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[novlr]

What’s a good way to start a prologue/chapter 1?

How to Write a Great Prologue or First Chapter

We all know the saying, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Well, the same holds true for your writing. The prologue or first chapter of your story acts as the literary handshake, the grand entrance that sets the stage for the entire narrative. Here are some quick tips on how to make a great first impression.

Start with a Bang

The beginning of your story should grab the reader's attention and leave them wanting more. Here are some ways to make your opening unforgettable:

Use strong imagery to set the scene and create a mood.

Start with a shocking or unexpected statement.

Open with a question or a cliffhanger.

Introduce a fascinating character or setting.

Begin in the middle of the action.

Create a sense of urgency.

Establish the Stakes

In order to keep your readers invested in your story, they need to care about what happens to your characters. Here are some methods for creating high stakes early on:

Introduce a problem or goal that your protagonist needs to achieve.

Show the consequences of inaction or failure.

Establish the consequences of success.

Show what the character stands to lose.

Create a ticking clock or deadline.

Use subtext to hint at more significant stakes.

Build Tension

Tension is the key ingredient that keeps your readers on the edge of their seats and turning pages. Here's how to create it:

Use foreshadowing to hint at what's to come.

Create a sense of unease or danger.

Create conflict between characters.

Use dialogue to build tension.

Create a sense of mistrust or uncertainty.

Use pacing and sentence structure to create a sense of urgency.

Develop Characters

Your readers will be invested in your story if they care about your characters. Here's how to make them care:

Give characters a unique voice and personality.

Show their strengths and weaknesses.

Make sure their motivations are clear.

Give them a backstory and a history.

Show, rather than tell, their traits.

Create a character arc that shows growth or change.

Use Setting to Create Atmosphere

Setting can create a mood and a sense of atmosphere that will draw your readers in. Here's how to use it:

Use sensory details to create a vivid picture.

Create a sense of place and time.

Use symbolism to create a deeper meaning.

Show how the setting affects the characters.

Use the weather to create mood and atmosphere.

Use the setting to foreshadow events to come.

By following these tips, you'll be able to craft a prologue or first chapter that will keep your readers engaged and eager to continue reading. And don’t forget, your opening chapter or prologue doesn’t have to be the first thing you write! Feel free to play around with timelines and chapter order - you never know what surprises lie in store once you take a step back from your work and look at it as a whole.

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[pollswithnogoals]

STORYLINE 6

You look around for a while, pondering what to do as the cold water rocks your body to the rhythm of the waves. At the distance, you see an island, its left side filled with deteriorated constructions. You didn't really know what it was, but it's like those stones were calling to you.

Well...it's not very nice to leave a call unanswered. It's not like this could get worse. Nothing made sense, so we might as well just embrace it. You swam and swam... and swam until with aching arms, you reached shore. The ruins looked more recent than you had previously thought. There wasn't a single overgrown vine. It's almost as if the houses were still patiently waiting for their owners to come back.

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[thisliminalspacedaydreams]

tw: Mpreg (part2)

Ok i'm going to do something crazy.

As I mentioned, I've decided to take over Mpreg/Jegulus Harry Potter tag because... well, because I can and it sounds absolutely insane, and I'm here to discover what I can cook up that won't make my ace brain cringe.

BUT since it's a rare and barely used trope (smh), I want anyone who thinks they'll read the story to give me tropes that want to see included.

I now have a rough draft but I'm willing to fuck around with what the Mpreg people want.

So go into my asks or reblog with the tags you want to see or make a comment, whatever you want, I'll take a look and see.

I have a lot of shit coming up (Looks at September 8th and the ABO fic fest, looks at October 31st, looks at all the collabs being written in the dark of the night 👀) but I think I can swing it for February.

Also, if you hate it but you've seen this post...😌...so don't come for me.

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[lyralit]

let's write a story together - write a story opening!

DO

surprise the reader with a 'hook' to draw them in

drop the reader in an action scene

establish the MC's wants and needs

establish the scene

DON'T

begin with "they woke up"

info-dump

immediately use too many unfamiliar terms

overdo scene / character descriptions

comment opening ideas <3

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[eggbunni]

Write a love letter with me. ♥️💝✒️

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[gentle-author]

It's those little dms by strangers who say "Hey, I don't know you but I loved what you wrote" or "Hey, I just wanted to reach out and express my admiration to you as a young author". I think those people are so precious for spreading kindness and making a creator smile :)

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[zoereeb]

My heart is burning with the shame of smiling too much, and I can't seem to stop it. Because this is what I've been taught since younger that:

“you should keep smiling and shouldn't take anything seriously”—

And since then i lost myself in my smile which isn't my own.

~zoereeb//

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[caveatscriptor]

Prompt: Write a piece based on a photograph. (Thank you @inkspellangel for the photo inspo ;) )

Time brainstorming: 10 minutes

Time writing: 30 minutes

This is a piece in response to one of the prompts in our book club, Little Red Writing Hoods (@joinourbookclub).

tl;dr: Do I beta read my stuff? Is the earth flat?

I have always loved the sea, there has always been a call of the water to my very essence, that is how I had become a professional diver. I lie. I have become a diver to fulfill the stupid caprice of getting my late father’s approval. He is dead, has been so since I was seventeen, didn’t even send me to college. He couldn’t.

I swam nimbly under the old wreckage of an old ship. That wasn’t what I was here for; here, the same place where I had had an accident four months ago. There it was, my car, the lights… still on? It didn’t matter.

My flashlight caught an old familiar face. The lone wooden statue of a cellist, perpetually playing even after it had sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Somehow it was terribly beautiful, between the wooden crevices and the slats created by its inexorable erosion there was new life, corals of every and each color, made for a beautiful net up to the musician’s knee, over the green algae that painted most of his suit and half of his face, and finding purchase on the cello’s base it confidently extended the colorful network up to the pegbox of the instrument. This very same statue had somehow been a personal god for me. Stupid, but so is most of hope, just a stupid little thought.

That fateful night the rain was unforgivable and unavoidable, such inclement weather had been my demise, that and sending the car over the guard rails and straight into the ocean. I couldn’t even process the moment, it just happened, one moment I was driving slowly through the road, the next I was underwater, no air inside the car, just water everywhere. Trying to remain calm and rational is a perfectly sound saying, but no one is either under the loom of death itself. I tried to take my seatbelt off, I couldn’t. I tried to break any of the windows next to me, I also couldn’t. I stupidly cried, or tried to, underwater. I remember looking at the only surviving photo of me and my dad together, it hung under the rearview mirror inside a keychain. We were smiling for the camera, ugly Christmas sweaters could be seen, we looked genuinely happy. The rest of the photos I had destroyed, childishly. Off in the distance, that was when I first made out another face, but as my brain was quickly being deprived of oxygen, I had actually thought it was a person, I had thought that I was dying and my dad was coming to get me.

A shimmer caught my eye, the keychain. Instead of going to my poor old car, I neared the statue. Hope was stupid, and yet… My hand hovered over the uncovered side of it. A gentle expression could be seen, where the algae hadn’t reached yet. Playing until the end, and even beyond, how fitting. I pulled my hand down. No need to touch it, wouldn’t feel a thing with all the gear that weighed me down as it was, at most I would disturb the little animals that hid in the coral, and even the ones that had managed to sneak inside of it and create a new home.

I finally approached the car and took the keychain out. That had been the sole reason to comeback here, even so, somehow, this had been far more than that. That statue was more than a hallucination now. It felt like a sign. Just like hope is idiotic, signs are the most illogical of nonfactual data. In my brain all of this felt like a reaffirmation, it felt like…

“All storms will pass, and there is beauty to be had everywhere.”

I tried to hold back the tears. Had my father ever said something like that? Yes, I believe so. He loved self help mottos, this sounded just like it. It was stupidly perfect.

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[acapellapotato]

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[izzyspussy]

Last week I did a stream on my Twitch channel of re-drafting my horror novel WIP "Curse The Messenger" to get back into the swing of things! There was a Q&A and some commentary by me on the writing process, editing tips, and fun facts about my world and characters. Here's a timelapse with the Q&A and commentary as a voiceover!

"witch noir" playlist | music in this video | Twitch channel | Patreon

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[caffeine-and-computers]

it's purple and fizzy and I feel so fucking Entrapta rn !!

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[novlr]

Writing prompt

In a world where time travel is possible, you're tasked with preventing a catastrophic event...

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[djjazzyjeff9]

Please read everything before you message me!

Hello! I am a 24 year old female looking for someone (18+ the plots will be Not Suitable For Work (NSFW) at some point) who can play one of these characters from one of these fandoms for my Original Character please! Most of them will be an Enemies to Lovers type relationship but it does not have to follow the storyline exactly, we can add stuff as we go along and create more to make it more interesting! Please message me so we can discuss more!

The Walking Dead- Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Negan Smith

Marvel- Spiderman 2099 (Miguel O’Hara) Loki, Bucky

Supernatural- Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester

Stranger Things- Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Jim Hopper

YOU- Joe Goldberg

Hunger Games- Peeta Mellark

The Last Of Us- Joel Miller

Surviving Summer- Baxter Radic

Peaky Blinders- Thomas Shelby

Fear The Walking Dead- Nick Clark, John Dorie,

Good Girls- Rio

On My Block - Oscar “spooky” Díaz

Never Have I Ever- Paxton Hall-Yoshida, Ethan Morales.

Shadow Hunters- Jace Wayland, Alec Lightwood

Narcos - Javier Peña

Shameless - Lip Gallagher

Euphoria - Nate Jacob

If you would like to write on here that is perfectly fine or i also have discord! Just send me a message and we can exchange info.

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[lyralit]

come midnight write with me <3 word count - 4280 / 7k - 10:24 p.m.

#I'm starting a new draft #so it's kind of dry #but let's see how far we can get #write with me #lyralit

[eggbunni]

I’ve been staring at this pen, mouth watering with NEED, ever since I started collecting fountain pens back in October 2021. And now it’s mine. MIIIINE. ✨🤩 The Monteverde Regatta Mother of Pearl in Rose Gold is just… Chef’s Kiss. 💋 Sugar for the eyes. An elegant addition to any desk.

Here’s what you should know about this gorgeous fountain pen.

1) The cap is magnetic in an extremely satisfying way. It pops off easily, and even POSTS magnetically (not that I write with it posted anyway — the balance is fantastic without it, IMO).

2) The rose gold Omniflex nib is NOT A FLEX NIB. Learn from my mistake and don’t do what I did in this video, which is attempt to flex it as much as I flex my vintage pens. Yikes. The tines are super easy to misalign and cause hard starting by over-flexing the nib, because it’s not actually a flex nib. It’s just a SOFT nib, despite the name. 😅 Woopsie! Thank goodness I’ve dabbled in nib repair, because I was able to set it back correctly. 😆

3) This pen. Is so. PRETTY. You will find every excuse to write with it! 😍

And tell me this Monteverde Mercury Noir ink isn’t beautiful? I love the Noir line. Deeply saturated dark inks that are readable, wet, and lovely to write or draw with. Can recommend.

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[fraegiles]

@djaerin >> i'm here

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