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A Song of Ice and Fire || Religions

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how would the faith of the seven -headcannon wise- have their own catholic vs Protestant differences ideology wise? Or even a sunni vs shia differences?

Good God, where do I even start?

How does the "Seven are One and the One Seven" work exactly?

Are the gods of other faiths demons, aspects of the Seven, or lesser gods?

Can holy texts be translated and sermons given in people's native tongues or must both be in the original Old Andali dialect?

Can kings appoint members of the Most Devout or only the High Septon?

Anti-High Septons

Is the Starry Sept the undisputed head of the Faith (and if so why when the Vale is where the Andals first landed and the Westerlands the wealthiest?) or merely the first among equals?

What would be considered acceptable and unacceptable deviations when it comes to rites?

For or against iconoclasm?

Fate of the non-Faithful, including infants and children? Are the Seven Hells eternal?

Disputed elections, scandals, murders, nepotism, the works

Thanks for the question, anon

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WEDDINGS

So I collated some info on Westerosi Weddings for all your fanfic needs :) note: fanfic is a creative writing you can do as you please!

Faith of the Seven

Officiated by a Septon (Standing between statues of the Mother and Father) and typically held in a Sept.

The ceremony begins with the Septon reciting some prayers/sermon(s) from the Seven Pointed Star.

Then the Bride is led into the Sept and down the aisle typically by a male relative and silently presented to the Groom.

 "You may now cloak the bride and bring her under your protection." 

The Groom then removes the Brides ‘Maidens Cloak’ bearing the sigil of her birth house and is replaced by a cloak’ of the Groom’s house signifying the Groom taking over the protection of the Bride.

 "My lords, my ladies, we stand here in the sight of gods and men to witness the union of man and wife. One flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever."

The couple holds hands as the Septon ties a ribbon in a knot around their hands whilst saying:

"Let it be known that [Names and Houses of the bride and groom] are one heart, one flesh, one soul. Cursed be he who would seek to tear them asunder." 

The Septon then announces: 

"In the sight of the Seven, I hereby seal these two souls, binding them as one for eternity."

The Septon then unties the ribbon.

"Look upon each other and say the words"

The couple then simultaneously recite the Seven: 

“Father, Smith, Warrior, Mother, Maiden, Crone, Stranger. I am his/her and he/she is Mine. From this day until the end of my days.”

Following the the Groom says:

“With this kiss, I pledge my love”

The Groom kisses the Bride and they then turn to face the congregation.

Old Gods

A much shorter ceremony than that of the Seven, it usually takes place at night before a Weirwood tree so the wedding can be seen by the gods.

The Bride is led to the Groom waiting before the Weirwood by a male relative. The ceremony is officiated by the Head of the Grooms house ( It is unclear if it is only male heads of houses can officiate however there is no clergy for the Old Gods )

I am going to show the vows in a loose transcript format; please note whom is speaking when.

Officiator (O): Who comes before the Old Gods this night?

Male relative of the Bride (MB):  X of the House X,comes here to be wed. A woman grown,trueborn and noble. She comes to beg the blessing of the Gods. Who comes to claim her?

Groom (G): Y of the House Y. (insert inheritance here if relevant) Who gives her?

MB: Z of the House Z, Statement of relativity to the Bride e.g. Father

O: X, Will you take this man?

Bride (B): I take this man.

The couple then join hands and kneel before the Weirwood in momentary silent prayer.

Valyrian

It is much harder to find any information on Valyrian Weddings however we can kinda piece it together. It can be officiated by anyone however I believe the officiant must have some Valyrian blood. The rites from the show are said simultaneously to the Bride and Groom using a blade (probably Dragonglass/Obsidian however I imagine Valyrian steel is also viable) to first cut each others bottom lips and then they use the blood to draw the symbols of ‘Fire’ or ‘Blood’ on their foreheads. They then cut each other’s palm and let the blood flow into a chalice and then they both drink from it.

The rites are as follows in Valyrian with English translation: 

Hen lantoti ānogar/Blood of two

Va sȳndroti vāedroma/Joined as one

Mēro perzot gīhoti/Ghostly flame

Elēdroma iārza sīr/And song of shadows

Izulī ampā perzī/Two hearts as embers

Prūmī lanti sēteksi/Forged in Fourteen fires

Hen jenȳ māzīlarion/A future promised in glass

Qēnlossa ozūndessi/The stars stand as witness

Sȳndroro ōñō jēdo/The vow spoken through time

Rȳ kīva mazvestraksi/Of darkness and light

Bedding Ceremony

The bedding ceremony is seen throughout Westeros as a cultural tradition not limited to a certain faith. Many couples do not perform this; I haven’t  found evidence this was used in Royal Marriages. Sometimes a bloodied sheet will be presented the morning after the wedding however it is common knowledge that women can bleed from horse riding and so is not traditional.

The bedding ceremony if performed happens at the end of the wedding feast in which male guests will escort the bride to the marital chambers whilst stripping her and making crude jokes, the same is done to the groom with female guests.

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#BG3 February writing/creativity challenge!

Hey everyone! @writ3rstears and I have gotten together to write some BG3 fan fic prompts for all y'all! We have a SFW and NSFW list - feel free to stick to one list or jump between them! You can find @writ3rstears and me on Twitter/X here!

Enjoy and please use the tag #BG3FicFeb when you post a response to the prompt! (Collection on AO3 is here.)

Please reblog and spread the word!

ETA: Since some folks asked on Twitter - this prompt list is in no way limited to writers! If any of these prompts inspire your creativity in any way - be it art, virtual photography, whatever - please feel free to use them! Please do use the same tag though so that we can all enjoy your work and support you 💜

I've included the prompts in full below the fold, just in case there are resolution issues with the image.

SFW

1. What was Tav doing when they were abducted?

2. Waking up on the Ravaged Beach 

3. First encounter with their love interest (LI)

4. Camp chores 

5. First time seeing companions/LI fight in battle 

6. Teaching each other how to do something 

7. A heated argument with companion/LI 

8. “It will be okay as long as we’re together.” 

9. Meeting Abdirak, the Loviathar priest in Goblin Camp

10. A tearful, hard kiss before battle. Bonus points if it’s a confessional kiss!

11. Bandaging/healing each other’s wounds

12. Describe meeting your favourite NPC

13. NPC shows up at camp unexpectedly

14. Family reunion (found family or otherwise)

15. Any character is drunk/high

16. Write something inspired by your favourite song/poem/book 

17. Tav/Durge meets one of the Dead Three in the flesh 

18. Angst with a happy ending

19. Describe your Tav/Durge’s flaws, how companions respond

20. Tav/Durge gets a proposal (any kind) from their LI

21. Love confession (by any character)

22. Tav/Durge has to give up something (anything) important to them

23. A day in Tav/Durge’s childhood

24. Tav/Durge faces their worst fear 

25. Characters are cursed to switch classes for a day (think Freaky Friday)

26. Using a new power for the first time

27. Choose any scene in the game and rewrite it with your headcanon

28. Describe Tav/Durge’s life after BG3 ends

29. AU of your choice! 

NSFW

1. First time

2. Voyeurism 

3. Body worship 

4. The rest of the companions heard Tav/Durge going at it one night 

5. Reflections/mirror sex 

6. Tav/Durge spends a night with the Drow twins

7. Tav/Durge hooks up with any other character 

8. Tav/Durge explores a secret kink with their LI

9. Exhibitionism 

10. First time after a love confession 

11. Taking a bath together 

12. Tav/Durge and LI are forced to share a confined space or bedroll before they confess how they feel

13. Meeting Harleep 

14. Intimate touching without intercourse

15. Edging 

16. Masturbation 

17. Creative use of magic/magical objects 

18. Illithids/Driders/any monster 

19. Clothes on 

20. Sex in the heat of battle

21. Sex on furniture 

22. Oral sex 

23. Marking 

24. Sex with aphrodisiacs (or other alchemical enhancement)

25. Blood kink 

26. Bondage 

27. OC x OC (smash your Tavs/Durges together like Barbie dolls!) 

28. Angry sex/make-up sex 

29. Headcanon your own sex scene that you wish was in BG3

#for later <3 #BG3FicFeb

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Whumptober 2020 - Updated

Welcome to Whumptober 2020! We’re doing things a little differently this year so please make sure to read the Event Info carefully. We are also excited to announce the addition of an AO3 Collection, which can be found here.

We hope you’re as excited as us to watch the Whump Community come together once again for a month of bone-crunching creativity and collaboration!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information, and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

Czytaj dalej

#whumptober2020

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Whumptober 2022

Welcome to Whumptober 2022, in its fifth year of running!

To those of you who participated last year, welcome back! To everyone new, WELCOME!

Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators, see what juicy whump they’ve created too! We wish you all the fun!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

Czytaj dalej

#i #whumptober2022 #prompts #hmmm

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Whumptober 2021

Welcome to Whumptober 2021! May the Whump be with you :)

To all of you who participated last year - we have changed a few of the rules, but overall things have stayed the same. To everyone new: WELCOME!

Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. We wish you all the fun!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information, and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

Czytaj dalej

#i #whumptober2021 #prompts

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Welcome to the February 2021 Writing Challenge! Everyday of February, you will be given a one-word prompt to turn into a poem, a paragraph, a story, anything.

Hay-fever

Bouquet

Promise

Forest

Apron

Feather

Birth

Bright

Reunion

Ivy

Yearn

Stain

Branch

Fling

Ringlet

Courtship

Violet

Bloom

Teacup

Thaw

Charity

Dirt

Forgiveness

Berry

Engagement

Reinvent

Stem

Spring

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March Writing Challenge 2023 theme: songs you’ve (probably) never heard before

Bechdel Test (Isabel Pless)

Nice Docs, Baby! (Blue Foster)

Sixty Seconds (Bershy)

Battle Cries (The Amazing Devil)

Meet You Up Above (Deep Pirate Committee)

Good Dreams (Grimson)

The Three Ravens (Andy Niedermeier)

Devil (Moon Walker)

…baby one more time (The Marías)

Mother Scotland (Lady M)

Cauldron Type H (Thomas Hatcher)

Could’ve Been (Tom O’Donovan)

In Autumn (Greywind)

Nameless (Nussy Andrews)

HAUNTED HOUSE (SNAKE POOL)

Your Surgeon Is Human, Too (Machinery of The Human Heart)

Serial Killer (Human Zoo)

sweet hangman (elliotly)

A Ship That Shared Your Name (Burn The Ballroom)

Give Up! (Philip Labes)

Can’t Let Go (Caught A Ghost)

If I See A Road (Blake Rouse)

My Heart’s Always Yours (Arkells)

All The Pretty Girls (fun.)

Cheese (Jack Stauber’s Micropop)

meet me in the pale moonlight (marble fade)

Night Flight (Frank Moody)

Mostly (Vian Izak, Juniper Vale)

Oranges (Lawrence)

All Ways (Elliot Park)

Valentine’s Day (Mal Blum)

Also see:

March Writing Challenge 2022

March Writing Challenge 2021

Playlist Writing Challenge

Prompts Based On Song Lyrics

Writing Challenge Masterlist

Prompts Masterlist

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30 Days Writing Challenge

Write about a first kiss

Write a scene without any dialogue

Use the words: kitchen, date, music

Write about your MCs personal style

Write 100 words today

Write about a blackout

Use the words: small town, bar, jukebox

Write about finding a new hobby

Write about a heated debate

Use the title: Promises made, promises kept

Write about two characters dancing together

Explain your MCs motivation

Write 10 sentences about the last item you bought

Write about regret

Write about a girl's night

Write about a "thank you"

Write about a car ride

Use the title of the last song you've listened to

Write a summary for a book you would love to read

Write a new piece of lore for your WIP

Write something angsty

Write for 15 minutes without deleting anything

Write about dreaming

Use the words: crown, dance, smile

Write a scene that describes your MC well

Use the title: Like waves in the ocean

Write an ending without a beginning

Write only the dialogue for a scene

Write about your MCs nicknames

Write about a concert

#challenge

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physical intimacy prompts

holding hands during a stressful situation

smiling in-between kisses

touching foreheads

cheek kisses

slow dancing

intertwining fingers

comparing hand sizes

resting your head on your partner's lap

piggy back rides

standing on your tip toes to reach your partner's lips

kissing your partner's wounds

forehead kisses

falling asleep on your partner's shoulder

bridal carries

spooning

rolling over in bed, switching positions during a kiss

embracing your partner

intertwining fingers when making love

pulling away from a kiss, deeply looking into each other's eyes, appreciating being here with each other before diving back in

nudging into the crook of your partner's neck

being carried/tucked into bed, after having fallen asleep on the couch waiting for your partner to come home

saying ''i love you'' in-between kisses

nose boops

back rubs

tracing fingers down your partner's chest

hand on chest during a casual conversation

bumping into each other

hugs that last longer than they should

showering together

hands around the waist

straddling your partner's thighs

helping your partner undress

playing with your partner's hair

falling asleep to your partner's heartbeat

resting a hand on your partner's back

squeezing each other's hands

sitting in your partner's lap

cupping your partner's face

tickling

linking arms with each other

exploring each other's lips

caressing your partner's face

brushing your lips together, lingering for a moment

jumping into your partner's arms

wrapping legs around your partner

tucking a strand of hair behind your partner's ear

pulling your partner into your lap

hugging from behind

lifting your partner off the ground

holding hands across the table

holding hands under the table

bear hugs

caressing your partner's hand

laying a hand on your partner's thigh

literally sharing a sweater

slapping your partner's butt

tummy kisses

feeling each other's pulse

glancing at each other's lips

falling asleep while cuddling on the couch

climbing back into bed, onto your partner's body to wake them up

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oc template [ bnha version ]

inspired by this oc template but i added some sugar spice and everything nice (jk). 

general info

full name.

nicknames.

aliases. 

birthday.

age.

occupation.

ethnicity.

sexual/romantic orientation.

gender.

family and other bonds

father.

mother.

sibling(s).

children (if any).

other relatives.

father/mother figure (if any).

sibling figure (if any).

love interest(s).

friends/allies.

enemies.

quirk info 

name.

type.

strong points.

weak points.

side effects.

misc info.

appearance

height.

weight.

hair.

eyes.

facial features.

body type.

hands.

misc features (scars, stripes, moles etc. etc.).

tattoos (if any).

piercings (if any).

smell.

clothing style.

personality

MBTI.

overall (positive and negative traits).

how do they treat others?

how do they act when someone met them for the first time?

how do they treat their friends?

how do they treat their significant other?

how do they change through story/time?

health

disorders.

mental illnesses. 

physical illnesses.

addictions.

life

lifestyle.

hobbies.

job(s).

likes.

dislikes.

social status.

education.

languages they know.

the way they speak.

quirks.

backstory

childhood.

young adulthood.

late adulthood.

old age.

#bnha #mha #bocu no hero academia #my hero academia #oc #bnha oc #mha oc #character template #character sheet #oc template #oc sheet #mha quirks #writing #fic #fanfiction #?? idk

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Writing Websites

1. a website with a list of superpowers and what they are

2. a website that generates random au ideas

3. a website that generates names, basic info and futures in a bunch of languages

4. a website that checks your grammar

5. website that lists types of execution in the states

6. a website with info on death certificates

7. a website with info on the four manners of death

8. a website with info on the black plague

9. website with information on depression

10. a website with info on the four types of suicide

11. website that lists famous quotes

12. website with different kinds of quotes

13. a website with info on food in every country

14. a website with a list of different colors

15. website with a list of medieval jobs

16. website with a list of fabrics

17. website with a list of flowers and pictures

18. website with a list of flowers and no pictures

19. website with a list of poisonous plants

20. website with a list of poisonous and non-poisonous plants

21. website with a list of things not to feed your animals

22. website with a list of poisons that can be used to kill people

23. website with info on the international date line

24. website with a list of food allergies

25. website with a list of climates

26. website with info on allergic reactions

27. website with info on fahrenheit and celsius 

28. website with info on color blindness

29. website with a list of medical equipment

30. website with a list of bugs

31. website with an alphabetic list of bugs and their scientific name

32. website with a list of eye colors

33. website (wikipedia sorry) with list of drinks

34. website with a list of religions

35. website with a list of different types of doctors and what they do

36. website (wikipedia again sorry) with a list of hair colors

37. website that generates fantasy names

38. website with a list of body language

39. website with a list of disabilities

40. website with an alphabetic list of disabilities

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Writing Protagonists Without Strong Wants or Goals

Often in the writing world, we are told to make sure our protagonists have strong wants. After all, the protagonist's want usually leads to a goal, and goals allow audiences to measure progress or setbacks in a story (which also helps with pacing). The protagonist's pursuit of the goal often makes up most of the plot.

For change-arc protagonists, often what they want will be at odds with what they need. For most flat-arc protagonists, they often want the need, though sometimes they have to deal with a competing want or even lose sight of the need. (For more information on wants and needs, check out "Character's Want vs. Need") But if you aren't familiar with the want vs. need approach, no worries. Suffice it to say that the protagonist's want is almost always a key component of character arc, plot, and even theme.

So, must every protagonist absolutely have a powerful want driving them through the plot? Of course not. All "rules" are really more like guidelines. It's just that if you break that rule, it will likely come at a steep cost, since it influences so many parts.

Because of the nature of story itself, it's nearly impossible to have a protagonist who doesn't want something significant by the end. Pretty much always the protagonist will have a want by the end of Act I. If not then, she will at least have a want or goal by the midpoint, at the latest--but that's often pushing it. Rarely do protagonists make it through a whole story without having a clear significant want, though I won't go so far as to say it's impossible. And in some types of stories, you may be dealing with one significant want per section of the story.

Let's talk about some situations where the protagonist doesn't start with a driving want, goal, or hobby.

The Protagonist Already Has What He Wants

While in many stories the protagonist will start with a burning desire, in others, the protagonist already has everything he wants--or at least, is already on track for soon getting what he wants. There are a couple of ways this can play out.

1. His Lifestyle is Threatened

If the protagonist already has what he wants, one of the easiest ways to get the story rolling is to threaten what he already has. The threat may come as the inciting incident. In Shrek, Shrek already enjoys his life of solitude in the swamp, scaring off humans and bathing in mud. The inciting incident appears as a problem that threatens this: Other fairytale creatures are invading his home. For him, this stake is too high, and he must do something about it.

Alternatively, the lifestyle may not be threatened until near the end of Act I. For example, the inciting incident might be an opportunity that the protagonist declines--he already has everything he wants. However, something big threatens--or maybe even destroys--what he has, and he responds by taking the opportunity.

There are a few ways this can play out really, but the basic idea is that the protagonist loses, or is at risk of losing, what he already has. Often the goal is to get it back somehow--which means stopping or thwarting whatever the threat is. (However, with that said, it's not impossible to give the character a new goal either.)

2. She Discovers a New Want

It might be that the protagonist already has everything she wants, but soon discovers something new she wants as well. Maybe she didn't even know the wanted thing existed or was possible, until the inciting incident, or even a later point in the story. She thought her life was complete, but now realizes what she has isn't enough.

I feel like this is something we see more with villains and anti-heroes--especially those depicted as spoiled, selfish, or entitled. But it doesn't have to be. It could just be that the character is satisfied with life, but now yearns for more.

In The Hobbit, Bilbo is largely satisfied with his life--he has his creature comforts in his hobbit hole, and that's all fine and well. But it isn't until Gandalf arrives with the opportunity for adventure (and strives to persuade Bilbo into it) that Bilbo eventually embraces the fact that, in reality, he wants adventure (which, in some sense, is also what he needs).

The Protagonist is Wanting, but Lacks Vision (a Goal)

Sometimes a protagonist isn't driven by a strong passion or goal, because he lacks vision. His life may be dissatisfying, but he can't imagine any way to change that. It's just the life he's been dealt. It feels like something is lacking, but he doesn't know what. Eventually, the character encounters something new that broadens his vision and leads to a concrete goal. The goal promises (at least to the protagonist) to fulfill what is lacking.

In Luca, Luca appears dissatisfied with his daily life, which seems to be made up of boring and repetitious chores, but he doesn't really know of any other lifestyle. He later meets Alberto, who shows him an entirely new way of living. Soon Luca is filled with the same passions as Alberto and adopts the same goals.

Helpful Techniques

Having a story where the protagonist isn't driven by a strong want, goal, or passion can have steep costs. There often isn't a lot of tension, conflict, or driving force prior to the character gaining a want or goal. This is, again, in part because the goal helps give the plot context--if there is no goal, then what happens doesn't really matter that much. The protagonist isn't trying to get anywhere specific, and isn't having to struggle to get there. This threatens to kill pacing and lose the audience.

Luckily, there are a few workarounds to help.

- If the protagonist already has everything he wants, open the story by showcasing how wonderful the protagonist's life is--how everything seems to be going her way. She has everything she wants, or is about to get everything she wants. Drifting in the subtext is the implication that things won’t stay this way. The audience subconsciously knows a problem is coming (after all, it's a story, and story means conflict). This creates a sort of ironic promise, where the audience is waiting for things to turn bad.

This can be harder to pull off. Waiting for an antagonistic force to ruin things for the protagonist isn’t usually as interesting as anticipating what the protagonist is going to do next to try to get a goal. However, it can be done, and done well.

- Alternatively, if the protagonist lacks vision, open the story by showcasing how life is dissatisfying. Convey the sense that something is missing. Drifting in the subtext is the implication that things won’t stay this way. The audience subconsciously knows an opportunity is coming. They'll likely be willing to wait to see how it could fix the character's dissatisfaction.

- Cut to another viewpoint. If your story has multiple viewpoints, you can use a scene in another viewpoint to make up for the "costs" of your protagonist's current state. This might mean having a scene where the antagonist's plans promise to soon ruin things for the protagonist. This creates dramatic irony, and the audience will want to stick around to see what happens. Alternatively, you can cut to a side character who has a driving want, goal, or passion--filling in for everything the protagonist doesn't bring to the story.

- Get to the inciting incident quick. The inciting incident disrupts the established normal, either as a problem or an opportunity. This means it will disrupt, at least to some degree, your protagonist's amazing life (or dissatisfying one). It may be that the inciting incident is a problem disrupting the good things, in which case, the character will want to act to try to get things back to normal. Or, it may be the incident is an opportunity that keeps bothering the protagonist. In any case, it knocks the character off balance to some degree.

- Start in narrative in medias res. In narrative in medias res, you bring a part from later in the story and use it to open the story. This will usually be a scene that promises big problems and/or high stakes. In The Emperor's New Groove, Kuzco pretty much starts with everything he wants and is on the trajectory to get the next thing he wants--Kuzcotopia. The story opens with narrative in medias res, pulling a scene that shows him as a llama crying in the rain in the wilderness. This contrasts the story's actual beginning so much, that audiences want to stick around to see how he went from having everything to having nothing and no one.

- Use a prologue. Similar to in medias res, you can stick a powerful or punchy prologue in at the beginning, which can help carry the audience through the setup. Contrary to what many say in the industry, the primary purpose of a prologue is to make promises to the audience about what kind of story they are about to read or watch. Prologues can work great for stories with slower or calmer openings. I already did a whole article on prologues, so won't repeat everything here, but feel free to peruse it.

- Use a teaser. Like many of the techniques listed here, a teaser makes promises to the audience about what will come later in the story, so it's just another way to pull them through the calm, peaceful, or happy (or slowly dissatisfying) setup.

- Give the protagonist scene-level goals. Just because the protagonist doesn't have a plot-level goal (yet) doesn't mean she doesn't have scene-level goals. Pretty much everyone wants something all of the time. In most scenes, your protagonist should have a goal too. It might be simply to maintain the current lifestyle. Maybe she just wants to get through her work shift without any inconveniences or without anyone discovering she secretly loves to watch K-dramas. Or maybe the goal is to make cookies for a neighbor. Or maybe it's to pass a test, or to not draw attention in class. Scene-level goals may not have as much driving force as plot-level goals, but they still help carry the story--as long as there are some stakes tied to the outcome.

- Pair the protagonist with someone who is driven by wants, goals, and passions. I touched on this related to the viewpoint technique. Many protagonists who don't have strong wants get tied to a character (probably the Influence Character) who does. This secondary character may be more of the go-getter, pulling the protagonist into the main plot. This sort of thing happens in Luca, where Alberto is the one with the drive and passion, which Luca comes to adopt and embrace. Alberto's goals become his goals, at least through much of the first half. If the protagonist isn't driven, there is a good chance a nearby character is--or at least should be.

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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

(Also, check my blog if you want to!)

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30 Day OTP Writing Challenge

1. Nose kiss(es)

2. Reunion hug

3. Spooning for warmth

4. Walking hand-in-hand

5. Late night talks

6. Getting caught while making out

7. Surprise(s)

8. Can’t keep hands off each other (in public)

9. (Unnecessary) spoiling

10. Bear hug

11. Fingers in the other’s hair

12. Movie night

13. Hand holding for comfort

14. Forehead kiss(es)

15. Shared looks from across the room

16. Pet names

17. Early morning cuddling

18. Admiring each other

19. Laughing together

20. One (or both) is injured

28. (Bad) flirting

21. Kiss in the rain

22. Blushing

23. Hot and heavy

24. Shoulder kiss(es)

25. Getting dressed up

26. Dancing

27. Falling asleep together

29. Protecting the/each other

30. Date night

#for later ;)) #writing

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Here’s a detailed profile template for you guys to fill out for your OCs!!

Bio

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Health

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General Health:

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Personality

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Archetype:

Way they interact with others:

Way of speaking:

Introvert or Extrovert?:

Backstory

Life Goals