't necessarily write lyrics for them (I'm no poet), but I visualize their answers when I ask. "What do you want?"

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Shakespeare Saturday: As You Like It.

Yes, I'm in love with Tim McMullan's happily melancholy Jacques, the best I've ever seen.

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When I'm feeling stuck in my writing, I watch well-told animation. Because it's visual and not words, it helps dislodge me so I can think purely about characters and storytelling.

I'm not a fan of The Princess and the Frog, except for a few of its songs.

This is a perfect example of introducing the villain and his world, revealing the personalities and hidden desires of the prince and Lawrence, and the powers supporting the villain.

As animation should, it visually enhances the words. The Shadows show us Facilier's dark intentions. We see Lawrence's reaction to the card of his deep desire, and understand how he recognizes and readily accepts his deal with the villain in order to achieve his ambition.

This scene foreshadows Facilier's own fate. Here, at his moment of triumph, he slides forward on his knees. But when he breaks his bargain, he is dragged backward to his doom.

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Shakespeare Saturday: Othello.

In Othello Shakespeare doesn't say what Iago looks like. Directors have always assumed that, because of his hatred of Othello, he was white.

In the Royal Shakespeare company's 2015 production they cast Iago as black. Because Iago's hatred is not racism; it's from a feeling of betrayal, of his ambition thwarted in favor of, he believes, a less deserving man.

Lucian Msamati's is the best performance of Iago I've seen.

An interesting take on Roderigo. He's played as a bit thick. The words "thick lips" create a new response because Iago is black.

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I do still love Bob Hoskin's Iago.

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Shakespeare Saturday: Twelfth Night.

Taking a break from writing, I'm rewatching some of my favorite Shakespeare adaptations.

Twelfth Night, National Theatre, 2017. One of the few times I think changing the character's sex has worked well: Malvolio is Malvolia and Feste is female. Tim McMullan is brilliant as Sir Toby Belch.

Tamara Lawrance as Viola disguised as Cesario.

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This is adorable, but speaking as a former maid --

A white shag carpet??

Are you fucking kidding me?

And she owns a dog??

Do you have any fucking idea how hard it is to keep that sucker clean??

No, of course you don't. Because you don't clean it.

Tell me you hire other people to clean your house without telling me you hire other people to clean your house.

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