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i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes

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someone straight : u can’t make all the characters queer !

me :

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Attention Management: How to Take Control and Live Intentionally

We live in an age of information, and it’s becoming even more difficult to be in control of our attention. Every second, it seems like there’s something new to be consumed, something new to pay attention to. Because of this, it’s important to take control of our attention and more intentional about how we spend our time, and we can do so by practicing attention management.

Keep reading below for a transcription + some other posts you might be interested in:

Energy Management

Flexible Time Blocking

The Mandatory Midday Break

A Small Guide to Journaling

Staying Focused while Studying

Hope this helps!

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WIP INTRODUCTION | KINDER

genre: dark fantasy

status: brainstorming & drafting

pov: third person limited

themes/tropes: coming of age • magic • mystery • the past • power and corruption • self discovery • steampunk • survival • tragedy

summary

Generations ago, humans were forced to flee into the caves below the ground that they once called home. There was much struggle to adapt, and without some kind of guidance, it would not have been possible for them to survive. But overtime, they managed to build a magnificent city where very few remember the life they once had above. And even fewer know of the atrocities that were committed inside the darkness of the caves in order to keep the peace and preserve the lives of all the citizens living within the underground city of Eldoris.

excerpt

Boots scraped against stone as Kinder ran up the stairs. The guards were in pursuit, but he had a good head start from them. Nayati could only do so much on her end to distract them from spotting him, but luckily there were only two stationed outside the entrance, otherwise this would not have been so easily done, thus far anyways. If he couldn’t manage to find something to slow the guards down at the top, he was surely going to get himself caught.

characters | discord | excerpts | general tag

#wip intro #other's writing

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me: *writing a smut scene, 2k in*

also me @ me: at some point you’re going to have to admit to the audience that genitals exist and are relevant to the discussion at hand

me: oh yeah

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Writing Theory: Character Description

Character Description can seem to be it all and end of all of being a writer. We are obsessed with getting the character's faces from our mind into the head of the reader. They have to know! They just have to! But how can we make it less clunky and more effortless. @tryingdesperatelytobeawriter

#1. Watch your Word Choice

Sometimes when a description seems forced it's the choice of words. Do your readers need to know that the character's eyes are like ceylon sapphires? Do they need to know your character has a pronounced cupid's bow lip? I honestly don't know how many times I have had to search a colour only to find out that the writer could have just said blue. Word choice can take your reader out of the universe really fast. There is nothing to stop you from using convaluted terms, of course. But be careful choosing your words or your reader might spend more time on Google trying to figure out what exactly is a Grecian Nose than actually reading your book.

#2 How much is too much?

Cutting down the basics gives your writers space to form their own image of what the characters look like. A reader really only needs to know: hair colour, eye colour, skin tone, height/weight. Almost everything else is added detail. The slimmer the description is, the more flow you and your readers have with it.

#3 Ask yourself: Does a character have to be described?

Personally, I think only characters who make an impact on the story or have to last more than a scene deserve to be described. Nobody needs to know that policeman #7 looks like or the colour of the waitress's hair. If you're planning on weighing your readers down with intricate description of everybody, they will get bored.

#4 Avoid Bullet Points

Your description does not need to sound like a list. There is no rhyme nor reason why your character should be described all at once. You're not checking points off a list. A character's eyes can be described at a different time to their skin tone. It doesn't have to come in a lump sum. Really for a more natural description, one should only describe the feature when it is in use.

#5 For the Love of All that is Holy don't let your Character describe themself in a mirror.

I hate this Trope because it is just the worst. It brings one completely out of the story, the reader most likely wondering why your character is stood for so long at a mirror.

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People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

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i may not have a “brain” or an “ability to write well” but sometimes i type out a great metaphor and all

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She couldn’t die. After all, she was the only one left who remembered Jana Jelínková’s smile and Ludomir Kučera’s snoring. The only one to remember that Matyáš Veselý hated cheese and loved to listen to the birds sing in the morning. That Cecílie Gregorová had cried when her arthritis got so bad she could no longer pick up her knitting needles. That Martin Brož and Ambrož Macháček had been inseparable from the time they were children and that Irena Mikešová had stared in green envy. Her body had become a temple to the memory of Zadov. If she died, where did they go?

So she forced herself to get up and put food in her body. To look both ways before crossing the street. To stay away from tall buildings and dangerous men. She forced herself to live, no matter how clawing the emptiness inside her became, because they deserved to be remembered.

ive been gone for a little bit so have a snippet!!!

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Some authors: This is my OC, I have an encyclopedic knowledge of their backstory, personality and character arc. I know everything about them.

Me @ my OC: What was your last name again?

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can we please…get this idea out of your heads that because an artist posts their personal art on the internet that means it’s free to plagiarize it and do whatever you want with it. having your comics and personal work plagiarized is one of the most terrible things that can happen to an artist and it is so much more devastating than you think it is

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i feel like people have forgotten how to be a generous audience when they read/watch something. like sometimes you have to buy into some bullshit plot points or a deus ex machina or a few loopholes as the price of admission for an otherwise fun time. sometimes these things are just gears that get us to where the story really wants to be, and too many people get caught up in those gears. sometimes you gotta meet a story halfway.

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WRITEBLR REINTRO

Hello y’all! I figured that since I’ve gotten quite a few new followers since I last made an intro, and it’s the new year, and I’m more settled with what projects I’m working on I’d make a quick little re-intro!

my name is chloe, i’m 20, i’m a neurodivergent lesbian and i live in the uk. i don’t label my gender beyond Not Cis but i use she/her pronouns. 

i write literary fiction, mainly short fiction, but i’m drafting one novel and have a lot of baby novel ideas in my head. i cannot plan anything or write linearly and i love the chaos!

i haven’t been writing my entire life but i have been creating characters my entire life and that’s where my love for the craft lies. everything i do is character driven

i’m a lit major and it shows. i love meta, fun prose, and metaphors with too much meaning 

my priority is having fun and writing for myself, but i would like to be published one day too. i have a lot of Thoughts about the pressure to publish and my blog is 90% writing advice i wish i’d heard when i was younger

i won court jester in my local discord server

CURRENT WIPS

REVELATIONS, REVELATIONS. A literary adult novel set in 1980s San Francisco, following twins Felix and Dorothy as they navigate their identities and trauma after escaping the conservative Christian cult they grew up in.

queer identity and love narratives that aren’t centred around coming out/homophobia

it’s all about love! romantic love, platonic love, familial love (+ cutting off relatives that don’t deserve it <3) and self love

found & chosen family 

trauma story where the characters get a happy ending

a hazy, “nothing happens” plot that is actually multiple plot threads in a trench coat 

sometimes we play with form!

mildly outdated intro post HERE. was formerly known as church mud but now all posts will be tagged under revelations revelations

HOW TO SWALLOW MATCHSTICKS. Working title for my short story collection that I like enough to be public! This is naturally growing as I write new stories but right now it’s primarily about self destructive behaviour and mental health! Includes (with some also outdated links!):

AMMONITE (LAND’S END): Directed to the narrator’s missing wife after he finds bones washed up on the shore and pretends they belong to her. The reader gets to decide whether he’s innocent or guilty. 

LEMON TEETH: A house narrates the night its inhabitants burn it to the ground, and tries to understand the human condition from their toxic, tangled relationship. 

AND SATURN, TOO: After being sent to spend summer on a commune by her parents for her “bad behaviour”, a queer teenager finds catharsis in art.

TABBY: A reclusive man who’d rather exist as a phantom than a human notices the neighbours aren’t feeding their cat, and is sucked into a world that breaks the stillness of his own.

RINSE CYCLE: A nameless narrator attempts to analyse her mental health through the lens of a burning laundromat. 

HOW TO RELAX ON CLASS A: Whilst trying to manage a bad trip, our narrator makes an unlikely friendship with the driver who just hit their best friend. 

THE NAME I GAVE HER: A woman tries to see her relationship outside of the rose-tinted glasses the night her and her girlfriend fake their deaths. 

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