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Here's my ultimate character profile template that helps define crucial details of any important character in your story, may additionally help with outline, plot holes, and even writer's block if you're stuck or losing interest:

Name:

Gender:

Personality type: (unnecessary, but may be helpful with making your cast diverse and assigning more realistic fears and desires, e.g., enneagram)

Desires: (what does your character want?)

Fears: (what keeps them from getting it?)

Beliefs and misbeliefs: (what does your character need to change their mind about in order to overcome their fear and get what they desire? There's also beliefs in this part, because some things your character believes in don't necessarily change, but if they can somehow affect the plot, why not mention it? It doesn't necessarily have to be bad)

Social life: (how does your character behave around their family? Their friends? Strangers? Rivals? Enemies?)

Addiction: (what habits does your character possess? What or who do they depend on? Do they always need something in their hands to fidget with? Or do they often ask for a light?)

Self image: (how does your character view themselves personally? What are their imperfections they feel bad about? What are the parts of their appearance they're proud of? Do not confuse with physical description!)

Physical decription: (do not confuse with the former! What does your character look like to others?)

Backstory: (here's your time to shine by using everything we established in previous parts by explaining the reason behind each (but not necessarily every single one) part. For example: where did your character's fears come from? Their desire? Their misbeliefs? The ugly scar they're so uneasy about? Why do they smoke or need fidget toys? Why are they more friendly to strangers than their own family? Etc.)

Here's the blank version to copy and paste into your projects. Feel free to use, change, ignore some parts, or add your own:

Name:

Gender:

Personality type:

Desires:

Fears:

Beliefs and misbeliefs:

Social life:

Addiction:

Self image:

Physical description:

Backstory:

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Shakespeare Food Aesthetics 

Hamlet. A dirty rind of black coffee dried against a porcelain mug. An apple bitten down to its pit. An empty stomach. 

As You Like It. Basil and thyme. Nibbled cheddar cheese and rocket leaves. Wild mushrooms that taste of lush moss and dirt after rain.

Romeo and Juliet. Graffiti of broken hearts on concrete. Coca-Cola in glass bottles, at gas stations. Ice-cream splattered like a moon on tarmac. The noonday sun, the heartlessly blue sky.

The Tempest. Salt in the air. Wild berries and pickled roots. Feral. Sharp, rancid sourness numbing your tongue. The tasteless gray where the sky meets water.

Macbeth. Red meats roasted across splendid platters. Blood and gravy and oil, oozing like water across your metal plate, sluicing your sleeves. The potato speared on your fork, the artichoke stopped by your knife, the mouthful of spinach congealed on your spoon. They all taste like ash.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. A pill that someone slipped in your drink. Licorice. Grenadine syrup and lime. Silver moonlight and purple bruises from unknown mouths.

Much Ado About Nothing. Raspberry sorbet, one spoon for two. Oranges. Lemon meringue. Vinegar. Onions that make you cry. Closing your eyes and not knowing whether the kiss will be sour, or sweet.

Othello. Olives, sliced strawberries and sparkling pink champagne. Crushed mint, crushed ice that look like broken glass. Bloody Marys lanced with too much spice, your tongue on fire. Love's to get drunk on, and none of us know how to hold our liquor.

King Lear. Hardened crusts of stale bread. Red wine splattered by shattered glasses. The lonesome, herbal warmth of a cup of tea in your hands as the storm tears the rest of the world apart.

Twelfth Night. Roasted crab from a street-vendor. Lemonade with a dash of rum, margaritas rimmed with salt. String lights by the beach, dampened wooden docks, waves murmuring against sand. Hangovers. Lazy summer evenings.

The Merchant of Venice. A bowl full of purple grapes. Dried cranberries and spices curated in jars. The rich, tantalizing aroma of wood in the pantry. The remnants of whiskey at the bottom of a tumbler, beside the dying fire.

Titus Andronicus. Mandrake roots and bloodworms. Raw eggs, fresh brains dashed out into a bowl. Foie gras. Pork fat and a sheep's heart. A bloody dishrag wrung dry.

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“food as a love language” prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🍊 ꒱

-ˏˋ. dialogue ˊˎ-

⋆ “i know you said you weren’t hungry, but i made you something anyways.”

⋆ “you seemed a little off on the phone, so i wanted to make sure you had something nice to come home to.”

⋆ “i heard you reminiscing about it the other day, so i called your mom and got the recipe.”

⋆ “hey, hey- i know you always say you don’t have time to eat breakfast before you leave, so i got up early to make you something you could eat on the go.”

⋆ "you know i don't mind that you can't help me while i'm cooking. wanna help me plate it up now?"

⋆ “of course i remembered what you like, why do you think i always have it made fresh when you come over? i’m not actually a psychic.”

⋆ "well you said you were craving [insert food] and it's too late to run to the store to grab it so yeah, i made it for you."

⋆ “come on, i can see you’re starving. just let me make you something, you know i don’t mind.”

-ˏˋ. actions / scenarios ˊˎ-

⋆ practising cooking a dish from their friend/partner's childhood in secret before serving it to them for the first time

⋆ gently reminding them to eat

⋆ always having the ingredients for their comfort meal on hand in case they have a bad day

⋆ navigating around their sensory issues with food while cooking for them without being asked

⋆ dropping off food for them during a stressful day

⋆ being patient as they teach the other how to cook

⋆ learning how to prepare food from their home country for them

⋆ wordlessly setting a meal down in front of them after they come home at the end of a long day

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Advice for writing relationships

Ship Dynamics

How to create quick chemistry

How to write a polyamorous relationship

How to write a wedding

How to write found family

How to write forbidden love

Introducing partner(s) to family

Honeymoon

Date gone wrong

Fluffy Kiss Scene

Love Language - Showing, not telling

Love Language - Showing you care

Affections without touching

Giving the reader butterflies with your characters

Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms

Reasons for breaking up while still loving each other

Relationship Problems

Relationship Changes

Milestones in a relationship

Platonic activities for friends

Settings for conversations

How to write a love-hate relationship

How to write enemies to lovers

How to write lovers to enemies to lovers

How to write academic rivals to lovers

How to write age difference

Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms

Reasons for having a crush on someone

Ways a wedding could go wrong

Arranged matrimony for royalty

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*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*

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25 things that gets me flushed when I'm reading:

( this list has gestures, actions, scenarios, and words that are expressible for the actions! / @urfriendlywriter ) ( tag me when yall write IMP the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th!! )

cuddles and hugs during rain

kisses on the brow, eyes, jawline >>>

moans. whimpers. whispers.

smiling into your hair during hugs

brushing their lips against yours

heat creeping over their neck

touching, teasing, leaning in

smiling shyly, biting lips with a shameless smile

raising an eyebrow with a grin, head thrown back

impatient, feverish kisses or touches. hands around their neck, or in their hair, cupping their cheeks, touching their nape, grazing their jaw

quiet hugs, breathing uneven, warmth spreading from their body to yours

hearts beating a little faster, lips failing so hard not to curve up in their presence

stolen glances, faint brushes of their fingers over yours

fingers tipping one's jaw, caressing the bottom of their lips, behind of their ears, or nape of their neck (ughh sucker for these)

hands gliding down the other's body

them lying at your lap, reading to you or listening to you

holding hands, visiting each other's parents, baking in the kitchen together

hugs that lasts a little longer

eye contacts remaining unbroken until a third person clears their throat

drinking tea together. company in comfortably silences

coming over to pick you up for a date

^ eyes scanning your outfit with amuse

holding the car door for you, draping a coat over your shoulders, tugging your waist closer to theirs >>>>

feeling giddy in love, hot in their fingers, warm near their body, shy under the sheets

giggling together, laughing together, being so at ease with one another.

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Always 💕

Beauty

Lavender/Pansy For @microficmay 2023 Day 6: Shatter

She’s not what she once was, because he left her marred and monstrous.

“But I’m alive,” she’s supposed to say gratefully - the words taste sour.

She can’t look at flowers, or the sea, or the stars.

Then she runs into Pansy Parkinson.

And finally Lavender sees beauty she doesn’t resent.

#lavender brown #pansy parkinson #lavender x pansy #lavpark #flower girls

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I know I haven’t written FF in almost a year and multiple unfinished fics rn including a long fic that still has two chapters left and I will be finishing it, I know I need to, but damn if this HoD pic isn’t inspiring some Draco ongoing war plot bunnies

NO THOUGHTS, JUST HIM.

#draco malfoy fanfiction #hermione x draco #Draco malfoy #hp fanfic #aemond targaryen

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How to Balance Pacing

Slowing down the pace:

1) Confuse your protagonist. Is there a puzzle or obstacle that your characters have to solve in order to proceed? Can you make it harder for them? Or does solving one problem lead to an even bigger one?

2) Steal something away from your protagonist that they need for their next step. The dragon rider can’t find his dragon. The knight that is about to ride into battle broke his sword moments before.

3.) Add subplots. For seamless pacing, jump back and forth between your different plots. Just when something big is about to be revealed in the main plot, steer your readers off course into a subplot so that they’re on the edge of their seat waiting for you to return them to the main plot. Do this with your subplots as well for a back and forth game of suspense.

4) Make your sentences longer with more details. For a scene or moment that you want to highlight, drag it out with heightened details. Think of it as a slow motion scene in a movie. 

5) Introspection. Have your character think, reflect or consider their next steps. Inner monologues and consciousness can help the reader to understand misbeliefs, flaws and motivations of a character as well. (Doing this in the middle of a fast-paced scene will slow it down, so be cautious where you use this).

Quickening the pace: 

1) Set up a real ticking clock. The time is counting down and your protagonist needs to finish something in a limited amount of time. A tomb raider has only five minutes to find the relic and escape before they’re shut in the cave forever. 

2) Increase the pressure on your protagonist. Put obstacles in between them and their goals, have an ex return to town, cause drama between them and their friends, place their biggest fear right in front of them, increase the romantic/sexual tension between them and a love interest.  

3) Shorten your sentences/details. Quick action scenes should have short and to the point descriptions. The more details you add, the slower it will feel. Picture an action scene in a movie… punches flying left and right. There is no time to think or observe tiny details.

4) Add a loose cannon. A character who is unpredictable and that the characters worry most about. The tension of what they might do next can help drive your pacing, make the story feel more unyielding.

5) Balance your elements. Make sure you don’t write in huge chunks of just one element. Scenes need to be balanced with dialogue, narrative, action, setting, character, etc. Your pacing can get thrown out of wack if one whole scene is purely a monologue and then the next is solely dialogue. Weave them together!

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Come hang out with us!!

Are you stuck by the dreaded Writer’s Block Demon? 

Have you been procrastinating on a plot point for a couple of weeks? 

Do you want enabling for a chaotic plunny you’ve had for an up and coming fest deadline? 

The House of Nott discord server is hosting a Write-a-thon weekend, led by @akorah. We welcome anyone and everyone to come and join us in the ‘The Library’, where sprints will be running all weekend, and music will be provided by a somewhat Snobby music bot. 

Click here to join the chaos.

#house of nott #write-a-thon #theodore nott #harry potter fandom #nottpott #lovenott #dreomione #hp fanfic #fanfic writing

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I redid this older comic I made for my storytelling class based on this post. Have some cute wlw love in your day.

It’s hard, if I had more free time I could make it so pretty, this is what I could throw together for the assignment.

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“… we were thinking Jun– Come on, Nott!” Draco whined, effectively pulling Theo from memories of having Harry splayed on the kitchen table for breakfast this morning. “You were an alright bloke, and then you met Potter. Stop daydreaming and help me…” 

“Weren’t you just mooning over Ganger and your wedding?” Theo replied and watched Draco down his beer. 

“That’s different…” Draco mumbled, flagging the barkeep for another round. 

“Sure…” Theo placed the cigarette back between his lips, trying to rid his mind from the soft noises of pleasure Harry made and tried to focus on what Draco was saying instead.

Caption courtesy of @amarillis39 💚

The new year has been very busy and we haven’t had time for an update on the Nottpott Chronicles but I needed a Theo fix before diving back into work.

#nottpott chronicles #nottpott #theodore nott #theo nott #hp fanart #harry potter fanart #harry potter x theodore nott #harry potter fanfiction #hp fanfic

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Andrew Garfield as Sam Under the Silver Lake (2018) dir. David Robert Mitchell

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We’re excited to announce Nott Another Love Story: A Theo Nott centric Valentines Day Fest! Nott Another Love Story will be a prompted fest.

Prompting will take place between now and December 31. Any and all prompts are welcome and folks can create as many prompts as they would like!

For more information:

The official rules document

Submit a prompt

Join the House of Nott Discord Server

We hope you’ll join us!

(Thank you to the wonderful @magicaltraveler3 for the gorgous banner!)

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Snowy Victorian Houses

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Look at this new beautiful art for our collab project from 2021!!!

Had to share this gorgous art @keerthi-draws drew for Bellends, Weddings and Full Frontal Curse Breaking - a rare-pair (and Dramione) smutty and fluffy wedding extravaganza by @amarillis39, @ptwritesmore, @thusatlas and meeee!

#dramione #lovenott #barry #panvender #raphne #dramione fanfic #hp fanfic #harry x blaise #theo x luna #pansy x lavender #flower girls #pansy parkinson fanfic #pansy parkinson x lavender brown #lavender brown fanfic #harry potter femslash #harry potter lgbt #harry potter fanfic

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Me trying to leave a comment on a fic I love but not knowing what to say