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“Perhaps we hoard books because we want to experience the world

And perhaps we hoard empty journals because we want the world to experience us.”

#writer speaks

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–how can anything that is going to die be real?

#aesthetic #writing inspo

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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

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“Let me through. I must vanquish the evil one.” The knight stood before the door to the bedroom. He was dressed in the sturdiest armor. In his hand was the legendary sword of heroes.

“No.” the old man said, standing between the knight and the door. In his wrinkly hand was his own, much less impressive sword.

“You’ve gone mad.” the knight proclaimed and pointed with his sword. “You used to be a hero. You saved the world. Now you’re fighting to protect the spawn of a demon.” he swung his sword forward.

“They’re my grandchild.” the old man said, his plain sword clashing with the knight’s shiny blade and repelling him back.

The knight drew his sword back and then charged again, only to be blocked again. He tried again, and again, but all in vain. After the seventh charge, the knight stumbled for a fraction of a second, but that’s all it took.

With a single blow, the old man’s thrust his sword between the knight’s armor plates and through his heart.

The knight collapsed, his lungs filling with blood. “They will… bring about… the apocalypse!” he gurgled through red-stained lips.

The old man looked down at his defeat foe and spoke the last words the knight ever heard.

“I don’t care.”

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Writer: A milkshake with four straws, please

Hunter: I can’t eat that

Leo: Th-That’s so sweet

Annie: I don’t like milkshakes

Writer, putting all four straws in her mouth: Watch how fast I can drink this

#don’t be sorry this made me so happy to see you sharing this stuff again lol :.) #my beloveds

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((Soft headcanon: writer knowing someone from writeovamptea is having a rough day so she just shows up at their house. Everything is cleaned and there’s some food and tea or preferred whatever being made. She sits them down in blankets and cuddles them and lets them relax and forget about whatever happened))

#writeovamptea still makes me happy :)

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Hey, do you have any AU ideas? Preferably fantasy. :)

Here Are Some Fantasy AU Ideas!

General

Angels and Demons AU

Fairytale/folktale Retelling

Game of Thrones AU (AKA rivaling noble families AU)

Greek/Roman/Norse God AU

Greek/Roman/Norse Myth Retelling

Modern magic AU

Pirate AU

Vampire and Werewolf AU

Enemies to Lovers

Rival knights fighting for the hand of the king's heir, only to fall in love with each other instead.

Warlocks from competing apothecaries across the street try to sabotage each other

A knight falls in love with the shapeshifting dragon they're supposed to slay

Students from rival magic academies

A siren falls in love with a pirate they meant to drown

Demons in competition to see who can buy the most souls

Childhood Bestfriends to Lovers

A farmer's child with incredible powers and the satyr who lived in the woods nearby and would help with the chores

Grew up in the same magic academy

Witch x familiar

A fisherman's child who grew up on the docks and the mermaid whose love they have to keep a secret, lest the mermaid be hunted

A noble heir and the ghost that haunts their castle

An angel is still in love with their childhood bestfriend even after they've fallen.

Fluff

Magical picnic in an otherworldly setting

Panicked human intensely studies the culture of their magical creature lover to see what the most heartfelt gift would be

Domestic magic slice-of-life

Pushing an aquatic lover around in a tank on wheels to show them the human world

Werewolf exhibits all the traits of a dog, perhaps with a vampire lover (à la Sarah Anderson)

Teaching their human creation experiment (ie. Frankenstein, Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, etc.) friend how to be a real person

Angst

A hero cursed to sleep must be woken with true love's kiss...though the true love is not whom they were expecting. The supposed "true love" must come to terms with the fact that they are not The One.

A foolhardy wizard must slay the dragon/beast they'd hatched and raised themself.

A noble heir A is arranged to marry heir B while being in love with their knightly escort, C. A and C must love one another in secret, all while B slowly falls in love with A.

A forest creature must watch its ancient homeland be cleared for farming or development

An ancient immortal being cries whenever it thinks about how its mortal friend/lover is growing old.

There is no treasure at the end of the line. It was all for nothing.

#writing prompts

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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Very interesting to me that T. S. Eliot is often quoted as saying "Good poets borrow. Great poets steal." When in fact what he actually said was "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." Which of course has a completely different meaning, less "All the greats plagiarize," and more "Completely original ideas are a fantasy; the originality lies in how you weave an idea that has been previously woven differently."

#dude… #writing

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“and part of this character’s arc is them learning how to be loved and cared for”

me every time: oh my god part of this character’s arc is them learning how to be loved and cared for

#hi this is my entire plot so if you want this but as a slow burn across an entire book lmao

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Every character needs to be at least a little pathetic and a little weird. And if they're not pathetic at all then they need to be super weird

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

#14 year old me wanted to make writer eloquent #current me is smart and gives her a Scottish accent and sarcasm

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Characters who are absolute trashfires have their virtues, but there’s also something to be said for a character who’s competent, collected, and has their life thoroughly together, and also has one specific thing that’s deeply wrong with them.

#ah yes #I do this quite literally with 90% of my ocs

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Sometimes, being under a truth spell just means not being able to lie about being fine anymore.

#writing prompts

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what fables where you told as a child?

#repost #saw this while transferring my writings #aww

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I’m writing my novel in fifth person, so every sentence starts with “I heard from this guy who told somebody...”

#unironically want to write this as a short story #prompts