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YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME historic-old-guard-lover: “ lloerwyn: “ elfwreck: “ rosslynpaladin: “ systlin: “ quousque: “ when fantasy books describe the cloth of Quant Farmpeople’s clothing as “homespun”...

lyra literature

show, don’t tell: anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps -...

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

Story Structures for your Next WIP

hello, hello. this post will be mostly for my notes. this is something I need in to be reminded of for my business, but it can also be very useful and beneficial for you guys as well. everything in...

Punctuating Dialogue

Writing Tips ✧ ➸ “This is a sentence.” ➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said. ➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.” ➸ “This is a sentence,” she said....

Screenwriting resources on YouTube (that I use)

How to Format a Screenplay: Screenplay Formatting 101 Writing Better Scene Description Entering A Scene Writing Better Action Dots, Dashes and Parentheticals Basic Elements of a Film Script for...

SCIENCE FICTION TECHNOLOGY TERMS

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Hey btw, if you’re doing worldbuilding on something, and you’re scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it’ll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don’t want to...

Choose Your Own Interactive Story Template

Build and share your own stories. Use Logic Jumps to change the way the adventure goes. Get started now with this template.

Inform 7

Inform is a natural-language-based programming language for writers of interactive fiction.

inklewriter

For Novice Writers: the quick test for Are You Being Scammed Or Not...

I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for...

Yog’s Law and Self-Publishing

Many years ago, writer Jim Macdonald postulated “Yog’s Law,” a handy rule of thumb for writers about the direction money is meant to flow in publishing: “Money flows toward …

Peter Morwood

When writing a sword-fight don’t just use “parry” when you can also use “deflect”, “bind”, “glissade” and “block” to describe what’s happening. Do a bit of research to find out what these mean, and...

The Importance of Subplots

The other night, I watched Rear Window (1954) for the first time in many years. I was struck by a number of impressions this time around and one of them was how many subplots the movie has. In fact…

TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING, 1: Give Yourself Permission To Write.

The first of a series of ten mini-seminars to celebrate the release of my book, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In this session, I talk about the hardest step of a...

burn-brighter-than-fire

sketiana: “sketiana: “how does being punched in the face feel like ” literally i just wanna know ” It depends on where you get hit Cheek: a round dull pain that clocks your entire head in a different...

dogloser

one thing i want to try when writing fight scenes is using dice, like dnd style. i love the unpredictability of it, and as an author i often get tripped up on "how many times do they hit or dodge."...

Writing fight scenes

Writing fight scenes masterlist. main navigation. @bluebxlle_writer on Instagram 1. Pacing A fight scene should be fast-paced and intense. Unless it’s a final battle with numerous parties, a fight...

6 Steps to Write Better Sex

Tips and Hints for New Erotica Writers

NOTION TEMPLATE FOR WRITERS!

Hello! In this FREE Notion template for writers that I made, you can:Manage your novels:Have an overview of each novel:Create your characters:Build your world:And then you ask...Why should I...

Tips in Writing - Killing Off A Character

Tips in Writing - Killing Off A Character Working on more non-kink writing for publication tonight and I needed to take a break from writing so I could TALK about writing with y’all young and aspiring...

A Guide to High Fantasy Worldbuilding

masterlist. main navigation.@bluebxlle_writer on Instagram1. SubgenreOne of the first things you need to establish in your story is the subgenre of the high fantasy story you'll be writing. But...

INSTEAD OF “SAID:”

Affirmed - to confirm or ratify, to state or assert positively; maintain as true.Articulated - to utter clearly and distinctly; pronounce with clarity.Belittled - to regard or portray as less...

Neil Gaiman on the Writing Process - Verbal to Visual

I recently listened to an interview between Neil Gaiman and Tim Ferriss in which Gaiman shares much of his writing process and preferred tools.

Why Characters Get Out of Hand and Understanding Them Better

It’s only 8:20 AM and the battlefield is quiet. A lone tumbleweed rolls across the barren land just like a blockbuster western, but today you’re not here to stop and smell the cliches. Today you ar…

Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs

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Do you suffer from one of these writing maladies?

(Commercial voice): There are pernicious writerly germs out there infecting pages all around the world. Left uncured they can be fatal. Talk to your book doctor or literary health provider if you notice any of these symptoms: Yoda Effect Difficult to read, sentences are, when reversing sentences an…

Do you suffer from one of these writing maladies? (Part II)

UPDATED 5/18/19 The next season of writing viruses is here. Watch out for these dangerous diseases! (SEE ALSO: Part I) Catching the Rye Well you probably first want to have read this book by J.D. Salinger with an immediately catchy voice that kind of spoke to a generation or some nonsense, and after…

Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied  Agonized: as if in pain or tormented Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest ...

RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

A comprehensive rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and brainstorming tool for the English language. Includes dozens of functions to help songwriters, poets, and anyone else in need of a word.

Tip of My Tongue - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

Chirag Mehta - Personal Web Log - ’blog - Chime Softwares - Indian Blogger live from Saint Petersburg, Florida, St. Pete, FL

Fiction Is the Truth Within the Lie

A screenplay is a blueprint for a house, and a novel is the house itself. That’s how I like to think about it, anyway. You don’t want to expend all your energy on elaborate words in a script. What you...

Use “TK” While Writing to Avoid the Web’s Black Hole

BoingBoing blogger and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow admits the internet can be an “attention black hole,” but the prolific scribe learned how to actually write while staying open to the wealth of the web.

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction

Bow Ties, Blue Scarves, Bentleys and Bilbo Baggins

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Important. And pass it on...

John M. Ford was pretty much the smartest writer I knew. Mostly. He did one thing that was less than smart, though: he knew he wasn't in the...

Extravagant & Unlikely

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry...

Christina Rose Andrews Official Author Page - This guy knows what he's talking about. He's one...

nudityandnerdery: This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

I Whump You

One of the best tips for writing descriptions of pain is actually a snippet I remember from a story where a character is given a host of colored pencils and asked to draw an egg. The character says...