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⛦ Prompt ⛦

Soulmates can feel each other's pain, through their special bond. Over the years, you've felt some minor bruises and scratches and a really painful fracture, when one day, excruciating pain went through your body. As you worried for your soulmate's safety, you never would have guessed that they were trying to break the bond.

#i love this #prompt

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Writing Motivations

Spite

Inspiration

Hungry for Validation

Make readers go “Wow!”

Make readers go “Oh!”

Make readers go :’((

Horny

Dragons

Whom else is going to write this if not me??

They Gave Me a Keyboard and Cannot Take it Away Now

I Invented Several Languages and Must Use Them Somewhere

These characters are REAL and have things to do

I Like to Suffer

I like to be gay and unhinged but in a productive way

I care about my OCs and so must you now

I have issues I need to project on SOMETHING

Love is not fake and here is why, an entire book

Words Pretty

#the fact that every single one of these applies to one of my wip's waw #lmao

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Things writers do when they say they're going write

Make character aesthetics

Research names for unimportant characters

Make music playlists for their WIP

Write irrelevant scenes with their characters

Daydream about writing their WIP

Create mockup covers for their WIP

#i make no apologies

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Writers only know how to start project, make aesthetics, scroll through tumblr, delete words, abandon WIPs, eat hot chip, and lie

#shhh not so loud

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Realistic Character Cheat Sheet #5 -  How people see them

The best writing advice I ever received was very simple. If you want to know how multidimensional your character is, ask three questions:

How would this character describe themselves?

How would other characters describe this character? 

How would the reader describe this character?

If the answer to all three questions is the same, your character isn’t very realistic or multidimensional. 

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#oooh #important #character stuff

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me, going to bed at 1am: okay so we can fit the plot twist into chapter fourteen and introduce the love interest a couple chapters before that, and their first line is also going to be the last line of the book but in different context as mirroring, and we’re going to switch perspectives halfway through

me, opening my laptop in the morning: what is a Word

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true writing is knowing exactly how your wip starts and knowing exactly how how it ends but the middle is the equivalent of you standing stranded on highway 52 while your car burns in the background before a freeze frame zooms in on your face and a voice-over goes “yup that’s me. you might be wondering how i got here.” 

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“you’re a writer, right?” Me, staring at the one sentence ive managed to add in the last hour: In theory

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“I’m a writer,” I say, as I come up with characters and their appearances, personalities, interests, and interactions with other characters, but stare blankly at my computer screen, struggling to come up with a plot.

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me, a writer: idk… am I being too easy on my characters? are they really struggling? have I added enough obstacles?? are they actually suffering at all???

the readers:

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50 Interesting OC Asks

1. What is a rumor people tell about them? 2. How long would they last in the zombie apocalypse?  3. If they’re about to get in a fight, what song plays in their head as their ‘hype song’? 4. How important is family to them? 5. If they had a theme song, what would it be? 6. What’s a movie they can quote from start to finish? 7. Are they more of a leader or a follower? 8. If they were given 1000 acres of land with no strings attached, what would they do with it?  9. If they had to flee their home country, where would they live? 10. Do they think psychic abilities exist? Which one would they like to have? 11. What was their favourite fairy tale growing up? 12. What’s a skill or craft they would like to master, but haven’t? 13. How did they find out Santa isn’t real? 14. What’s a personality trait they wish they had? 15. Do they believe in getting revenge on those who wrong them? If so, how do they go about it? 16. If they were arrested with no explanation, what would their friends and family think they had done? 17. In 40 years, what will they be the most nostalgic about? 18. How would they describe their family?  19. If they could shop for free at one store, what would it be? 20. Do they have any pets? If so, what are they? 21. If they had to bury treasure, how would they hide it? 22. If they were given a one minute ad slot during the Super Bowl that they couldn’t sell, what would they fill it with? 23. What’s the most important object they own? 24. What event in their life would make a good movie? 25. If there was a day held in their honor, what would people have to do on that day? 26. If they could dedicate their life to solving one problem, what would it be? 27. What makes a person beautiful to them? 28. If they turned into their crush/significant other for a day, what would they do? 29. What do they do/act like when they’re angry? 30. What would be their perfect day? 31. How would they conquer the Earth? 32. If they could swim in any liquid what would it be and why? 33. Where do they find meaning in their life? 34. What percentage of their life have they felt truly alive? 35. What job were they born to do? 36. Do they believe things happen for a reason? 37. What do they think is a conspiracy? 38. Do they believe in magic? 39. Do they believe in the afterlife? How do they picture it? 40. What’s a superstition they believe in? 41. What is the dumbest way they’ve ever been injured? 42. Do they drink/smoke/do drugs?  43. What’s the best and worst purchase they’ve ever made? 44. Can they cook? What’s their favourite dish to make? 45. Do they mind conflict?  46. What is something silly they’ve been tricked into believing? 47. If they could start a charity what would it be for? 48. If they were a cryptid (bigfoot, mothman, ect.) what would they be? 49. What’s their ideal temperature and weather? 50. What topic could they give a 20 minute presentation on with no preparation? 

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Me writing: *going on tangeants and adding small details no one cares about*

The actual story and main character:

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must a story have “plot”

is it not enough that I just, like, care about the characters a whole bunch

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Is it just me, but do you sometimes not want to write a concept or plot so much as write an aesthetic? Like, I just want to write about a small town in the American south, or about an eerie shadow road. I don’t have, or desire, plots for those stories, but I have the vibe of them. And that’s all I want

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If your character has a trait you consider one of their key features and it is never challenged in anyway, that trait will probably have about as much impact as their “tiny mole on their left buttcheek” trait. 

For that trait NOT to fall totally flat, one or more of these things need to happen:

The trait exacerbates a situation in a bad way. (An extremely honest and trusting character reveals an important secret to the Big Bad’s lackey)

The character is given a choice to either act according to their traits or to subvert them. Often the subversion has the better outcome. They either maintain their trait and take a risk, or character development ensues. (A greedy character must escape. Leaving behind their riches goes against their very being, but it would allow them to escape easier. If they try to take some of their treasure with them, they do so at massive risk.)

 The character is put in an environment or must work with a person that opposes their trait. (An extremely tidy person must live in their slob cousin’s filthy apartment for a week. / The character has a debilitating fear of being alone and they are stranded on their own on an island.)

The character is put in a situation that requires them to suppress their trait (A hotheaded character needs to have polite discourse with someone they hate)

#important #character building

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We’re both hiding from a party together and petting a dog/cat and you’re pretty cool AU

-(anonymous)

#prompt

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A person shows up at your door claiming to be your long lost twin. A few months later, you learn that they’re actually you from an alternate dimension.

#prompt