#writer inspiration

[creation-help]

STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

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[deception-united]

Here, have some writing tips.

Celebrating 1000 followers! Love you all ❤

Your first version doesn't have to be permanent.

A lot of writers—myself included—may feel a sort of connection or duty to their original story, draft, plot, or characters. But being afraid to change what you already have will only hinder you. My current WIP (which I'm working on with @leisureflame, check out her blog!) has been changed—and I mean completely flipped around—countless times. We started out in a medieval setting with kings and queens and burning witches, and now it's a dystopian novel set in the future in a country they're forbidden to leave. Our main character was originally dark haired, olive skinned, reserved, fierce, independent, and now she's a sunburn-prone ginger with a sanity deficiency. We've scrapped and replaced multiple characters and sacrificed plot elements we loved to attain what is best for this story. It's incredibly sad, but sometimes, it's necessary.

Don't delete your ideas.

Or excerpts. Or character ideas. An idea's occurred to you at three in the morning? In the shower? At work? Write. It. Down. Immediately. The top surface of my bookcase is littered with random notes in smudged pencil that I've jotted down. Referring back to the last point, if you change or scrap a part of your story, keep it somewhere. I like to keep a notes document that I perpetually add the most random things to: out-of-context lines of dialogue, phrases I like, new vocabulary, character descriptions—anything, really. Even if you know you're probably never going to have occasion to use it, take note of it anyway. You never know when a previous idea will be just the element you need in your story. And if not, well, they're fun to read over later.

Free write.

I know I covered this in a recent post, but I'd just like to stress on it again. Open a document or a page in your notebook and just start writing. Whatever comes to mind. Doesn't matter how nonsensical or embarrassing or muddled, as long as you're writing. This exercise can really help regain or maintain your creative flow. You'll end up with some passages that are horrible and that you will never deign to set your eyes upon in the rest of your years, and others you'll cherish. In any case, whether the result is good or atrocious, you'll have written something. It's a good way to combat writer's block, or boredom. I recommend it.

Hope this helps. Thanks for all your support!

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[get-prompted]

Prompt;

The princess will only marry her suitor if they succeed to beat her in a sword fight. Every single match loses. Except for the librarian, who didn’t even know how to hold a sword.

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[theyoungwritersmind-aristanelson]

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[mj-iza-writer]

Things I'm currently going through that you can absolutely use for your Whump characters.

Warning: I am explaining what I am going through right now. This has mentions of passing out, puke, and blood. Please don't read if those are icky to you. I am also not tagging the ones I normally tag because I don't know what they're squicks are.

I think I'm having a bad reaction to a medicine that I tried to take to get rid of the bad cold I've had for a week straight.

So here is how my day is currently going. Maybe some of this may inspire a story. I hope you enjoy.

• I woke up at 4:30 am to a Charlie Horse in my leg.

• At 4:30 am I went to the bathroom, I felt like I was going to puke. A few minutes later I hear myself moaning and my back is hurting. My mom is opening the bathroom door because she heard something fall. I had fainted and was lying sideways against our shower door. I had passed out for a minute.

• I have thrown up 3 times today so far, and I'm sure I'm not done yet.

• I legit yell and groan while I puke. I also gasp for air after every hurl.

•My throat is raw from the acidic puke.

• My chest and ribs are sore from heaving.

• After every time, I have been shaky and weak as I try to piece myself together. (If your Whumpee doesn't have a Caretaker)

• I am fluctuating between chills and sweating. The cold sweats are horrible also.

• I have blood in my eye from bursting a blood vessel from puking. That was terrifying when I looked into the mirror.

• I have no appetite, I either eat something to puke later or I dry heave, both hurt the same.

•My head is killing me.

So yeah, no matter who you give these to, your character is bound to have a bad time. Happy Whumping, I'm going to try to take a nap now.

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[pookie-and-cereal]

Cute/Romantic OTP prompts

(Not necessarily intimacy)

Random Ideas 💡:

Person A just took a shower and person B dries their hair, (with a blow dryer or towel)

Comforting each other when times are hard

Building a pillow fort through a thunderstorm/or just really heavy rain fall

Person A usually being the most immune to fevers is stuck with the flu, and Person B doing their best to keep the temperature down. (Bonus if Person B is a worry wart/or starts panicking in every situation)

Holding hands, fingers intervened. And not letting the other one go

Person A wanting to hug Person B, but they’re scared because they feel possessive

The other becoming clingy the moment the other leaves. Even if it’s only an inch away

Having a movie marathon but one of them is physically unable to stay awake after ten

Person A who’s usually the more "tough" type of person, becomes terrified at the sight of seeing a (bug/rat/mouse/or any tiny creature that is capable of giving the heebie jeebies)

In the kitchen baking a cake, but one of them accidentally caused a fire

It’s karaoke night, and both of them are singing at the top of their lungs, knowing that neither of them can hold a tune, but are having fun either way

I’ll make a bigger prompt list soon🍿

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[iloveyou-writers]

Milestone Celebration: Top 10

Top 10 Messages Writers Need to Hear More Often

It's okay to write terribly - you don't have to be perfect from the very first word that you write down

The "sucking" phase is actually a crucial one to becoming a great writer and if you don't allow yourself to go through it, you'll never become great because you won't get the practice in to become great

You need breaks - it's unrealistic to force yourself to write all of the time. Even professional writers need to have breaks sometimes, just like other professions get time off

You are being way too hard on yourself. These things that you think make your writing awful? Others either won't notice or will find endearing. Sure, there'll be the occasional person that'll notice and care, but if it really bothers you, you can always adjust the writing. You don't have to scrap the whole thing over a simple mistake

It's okay to quit. Don't quit just because you're getting frustrated but if you truly don't want to write anymore, go ahead and quit. There's no shame in it. Just keep your writing. You'll regret it later down the road if you delete everything on a whim.

It's okay to scrap your writing without feeling guilt. You're ultimately writing for yourself, and if you're not into a piece of writing, it's okay to scrap it or change it into something you do want to write.

Your writing should ultimately please you, so if you see tips or advice or have someone tell you a certain change will make it better, consider if the change will keep your story the way you want it. If it will, feel free to change/edit it. If not, then don't. Take all advice with a grain of salt.

This kind of goes with #7 but not all advice will work for you. Hell, my advice can be all over the place because I recognize there is no one size fits all advice for writing. The way a story should be told depends on the story itself and so therefore, take the advice you feel will enhance your story and ignore all others. It's not selfish, it's not self-involved. It's healthy.

It doesn't matter what your writing process is, if it works for you, it's valid and should be continued. If it doesn't, try something new until you figure out what does.

All writing is valid. Fanfiction, original, long, short, fictional, nonfiction, all writing matters. Don't sell yourself short just because your writing isn't like someone else's.

Bonus message:

Stop comparing your writing to others' and using it as a way to invalidate yours. Your writing has its own beauty that the other's doesn't and I guarantee there are people comparing to yours, feeling how you do about theirs, so just feel pride in your own writing and don't let seeing the beauty in others' writing discourage you. Instead, be proud of them and just work on honing your own skills. All writers have skills and setbacks. Work with your own skills and hone the ones you wish to sharpen.

<3 Thank you for 2k follows. I hope you're all doing amazing.

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[ivaspinoza]

Thoughts on creating as someone who doesn't paint anymore

I could say the process of creating usually starts from an observation or a feeling from reality (mine or not), so we have mainly characters or human situations that provoke a reaction – which moves me. It could also be a need to protest against something I find unbereable or the need to hold an immense and especial moment captive; the former in fiction, the latter mostly for poetry.

But when I start to write, I also shift into this commitment, passion, or duty to the words and to the text itself. This is never manifested before, only through the writing; the literature, the langue becomes bigger and demanding. The portrayal should be self-sufficient, the intelligence of the reader and their particular perspective, respected. Even honoured, I would say, by giving them something true and raw, where they can explore, think, and feel by themselves (if that makes sense).

When I write, I see myself in the same place I used to be in my old atelier: surrounded by alchemical glass jars and suspicious mediums, be the lovely stink of turpentine, while I hold three or four brushes in one hand. Spots of self-made oil paint everywhere (even on my cigarette). Detached from time and space. Swimming through layers, layers, layers. Carefully adding a sparkle (a small word), by the corner, delighting in the contour, in the process of weaving the meaning, and connecting them. Painting aggressively, or really fast, just to step back and wait until I know it was time to go for the delicate, intricate work.

It was a portal that I would open, back in those nights, to meet the Ineffable. The expression was not mine, I was only a vessel willing to go through the pain and joys of labour. Giving light, giving life, what a humbling task! The craft is pleasure, even through possible moments of discomfort – you can't live without it. Writing is like that for me.

After spending almost ten years in a full block, I just hope that in the same way writing came back, one day, painting also will; and my my arms will be open, I promise.

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[hayatheauthor]

How To Create A Morally Grey Character 

The term morally grey is now widely consumed by book communities across the web, especially by romance-based communities looking to talk about that one dark haired character with a tragic past. However, the sudden popularity of this term has caused a wave of misinformation and confusion amongst book communities. 

Readers and writers alike have lost track of what does or doesn’t qualify as a morally grey character, which can pose as a problem for misinformed authors, especially during the marketing phase. 

I previously penned a blog post with tips on how to write an antagonist, so here’s a similar blog for the morally grey characters. 

What Exactly Is A Morally Grey Character? 

Before I jump into my list of tips for writing a morally grey character, it is important to first clear the misconceptions surrounding this term. 

A morally grey character is a character who cannot be classified as purely good or purely evil because of their actions throughout the book. They are the villains with a good reason for their crimes, the heroes who aren’t afraid to cross the lines. They are the characters who might start off as just another protagonist or antagonist but soon shift into this grey area that can often confuse readers. 

Characters like Dumbledore, Snape, Regulus Black, and the gods in Percy Jackson, are all examples of a morally grey characters. 

Do you know who isn’t? Sirius Black, Luke Castellan, Dabi etc. Mainstream media has taken certain clearly good or bad characters and slapped the term morally grey on them in order to add to their romantic appeal (which is why these wrongly classified characters are almost always male). However, when writing it is important for you to know whether or not your character is actually morally grey. 

How To Tell If Your Character Is Actually Morally Grey 

Need help deciding whether or not your character is morally grey? Here’s one thing you need to keep in mind to help you out—if they are morally grey, they cannot be good or bad. 

Think back to that one character you chose to classify as morally grey. Take their backstory and personality and position into account, and now, answer one simple question—at what point in your book do they come across as morally grey? 

If your answer to this is something along the lines of ‘oh he works for the villain but feels bad when he kills people and told the main character that he doesn’t like doing this’ well, then I hate to break it to you but that is not a morally grey character. 

However, if this character ends up saving the main character from the villain, or gives intel to the protagonists, or does anything else that could be seen as good, then he is morally grey. 

Things To Keep In Mind When Writing A Morally Grey Character

Now that you know what a morally grey character is actually like, here are some tips you need to keep in mind to write a good morally grey character. 

Give Them A Reason 

Morally grey characters typically have to betray or go against someone close to their heart in order to do what is right, or wrong. Whether you’re writing a spy who betrays your main character or an antagonist who relays information to the protagonists, it’s important for you to have a concrete reason for why your character is the way they are. 

Was the organisation they initially worked for responsible for the death of their family or friends? Did someone close to them switch sides, causing them to follow? Are they simply gaining more wealth, power, or resources from the other side? 

Saying they simply had a change of heart or switched sides for the sake of switching is underwhelming and will make your readers feel bored, causing them to lack the sense of empathy we often feel for morally grey characters. 

It’s good to have a certain level of mystery for your morally grey characters, but you need to remember to flesh out their character so your readers can connect with them. 

Create Obstacles For Them To Deal With 

If you’re standing on no man’s land, you’re going to get hit with bullets from both sides. This especially applies to morally grey characters. Snape lived his entire life being defamed by those around him (possibly rightfully so), the Greek Gods were threatened, hated and almost killed by their own children. 

You need to create obstacles for your morally grey characters that are a result of their actions. Maybe the antagonists find out they’re being betrayed by your character or your character is seen as a villain by the public even if they secretly helped the protagonists save the world. 

Show your readers the consequences of your character’s actions. Show them how hard your character’s role truly is. 

I hope this blog on how to create a morally grey character will help you in your writing journey. Be sure to comment any tips of your own to help your fellow authors prosper, and follow my blog for new blog updates every Monday and Thursday.  

Looking For More Writing Tips And Tricks? 

Are you an author looking for writing tips and tricks to better your manuscript? Or do you want to learn about how to get a literary agent, get published and properly market your book? Consider checking out the rest of Haya’s book blog where I post writing and marketing tools for authors every Monday and Thursday. 

Want to learn more about me and my writing journey? Visit my social media pages under the handle @hayatheauthor where I post content about my WIP The Traitor’s Throne and life as a teenage author. 

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[simp-for-mystery]

I need angry!Tim.

I need him venting out his anger.

I need him telling Jason the only reason he still works with him is because he used to be his hero, but that one should never meet their heroes.

I need him screaming at Bruce that him not being physically abusive doesn't make him a good parent.

I need him screaming himself hoarse at Dick about how if he wants them to be family, then to act like it and stop playing favorites.

I need him to look Stephanie straight in the eye and tell her that she doesn't get to be mad at him with all the things she has pulled on him.

I need him to tell Damian that if he wants to be Robin to do better and earn it like everyone else.

I need him telling Barbara, Alfred, and Cass that seeing and doing nothing is just as bad, if not worse.

I need him to tell the Justice League that they need to do better and that they are not their sidekicks, but they are still kids!

Ok rant over lol I wish I could write fanfics but my only hope is I'm fueling some writers inspiration!

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[creation-help]

Today's kind art reminder: You don't need permission to switch projects on the fly and change what thing you're working on at any time. Note that this also means you don't need a permission to solely focus on only one project, even if that means neglecting the other ones. You're the captain of this ship and you choose where you drop the anchor

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[deception-united]

I’m kinda at a weird faze in my creative life right now, I want to write something, but I’m still hung up on the skills of writing not the art of it. I tried to condition myself into writing just for the fun of it yet I’m always left wondering if there a better way to get my point across. Maybe that’s because for my age…I should be writing better.

My question is, how do I just write just for the fun of it, and how do I increase my vocabulary? I’ve heard people say to use the dictionary, but that really eats up time and most words people never use in an actual conversation. Anyway that’s my question.

Thanks for asking! Here are a few tips:

Freewriting

Balancing the desire for improvement with the enjoyment of the craft itself can be a challenge for some writers. Different things work for different writers, but an exercise I like to do is freewriting. Freewriting is a technique where you write continuously for a set period of time without worrying about grammar, structure, or content. It can help to bypass your inner critic and tap into your creativity. Set a timer for 10-15 minutes and write whatever comes to mind, without stopping to edit or revise or even come up with a comprehensible plot. Make it nonsensical. Just write.

Experimentation

Try experimenting with different styles and genres. Don't feel confined to one particular type of writing. Trying out different writing styles and drawing inspiration from other writers can help you discover what you truly enjoy and where your strengths lie. Explore various forms of expression and writing to find what resonates with you.

Draw Inspiration

Something I like to do when I'm reading books or fanfics, and highly recommend if you're trying to increase your vocabulary and improve your writing, is take note of descriptive phrases or words that I like for future reference in my own writing or as inspiration. Or I'll write down words that I don't know so I can come back and check their definitions—I keep a list of those, too.

Integration

Once you've collected a list of words and phrases you like or don't know, challenge yourself to incorporate them into your own writing. Experiment with using these words in various contexts—prose, dialogue, poetry, different situations—to deepen your understanding and comfort level with them.

Remember, writing is a journey, and there's no one "right" way to do it. These suggestions could be effective for you, or you might find another method that suits you even better. Embrace the process and keep honing your craft at your own pace. Happy writing!

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[get-prompted]

Prompt;

You and your friends are bored. So, of course, you start a cult.

Now that you’ve won the religious war, and 90% of the world follows your religion, you all start thinking maybe it’s gone a little too far.

Just a little.

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[deliciousangelfestival]

Hey fam! 🌟 I'm feeling creative and would love your input!

Drop your headcanons/prompts/drabbles, or questions in the comments below, or feel free to shoot me any requests you have.

Can't wait to see what awesome ideas you all come up with! 📝✨

#creative writing #writer inspiration #discussion

[fanfictionwriter101]

If you type or write out words … congratulations you’re a writer and I am so proud of you!!

Stop that! Stop doubting your ability. You’re a writer and you need to back yourself ❤️

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[takeaprompt-leaveaprompt]

Welcome!

You're probably wondering what this is. This is a place for writers to trade prompts in the same vein as 'take a penny, leave a penny'. Meaning that writers can take a prompt for inspo and leave one behind to be claimed by another.

How it works

Easy as 1-2-3:

Choose a prompt and remove it from the board.

Save your prompt so you don't forget it.

Leave a new prompt in it's place.

Rules:

You may take as many prompts as you like, however, for each prompt you take, you are expected to leave one in its place.

Do not leave prompts which revolve around bestiality, underage, body fluids, or incest.

We welcome NSFW prompts and ask that these are left on Page 2 or after.

What we do:

If you would like us to read and share what you create from your prompt, we would be more than happy. Please tag this blog in your post!

Take a prompt, leave a prompt!

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