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Introducing:

Character: Faroe Greyglade

WIP: Peregrine Age: 25

Occupation: Head Ranger of the Northern Lyrian Order

“I took a deep breath, and centered my will once more, remembering the wind on my face, and the feeling of being weightless. My bones began to hollow, as they had done hundreds of times before, and I felt myself shrinking, keeping my mind in line.

I hadn’t chosen a falcon as my form when I first shifted. Mal told me that your first form is a reflection of you, your deep desires. All I could think of at twelve years old was how incredible it was going to be to fly. And though I’d become a multitude of beasts over the years, my peregrine was still my favorite.”

Disowned at ten years old, Faroe has spent the last fifteen years piecing her life back together with the parents who took her in when her own family didn’t want her. Her adopted father Kennedy taught her the ways of the bow and his homeland of Alba. His sister, her adopted mother Mal, taught her the ways of the god and how to use the magic that had been poured into her from a young age.

Fifteen years later, a letter from her estranged sister brought her back to Rivermarch, her childhood home and sent her on a journey she never could have predicted.

Faroe is loyal and protective, though difficult to win over at first. In the absence of her parent’s love, she’s built a family and community for herself. While born to a noble family, Faroe is a champion for the people and scoffs at the prejudices that are deep rooted in the south. 

Skilled at magic, she can shapeshift into any animal, though the bigger the animal, the longer it takes her to recover.

She suffers with PTSD from childhood abuse and the loss of her best childhood friend. Because of this, she’s plagued with nightmares. She has heterochromia and has always been looked down on for it. One eye is hazel and the other is lavender, an unseen color in the world.

(AMAZING portrait commission by @changelingsandothernonsense​)

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LOVED THIS

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Adam Du Mortain, The Wayhaven Chronicles.

#the wayhaven chronicles #adam du mortain #sketch #i love him #grumpy #inspo #fanart #seraphinite games #tom hopper

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I did a review for Kiss of Deception! I mean I know it’s older, but I was inspired.

#kiss of deception #the remnant chronicles #mary e pearson #review #book review #bellsbellsbells

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I haven’t been on here in a little while, dayuuuum

#bellsbellsbells #im back #should be writing

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VITO BASSO IS CASSIAN AND ANYBODY WHO DISAGREES BETTER BE FUCKING READY TO FIGHT ME

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I started this blog to join the writing community but the more I try, the more confusing it is for me. Thinking I may end up deleting.

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My dashboard is very dead recently and it makes me sad. 

So, could you guys do me a huge favour and reblog this post if you’re a writeblr? Doesn’t matter what genres you write in, I just want to follow as many of you lovely people as I can! 💖

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Reblog if you want anon messages of what you would be the patron saint of

Can’t remember if I’ve done this before or not, but it sounds like good fun

Bonus points if you tell me a holy relic I’d leave behind 

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River, rain, or birds!

to me, a person’s favourite white noise is really interesting fact about them. is it a hot tub, ocean waves, rain, a fan, a shower, a humidifier, highway traffic, a thunderstorm?

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compilation of 7 helpful sites for writers

Hey guys –– Tessa here. Over the past couple of weeks I decided to compile some helpful websites for aspiring authors and writers like myself. Hopefully some of these help you, too… and feel free to add onto the list! 

1. Noisli

This one might seem kind of obvious, but this website is basically a noise generator that plays background music to help you stay focused. You can choose a variety of noises –– rain, campfire, thunderstorms, crashing waves, coffee shops, fan noises, etc. – and if you create a free account you can save the mixes you like yourself, so when you come back to writing you’ll already have your favorite noises ready to play.

2. The Forge Fantasy Generator

I’ve seen a ton of fantasy generators floating around the internet, and while some of them are helpful, this one has to be my favorite. The interface is super cool and allows you to pick between four different options –– a fantasy generator, which is a general generator used for creativity, a beast generator, which helps you come up with names for all your goblins and creatures, a spell forge, which gives you examples of spell names and their possible uses, and a land forge (my favorite!) which helps you determine a name for your magical, mythical place. There’s a ton of customizable options (such as keeping certain words and disposing others, etc.) to make it your own. 

3. The Hemingway App

This one has been talked about in great length here on Tumblr, but I figured I’d reiterate to showcase it’s awesomeness. Basically, you paste (or type) whatever you’re working on and the application reads through your writing and lets you know if there are any difficult to read sentences, uses of the passive voice, how many adverbs you have, and what the reading level is for the specific passage. Of course, take all these edits with a grain of salt –– sometimes the editor doesn’t understand your writing style and will mark a sentence as “hard to read” when it really isn’t, but it’s a great editor for catching small mistakes and giving you useful stats on your piece, such as word count, paragraph length, etc. 

4.  The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

This is a very long survey, but it’s 100% worth it once you have your protagonist (or set of protagonists) laid out for your story. It’s even helpful for fan fiction and RPG, so don’t dismiss it entirely if you don’t write anything original. Basically, it’s an assessment to see if your character is a “Mary Sue” (there’s a detailed explanation of what that is on the website as well). Honestly, it’s a long survey, but depending on what type of fiction you’re working with (fanfiction, original fiction, even RPG) it won’t take you very long and it’ll give you an interesting perspective on your character. I highly recommend you take this test especially if you’re an original fiction writer. Having a strong protagonist is as central as an engaging plot! 

5 & 6. Behind the Name Generator and Baby Name Voyager

I’ve lumped these two together because they serve the same purpose –– naming a character. The “Behind the Name” Generator presents you with a ton of options to check off and it’ll present you with names that fit those specific criteria, so it’s really helpful if you’re looking for a specific type of name for your character. Similarly, the Baby Name Voyager will show you an interactive chart with popular names from the decade, and if you type a name into the search bar, it’ll tell you when it was most popular (such as the ‘90s) and what names were giving to siblings, which is extremely helpful if you want to make sure your characters’ names are cohesive to the timeline of the story. There’s also a detailed-search option like the Behind the Name generator. 

7. 12 Common Archetypes

Not so much a website as it is a helpful reference, but this site shows the twelve common human archetypes which is helpful when creating characters and attempting to figure out their external vs. internal motivation. This plays a lot on psychology, but fear not –– if you don’t think your character fits into a certain archetype or prefer not to use these, then don’t! 

In addition, here are some awesome writing blogs who have stellar advice. Feel free to message me or any of these wonderful people if you have questions about character development, plot questions, or anything else related to writing!

@authors-haven / @simplewritingtips / @thoughtsfromthewritersdesk / @theticklishpear / @the-writers-nest

Happy writing! ♡

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Dear friends of Tumblr,

Today at my school we had an assembly about internet predators and when I had said that most of my true friends are over the internet and they gave me a lecture about how “I don’t know who I’m talking to” blah blah. So please, if you aren’t a predator in any way, please reblog so i can prove a point.

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This post has me t h i r s t y

okay but

fuck your stereotypes

long hair is not “girly”

the same way short hair is not “manly”

hair has no gender

hair is just hair

&as long as you’re not disrespecting a culture with the way you do it

you keep on doing you

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WIP First Impressions

@whatsanwritepocalae tagged me a while back - thanks! - and I've finally got my act together, so here goes:

(This is for Thorunn)

The first sentence of your WIP:

It began as it always did, in the middle of the night.

The genre?

Young Adult Science Fiction

The name and age of your main characters?

Kenton Wishings, 16

Laine Riven, 16

The first bit of dialogue:

(This is from when Kenton was about 7 or so.)

Ken?" a sleep-soft voice called, "are the bad men here again?"

Kenton nodded before slipping out of bed. He glanced toward the bedroom his parents shared. A light was on, visible even through the curtain hanging across the doorway.

"Come," he whispered, taking his sister's hand. "Let's get to the cellar." Annie padded quietly alongside her older brother. In the kitchen, the siblings opened the larder, lifting up boxes to reveal a well-worn trapdoor.

"In you go." Kenton handed Annie two candles and a box of matches once she reached the bottom of the ladder. He slipped in after her, using a rope attached to the bottom of the boxes to pull them back over the trapdoor once it fell shut. "Hand me the matches."

Annie pressed the box into Kenton's waiting hands. There was a sound of matchhead against corrugated flint, and light filled the tiny room.

Tagging: 😃

@sheabutterskyes @assassin-writes @leave-her-a-tome @igotablankpage @snowdropwrites @adie-dee @deadlyessencewhispers and anyone who sees this and wants to play!

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I have really awesome handwriting

@writings-of-a-narwhal @abalonetea @camcantarella

everytime you see this post you gotta compliment yourself!!!!!!!! at least once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha

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at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents

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REBLOG IF YOU WANT A LOVE LETTER FROM A FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN YOUR ASK BOX NOW